It's been a week since Johnny has returned to the Carter household and already his mum's babying had grown tiring. He was glad she still loved him after his coming out experience but he still couldn't take the constant aggravation of being asked if you wanted a drink every 5 minutes. He had a wonderful time travelling with Luca and he would not change any of those days for the world. But his life was in the East End with his family and that is why he left Luca, at least... that's what he's told everyone.
Things on the square had changed; mainly the people but new market stalls and shops were thriving with people with readiness to splash some cash. Johnny was shocked to hear about the departure of Kush and Carmel, they were loved across the square but apparently, according to his mum, they had to leave after a dispute with the Slaters. It's only been a couple of years he thought and he was right, December 2014 and October 2016 is only a small amount of time for such a big change in the way things are run. Johnny was just happy that his only family hadn't changed, except that business with Dean but they're not allowed to mention that name in their house.
It was only when someone crashed right into him that Johnny realised he had been reminiscing about these events in the middle of the market. He jumped out of his skin, "sorry" said the boy, his hair was dark and pushed to one side, his smile warmed Johnny's heart.
"No problem" said Johnny, smiling at the boy. "I'm Johnny, Johnny Carter" he offered his hand and was surprised when the boy shook it.
"Geoff, nice to meet you Johnny, Johnny Carter" he replied, Johnny laughed at that. "Anyway I better get off, I have mocks next week and to be honest with you I haven't done a single ounce of revision for Psychology"
"I took that!" Johnny exclaimed. There was a moment where neither of them spoke, the longest "moment" of Johnny's life
"right, I, erm, I better get off" Geoff said warmly. "Nice to meet you; Johnny, Johnny Carter" and with that remark her walked off, leaving Johnny awestruck and alone to walk back to his family home
He ambled into the pub, smiling to himself, Nancy noticing it immediately. She galloped over to him expectantly, "Sooo..." she started "who's the bloke?"
"Who says there is one?" Johnny replies defensively. "Maybe I'm just happy to see my little sister again.
"Yeah...no" Nancy says "There's definitely someone on your mind"
"I don't know what you're talking about"
"Who's talking about what?" The siblings looked up to see Tina leaning in interested.
Johnny shakes his head, "no-one's talking about nothing" and with that he skipped upstairs leaving the two of them to try and work out what's going on.
Johnny sat upstairs, in the kitchen, smiling to himself as his mum made him his third hot chocolate for that day; wishing, silently, that he would get a chance to see this Geoff again
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