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Alright guys this is my first fanfiction though in truth I guess I m really continuing someone else s work I hope you guys don t get offended and give my continuation a chance. I really loved this story when I first read it but I unfortunately started reading it when the previous author didn t have any more time to write it and I couldn t bare to not have it exist, continue, or just not exist anywhere but in my mind. (This parts for the people who have read the previous story though I guess it won t hurt if you read it)when I first read the description for this story I have no idea why but I assumed the actual switch had more to do with Naomi and I was a little saddened that it didn t so I m going to change some parts of the story so in my version Naomi will have a Girl!Peen that she gets for a week out of every month instead of her period this will hopefully make the story more interesting and explain things down the line better as I have no idea where the original author was going to go with this story. Thanks for taking the time to read this note and hopefully read and comment the story.
P.S. I ll probably post the old reviews/ author texts and the original chapters some might have slight changes or big changes until I get up to date with the chapters and write the story completely.
I don t own Skins or the characters though I own some episodes. I don t own the original idea the creators of The Switch and the awesome author StayWithMeForTheKids do.
P.P.S. I d like to Thank the Author: StayWithMeForTheKids for the help and suggestions.
The Switch
Chapter One: 7 years ago
The sun beams down on her face, blinding her. She squints to see the red man turn green. Crossing the road quickly, she immediately spots the red hair through the window; a smile grows on her face. Emily Fitch, what could she say about Emily Fitch? She's smart, beautiful, caring, considerate, selfless and not to mention totally fuckable. The only problem is, Emily being Naomi's best friend and straight. For years Naomi has tried to pluck up the courage to tell Emily how she feels, but every time she gets close, she backs down, afraid of Emily laughing in her face.
The bell jingles as Naomi ran in, trying to compose her unsettling hair and calm her breathing from the running. Emily's head flies up and smiles when she sees Naomi. She points to her watch indicating she's late. Naomi shakes her head and walks over to her, taking the chair opposite Emily. Emily's hands are wrapped round two cups of coffee. Naomi raises her eyebrow.
"Are those both for you Em?" Naomi asks eyeing one of the cups. Emily laughs and pushes one towards her.
"Here you go Ms Campbell. A cappuccino, extra froth, three sugars, semi skimmed milk and a dash of vanilla" Emily smiles sweetly and takes a sip from her latte. Naomi smiles gratefully.
"You're late again Naoms" Emily chastises her. Naomi looks at her apologetically.
"I know, I'm sorry. Effy held me up at the office. Sometimes I think she does it to annoy me"
Effy, Naomi, Emily, Katie and Panda were all friends in secondary school, they all attended Round View College in Bristol where they met Cook, JJ and Freddie. From there, all of them moved to London as they got accepted at the same University. Emily and Naomi had been inseparable since year 7, even after Naomi told Emily she was gay, Emily was fine with it. She just doesn't know that every time she asks Naomi if she liked someone, Naomi would silently say you.
Emily laughs "You are very easily annoyed Naoms" Naomi tries to scowl at Emily, but she couldn't help but laugh herself.
"I am not, she's just a very annoying person with all her cryptic ways and shit" I grumbled. This just made Emily laughs harder.
"Aww, is little Naomi getting grumpy?" she teases, Naomi sticks her tongue out. Emily smiles at her. Naomi couldn't help but get lost for the billionth time in her big brown eyes, the ones that she saw when she met Emily. Her hair was still brown then, she didn't die it until the summer holidays when she wanted to be different from Katie, but Katie being the bossy twin had to be the same as Emily and died hers red as well. It may seem that Naomi doesn't get on with Katie, which is true, but Katie isn't all that bad. When Naomi came out, Katie teased her about it, but if someone else made a comment about it, she would bite their head off.
Naomi was brought out of her memoir when a small hand was being waved in front of her face, she blinked a few times "Sorry, what did you say?" Naomi asks.
Emily smiles and takes a sip from her drink "I was telling you about why you're here. Now, take a look at this" she picks up the news paper and shows Naomi the statistics chart on law suits. Naomi eyes it carefully then looks back at Emily "That's how law suits have gone up in the past year. Why are you showing me that? I already know about that as it is talking about my job"
Emily rolls her eyes "I know Naoms, give me a chance" she turns the newspaper upside down, making the graph look like its decreasing "Do you know what this shows?" she asks eagerly. Naomi studies the graph.
"The law suits chart upside down" Naomi says laughing at her joke. Emily hits her on the arm with the paper holding back a laugh.
"Be serious Naomi" Naomi shrugs "It shows the decreasing fertility of women over thirty" Emily says matter-of-factually. Naomi takes a sip from her drink and raises her eyebrow,
"So?"
Emily throws the paper down "So..." she drowns out the so exasperatedly "I'm twenty eight! It will take me at least a year to find the right guy, probably two more years for him to propose, a year for the wedding then another two year for us to decide on raising a family. By that time I'd be 34, it would be less likely for me to get pregnant then, and if I do it's more than likely my child will come out disabled"
Whilst Emily was ranting, she didn't notice Naomi's sudden change in mood. She didn't notice how her shoulders slumped at the mention of 'guy', how her gaze fell to the table when she spoke about marriage and how Naomi found sudden interest in her nail beds when Emily talked about raising a family. Emily was too engrossed in her future plans to notice that Naomi really didn't give a fuck about what she was talking about and how she was close to walking out of the coffee place from all the pain she was feeling.
"Naoms, are you listening to me?" Emily asks angrily. Naomi looks up at her and scratches her head.
"Yeah I am Ems, but I don't know why you're telling me all this" Naomi gestures to the newspaper. Emily looks down at the paper then back up at Naomi.
"Oh right. Well, you know how your my best friend and all" Naomi nods wish I was more than your friend "I wanted you to be the one to help me pick them" Emily smiles at Naomi.
Naomi looks at her friend blankly, what does she mean by 'help me pick them'
"Sorry, I don't understand, help you pick who?"
"I went to the doctor and he told me that I can do IVF. I don't want it to be anonymous, so the doctor said for me to pick him myself, so then he can keep in contact with his child" Naomi's eyes widen as she finally understands what Emily was asking. Her heart hurts a little.
"You want me to help you find a sperm donor" It wasn't a question more of a statement. Emily nods with a great big smile on her face.
"Will you do it?"
"Do what?"
"Help me find the donor. Please Naomi, I'll love you forever" Emily pouts and puts on her best puppy dog eyes. She knows that the puppy dog look can get Naomi to say yes to anything, what she doesn't know was that Naomi only ever said yes to her.
"All right, fine. I'll help you. But that was unfair" Naomi says pointing an accusing finger at Emily. Emily smiles innocently.
"What was unfair?" she asks batting her eyelashes. Naomi shakes her head and smiles "You know what Fitch" Emily laughs and stands up. She grabs her cup and walks over to Naomi.
"Listen, I've got to go but its Effy's party tonight so I'll see you then"
Naomi smiles "Yeah, see you then" Emily kisses her on the cheek before walking out. Naomi taps the top of her cup absentmindedly.
"Great. Now she wants a fucking family. Face it Campbell, she's never going to like you back" she mumbles to herself before leaving the shop herself.
"What's up with you?" Naomi turns her head to see Effy stroll up to her.
Effy can instantly tell there's something wrong with Naomi, she isn't smiling brightly like she normally does after seeing Emily, she isn't humming away to a god awful song from the 90's, she isn't tapping away at her keyboard excitedly. Effy shakes her head, she doesn't understand how Emily doesn't see the obvious crush Naomi has on her, yes Effy is very perspective and watches people, understanding them by their body language, but it's not hard to figure out Naomi likes Emily. It's the elephant in the room. Sometimes she thinks Emily has the mind of a guy, doesn't spot it when someone likes them. Only Effy and Katie know about Naomi's crush, but their colleagues must pick out her happiness after seeing Emily. Panda is just clueless about everything, JJ and Cook don't really pay attention and Freddie only knows because Effy told him.
Naomi locks eyes with Effy for a second before mindlessly tapping away at the keys, not knowing what she's typing.
"Nothing's wrong" she says, a hint of hurt and pain in her voice. Effy rolled her eyes and grab the closest chair, ignoring the thump of whoever was about to sit down on it hit the floor. She ignores the person tapping her shoulder and shoos them away with her hand.
"What happened with Emily" Naomi rolls her eyes. Just like Effy to get straight to the point, she doesn't beat around the bush. When Effy found out about Naomi liking Emily, she had been blunt then.
"Eff, I need to tell you something" A sixteen year old Naomi turned to face Effy. They both were sat on the bench in their local park, Naomi watched as Emily walked back to her house, her mum needed some help with cooking as they had the whole family coming round.
Effy took a drag from her cigarette and turned to Naomi "You like Emily"
Naomi stared at Effy dumbfound was I that obvious? Naomi thought. Effy seemed to have read her mind.
"No you weren't" With that, Effy stubbed out her fag and walked back to her house, leaving a very confused Naomi alone on the bench Naomi knows that as she got older, it became more obvious that she liked Emily. When Emily would introduce Naomi to her new boyfriends, Naomi would make it her mission to find something wrong with him, and if she couldn't, she would just be the spiteful and bitchy ice queen she was known for. It really was a mystery to her how Emily hasn't figured it out yet.
Naomi sighs and looks round the office. Effy can tell that Naomi doesn't want to discuss it here, so she grabs a random folder and walks towards the copy room with Naomi following. Effy checks that the room is clear and locks the door after Naomi walks in. She walks past Naomi and turns the copy machine on, letting the noise drown out their voices. Effy spins round and eyes Naomi. Her body language changed dramatically. She was leaning on the table, her shoulders slumped, arms folded and looking down at the floor.
"Emily wants to have a baby" Naomi says sadly. Effy raises her eyebrow "Doesn't she need a guy for that?"
"She's going to have IVF and she wants me to help her find the donor" Effy nods then takes a few steps towards Naomi.
"This is bad because..." Effy waits for Naomi to respond. Naomi unfolds her arms and turns to face Effy.
"It's bad because... because she wants to get a donor who she can stay in touch with, so the kid has a father" Effy nods for her to carry on "Don't you see the problem Eff?" Effy knows exactly where Naomi was going with this, but she waits for Naomi to carry on speaking.
"She'll spend a lot of time with the donor, then she'll fall for him and they'll be one big happy family. I have no chance of being with her if she has a family" Naomi says holding her head in her hands. Effy smirks, that's exactly what she thought Naomi was going to say. All right, time to tell her the unforgivable truth. Effy takes another step forward and places her hand on Naomi's shoulder. Naomi's head comes out from the protection of her hands to stare back at the steely blue eyes of her friend.
"Look Naoms. I know this is going to be hard to hear but... You don't have a chance with her if she didn't want a kid. She's straight Naomi, I can see where you were coming form if she was gay but she isn't. She's also put you in the friend zone; you've been in the friend zone for sixteen years"
Naomi sighs. She's been trying to get out of the friend zone for so long she's given up. She's just going to deal with Emily not being interested and just move on.
"I know. I know" she walks out leaving Effy with tears welling up. Naomi looked so broken up, she really had come to a dead end. Effy pushed down the tears, grabbed the photo copies and left the room, closing the door behind her.
"So Effy invited the lezzer then" Katie laughs at Emily's expression as she cuts Mr Johnsons hair. Emily shakes her head.
"Of course she fucking did. We have all been friends since secondary school Katie" Katie smiles, a few more hairs fall to the floor.
"All right, chill out Ems. It was just a joke. So, did you tell her?" Katie glances at Emily. When she sees Emily frowning, she stops cutting his hair and turns to her sister crossing her arms.
"If she's hurt you Ems, you know I'll go and fucking kill her" Emily looks up alarmed, she grabs her sister's hand and turns to Mr Johnson.
"Sorry sir, I just need a private word with my sister" the man nods and goes back to his magazine. Emily drags Katie into the employee area. Katie studies Emily's expression carefully, she seems upset, but not like Naomi's hurt her.
"Emsy, what's wrong" Emily looks at her twin, worry fills her identical eyes.
"I don't think Naomi's happy about the idea. She didn't seem as excited as I thought she would be" Katie scoffs. Emily is supposed to be the smart twin, but yet she can't see that Naomi has a huge crush on her even if it smacked her in the face. Of course Naomi wouldn't be excited about Emily having a family. Katie sits Emily down.
"I'm sure she is. Just in a little shock. Did you ask her to help you find him?" Emily nods "did she agree?" Emily nods again "Then what have you got to lose?" Emily shakes her head and stands up.
"She was hesitant, and she didn't seem like herself when I explained about the family thing. I know she hasn't had the perfect family life, do you think maybe she was upset that this kid is going to get everything she didn't have even though it's parents won't be in a relationship?" Katie shook her head. One to make Emily feel better, and two because she knows that isn't the reason.
"No I don't think that's it. She probably wasn't expecting it. I don't understand why you asked her anyway, she's about as motherly as a fucking sea hag" Emily hits Katie on the arm playfully.
"I picked Naomi because I trust her. Yes, when it gets too emotional or intense she puts walls up, or runs away. But she's blunt and very upfront. If there's something she doesn't like about someone, she'll tell them or me. Remember in college with Mike, she thought he was 'a pompous freak who needs to learn a few fucking manners' and she was right"
Katie smiles at her "If you think she's the best for it, then go ahead. I need to get back to my client, now we are going shopping tonight for Effy's okay. I'll make you look stunning babes" Katie kisses Emily on the cheek before running back to her client.
Emily sighs and walks out onto the street. I hope Naomi is the best for it she thinks before making her way home.
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