Disclaimer: I don't own any of the skins characters or the show itself but i can be held responsible for a man called Jeremy and 3 kids called Nicholas, Michael and Kaitlyn

Summary: this story is a naomily and Katie story. Emily and Naomi are still blissfully happy after 8 years together but Emily has a secret that could shatter their lives forever. Katie seems to have the life she always dreamed of but is everything really as perfect as she makes it out to be. some other characters may feature

Rating: T

Chapter one

"Grande Latte for Palmer" the coffee maker in starbucks held up the cup of steaming coffee into the air waiting for the drinker to come and get it

"oh yeah thats mine" i walked up to him and grabbed the cup out of his hand before making my way towards the door. I know i've got a long day ahead of me. Just as i get into my car, my phone rings

"Katie Palmer" i answer the phone in my usual professional tone that i've adapted to over the last few years. I've grown up a lot since college, sometimes i can't believe how much. Its been 8 years since i left roundview and started my growth into adulthood. My life has changed dramatically. My name as you may have guessed is Katie Palmer or as i was known back in my college days, Katie Fitch. I've been married for the past 6 years, it happened while i was still pretty young but i've never looked back. The weird thing is that i ended up marrying the first boy i ever "dated" when i was seven years old, he moved to america after we'd been going out for about a week and weirdly i remember being devestated even though i had no idea what dating or love meant at that age. I still remember meeting him again like it was yesterday, it was in this very coffee shop and it happened in the same way i had started my day today

"for fuck sake this line is taking forever" looking at my watch, i had twenty minutes before i had to get to my job at Tesco's (a job my mum forced me and Emily to both get) and it was atleast a 30 minute walk from starbucks. I got out my mobile and rang the only person i knew could help me

"Hello"

"Ems its me, look i need you to cover for me, i'm gunna be late again!" i heard my sister sigh down the phone

"for heavens sake Katie, how late?"

"15 minutes tops i promise, just tell them i've got a doctors appointment or something"

"ok fine"

"thanks Ems your the best"

Standing in the small sea of people waiting for the order they'd placed to be called seemed to be taking its sweet time

"Grande Latte for J T Palmer" no one answered the call, i waited for about a minute before i realised this was my chance

"yeah thats mine" i took the coffee off the guy and made my way for the door when someone barged into me

"i'm J T Palmer, thats my coffee"

"well its a small world i guess we have the same name" I looked up into the eyes of seriously the most gorgeous guy i had ever seen. He was about 6,6 with brown hair and chocolate brown eyes and he was slightly tanned and i couldn't help but think i knew him from somewhere. He smiled at me and i can't help but smile back.

"oh really, so what does the J T stand for in your name" the only person i can think of with those initials are my mum so i come up with this not so amazing lie

"Jenna Theresa" he laughs at me

"i knows it's been a long time but you still haven't changed a bit Katie!" my eyes grow wide as he says my name, how does he know me "you don't remember me, do you?" i realised he had quite a strong california accent and i started racking my brain for the name of anyone i knew who was a yank but i couldn;t

"how did you know my real name?" i say trying to stop myself from blushing as i admit defeat

"ok think back to the year 1999 and remember it is now 2011 so 12 years ago and remember this date, 24th June"

"thats my birthday"

"and you had a spice girls party with your twin sister Emily, you chased me into your secret club house and kissed me" my eyes grew even wider as i realised who he was and i flung my arms around his neck

"Jeremy!" he laughs as he basically catches me

"so you remember me now huh?"

"of course i do, what are you doing in Bristol"

"i live here now, with my grandparents, moved back about a week ago" i smile at him and i can't believe i ever forgot that cheeky grin

"I can't believe its you, you look incredible"

"well you don't look so bad yourself, miss Fitch" he looks down at the floor awkwardly "listen to you wanna go and get a drink, you know catch up, unless there's somewhere else you've gotta be"

"no no there's nowhere else" i say forgetting any previous engagements "i'd love to"

The rest as they say, is history. After we met again Jeremy and I became closer and closer and he was very soon my boyfriend. Everybody loved him, Emily, my parents, my friends. He was and still is the perfect guy. Its been 8 years now and as i keep saying i haven't looked back. In my 2nd year of Uni, we'd been dating for 18 months when i found out i was pregnant. It wasn;t exactly what i had planned but i was suprisingly thrilled as was Jeremy and in September 2013 we had our baby. It was a boy and we named him after Jerem'y dad who died when he was 10, Nicholas, Nicholas Henry Palmer.

We got married 6 months after Nicky was born and i'd never been happier. My life was perfect and we lived as a happy little 3 person family for the next 2 years but after a while we decided it was time Nicholas had someone to play with and even though we were both still young, we felt like we were ready to take on this new responsibility and before we knew it our family had grown to 4, a second son named after my grampa, Michael, Michael Robert Palmer. It was frustrating at times but i had everyone behind me helping me. Jeremy, Emily and Naomi, my parents even my bastard of a little brother James and even though i love my boys more than anything else in this world i was desperate for a little girl. So 18 months after Michael was born we were trying again and i told Jeremy that i would not stop until we had a girl. Luckily we didn;t have to try that hard, our third child was the most gorgeous baby girl i had ever seen and we named her after Jeremy's mother who had died a few weeks before her birth, Kaitlyn, Kaitlyn Victoria Palmer.

"Katie Palmer" i answered the phone in the same professional tone i always used

"hey its me"

"hey Ems, whats going on?" i smiled happy to speak to my sister

"Katie there's been a problem with Nicholas" my heart sank as i took her words in and i immediately thought the worst.

"oh my god whats happened to him, is he alright"

Emily is a teacher at St Josephs primary school and coincidently, Nicky's teacher.

"he's fine but there was an incident in the playground today"

"what happened, is he being bullied" my eyes filled with tears as i thought of that possibility

"not exactly, um i don't know how to tell you this but it's Nick's not being bullied, he's the one bullying another kid"

"thats ridiculous Emily, what are you going on about"

"its not ridiculous Katie i saw it happen, he stole this other boy, George Kingston, he stole his milk money and then hit him ni the face and pushed him over"

"what! that doesn't sound like Nicholas at all!"

"I know it doesn't but like i said i saw it happen, he's in ,Mrs Charlstons office right now and i think you should come and pick him up, i know you have to get to work but i've tried Jeremy and he didn;t answer and i even tried to see if Nay could do it but she's at work in meetings all day!"

i sighed into the phone and felt a little bit of anger build up inside me at the thought of my baby boy being a bully.

"I'm on my way... oh and Emily, how are you?"

"i've been better to be honest but i'm pushing through"

"you should really tell Naomi whats going on you know, she has a right to know"

"stop nagging me to tell her, i'll do it in my own time!, just get here ok"

"fine i'll be there in 5 minutes"

not the most interesting of chapters but it will get better

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