New story! Yaay! It's from Emily's POV, except they may be some chapters from Naomi's. Had this idea for a while and tonight I was inspired to start writing it. Hope you guys like it, please review!
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Oh God. What the fuck is he doing? I'm looking at James, my little brother. We're standing as the gas station on the way to the lake and I look away for two seconds, turn back and he's got his t-shirt pulled up in front of some girl. Eugh.
"Some people call it a third nipple, but I just like to think of it as a little extra piece of me, and how is that supposed to be a bad thing?"
"James, we've got to go. Now."
"But I'm talking to this lovely female!"
I look at the girl standing in front of James, Jesus Christ, she looks about 20. And she looks absolutely disgusted.
"Sorry about him," I say awkwardly and grab James by the collar, dragging him out of the shop.
Once we've left the shop, I smack him forcefully over the head.
"What the fuck was that? What has mum told you about showing strangers your body parts? Jesus Christ."
"She seemed quite interested in me, I'll have you know." He says.
"I'm sure she was. Get in the fucking car, would you?"
He rolls his eyes at me and hops in. I walk around to the driver's side and hop in, and doing up my seatbelt, I check that his is fastened. I start the car, and once again, we're off.
I'm lucky, because James' birthday was a couple of weeks ago and he got one of those Nintendos or something, you know, 'portable game system' or some crap. And I've got my iPod plugged in, so basically, we pretend each other doesn't exist. It's genius.
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We finally arrive to the house after getting lost about 27 times. Katie's out front sunbathing. I don't know why she bothers. We live in England. We're not expected to be tan.
I park up next to the house. It's alright, actually. I was expecting some shitty old cottage with an outhouse, but it looks nice. Sort of. It's right on the lake, too. So that's a plus. James and I hop out and I open the boot, trying to get my massive bag out of it. With great difficulty, I manage it, but quickly decide to give up on carrying and drag it over to the house. James grabs his bag and runs inside, Jesus, I don't know what he bought, but it doesn't look like much.
"Katie!" No answer. "Katie!"
I walk over to her and realise she's got her headphones in.
"Fuck sake. Think you could help me?"
"Oh hey Ems. How was the drive?"
I'm about to speak when she opens her mouth again. Typical.
"I just saw this totally fit boy down at the park. He invited me to some party tonight around the corner."
"And what about me, what am I supposed to do?"
"I told him I had a twin. He was stoked, he said you can come."
"Did you even ask mum and dad?" I ask her.
"Yeah, they're totally down with it. So you in or what?"
"Yeah, alright. Not much else to do around here."
"Tell me about it. Remind me why the fuck we came here? And remind me why I had to come here 2 days before you had to?"
"We came here because we 'haven't had a proper Fitch holiday in years'. And because we need to 'bond'. And I've only just arrived because I had to take James to his stupid fucking taekwondo tournament."
"Fuck sake. The entire summer. Here. This is going to be fucking boring." She says.
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I go inside and find mum and dad sitting with James in the kitchen.
"Emliy, darling, there you are." Mum says. "How was the drive?"
"It was okay. Except the instructions you gave me were pretty shit. Got lost couple of times."
"Oh, well. You're here now."
"Where's my room? This bag weighs a fucking ton."
"Upstairs, at the end of the hallway, next to the bathroom." Dad tells me.
Fuck. "Upstairs? Can you take my bag?"
"Yeah, sure, kid." He gets up and takes my bag upstairs, making groaning noises the whole way.
"Wow," I say. "It's nice."
"Yeah, well, since you were a great big sister and stayed behind and looked after James we decided you could have the best room."
It's not that big. But it's still better than my room at home. It's got a small little deck that's overlooking the lake. It's got an en-suite with a bath, and what looks like either a queen or king size bed.
"Thanks." I tell him. He smiles and nods, gives me a quick kiss on the head before leaving the room.
I sigh and sit down on my bed. Jesus Christ, It's going to take for-fucking-ever to unpack.
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So I've just finished packing. It's nearing 5ish now, it took that fucking long. I put all my clothes neatly away in the drawers; I am going to be here for 6 weeks after all.
"Dad," I yell as I get to the bottom of the stairs. "Dad!" I yell again. He still doesn't answer. "Fuck sake…" I murmur under my breath.
Still. Nothing. Fuck it.
"I'm going for a walk!" I scream, with a chance at least someone will hear me.
I walk down to the grass alongside the lake. It's beautiful, actually. Which surprises me somewhat. I wasn't really looking forward to this holiday. Normally I wouldn't mind, but this is for the whole fucking summer. Hopefully it won't be so bad, though. I've been thinking a lot lately about… everything. About me. I'm gay. I think. I'm not sure. I want to tell Katie. But… I don't know. I'm not ready. I don't know what she'll say. Same with mum and dad.
"Kieran! Kieran!" I hear someone yelling; I look up ahead of me and see a girl. She's struggling with a box of… something. I quickly run up to her and grab a side of the box just as it falls. "Thanks." She whispers.
"You're welcome." I reply just as quietly as I look up at her. And wow. She's like… all kinds of beautiful. Cliché, I know. But at least we weren't walking in the hallway and I accidentally run into her and knock all of her books to the door. I don't think I could hear about another one of those. She's got blonde wavy hair, a little bellow her shoulders. And blue eyes. Really blue eyes. The kind of blue you'd only dream about. She's… wonderful.
"I'm Emily," I say shyly as she puts the box down.
"Naomi." She smiles. "Do you have a place around here?"
"Yeah. Well, just for the summer. You?"
"Yeah, been coming here since I was a baby." She rolls her eyes and I laugh lightly.
"So you're going to be here for the summer too?"
"Yup. Every summer. Gets boring after a few years." She laughs. "Maybe you can help me brighten it up."
I raise my eyebrows disbelievingly. A beautiful person. Asking me to brighten up their summer. A beautiful person… talking to me. Fuck. I nod eagerly without seeming too crazy.
She smiles again. "Maybe I'll see you around then… Emily." She says.
"Yeah." I say, smiling.
I help her pick up the box again and she smiles gratefully and she begins to walk away. I walk away also. After a few steps I turn around and look back at her, only to see her staring back at me. How. Fucking. Awkward. She smiles and I laugh shyly.
Maybe this summer will be alright.
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Bit of a boring start, but it'll get better, I promise :) please review; it makes my day!
