Cook's story

Ok so this is what happened between Cook and Naomi from his point of view so hope you like it.

Cook's phone starts to ring, he takes one look at it and hangs up. Cook never ignores phone calls just in case its info on a party or some girl he can hook up with but right now he didn't feel like either plus the last person he wanted to talk to was Freddie. He didn't know what to do with himself but he did know that he was James Cook and he never stayed low for long and he knew just what to do to pick himself up.

As he enters the pub he sees his Uncle Keith. "Hey Uncle Keith couldn't do us a favour could you"

"depends cookie what's in it for me" Cook hands him the money which Cook assumes is more than enough for what he needs "what can I get you"

"any booze and um" Cook coughs as if to signal that Keith will know exactly what he wants

" well the truth is the booze is no problem to me but anything else well its in short supply these days you know with the economy and what not" "well what have you got come on I'm desperate"

"Well cookie your lucky, I've got a couple of pills and some weed but that's it anything else and you'll best start looking else where"

"no Keith that perfect cheers man"

" Alright Cook well you just remember where you got it from any way best get back to work these pints ain't gonna drink themselves" he laughs hysterically whilst walking away and Cook leaves a little happier already only problem he has now is where he can go, he doesn't want to go home, Freddie's shed is obviously of limits and he'd never even think about turning up to JJ's with this stuff. He decided to go to the green just opposite the bridge. Whilst walking he starts thinking about how things had changed drinking away as he walked and also slipping a pill into his mouth. He thought of how Effy had gotten between him and Freddie and Freddie between him and JJ, how he'd almost ruined Panda and Thomas's relationship.

Once he' finally reached the green he started to roll a spliff already he could feel the mixture of alcohol and pills taking affect. He wondered what was going to happen to him, he had no one, not even his parents wanted to know him. As he stared at the bridge it started to look more and more appealing. As he sat there just finishing of his first bottle of what he could only assume was Uncle Keith's home made whisky he saw someone standing way to close to the edge of the bridge to just be taking a look, he realizes who it is.

" OI! Campbell, What you doing up there?"

"hi Cook oh nothing just you know, enjoying the view" as she steps down and walks towards Cook he holds out the spliff towards her

"here from the looks of you, you need it and help yourself to what I think is vodka this time" she takes it and nods appreciatively sitting down next to him as she does so.

"so what you doing here sitting under a tree all by you lonesome not like Cook to just chill"

"yeah well I didn't have much choice, now that Fred's and the queen bee are officially an item I just couldn't stand the though of bumping into them at a party".

"To be honest with you, I think they'd be to busy doing other things to go to a party" as Naomi looks at Cook he actually looks like he's about to cry "sorry Cook I didn't mean to upset you" as he quickly wipes his face trying to make it look as natural as possible he starts to laugh

" come on me upset never, no such emotion in me, anger maybe" the both laugh a little. "so come on Campbell what's your story, why where you contemplating having a really cold swim"

" no I wasn't I was just, just thinking"

"yeah about what"

"Emily"

"oh really well tell me more" he laughs but seeing the look on her face he stops "hey come on what's happened? thought things were good between you two now that everyone knows"

" she told me she loves me Cook she told me she was in love with me" "wow well to be honest I could have told you that, so what's the problem?" as Naomi takes a big swig of vodka she sighs

" I didn't say it back I just stood there looking at her like she's just proposed or something"

"well what happened then"

"nothing she just left I think she felt like she'd said something wrong" "well just phone her and tell her she didn't, you guys will make up in no time actually when you do can I join in" he smiled at her to signal he was joking even though there was a part of him that wasn't.

"I wish it were that easy but I mean what would I even say to her, truth is I don't want to think about it right now, you have booze, you have drugs there's no one around and I have my ipod and speakers, what do you say to just getting smashed and we can deal with all this tomorrow"

" you know what that's the best thing I've heard all day".

As they sat there laughing and drinking and smoking and dancing almost 3 hours had past as they finally sat back down they realized they had enough drink left for one swig each and enough weed for one spliff. Cook started rolling it and Naomi just sat there realizing just how off her face she was

"Cook how did you end up sleeping with Panda I mean I know you have charm but she loves Thomas so much it creepy"

" why do you wanna know, want to remind me of yet another fuck up I caused" "no no I just well I guess I'm just curious I mean if someone says they love someone they wouldn't do that"

"well it was at her party, everything had gone tits up for her and well she missed him. She was showing me how to play twister and I realized that everyone just assumes I know everything and it was nice for someone to show me how to do something for a change plus all she wanted to do was know how to have sex I guess I thought I was helping her and I think she wanted to know what to do if Thomas came back"

"but why did you guys keep it up even after he came back"

"well I was just giving her tips and teaching her different things and I'm not gonna lie but I did enjoy it". he paused for a second before saying what he was about to.

"I know why you really asked, you didn't tell Emily you love her because then you have more to lose, because it would make everything final and real and something real can be taken away so much easier then something that just feels like a dream but I don't think that's gonna happen you know, you two are too perfect for each other" before he could say anything else she kissed him and when he realized that she wasn't going to stop he started to kiss back.

As he slowly started to move his hand under her top and around to her back, lowering her onto the ground both of them started to breath just that fraction faster both of them could taste a mixture of weed and alcohol in each other mouths as their tongues connected . He lifted his top off over his head, still kissing her he started to pull her top up and slowly started kissing first her stomach and continued to work his way up. In the back of his mind he could hear a voice telling him to stop but he also had a voice which was most probably the drunk part of him telling him that it wasn't his responsibility to stop this, he was just a single guy trying to have fun and this was just what people expected of him and who was he to disappoint them.

After removing her top he started to kiss her again this time working his way down her neck and gently kissing her breasts, he continued down. Just as he had with Pandora he was gentle with Naomi he actually cared a lot for her, nowhere as close as the way Emily does but he was trying not to think about that but just as he was kissing her hips she said something which shocked them both

"I love you"