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Charlie
"WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN YOUNG LADY?!?!" Great... another lecture. I rolled my eyes and dropped my bag by the door before answering, short and snappy, "Out"
"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW WORRIED I'VE BEEN?!?!" my mother yelled. "No I don't..." I replied and thought in my head, now you tell me. "I HAVE BEEN AROUND THE TOWN 3 TIMES LOOKING FOR YOU, ARE YOU GOING TO PAY FOR THE PETROL I WASTED?!?!" she screamed at me. I sighed quietly as I blanked out the drones of my mum's voice. "No mum..."
"Didn't think so" she grumbled, "We aren't the richest of people, and I don't want you out late again without telling me." She warned. I sighed again, "Whatever" I replied before going up the stairs two at a time to my room. Did today just happen? Did I spend the evening with Jason Cooper? I sat down on my bed until mum walked into my room "Your dinner's in the oven, it's either gone soggy or it's burnt, but that's your own fault for being late." She told me before walking out to who cares where. I sighed again before making my way downstairs to the oven. My tea was slightly overcooked but I didn't care, my thoughts were back at the beach with Jason. I smiled softly as I ate wondering what he was doing right that moment...
Jason
I slipped my key into the lock and turned it, opening the door to little noise. I raised an eyebrow as I walked through the hall to the living room to find my older brother watching T.V, "Hey Caleb, what you watching?" I asked, putting my bag on the chair near him. He turned his head to look up at me, "Alright bro? Oh just watching random crap, there's not much on." He replied. He was 18, a year older than me. We got on reasonably well apart from our views on the Noughts and Crosses situation... I wouldn't dare tell him that I had spent the evening with a nought. In fact, I decided not to tell anyone of my family, they'd only flip out on me as usual, going on and on about how better Crosses were to noughts. The amount of fights Caleb and I had had was horrendous, some with pretty nasty injuries because neither Caleb nor I were weak and we dared not back down, we literally had one every night.
I made myself a quick meal, my family were used to me coming in late, and sat down next to my brother to eat and watch T.V. My thoughts kept wandering to the girl I had met today, I hoped to see her again in school on the Monday, or on the weekend. I didn't notice my brother staring at me until he spoke. "What's going on through that head of yours?" he asked. "Nothing that concerns you" I replied as usual. "Meaning thinking about something to do with noughts." He nodded. "Why do you always think that? It's MY business not yours Caleb I can think about what I want!"
"Well little brother, think about other things instead of stupid noughts! They aren't worth the trouble."
"I can think about what I want you bastard." I growled.
"What did you just call me?"
"I called you a bastard." I retorted, my voice raising a little.
"Next time… Say it to my fucking face! Not under your breath you blanker loving asshole!" Caleb yelled, punching me hard on side of my face. I fell to the ground, the plate that was resting on my lap smashing to the ground, I jumped up quickly and slammed my fist into his nose. Blood spurted out and started pouring down his face. "I can think about what I want! Just stay out of my life and live your own!" I shouted before wincing and running up to my room and slamming the door shut. I sat down on my floor and breathed out quickly, that punch hurt. I shook my fist as pain seared through. I listened to the silence outside my door, I was half expecting Caleb to come smashing it down. My heart raced as I waited. I let my breath out when I heard the tinkling of china being scraped. I knew he was cleaning up the plate. I rested my head against my door and closed my eyes, feeling my anger pulse through like adrenaline. And just like adrenaline my anger ebbed away slowly. I got up and turned on my CD player, turning my music on loud. I sat at my desk and logged onto my computer to do some work.
Charlie
I wanted to see him again, soon, I didn't want to wait till Monday to see him. So I decided, I'd go down to the beach, sometime after lunch and spend the afternoon there and just … hope he'd turn up. And so I got up and looked out of my window. The sun was shining brightly, I picked up my three quarter length trousers and the nicest summer top I could find, plus underwear obviously, and ran into the bathroom before my 16 year old brother got in and used up all the hot water. It was still early for him so I guessed he'd be sprawled on his bed still. I stepped into the shower with just the perfect temperature and started to wash my hair and my body. I didn't think much of my body, I was still flat at nearly 15! Although I did have a slim figure which I preferred to a massive one. My grandmother was always nagging me saying, 'You'll be anorexic next week, you're getting thinner every time I see you!' which wasn't often and we had been running out of money since my father lost his job and we had to rely on my mother's income. Which was terrible so we had to shrink the food supply.
I checked my watch as I waited for my curlers to heat up it was ten to eleven, enough time for me to curl my hair, do my make-up (the little amount that I have) and eat lunch. I jumped when I heard my curlers beep to signal that they were heated up to the right temperature, it took me so long to get straighteners this good, I had to save for two birthdays and a Christmas before I could get them. I heat sprayed my hair before starting to curl my hair which took me less than 10 minutes considering my hair is quite short. I stood up and walked to the mirror I had in my room, putting on mascara and eyeliner before strolling out of my room to find my brother, Liam, in a vest and boxers standing outside the bathroom which seemed to be occupied. His hair was sticking up at very weird angles meaning he had just woken up he scratched his head and yawned before turning and seeing me stood watching him. "What are you smirking at?"
"Ooo aren't we a bit touchy this morning?"
"Shut up Charlie I'm hung-over" Liam complained.
"I told you you shouldn't have drunk so much." I sniggered before making my way downstairs listening to my brother grumble and growl from upstairs. I saw my mum sat at the table reading her book, "Hey mum" I said to her. "Hello Charlie" she sighed
"What's up?" I asked as I got a drink of apple juice. "Oh nothing, just wish we had more money to spare" she answered. I nodded, "Oh well, we can't help that we're noughts and our country is run by Crosses." I drank my apple juice and picked up my shoulder bag which I always took to the beach. "I'm going out for the day, I won't be back till this evening okay? I'll have my phone on if you want to contact me." I gave my mum a kiss on the cheek and set out of the door.
I made my way towards the beach, the sun was getting high in the sky as it got closer to midday. There was not a cloud to be seen for miles and the sky was a brilliant blue colour. I smiled as I took out some sunglasses and slid them onto my face, the streets were reasonably quiet but I knew they'd get busier as the day went by. I took off my sandals as I slipped onto the cool sand, the sand making its way right in between my toes. I walked on down the beach taking out a beach towel I had packed the night before and set it on the ground, sitting on it. I put sun cream onto every bit of skin visable to the sun, I wanted to tan but I didn't want to burn. I sat and secretly waited. I waited for about 45 minutes when I saw a Cross walking towards me out of the corner of the eye, I turned my head and saw him… Jason Cooper walking towards me a smile on his face. He wore three quarter length blue shorts and a white thin striped shirt. He sat down next to me. "Hey again" he said to me.
"Hiya" I smiled so glad that he was here.
"You weren't waiting for too long I hope?" he asked as if he had read my mind
"And what makes you think I waited for you?"
"Well the grin on your face gives it away a little." He laughed. I pulled tongues at him, "Haha very funny, I told you last night, I love the beach, and it's a nice day so I came down."
"Yeah but you said you went further down and this just happens to be where we met last night coincidence?"
"Coincidence!" I replied looking deadly serious at him before bursting out in laughter as he did too. I had a feeling that today was going to be a very good day.
