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Disclaimer: I don't own skins. it's a real shame.

Emily's POV

7:30pm and me and Katie were ready to leave for yet another party at the Premier Travel Lodge. I wish she wouldn't make me go to these parties, it always ends up being the same, Katie gets monumentally fucked up and buggers off with Danny and I have to stand around by myself avoiding any contact with the rest of the guys at the party because I don't want them trying anything with me. I'd already rung Naomi and told her to meet us there at 8, after an hour of psyching myself up and hovering over her name in my phonebook.

"C'mon Emily. Lets go get fucked up."

"Katie, we have college tomorrow" I tell her trying to make her realise how much I don't want to go, well I spose I do…but not for the party.

"Stop being such a pussy. Hurry up, Danny's waiting for us outside" Katie says already heading for the door, the only indication of her presence is the clacking of her heels.

I sigh and follow her trail. We arrive 20 minutes later after a very uncomfortable car ride, and not just because I was sat with my legs up in the back of Danny's Renault Megane Coupe (I wish I didn't know that but he goes on about the bloody thing so often) but because I had to sit there whilst Danny had his hand riding up Katie's rather short skirt the whole time. Watching him act like that around Katie just makes me feel sick, Katie obviously doesn't seem to mind though.

Getting out of the car I straight away see Naomi sat on a wall outside the travel lodge, she's smoking a cigarette. I never thought it possible for somebody to smoke so gracefully, but here Naomi is, proving me wrong.

"Oh great. Who phoned her?" I hear Katie mumble from behind me.

"Please, Katie don't. She doesn't know anybody here and if we're going to be doing an assignment with her then we might as well get to know her. There's no harm in being friends." at this I see Katie's face scrunch up.

"Whatever. Come on juicy, lets go find me a drink" Katie drags Danny off towards the travel lodge, dismissing what I'd just told her. As I watch them walk off I can still hear Danny's ridiculous laugh echoing through the streets.

As I approach Naomi she gives me a little wave and flashes me a quick smile. She's wearing a t-shirt with a pig on it and a flower patterned skirt, which makes me want to laugh at how bold and eccentric she is, but I manage to keep it from showing and I wave back.

"Hey, you ready for this?" I ask with a smirk playing on my lips.

"Christ. Let's go." Naomi replies laughing, getting up to go into the party.

As we both follow where the noise is coming from we stop where we're stood and take a look around. There's couples making out in every direction and plenty of grinding and gyrating going on. I turn to look at Naomi and see the amused look on her face, she catches my eye and we both just burst into a fit of giggles.

"I can see why you wouldn't want to come." Naomi finally says after the laughter has died down.

"Yeah, I have to put up with this every week, but… I have a back up plan." I say trying to manoeuvre my way across the room, dodging all the dry humping. I turn to Naomi and see the questioning look on her face and I produce a bottle of vodka from my bag and shake it in her direction. Naomi shakes her head a chuckles a little.

"What?" I ask innocently

"I also had a back up plan, I brought some smoke just incase the party was shit."

"I know where we can go." I grab Naomi's hand and lead her out of the travel lodge. "It's only 20 minutes or so away." taking a swig from the vodka I take a moment to indulge the feeling of the burning liquid making it's way to the pit of my stomach, handing the bottle to Naomi we begin to make our way.

Half a bottle of vodka later and we finally arrived. I hear Naomi sigh next to me.

"It's lovely, Emily."

"I come here when I need to think, when I just need to get away." I turn around and sit on the bench overlooking most of Bristol. Naomi soon follows and silently lights up one of the spliffs.

"Won't Katie mind that you left without telling her?" Naomi asks passing me the spliff.

"Probably. But she needs to realise that we're not into the same things. I'd like to imagine that if she told me to stay I'd still of left. But I know that's not true. Katie says jump and I have no choice but to ask how high. We do everything together. Until we were 9 we even took a dump at the same time." at this we both burst out into another fit of uncontrollable laughter and somehow in the midst of it all my head is now resting on Naomi's lap. After the laughter has died down we both just watch each other for a bit, Naomi's calming azure eyes stare back into mine, not sure how long we'd been carrying on I finally decided to ask what I'd been pondering about.

"Naomi?"

"Yeah?"

"How come you moved to Bristol?" at this I can feel Naomi's body tense up, I can see the hesitance in her eyes and she breaks her glance from mine, chewing on her lip lightly. When she finally looks back I can see that her eyes are glistening with tears that are threatening to fall.

"My Mum found out that my Dad was cheating on her and that he had another kid with this woman. She wanted a new start I guess."

"I'm so sorry" I gasp, indicating from how bluntly she told me I guessed she didn't want to talk about it.

Naomi smiles, gets up and holds her hand out "Yeah, he's a wanker. Now c'mon, lets get you home Miss. Fitch."