A/N: Thank you to all who continue to read this story and leave such amazing reviews. This chapter is dedicated to you all as you guys are the ones who inspire me to keep on writing! Here is chapter four; R&Rs are much appreciated as usual! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Skins. Boo.

"Motiveless Malignity Is the key to Iago's character. Discuss". I sigh. Stupid Othello essay. Stupid me for not starting it until two days before the deadline. Stupid stupid stupid. I wonder if Naomi would lend me her notes. Nah she would just lecture me. Stupid Naomi for always doing her essays straight away. Stupid stupid stu-

'Hey Ems, do you wanna come to my pyjama party on Saturday?' Huh? Oh, it's Pandora. Yes-distraction! I push my barely started essay to the side and focus all of my attention to the ditsy blonde.

'Yeah sure, what time?'

'Oh, I dunno, around 3 o'clock or something? So then we have time for all the party games!' Her enthusiasm is electric and I can see she is trying very hard not to jump up and down on the spot. It's great to see Panda happy again; it was heartbreaking to see her so depressed after Thomas left.

'Who else have you invited Panda?'

'Erm, just you Effs and Katie…why did I miss someone out?' Yes you did Panda. Yes you did.

'Well, I was just thinking, maybe you could invite Naomi you know, 'cos she feels left out quite a lot…and I know it doesn't seem like it, but she really wants to be your friend.' Pandora smiles at this-I know she finds it hard to be best friends with Effy at times, and her making friends without the help of Effy is something she strives for.

'Wow, does she really want to be my friend? Wizzer, ok I'll go find her then! Bananas! Bye Emily!'

I watch my friend skip off out of the study room, accidentally banging into a few people along the way. I chuckle to myself before reaching over for my essay. "Motiveless Malignity Is the key to Iago's character. Discuss". Fuck, well here I go.

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'So what exactly do we do at a pyjama party?' Naomi asks me as we walk along the sidewalk, Pinot Grigio and cider in hand.

'I dunno, alcohol, gossip about boys?' We laugh.

'Ooo don't you think Freddie's eyes are so to die for!' Naomi imitates in a high-pitched girly voice.

'Oh, and isn't Cook just soooo hot! Oh just thinking about him has sent me into a hot flush!' I join in with the joke. We fall about laughing.

'God, seriously, if that is what it's all about then I'm heading for the nearest exit.'

'That's why we brought this,' I indicate to the alcohol she is carrying as well as the bottle of vodka in my own hand. 'Keeps us sane.'

'Or just very very drunk…which is actually the same thing!' She pauses, looking at me shrewdly before continuing. 'Did you even bring any pyjamas?'

'Well…to be honest, I don't even wear pyjamas.' I look at Naomi out of the corner of my eye to gauge her reaction. She smiles.

'Same here…well that's going to be embarrassing…a nude pyjama party!' Naked Naomi lying on the lounge floor at Pandora's…shit; shit must get bad bad thoughts out of my head. Gah DO NOT think about your best friend naked, do not think about your best friend naked! 'You alright Ems?'

'Huh? Oh right, yeah, I'm fine, just er, just thinking about the party y'know? I wonder if Effy and Katie are there yet.' Shit; don't look at Naomi. Image still imprinted in my mind. I'm a shit friend. Really really shit.

'Probably, you know Katie has to be in the hustle and bustle of things.'

'Yeah, you're right; she's probably bossing Panda around as we speak!'

We stop for a second as we reach Pandora's house. There are three balloons tied up at the front, pink balloons no less. It screams Panda through and through. We stand there for a few minutes, just looking up at the house, both too scared to go up to the door and face the "horrors" within.

'Fuck it,' Naomi states. 'Not doing us any good standing out here looking like pricks.' She begins to move forward, but stops as she realises I haven't followed. She looks back to me and sighs. 'Come on Ems, not much of a party if you stand outside looking like a twat all day.'

'Ok Miss bossy, I'm coming.'

Naomi rings the doorbell, and within a matter of seconds Pandora is at the door.

'Hi!' She shouts, before grabbing our supply of alcohol and throwing it into the nearest plant pot.

'Hey!' Naomi and I shout in unison as Pandora drags us inside.

She leads us into the lounge and shouts for her mother. An older-looking version of Pandora walks into the lounge and says something unintelligible to Pandora, pointing at our shoes. Pandora drops down to the ground and makes quick work of removing the shoes straight off of mine and Naomi's feet. This is majorly surreal, and we've only just got through the door. Pandora goes onto introduce us to her mum, saying that we're close friends. Very close. The image of a naked Naomi flashes through my head again. No no no Emily-stop it!

Naomi raises her eyebrow at me as we follow Pandora and her mum into the kitchen. Pandora's mum suddenly looks at me quizzically.

'Hang on, aren't you Katie?' Great, the confusion over twin thing. Is it really that difficult to tell us apart? Really?

'No mum, Emily is Katie's twin. Hang on. KATIE!!!' I think I just burst an eardrum. Katie comes running from wherever she was and stands in between Naomi and I. 'See mum, they're identical, isn't that wacker? C'est incroyable baby!'

'What did you just say?'

'Oh it's French, Thomas taught me. He's well lush…oh poop.'

'Who's Thomas? You haven't gone behind my back about boys now have you?' There is an awkward silence as Pandora looks at her feet. Wow, I thought my mum was strict!

'Erm, he's my boyfriend. He's good at er…French.' Naomi breaks the silence. Nice save Naomi.

'Oh, well I have strict rules about boys in this house, and I hope you girls will respect them whilst here. I'm sure your parents hold the same views.'

'Oh yeah, no boys allowed.'

'Boys are disgusting.'

'Yeah, completely agree.' The three of us look at each other, trying to hold back an onslaught of laughter.

'So, yeah, that's Katie and Emily; completely identical in every way.'

'Are you interested in the same things?' Pandora's mum asks us. Katie and I look at each other, pondering how to answer. I hate how it's always the first question that people ask us.

'I don't think so.'

'Not really.' Panda's mum smiles at the response.

'I see. Well we have pyjamas upstairs for you. They're pink and clean. Yes, very very clean. You'll look great in them.' She shoos us out of the room and we go upstairs to Panda's bedroom.

Katie, Naomi and I sat on the bed and stared the twister mat that was laid out in front of us. Panda disappeared somewhere leaving us to our own devices.

'You've got to be shitting me. Twister?' Naomi sighs. My sentiments exactly.

'Don't worry; I spiked the chocolate brownies with MDMA.' Katie chirps from the other side of me. I look at her in disbelief.

'What?'

'Chill Ems, it'll be fine.' Naomi replies. I turn my head to look at her instead.

'Yeah, it might loosen you up a bit.' I look back to Katie. Thanks for that Katie. Really know how to make me feel good about myself.

I'm saved from having to argue my case as Pandora enters the room, a pile of pink in her arms. She dumps it onto a nearby shelf and pulls out a top. It looks like its made out of curtains and has "Sexy Poo" stitched across the chest. Please tell me we don't have to wear that. Panda is telling us how her and her mum spent ages putting the outfit together, before throwing the top to Naomi. She then shows us the other tops that she has; another with "Sexy Poo", one with "Brainy Poo" and then one specifically for Pandora, "Panda Poo". Shoot me now.

'You've got to be kidding me.' Naomi whispers so only Katie and I can hear.

'Fuck it. Come on then, let's get changed.' Katie reasons, standing up and taking a top for herself.

We change into the tops that Panda has made for us, me getting "Brainy Poo". I find my eyes wandering over to Naomi as Pandora helps her put the top on-her head has got stuck. My eyes rake over her exposed stomach…I turn away, scolding myself for checking out my best friend-especially because I've been picturing her naked for the past hour! Effy soon joins us, and after staring out of the window (no idea why, she is a weird one) she gets changed too.

'Who wants a brownie?' Pandora's mum comes bursting through the door. Her hair is slightly ruffled and her straight posture from before is now more relaxed. 'I must say, my brownies are usually very good, but I think I've exceeded myself this time!' She walks fully into the room, holding a plate of the brownies in one hand, and a half eaten brownie in the other. Suddenly her appearance makes sense. She is high. I want to laugh, but the girls would probably just think I'm weird.

'This shit is good!' Katie exclaims. Pandora's mum hands the plate of brownies over to Katie, and we all grab one. Pandora is looking at her mum in confusion. Her mum has started swaying to music that only she can hear.

'What's she doing? Why is she like that?' Pandora asks, oblivious to the fact that the brownies are spiked.

'Eat up Panda; it's going to be a long night.' Naomi replies before taking a bite of the brownie in her hand.

Panda's mum's dancing is becoming more and more exuberant and her cardigan is soon thrown to the floor. The MDMA is beginning to have an affect on me and I have stopped caring about whether taking the drugs is right or wrong. Everybody in the room apart from Panda was dancing now, and looking over at Panda I could tell that she wasn't happy. I know that as her friend I should ask her what's wrong and try to cheer her up, but I'm so caught up in the moment that I don't even try. She bolts out of the room and I think I'm the only one to notice.

'Whoa…we're half way there…whoa…livin' on a prayer!' Looks like we're singing now too. I hate to say it, but I think Katie did the right thing by spiking the brownies with MDMA. Its certainly livened things up.

The group continues dancing until Pandora's mum collapses onto the bed. Naomi and I quickly pick her up and carry her to her own room. We unceremoniously dump her onto her bed and stare at her for a few seconds.

'Do you think she's breathing?' I ask, feeling a stab of responsibility towards the woman. On cue she lets out a loud burp which sets Naomi and I into a fit of giggles.

'Guess so!' Naomi answers. We look at her for another couple of seconds before exiting the bedroom.

I follow Naomi downstairs and I decide to have a snoop around the house. I look out of the kitchen window and see that there is a big bouncy castle outside. Naomi is no longer by me so I turn back towards the staircase hoping to find her. I enter the lounge at the same time as her and notice that she has the alcohol from earlier in her arms. She is giggling to herself as she stops in front of me.

'What do you want Ems; Pinot Grigio or cider…blibble?' She bites her lip afterwards and looks at me through hooded eyelids. So hot.

'Just give me a fucking…' What do I want? She looks so kissable right now… 'Just give me a…' I lean forwards, closing the gap between us as I give her s short but sweet kiss on the lips. I pull back slowly, looking into her eyes to try to gauge her reaction. Naomi has a slight frown and she bites her lip, as if unsure of what just occurred.

'Oh,' she whispers. 'It's just the drugs right?' I nod in agreement. I don't know why I wanted to kiss her, and why I'm so eager to do it again, but now isn't the time to think about it, now is the time to reclaim those lips with my own.

We lean towards each other simultaneously and our lips soon brush together. She tastes of brownies and apples and it's addictive. I deepen the kiss by licking her bottom lip and we continue to kiss for what seems like eternity, but in reality is probably only a few seconds. I pull away from her and we stare into each others eyes for a few seconds. She bites her lip again and nods her head.

'Come on Ems, lets crack open the wine bottle!' She walks past me and I can't help but to watch her.

I join her in the kitchen after a few seconds and ask her if she wants to go on the bouncy castle with me. She agrees and within minutes we are jumping up and down like 5 year olds, giggling without a care in the world. I bounce into Naomi's side, which causes her to fall down. I drop down to her side and we lay on the bouncy castle, staring into the sky. It's starting to get dark and I know that if I wasn't under the influence of MDMA brownies I would be feeling the cold. I feel Naomi shift beside me, the movement causing the castle to rise and fall slightly. I turn my head and see that she is propped up on her elbows.

'Hey Ems?'

'Yeah?'

'Can I kiss you again?' her face is a picture of innocence, a slight blush gracing her features. I don't vocalise my answer, instead I sit up and close the distance between us.

A/N 2: Ok this isn't even a joke; I had the music channels on whilst writing this chapter (music helps bring out my creative side) and Lily Allen "The Fear" started playing the moment I began writing the kiss scene!!!!!!!!!! How freaky is that? It was as if they knew…lol. Hope you enjoyed the latest chapter.