Sorry about the complete and utter lack of uploadage, I made this one extra long to show you I'm sorry ^^ Also because I'm going away for the weekend so I forced myself to update (I'm a little devastated cos I won't be able to see friday's eps of corrie until I get back sunday night D:)

Disclaimer: i don't own anything, except maybe Will...but I'm not proud of that...

Part 4 - In Which Perfectly Good Chips Go To Waste

"SOPHIE?"

Sian stared in shock at the girl in front of her. She was definitely one of the people that the blonde thought she would never ever see again and now all of a sudden here she was. The girl that had turned her life topsy turvy after it had already been dumped upside down.

"What are you DOING here?" Sian exclaimed.

Sophie hadn't said anything yet, just stared at the other girl wide-eyed with her mouth open slightly, but now at last she found her voice. "What am I doing here?" Sophie said. "More like what are YOU doing here? Did you follow me or summit?"

Sian snorted in disgust and looked at Sophie with narrowed eyes. "Did I FOLLOW you?" Sian spat. "Seriously, do you think I'm desperate? Besides, it's not exactly like I knew how to find ya did I?"

Sophie didn't know what to say, Sian was most definitely right. Sophie had never mentioned where her and Will were from (not that she could remember quite everything from that night), just that they were on a holiday.

"Well it's a hell of a coincidence then isn't it?" Sophie reasoned, not quite being able to believe what was happening. How the hell was she supposed to forget about what had happened if the person that was the cause of it all was now here in her normal life.

Sian groaned in frustration and ran her hands through her hair, a gesture that made Sophie's stomach do strange flippy things that couldn't at all be a good sign.

"Well when are you leaving?" Sophie finally said since they had both been lost in their thoughts.

The blonde looked up at her with eyebrows raised. "What makes you think I'm leaving?" Sian questioned. "I just got here?"

"You're staying?" Sophie practically shouted, then realised and tried to hide her embarrassment at the outburst.

"Yeah I'm staying," Sian confirmed. "My Dad lives not too far down that way," Sian gestured down the street. "I'm staying with him."

"What happened to Southport?" Sophie asked quietly.

In her head Sian thought, You happened, but there was no way she was admitting that, not after the runner Sophie had done the first time. So instead Sian simply said, "I got fired remember? Couldn't really afford the flat with no job."

"Oh, yeah," Sophie said guiltily, then remembered where they were. "Why was you coming out of the Rovers though?"

Sian turned around to look at the Rovers since she had also momentarily forgotten where they were, it was almost like they were off in their own little stressful world. She turned back to Sophie and was about to reply but just at that moment the doors of the Rovers opened again and a tall dark-haired man came out.

"Sorry 'bout that babe," Will said. "Someone gave it in to Becky and then one of the boys–" He stopped when he realised that Sophie wasn't alone. "Oh, hello."

Sophie now stared Will. She had completely forgotten about him (and the chips that had probably gone soggy by now) and inside she was starting to panic about what was happening (and what COULD happen).

"Sophie?" Will asked her concerned, noticing the look on her face.

"This-this is," Sophie stammered, not quite being able to spit out the introductions but gesturing in Sian's direction.

"Sian." The blonde finished holding her hand out.

The guy shook her hand responding with, "Will."

Sian froze and looked to Sophie first who purposefully was looking at the ground then back to Will. "Will?" Sian questioned with a frown.

"Yeah, you've heard of me then?" Will laughed.

None of the girls were laughing. Sian let his hand go and looked at Sophie as she said, "Summit like that."

Will hadn't caught on to the puzzled looks Sian was giving Sophie or the intense staring at the ground Sophie was doing so asked innocently, "I don't think I've seen you around here before, how do you know Sophie?"

Sophie's eyes quickly looked up and darted back and forth between Sian and Will, her heart felt like it was in her throat now.

Sian didn't look at Sophie as she stammered out, "Erm, well, Southport actually."

Will seemed genuinely surprised by this. "Oh! Really! Southport?" He asked turning then to Sophie, "Babe I thought you said you hadn't been to Southport since you were a little girl?"

Sian seemed awfully calm to Sophie, who was now screaming inside her head to take the 'flight' option. The brunette quickly went over to Will and took him by the arm, still holding the, by now definitely cold, chips and started dragging him away saying, "Yeah, I can't really remember to be honest but I think the chips are gonna get cold (understatement) so we should probably head off."

"Oh, yeah," Will agreed. He turned his head back to Sian as Sophie kept dragging him away to half shout, "It was nice to meet you Sian."

Sophie gave him another yank on the arm and hissed a "come on" through gritted teeth and pulled him away.

"Yeah, see ya," Sian said quietly to herself.

Sian couldn't believe what was happening. She quickly closed the front door behind her and slid down it completely, resting her arms on her bent knees. She had walked away from the Rovers as fast as humanly possible without it actually constituting as running and now sat in a heap against the door flustered (though not from the 'walking').

The blonde had been a wreck all week. Grumpy, snappy and just downright depressed. Her parents had put it down to losing her job which, she'd admit, was partly the case. But only a tiny bit partly. Mostly it was due to a certain brunette about so high and with the most gorgeous blue eyes she'd ever seen. Urgh, she groaned in frustration and banged her head backwards against the door, regretting it instantly. Great, she thought, now I have a splitting headache as well. Not that it wasn't already there to begin with.

Sian pulled herself up off the floor and slowly made her way towards the kitchen. On the counter there was a flyer left by her Dad for some Chinese takeaway place that was supposed to be close by. Her Dad was working late (as usual) and probably wouldn't be back until well after tea time but Sian just didn't feel in the mood for eating. She hadn't all week. What had happened with Sophie was just constantly on her mind and she couldn't help but get utterly lost in thought, questioning who she was and what had happened, What does it all mean? Was a popular one in there too.

After she had resigned herself to her predicament a week ago in Southport that Sophie had done a runner and that she would probably never see her again, Sian put it down to just another in a string of bad luck events that had been happening to her lately in her life. The only way she could see to overcome it was to try and just move on, besides, it wasn't as if she could actually do anything about it. Sophie had left her high and dry indeed. At first Sian had tried so hard to remember every little thing that they had talked about in hopes of remembering if Sophie had mentioned any clues to where she was from but despite the alcohol, she was sure she hadn't.

In truth Sian didn't even know why she was torturing herself with thinking about it all. Before she had seen Sophie outside the Rovers she didn't even really know what she'd say to her if she ever saw her again, or what she would want from her. An explanation? For which part? Sian contemplated. That night had opened up a whole different can of worms for her that she just didn't know how to deal with, the biggest one being, But I'm not gay...am I?

Maybe she felt she just needed some closure so that she could attempt the moving on thing (gay or not Sophie had still hurt her). The brunette seemed to have had no trouble moving on though. Will. Sian grimaced and felt sick inside. She couldn't believe that Sophie had gone back to him. Okay, so she didn't understand properly what had happened between herself and Sophie, but the brunette had told her about Will and from the sounds of it he wasn't the greatest guy, let alone the greatest boyfriend.

Sian sighed and trudged upstairs to go to bed, maybe an early night was just what she needed to get her mind off Sophie and the mess she seemed to have made of her life. Maybe tomorrow she'd be able to deal with it.

The next morning Sophie was lying in bed staring at the light trying to squeeze in through her curtains. She had been watching it for a good few hours now, not being able to sleep properly at all. But this was nothing new, all week she hadn't had a decent night's sleep.

After practically running away from Sian the evening before (for the second time now) she had made lame excuses to Will that, the chips were cold anyway, she was tired, she had an early morning (the last one was so a lie) and then retreated back home, running up the stairs to her room and ignoring her family's questions.

Now it was time to do it all again today so very unenthusiastically, Sophie got up and trudged her way downstairs to the kitchen table. It was well after 11am but being a Sunday, her mum was still home, Kevin was at the garage catching up with some leftover work and Rosie, well God only knows what Rosie was getting up to. She may have been married to Jason for three years now but the amount of time she spent at the Webster's made one wonder whether she had moved out at all.

"Morning love," Sally greeted her youngest daughter cheerfully while clearing up the kitchen. "You had a bit of a lie in didn't you?"

Sophie grunted in response and poured herself some coffee. Her mother took this as a normal (late) morning Sophie response so ignored it continuing, "You turned in early last night as well, is everything alright between you and Will then?"

Sophie rubbed her forehead with her hand and answered with a sigh, "Yes mum. Everything's fine with me and Will."

"Well that's good," Sally replied in her 'I'm not very convinced' voice. Not being able to help herself she added, "It's just he seemed so upset the other week when he came back from Southport and didn't know where you were and it seemed like you'd had a row or something."

Sophie had never actually asked Will what exactly he had told her parents about Southport and since they had a mutual agreement to never mention Southport to each other ever again she hadn't pushed for details and her parents hadn't mentioned it so far. From what her mother was saying now though it was obvious he had told them very little to nothing, something Sophie was all too pleased about. Her mother adored Will, "He's such a nice boy" Sally would always brag, If only you knew, Sophie thought now with a sneer.

"It was nothing," Sophie finally shrugged back to her mother. "Just a misunderstanding is all."

"Oh!" Sally exclaimed happily. "Well that's wonderful." Then she went back to clearing up, making her way into the living room she called out, "Are you seeing him later on?"

Sophie rolled her eyes. Is there no peace in my life? She asked herself, saying out loud, "Dunno. I don't think we've planned anything." It was more, Will had asked if she wanted to go see a movie or something but she had lied again saying that she had promised to catch up with an old school friend today.

"Well I was going to have lunch with Rosie in the Rovers later on, did you wanna join us?" Sally inquired, oblivious to Sophie's internal distress.

"Sure, why not." Sophie stated. Well, Sophie thought to herself, at least it'll take my mind off of Sian for a little while. This of course was another lie (number three if you're counting), a big fat one and she knew it.

Nevertheless, an hour or so later she was sitting in the Rovers with a bored look on her face trying very hard not to think of a small blonde girl and how simply thinking about her made her stomach flutter while her mother and sister gossiped away.

"Sophie? Sophie are you listening to me?" Rosie demanded, having apparently just said something extremely important and was now offended that Sophie wasn't paying attention to her.

"Were you talking about how there are starving children in Africa that don't have clean water to drink?" Sophie asked her sister sarcastically.

"What? No of course not," Rosie smirked.

"Then no," Sophie continued. "I wasn't listening to you."

Rosie scoffed in disgust, "I was just saying SOPHIE, that Jason told me that Graham told him that HE overheard Becky telling Tina that they've got a new barmaid that's gonna be working at the Rovers now."

"That's wonderful Rosie," Sophie responded disinterestedly. Honestly, she should have just stayed home. Or watched grass grow. It would have been have been a more productive way to waste the day that's for sure.

Ignoring Sophie, Rosie continued telling Sally the rest of her story, "So Jason said she's supposed to be some mega babe or something, though obviously not as hot as me, and that she's new in town. Powers something I think her name is?"

Sophie had stopped paying attention again to Rosie's nonsensical ramblings, that is until she heard her sister gasp suddenly and say in a hushed voice, "I think that's her! She's alright I guess, though she is SO not a natural blonde."

Sophie whipped round in her seat so fast that she almost toppled out of her seat and saw exactly what she was afraid of, Sian had just walked into the Rovers.

Slinking down into her seat as far as she could, hoping that Sian hadn't seen her (or her almost falling out of her seat), she thought to herself, Could this day GET any worse?

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There you go, hoped you like it, I am going somewhere with this story (I think...). And please review, they always make me smile and happy and give me ideas for updating ;D