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By the time Sophie managed to wake up after her broken sleep everyone had gone out for the day and she was left to mull things over yet again. She was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't hear Jamie come in and join her at the table until he tapped her head, 'Anyone in there?' he asked, laughing.
'Sorry mate, just got a lot on my mind at the moment.' She replied despondently. The corner of Jamie's mouth turned up slightly as he gave her a half smile, 'Know the feeling there! Might help to talk about it?' he replied as he got up to put the kettle on.
'Can't really talk to you about it, sorry. It's Ryan I need to have words with' Sophie explained. Jamie spun round to look at her closely, brow furrowed, 'Ryan? Why him?' he asked, almost accusingly, as he wondered if the brunette had found out about what he had been up to.
Sophie's head snapped up at the tone in his voice, so far she had only been half paying attention to his presence anyway but something in his voice told her that he knew more than she thought he did. 'Do you know...?' she probed him gently, trying to find out without giving anything away.
'Nothing' he replied quickly and he turned back to the kettle, busying himself with making his fourth cup of tea that morning. 'You sure? You answered pretty much instantly' Sophie wasn't daft and she got up and walked over to him as she spoke, 'If you really know nothing look me in the eye and prove it to me'
'I know nothing about anything' Jamie insisted, still refusing to look at her, he'd always been useless at lying. 'Oh my god! You know' the brunette shouted as Jamie winced and clasped a hand to his ear. Unknown to him she had walked right up to him and the yell had gone right in his ear. 'How long have you known?' The volume hadn't been reduced at all and had been punctuated with a sharp poke to the ribs as well.
Holding on to the sore spot on his ribs Jamie almost ran to the other side of the room as he tried to avoid the violence, 'Stop yelling at me. I haven't done anything!' he pleaded.
'You best tell me everything you know or I won't be responsible for my actions' Sophie threatened as she advanced slowly towards him giving him her best death stare as she moved. Giving up, Jamie sat down at the table again, 'Look this isn't easy you know, I don't really know how to tell you let alone Sian. And before you say anything I have been trying to figure out how to tell her, I just haven't worked out how to yet'.
Jamie suddenly looked tired and Sophie began to worry, maybe Sian and her had got it wrong, maybe it was something completely different. Sitting next to him and taking his hand she told him, 'Please try'
'Me and Chelle were chilling last night when she got a text. Only like you know it wasn't her phone and the text wasn't exactly good news for Sian.' Jamie started until he was interrupted, 'What did it say?' Sophie asked impatiently, 'I saved it and some photos on my phone' he replied putting his hand in pocket to show her.
After finding the correct message he hesitated before handing it over, 'Please don't hate me for not doing something about it last night when you see it, I just...' The brunette didn't give him a chance to finish and took hold of the phone. As she read it her heart felt like it had dropped through the floor. Shocked, she looked up at her friend, her mouth moving but no words coming out.
Seeing the pain in her eyes, Jamie leant over and gave her a hug. It worked, giving her the courage to speak again, 'How could he? We thought he was cheating but this...'
Sophie got up and screamed in anger as it pulsated through her whole body making her physically shake. Placing her hands on the kitchen counter to steady herself she looked straight at Jamie, 'I'll kill him, I'll rip his balls off and stuff them so far down his throat he'll have to use a toothbrush to clean his backside'
'You'll have to think of something else, Chelle wants to use them as paperweights!' Jamie attempted a joke, trying to calm her down. 'This is why you two ran off last night then' Sophie realised as he reminded her of the skinny girl.
'We were trying to work out how to deal with it best,' Jamie explained, 'That and the fact that neither of us trusted ourselves to behave around him'. Taking a deep breath he went over to the kettle and made her a drink.
'That your solution to everything?' Sophie asked, nodding to the mug he was putting a teabag in but he didn't say a word in response, everything was about to go crazy and he knew it.
By early afternoon Jamie and Sophie had moved the discussion upstairs where they were joined by Chelle, sitting on Jamie's bed the brunette told the other two what Sian had told her the previous night, 'So she likes someone else?' Chelle asked as she put changed tracks on the CD player, 'she might be ok with the whole Ryan thing then'.
Sophie shrugged, 'Dunno really, she won't tell me who he is and she says it's a no go anyway. She seemed a bit – down about the whole thing really' turning to Jamie, who was lying with his head in her lap, she asked, 'Has she said anything to you?'
'Erm, no' he replied, careful not to answer too quickly for a second time before changing the subject, 'Anyone got any ideas on how we tell her?'
'Like a plaster. Tell her quickly, it's the only fair way' Chelle interjected, 'And, no offence Jay, but Soph should tell her too, better it comes from the person she's closest too.'
Behind her the door opened, 'Who should tell who what?' Sian asked into the silence that had descended on the room. Just behind her they could see Ryan hovering in the shadows looking worried, like he knew what was about to happen.
Jamie got off the bed and pushed Chelle out of the room in front of him, 'You guys need to talk' he said pointedly, just before he closed the door he threw his phone on the bed beside Sophie and mouthed, 'Good luck'
'What is it babe?' The blonde asked with a worried look on her face after her friend didn't volunteer any information immediately. Sophie seemed to crumple in front of her as she held out the phone with the incriminating message showing. 'It's been taken off Ryan's phone. I'm sorry'.
Sian took it and read it out loud, 'Don't forget to tell your Mum to come back with you. We need to tell her in person she's gonna be a Grandma' Without speaking Sophie pulled her onto the bed and gave her a bear hug as she began to process the news.
Downstairs Jamie and Chelle were preventing Ryan from leaving the house as they waited for the explosion to happen. 'I'm going to be late for my train' he pleaded but Jamie wasn't having any of that, 'You weren't bothered about the train when you were upstairs a few minutes ago were you?' Leaning against the front door Chelle continued on his behalf, 'Not trying to hide something are you?'
'Of course not!' Ryan insisted, holding his hands up, 'I've just got to go that's all'
Just then, there was a shout from upstairs followed quickly by a loud smash from outside and Sian and Sophie came steaming down the stairs, 'How could you!' the blonde shouted at him before slapping him round the face, 'Four years? Four years and you go cheat with some other girl and you don't even have the common decency to tell me? I have to find out from my mates'
Ryan looked broken, 'I'm sorr...' he tried to apologise until he saw the murderous looks on the faces around him and he dropped his tone, 'Can we talk somewhere more private please?'
'No way!' Sophie confronted him, 'You're not squirming your way out of this one. What made you think you could get away with it?'
'It was a mistake, you know I love you', ignoring the brunette he appealed to Sian, 'It was a one time thing, I never meant for it to happen' She scoffed at his claim, 'Once? So how come she's pregnant and wants to meet your Mum?'
'Have you been going through my phone?' Ryan accused her. Jamie put his hand up smiling, 'That would be me, I transferred a few things onto my phone to show her'
'You have no right getting angry at her even if she had gone through your phone!' Sophie shouted in frustration, making him back away from her in fear. Running her hand through her hair she turned her back on him briefly before facing him again and slapping his face as hard as she could. Waving her finger in his face she threatened, 'I'm going to ring Michelle and tell her what you've been up to as well'
'Oh god' Ryan almost cried as he rubbed his sore cheek, 'She's going to kill me'
'Good!' Sian spat at him, 'That's the least you deserve. What made you think she wouldn't find out anyway?'
Ryan hung his head, 'I don't know'. Chelle moved to open the door, 'I think you'd best go now. Don't even think about coming back either' she told him. As he picked up his suitcase to leave Jamie caught hold of his arm, 'One more thing before you leave'. Before anyone could stop him his fist came out of nowhere and connected sharply with Ryan's jaw sending him sprawling onto the front step. Chelle slammed the door behind him and cheered.
Nursing his fist with his other hand Jamie turned to Sian and asked, 'Can I have my phone back now?'
She turned to look at Sophie and the two girls started giggling uncontrolably, 'She threw it out the window!' Sophie gasped inbetween laughs. Jamie looked stunned for a few moments before the tension of the last 20 minutes broke and he joined them in laughing at the situation.
After Mike and Marc returned home, full of regret that they weren't there to dole out their own punishments as well, the 6 of them spent the evening roundly abusing the male gender, culminating in Jamie chasing Marc round the living room with a flip flop after he offered to do a strip tease to cheer everyone up.
The amount of alcohol they consumed made the night very happy but eventually they did have to go to bed. Sian had to drag Sophie up the stairs because she was trying to order 25 pizza's to be delivered to Ryan's house in Glasgow from the takeaway round the corner and she did want to be able to use them in the future.
Almost as soon as Sophie lay on her bed she fell asleep and Sian tucked her in tenderly. Kneeling by the bed she brushed the brown hair out of her friends face, 'I love you' she whispered before gently kissing her on the lips and leaving the room.
Sophie wasn't quite asleep though and as the door clicked shut her eyes snapped open. Woah!
BTW Boo? believe me it is possible to have a complete blank spot. I have one from an christmas works do a couple of years ago. Despite 4 witnesses telling me I had done something I still have no recollection of that particular incident! Mind you I don't actually want to remember it either:)
