"This isn't my shit. It's Freddie's. If he can stick it about he can't sort out the mess it leaves behind." "Freddie will listen to you though. He isn't going to fucking listen to me and Emily and he certainly won't listen to Katie." Naomi said strongly. "And to be perfectly fucking honest, you owe Katie. Big time."
"Always comes back to that, doesn't it?" Effy mumbled.
"What do you expect?!" Naomi replied powerfully. "Naomi, why do you care anyway? I thought you hated Katie." "I do. I do." The blonde stuttered, "I do. I'm just trying to help Em, Emily. This is messing her up too." Effy shook her head, smiling to herself.
"You must really love her. 'Naomi Campbell - backs down and gives in, to Katie Fitch of all people, to please someone other than herself.' You could make the headlines."
"Fuck off Effy." Naomi picked up her oversized bag from the floor by Effy's locker and began to walk off.
"I'll do it." Naomi turned around. Effy spoke again, "I'll talk to him, I'll try." Effy smiled gently out of the side of her mouth.
"Thanks," Naomi replied softly as she walked away. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The bedroom which Katie and Emily had shared for the last sixteen years looked different when Katie entered it. It suprised how much two weeks away from her life could make her miss it, she never thought she'd miss her home, her house, Bristol. Katie was always going on about how she wanted to get away, however, it'd become clear to her how empty her threats were beginning to sound. She came back and that was the she had originally intended to do. Emily had tidied everything of her own whilst Katie had been away but kept everything of Katie's the way it was, Katie found it hilarious. She couldn't help but giggle when Emily came into the room and joined her.
"Seriously, Em. It's like you're in mourning." Emily smiled slightly, trying to hide her faint embarrasment. "Where is all your shit?" Katie asked, looking around the room.
"Naomi's. Most of it anyway. I don't stay here really, I mean, they won't let Naomi back. So, I just stay there. Easier." Katie sat on her bed and Emily sat opposite.
"Have you seen him?" Emily nodded her head.
"He hasn't said anything though, I've only seen him a couple of times at college." Katie just shrugged her shoulders, she thought if she convinced everyone else she didn't care about Freddie, she might just be able to convince herself.
"It'll be fine though. We'll be out of here by the end of next week." Emily said.
"What? How?"
"One of the guy's dad trains owns a block of flats. They are kinda near college. Him and mum said they'd rent one for us. That's what I came up here to say."
"What? But they we're going to kill us." Emily shrugged her shoulders just as her twin did moments before.
"Apparently not."
"What did you tell them?!" Katie asked unconvinced.
"You were at a friends. I don't think they'd responded well to the truth. I said we felt it was time we 'grew up'" Emily made a stupid hand movement "and they just came up with it."
"That's fucked up. I think they're trying to get rid of us Em. God, right pair we turned out to be be, slut whore and lezza bitch." The two girls began to laugh hysterically, before Katie got up saying,
"Wow, I so have to pack."
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"For fucks sake. Will you two just get the shit out of the fucking car?!" Naomi pulled away from the wall she had Emily pinned to, licking her lips and winking at Katie as she walked past her, just to piss her off.
"Fucking lesbian." Katie muttered under her breath. Emily and Katie had bunled their stuff into the back of Naomi's battered Micra that she shared with her mum, she wasn't even eighteen yet and she could already drive. They were unloading their last load of stuff into the twins new flat and Katie just wanted to get in, she'd been on her feet all day and this carrying extra pounds thing would take getting use to. She had gone from being a eight to a size fourteen within weeks and she kenew it'd only get worse. Emily and Naomi pulled a chest of drawers out of the boot and heaved it up the stairs, into the front room of the twins new flat.
"Em, I'm just going to call mum. Tell her we're done and shit." Katie screamed uo the stairs, Emily replied with a faint grunt, as she was too busy making out on the sofa with Naomi to care. Katie stepped around the corner of the block of flats where she found herself staring into an all too familiar face.
"Effy? What are you doing here?" Effy dropped here cigarette and exhaled the last of its smoke.
"Naomi can't keep her mouth shut."
"Bitch." Katie mumbled. "What do you want Effy?" Effy shrugged her shoulders.
"I broke up with him." Katie raised her eyebrows.
"Freddie?"
"Indeed."
"But why?" Effy pulled another cigarette out of her t-shirt dress pocket. She didn't offer Katie one, she didn't think it was right.
"Didn't think the same. I tried taking responsibility for what I did, what happened, with him and Cook. He won't though." Effy's eyes quickly towards Kaite's stomach and then back again, not quick enough for Katie not to notice though.
"Wanker." Katie said, making both girls smile.
"Don't hate me." Said Katie.
"Why would I hate you?" Effy replied curiously.
"For being pregnant with your boyfriends baby." Effy smiled.
"He's my ex and technically he was your boyfriend first."
"Yeah." Said Katie, smiling also.
"Don't hate me for hitting you with a rock." Effy replied, not being the first to notice how Katie pushes her fringe the otherside of her face to hide her scar.
"Sorry." Effy said, flicking her second cigarette away.
"Same."Katie's phone rang and she answered it, interuppting their conversation.
"Hey. Yeah, i know. I know I didn't call." Effy smiled to herself again, briefly waved to Katie, who began making her way back to the flat, and walked away.
Unaware to both Katie and Effy, Naomi and Emily had stood at the window and observed their whole conversation.
"God, we're good." Emily said as she pushed Naomi back on the sofa and kissed her fiercely.
