Thanks so much for all the reviews! I'm trying to stick to my word and update this often enough. This one is a little shorter as a result of all my classes and homework though. I swear all this spanish is screwing up my english, I couldn't remember how to spell square today so therefore I apologise in advance for all the mistakes that this is bound to have! I hope you enjoy :D
Chapter 9: We're All Good
Finally things were looking up for me. Emily wants to be with me and although she wants to take it slow for a while I think that that's for the best. Emily and I need to get to know each other on a whole new level and I know that it's going to be even more overwhelming for Emily because she is only just discovering herself.
Despite the big dark Effy secret that is hanging over me at the moment I still feel elated and walk home from Emily's with a spring in my step.
Aaron is waiting for me on the porch when I get there.
"Effy told me where you were."
I freeze. How much did she tell him? Does he know that Emily left him for me? I don't think that Effy would be that cruel.
"Yeah I was just at Emily's. What of it?"
"What did you go to Emily's for so early on a Sunday morning? Normally you're dead to the world until two in the afternoon with a hangover."
"Emily wasn't at the club last night, I just wanted to check in and see if she was ok. You know being a good friend and all that."
"And you couldn't just text her?"
"Obviously I did that first idiot but I didn't get a response so I just popped over for a bit."
"Did you tell her slept with Katie?"
"What do you care? You got what you wanted."
"No I didn't!" Aaron shouts angrily. "I had changed my mind about Katie and you convinced me to keep after her."
"Aaron I'm not your mother, you don't have to do what I tell you."
"That's not the point. I only fucked Katie last night because I was pissed off at Emily for ending things between us. Did she tell you why she ended it?"
"No I didn't want to ask and she didn't tell me."
"Are you sure she didn't mention anything?"
"Yes I'm sure! Why do you even care?"
"I care because I fucking want her back Naomi!"
"No you can't…you can't have her back…she won't take you back…its over."
"I know that screwing Katie was stupid and I want to make things right. So did you tell her?"
"No I didn't tell her."
Aaron lets out a sigh of relief.
"Katie is going to."
Aaron looks at me alarmed.
"Why would she do that, she'll only hurt her."
"Katie is going to tell her because unlike some people she has the fucking balls to tell the truth."
My words made me think of me more than Aaron.
"I'm going to get her back Naomi."
"Good luck." I say as I move passed him towards the door.
"Oh yeah and Effy told me to tell you thanks for last night."
Aaron gives me a filthy grin.
"I knew you two were fucking."
"That was the first and last time it'll ever happen."
"I'm sure."
"Believe what you want" and I close the door behind me.
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College has been absolutely brutal today. Not only have I not seen or heard from Emily all day but now Effy and I are sat together at a table during lunch and we have no idea what to say to each other. Scratch that, I don't know what to say. I'm pretty sure Effy is just enjoying watching me squirm.
"Naomi you're thinking so loudly that it's interrupting my lunch."
I look at Effy and she smiles. I can't help but laugh. Things will be fine between us and I'm just being a nervous wreck about it all. Effy laughs along with me for a while until we fall into an easy silence.
"How are things between you and Katie?"
"At the moment she's scared of me."
"Scared of you?" I ask confused.
"Katie is pretty sure that I have feelings for her, but she isn't certain. Katie doesn't want to confront me about it in case she is wrong and she also doesn't want to admit that she is intrigued by the possibility of me. I'm unpredictable so Katie knows she can't anticipate my next move which leaves her with only one option. Katie has to wait which means that she isn't in control and all the different ways I could go about this is scaring the shit out of her."
I just stare at Effy dumbfounded. How does she know these things?
"Do you want to analyse my relationship and tell me what I should do?"
"The way I see it, you have to tell her about me soon or it's only going to end badly."
I sigh and nod my head.
"Anything that I didn't already know?"
"We don't have time to get into that right now."
"Why not?"
"Emily is on her way over here."
I turn and watch as Emily walks over, she is looking down at her tray of food but I can tell by the blush on her cheeks that she knows that I've seen her.
Emily sits down beside me and nods her head at Effy and I.
"Well I'm just going to remove myself from all the sexual tension," Effy says as she gets up, "if you'll both excuse me."
"So you told her about us then." It wasn't a question.
"No I wouldn't do that. Effy just has a way of knowing things and she won't tell anyone if that's what you're worried about."
"It's just that I don't want this to get out yet."
"Emily take all the time you need, I'll be here."
"Thanks Naoms. So guess what Katie told me."
"I'm going to randomly guess that Katie slept with Aaron."
"You knew? Why didn't you tell me?" Emily seems more upset than angry.
"It was kind of hard not to know when I walked downstairs and there she was in my kitchen and I didn't tell you because I thought that you should hear it from her. I knew that she was going to tell you, I wouldn't have kept it from you if I didn't. I wasn't keeping it from you to hurt you. I need you to know that Emily, I would never do anything to hurt you."
I look into Emily's adoring brown eyes and try to convey my message as powerfully as I can.
"Ok Naoms. No need to get so serious!" Emily pushes me lightly on the shoulder and laughs.
I decide that now is as good a time as ever to tell her before things go too far.
"Emily there's actually something I need to tell you."
"Yeah Naoms?" I sigh. This could decisively end our relationship, if you could even call it that yet.
"Well it's to do with Effy."
Emily's phone beeps.
"Hold that thought Naoms." Emily takes out her phone and reads the text. "Oh for fucks sake." She mumbles.
"What is it?" I ask nervously.
"It's Aaron again. This is about the umpteenth text I've gotten from him today."
"What does he want?" As if I don't already know.
"He keeps saying that he wants me back and that he'll do anything. He wants to take me out so that we can talk things through. I don't want to meet up with him but I think that seeing him and properly saying to his face to bugger off is the only way I'll get through to him. What do you think I should do Naoms?"
"Aaron doesn't deserve your time or attention Emily, just ignore him. I know my twin, he'll tire eventually."
"Ok you're right. So what did you want to tell me about Effy?"
I had hoped that Emily would have forgotten that I had said anything. It wasn't the right time to tell her. Who am I kidding? Anytime is as good as any, I just don't want to tell her.
"Eh…I just wanted to tell you that…Effy…Effy has a crush on Katie."
Emily doesn't seem too surprised.
"Yeah I know, but hey I guess now we both know what it feels like to be used!" Emily states almost cheerfully. I look at her confused.
"You know, Aaron used me to make Katie jealous and Effy used you. Katie told me a while ago that she thought Effy liked her. That's the real reason why I was so shocked to see you kissing Effy that night. I had the feeling that she was using you but you seemed to like her and if you believed that she liked you then I was going to hope that you were right. I didn't want to see you get hurt."
"You should have told me that a bit sooner don't you think Em?"
"I know I should have. Although I would have regretted not telling you a lot more had you slept with her. That's the only positive in all of this. Neither of us actually ended up sleeping with them." Emily is finished her lunch and gets up to go back to class. "Thank god that didn't happen right? I mean you surely must have known that I had feelings for you and sleeping with her would have been really malicious and spiteful and then how would I possibly be able to trust you in a relationship? But anyway it didn't happen so we're all good right?"
"Yeah right, we're all good."
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