AN: again, not a very exciting chapter. but as we all know there'll be drama to come! still not feeling too great so i quickly put this together this morning, sorry if it's not too great! thanks to everybody who's been reading and reviewing. Feel free to review and enjoy :)

Disclaimer: I don't own skins. it's a real shame.

Naomi's POV

After walking through the rainy streets of Bristol with a very giggly Emily we finally arrived at my house, rather rosy cheeked for the second time within a week.

"I hope you don't think this is going to become daily for you." I say to Emily, who's still on my back as I cross the threshold.

"Well, I don't know about that." Emily laughs. "and at least your back didn't get wet in the rain."

As I'm bending down to let Emily off my back my Mum comes out of the kitchen.

"Oh hello, love." she smiles at me.

"Hey, Mum. This is Emily, you remember." I glance over at Emily and see her starting to blush.

"Oh yes, it's nice to see you awake this time, dear."

"I'm erm, sorry about last time." Emily muttered.

Mum gives her a warm smile before turning to me. "Naomi, get out of those wet clothes before you catch yourself a cold."

I shake my head and laugh placing my hand onto Emily's back, urging her to go upstairs. We're halfway up when Mum calls out.

"Oh, Emily. It's nice to meet you by the way."

"You too, umm" Emily looks at me expectantly.

"Gina."

"You too, Gina" Emily shouts back down the stairs before turning to me and smiling. My heart swelled at seeing Emily make an effort to get to know my Mum, even if it was just knowing her name. It took me all of my willpower not to bundle her up into my arms right there and then on the stairs.

As we entered my room Emily takes her bag off, puts it on the floor and slings her rather wet cardigan onto it. I go over to my drawers and pull out some trackies.

"Here, you can wear these." I throw them towards Emily and I can see her watching me with a strange look on her face.

"What?" I ask laughing

"I never thought of you as a jogging bottoms type of lady." Emily says with a smirk as she begins to unzip her skirt and slide it down her legs. I bite my lip and look away.

"They're comfy!" I retort defensively. After finding my own jogging bottoms and put them on, I turn to see Emily sat on my bed with her legs crossed, my jumper over her. I can't help but be proud at how adorable I think she looks in my oversized clothes. Seeing that her hair is wet, I notice it's gone slightly wavy, I also notice that it's enticing me. I can't hold myself back and longer and I jump onto the bed and catch Emily's lips with mine. I gently push her back so that I'm on top of her and I lean onto my elbows, her hand intertwined with mine. I pull back and watch her, taking in every inch of her face, not a single defect or blemish on it. I can see her rein acting me, her brown eyes filled with sparkle. She brushes her thumb gently across my bottom lip, I lean down and give her a small kiss on the end of her perfect button nose. Emily removes her hand from mine and places both of her hands onto my back, she pulls me down into her hold and I snuggle into her neck, gently placing kisses onto it.

"Nai?"

I smile into her neck, the way she says my name sends shivers down my spine. "Yeah?"

"I've been thinking, and I've decided that I want to take things slow. Y'know?"

"How'd you mean?"

"Well, I finally have the chance to be happy, and I don't want to ruin this by rushing into things."

I can hear the nerves in her voice and I lift myself up so that I'm inches away from her face. "I don't want to rush things either, Em." Emily's lips curl into a smile, she pulls me down to her and I gently kiss her very inviting lips. I lay back down into my previous position and I can't help but keep the smile off of my face as I feel her trace circles with her thumb into my back. It must have been very soothing because I find myself waking up to it being dark outside. I can feel Emily's arms still wrapped around me. I slowly unwrap her arms and get up, I place the duvet over Emily and give her a small kiss on the head, so not to wake her. I make my way downstairs and into the kitchen to get a glass of water. I see Mum sat at the table and I join her.

"Hey."

"Hello darling, where's Emily?"

"She's fallen asleep upstairs, thought it best to let her." I reply, she sips her cup of at and nods. I watch her for a couple moments.

"Mum… do you regret marrying Dad? Because of y'know, what he did." I expect her to not answer or to break into tears, but she doesn't.

"Of corse not. Just because he turned out to be a prick towards the end of our marriage doesn't mean he never made me happy before that, love. It's taken me a while to get over it, but it's given me the time to realise that I don't need him anymore. He's already given me the one thing in my life that's rather fucking wonderful."

"What's that?" I ask, a quizzical look on my face. She gets up and comes behind me, wrapping her arms around my shoulders.

"You." she kisses the top of my head. "Nobody's ever really bound to stay together forever. People who make us happy are never the people you expect, so when you find someone, you've got to cherish it." and with that, she turns and leaves the room, before turning to me, "Night darling."

"Night Mum." I smile back.

I sit there for a couple minutes thinking over what she had said. "So when you find someone, you've got to cherish it."

I make my way back upstairs and climb into bed with Emily. I feel her put her arms around my waist and she places her head onto my chest. I hold her close to me, falling asleep to the same sentence playing over and over in my head.