Okay don't be angry with me lol and yes Lucas is really a crazy prick. Anyways hope you enjoy :)


Chapter 11

With every step Emily took the fire in her burned stronger. She was going to find out once and for all what Lucas's intentions were. Because whether he was aware of it or not his mere presence since the beginning of the year had torn apart a relationship that took years to build and Emily wasn't having it. She was going to ask him flat out and find out once and for all if Naomi was founded in her suspicions or not. Her pride wanted Naomi to be wrong because the revelation that she had been right all along would then require a whole lot of "I told you so's" from the blonde and a whole lot of apologies that she would have to dish out.

Reaching the café Emily stopped outside the window, looking in she spotted Lucas sitting at a table at the end, his back towards the window. Opening the door she swiftly walked in and made her way towards his table preparing herself to be stern with him and not let him avoid giving her an answer. When she reached the table however he turned his head looking her in the eye, she was taken of guard to see his eyes red and puffy as if he had been crying and his trademark smirk not present in its place sat a frown. He gestured to the seat across from him and Emily took it still looking at him and trying to figure out what was going on.

"I'm glad you called," Lucas said softly

"Have you been crying?" Emily asked

"I could say no and save my male ego but I don't want to lie to you," Lucas replied," Katie broke up with me."

"What? Why?" Emily was shocked Katie had been rather taken with Lucas since he came to Roundview and Emily couldn't see any reason why her sister would have ended things with him.

"She knows," he said feigning sadness," about earlier, I don't know how she found out."

Emily sighed, she had a good idea how she found out either Naomi in a fit of rage decided to tell Katie to get back at her or JJ had bumped into the older twin and had once again blurted out something to her that he wasn't supposed to, the kid was really terrible at keeping secrets.

"I'm sorry," Emily said sincerely

"Me too, I really liked her," Lucas replied looking down at his coffee from a moment breaking the eye contact.

"Well I guess that answers my question," Emily thought upon hearing Lucas confess his feelings for her sister, it was a weight off of her shoulders for sure.

"I know you did," Emily gave him a sympathetic smile.

"Well I thought I should tell you because Katie can be a bit spiteful and she might just run off and tell Naomi, she was rather angry when I left her," Lucas said.

Emily's face dropped at the mention of her name, sitting here and listening to Lucas's woes she had managed to forget her own for a couple minutes only to be thrust back into them rapidly.

"She already knows," Emily confessed.

"How did she take it?" he wondered aloud

"Not well," Emily frowned reliving the memory," We aren't really speaking at the moment."

"Christ not you guys too, I'm sure Naomi will come around,"

"Well technically I broke up with her I think," Emily's face dropped into her hands.

This was a curve ball to Lucas; he had assumed that Naomi would have been the one to end things when she found out. If Emily had been the one to make the decision there must have been some reason and maybe it wouldn't be so hard to get to her as he thought.

"Oh," he simply said

"Well I should probably go Katie will have a cow if she finds out I'm sitting here with you, she's probably pissed off at me enough already I should go and talk to her," Emily said as she got up from the table.

"Okay good luck," Lucas offered her a weak smile receiving a nod in return.

Once Emily was safely out of sight Lucas pulled a bottle of eye drops out of his coat pocket dropping two drops in each eye. He had purposely worn a coat that he had left at his aunts for a couple weeks and her cat had seemed to use as a nest of sorts. His annoying cat allergy seemed to work out in the long run as their hair always caused his eyes to go red and watery making him look like he had been crying. He paid his bill and walked out of the café with a smile on his face, his coat now stuffed safely in his bag.

When Emily reached her house she sighed with relief upon realizing her parents weren't home yet. She didn't need them berating her with questions about why Katie was upset or worse about why she looked upset, she didn't think she would be able to stand the pleased look that would surely take over her mothers face when she realized things had become bumpy between her and Naomi. Walking up the stairs slowly she opened her bedroom door preparing to take any wrath that Katie was about to throw her way. Stepping into the room she found Katie sitting on her bed shredding photos of her and Lucas, no emotion on her face whatsoever.

"Hey," Emily said timidly," How are you?"

"Just fucking great," Katie replied," I assume you already know then?"

"I ran into Lucas he might have mentioned something," Emily said taking a seat on her bed and facing her twin.

"I'm sure he did," Katie spat.

"Look I'm sorry," Emily tried to apologize.

"What for?" Katie finally tore her gaze away from her task of tearing the photo's, Emily hadn't done anything, Lucas was just a prick Katie had decided breaking up with her without giving her any real reason she wasn't going to stand for it," You haven't done anything its Lucas that's the prick."

To say Emily was surprised would be an understatement; she had expected Katie to take out all her anger on her like she usually did. And the time when she might actually deserve it Katie had decided to be nice?

"Ya but…" Emily started but cut her off.

"Look I don't want to talk about it okay," Katie interrupted she promised her self that she wasn't going to mope of this breakup like she had with Freddie," Just don't bring him around anymore okay I don't want to talk to him."

Emily nodded she had no intentions of hanging out with Lucas anyways it would just cause so many more problems with Katie and more importantly Naomi who would probably never forgive her if she was seen being friendly with Lucas.

"And maybe don't be to mushy with Naomi around me for a while," Katie feigned a smile but it was replaced with a frown when she saw tears instantly springing to Emily's eyes," Em whats wrong?"

"Naomi and me, well I think we broke up or we're on a break or something I don't really know," Emily sobbed.

"That bitch hurt you again didn't she," Katie exclaimed," Oh you just wait I'm going to show her pain."

Katie started to get up from her bed with all intentions of making her way over to Naomi's and beating her into next year.

"I broke up with her," Emily whispered

Katie stopped in her tracks looking at Emily with a confused look.

"What?" Katie asked," I thought you were all in love or whatever."

"I was just so angry with her and it just slipped out," Emily tried to explain.

"Okay well why are you so sad generally the one who breaks it off isn't the one left crying," Katie took her previous seat on her bed again.

"Because I didn't mean to say it!" Emily exclaimed," I love Naomi I don't want a break I was just angry, I'd do anything to take it back."

"It'll be fine Em, just talk to her tomorrow at College when both of you have had a chance to think, she probably feels the same way," Katie said," Now come help me destroy these photo's it really eases the pain."

Emily managed a small smile as she wiped the tear tracks from her cheeks and sat next to her twin. Picking up a photo she ripped Lucas out of it tossing him to the side smiling when she realized Katie was right destroying property was making her feel a little better. Or maybe it was just Katie, it was nice to hear from someone else that her and Naomi would be able to work things out, Emily was desperately hoping Katie was right.

Naomi didn't show up for College the next day destroying Emily's plans to talk to her and sort things out. Instead Emily spent the day moping around following Katie and avoiding Lucas for her sister's sake. Actually it wasn't as hard as she though, he seemed to be keeping his distance probably because Katie was staring daggers his way every time she caught a glimpse of him, he probably feared for his life. Emily ran into Effy at the end of the day and decided to ask if she knew where Naomi was.

"Hey Ef," Emily said walking up to her and Freddie.

"She wasn't feeling up to coming today, she'll be here tomorrow though," Effy said quickly.

"Oh," Emily replied confused at how Effy was able to answer her question before she even asked it.

"She is right you know," Effy spoke again.

"What?"

"You know what I'm talking about," Effy said cryptically.

Emily looked up at Freddie who looked every bit as confused as she was as he offered her a shrug.

"Okay," Emily replied," Well I'll see you later then."

"Are you going to come to the party tomorrow night," Freddie said cheerily

"Katie will probably drag me so ya," Emily said with a nod before walking away feeling far to strange under Effy's intense stare she had no idea how Naomi was able to spend so much time with Effy it would drive her nuts.

She walked off to find Katie again feeling hopeful at the knowledge she would see Naomi the next day for sure but hoping that the blonde would be as happy to see her as she would be.

Naomi woke Friday morning feeling like complete shit, which was basically how she had felt since she walked away from Emily those two days ago. No matter how angry she was with Emily it didn't change the fact that she was very much in love with her and with out her she felt a void in her heart, the place where Emily used to be. But she had to keep reminding herself that Emily had been the one to mutter those words, she had wanted a break and no matter how much it killed her she was going to respect Emily's wishes. Throwing the covers off of her body she rolled out of bed throwing on whatever outfit was the closest to her, she really didn't care what she looked like since she really had no one to impress anyways.

It only took one glimpse of Emily once she reached college to make her feel like she was about to cave. Emily was standing there talking to Katie smiling looking far too gorgeous, Naomi didn't even think it was humanly possible to look that good. She stood there a moment deciding whether or not to walk over to the red head and plead with her to reconsider, tell her that she was angry and hadn't meant any of the things she had said. But looking at Emily Naomi decided against it, she looked for a lack of a better word happy, Naomi thought that maybe she was going to have to come to terms with the fact that Emily really just didn't want her any more. So she walked in the other direction thinking that avoidance was the best option seeing as if she had to be forced to be around Emily she was sure to do or say something to make things worse.

Naomi didn't know that the small smile that graced Emily's features was her doing, Emily was pleased that she would get to see Naomi today it had been far to long in her opinion since she had been able to look into her crystal blue eyes. The rest of the day between lectures Emily spent her time trying to track Naomi down, she would sometimes catch a glimpse of peroxide blonde hair in the hall but it would always disappear out of sight before she was able to get to her, if Emily didn't know any better she would have assumed Naomi was avoiding her, she really hoped this wasn't the case.

"So did you two make up yet?" Katie startled Emily out of her thoughts

"I think she's avoiding me," Emily replied sadly

"She's probably just scared I mean you did break up with her, she probably just thinks that you don't want to see her or something," Katie rationalized.

"I guess," Emily reluctantly agreed.

"Well come to the party tonight, I know for a fact that Naomi will be there because Effy is bringing her, you can talk there yeah?" Katie said.

Emily pondered a moment before agreeing deciding that she would go to the party and walk straight up to Naomi and apologize for being a twat and Naomi would smile at her softly and apologize as well and would kink her eyebrow before dragging her into the toilets and…

"Em," Katie broke Emily out of her daydream," You were somewhere else for a minute there."

"Sorry," Emily blushed," Okay I'll go."

Naomi had been basically dragged out of her house by Effy who simply wouldn't take no for an answer. When Naomi told her that she felt like shit and didn't want to have to watch Emily having a fucking ball when she felt terrible Effy simply shrugged and told her she sounded like she needed a drink. The more Naomi thought about it she came to the conclusion that she really could use a drink, she would go to the bar and drink away her sorrows and show Emily that she was fine, besides these people were her friends too.

Stepping into the smoky bar Naomi was momentarily blinded by the flashing lights but her eyes quickly adjusted. She scanned the room frantically searching for Emily not sure what to feel when she didn't see her. On one hand Naomi really did just want to see Emily, but on the other hand it would be hard to see her knowing things would be weird between them. Deciding it was time for that drink Naomi made her way over to the bar quickly downing three vodka shots cringing as the liquid burned down her throat but feeling a little more comfortable in her skin as they settled in her stomach. Taking her lager she made her way over to the table where Effy and Freddie were sitting with Cook and JJ.

"Naomikins I'm glad you're here," Cook grinned," I hear you had another tiff with Ems figured you'd want to get momentously fucked."

JJ looked at Naomi awkwardly feeling guilty for telling her about what he had seen, Emily had talked to him later on that day and explained it wasn't what he thought and now he felt responsible for Naomi's pain.

"Well if you call breaking up a tiff," Naomi said coldly chugging half her glass of lager," But yes getting fucked is the plan."

"Well the cookie monster is going to help you out," he shouted over the music as he walked to the bar probably ordering something strong that would help her wash away her worries.

Scooting in to sit next to Effy Naomi leaned back against the booth closing her eyes and waiting for the effects of the alcohol to take over her system. It wasn't until she heard Effy say Emily that her eyes snapped open and her head tilted a little to quickly as the alcohol was starting to make her head foggy. She saw Emily standing on the other side of the table staring straight at her looking like she was about to say something. The intensity of her gaze was too much and Naomi suddenly felt in need of another drink so she jumped up abruptly leaving the table and Emily with a frown.

"You're going to fix this right?" Effy spoke directly at the red head

"If she'll fucking let me," Emily let out a frustrated sigh," She keeps running from me."

"Give her a minute," Effy suggested offering Emily a drink.

Emily shook her head, she wanted to stay sober tonight to talk to Naomi she needed to have a clear head. Katie ran up behind her grabbing her by the arm and muttering something about dancing. Emily hated dancing when she was sober, well unless it was with Naomi of course but otherwise she always felt awkward. She knew Katie only wanted someone out there with her until she caught some guy's attention, which sure enough happened not long after the twins reached the dance floor. Katie shot her a wink before allowing herself to be dragged away by her conquest for the evening further into the crowd of people leaving Emily alone. She could see out of the corner of her eye Naomi leaning against the bar doing shots with Cook and Emily cursed under her breath. Naomi had promised her that she wouldn't do anything reckless again but by the looks of it she was striving towards alcohol poisoning tonight. Emily knew if she didn't get to her soon it would be no use talking tonight because Naomi wouldn't be able to comprehend anything she says or remember it in the morning for that matter.

Scanning the dance floor one last time just to make sure Katie was still occupied Emily went to walk towards Naomi but was restrained by two strong arms that had found their way around her waist, she could feel hot breath on her neck and assumed it was some drunk prick that she was going to have to tell to fuck off. Forcing her way out of is grasp she turned around a little startled to see Lucas standing behind her smiling.

"What are you doing here," Emily said," Katie will freak if she sees you she's well pissed!"

"I don't care," Lucas replied still smiling.

Emily was about to tell him to fuck off, that she had something she needed to do and that it would be best if he left but she was silenced by Lucas leaning in and pressing their lips together quickly pulling away before she had a chance to push him away.

"What the fuck are you doing!" Emily shouted at him but was silenced when she looked beyond him and saw very tell tale eyes staring at her.

Naomi stood there drink in hand staring at Emily with a horrible mixture of hurt and anger on her face. When she noticed Emily looking back at her she dropped her drink jumping slightly when the glass shattered on the ground and then turned and ran outside. Lucas turned just in time to see Naomi disappear out of sight.

"She'll be fine don't worry about it," he whispered into Emily's ear making her cringe

"What the fuck is wrong with you," Emily continued shouting all her anger from the past couple days surfacing now.

"Oh come on Emily you're clever you should be able to figure it out," he winked

"Get out of my way," she tried to push past him but he blocked her.

"I like you Emily," Lucas confessed with a smile

"What?" Emily thought she heard him wrong

"How could you not know?"

Emily looked at him a horrified look sweeping across her face when she saw his dark cloudy eyes projecting want to her. She thought she might throw up upon the realization, Naomi had been right all along and she had been too daft to listen to her.

"Look I don't know what you think but," Emily stumbled

"You want me too," Lucas said matter-of-factly

She fought the urge to scream that he was fucking nuts and tell him to stay the hell away from her but she didn't want Katie to see the exchange.

"Come on Emily don't lie to yourself," he reached out cupping her face his hand being promptly slapped away by Emily quickly," You hang out with me even when Naomi doesn't like it, you lied to her to spend time with me, and you break up with her right after I kiss you."

"You think I broke up with Naomi to be with you?" Emily said with disgust," You really are off your fucking rocker aren't you!"

"We should be together," Lucas spoke again more stern this time.

"I don't fucking want you, I never did and never will," Emily screamed making sure he heard her this time," I love Naomi you don't even come close to comparing to her! Now get out of my way!"

Emily went once again to move past him but felt him grip her wrist tightly, so tight that it was actually hurting her. She looked up and saw anger in his eyes and for a second she thought he was about to hit her.

"Is there a problem here?" Freddie said tapping Lucas on the shoulder, Emily had never been so thankful to see him in her life.

"Nope," he replied letting go of Emily's wrist watching her run away as soon as he did.

"Leave her alone, and Katie for that matter," Freddie said through a clenched jaw, Effy had been filling him in on her theories over the past couple days but he hadn't really been convinced until he just saw this exchange.

"You're protecting Katie," Lucas laughed," A little ironic isn't it since you're the one who broke her heart and got her hit over the head with a rock if I'm correct. Not that I blame you, Effy is quite a looker."

Freddie's hands were now clenched into fists listening to Lucas talk. It was true, he had hurt Katie in the past but since then he felt a responsibility to watch out for her, like he owed her for everything he had put her through.

"Listen mate, I know how it is fucking one girl but pretending she's someone else I understand," Lucas smirked.

"I suggest you leave, no one wants you here," Freddie gritted his teeth again

"Gladly," Lucas said making his way towards the exit.

Emily had run straight to the exit she saw Naomi running out of while dialing the blondes number just about throwing her phone on the ground when it went to Naomi's voice mail. Taking one last look down the street Emily sighed seeing that Naomi was nowhere to be found. Giving up she sulked back inside and over to where Effy was sitting just having been rejoined by Freddie.

"Have any of you seen Naomi?" Emily asked hopefully

"Not for a while," Cook spoke up

Emily sighed again running a hand through her hair.

"Can you tell Katie I went home," Emily asked Effy

"Sure," she replied

"I'll walk you," Freddie spoke up," I don't want you walking alone with Lucas out there the look in his eye just wasn't right."

"Okay," Emily gave in, truthfully she really didn't want to walk alone tonight anyways she was a bit shaken.

"I'll come back right away okay," Freddie said to Effy giving her a quick kiss when she nodded.

Freddie got out of the booth and lead Emily out of the club placing his hand on her back to guide her through the crowd of people. Once outside he looked around breathing a sigh of relief when Lucas was nowhere to be found and continued to follow Emily on the way to her house.

Lucas came out of the parking lot only to see Freddie walking off with Emily, his arm thrown loosely around her shoulder. He was hoping to have another chat with Emily when she left, to convince her that he was right for her that their chemistry was undeniable. But now he was left here alone and angry, he couldn't go back into the bar with Effy and Katie there so he decided to take a walk instead. Walking past the entrance he stumbled into a back alley to the right of the club spotting the one person that seemed to get his blood-boiling leaning against the brick wall having obvious trouble standing up.

Naomi had emptied the contents of her stomach as soon as she got outside away from Emily and now her head was pounding as she struggled to keep herself upright. Hearing a noise in the alley she looked up and through bleary eyes she saw a dark figure making its way towards her, hood up so she couldn't recognize a face. She went to walk away but stumbled catching herself on the wall to steady her balance, turning again she was caught off guard when a fist connected with her jaw enough force to knock her down if another hand wasn't holding her up. Four more hits to her face he finally let go of her shirt and let her fall to the ground. She could taste the blood in her mouth and even in her drunk state was pretty sure her nose was broken. Naomi thought it was over, the man hadn't touched her since she hit the ground but then she heard her cell phone ringing and saw a hand reaching down to pick it up.

Lucas felt another fit of rage rip through him when he saw "Emily" flashing on the screen and a picture of Emily kissing Naomi's cheek in the background. Throwing the phone hard against the wall he smiled when it shattered. Looking down at Naomi's pathetic crumpled form he felt disgusted that she had beat him, Emily had chosen her over him and that had never happened in his life, he had never lost at anything.

"Fuck," he screamed kicking Naomi in the stomach her hands flying to her head trying to protect it somehow and doubling over in the process.

The pain was imminent, strong and unrelenting as Lucas continued kicking her seemingly harder each time, as he got angrier. It wasn't until he spoke again that Naomi realized who her attacker was.

"You…Don't…Deserve…Her," Lucas yelled between kicks then stomping roughly on Naomi's wrist most likely breaking it.

"Lucas," Naomi said weakly, it hurt to talk it hurt to breathe

Her plea did nothing but irritate him more as he continued kicking.

"She chose you," he yelled," Look at you, you're pathetic!"

The next time his leg moved towards her Naomi caught it with her good wrist her nails digging in sharply most likely leaving a scratch. It wasn't much but it caused him to stop long enough for her to curl into the fetal position doing her best to ignore the way her ribs were protesting. He got two kicks in to her back causing her to just about vomit again before some one else came walking down the alley.

"Get away from her," a recognizable voice said.

Cook came running towards Naomi successfully chasing Lucas off, as he couldn't risk Cook seeing his face. Though Lucas wanted nothing else but to beat that wanker as well. Cook knelt down beside Naomi getting a good look at her.

"Jesus," he hissed bringing a shaky hand up to brush the hair out of her face relieved to see she was breathing, her eyes barely open but she seemed to recognize he was there.

"Cook," she rasped," It hurts."

"Sshh its okay," he tried to sound comforting, this really wasn't his thing," I know, I'm going to get you some help okay, just keep your eyes open for me okay."

"K," Naomi whispered.

Cook rapidly pulled out his cell phone dialing Freddie's number frantically explaining the situation, it was only a few minutes before he was joined by Freddie who had just gotten back from walking Emily home.

"Fucking hell," Freddie said when he saw Naomi's slumped form," Call a fucking ambulance Cook, we can't move her like this!"

Cook obliged feeling less panicked now that Freddie was here.

"They said around ten minutes," Cook said as he hung up the phone.

"Did you see who it was?" Freddie asked

"No he was wearing a hood I didn't get close enough," Cook replied

Naomi grunted something unrecognizable causing both boys to kneel down and listen closer to her but it was no use. Just then the ambulance showed up and they were pushed away as two paramedics went to work on Naomi, carefully getting her onto a stretcher and starting to load her into the vehicle.

Naomi's still bloody hand reached out for Cooks holding it as tight as she could muster trying to pull him closer. Seeing what she was trying to do he bent in closer listening to what she was trying to say.

"Don't…tell…Emily," she said through labored breaths before being forced to let go of his hand when the stretcher was pushed fully into the vehicle.

Watching the ambulance drive off Cook looked at Freddie who had the same shaken look on his face but with a nod they decided to respect Naomi's wishes for now. Running back into the club they grabbed Effy and JJ and dragged them outside towards the hospital. Trying to explain what happened to a frantic Effy was harder than either of them anticipated but finally she seemed to calm down a little not totally but enough to send Katie a text telling her where they went and to call Naomi's mother as she was the only one who knew Naomi's home phone number.

By the time they reached the hospital waiting room Gina had already arrived and was filling out some paper work. The three boys took seats in the waiting room as Effy walked over to Gina having a quiet conversation trying to wage whether Naomi was going to be all right.

"She's going to be okay," Effy said as she took a seat next to Freddie placing her head on his shoulder

"You're sure?" Cook said," She was in rough shape."

"Naomi's mum said they didn't expect any internal damage just some broken bones and cuts and bruises you know," Effy explained.

A very shaken Gina made her way towards the group of teenagers stepping right in front of Cook.

"Thank you," she said taking his hand for a moment," They said you probably saved her life."

Cook just nodded awkwardly he had never had a girls mother thank him for anything before, normally they were chasing him out of their daughters room telling him to never come back.

With a nod Gina walked back down the corridor towards what they presumed to be Naomi's room. They had been told she was stable but they wouldn't be able to see her till morning when visiting hours opened up again. Freddie got up followed by JJ and reluctantly Effy but Cook didn't budge.

"I'm going to stay," he said when he saw Freddie's questioning gaze," I won't be able to sleep anyways."

Effy sat back down in her seat while Freddie muttered something about getting them coffee if they were going to stay. JJ told them that he had to leave; his mother would be worried if he didn't come home, but told them to call him if anything changed.

Moments later Freddie returned with three paper cups handing one to each of them before taking his seat next to Effy once again and settling in for a long night.