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So you wanted more fluff and that's what I tried with the chapter, but I honestly feel like angst is my strength so we'll see how it goes :D but do let me know what you think!, Thanks to everyone who reviewed/faved and alerted, as always you really make my day!

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Chapter 12

Naomi's POV

"Christ, took long enough" I groaned as the bus started to slow down. This had by far been the worst trip id ever had, I ran out of travel sickness tablets at the start of the trip and because the things only last two hours the last five have been absolutely shit.

"Ems.." I whispered "we're here", I hesitated for a moment before putting my hand on her knee to squeeze it gently. The last couple days have been rather great between us, its nice being able to kiss her and hold her hand and as clichéd as this sounds every time we have contact it feels so much more intensified, but that's the problem isn't it? I don't want to get too comfortable because what if this thing between us is just a holiday fling? And even if it isn't I don't even know what I want from Emily, I just like spending time with her.

"How long have I been asleep?" she yawned "Christ my arse is numb"

"Humm bout two hours" I bit my lip watching her stretch

"Feeling better then?" Emily started rolling her headphones up reminding me that I should probably be doing the same thing seeming as the bus had now come to a complete stop.

"Suppose so" I shrugged, I wasn't feeling one hundred percent but then who is after a bus ride this long?. I was definitely looking forward to stretching my legs, we had stopped a few times along certain point's that had stunning views of wine valleys and beaches but we were there no longer than fifteen minutes at a time which made every stop bloody depressing, id rather just keep going instead of having to dread each time we had to get back on the bus.

…

It ended up taking much longer than necessary to check in because somehow the manager (who conveniently was away) had messed up our reservation. The poor guy behind the desk had explained that they were expecting us early in the morning in the book but ended up sorting out the mess and showing us our rooms.

"You're shitting me right?" Katie scoffed as we entered the shared room. There were two bunk beds against the left wall and a third against the right, it was a pretty bland room, white walls, white floor, grey curtains and that's about it, looked clean enough.

"These sheets better have been washed I don't want to catch like a disease or some shit" Katie whined as I walked towards the bunk on the right wondering if Emily would follow.

"Bunkbeds! Brill! I haven't slept in one since camp!" Panda bounced over to me climbing up on the top bunk, I didn't mind, having already claimed the bottom one.

I sat down on the mattress silently groaning at how hard it was as Emily walked over to the bunk closest to the window and Effy and Katie took the other bunk. Bunk beds scared the shit out of me because I always pictured the top falling through so the fact that Panda was up there bouncing around was making me feel really paranoid.

"Nai" Effy crossed her legs on the top bunk watching me squirm on the mattress, "check if the window opens will you?" I got up and walked over to the window pulling the curtains back, the window were one of those ones you had to wind to open and it took a bit of strength but eventually started turning, the thing mustn't have been opened in at least a year!

"Are we even allowed to smoke in here?" I frowned watching her take a spliff from her tin and put it to her lips, not that that would be a problem to Effy anyway, she hardly ever followed rules.

"Who cares" Emily grinned jumping off her top bunk

"Uhh, I care Emsy, I don't want to go out reeking of weed yeah? so if you're gonna smoke it do it over there" Katie pointed at the window.

A little while later we were all lounged on the beds just feeling the high, it was good weed but then again Effy always has good drugs, I was surprised that Katie even decided to have a puff but after a minute of watching us she stormed over demanding the spliff. Once we finished it Emily decided to sit on my bed and I grabbed her hand straight away putting it in my lap to stroke her palm as she started playing eye spy with Panda. Panda never really mellows out on weed but she does become less exuberant, instead of bouncing around everywhere she usually just talks non stop to anyone that will listen, some of the things she comes out with stoned are hilarious.

Effy had gone straight to her bed and plugged in her headphones and I was almost certain that she wasn't listening to any music because every time Katie would say random guesses in eye spy a faint smile would twitch at Effy's lip, it was so faint that anyone who didn't know her as well as I did would probably miss it. Effy's never been the type of person to be with someone because she's always thought it's a waste of time so seeing her like this around Katie is strange, It's nice, if Effy is able to let down her walls and let someone in then maybe I can too, eventually.

"Panda I have to be able to see what it is that you're thinking of" Emily giggled pulling me out of my trance, I looked up at her and couldn't help laughing, it's not that she was doing anything funny, her laugh was just so contagious I was completely drawn into it. You know how some people just have those type of laughs that make you laugh along with them, even if what they're laughing at isn't funny at all, Emily has that and the weed probably made it worse as well because soon enough everyone was joining in and even when Cook, Freddie and Bruno came in it didn't stop.

"Oh my, I can't even, I've got a stitch!" Emily yelled burying her head in my neck as I wiped the tears from my eyes.

"Ladies" Cook grinned walking over to Emily's bed and lighting the cigarette that was hanging from his mouth, I briefly wondered if anyone cared about the whole smoking inside thing because surely they would have smelt it by now, this place isn't that big. I looked over at Bruno who was awkwardly leaning against the door smiling at nothing.

"You can come in you know" I let him know, truth was that I felt a bit bad because we'd barely spoken since the dinner at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, it's not that I was avoiding him id just been busy.

"Oh" Bruno made eye contact with me smiling "yeah I know, I've just got a sore throat and all the smoke.." he flicked his eyes looking around the room.

By this point Freddie had made himself comfortable on Emily's bed and was laughing at Panda who I assume was doing something crazy because the bed was moving a lot, I was glad to see him in here enjoying himself even with Katie and Effy.

"We're going out tonight" Cook informed the room

"Noooo" I whined at the same time as Katie, I really didn't think I had it in me and was relieved that at least one other person wasn't up for it

"You gettin soft on me blondie?" Cook smirked raising an eyebrow, this earnt him an eye roll because really, we'd had a pretty long day and I really wasn't in the mood for debating this with him.

"He means to dinner" Bruno smiled crossing his arms "Thomas knows this nice place"

…

A couple hours later we were all walking to a restaurant that Thomas recommended, I was feeling rather pissed off because the motel didn't have an ensuite which meant everyone shared the showers and of course Katie bolted for the first so by the time I got in the water was cold and I was so hungry that my stomach was growling. I couldn't be bothered dressing up at all so I just put on a black hoodie and blue jeans, luckily no one else (bar Katie) had bothered either.

"You look nice" Emily stated walking beside me "Ems, my hair is wet, I've close to no makeup on and I'm not exactly dressed to impress" I sighed feeling uncomfortable at her compliment "you still look nice though" she smiled nudging my shoulders "bit moody though"

The restaurant was located in a quiet more residential area and outside looked really modern so I was a bit reluctant to go in because the owners were most likely snobbish wankers but once we entered a guy named Eric came towards us with open arms, he really was great, those who wanted even got to sample some wine before choosing a glass. Eric then showed us to our two seater tables that were sprawled out all over the place, Emily took her camera out straight away and started taking photos of the top of our table as I sat down because it was filled with white rocks and had clear glass over it. Our group was so big that we almost took up most of the tables in the restaurant and we were almost immediately given menus by various waiters, the poor staff here had a big job ahead of them.

"What are you having?" Emily asked as I frowned at the menu trying to decide between the chicken or Thai salad

"Not sure" I shrugged "what about you?"

Emily looked at the menu one last time like she was making a her final choice and then placed it down on the table smiling up at me "chicken, I'm starving"

I sighed and looked towards the few people who weren't with our group trying to see their plates to see if they ordered either of my choices, I don't even know why I do this, it's almost like a deal breaker, if I see the food and it looks good enough then I'll order it.

"I can't decide" I said drumming my fingers on the menu and biting my lip

"Why don't you flip a coin over it?" Emily suggested filling her glass with the water that was already on our table once we sat down.

I chuckled thinking she was joking because really, who does that? It's not that this decision was the most important in the world, it's just food afterall but I still wanted to choose it myself, id more than likely go with the opposite decision of the coin anyway.

"I'm serious" Emily grinned taking a sip of her water "I always do it"

"Why?"

"Why not? You like both choices right? You're not choosing between something you hate and something you love" she shrugged

"Well, yeah but.." I trailed off not really having a point

"What are you deciding between?" Emily asked picking up her handbag and placing it on the table

"Thai salad and chicken"

I watched her with amusement as she pulled a coin out from her purse and started turning it over in her hand, the whole idea seemed ridiculous but it made me feel warmer inside that Emily does something like this.

"Heads Thai tails chicken okay?"

Before she could flip the coin her phone started ringing and I giggled at her ring tone because it was Homer from 'The Simpsons' saying "Hey you got a phone call, I can't believe you get reception in this dump, pick up pick up pick up pick up!"

"Sorry" Emily blushed losing all confidence as she cancelled the call weird does she think we're on a date or something?

"It's fine, you could have answered you know" I smiled making eye contact with her

"Anyway" Emily changed the subject shaking her head, and it was literally like she was shaking away the situation "so, about that decision then?" she smiled back in confidence; it took a minute for me to catch on because this girl could go from mood to mood so easily.

The meal was fantastic, Eric has previously explained that everything is fresh and home made so they don't use microwaves and it actually paid off, I had tried some of the pumpkin that came with Emily's meal and it was probably the best I've ever had in my life, perfectly cooked with charred edges and a soft body, it was delicious.

After we finished out meals Emily had suggested we skip dessert and walk back to the motel and I was more than happy to oblige because my stomach felt like bursting and it gave us alone time.

We walked for a while in silence together, it was nice being able to do that but something was playing on my mind and I needed an answer

"Em..you know how you thought Eff and I were…together" I shoved my hands in my pockets awkwardly not knowing the right words, thankfully Emily hummed in response knowing what I was on about.

"Well, I told you that we weren't…at the club the first night I kissed you" I felt my cheeks instantly turn red at this "so why did you still think we were after that?"

"It's not that I didn't believe you that night, you're just always so comfortable around Effy, and vice versa, you get each other" Emily admitted without hesitance

"That's what friendships are supposed to be like" I smirked "it's the same with Cook aswell, the only difference is we both put on acts so its easier to miss our connection" I smiled warming "and Effy doesn't really give me a choice, she seems to know what I'm thinking a lot of the time."

"Do you put on an act with me?" and here she is again, shy Emily

I mulled over the answer for a minute, I definitely act different around Emily than I do anyone else but it's not a choice, she just brings out this different side of me, a side I feel more like myself in than I ever have before.

"Nope" I smiled watching her demeanour change again "you don't really give me a choice" Fuck it, honesty is the best policy.

"Yeah I have that effect on people" Emily smirked nudging my shoulder.

…

The next morning I woke around 11 to a quiet room, I sat up glancing around at the beds and everyone seemed to have left but Katie who was spread out over her bed with one arm hanging over. I stood up and smiling at how relaxed my body felt and then walked over to the curtains to look outside, it was a really nice day today, not overly hot but the sun was out shining over the houses that surrounded our motel. I wasn't sure if anything had been planned by Thomas today, I guess Katie and I'd have been woken earlier if that was the case. I walked over to my suitcase and pulled out a pair of denim shorts and white tee before quietly tiptoeing out of the room and heading for the shower.

By the time I returned to the room Katie was awake and in well bitchy form, definitely not a morning person.

"You're phones been ringing" She grumpily pointed to my suitcase

I leant down and picked it up flicking through my missed calls 2 from mum I'll have to ring her and then opened my inbox to read 3 messages.

Emily: Morning sleepy, didn't wanna wake u, u looked so peaceful :) txt me when u wake up?

Effy: You're missing out on the sun

Cook: Oi blondie! Wake up!

I rolled my eyes deciding to call mum before I replied to any texts, by this point Katie had dragged herself up out of bed and seemed to be in the middle of having a fit over clothes that she was chucking everywhere.

"Where is everyone?" Katie huffed flopping down on her bed and frowning at a black bikini set she was holding "stuff them then" she mumbled "want to go to the beach?"

I agreed to go with Katie for two reasons, one being that I felt lazy and didn't want to do anything that involved walking around a lot, which is most likely what the group is doing and two because I really had nothing else to do, so whilst Katie showered I quickly put on my navy blue bikini under my clothes and then called mum.

"Hi love, hold on a tick" mum said, I could hear a lot of noise in the background and wondered what on earth she was doing "how are you dear?"

"Alright, what are you doing?" I frowned

"Trying to work out this bloody slow cooker, I want to make chicken soup tonight, but anyway enough of that where are you now?"

"Err" I was momentarily distracted by Katie entering the room again "Monaco"

"How are the people there?"

"I haven't really been out yet, we only got here last night" I replied tracing a bruise over my knee "what's been happening at home then?"

"Same old love, I ran into Anthea the other day, Jim's still being a soppy twat" I raised my eyebrow a bit more interested in this conversation now, Anthea and Jim, Effy's parents had been divorced for around 3 years now but Jim is forever trying to get her back, I don't see why really, don't get me wrong I love Anthea to bits, she's just treated him like shit for ages now and I don't see how he could possibly still want her.

I hummed in reply not really sure of what to say with Katie in the room, I wanted to know what happened this time but I wasn't sure if Effy had mentioned her family to Katie and if I were to start asking questions I'm sure she would aswell.

"How is Effy anyway?"

"She's alright I spose…" please stop talking about Effy mum

"well that's good then, anyway love I better head off but remember to text message me!, you haven't at all yet"

"Yeah alright mum" I rolled my eyes "see to you later"

"Bye love"

…

"Have you spoken to any of the group today?" Katie asked putting her sunglasses on as we lounged over two towels on the beach. It had only taken us five minutes to walk here and I was really impressed, the beach here looked like the type you see on a post card, yellow sand and blue water, not like the ones back home anyway. We hadn't really spoken much but it wasn't uncomfortable, I just couldn't be bothered and apparently neither could Katie, so we arrived at the beach and picked a spot to lay down that was far enough away from the children playing with balls to avoid getting hit. We'd been laying here for over an hour before either of us said anything.

"Nope, have you?" I whipped some sand off my arm shifting my body around so my back could get more of a tan.

"I don't want to" Katie sighed relaxing on her back "I want to stay here long enough to get a natural tan"

I snorted at the way she whined the last part of her sentence before saying "Yeah well I just can't be bothered walking around"

"Good, well don't answer your phone for a while yeah?"

"Alright" I shrugged even though I was sure she couldn't see me, it was nice relaxing here like this and there's no way in hell I was going to be the one to ruin this day.

…

"Wake up lezzer" Katie shook my shoulders pulling me from a nice dream that I can't remember, I know it was nice though. "It's six and our phones have been ringing non stop"

"What?" I sat up abruptly frowning at Katie who was brushing sand off her legs "it's six already!"

"Yeah don't get your knickers in a twist Campbell, we're going to look like the fittest bitches out there!" she beamed motioning over her slightly burnt torso and neck and then to my legs. Shit I'm actually pretty burnt I thought running my hand over my thigh, it wasn't the type of burn that hurt or anything, just a little red.

That thought brought me back to the situation, Emily, I wanted to see her.

"I fell asleep too" Katie informed me as I stood up and started to grab my towel to shake

"Jesus we've been here what..five and a half hours, I don't even know how I managed to sleep that long" I sighed looking around. The beach was significantly less crowded now but there were still people around, the sun hadn't gone down much at all. "Have you spoken to them since you woke?" I asked Katie who was now waiting for me.

"No" she scoffed "Ems is gonna flip it so id rather just walk in with you dressed like that beside me that way she'll probably forget I even exist" Katie smirked leading us towards the exit.

"Well I was going to put my clothes back on.." I chuckled "but I guess I can do you this one favour, you owe me though Katiekins"

"Whatever"

…

"Right, ready?" I stared at the motel door a bit anxiously as Katie shuffled on her feet beside me. I wasn't really anxious about Effy or Cook because they're carefree most of the time, but this was the second time in one week that Katie had disappeared off the face of the earth and unfortunately this time I was her accomplice.

"Nice bod" Bruno smirked as we passed him on our way to the shared room "thanks babes" Katie replied not looking at him.

"Bitches we're home!" Katie burst into the room not even giving me a warning, so much for being in this together!

The first person I saw was Effy who was casually laying on her bunk smoking as we walked in and her body seemed to relax a tiny bit by our presence, the next person I saw was Emily who had immediately put whatever book she was reading down and stood up from her bed, guns blazing.

"You're such a fucking-" she stopped yelling mid sentence and noticed me standing behind Katie, I suddenly felt self conscious and internally cursed Katie as I watched Emily's eyes trail over my body.

"What was that Ems?" Katie asked innocently climbing up on the bunk with Effy, I didn't miss the smug tone in her voice as she did this.

"I..uh.." Emily closed her eyes and shook her head giving me the chance to pass her and grab some warmer clothes "where have you's been all day?" she asked in a much softer tone.

"Wow Naomi you're gonna have a whizzer tan!" Panda smiled watching me from her bunk

"Thanks, we went to the beach" I smiled killing two birds with one stone.

I had pulled out a pair of grey Jeans and black top not really caring if we were going anywhere fancy tonight and headed towards the shower. By the time I got back everyone was either doing their hair or makeup and I assumed we were going clubbing.

"Where are we going then?" I asked Effy

"Club near the beach" she shrugged nonchalantly passing me the hair straightener, there it was again, Effy just knowing that tonight id want to have my hair straight.

"Cool' I hummed walking over and plopping myself next to Emily on her bed and crossing my legs

"Hey you, nice day then?" I smiled making sure I was close enough to her to have our knee's touching

"Yeah" Emily smiled generally at me "we took a drive up to one of the wine valleys, I got some great snaps, could have been better though" she shrugged jokingly as I stared at my unmade bed.

"Oh? how so?" I could see her grinning as she leant closer to me, obviously ready to kiss me on the cheek but I was going to have none of that, as silly as this sounds I really missed her today and needed to have a proper kiss so I turned my head to face her just has her lips reached my cheek and smirked at her shocked reaction, within the second Emily was giggling between kissing my lips.

"Cheeky" she grinned giving me one last chaste kiss before getting off the bed.

…

The club Cook had supposedly found today was called 'The New Wave' and you could hear the music thumping out of it from streets away, there was a massive line out the front of it but Cook had managed to meet the owners daughter today as he explored around and she had promised to let us in straight away if he just text her.

"Your girl better be legit" Katie warned crossing her arms as we all hung around the entrance, fortunately for Cook it didn't take long for her to arrive.

"Hey" the short brunette said smiling at Cook "I'm so happy you came" she continued in a strong accent that was hard to recognize.

"Babes!" Cook bounced over to her placing an arm around her shoulder, "you're lookin fit as fuck!" he racked his sleazy eyes over her short black one piece, typical.

"Gang" Cook looked up smiling at us all "this is Jayde, babe this is the gang" he said motioning to us all.

"Hi I'm Emily, where are you from?" Emily smiled warmingly extending her hand

"Australia" Jayde hesitated before shaking it, aha! That's it, Australia! I thought eyeing her off, well that was a bit of a shocker, Australian's owning a nightclub in Monaco..

I watched Jayde as she stood there awkwardly greeting each member of our group that Cook introduced to her and almost laughed at how she subtly greased off Katie, I guess Katie does have a 'queen-bee' vibe so it was interesting watching someone who clearly wanted all the attention on themself being threatened by Katie who I'm pretty sure couldn't care less because she'd spent the whole time whinging.

Not long after we were all heading into a large bar that had strippers dancing on poles and I instantly eye rolled, this is defiantly the last time we are going somewhere Cook suggests.

"Boobies, I mean, oh giddy, naked women, poles, dancing" JJ gasped just noticing the strippers as we sat down at a booth inside, everyone bar Jayde instantly started to erupt in laughter.

"S'alright Jay" Cook patted his shoulder "want a lap dance mate?"

"N-no thank you" JJ slumped further down in his seat instantly turning bright red, poor guy.

The club wasn't overly impressive but there were a fair amount of people "This place is shit" I heard Katie complain in Effy's ear, she was right I couldn't imagine myself letting loose in here, too many older people.

"First rounds on me" I stood waiting for Emily to move to let me out

"Just tell the barmaid to put it on my tab" Jayde smiled surprising us all, maybe she isn't that bad after all I thought smirking at Effy who had raised her eyebrow.

As I walked to the bar with Emily I was very aware of more than a few men that looked about in their forty's eyeing us off, I wanted to grab Emily's hand to let them know we're not interested but it'd probably just make them more keen, greasy old bastards. I stood behind Emily pressing my back against hers in protective sort of way as she ordered the shots from the bar, one of the men was now licking his lips and winking suggestively so I gave him my best Campbell glare.

"Hey there" Emily smirked turning around so that our chest's were pressed against each other and wrapping her arms around my back causing my body to stiffen. I watched as a glint of confusion crossed Emily's eyes as she let her arms down mumbling a quiet apology and I knew she'd taken my reaction the wrong way.

"Ems…" I sighed staring straight into her eyes "I'm sorry, I love it when we're this close" Christ you tit don't use the word love! "Um" I bit my lip "it's just, there's about 10 tossers watching us right now and I don't want them getting any ideas.."

Emily frowned for a second before glancing around and it was actually quite amusing seeing the realisation hit her face that indeed we were being perved on and suddenly she was glaring at one in a really scary way, must be a Fitch thing I thought thinking of Katie.

"Excuse me" Emily spat at the perve closest to us "do you mind? We're trying to enjoy a night out here and I can't do that if you're constantly running you're eyes over my girlfriends arse" wait what? girlfriend? does Emily think..we haven't discussed..fuck sakes Naomi pull it together, yes Emily did just refer to you as her girlfriend and yes it makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside but that is no reason to lose the plot here, in Emily's arms, Emily that said you're her girlfriend.

"Sorry about that" Emily smiled shyly turning around to face the bar "I just thought there'd be a higher chance of him pissing off if..you know" she dragged on leaving too many questions in my head.

"Erm, it's f-fine" I managed to squeak out instantly feeling myself slump into a pile of putty on the floor

"Yeah, so anyway!" ladies and gentlemen id like to welcome back to the stage the wonderful, confident Emily! "here" she smirked handing me a shot glass with clear liquid in it, vodka.

"What?" Emily grinned evilly "it's not like we're paying!"

…

"Thank fuck, you lezzers took long enough coming back" Katie grumpily crossed her arms as we placed two trays full of shots and JJ's glass of coke on the table. "What were you doing? Shagging?"

"Shut up Katie" Emily hummed cheerfully sliding in the booth beside Panda and I soon followed suit frowning at Cook and Jayde who were both playing a game of tongue battles across the table.

It didn't take long for us all to get 'monumentally fucked' as Effy put it and although the place was shit I was actually having a lot of fun, Panda and Thomas had gone off to dance a while back and Freddie and JJ were sat near the bar so that left the rest of us at the table, Cook and Jayde weren't really joining in on much conversation, let's just say they were a bit preoccupied. Katie had thrown a few not so subtle comments their way which turned out to be hilarious.

"So Eff" Emily smiled playing with my fingers on the table "tell me something about Naomi that I don't know"

"I'm right here you know, you could just ask me" I rolled my eyes

"Hmm" Effy dramatically mulled over an answer for a few minutes, I knew whatever she said was going to say would be either bad or embarrassing anyway so I opted for totally ignoring them by lighting a cigarette and studying my lager glass.

"During college she used to dress in floral a lot" Oh for fuck sakes, seriously Eff?

"True story babe" Cook added his two cense between sucking face with Jayde who apparently was too busy being a slut to notice any of the conversation.

Katie started cracking up straight away at this "Jeez" she laughed raising her eyebrows in disbelief "you can't be serious right?"

"Fuck off" I glared at Effy

"Aw, I think that's cute, do you mean like floral dresses?" Emily smiled squeezing my hand

"Dresses, shirts, pants and sometimes even shoes" Effy answered this is unbelievable!

"I wish I could see a photo" Emily giggled watching Katie hold her sides complaining of a stitch and I instantly flicked my eyes to Effy silently warning her not to show the one that had been in her phone since, well forever. It was taken at Cook's uncles pub in the first year that we all started hanging out and I wore the most horrible floral overalls ever, I don't even know what I saw in that piece of clothing and to make the photo even worse Keith (Cooks uncle) hadn't warned us when he was actually taking the picture so I had the most embarrassing goofy grin on my face and my eyes were half closed, I looked horrible. I don't know why Effy kept that photo, every time I asked her she'd just shrug saying something about liking how carefree we all looked.

"Well then today is your lucky day" Effy smirked pulling out her phone and I was almost certain that I was going to be the cause of her death.

"Hey Katie want to know a few thing's about Effy?" I piped up as Emily grinned at the picture

"Sure" Katie shrugged nonchalantly, I sat silent for a minute racking my brains for the most embarrassing memory I had of Effy, unfortunately there was close to none of those so I said the only thing that came to mind.

"Effy likes to watch all movies with subtitles, she'd rather read what they're saying than actually hear them talk" I grinned triumphantly watching Katie frown in confusion.

"That's a bit weird babes" Katie said to Effy "but you're floral attire definitely takes the cake" she started laughing again looking at me Jesus christ I slumped back against the seat crossing my arms.

"C'mon grumpy" Emily beamed at me "let's go dance".

…

The rest of the night went alright, Emily and I danced rather intimately for a while, it wasn't sexual, it's nice being able to do these sort of things with her, she has made it clear that we're taking this thing(whatever it is) between us at my pace, I appreciate her more for it than I could ever say. We didn't drink anymore after leaving the booth which I was thankful for, I think all the drink and drugs are starting to catch up to me, I knew going into this Contiki tour we'd be partying a lot because of it's reputation but this was probably the most regular I've been off my face since well, the math teacher part of my life. It wasn't that I was scared to take a lot of drugs or get drunk everyday, I just wasn't used to it anymore.

By the time Emily and I reached the motel room it was almost three in the morning and Panda was already in bed, I swear that girl could wake an entire village with the volume of her snores. I silently pulled my jeans off and hopped into bed watching Emily change into a pair of boxes and tshirt. If I had of had the energy to look away I would have, really, but I'm glad I didn't because it gave me a view of the most perfect form I've probably ever seen in my life. She has really defined muscles all over her body, legs, arms, stomach, not the types that stick out and intimidate the fuck out of you, just small ones that show how fit she is. I let me eyes run over her skin and it looked so smooth I literally squeezed my blanket to prevent running over to her and trailing my hand along her back.

'Having a good perve?" what? How does she know I'm looking at her, she isn't even facing me!

"I'm not perving"

"No?" Emily turned raising an eyebrow with the cockiest smirk I've ever seen

"Nope"

"Too bad.." she grinned pulling the tshirt over her head and walking towards her bunk

"Ems, can you stay here tonight?" I asked moving closer to the wall so that my back was touching it. I watched Emily turn around with surprise written all over her face but I didn't need to ask twice as she closed the distance between us and climbed in next to me. I sighed laying my head down on the pillow as she pulled me a bit closer to her and we entwined our bodies together.

"You're different" Emily whispered staring into my eyes as though she was searching for something, I honestly felt so lost in her that it took me a minute to respond.

"What do you mean?" I watched Emily for a few minutes internally debate with herself and it only made me more curious, but I wasn't going to ruin this moment by being impatient.

"When I first met you, you seemed like the type of person to not get involved like this with someone" Emily answered truthfully "you're just so open now" she smiled more to herself than me.

"I was that person, but when I'm with you, I feel like a better person. I feel happier, less…alone. Less lonely" I watched for any sign from her that id crossed a line by saying that, I didn't want to freak her out but it was the truth, she made me feel all those things, but instead of the reaction I expected she slowly moved her head closer and gently placed her lips on mine. This kiss was by far the best we had shared, it wasn't deepened or rushed, it was tender and loving and after Emily pulled away and buried her head under my chin I was left pondering it, did Emily love me?.

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