A/N
Hellooo lovebugsssss, how are we all? I'm great! KP replied to me on twitter AGAIN this week so that was fun!
I got this one up by my deadline and it's the biggest chapter yet! So I'm pretty proud of myself right now. Anyway this one's different a bit into the chapter, I won't say how but you'll get what I mean further into it. Also Bruno only makes an appearance at the start so yay for that!
I just wanna say a quick thanks to mUfF MuNcHeR, fookyeahskins and the anon's who reviewd the last chapter because I thought it was pretty boring but you still reviewed and made my day!
On a last note I'm dedicating this chapter to Steph81 because she's awesome and lovely and you should all go read her story 'Residence Life', it's really great so go do that now!
I don't own Skins but I really want to go to Bristol!
Chapter 14
Naomi's POV
"I read somewhere that it leans out a millimetre more each year" Bruno said as we all walked further away from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to get typical tourist photos of us pushing the tower back up.
"That is correct in 1990 the tower leaned 14 and a half feet out of line" JJ smiled
"Do you reckon it will ever fall?"
"I don't know, the tower has been leaning so long now..well for over 800 years in fact, that most people assume it will defy gravity forever but it's been in danger of collapsing almost since the first brick was laid really but most engineers predict that the tower will remain stable for at least another 200 years" JJ answered walking beside me, seriously the guy needs to start taking breaths more often.
"But what about after that?, if it's already leaning a millimetre out each year can't they just add it up?" Bruno frowned
"No that's close to impossible because there are a lot of factors to do with it, the economy is probably the most important because the Italian government has invested a lot of money into keeping it stabilized over the last several years but who will know if it will be affordable 200 years from now"
"I'm impressed" I smirked "tell me something random about it"
"Oh, um, well" JJ blushed "it was almost torn down during world war two because American soldiers were ordered to destroy any building that could act as a potential nest for enemy snipers, it only has 294 steps which isn't much compared to The Eiffel Tower which has 2731 steps, the tower was actually the result of a slight miscalculation although many factors have contributed to the lean but the first was because of where it was built, it weighs just under 14,500 tonnes and is 55.85 meters tall which is rather small for a monument but it is the smallest one to achieve recognition-"
"Locked on JJ" Bruno patted his shoulder receiving a sheepish smile "but the facts were nice to know".
"Alright we have to get these snaps done quickly because the suns almost down" Emily yelled from ahead squinting at the tower in the distance as she set up the camera stand "this angle" I watched her say to herself "can someone help me mark a spot we all need to stand?"
Freddie jogged past us and stood in front of Emily's camera taking her orders to 'move a bit to the left, forward, and back a bit' until they finally agreed on a good angle and Freddie kicked the grass with his shoe to mark it.
"Twats" I laughed from behind Emily watching the guys all pose in a photo that looked like they were all desperately supporting the tower, Freddie was the one holding it up with his hands and then it looked like Cook was supporting Freddie, JJ was supporting Cook, Thomas supporting JJ and at the end Bruno was casually leaning against Thomas's back looking smug. It was really a really clever idea.
After Panda finished posing in a way that looked like she was hugging the tower Emily told me to run over to the marked spot and pose, I had come up with what I was going to do seeing someone else do it in the distance, so I lifted my leg hoping it was in the right position to look like I was trying to kick it down and grinned when Emily started giggling behind the camera.
"Thanks for the idea" she smirked as I walked back to the camera stand, Effy was already stood behind the camera getting ready to take a picture of Emily and Katie posing together. Katie did the typical 'holding the tower up' whilst Emily 'kicked it down' at the same time, the photo really suited them and looked great.
The last photo we took was a group one and Emily ran over to me straight away and stood in front of me wrapping my arms around her shoulders as everyone else got in position, it was so unexpected that I gasped when she grabbed my arms but it only took seconds to relax and before I knew it everyone was slowly breaking away from their spot in the photo and Emily was heading back towards her stand to pack up. I can only imagine what the photo looked like, I wasn't even looking at the lens because I was too busy looking at Emily and thinking about how right she felt in my arms, I probably had the goofiest grin on my face.
…
"Emsy I need to talk to you" Katie indicated for Emily to follow her to the toilets on the bus, she looked pissed off but then when isn't she? Emily frowned for a second before shrugging it off and getting up to follow her so I lifted my book back up to finish the page I was on.
"Hey"
"Jesus fuck!" I jumped holding my heart, Effy could be the lead act in a magic show at the rate she appears and disappears.
"Jumpy" she smirked sitting down in Emily's seat "let's call Gina"
"Why…"
"Because you were meant to call her today"
"How'd you-" I stopped mid sentence when she held her phone up in front of my face
Effy dear could you get my twat of a daughter to ring me LOL she was meant to earlier and I have some good news, I hope you're enjoying yourself love kisses and hugs, love Gina.
I rolled my eyes reading this, I spoke to the woman yesterday, honestly.
"Just do it, a bit of good news never hurts anyone" Effy smirked
"Hey mum" I sighed watching Effy mouth 'speaker' to me "Hi love" mum cheerily greeted as I put her on speaker "how're you? Did Effy get my text message?" "Yeah mum she's next to me" "Hi Effy dear how are you?" "I'm good Gina, yourself?" Effy grinned leaning closer to the phone "I'm great dear! Naomi can you hear me?" "yeah what's the good news then?" I threw my book in my bag "Battery egg farms are finally illegal in the UK!" a grin instantly spread across my face at this, mum and I, along with others, have been pushing for this law to pass for so long "oh my gosh! That's so great!" I shuffled in my seat out of excitement "when did all this happen?" "Yesterday love, that old sod Jeremy Greggor isn't too happy about it, I saw him at the supermarket yesterday kicking up a fuss that the caged eggs were being removed from the shelves"
Effy and I both laughed loudly at this, Jeremy Greggor's an old farmer that lives in one of the farms that supplies most of Bristol's eggs and there's been more than one occasion where we've snuck in and set some chickens free on his land. One year Cook even spray painted across the shed wall 'leave town', they never found out who did it though.
"We should put him in a cage for a few days, see how he likes it then" Effy smiled once we'd calmed down. "That's a good idea, we can make a competition out of it and see who complains more out of him and my daughter" mum chuckled "Jesus mum I don't complain all the time!" I frowned
"Of course you don't love, anyway tell me how you both are there?, Have you made any life friends?" Jesus Christ mother.
"We have, twins actually" Effy answered casually flicking my knee.
"Oh?, that's nice dear tell me about them, I know I'd be lucky to get two words out of Naomi on this subject".
"Id love to Gina but I'm going to have to take a rain check because your daughter is glaring holes into my head and the twins are currently walking towards us".
"Oh alright love, but remember that raincheck alright?" mum said as I snapped my head around to see Katie and Emily indeed walking up the bus aisle. Katie looked significantly less pissed off and Emily had an unreadable expression on her face.
"Yeah anyway you should go…to bed or something" I mumbled quickly now that both the twins could hear the conversation.
"That does sound like a good idea, you know, you never know how much freedom you've lost over the years until your daughter decides to travel with her friends, it's been so nice having alone time with Kieran"
"Jesus mum! I don't want to think about what you and Kieran are doing alone together" she has managed to embarrass me without even meeting Emily. Great.
"I do miss you though love, and you too Effy"
"We'll be back before you know it Gina, so you just enjoy you're alone time with Kieran" Effy chuckled
"Will do dear, you girls have a good night and Effy remember our raincheck alright?"
"I will"
"Bye" we said in unison before I hung up.
"You're mum sounds nice" Katie stated as Effy stood and wrapped an arm around her, I could see Emily nod in agreeance in the background "come on babes" they left to go to their seats.
"Everything alright? She seems happier" I nodded in the direction Katie and Effy walked off in.
"Um, yeah we were just talking to mum" Emily shrugged
…
It was already dark by the time we arrived in Florence. Our hotel was nice, the rooms had 4 single beds in each and it looked cosy enough. We didn't have long to get ready though as Thomas had booked us tables at a Tuscan restaurant at 9 so I didn't bother with getting too dressed up, I chucked on a pair of blue jeans and a white loose tee that hung over one shoulder. Katie was driving everyone mental though, running around like a headless chicken trying on outfit after outfit, I felt like throttling her.
"What about this one?" she asked strutting out of the ensuite
"Looks fine" I answered disinterested not even bothering to look
"Well it's a good thing I'm not taking fashion advice from you then bitch, you're not even looking!" she snapped
"You look beautiful as always" Effy hummed defusing her psycho girlfriend
We were only 10 minutes late to the restaurant which I thought was a good effort considering. The waiter that brought our menu's over was named Nicholas and he was an American surprisingly, Cook seemed to hit it off with him, every time I looked over to the boy's table he was chatting animatedly with Nicholas.
"Want to try some?" I smirked at Emily who had spent the better part of 10 minutes eyeing off my Zuppa Toscana "I don't mind Em" I chuckled watching her shake her head.
"Okay, If you insist" Emily said diving her spoon into my soup before I could get the words out 'I didn't'.
"God, you lezza's are so vomit worthy sharing food and shit, seriously can you like try to not act like an old married couple just one time when we're out in public".
"Never thought you'd be the type to discriminate against old people Katiekins"
"Whatever"
After we all finished our meals Cook suggested we go to this party that his new mate Nicholas was talking about, we were meant to be going somewhere called the 'space electronic disco' which sounded shit to me so I happily agreed to join Cook and waited by the entrance as he ran in to ask the staff at the restaurant to call a taxi van for the ones that were going with him. Half of the group left to go to the disco and out of the half that stayed I think JJ was the only one disappointed to be missing out on that experience but he wouldn't go anywhere without Freddie so he ended up not really having a choice in the matter.
Katie
I wasn't sure how long we were in the taxi for but it felt like fucking ages. For once I was glad that Cook was with us because the taxi driver was well pervy, most of the trip he'd spent glancing at my girlfriends tits in the review mirror, fucking prick. Eventually we pulled up outside big iron gates which were kind of creepy looking.
"If we get like murdered or something I'm going to haunt everyone in this place" I mumbled pressing the intercom button.
"Ciao?" a strong male accent rang out
"Uh yeah hi, we were invited by Nicholas" I yelled into the intercom, what? I've never used one of these things before so I don't know how loud I'm meant to speak into it.
"Ahh si si! Come in friends!"
We walked up a long driveway and were greeted by Cook's friend Nicholas at the door, he introduced us to another guy named Angelo who barely spoke English, his parents owned the place and apparently were away for a few weeks. I was impressed, they're obviously loaded.
As soon as we entered the house I was a bit freaked out, every wall had been covered by thick black sheets and the only light was coming from an arrow that was painted on the left wall with that paint that glows and a small table on the right wall that was sitting just before some glass doors that was clearly the entrance to some sort of rave but anyway Angelo went straight through to the rave room so we followed Nicholas over to the table.
"This place is bonkers" I heard Panda tell Thomas when I was leaning forward to check out what was on the table.
Cook whispered something in Naomi's ear as I looked at the see-through bowel set out on the table full of pills with butterflies on them, Panda thinks this place is crazy now, wait until she's had one of these I thought leaning back so Ems could get a look.
"mdma" Naomi mumbled and I'm pretty sure I was the only one who heard her but I couldn't say anything because Angelo came strutting back into the room carrying a tray of shots.
"Absinthe" he smiled at our concerned faces "you take one" he nodded enthusiastically at Cook who looked more than happy to oblige, as usual. "No no" Angelo shook his head just before Cook downed the shot "uno pill" he held up a finger and I started to get confused as to what this guy wanted us to do, like seriously he handed the shot in the first place and correct me if I'm wrong but usually people drink it.
"You take a pill with your shot" Nicholas filled in the blanks "don't worry you'll see more than just fairies tonight" he winked, sleaze.
Naomi
After Cook took his shot and pills I eagerly took mine, not because I wanted to get trashed, I just wanted to explore the place and felt like we'd been standing in the entrance hall for too long. The absinthe tasted like shit but then when does it ever taste good? I was happy to be done with it. With one last wink at Emily I strolled towards the room that the arrow was pointing towards arm in arm with Cook.
The room we entered was covered in white sheets and had plastic protecting the floor; there was a long table sitting in the middle full of cans of paint, red, blue, pink, purple, green, orange and white.
"Great" I scoffed feeling a buzz from the absinthe "what, are we meant to redecorate for them or something?
"Body art Naomikins" Cook grinned like a child on Christmas morning pulling me towards the table "draw summit on me"
I mirrored his grin "What colour" running my finger along the table
Cook just shrugged and took his shirt off as the others came in the room marvelling over the paint.
I decided to trace around the cross that was tattooed on the side of his torso and by the time I had finished it I was feeling like a modern day Picasso, it looked brilliant, I don't care what anyone else thinks. "When did everyone lose their shirts?" I chuckled turning around to see most of the group topless and splashing paint on each other, Katie was by far the most covered, her whole body was full of green and blue lines.
"Take your shirt off, I want to draw" husked an all too familiar voice in my ear as I watched Cook stick his whole hand in the orange paint and flick it at Freddie's face.
"I'm wearing a white bra though" my breath hitched feeling Emily run her hands down both of my arms leaving a trail of goose bumps
"Come on Naoms" she whispered seductively in my ear and there wasn't much else I could do other than comply to her wishes after that so I took my shirt off and turned around to face Emily.
"You're face" I snorted because whoever had gotten her with the paint really done a good job, not only was her face covered in swirls and dots but her hair had blue paint throughout it as well. I let my gaze fall lower and found myself gasping at the sight of a topless Emily, she was wearing a black bra and it wasn't that I haven't seen this much of her before, but her skin was covered in the most beautiful patterns and blotches of paint and I couldn't help running a finger along a purple swirl on her collar bone.
"You're turn lezza" Katie yelled from behind draining the Emily pool I was currently floating in. I pulled my finger away from her skin just as a big blotch of green paint landed on my shoulder. Emily grabbed my arm giggling and pulled me closer Katie, Effy and Panda who had taken it upon themselves to decorate me by flicking random colours of paint all over my body at once.
"Close your eyes, I'm going to get your face" Effy smirked
It didn't take long for me to be fully covered in colours like the rest of the group and we spent a few minutes laughing at each other, Freddie had purple boobs painted on his bare chest and Panda had drawn herself blue glasses and a red scar on her forehead but the most funniest looking person was Katie because Emily had written across her back "Muff diver" in big bold white paint without her knowing it.
Emily
"We'll catch up" I grabbed Naomi's arm to stop her following the group who were now going through the door the next arrow was pointing to. Ever since Naomi had taken her top off I felt this intense desire, I honestly couldn't care less about where we were and what else was in this house because she had her top off and it was driving me mental. I dipped my index finger in the blue paint quickly and started rubbing it on my lips like it was lip gloss. Naomi turned around, eyebrow raised and I felt a surge of confidence, take that Campbell I'm in charge now!
"What are you doing Em?"
I didn't answer because I was enjoying watching Naomi's confused expression, I could see a glint of panic in her eyes and knew it was because she had no idea what was going on, completely powerless. I smirked walking towards the gorgeous blonde in front of me and wrapped my arms around her waist pulling her body up against mine. I heard Naomi gasp when I started placing ghostly kisses along her jaw line and then made a trail of blue down her neck and along her shoulder. I think it's safe to say that I was having a big effect on Naomi because she was gripping my arms rather tight and breathing heavier by the second but I knew I couldn't keep doing this to her because she would either freak and run, or we'd be shagging on the floor within minutes and as much as I really do want to have sex with her, our relationship meant more to me than our first time being at some random Italian house high on drugs.
"Just leaving my mark" I winked leaving her standing there all flushed.
"Jesus!" Naomi exclaimed as we entered the empty room that our friends had walked into. This one was covered in black sheets but there were no signs of paint other than that on our bodies which seemed to glow now, I would have brought this new fact up had I not been distracted by four projectors that sat in the middle of the room facing each wall, they were playing 'Pink elephants on parade' from the movie 'Dumbo'.
"Here they come! Hippety hoppety they're here and there" I sang along spinning in circles in front of one of the projectors "this is mental Naoms!, who would even think of something like this?" I laughed holding out a hand for her to take.
"Some creepy twat..." Naomi reluctantly took my hand after hovering in the doorway for a while "I hated this part of the movie, it used to scare the crap out of me when I was younger" she mumbled avoiding looking at the screens. I found it adorable that she was scared, a lot of people that I know actually are but Katie and I didn't see it until we were 13 or 14 so we never got scared, it just reminded me of drugs, which suited this moment.
"Cute" I smiled linking out fingers "Why didn't we hear this from the other room?"
"Dunno but let's leave its doing my head in" Naomi pulled me towards the arrow that was pointing out to the hall.
Naomi
"Woah" I mouthed as we entered through the glass doors, the flashing lights were coming from at least 10 UV lights that were hung from the ceiling making the people that were dancing underneath them look like a sea of blurred neon colours every time the lights flickered in the middle of the room.
"I'm going over there" I pointed at a small table at the end of the room feeling the pill start to kick in, I'm not sure if Emily heard me or not as I watched her float off into the crowd but I shrugged it off and headed for the table.
"Where's my sister Campbell?" Katie asked pouring absinthe into two shot glasses as I reached the table. Cook and Thomas were also there, Cook with his tongue down some girl with long brown curly hair's throat and Thomas standing next to Katie beaming at the crowd of people behind us.
"She's…" I had reluctantly pulled my gaze away from Thomas, he looked so happy and content and I really wanted to ask him who was making him feel this way because I wanted to feel at least a tenth of the vibes he was giving out.
"Drink this" Katie ordered handing me a shot glass smiling "that Dumbo room was well fucked up yeah?"
I nodded wincing at the mouthwash taste running down my throat "eugh, yeah I hated that scene" I agreed placing the shot glass back on the table.
"A couple of years ago James my brother was being a pervy little shit, he stole Ems's phone and started texting all of her friends asking for nudes"
"What even the guys?" I asked mouth agape
"Yeah!" Katie laughed "we got him well good though, locked him in the house and put on the elephants on parade full blast, he didn't sleep for like a week straight after that" Katie grinned reliving the moment.
"Learn his lesson then?" I chuckled feeling extremely happy that Katie and I could be like this.
"Course not" came a voice from behind sending chills through my body. It was really great being able to stay here and talk to Katie but her conversation had nothing on the two words that came from the petite redhead's voice, I instantly felt my needs take over as I whirled around and threw my arms around Emily pulling her into the tightest hug I could muster with my tingling arms.
I could faintly hear Emily and Katie continue a conversation whilst I laid my head down on Emily's shoulder watching the people that were dancing, one person in particular. Panda was on the edge of the crowd doing the robot dance and if I had of been sober I would have laughed at how fucking ridiculous she looked but instead I was enthralled by her. Everything about Panda is so carefree, she didn't give a shit who was looking at her or judging her she was just doing her own thing and I felt an intense feeling of admiration for the girl. I smiled at Panda when she spotted me and started waving like a maniac for me to join her and I really would have had I not been in Emily's arms right now.
"Emily" I sighed closing my eyes.
There were so many things I wanted to do right now, I wanted to continue a conversation with Katie about anything, and ask Thomas where he was getting that vibe from. I wanted to dance the night away with Pandora, hell I even wanted to introduce myself to Cook's fling and find out her life story, but I couldn't do any of those things with Emily around because as much enjoyment as id get out of them I knew they wouldn't even compare to doing nothing with Emily.
"Em.." I pulled out of our embrace looking at the red head standing in front of me "I have to go" I half smiled hoping she would understand.
She did.
"I know, its okay, find me later" Emily reassuringly kissed my cheek.
"I think Eff's by the pool!" Katie yelled as I walked off through doors that lead outside.
I made my way outside stumbling on a few discarded clothes on the way and instantly spotted Effy sitting on the edge of a huge pool talking to Freddie and some girl I didn't know.
The outside area was by far the most packed; there were heaps of people splashing about in the pool leaving trails of colour floating through the water and this sight was by far the most otherworldly thing I've seen in my entire life. This was the reason I came on this trip, fuck world wonders and all that shit, no one can pay for an experience like this. It was so overwhelmingly beautiful that I could have cried. I wanted to remember what I was seeing for the rest of my life so I decided not to take a photo because I know I would have woken up tomorrow and the memory would have been tainted.
Effy
It's been a while since we've taken anything even remotely as strong as these. Drugs in Italy I smiled to myself, what a monumental way to arrive.
I knew it wouldn't take long for her to find either one of us. Nowadays Naomi always finds either myself or Cook when she is feeling vulnerable on drugs which is 7 out of 10 times. She knows we would do anything to keep her safe so subconsciously seeks us out, kind of like having a fire blanket in a blaze. Cook doesn't even realise it which is really funny because there's been more than a few times where Naomi has prevented one of his potential shags, but he doesn't mind because he loves her just as much as I do.
I watched her gaze at the pool like it was the only thing she'd ever seen, I don't blame her though, it is pretty fucking spectacular. "Naomi Campbell, where have you been all my life!" I shouted
"Where'd you find these? Thought this place was only supplying absinthe" Naomi smiled curiously at Freddie who was standing in the water passing her a beer.
"You aren't very observant are you?" He grinned watching Naomi sit down next to me and let her legs fall into the water. "There's fridges all around this place full of your pick". Naomi is daft though.
"Yeah well, I've been preoccupied with dancing elephants and dancing Panda's" I chuckled imagining the sort of moves Panda was displaying on the dance floor.
"Christ this feels amazing!, Hi I'm Naomi" my friend smiled confidently at the girl who was standing awkwardly next to Freds.
"Ciao bella, Arsia" the girl smiled extending a hand
"Uhm, pardon?" here we go..
"Arsia"
"Sorry, I didn't quite get…"
"Arsia" Freddie chuckled shaking his head
"It's fine, most people find it hard" Arsia smiled "just like this…Arrr…si…a"
"Arr..si..a, Arsia..it's nice, it's pretty!" Naomi nodded taking a sip of her beer. "Weren't you just in there two minutes ago kissing my friend James?" she frowned after a moment, pointing in the direction she had come from.
"No no" Arsia laughed awkwardly "I have a sister here, twin"
"That's nice" I hummed as Naomi shifted a little closer to me, I could feel the energy pouring off of her skin and wrapping itself around me, it was as though she was handing it to me without actually touching me. If she did, that would be bad.
"Naomi here loves twins"
"I do!, we both do" Naomi smiled enthusiastically extending an arm around my shoulders.
"Don't Nai, you'll shock me" I happily sighed knowing that she wouldn't risk my life by doing that.
Naomi just shrugged and continued her conversation.
"We have a set of twins y'know" she told the brunette in front of us, I nodded my agreeance smiling at the thought of Katie.
"So you two are together and you have twins?" Arsia asked confused receiving another chuckle from Freddie.
"No, Naomi would choose horrible names for our children, probably something like grass with all her you-can't-cut-that-tree-down bollocks"
"Oi!, I would not!" Naomi exclaimed "I would choose something like Emerald or Olive" she added thoughtfully smiling at Arsia who seemed highly amused.
"You're not naming our kids Emerald and Olive, I won't allow it" I finalized.
"You two are very strange…" Arsia giggled looking between us.
"There are our twins" I smiled pointing towards the other end of the pool.
Naomi
I followed Effy's gaze feeling my heart flutter in my chest; I know it hadn't been long since I last saw Emily but any time away from the red head felt too long. She was sitting on one of the wicker couches that were placed on the sides of the pool smiling into her phone; she kept swatting Katie's attempts to grab the phone, Katie was having none of it though, she looked extremely pissed off and I felt a tinge inside because I really liked happy Katie and I wanted her to stick around a bit longer.
"Interesting" Effy took a moment to observe them before turning to face me "let's go dance"
I nodded vigorously "It was nice to meet you Arsia".
Katie
"Fuck sakes Emsy I need to talk to her so can you stop being such a secretive cow and pass me the phone so I can be on my merry-fucking-way and actually enjoy my night!" I fumed placing my hands on my hips, seriously all I wanted to do was like make a meds.
"No that was at Misty's that we met him!" Emily laughed totally ignoring me. I'm glad she's like grown some balls or whatever but she's being a right bitch and I'm not putting up with it.
I turned my head to the side to face the pool making sure Emily could still see my expression. "What the hells Campbell doing?" I asked aloud frowning at nothing in particular, of course it worked and Emily's face shot to where I was looking giving me the chance to snatch her phone, finally might I add. Katie Fitch you are a genius!.
"Hi Lisa its Katie" I ignored Emily's cursing and patiently waited for Lisa to reply
"Hey..Katie..?"
"So like, I just wanted to apologise for calling you a cow and telling you to ..you know, fuck off or whatever last time we spoke" I feel heaps better now, people should just say sorry more then everyone would get along.
"Oh..yeah that's okay, um thanks for apologising I guess"
"No problem! So I'll put Emsy back on, bye" I passed the phone back to my sister.
Naomi
As soon as we went back inside we made a bee-line for the table with drinks and it was just before reaching it that Motorheads 'Ace of Spades' came blaring out of the speakers. I instantly sought out Cooks voice in the crowd of people making my way to him because I had to listen to this with him, it has been 'our' song since the first night we went out together and Uncle Keith had played it in his pub.
"You win some you lose some it's all the same to me!" I yelled in the direction my friends voice was coming from knowing he could hear me.
"The ace of spades! The ace of spades!" We screamed together jumping up and down in the flashing lights like nutcases. I don't know how long Cook and I spent in the flashing room ungracefully jumping around and forming our own little moshpit, all I knew was that each time the song changed I felt like I was bungee jumping off a really tall cliff, the adrenaline was pulsing through my body and Id never felt so connected to music in my life.
Eventually though, we decided to go somewhere to get a drink because we were both sweating more than a middle aged overweight man that had just run a 42km marathon so we made our way into the kitchen which was spotless, seriously at the amount of people that are at this party you'd think I was pulling a leg, but the place was pristine.
"Fuck me! They got alotta piss in here babes what do ya want?" Cook asked surveying the open fridge "I swear Naomikins if half the parties back home were this mental we'd have never come on this trip in the first place!". Cook was right, the usual party in Bristol consisted of a lot of messy drunks and a lot of smashed up shit. This party was so well organised though, and there hadn't been one fight that id seen yet! It was really well done. Don't get me wrong, I know a part of my agreeance on how good this party was is because of the drugs but I have taken mdma at parties in Bristol before and they were nothing compared to this.
"Is there any water in there?" I smiled leaning against the kitchen bench.
"Blondie Cookies got a surprise for ya" he grinned passing me a bottle of water, he had a certain spark in his eye that I knew all to well.
…
We entered a room that I hadn't been in before, it had huge glassed windows facing the pool at the back of the house and I could see Emily on the other side animatedly laughing with Panda and Eff. You know in those photos where the focus defines one certain part of the picture and the rest is blurred? Emily was the defined part in my vision at this point in time.
"Naomi was it?" came a voice pulling me from my little love bubble. I looked in the direction the voice had come from and saw Nicholas sitting on a huge bed next to Angelo pouring white powder into heaps of rolling papers and twisting them to look like small circles. There were also a couple of other guys sitting on some chairs in the corner of the room facing a huge telly, they didn't seem to notice us at all.
I watched the telly lights reflect on their faces for a few seconds before smiling and nodding at Nicholas
"Come in friends, make yourself comfortable, Cook tell me about England" Nicholas smiled motioning us in. I tuned out of the conversation Cook and Nicholas were having as we entered further into the room and noticed that this wasn't like any of the other room's id been in here, this one didn't have sheet's covering the walls, it had posters from movies like Fight Club and Need for Speed and was definitely a guys room, it had a nice warm vibe and wasn't a planned out trip like the other rooms so I instantly felt comfortable.
I took a seat on the bed near Angelo and watched him twist the rolling papers for a bit whilst Cook prattled on like a schoolgirl about Bristol and Uncle Keith's and Brandon Hill. After a while I looked up and caught a quick wink from Angelo who looked highly amused even though I was pretty sure he had no idea what Cook was on about.
I smiled at him shifting myself on the bed so that I sat cross legged directly opposite him and decided to busy myself by doing the same thing he was, powder, paper, powder, paper, the mantra was playing in my head over and over, I'm actually really fucking good at this. After a while Angelo stopped what he was doing and flicked his eyes between me and the powdered circles for a second before picking two up and handing them to me silently, I studied them for a minute thinking about how much rounder the ones looked that I had been rolling and then shrugged and handed one to Cook who winked and pocketed it.
We left the room not long after that and went straight for the pool area to share our well earned drugs with our friends.
"She's so beautiful" I hummed watching Emily across the pool as we arrived outside
"Red? Where is she?" Cook flicked his eyes from person to person in search of Emily
"Over there" I pointed to our friends on the other side of the pool, Emily was laughing with Effy and Panda whilst Freddie and Katie sat on the edge of the pool, they looked like they were having a deep conversation.
"Alright babes, I'll make ya a deal" Cook clapped his hands together "we'll go see red after ya jump in the pool with me"
"And what If I just go over there by myself?" I smirked lifting an eyebrow
"Nuh ya won't because now that I've suggested a swim your body is craving the water!"
"What if my body craves Emily more?"
"Fuck blondie you're gonna get little Cookie joining the party if ya keep sayin things like that"
"Come on you tosser" I chuckled grabbing his hand.
Cook ran up to some friendly looking guy and passed him our belongings asking if he could mind them for a moment, once the guy had agreed Cook lifted me up and walked to the edge of the pool. I wrapped my arm around his neck tightly and kissed his cheek laughing at nothing in particular, I know I should have been freaking out, jumping in a pool on mdma isn't the best idea in the world but I just knew nothing bad would happen to me because Cook wouldn't let it.
It happened so fast that I barely registered anything between kissing his cheek and hitting the water but before I knew it every part of my body was being enveloped by the most intense weight I've ever felt. I couldn't open my eyes because I've always been rubbish underwater but the things I could do felt incredible, I pushed my arms out to the sides as fast as I could feeling the weight of the water struggle to cling to me, kind of like a kid clinging to his mums leg.
My hair felt like it had just been washed with mint flavoured shampoo because my scalp was tingling with each strand of hair that moved against it, but the best part of all was how soundless being underwater was. There was a distant hum from the music above the water but apart from that the only other thing I could hear was my own thoughts. It was so peaceful I could have stayed under here forever but before I knew it a strong arm was wrapping around my waist and dragging me upwards.
Effy
"What are they talking about?" I cocked an eyebrow at Katie and Freddie who had spent the last 15 minutes sitting on the edge of the pool.
"She's on a mission to right every wrong she's ever done tonight" Emily shrugged handing me the bottle of Vodka that we'd snatched from one of the fridges earlier.
"Yeah it's total brill! I even saw her saying sorry to some guy she bumped into before, hey Eff do you think when we go home I should say sorry to Barney for hitting him with my bike?"
"Who's Barney?" Emily frowned looking between Panda and myself
"A dog that Panda ran over with her bike a few years ago"
"What!"
"I didn't mean to! The brakes went all flipping crazy and I didn't even see him there!"
"Christ" Emily moved her head in a weird slow motioned blurry way, it was pretty cool "is he alright?" she asked
"Yeah, Panda showed up at Freddie's shed in a bit of a state so we sent Cook around to check if the dog was okay, he said he walked past and it was on the yard playing with it's owner" I shrugged laughing slightly at how my arms felt like Jelly.
"I still see him! His perfectly happy now" Panda added nodding intensely fast
"Wow…you were in a hit and run incident with a dog" Emily snorted whilst I took a generous sip of the vodka. I could practically see it flowing down my throat and I wondered how my jelly arms were even holding the bottle but before I could think too far into that there was a loud noise coming from my left. I flicked my eyes over to the source and saw Cook and Naomi emerging from the water.
"My my, you two really do know how to make an unforgettable appearance" I chuckled watching the two of them splash about to get to the edge, that was pretty fucking awesome, I'll give them that.
"I also come bearing gifts!" Naomi smugly grinned once she got her breath back
"Well, that's only partly true, our gifts are over there" she pointed to Cook who had gone back to the other side of the pool and was talking to some random.
I glanced over at Emily as Panda clapped "Whizzer I love gifts!". It's actually quite amusing watching Naomi and Emily perve on each other because they both think they are being subtle about it but I still seem to catch them, every time.
I helped Naomi from the pool smirking when Emily gasped from behind. "You know, you're lucky they are padded" I whispered in my friend's ear. Naomi took a minute to catch on to what I was talking about but when she did she rearranged her bra just to be sure nothing was showing.
"So, what's this gift then?"
Katie
"I'm seriously feeling relieved we got to talk about it, I just didn't want you thinking I'm like a total bitch" I smiled feeling happier than I've ever been.
"I wouldn't think that, like I said before I'll probably always feel something for Eff but I'm not going to be a prick about it, I'm happy for you two, really" Freddie repeated himself bumping our shoulders together. I really should have given him credit because he's been well mature about me and Eff being together and now that we've spoken about it I've realised that all this time I've been like..thinking his a total wanker but his actually a really nice guy and I can see us being friends.
"Thanks" I sighed happily kicking my legs in the water "it really means a lot Freds"
"OI! You two! ya comin?" Cook yelled from where the others were standing.
Emily
I grabbed Naomi's hand as we followed Cook through the house because I needed to have some type of physical contact with her and Jesus Christ it was the best feeling in the world, her fingers slid through mine so easily and every now and then she would squeeze gently causing this weird sensation to flow through my body that felt like an army of little men marching on my skin. How is it possible to be this connected with someone? I thought staring at her. I feel like I was made for Naomi, my only purpose in life is to be with her and every event up until now has just been a path leading me to her.
"Where did you get those?" Freddie asked. I looked up at him and smiled warmly, he has a really nice face, I wonder if anyone's ever told him that before?
"Lad that owns the place" Cook grinned sitting down on a toilet. I giggled quietly to myself for not even realising that we'd ended up here, it's weird how you can be in one place one minute and then in an entirely different place the next minute. Naomi pulled slightly on my hand leading us further into the bathroom which was actually massive; seriously this place is the size of mine and Katie's room at home. Naomi jumped up on a bench in front of the mirror and I walked over to Katie because she was looking at her reflection in a puzzled way like she didn't know who was looking back at her.
"I'm sorry Emsy" Katie sighed leaning her head on my shoulder.
"I know Kay" I smiled at her reflection. It was a lie of course, I didn't know what she was on about but I did know that if I accepted it she'd feel better and I was right because before I knew it Katie was up off my shoulder and leaning really close to the mirror smiling at her reflection.
"I look different now, like ..happy" Katie beamed
I told her I was glad and turned around to face Naomi who was still sat in the same spot swinging her legs back and forth over the edge of the bench. Come over here she said using a slight nod of her head and that gorgeous smile instead of words so I made my way over to her and positioned myself between her legs.
"Impressive" Effy smirked watching Cook pour some white-ish powder in to his palm and she was right, he was like a professional.
"Alright kids Blondie and me get tha first dip" Naomi shifted behind me so I moved to let her get down and watch her walk over to Cook wearing the cutest grin I've ever seen. I watched on in awe as her tongue flicked over her finger quickly and I really wanted to kiss her because she's the most beautiful girl in the world and we're so perfect together. Naomi and Cook stuck their fingers to his palm and both rubbed the powder against their gums at exactly the same time like it was choreographed.
Effy
The powder was bollocks, we had taken it over an hour and a half ago so I think it's safe to say the only effect it had on me was a good old sobering but I don't mind because Katie's not having a very good trip at the moment and id prefer to be in control of my mind in case anything were to happen.
"Pandapops can you do me a favour?" I asked watching Katie stand on the edge of the pool and yell out things such as 'Don't go in the middle! That's where it's swimming!' and 'where are the fucking lifeguards!'
"Sure Eff" Panda smiled from beside me "I think Katie can see sharks" she added frowning
"I think so too. Can you go find JJ and Thommo? I think we're going to need some help with her" I nodded my head towards Katie.
Naomi
"We are defenders! of any poseur or professional pretender around!" I shouted the lyrics as loud as I could throwing my arms up in the air to jump to the beat. Whoever was choosing the play list tonight was fucking brilliant and if I happen to run into them I'm going to tell them exactly that!.
"Naoms, we're on clouds" Emily yelled in my ear gripping onto my waist
"What do you mean?" I smirked resting my arms on her shoulders
"Can't you see them?" Emily lifted her gaze from the floor and looked directly at me and I'm almost certain my heart had just grown wings and was flying around inside of me. I lifted my arms off her shoulder and smiled when she pulled me closer to her. Lifting my finger to her cheek I wrote 'Love' and smiled watching the black ink fade after each letter.
"I can see them now" I whispered staring into her big brown eyes, I could see them they were big and white and all around us reflecting in her pupils and it made me feel warm and happy.
Emily
"You're really beautiful you know" I sighed happily
"Not so bad yourself" Naomi bit her lip grinning, she must have known the effect she was having on me because I couldn't tear my eyes away from her, I don't think I've ever wanted to kiss anyone as much as I do Naomi right now and suddenly I felt overwhelmed by this burning desire that had been lingering beneath my skin all night. I flung my arms around her neck pulling her towards me until our lips finally locked.
This time Naomi responded straight away thrusting her tongue between my lips and placing both hands on my face to hold me there and I couldn't help the laugh that escaped from my mouth because how could I ever think she would run away from me? It seemed ludicrous now.
"What?" Naomi pulled back confused
I didn't bother answering because I felt like I was going to fall off this cloud we were standing on if she didn't kiss me again soon so I shrugged slightly and pulled her in closer again as fast as I could, our lips danced together to a rhythm of their own as the people and music around us slowly faded away and before I knew it I was breathing heavy and gripping onto any part of her I could. I don't even know if I was this worked up because of the sexual tension between us, it just felt so amazing being this close to Naomi and I wanted to go somewhere more private because this felt too personal to be happening in a room this open so I pulled back grinning and grabbed Naomi's hand to lead her through the crowd.
Effy
"Emily isn't in there is she?" Katie stressed looking back at the pool. I had finally managed to convince her to take a seat with me on the terms that we wouldn't leave the pool area 'in case anything like bad happens'. At least it got her away from the edge.
"No Emily's inside with Naomi" I smiled warmly holding eye contact with Katie, I have had more than my fare share of bad trips in the past to know I had to be careful around her at the moment, repeating her name so she knows who she is, asking permission for physical contact and talking about things that calm her is what I planned to do until Panda was back with the guys, we needed to try to get Katie to throw up the powder because although she is currently having a bad trip, it could get worse.
"Do you want a smoke Katie?" I asked placing my packet of cigarettes on the table for her to see
"I don't smoke Eff, you know that" Katie frowned flicking her eyes between myself and the pool
"Do you mind if I have one then?"
"Whatever".
Naomi
"Whoops! Sorry!" I giggled knocking into a group of people as Emily pulled me towards the bathroom. As soon as we entered it she pushed me against the door kissing me passionately, I instantly placed both my hands on her hips walking us backwards without breaking the bond our lips had, I don't even know why I was walking us backwards, I guess there was a part of me hoping a bed would come out of nowhere.
"Fuck" Emily moaned as I took a hold of her lip with my teeth, she tasted like honey and I felt like I was stealing from the queen bee or something.
I don't know how long it took for us to come to a stop but eventually we collided with something hard and I didn't care to look at what it was because Emily's fingernails were scraping across my stomach and I was feeling a bit dizzy. I pulled back for air opening my eyes and looked down at the gorgeous read head panting in front of me.
She had her eyes closed and I could see her heart beating frantically against her chest and maybe this was all too much? I haven't know her that long, what if she wakes up tomorrow and doesn't want anything to do with me?
Less than a second later our lips were moulding together again and I felt myself calming. Emily grabbed the front of my jeans and turned us around slamming me against what I assume was the wall, it felt so soft though and I wondered if we had landed on a bed for a moment but that thought was fleeting as Emily lifted her thigh and pushed it between my legs.
Effy
"Katie" I squeezed her hand gently to get her attention back "What about JJ?"
"JJ" she sighed pulling her gaze from the pool "he'll be like a magician or something I guess, I don't really know, maybe he'll build a real plane" Katie shrugged.
"Maybe" I chuckled "so, Emily and Naomi will be married, Thomas and Panda will have four children, Freddie will be a writer and you'll be a fashion designer, so what about Cook?"
"I think I'm going to puke" Katie stood abruptly, thankfully Thomas and Panda were coming out at that moment. I hurried around the table and wrapped my arm around Katie's waist to lead her over to the grass "No no" she shook her head pushing me away.
"What is the matter?" Thomas rushed to Katie's other side
"She's going to be sick, Panda can you get some water" I said as calmly as I could watching Katie dry retch.
We managed toget Katie to the grass by the pool before she started throwing up all over the place, Thomas held her hair back and rubbed her back singing something I couldn't understand whilst I wiped the tears from her eyes. Katie was just settling down by the time Panda returned with a bottle of water.
"That powder was flippin looney, she's made a right mess everywhere" Panda passed Thomas the bottle.
"Can you keep her here and make sure she's alright? I need to find the others so we can go"
"Of course" Thomas nodded cradling a crying Katie in his arms.
Emily
"Christ Emil-" the words died in Naomi's throat as I ran my teeth along the soft skin on her neck nipping gently every now and then. I ran my fingernails down her back digging my thigh further between her legs and smiled against her skin hearing the effect I was having on her.
"I want you" I purred against her ear
Slipping two fingers in the waist of her jeans I pulled Naomi towards me crashing our lips together as we walked backwards. Once my back hit the bench I spun us around and leant down securing my hands behind her ass. Naomi squealed from surprise when I lifted her on the bench and I was surprised at how light she was, but I didn't dwell on that thought too long because Naomi had laced her hands in my hair and was running her tongue along my lip.
"These need to come off" I smirked pulling at the button on her jeans that seemed to not want to budge
"Hold on" Naomi breathed leaning back and undoing the button before lunging forward again to wrap her legs around me.
Effy
"Have you seen Naomi or Emily about?" I yelled in Freddie's ear making sure I had a tight grip on Cook's shirt. We had found the wanker jumping around on the dance floor and he didn't seem to have much control over his energy right now so I wanted to make sure he didn't piss off somewhere we couldn't find him.
"Uhh..yeah they went through there" Freddie pointed with his beer bottle "what's going on?" he frowned looking between Panda, Cook and myself.
"We need to get Katie back to the hotel, can you take him outside by the pool, you'll spot Katie and Thomas there" I nodded at Cook who was bouncing on the balls of his feet talking to Panda
"Yeah course, I think Jay's in the kitchen do you want me to get him on the way?"
I nodded and pulled Cook closer giving him my best 'do as I say' look
"Stay with Freds".
After the boys left I grabbed Panda's hand and lead her through the people that were dancing until we came to a small hallway, I walked up to the bathroom door as Panda went to the door beside it and we both silently entered each rooms.
Emily and Naomi were getting it on, on the bathroom bench. I'm usually pretty hard to catch off guard but I have to say I didn't see this coming at all, there is no way in hell that Naomi would ever consider fucking Emily in a bathroom if she were sober.
"Ahem" I cleared my throat feeling rather awkward
"They aren't in there Eff" Panda's voice rang out from behind as Emily and Naomi split apart like they had been electrocuted. It was actually quite funny watching the embarrassment hit their faces and I couldn't help the smirk that spread across my face.
"Were you two makin monkey?" Panda asked casually leaning her head through the door.
Naomi
"What are you doing here?" I jumped off the bench noticing all the weird things I was feeling before we had come to the bathroom hit me with full force again.
"What are you doing here?" Effy smirked "might want to do that up" she added flicking her eyes to the button on my jeans.
I walked over to Emily doing up my Jeans, she looked shocked to say the least and I felt an intense urge to calm her down so I grabbed her hand and squeezed it, Emily rewarded me with a heart stopping smile back and I wanted Effy and Panda to leave so that I could feel as close to Emily as I did before.
"Katie's not feeling too well at the moment" Effy said pulling me and Emily from our smiling contest.
"Why what's wrong?" Emily frowned, clearly confused as I was because Katie had seemed more than fine last time we saw her.
"She's been sick" Effy said watching me kiss Emily's cheek. I don't know why I did it, just because I could I guess. I didn't want her to worry.
Effy
Naomi's kiss on the cheek soon turned into the both of them snogging again and I sighed feeling a bit frustrated because not only did I have Katie and Cook to deal with, but these two were as high as kites and clearly in no state to be productive in our situation at the moment. I knew that Naomi would wake to regret it if they took this any further than it already had been so the only answer was to separate them.
"Emily" I said more loudly than intended waiting until they both pulled apart and faced me "Pandapops has a really interesting story to tell you"
"I do?" Panda frowned beside me, I raised an eyebrow at her flicking my eyes quickly at the two girls in the bathroom waiting for her to catch on "oh yeah I do!" thank god for that.
"Err, okay" Emily frowned for a second watching Panda skip in the room and grab her hand.
I gave Panda a weak smile as they left the room and then turned to face my friend who was looking at the empty space Emily had been standing in sulkily.
"Come on you, we need to leave now" I held out my hand.
"Taxi's on its way" Freddie said lighting a cigarette and handing it over once Naomi and I got back to the grass where everyone else was.
"COOOOOOK!" Naomi yelled scaring the shit out of me as she ran over to him, I hoped that at least for now those two could distract each other from doing anything mental.
"Thanks, how is she?" I frowned looking down at Katie. She was out to it, looked almost lifeless.
"She has been asleep for a while now" Thomas smiled in a reassuring way "do not worry, she will be fine"
"We are a mess! We are failures and we love it!" Cook and Naomi shouted from behind. I gave Freddie a pleading look and he smiled nodding his head to go over and deal with them whilst JJ stuttered something about getting more bottles of water.
Panda had Emily distracted and under control, they were both sitting against a tree a bit further up talking animatedly, that girl can definitely talk.
Naomi and Cook were still being pains in the arses though and I didn't know how much longer Freddie could keep them tame, he was doing his best though by playing them music from his phone which they both seemed in awe of, for the moment.
It didn't take JJ long to return and he had informed us that the taxi van was out the front so I motioned Panda over and gave Naomi Cook and Emily bottles of water each telling them to sip whilst Thomas carefully lifted Katie up off the ground.
"Powder didn't work for you either?" Freddie asked as we made our way past the side of the villa to the gates out the front
"No, I'm glad It didn't" I answered watching Naomi sloppily walk ahead.
The ride back to the hotel was significantly easier, Cook and Naomi had passed out not long after the taxi started and Emily had quietly stared at Katie the whole trip.
Once we got back to the hotel Freddie and JJ helped Naomi and Cook into the boy's room whilst Thomas carried Katie into our room.
"She should be fine now yes?" Thomas whispered pulling the covers over Katie "we will leave at 10am tomorrow, goodnight ladies" He gave Panda a chaste kiss before closing the door.
"She'll be okay wont she?" Emily looked anxious watching me put two pain killers and a glass of water beside Katie's bed.
"Of course, it's Katie fucking Fitch we're talking about, try get some sleep, you're all going to feel like absolute shit in the morning" I chuckled as Panda went through to the ensuite to change.
"Thanks Eff, I'm really glad you're here" Emily yawned pulling her covers back and climbing into her bed. I smiled to myself pulling my phone from my pocket and wrote out a quick thanks to Thomas, JJ, Freddie and Panda for helping me tonight. All in all it was a pretty good party, bit mental, but that's nothing new to us.
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