Naomi part 2!
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'Naomi! What a surprise' he says, opening the door, I smile up at him until I see him sporting a pair of aeroplane pyjamas and then I literally have to bite down on my lip before I burst out laughing, he's still smiling at me and also looking slightly confused, fuck it I'll put the boy out of his misery.
'Hey JJ' I continue to smile, 'Just came to see Emily' his face scrunches up in confusion, looking past his shoulders and into the house I continue to ignore his expression mainly because he's kind of weird and it's probably normal for his reaction to be like that 'is she here?'
He starts to blink rapidly 'why would she be here?' he asks me confused, and I'm just as confused as him, I gesture to his house '... because she's been staying with you for the past 2 days' he shakes his head slowly, 'no Naomi, she's been staying with you since last week...' he continues to say acting like I'm the fucking crazy one here.
'No, JJ' I humour him 'she left two days ago, she's staying here' he's still shaking his head, he must be telling the truth
'So she didn't come here?' head shake 'two days ago?' another head shake 'how about college?'
'Nope, hasn't been in since Monday' Jesus, she didn't go home did she, well there's no way I'm going to her home, Jenna would probably punch me.
'Oh, she probably went home' I say, walking away from the front door slowly, his face full of concern 'Naomi is she okay?'
'Yeah' I say, putting on my best smiling, trying to convince myself she's okay to 'she probably just went home, she's fine' he starts to smile, and after the conversation is over it just gets awkward watching him in those pyjamas
'So I'm going to go' I gesture to the road behind me
'Hmm, well yes! Nice seeing you Naomi' with that he walks back in closing the door
Whipping out my phone, still on JJ's drive I start to walk down the road, scrolling through my contacts, reaching Emily's name and pressing dial
'I'm sorry but this phone is switched off'
Came the operators voice, since when did Emily even turn her phone off? Of course there has been a time when she's missed my calls but her phone has never actually been off before, strolling again through my contacts I come across Katie's number, never actually phoned her before, this will be new.
'Why are you phoning me?' comes the first replay, I can't help but role my eyes at the phone even though she can't see it
'Hello to you too Katiekins' I reply back hearing her scoff at the other end, before she has time to talk I get straight to the point 'Did Emily come home?' I ask, she sighs
'I wish' she says, sounding sad before continuing 'can you tell her just to think about coming home though?' she asks and I'm too busy realising that Emily hasn't been in JJ's or been home since Monday
'Katie, I haven't seen Emily since Monday' I say, the phone goes silent
'What?' she says after a while, I can hear shuffling as if she's getting up from her bed
'she decided to go and stay at JJ's' I inform her 'but I'm by his now and he said she never came to his at all' I say sounding a little panicked 'and her phone isn't on'
'Fuck, her phone hasn't been on for ages, I tried phoning her yesterday, just thought she turned it off so no one would disturb your shagathon'
'Katie it's not funny, we argued before she left' I admit, tears nearly coming to my eyes at remembering it 'oh god Katie where is she?' I lightly sob into the phone, I hear her breathing go heavily, 'Where does your mum live?' she asks, I just go along with it
'Riverside avenue' i say sniffing she moans with frustration, 'fuck I don't know where that is, just fucking meet me at your flat' with that the line goes dead, and I make my way home, well technically to the place I used to live before I got kicked out.
Katie was already there by time I walked to the flat, she was pounding her fists against the door in frustration, Heels impatiently tapping on the floor, Gucci bag held tightly up to her shoulder, with one final pound, she turns around, spotting me and furiously walking up to me, I gulp loudly.
'Why the fuck doesn't she answer?' she shouts at me, and I just shrug, this just angers her even more 'pass your fucking key then' she says, holding her hand out to me waiting for it, I just look at her guilty
'I didn't bring it' I explain to her, she just rolls her eyes 'I didn't think we'd need it' I say sadly smiling at her apologetically, she doesn't press the issue any further, she gets straight down to business.
'I phoned around, no one's seen her for days' she says, changing the conversation and nearly making me well up in tears again, but I don't have time before her bitchy side comes back into the conversation 'what the fuck did you say to her?' she moves the couple of steps until she right up in my face, I can't help but scoff at her.
'Why do you just assume this is my fault?' she starts to laugh at this, so much hatred in it that I'm kind of scared that it's only me and her around now.
'Because she was fine before she knew you, and now look at her!' she states throwing her hands in the air in frustration, I look at her confused, now look at her? I've never seem Emily so happy out of all the time I've known her.
'Don't you think that maybe this is down to how she's fucking treated at home?' I retaliate, she shifts closer to me, lifting her hand up but then she stops, whatever was about to come out of her mouth is digested back down and she diverts her eyes to the ground before looking back up at me
'This is it, once we find her that's it, I don't want you seeing her anymore!' I can't be bothered to go through all this with her again.
'God Katie, you don't understand she was happy when she left!'
'But you said you had an argument...' she looks at me confused, I elaborate.
'We did, and yeah it was my fault before you ask' I admit 'but we made up, it was a stupid couple argument really, but everything was fine before she went' she looks at me sceptical before sighing and walking away, running her hands through her hair thinking, she walks back over
'Did she say anything before she went then?'
'What like?' I ask raising my eyebrow's she rolls her eyes again
'Anything you tit!' I think for a second coming up with nothing, she continues 'like why did she leave if everything was fine?'
'space' I say 'everything was getting to us, she said we needed time apart for a while or we'd be at each other's throats 'I say sadly and her eyes snap to mine, 'fuck' she says, weirdly slight happiness in her eyes 'of course!' she says, rubbing her hands together looking like she's got a plan, I'm about the ask why she's so fucking happy when the flat door comes flying open.
'What's with all the fucking banging?' before her eyes fall onto mine 'oh' she simply says we stare at each other in silence before she turns her attention to Katie completely forgetting I'm there again
'Babe, no offence but you look like shit, you do know it's after dinner time right?' Katie says, eyeing up what Kelly currently has on, not saying I'm no fashion expert but I kind of have to agree with Katie at the moment, she does look like shit, she wearing one of the tracksuits she usually wears when we go the gym, hair pulled up in a scruffy pony tail and completely no make-up at all, not even around her eyes, fuck this is so not like Kelly.
She scoffs 'so what, I had a late night okay? Now what do you want?' she looks at Katie expectant and Katie looks taken back by the answer she got, mustn't be used to hearing Kelly talk like that.
Clearing her throat she answers 'we need you to drive us to gobblers end' personally I've never heard of the place in my life, and I seriously don't know why Katie wants to go there, but it must be something to do with Emily.
She laughs, looking between me and Katie with amusement, she actually laughs in our face 'oh right okay, let me just fetch my keys' she says sarcastically whilst continuing to laugh, Katie's face drops as does mine, what's really weird right now is that we're standing outside the door, acting like this isnt my fucking home.
'Kelly...'
'Katie no, you can't just knock at my flat and expect me to be on call to you 24/7' harsh.
'Emily's missing okay? I think she might be there so I need you to take us!' she demands, Hearing Emily missing might break Kelly down, I see her face soften for a moment with concern before she catches my eye and it toughens up again
'she's probably just at a mates house, now if you don't mind...' she says, gesturing for us to leave, Katie sighs looking at me with 'we tried' before Kelly has time to shut the door I put my foot between it, stopping it from shutting.
'Please Kelly' I plead, she rolls her eyes 'nobodies seen her in days, we tried all her friends, she's not there' I state my voice breaking a little at the end, surprisingly Katie puts a supportive hand on my shoulder, I send her a small smile.
'Come on then' she says, gesturing towards her car with head nod, she might hate me right now but she doesn't know how grateful I am for this.
To say the car journey was awkward would be the understatement of the year, me and Katie cramped in the back of the car around Kelly's shit while she sat quietly eyes on the road, the car jerk around the corner, successfully throwing my body into Katie's and accidently touching her tits which results in her throwing me a dirty look and scooting the other side of the car, acting as if it was her I was attracted to, well yeah right Katie dream on.
'Fuck couldn't she like you know, went somewhere that had golden sand instead of muddy fucking sticks' Katie comments whilst picking a twig out of her heels, Kelly was trailing behind us in her own world as we made our way further into the woods, I was starting to wonder why Emily would even come here, it's kind of dirty and dull.
'Katie why do you think she's here?' I asked slowly walking beside her in pace
'Fucksake' she muttered after tripping on some leafs 'We used to come here all the time, when we were younger' I nod at her, still walking but still quite not understanding
'She's done this before' she comments and now I'm intrigued 'just after she told mum she was you know...' she says, and I completely understand why she's run away from Jenna especially after what I saw of her last week 'Mum got mad, Emily got scared, so she came here, for some space' she raises her eyebrow at me and I completely get it now, space.
'So you think she's here now?' I ask hopeful, and she suddenly stops smiling at me
'Don't ever say I don't know my sister' she nods her head behind me, when I turn around I'm met with the best sight ever, relief washing over my body, there she is, in the open space surrounding by tree's, head resting back on her bag, stirring up at the sky with a spliff hanging out of her mouth.
Ripping my attention away from her I turn back to Katie, she smiles again soft before winking 'go on, go and talk to her, I'll wait over there with her' she nods towards Kelly who's currently lurking about 3 metres away from us, I smile at her thanks her, before walking over to Emily and towering above her.
Looking up, the spliff falls out of her gaping mouth
'Naomi?' she asks surprised, standing up and pushing the dirt off her clothes with her palms
'Are you fucking stupid? You don't just fucking disappear like that without telling me Emily Jesus! I thought something fucking happened to you; you could have at least called!' I yell at her, she looks at me wide eyed and guilty, I pull her into a hug, frustrated tears falling from my eyes 'don't do that again' I say more gentle to her she nods her head hugging me tighter
'Sorry' she murmurs into my neck
'I'm so glad you're okay' I whisper to her, still clasping her in the tight exchange, I pull her back, she strokes the tears from my cheeks 'why did you come here?' I ask, she shrugs sighing
'I felt like such a Burdon on everybody' she says and I shake my head in protest, she continues 'here I'm not depending on anyone and nobodies depending on me' I smile sadly and she grins back at me 'but I think we've had enough time apart now' she smirks at me, reaching for my lips and kissing me fiercely, I can't help but reciprocate it back deepening it even more when a cough interrupts up.
'Come on Katie, I've got to get home' Kelly's voice echo's through around the empty space, Emily looks up at me seeing the obvious disappointment on my face, she steps back turning towards Kelly.
'Enough with the torture already' she says, nobody replies, just stops to listen aimed at Kelly 'all of this isn't her fault okay? She didn't just think oh I think I'll shag Kelly's cousin on the sly' I nearly choke at this, Kelly just looks on in shock
'we met before that first time at the club, I lied to her, we went out a couple of times, I fell in love with her but she tried to push me away because she didn't want to hurt you, she tried Kelly okay? She didn't want to lie to you, I could see how much it hurt her' she takes a deep breath then continues 'but we couldn't help it, we loved each other, we love each other' she states taking my hand in hers and lifting it to show Kelly.
Ending her speech nothing is still said between anybody.
'Like I said' Kelly says, looking up from out locked hands to meet my face 'I have to get home'
My eyes fall to the ground, Emily's attempt failing and my heart breaking in a completely different way.
Walking around the empty flat I throw my random belongings into the box, picture frames, random magazines that are mine, underwear, carrying the box into my room, I take down the last of the posters occupying the wall leaving the room looking weird, I've never really had a bare room before, oh well hopefully the next person Kelly shares a flat with likes the plain look.
I decided to do this while she at university, she doesn't know I'm here packing my things up, doing now means I'll have to explain less, and it's not like she'll care anyway, it's just been more days of being plainly ignored, and never actually receiving that phone call off her to talk.
Pushing the rest of my clothes into the box I take my last look at the bare room before closing the door open and putting the box down next to the rest.
'What's going on?' turning around I'm met with a confused Kelly eyeing the full boxes suspiciously
'I'm moving in with my mum' I inform her, crossing my arms, her eyes snap up to mine, unreadable expression before moving back down to the boxes 'oh' she simply says
'Yeah, being there a lot it actually makes sense' I comment casually, turning around and reaching into my bag, producing a pair of keys, I turn around putting them on the coffee table in front of us, her eyes watch every move.
'I've taken most of my stuff around already' she doesn't say anything still, just continues to look on 'so I'll come around and pick the rest up tomorrow' I smile softly at her walking towards the door 'see you round' I say before leaving, she doesn't reply.
I want to cry, I've lost my best friend but I've gained something so much better, being with someone who actually accepts everything I am, it didn't have to turn out like this, I don't really understand her reaction to it all but I suppose I'm a hypocrite, I treated Emily completely the same when I found out she lied to me.
Now I was being the fucking loser, Friday night and lying in bed alone by 9, aren't I just fucking cool? Emily decided to go back home and figure things out with her mum, to Katie's delight. This means that we couldn't do anything tonight because she was at home sorting things, and I suppose I could use this time to sort my own shit out to, like fucking redesigning this terrible fucking room.
'Do you remember the first time we met?' My eyes snap to the open door, to Kelly's figure occupying it, sitting up in shock, she enters the room more 'of course' I reply, when she comes in to distant view I see her eyes are red raw, as if she's been crying.
'I fucking hated you' she says, laughing and wiping her eyes, a smile breaks out on my face. 'But then I realised you weren't that much of a twat and wanted to get to know you'
She's crying now 'you're the one person I trust with my fucking life' she admits, wiping more at her eyes, my eyes well up to, 'and I fucking miss you' she concludes, within a matter of seconds I'm up off the bed enveloping her in a giant hug, not caring if she doesn't want to hug right now and certainly not caring if I'm not fully forgiven.
She sobs into my shoulder 'I don't hate that you're in love with Emily' she sniffles 'you're fucking perfect for each other I'm almost fucking jealous' I laugh as we continue to hug each other for dear life.
'I just hate that you lied to me' she continues to cry, and I continue to whisper 'I'm so sorry' over and over 'and I wanted punish you because you never lie to me' she sniff's loudly 'but I can't' she admits, and I'm happily crying a long with her.
'I love you, you're my best friend' she says, and nod my head at her 'I just wished you trusted me more' she says, pulling back and looking at me sadly 'I do, I trust you more than anything' I say seriously straight into her eyes and she nods 'I was just scared'
'I'm so sorry for being a bitch' she laughs, sleeves wiping tears; something tells me things are going to get some much better.