A/N
Hello lovebugs! I've missed you all! so I wanted to get this chapter up before Christmas and New Years but that proved harder than I thought because this time of the year is so bloody hectic! I'm dedicating this chapter to everybody who left their shopping until the last minute and had to brave the crowds of people, it's a fucking nightmare. Also congrats to you all for making it through 'the end of the world' and thank you to EVERYONE who has followed this story this year, ReadingNaomilyAllDayErDay, FrenchKiwi1994, Skinsfan15, anon, AllTimeAisling, Kathryn Goulding, Steph, Nancy and Lana you're all superstars for reviewing :D
I hope you all have a fantastic Christmas and New Years and if you don't celebrate it then I hope your day's great anyway!
I don't own skins, it's just our 2 year anniversary (loveeee)
Chapter 25
Naomi's POV
"Goodnight Ems" I whispered not entirely aware of what was happening. Five minutes ago I had Emily up against a wall and now…we weren't even touching.
I rolled on my other side staring at her back in the darkness, what is my problem? She's right here and she wants me. I know I'm scared. Christ everyone fucking knows I'm scared. I'm scared that Emily won't want me in the morning because that's the thing about sex right? People change in the morning. But I've already rejected Emily so many times that maybe we're already heading down the path I've been trying to avoid, maybe Emily will get sick of waiting, emotional love can't always be enough can it?
But that's also the thing, I don't want to always be like this with her, I want Emily just as much as she wants me, probably more, the problem is that I don't know how to have sex with her. Yeah I've shagged girls before but what I mean is I don't know how to make it like she wants, like I want, because I've only ever had meaningless sex before and even when I thought it meant something, it didn't.
"Get it together" I let loose a breath
"What?" fuck sakes she heard you
Just do it I was in panic mode, not because I was about to do something I wasn't ready for, it was because I hadn't the slightest idea how to go about this any other way than what I usually would…and probably also because I felt completely sober. So ignoring the hammering in my chest and the thickness in my throat I sat up, pulled on Emily's arm so that she was lying on her back and then climb on straddling her hips.
"Nao-" I cut her off crashing our lips together, it was probably a more urgent kiss than I usually would initiate but I really didn't want to see Emily's reaction because what if she didn't want this now? I don't think I'd even blame her with how hot and cold I've been tonight.
Emily did respond though and I was a little surprised that she actually kept up with the pace my lips were going but there was no time to think about that. I pushed my tongue through her lips and ran the tip of it underneath hers, whilst this was happening the hand that wasn't supporting my weight quickly made its way under her shirt, with one destination in mind I was like a determined soldier ready to get from A straight to B, with B being Emily's orgasm, but she, it seemed, had other plans.
"Naoms" Emily breathlessly pulled away from my lips shaking her head.
This is it every inch of my body froze I've fucked it. This is what I meant by not knowing how to mix emotions and sex, in any other situation I probably would have taken flight at this moment but for some reason all I could do was stay there, frozen.
"Hey" Emily pushed herself up using her elbows and cradled my cheeks in her hands "Naoms…we don't have to do this you know, it's okay"
"I want to" it was true, I wanted to be with Emily in every way possible and this was starting to become a big fat elephant in the room, I want her and she wants me so skipping around the issue wasn't going to get us anywhere. Yeah I was scared but I've finally come to the realisation that I'm probably risking our relationship by continuing to wait, it feels like I've waited so long now that I don't even know what I'm waiting for anymore.
"Stop thinking" Emily ran her thumb softly along my lips
"Okay" I barely whispered. I was nervous because I didn't exactly know how to go about this, was I meant to kiss her slower, are we meant to talk? I felt like an idiot for not knowing these things but how was I supposed to know any different?
I once had this whole idea in my head that sex was something people did when they truly loved somebody, that it was the ultimate way of feeling connected to another person. But then time passed and general life experiences tainted that view and eventually I had forgotten that there was even a difference between having sex and fucking, it's usually all just one big blur of whispered promises that are forgotten in the morning, nothing deep though, usually just I'll call you, they never do though.
"Stop thinking" Emily said again
"Okay"
She smiled gently and leant forward softly pressing her lips against mine, this kiss was completely different from the assault I had given her before, this said we have all the time in the world and it really wasn't that different from how Emily normally kisses me which made me feel like this moment wasn't as important as it should be.
I don't know if she knew it, but kissing me like this was probably the best thing she could have done because it reminded me that I'm not about to have sex with a completely different Emily, she's still the same person that cares about me everyday.
I placed my hands on her hips for balance and I was focussing on keeping at her pace so much that I barely even noticed she had pulled my tshirt up over my head and threw it somewhere behind me, our lips only breaking contact when I had to lift my arms.
We spent a few minutes kissing softly with her running her fingers randomly around what seemed like every inch of skin on my back and when Emily pulled back and looked at my bare chest the only thing I could think about was how dilated her pupils were, it was fascinating. I didn't feel uncomfortable by the way that she was hungrily looking at me because lust is my thing, I can do lust, and besides I've never had a problem with my body.
I don't know how long it took but eventually our eyes locked and that's when my heart started pounding again because her eyes were full of appreciation and something else I couldn't recognize and I started thinking am I supposed to do something?
Thankfully Emily beat me to it though and grabbed the bottom of her tshirt, pulling it off without hesitation. I bit my lip staring at the skin on her that I've never seen before, her tits were perfect, not too big but not too small either, they would fit perfectly in my hand. Tanned, smooth and…just all around fucking great. I didn't get as much time as I wanted looking at them because as soon as she had thrown her tshirt on the floor she had leant forward surprising me with a hug, her arms wrapped protectively around my back. It took me a moment to respond because seriously, it was so random, usually when you first see somebody's tits hugging them isn't the first thing you do, at least in my experience it isn't.
"This is the closest I've ever felt to you" Emily's voice was thick with desire and it literally sent shivers down my back. It was a nice feeling having her bare chest against me but I was freaking out because she had caught me off guard with the hug and it made me feel like I wasn't in charge, which is always going to be an uncomfortable feeling for me. But Emily deserved this, this closeness, as alien as it was to me that didn't mean it wasn't nice, just different. So I swallowed my nerves and said the first thing that came to my head.
"You're not wearing a bra" I know it wasn't my best of moments but I was still in 'Emily's tits' world so can you blame me?
She leant back at this admission and stared into my eyes for a moment before chuckling. Her voice is beautiful, especially when she laughs so it automatically made me feel a little more relaxed.
"You aren't either"
"No I guess I'm not" I looked down at my own bare chest, I felt like a bit of an idiot but at least it made her smile.
We both shared a meaningful look and then Emily pushed me backwards so that I was now lying down and she was on top of me. This position was definitely something I wasn't comfortable with, I just like being in control. Id never tell her this but when Emily then climbed off of me and stood up beside the bed I literally let loose a breath id been holding. "What're you-"
"Shh" I knew Emily's eyes never left mine the whole time I watched her slowly take her pants off and throw them away and I don't know why, but even though Emily wasn't touching me I still felt as though she was. I think I probably got half a second of seeing Emily's bare thighs and legs before she leant over the bed and started pulling at mine. I lifted my arse so that it would be easier for her to get them off and then giggled when her breath hitched seeing me pant-less.
I've never had a problem with my body but that doesn't mean I thought I was anything special, but Emily was looking at me like I was reason people wrote love stories and for the first time ever I felt like I was something special and I started to understand what it meant to mix sex and emotion, she was showing me how special it can be.
I got up and sat on the side of the bed because I had this feeling that was pulling at my chest, I needed to be closer to her, I needed to have physical contact with her. So I placed my hands on both of Emily's hips and kissed her stomach. Emily sighed running her fingers through my hair; her skin was warm and soft, I felt like her body heat was blanketing me and I decided then that I could spend a lifetime just touching her.
I was in my comfort zone, I was obviously having effect on Emily because her breath became heavier and her grip on my hair tighter, this was good, this was comfortable. In usual Emily fashion though, she placed her hands on my shoulder and gently pushed me back on the bed taking the lead again and it made me wonder if we would always be like this and then that led to me wondering why I had assumed there would be an always and I was so stuck in my head that when our lips connected again I gasped at not even noticing Emily climb back on me.
"That's what you get for thinking" she grinned pushing her thigh in between my centre.
"Yeah?" my voice squeaked from the pressure mounting in my knickers "maybe I should think more often then"
Emily stopped rocking her hips and pushing her thigh and gave me a challenging look and of course I relented, who bloody wouldn't?
It took seconds for both of our breaths to become heavier, each thrust of her thigh caused a prayer from me, I'm not religious but a lot of 'Jesus's and 'God's escape my lips when I'm having sex. Emily didn't mind, they seemed to excite her more because it didn't take long for her to get rougher, I fucking loved it.
"Fuck" I hissed when Emily bit a certain part of my collarbone a little harder, it hurt but it was a nice sort of pain, unfortunately she took it the wrong way though and immediately stopped what she was doing.
"Fuck, are you okay?" worry spread across her face as she quickly leant back down and kissed the spot she had bitten "I'm sorry…I get carried awa-"
"Ems" I breathlessly cut her off "shut up, don't stop"
Emily's face expression instantly turned devious and she smirked down at me raising an eyebrow and I should have just let her fucking babble on for a moment because whatever she was planning in her head didn't look good, or maybe it looked too good if that's even possible. "Noooo" I whinged watching her climb off me "what are you doing?" Emily ignored me, her eyes flicked to my centre and a look I had never seen on her before spread across her face, it was intense, she was frowning and biting her lip but I don't think she was pissed off or anything, I couldn't really describe it and it wasn't until she climbed back over me leaning on her knee's that I knew what she had seen.
"Oh god" I whispered closing my eyes as Emily ran one of her fingers up the length of my underwear, which was obviously soaked by now. I don't know what she was doing because my eyes were shut, I couldn't feel anything but I knew she was still there because I could hear her breathing heavy. I slowly counted to 10 in my head guessing this would be another one of those intimate moments and then opened my eyes.
Emily didn't say anything; she just stared at me for a few more seconds and then leant down and kissed me. This was one of those kisses where you feel concussed, we could have been kissing in Buckingham Palace in front of Lizzy and Philip and the lot of them and I wouldn't have known better because Emily was kissing me.
It was so hypnotising that I found myself following her lips when she pulled back.
"Stay" Emily ordered using the palm of her hand to keep me lying on the bed, I watched Emily kiss lower and lower down my body, she took her time kissing certain parts of my stomach and then tracing her fingertip in circles around those parts. She was learning what sort of reactions she could get out of me, like when she kissed my shoulders it made my body shiver, or when she ran her tongue along my abdomen my knee's would twitch. No one had ever taken the time to learn these things and even though it made me a little uncomfortable I appreciated Emily for being so interested.
"Christ" Emily said once she had removed my knickers. Her voice sounded like she had been smoking bongs for two days straight, it was definitely the sexiest I've ever heard her and I felt proud that I could make her sound like that "Put your legs on my shoulders" she got off the bed and sat on her knee's facing my centre.
I did as told even though by this point all I could mostly focus on was the mantra playing in my head this is happening this is happening it wasn't an excited mantra, more of a freak out because she really was taking her time, kissing the inside of my thighs. My heart was banging against my chest like it was apart of a death metal band and my breathing was bordering on panic attack because this was it, this felt like the make or break moment, the moment I let Emily have all of me and she was taking her time so every second felt like an age.
The moment her tongue made contact with my clit my whole body jerked and I think I almost broke her shoulders with the weight of my legs, it wasn't my best of moments but Emily didn't stop and I couldn't focus on anything but her tongue and what it was doing to me.
"Jesus…fuck…Em" my voice was strained and my body tense, I flung my arm down the side of my body searching for her hand and was relieved when I found it there already, waiting to hold mine. I felt like the only thing keeping me from falling off a cliff was her hand. Emily squeezed my hand and at first I thought it was to comfort me but I think it was actually more of a warning because the next thing she did was run her tongue slowly down the length of my centre and back up to my clit, repeating that motion over and over and my legs were shaking, I was saying so many words that they just turned into sound and my breath was so deep it was probably dangerous.
Emily pulled away after what seemed like a lifetime and climbed back on the bed over me, I think I was actually whimpering by this point, I don't know how much more of this I can take, it was like she had lit me on fire and wouldn't put it out. She stared into my eyes for a moment with a mixture of happiness and desire sparkling in hers, but it was only a moment, she wasn't wasting anymore time now and when I felt her fingers easily slide deep inside me I involuntarily jerked forwards crying out something similar to "Jesusarghmygod".
I needed to feel as close to her as possible so I crashed our lips together even though I really didn't have the breath, it was sloppy and sweaty and exhausting, we were both panting between tongues and lips and I could feel that familiar pull in my centre, I was close to falling, all I had to do was let go of Emily and let myself feel it but I didn't want to, I wanted to stay like this because it was the closest I've ever felt to anybody before and it felt amazing. I finally understood fully what it meant, why people let themselves go through this, because feeling like this is worth a thousand heartbreaks.
"Its' okay" Emily breathed into my mouth "it's okay" and that was it for me, I didn't see stars or fireworks, there weren't any butterflies or rainbows or any of that bollocks that people describe when they orgasm.
I saw Emily and it was fucking amazing.
...
"So, rating out of 10?"
"I'm not going to rate you" I chuckled against Emily's shoulder. The first few minutes after my orgasm we both just lied there, Emily didn't attempt to get off me and I didn't want her to but eventually we both decided that we wanted a cigarette, fuck the hotel and its non smoking rules I just had sex with my girlfriend for the first time and I felt like celebrating.
Emily laughed along with me passing the cigarette over. I leant up on my elbow and slowly took a few drags, she watched me the whole time with a huge grin on her face, and it was adorable.
"You get distracted a lot...during sex I mean"
"Yeah" I agreed having nothing else to say, it was true, I just hoped that it didn't ruin the experience for her, I hoped it was as perfect for Emily as it was for me.
"We'll have to work on that"
"Yeah?" my voice rose higher and my eyes flicked straight to hers, did this mean she wanted to do it again?
"Yep" Emily smirked leaning forward to kiss me.
We did work on it, for most of the night. I took my time getting to know what makes Emily shake or twitch, when she orgasms she lets loose this deep sigh and then mumbles incoherent words and it's the most fascinating and beautiful thing in the world. I lost count after 5 orgasms and by the time we ended up passing out from exhaustion it was almost light outside and the whole night had just turned into one big blur of skin and sweat and sound and emotion, it was perfect, it was euphoric.
…
"Morning" I grinned seeing her frown before she opened her eyes. Id been up for a while now, the little amount of time I did sleep was very restlessly and once it hit 8am I decided there was no point in sleeping, I was also a little worried that id wake later to find Emily gone, what can I say? A leopard doesn't change its spots that easily.
"Hey" Emily's voice was a mixture of croak and husk and it did nothing but make me grin wider "what's that sound?" she leant up on her elbow and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes.
"Katie" I half shrugged "she's been at it since 8 but she gave up on banging on the door around an hour ago, think it's your phone this time"
"What's the time?"
"10"
"So, you've been up for a while" Emily rolled on her side resting her arm on my waist "what have you been doing, you're okay aren't you?"
"I'm fine" I smiled shuffling closer to her on the bed "I just need coffee and about five cows to eat"
"Your mum wouldn't be very happy with you then" Ems chuckled
"Yeah well, she just pretends to be a vegan". It was true, ever since I was young mum has eaten meat, she doesn't have it in excessive amounts or anything, probably has it less than the usual family but she still has it, the only meats she refuses to eat are pork and beef, something about the way the animals are killed or something.
Emily hummed and started tracing patterns onto my hip and it felt so nice that I noticed my eyes start to feel heavy again; I didn't have to worry now that she was awake and here.
"Naoms?"
"Hmm?"
"Can we not tell the others about…you know, I want to keep it a secret…it just feels personal" I agreed with her, it wasn't something that I had even thought about mentioning to anybody, and it's not like I've ever been the sort of person to brag about sex anyway.
"Course" I leaned up and kissed Emily quickly on the lips "you know Eff will probably just guess though…"
"Yeah I know but I trust her"
"Good"
…
"I'm not talking to you" Katie walked straight onto the boat with her head held high. Ems and I didn't rush getting out of bed once she had woken, we spent another hour or so just cuddling and talking but then we knew we needed to start getting ready because the tour had booked a lunch time cruise for us so Ems sent Katie a text letting her know we were getting ready, Katie's reply was short, just telling us the directions to the dock so I knew she had some sort of stick up her arse but I didn't really care because I was feeling the after shag glow and Emily kept looking at me in this certain way that made my heart skip beats.
Our relationship had definitely changed now, but it was a good change.
"Hiya Ems you look different today!" Panda bounced over to Emily crashing her into a hug and almost knocking me over in the process because I had been holding Emily's hand. I left them to it and walked over to Eff, Cook and Freds. Eff already had the 'what have you been up to' eyebrow raise going on but I was going to try my best to act nonchalant, if I could get away with hiding it then id consider myself a fucking genius.
"Blondie" Cook nodded passing me a lit cigarette, the boy always knows what I need.
"I'm going in with Panda and Jay, I'll save you a seat okay?" Emily walked up and kissed me on the cheek quickly before heading onto the boat with the others.
"Alright?" I looked at my mates "what've you lot been up to?"
"Fookin shoppin man, hate that shit" Cook shook his head "got meself some stylish slacks though, ladies are gonna be begging for it" he pointed at his cock earning an eye roll from me.
"They look exactly like his other ones" Freddie laughed "just cost twice the amount"
"Nuh man" Cook flicked his cigarette out into the water "ya just jealous". The boys hopped on the boat after that much to my dislike because Effy didn't even need to say anything and I felt like I was getting the Spanish inquisition, I played it cool though.
"You seem tired"
"Kept hearing noises last night"
"Impossible to wake this morning, Katie was going to send a search party"
"Was tired" I shrugged "that why she's pissed off then?"
"Something about losing two hours of shopping time over it" Effy chuckled "probably the equivalent of losing a pet in her eyes so I imagine you're both going to have to do a lot of sucking"
"Not really my thing, she'll get over it" I put my cigarette out on the wall and then pocketed it for when I find a bin. "I fucking hate boats the food better be worth it" I frowned at the cruise boat. It was pretty big but not in the best condition, the blue and white paint on it was chipped and it generally looked like it was made in the early 60's. There was a top deck though, obviously full of tables and chairs because I could see passengers looking down at us every now and then.
There was two inside decks on the boat, both of them had what I would describe as 'pub tables' lining each side of it, they were small and wooden and could fit a maximum of 5 people per table. At the end of each room there was a buffet area with all sorts of food and next to that was a wine rack which Effy immediately made her way to. Thomas had booked two large tables for us on the top deck; I was fucking glad about that because with the amount of people inside the boat I felt like I was being suffocated. The stairs up to the top deck were thin and it took us a good five minutes to get up them because we had to stop every other second to avoid being knocked over by kids who kept yelling "Pohyb!" fucking hate kids, but it was worth it when we did finally get up there because the view was amazing.
Prague's an odd place, it has a quirky charm that I didn't really expect when coming here and I can't even put my finger on what it is. Every building is filled with history but they all look completely different in shape, colour and age, like you could be walking past one and think that it looks really similar to the ones in France, but then the one next to it would look like some building from Germany. There was a consistent amount of clean and dirty graffiti but even the pointless messed words sprayed onto a wall worked into the beautiful piece of flowers painted next to it. It was a weird place; everything was so inconsistent that it just blended in and looked really charming and I could definitely picture Kieran living here once upon a time.
"Let's get food" Emily stood up before id even sat down. The table we were sitting on was facing the right side of the boat which sucked a bit because the views of the buildings were on the other side. Ems grabbed my hand and pretty much dragged me through the tables and chairs until we got to the large buffet table at the end of the deck. It had so much food that I didn't know what to have, there was a shit load of meats, fruits, breads, dips, crackers, pastas, the list just went on. I couldn't be bothered standing for too long though because I was tired so I just filled my plate with eggs, tomato, bacon and bread and once Ems was finished we went back to the table.
"Fuck off go get your own" I slapped Cooks hand away when he leaned forward to grab my bacon.
"Aw common babe"
"You have legs" I shook my head at Freds who was offering to pour me some wine. I don't care what time of the day it is, I need coffee before anything else. Luckily for me though each table had a plate of small coffee packs and tea bags. Cook chuckled and got up from his seat winking at a table behind us that were full of older women and then he headed for the buffet table.
"Fuck me up the ass 3 ways! come on you nonkey cun-"
"Language!" Katie exclaimed from the other table at the same time Ems and I cracked up in laughter. Panda had been stabbing the peas on her plate aggressively since we got back to the table and I found it fucking hilarious that she was just about to call them cunts.
"Here use this" Ems giggled passing a spoon over the table to her.
We didn't get off of the boat until 4 because there were over 400 passengers and the top deck were the last ones off. The tour was really relaxing, we passed heaps of different areas of the city like the Holy Roman Empire, the Czech communists and Nazi areas and even the Bohemian Empire. Every single place had significant differences but they still had this whole combined vibe that was just cool and charming, I don't think anybody would be able to leave this place unimpressed, it's really magical.
We were due to go on a walking ghost tour around 7 so we still had a few hours to waste and I decided the moment we got back to the hotel that id be spending them catching up on sleep, everybody else were just going to do their own things anyway.
"Did you lock the door babe?"
"Yep" I took my jeans off and climbed under the blankets that Ems was already holding up for me "I have to set the alarm, don't wanna sleep past 6"
"I already set one" Emily yawned wrapping her arms around me "let's tell Katie we heard noises last night". I chuckled thinking about her reaction, I already knew she wasn't a fan of paranormal activity; she'd probably refuse to sleep in the hotel again.
"Whispers and knocks, reckon she'll believe it?" I started tracing circles on her back
"No, I don't think so"
…
"Are you ready?" Katie tapped her foot impatiently on the floor watching me get my jumper and coat from my suitcase. She'd woken us up two minutes before Emily's alarm was meant to go off and I couldn't decided whether I was more pissed off or relieved about it. Katie had come in demanding some sister time with Ems and with the mood she was in I really didn't have the energy to fight it, Emily wasn't too happy about it either, I could tell by the looks she kept sending my way.
"Yeah hold on, fuck sakes I'm just getting my scarf. I'll see you later then?" I picked up my stuff and walked over to Emily giving her a quick kiss, it was weird with Katie watching us.
"Here's the key, Effs in there" Katie threw their room key at me as I opened the door.
Effy and Katie's room was on the floor above ours and I found it really creepy that their hallway looked exactly the same as ours, everything down to the lamp locations. I found their room pretty quickly though, it was right next to the elevator doors.
"You look nice" Effy was sitting on the window seal smoking a cigarette. The only difference between this room and the one that Ems and I share is that instead of a green theme its pink in here, uglier I guess.
I looked down at my outfit frowning because I hadn't dressed up or anything, I didn't even have makeup on. I knew we were going to be walking around so I just put on blue jeans a grey jumper and my black coat "you taking the piss?" I raised an eyebrow at her and made my way over to their bed pulling out my own packet of cigarettes; it seems no one cares about the smoking rules in the hotel.
"Nope. Feel better after your sleep?"
"Much" it was true, I probably won't be able to sleep later because of it but at least Id be able to actually walk around without feeling like a zombie. "What've yous been up to then?"
Effy didn't answer me, just smirked with an eye flick to the bed.
"I don't care, not like you shagged on the end of the bed is it?" I rolled my eyes
"No, you're right" Effy exhaled out the window and then watched me light my own cigarette.
Believed the ghost noises lol, should have seen her face ;) miss you already! X
"Secret lover?" Effy smiled watching me reply to Emily's text wearing a stupid grin.
"Just Em, she told Katie we heard ghosts last night, where do I ash?"
"Here" Eff passed me a glass with water in it "if she doesn't sleep tonight I'm sending her to you two then" Effy got off the window seal and joined me on the bed.
"Eh" I shrugged, knowing Effy she probably would do that but knowing Katie, there was no way in hell she'd go down the elevator by herself just to come wake us up.
"I don't know what to wear tonight"
"Comfortable clothes I suppose" I shrugged "we'll be walking around a lot"
"Hmm"
"But wear something warm yeah? I don't want a bloody cold"
…
"Astromical clock or as we call it here Orloj" Karmela, our ghost tour guide pointed up at a large mechanical clock that was built on the side of Prague's town hall. It was our first stop of the tour, apart from meeting Karmela at the ticket box that is.
Karmela wore a long blue trench coat and a little black top hat, she was carrying one of those lamps from the 18th century and a red umbrella, you could clearly tell that she didn't just dress this way for the job. Her hair was long and orange and she had dark blue eyes and pale skin, she was quite attractive but it was in a weird gothic way, her accent was really strange, I couldn't tell where she was from but I knew it must have been a mixture from a few places.
"At the time it was built, there was supposedly nothing else like it in Europe" I glanced at a couple across the street that were walking into what looked like a warm cosy restaurant, I was jealous because it was cold and dark and this tour was just probably going to be full of bollocks anyway.
"The city counsellors of Prague at the time were very jealous of this clock's uniqueness so they started to become concerned when they heard a rumour floating around that Master Hanus, the builder of the clock, received commission from another city to build another clock somewhere else"
I could understand that, the thing did look pretty fucking amazing, even though I didn't understand how it worked it was still nice to look at, It complimented every building in the square by just sitting there.
"It was going to be bigger, better and more fabulous, but the city counsellors didn't want that to happen for obvious reasons…so they blinded him, took our both of his eyes so that he would never be able to design a clock for anybody again"
"That's bloomin harsh"
"It was" Karmela nodded at Panda "Master Hanush was upset and angry, he felt betrayed that the people he had made this magnificent clock for did this to him, so he climbed up there" she pointed to the top of the clock "and he put his hand on that dial and pulled with all his might until the part broke loose"
I rolled my eyes thinking this couldn't possibly get anymore stupid, because what blind man can climb to the top of a tower without hassle and then go on to break the damn thing using just his hands?
"And they say that in that moment his heart broke and he fell down to the floor dead"
Cook laughed out loud at that, ruining the shocked silence Karmela was going for but the girl didn't seem fazed. Our next stop was St James church which was about two streets away from the Astromical Clock but it was tucked away so when we got there I didn't even notice, but that was probably because Id been looking at all the buildings and noticing how different they were at night time.
Prague is full of old alleyways and because most of the buildings are soft yellows, pastels and blues they all had a gentle glow about them in the night time, it truly was unlike any other European city, there was just a magical feeling about it but it did look spooky at night time, the city was blanketed in a thin layer of fog and because there was so many statues of goblins and monsters about, the shadows displayed on each building made it literally look like something out of a ghost hunters telly show.
"St James church" Karmela stepped up the short steps to the church and used her key to open the wooden doors "we can't exactly pinpoint the dates of this story but it is said that a man tried to steal the crown of jewels from the statue of the virgin" Karmela pushed the doors open and motioned us in after her. "She grabbed his arm and wouldn't let go, keeping him there all night until the monks came in and cut it off, immortalizing his deed by hanging the appendage near the door."
I looked up to the right of the entranceway to where she was pointing and almost felt my insides turn at what was there. I couldn't really see it properly because Freds was standing in front of me but you could tell what it was. An ancient, black, mummified hand was hanging from a chain on the wall and it was so fucking disgusting. I didn't know if I believed the story or not but the hand was definitely macabre, it made me feel sick.
"Eugh Jesus fucking-"
"You can't swear in a church" Emily hushed her sister who'd started dry reaching, I don't blame Katie. I looked around to see everyone's reactions, Cook was grinning up at it, probably thinking of what he'd do with a mummified hand. Panda and Thomas were frowning, Bruno was talking to Karmela, and the rest of us aside from Effy, just looked disgusted.
"If you take a photo of that thing I'm going to have to reconsider our friendship" I let Effy know and then frowned when she took a photo of me instead.
"Okay everyone, our next stop is close by so let's go because you don't want to be there when the moon is full!" Karmela led us around the corner until we reached a medieval courtyard full of weird statues that she told us was where merchants once paid their customs tolls. I tripped over a pavement sticking out of the ground following Karmela to the 7th doorway inside the Ungelt courtyard but luckily Ems was holding my hand so I didn't fall flat on my face, I gave her a quick kiss as a thanks and then we hurried to catch up with the others.
"This doorway is haunted each full moon by a young Turkish man who fell in love with a maiden" here we fucking go again "upon returning from a trip back to his homeland, he found her already married to someone else so in a fit of passionate jealousy the man murdered his lover by cutting off her head and now searches for her in vain"
"Has anybody actually seen this Turkish man?" I walked up to Karmela once everyone else had wondered off to explore the courtyard. "I mean, I don't want to be rude but these stories all sound like bollocks"
"I get that" she smiled leading me towards a bench where we could sit down "before I got this job I came on this tour with my ex boyfriend, we were both sceptics, I thought the only thing id be gaining out of this was a little exercise but then David one of the other tour guides, took us to Charles bridge and I kept seeing this guy…at first I thought he was just someone fucking with us, excuse my language" Karmela smiled sheepishly.
"Swear all you want"
"You know, like somebody that the tour had booked to scare us or something, so I made a joke about it to my boyfriend and he looked at me like I was crazy, he really couldn't see the guy. Anyway the tour ended and I asked David about it but I was still sceptic so I didn't describe what the man had looked like, he got every last little detail though, down to the short stubble the man had. The next day I handed in my resume and voila!"
"Have you seen him since? The ghost I mean…"
"No" she shook her head "I haven't seen any ghosts since, but that was enough for me. Often you'll hear sounds or feel temperature changes during the tours but it's never enough for people to believe. I don't mind though, taking away all the creepy history it has, Prague's always been a magnet for 'strange' people, lots of scientists, alchemists and artists reside here and I just love it." Karmel shrugged "but anyway we better get going, I'll let you know when we reach the bridge, who knows maybe you'll see something too".
We walked back to the Old Town Square which felt like an oasis after being in so many alleyways, on the way we took a few small detours to visit some of the laneways and courtyards that people had been murdered in, those people supposedly didn't haunt the area but it was still really creepy, especially with the amount the fog had thickened in the last 20 minutes.
"Cold" Emily laced our fingers and brought the back of my hand to her cheek while everyone else sat down on the edge of this large memorial that had a statue of a man that was wearing a long dress type thing, it was in the centre of the square.
"Scared yet?" I asked shuffling closer to her to make room for Cook on my other side
"Me? Not likely" Ems smirked.
"In 1621, 27 noblemen were executed right over there, for their part in the Battle of Bila Hora"
"White Mountain" Effy's head snapped up to Karmel "It was an early battle in the thirty years war, Protestants and the Catholics". Effy was incredibly good at remembering history when it came to war, I don't think I ever remember her getting anything under the highest grade in school when it came to those subjects.
"That's right" Karmel smiled, I looked over to Katie who was sporting her 'yeah this is my smart girlfriend' look, she proudly kissed Effy on the cheek went back to listening to Karmel. "The execution took four hours where 3 men were hanged and the rest were beheaded. One of them had his tongue cut out before the beheading."
I bit my tongue frowning at the thought of how much that would hurt.
"The heads of 12 noblemen were dumped into iron baskets and placed on the Charles Bridge" Karmel made eye contact with me "which we'll be going to next, but legend has it that the noblemen now haunt the square and bridge. There have been reports of sightings, whispers; people have said they've felt like someone was touching their shoulder especially around this area near the monument and from the bridge some people hear the noblemen calling out late at night. In addition to all of this, once a year they rise from their graves in the Church over there to check that the old clock's still well."
"Wait, so like the ghosts touch people when they're near the monument? as in this one behind us?" Katie stood up and took a few steps forward.
"That's super-duper! Are they friendly ones like Casper?" Panda stood up and bounced over to Katie "helloo I'm Pandora!" she looked around waving at where I suppose she thought some ghosts were.
"They said hi back Pandapops"
"You can see them Eff!? That's whizzer I wish I could"
The group all laughed at Panda, including Karmel and excluding Katie and then we stood up and started walking towards the bridge. It was almost 9.30pm and the streets were becoming less occupied by the hour and because hardly anybody in our group was talking id be lying if I said I wasn't a bit scared. I think most of us were just being quiet at the potential of hearing any noises. I started to recognize some of the buildings the closer we got to the bridge because I had seen them on the boat tour.
"Charles Bridge" Karmel stopped in front of a very Gothic looking bridge "these are called ice guards and they protect the bridge" she pointed at statues that were mounted to each side of the bridge "there are 30 all up and 29 of them are of saints"
"What about the other one?" Emily stopped taking photos of the bridge to ask
"It's called the Crucifix and Calvary, which is of Jesus on the cross and the Virgin Mary and John the Evangelist standing beside it" Karmel put her lamp and umbrella down on the ground "If I'm being honest…it's not my favourite one but they are all beautiful. Now apart from the noblemen who haunt the bridge there was also 10 particular local lords who had the misfortune of having their heads stuck on those poles for years until the flesh rotted away and their skulls were picked by birds, they can be heard singing songs late at night on the bridge to scare visitors away."
Freds and I shared a 'that's disgusting' look.
"The last thing is a water goblin that is said to live underneath the bridge; it devours the souls of those who drown from falling or jumping off. It's a pretty long bridge and we don't need to go to the other side but you can all explore and we'll meet back here in 10 minutes. Before you go though I'll just say this, in my opinion this is probably the most haunted part of Prague so if you do see hear or feel anything let us know!"
Ems and I lit a cigarette and then she said she was going to go take some photos so I walked over to Katie, she looked a bit traumatised and from my experience Eff definitely isn't the best person at comforting so I decided to check how she was doing.
"Alright?" Katie was standing close to the middle of the bridge hugging her self
"No. I fucking hate this ghost shit it's well scary. Can I have one?"
"Why'd you come then?" I passed Katie my packet of cigarettes and a lighter and then watched her light one for herself.
"What else was I supposed to do?"
I didn't have an answer for her so I just shrugged and took out my phone checking a few texts. To be honest I was still feeling really sceptical about this whole supernatural thing, the only thing bothering me was the fact that it was cold and Prague looked creepy at night time, creepy in the sense that any tosser could jump out from behind a wall and grab you.
"God" Katie jumped closer pressing our arms flat against each other "everything is fucking freaking me out!"
"Calm down, Jesus" I sighed "look, Katie…"
"Cute" there was a flash which made me and Katie spin around on the spot to see Effy smirking with her camera in her hands, facing us.
"Fuck sakes what is it with you and taking photos of me today?" I rolled my eyes trying to swipe it from her hands.
"Scare you did I?"
"You fucking scared me babes! And if you do that again you'll be sleeping alone tonight yeah?" Katie placed her hands on her hips glaring at Effy. That was clearly my cue to leave, Katie was pissed off and Effy doesn't often apologise, I imagined their fights being interesting but not interesting enough to stick around and watch when I had my own, much more time worthy Fitch wandering about.
Ems was almost half way down the bridge and it took me a good five minutes to catch up to her, I felt like I was playing 'where's wally' with her lack of height and the amount of fog. I passed Freds, JJ and Bruno a quarter into the bridge, they were all laughing really loudly at fuck knows what but I assumed that if there was actually ghosts around they'd probably be getting a bit pissed off about now.
"Hey beautiful" I snuck up behind my girl and wrapped an arm around her waist "whatcha doing? Seen any ghostly figures? Heard any bumps in the night?"
"Nope but I keep getting these orbs coming up on the lens, here look" she passed me her camera. We counted 14 in one particular photo of the statue of St. Christopher and then both agreed that it was probably just the amount of fog around us messing with the camera.
"It's nice here, I like the gothic architecture" Emily confessed aloud once we'd presumed walking hand in hand down the bridge.
"I like how everybody wears those cute little knitted jumpers" it was true, one of the first things I noticed about Prague was that everyone liked to dress in knitted jumpers that had Indie designs on them.
"They do" Emily chuckled "I saw a family to-" she cut her sentence off the moment we heard a scream coming from the direction I had come. Ems and I didn't waste time, we both started sprinting back towards where we'd come from because it was obvious that Katie had been the person screaming. It took less than a minute to get back there and the first thing I saw when we did was Katie, beating the shit out of Cook.
"Katie, what…why'd you scream for!" Emily sounded irritated that her sister was clearly okay and we'd run back for nothing. I leant down on my knee's trying to catch my breath, I'm not unfit but sprinting in fucking icy cold fog is hard.
"This" Katie punched Cook in the arm "fucking-tosser"
"Ouch babe you fookin got some strength in ya! Ow, I'm fookin sorry alright?"
"He snuck up on her" Effy informed us from where she was standing, next to Karmel who didn't look fazed at all by the amount of noise they were making.
"Jesus Christ Katie we thought you were being murdered!" Emily grabbed my hand again and stomped over to Karmel and Eff "sorry about that…she's not really good with, this whole" Emily motioned around with her free hand.
"Its fine, happens more than you would think"
The tour only stopped at 3 more places after that, one was a castle that supposedly was haunted by a woman that was murdered by her jealous husband. Karmel said that if she was seen wearing black gloves it meant bad news and white for good news. The last two were of places people had been murdered, one a prostitute that was killed with a crucifix by a priest. We all tipped Karmel even though she said people didn't usually do that but she'd been really great, she deserved it.
"Ladies ya wanna come find a pub?" Cook jogged up to Katie, Ems, Eff and I on our way back to the hotel. It wasn't that far a walk from the old town square so we didn't bother calling a taxi "Us lot are gonna find one nearby, come on blondie have a beer"
"Fuck that" Katie shook her head "I just want to go to bed and sleep until it's fucking light outside"
"Yeah I'm tired" Ems agreed rubbing her thumb along my hand
"Aww come on red, me-you, can play pool or summit"
"Next time Cook" she smiled
"Alright alright" Cook held his hands up "I'm walking yas back though"
It only took us another 15 minutes to get back but by the time Emily and I reached our room I felt like an ice block, if the hotel had heating then they definitely hadn't put it on and I spent the elevator ride and short walk to our room bitching about it.
"I can think of a few ways of warming you up" Ems opened the door to our room and pulled me in by the jacket towards our bed.
"Yeah?"
"Hmmm" she leant forwards and softly brushed her lips against mine "you're wearing too many clothes though" I smirked taking my jacket off and then took my jumper off while Emily undid the buttons on my jeans, we were both kissing frantically, like we'd already lost too much time today not doing exactly this. It's ridiculous but now that I've physically felt how good Emily can make me feel it's like an obsession, like I'll never be able to get enough of her.
Emily turned us around and walked me backwards until the back of my knee's hit the bed. I sat down and she climbed on to my lap juggling taking her jacket off and kissing me at the same time, it made me smile how dedicated she was. It was when her jacket fell to the floor that everything turned to shit.
"Who the fuck knocks at somebody's hotel room door at this time of the night?" I complained dropping my head on her shoulder. I had a pretty good idea of who it would be though.
"I'll get it" Ems kissed my hair and then climbed off me. I flopped backwards onto the bed waiting for the inevitable and sighed listening to Emily.
"I can't sleep in there"
"Chrissake" Emily huffed. I heard some footsteps and the door close and then the distinctive clearing of a throat that made me lean up on my elbows and raise an eyebrow at Eff.
"What're you doing here?"
"Why are your buttons undone?" shit I quickly stood up and buttoned them back up ignoring the way Katie's head snapped to Emily in shock.
"Fucking hell, there's two of you so what's the problem Katie?" Emily crossed her arms looking between Katie and her pillow.
"We heard like noises and shit, I don't wanna be in that room"
"You heard noises" Effy corrected Katie
"Shutup babes" Katie hissed at her like we hadn't just heard that "can't we stay in here tonight Emsy, please, we'll go top to toe and I'll totally like…not hog the blankets or whatever"
"I'm not sleeping next to your feet" I walked over to my suitcase and took out my pj's. I wasn't angry that she wanted to sleep in here but I was frustrated that they didn't give us a little while longer to finish what we were doing. Emily glanced at me quickly, silently asking if they could. I knew she felt the same way as I did but it's not like we were going to be bitches about it and say no so I nodded once and walked over to the corner of the room that Effy was standing in to get changed.
"Why'd you come along then? Not scared are you?" I took my jeans off and put on my pj pants while Emily chastised Katie about not taking up all the room in the bed.
"Just wanted to catch you two in the act" Effy said disinterested. I rolled my eyes because it was so typical of her, why ask when you can just catch them in the act?
Top to toe didn't end up working out too well for us because I didn't want to sleep next to feet and Katie wanted to cuddle into Effy so we all squashed in the same end with the twins in the middle and after a few minutes of arguing about the blankets I finally settled myself in Emily's arms.
"Tomorrow, okay?" she whispered in my ear
"Yeah" I leant up and kissed her softly on the mouth then cheek "I'm holding you to that"
"Can you lezzas shut the fuck up, I'm trying to sleep"
"Yeah shut up lezzas" Effy chuckled
"Fuck sakes, you know you both came to our room so if you don't want to hear it you know where the door is"
"Fine. Goodnight" Katie relented, score 1 Campbell.
"Yeah thought so" I replied smugly
"Shut up" Katie had to get the last word in.
My best friend had her own version of the sex scene and in my opinion it's much better than mine so I thought id post that as well -
emily and naomi are in bed, emily gets ontop of naomi and starts massaging naomis clit, then emily asks 'can i flick your bean?' and naomi nods her head, so emily starts flicking it like theres no tomorrow and naomi screams for her bean to be flicked faster, then she climaxed and they fell asleep
the end
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, see you all in 2013! much love and PEACE X