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My heart dropped into my stomach and I'm sure if Effy wasn't holding my arm I would have collapsed in a heap on the floor. I caught eyes with Cook and after seeing the look of sheer confusion on his face from my reaction I snapped out of it quickly. Right Naomi, pull yourself together.

'Hi Emily, this is a surprise,' I managed to say.

'Oh….do you two know each other already?' Cook asked, the confusion spreading further across his face.

'Naomi and I work in the same office James; I didn't know you two knew each other.' Emily replied, not registering one ounce of emotion upon seeing me.

'Nice one,' Cook exclaimed 'Yea me and Blondie go way back, met each other a high school and hung round with the same group of friends ever since.'

'Aah how sweet,' Emily said, looking at me with slightly more interest now. I guess she figured she would have to make more of an effort with me now that she was dating one of my best friends. Well at least more effort than hurried hellos and goodbyes whenever we happened to pass each other in the office.

This was all too much to take in for me. I knew that Cook never knew about my little crush on Emily, he didn't even know she existed in my world but the thought of him or anyone for that matter dating MY Emily was a lot to handle. Ok so I know she's not my Emily to anyone apart from me and Effy but it still counts….right?

Effy had an uncanny ability to see right through me, it's one of the reasons she knows about Emily in the first place. After a few more minutes of general small talk she excused herself to the toilet and ushered me to come with her.

'So, what the fuck are you gonna do Naoms?' she said in an eerily cool way which was somehow managing to calm me down slightly. 'I mean that must be the redhead Emily from work right?'

'Y…yes, yes it is,' I stuttered, suddenly coming to the realisation that I had in fact no idea what I was going to do. Cook was so happy with Emily and Emily was clearly not gay and would never be interested in me even if she wasn't with Cook. After a few minutes of silence I sighed and began speaking. 'Well I guess there's nothing I can do. Cook didn't even know I had feelings for Emily so I can't be mad at him. And Emily is with Cook and must be straight so even if they weren't together nothing could happen anyway. I'll just have to put this silly little crush to the back of my mind.' I said, trying to convince myself as well as Effy.

'But it's not just a silly little crush is it Nai? I can tell by the way you speak about her and the way you looked when you saw her walk in tonight that it's more than just a little crush.'

I exhaled a long contemplative breath and tried to blink back tears. 'I think I love her Effy, what am I going to do?'

We both suddenly shot our heads round as we heard the door open. Only it wasn't opening, it was closing. I rushed over to the door, swung it open and saw a blur of red glide across the pub and sit down next to Cook. She glanced over and saw Effy and I sheepishly come and sit down.

'What took ya so long girls? I had to send Emily to search for you!' Cook joked.

I blushed, not even knowing if my cheeks were tear stained or my eyes were red but was luckily saved by Effy. 'Just girl stuff Cook, you wouldn't understand. Would he Emily?' she said, giving Emily a look which both pleaded with her not to say anything to Cook but also pondered if she had heard anything in the first place. Oh who am I kidding, of course she did.

Emily shook her head and shifted uncomfortably in her seat. I knew there was only one thing I could do, deal with things the Naomi Campbell way. I stood up. 'Right,' I said a bit too loudly causing Emily to jump a little 'Who wants another drink?' After taking everyone's ordered I marched over to the bar, asked for everyone's drinks and a round of shots as well. I ordered two extra and downed them before I sat down. I knew this wasn't the right way to deal with this situation but at the moment it seemed a damn sight better than pouring my heart out and ruining my friendship with Cook and potentially causing problems in his relationship with Emily. No, for now I would do what I do best and deal with everything else another time.

I moaned as light poured into my room and an all too lively Effy jumped onto the end of my bed.

'I bet you're not feeling to clever today are ya?!' She joked nudging me a little too hard for my liking.

I just moaned as last nights events began coming back to me. I well and truly outdid myself last night and the last thing I remember is being carried up to my bed my Freddie. My mouth was dry and my head was pounding but worst of all my heart felt like it had been replaced by a rock last night. And that rock had been smashed into tiny little pieces which were scratching away at my insides slowly but surely destroying me. I looked over at Effy who had that all knowing look in her eyes and felt my eyes fill with tears. Her face softened and she leaned over and hugged me.

'Don't worry, we'll sort things out. I have no idea how but when have I ever let you down before.' I let myself fall into her hug and breathed out a long deep breath. I knew she had never let me down before but I just truly couldn't see a way out of this mess I was in.

'I don't know how I'm going to face her at work tomorrow Eff, what did she hear? What did I do? Did I say anything to anyone?' All these questions swum around my head and I felt overwhelmed with emotion. I lay back onto my pillow as Effy stood up. Suddenly I saw something fly towards my head. A towel hit me in the face and Effy looked at me like a mother would to discipline a small child. 'Have a shower Naomi, you stink and nothing's going to get resolved until you get your arse into gear and work out what options we do have.' I laughed. My best friend always knew how to make me laugh even if I was in one of my famous Campbell moods. I pulled the covers off me and reluctantly dragged myself into the bathroom. Effy was right, as usual, I had to work out what, if anything, I was going to do and what better place to contemplate lifes big questions than in the shower!

Surprsingly after a very long shower and using up most of the hot water I came out with a much clearer head and a better idea of what I was going to do.

I walked into the kitchen, poured myself a large cup of hot coffee and sat down at the table, all the time being watched like a hawk by Effy. She sat opposite me impatiently drumming her fingers on the table and I took a long satisfying gulp of coffee. Finally she spoke.

'So, whats the verdict then? Have you thought about what you're going to do?'

I looked deep into Effy's eyes and gave her a look which told her everything she needed to know. She knew I would make the right decision and that it just had to be a realisation I came to myself.

'Well' I exhaled 'there's absolutely nothing I can do. I love Emily, or at least I think I do but she's with Cook and she makes him happy and I love Cook a whole lot more than I do Emily, albeit in completely different ways. He deserves to be happy and I cant be so selfish and reveal my big silly crush on Emily and jeopardise everything.'

Effy smiled sympathetically over at me. She lowered her voice even though Freddie wasn't in and leant in a bit closer to me. 'What are you going to do about the little episode in the toilet then?'

I paused here knowing that this could spell big trouble for me. 'Well,' I began 'I'm going to ignore it completely and just pray Emily does the same. I figure it will be pretty easy not to be alone with Emily and we don't spend time together at work either so she wont get a chance to ask me about it. Hopefully if I just act normally she will too.'

Effy looked over at the window contemplating what I had just said. She sighed and lifted herself up off her seat. 'Well I suppose there's not much else you can do, we'll just have to hope for the best Nai.' And with that she left the room. I was left alone with my thoughts and questioned whether I had just been entirely truthful with Effy, and with myself for that matter. Did I really love Cook more than Emily. I loved them both in such different ways that it was so hard to tell.

Usually by the time Sunday night comes around I am so exhausted I cold fall asleep on a washing line but I spent hours tossing and turning worrying about what awould happen tomorrow at work. Would Emily say anything to me about what she heard in the toilet. Im not even sure what exatly she did hear but I'm pretty sure she must have got the jist of things. I finally dozed off and was woken far too early for my liking my the buzzing of my alarm clock. I finally managed to pull myself together and look half way presentable for work. I was taking extra long to get ready today, probably subconcisouly wanting to spend as little time as possible at work. I arrived at the office about 10 minutes late and I quickly scanned around the office when I arrived. I couldn't see Emily anywhere, I had hoped if I was a little late she would already be at her desk when I got there and I would have to say hello. I sat down at my desk and was just getting comfy. I saw the door open and Emily strolled in looking gorgeous as usual. She looked over to my desk and much to my surprise started walking over. 'Oh shit,' I thought.

'Hi Naomi, How are you?' she chirped, 'I hope you weren't too hungover yesterday, I wasn't that great if im honest,' she laughed.

'Erm, yea I was a bit worse for wear too,' I said, slightly taken aback by Emily's rare conversation with me.

'Well, I had better get on, have a good morning,' she said as she walked away from my desk leaving a feeling of confusion and her usual dizzying scent of vanilla behind.

What the hell just happened?

So that's it for now. I know I posted a chapter earlier today but I had a few spare hours and a couple of ideas buzzing round in my head and wanted to get them down. I have done this slightly rushed so may not have worded things as best as I could but please review with some feedback even if you don't like it!