Chapter 6

Rubbing my eyes I came back into consciousness. I must've cried myself to sleep, because in the mirror my eyes were still kind of red. Shit. It's 12:34 AM. Panda was gently snoring on the bed across, from me. I didn't even remember her coming in… Quietly, I got out of bed to check my uniform I had hung on the shower to dry. Fuck, no way that's going to be dry by the morning. I stopped in the doorway of the bathroom to make sure that Panda was still sleeping soundly. I tip-toed out of the room avoiding any creaks in the floor, slowly opening the door to avoid a squeak and softly shutting it behind me.

My adrenaline was pumping; I knew I was breaking curfew but I had a reason. Emily had mentioned extra uniforms, and I was greatly in need of one, it was highly unlikely I'd have time to get it in the morning. Hopefully she would be awake… I listened to make sure the hallway was empty. Silence. My vision was slowly adjusting to the darkness. Quietly, I crept a few steps forward in the direction of where I thought Emily's room was.

"Hi Naomi."

I shrieked but managed to quickly cover my mouth and stop the noise from coming out of me. I had been so frightened my knees buckled under me, sending me into a collapsed heap on the floor. Luckily, no one opened their doors to see what was up.

"WHAT THE FUCK EFFY! You scared the SHIT out of me!" I was trying to shout at her but still whisper at the same time. She casually smirked at me. The kind of smirk that freaked me the fuck out at this time of night.

"What are you doing out of bed?" She had her arms wrapped around her knees with her back against her door.

"I could ask you the same fucking question!" My heart beat was still slowing down from the initial scare.

"You could, and I would answer you, because I like it out here at night. But, I asked you so you get to answer."

"I need to ask Emily something." I cringed at how lame that made me sound out loud, but there was no point in beating around the bush with the mysterious and all knowing Effy.

"Over there." She pointed to a door another few steps away, raising an eyebrow at my antics. But I could tell she wasn't passing judgment on whatever was going on, not that I was exactly sure of myself of anything…

I quietly lifted myself up.

"Thanks Effy, G'nite."

"Yeah, Sure." I thought for a second that I saw a glint of sadness in her expression but she replaced it as fast as it had come with her self-shielding smirk.

I knocked lightly on the door presumed to be Emily's and Katie's, no answer. Fuck Naomi, you twat. Of course they are going to be sleeping… Just go back, you'll figure out what you'll do in the morning….

"Knock harder."

My cheeks reddened at Effy's voice. Of course she knew I was being a coward.

Still, I didn't want to wake Katie, I could only imagine what kind of evil bitch she'd be if she didn't get her beauty sleep. Not worth the trouble…

I barely ducked in time; a shoe flew over my head and slammed into the door in front of me, successfully hitting it with a loud bang.

"What the fuck Effy?"

I heard her quiet whisper, "Your welcome."

Katie swung open the door.

"Hi Eff—Naomi… what the fuck are you doing here?"

Yeah. A right bitch.

"Um, I needed a uniform."

"Right then. Come on, before everyone else wants to come to the party alsooo."

I quickly caught onto her sarcasm when she pulled me into the room and shut the door. Wow. This room had Katie written all over it. I tried to take in every detail that seemed Emily, but I couldn't really find any… A frown passed over my face when I noticed that Emily wasn't in here. Not even asleep in her bed.

Then a red-headed girl opened the bathroom, standing in the door way looking at some of the towels in her hands, trying to fold them. "Katie what was that shriek?" she looked up for Katie's answer and her eyes widened at the sight of me. "Oh." She reached up and fixed her messy hair that I somehow found more attractive, unusually, because I generally liked things nice and neat, but this was just so cute.

Emily sat on her bed, and Katie sat on her own, leaving me standing awkwardly by the door.

"Listen Naomi, we are going to have to report you for going out at curfew."

Emily sounded sad but still rather serious. I was too caught up in her bold statement to notice the subtle wink that passed between the Fitch twins.

"Yeah, they'll probably have to kick you out of this damn school." Katie added.

Shit. There was no way in hell I was going to lose my educational opportunities here just because these twins were acting like bitches. I even kind of expected Katie to be a bitch, so it didn't bother me so much, but Emily being a bitch to me was like a dagger in the heart.

I was about to tell them they were being a bunch of stuck up assholes, who would never get in my way, but I was thankful I didn't because Emily saw the look on my face and interjected before I could say anything stupid.

"Naoms, we were only joking." She laughed clutching her stomach like she usually does when she's laughing hard. I blushed at the nickname she used for me. No one had ever called me that before. It just sounded so natural from her…

"You should've seen the look on your face, fucking about to cry." Katie joined in, laughing real hard as well.

Fucking hell. Emily wasn't going to laugh at me anymore! Her eyes were closed because she had been laughing so hard, so she didn't see me coming when I jumped on top of her and started tickling her like crazy.

"Naomi—" more laughing. "Please—" I made her laugh until she tears were coming out of her eyes. "I'm SORRY!" more laughing.

Finally I relented, and Emily looked deep into my eyes. I was kind of straddling her from the tickle attack and she had her back on the bed, while she was wiping away her tears. I almost reached out to wipe one tear that she had missed that had fallen by her ear but I was interrupted by an intent stare from across the room.

Katie who was sitting upright on her bed now, with a completely serious, if not angry look on her face broke the moment between Emily and me.

"Right. Naomi, what the fuck was it you wanted?" I embarrassedly climbed off of Emily and got off her bed. I don't know why Katie just turned back into bitch mode… she had just been laughing and now she was in an awfully bad mood.

"Uhm, my uniform is wet. So I wanted to know if I could uh, borrow one."

Katie stood up fuming. I don't know why the fuck she was so upset.

"Why the fuck was your uniform wet?"

"Uhm" I remembered the pool was Emily's secret. "Panda's seltzer exploded all over…" That was the best I could think of…

"Right. Would you mind getting the fuck out? Someone else will give you a uniform."

I looked to Emily for her to step in, surely she wouldn't let Katie be such a bitch to me, but she just looked like she was going to die. She had a look of pure sadness on her face, and all I knew was I wanted to make her feel all better. I had no idea what was going on but this was ridiculous.

"Katie, why are you acting like this?"

"Naomi, this is between me and Emily. Just get the fuck out. Or I'll fucking report you."

This was bullshit. I stormed out of there and heard the yelling of Katie's voice, but couldn't make out what she was saying.

Just as I was about to go into my room, I heard the quiet voice again.

"Don't worry. Things will make sense soon."

I slipped into bed. Trying to make my breath even out like Panda's calm snoring from the other side of the room. I felt my eyes get hot and well up with tears. Fucking bitch. I didn't do anything. I just wanted things to make sense. I don't know what's going on anymore. Drifting off into sleep I wanted to just lose myself.

A/N:

Yes. I'm aware that chapter was a bit shorter than usual but it was quite necessary for what I'm leading up to! Anyway, THANKS to everyone who reviewed! (It definitely helped make this chapter come out faster. After all I wanted to read some other ppl's ff's but when I saw the comments I had a new motivation to get this out…)

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Heads up: I'm pretty sure the next chapter will be in Emily's PoV to explain what the fuck was going on in there, that Naomi couldn't exactly understand even though she was right there… so yeah…

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