A/N So heres chapter 2, its another short one but it just seemed like a good place to end it off at the chapters will get longer as I go. Thanks for all the reviews on the last one and i hope you enjoy
Hard to Get
"Her name is Naomi," Effy says as they are walking down the beaten path towards Emily's parents beach house.
"Yeah, she managed to reveal that amount of information before trying to kill me and harassing me for a date," Emily replies, truth is she's still flustered over the whole thing. She's never met anyone in her life as cocky as this Naomi and she isn't really sure what to do with it.
"Naomi Campbell," Effy elaborates," She's Cook's best friend, apparently has quite the reputation around this town."
"Fucking hell," Emily laughs, Naomi's surname finally sinking in," Her name is Naomi Campbell?" Effy nods," You'd think with a name like that she would try a little harder to blend in. I mean did you see how she just jumped in the cart and pushed Mark away? I mean who does that?"
"You liked it," Effy points out with a smirk.
"No…I didn't," Emily refutes.
"I know you better than anyone Ems, you like her, I can tell from the way you were looking at her when she walked away. No point denying the obvious, that you want to drag her back to yours and shag all night long!" Effy declares.
"Fuck off," Emily says, her cheeks burning with a slight blush at Effy's revelation.
She had to admit that Naomi did have certain attributes, flowing golden hair, an athletic body type that Emily considered pretty much flawless. Built most likely from running on the beach and surfing Emily figures. But that wasn't what caught Emily's attention the most, it was Naomi's eyes, clear crystal blue orbs that Emily just wanted to drown in. She had noticed Naomi's eyes staring at her when she joined them outside the bumper cars, felt them burning in her skin with their intensity. It was then she knew she had to get away from Naomi, because having this girl just looking at her was making her stomach do summersaults. It was to intense so she ran off to Mark hoping for a quick escape, not expecting Naomi to follow like she did. And now she was stuck here feeling oddly attracted against her will to a girl who had the most confidence of anyone she had ever met, and with her sister being Katie Fitch that was saying something.
"Besides even if I did say find her mildly attractive," Emily glares at Effy when she crooks her lips into that knowing smirk," Her personality was enough to extinguish any of it."
"Well she must like you a lot, Cook said he'd never seen her act like that. Said girls normally come to her, that she usually makes little or no effort at all," Effy points out.
Emily scoffs at this, just has the image of Naomi standing there and a circle of women falling at her feet. Knows that Naomi must have never met anyone like her before because Emily wasn't one to just throw herself down like that, no matter how beautiful the girl was.
"Besides Em I don't think it's her personality that's turning you off, I think you like it. I don't think you've ever met anyone like Naomi and it scares you," Effy says softly.
Emily stops just short of the gates to the house, turns to Effy and narrows her eyes.
"Scared of what," Emily asks somewhat challengingly.
"Scared that you might actually fall for her and be forced to finally confront your parents about who you really are. You're scared that Naomi will make you want to stop hiding behind the perfect twin image your mom has built you up to be. you're afraid that Naomi could make you want to scream from the rooftops that you're gay and that you love a girl," Effy explains.
Emily closes her eyes and tries to block everything out but everything Effy just said keeps slipping through her mind until she's forced to focus on the idea that Effy is most likely right. Naomi was certainly not like anyone she had ever met in her life, she was so openly flirtatious like she couldn't care less who knew what she was doing or the fact that she liked girls. Emily envied it really, wishes she could be more open as well but instead she finds herself constantly playing up to her mothers expectations. Going on dates with boys her mother sets her up with just to mute her family's worries that she might be a little different. But maybe Effy was right, maybe the reason Naomi's straight up, bold attitude had stirred such a reaction in her was because it scared her a little. And maybe somewhere deep down she really did wish that she had a bit of Naomi's confidence.
"You're well deluded," is all Emily can come up with when she opens her eyes, doesn't want to give Effy the satisfaction of knowing that one again she is right.
"Whatever you say Em," Effy nods and starts off towards the house," Better hurry up I'm sure your mother is dying to hear you recount your date with Mark."
Emily huffs and glares at Effy who is so obviously taking the piss that it was just plain annoying at this point. She follows a moment later, has to take a minute to calm herself and put on her best "I just had the best date with a boy ever," face on to satisfy her mum. When really the date was quite the opposite, Naomi was right about one thing; Mark was boring he just wandered around following her from ride to ride but refusing to go on any. She found out why when she convinced him to go on the tilt a whirl with her and he threw up on her shoes immediately after. Come to think of it the date at been rather lackluster until Naomi decided to high jack it with her antics, but Emily quickly dispels those thoughts, she isn't meant to be thinking about Naomi right now. And then to make things worse after walking off after the rollercoaster disaster Mark had decided it was a good time to make his move, only trouble was when he bent in to kiss her he tripped over a rock and ended up tackling her to the ground in the process. All in front of Effy, which didn't do much to make the moment any less awkward, especially with her laughing quite loudly and drawing more attention. All in all apart from a few surprises it was a completely shitty night that she was now going to have to spin into a tale of young love for her parents.
By the time Emily finishes recounting the evening to her mother she's so exhausted that she quickly excuses herself from the living room and makes her way up to bed. Passes Effy in the hallway on the way to the bathroom and stops short when Effy smiles and winks at her.
"Sweet dreams Em, though I'm sure yours will be," She says
Emily just shakes her head and continues on her path, knows better than to dignify Effy's teasing with a response, it was much easier to just grin and bear it. After washing up and brushing her teeth Emily climbs in her bed, gets comfortable and closes her eyes. Tries not to think about Naomi Campbell or anything else that happened in this horror of a day. She dreams of sun, and the ocean and blonde and blue that night, and when she wakes up the next morning she tries to tell herself that it has nothing to do with anyone, that it was just a dream but finds herself wondering who she's trying to convince.
Its about a week later when Emily sees Naomi again, just when she's managed to push the blonde out of her thoughts she sees her out of the corner of her eye when she's walking down the street. Naomi is walking with a group of people, Emily recognizes Cook but the others are strangers, and they're all wearing wet suits of some sort and Emily figures they must have just come from the beach. She doesn't expect Naomi to come walking her way minutes later, had figured that she would have forgotten about her and moved on to one of her other hussies by now. Apparently Naomi was quite a legend around town, had quite a talent for attracting female attention and had no trouble pulling girls straight or not, Effy had spent the last week filling Emily in against her will about all of Naomi's legendary rendezvous'. So when Naomi picks up in a light jog to catch up to her it catches Emily off guard for a moment. Tells herself that she has to be strong and resist no matter how much charm Naomi tries to lay on her, refuses to be another notch on Naomi Campbell's bedpost.
"Do you remember me?" Naomi asks when she catches up and begins walking beside Emily.
Emily chances a glance, sees that Naomi has rolled her wet suit down around her waist and was clearly sporting a bright red bikini top. It distracts her for a minute before she remembers her goal, to play hard to get and give her a run for her money.
"Oh yeah didn't I see you tossing in a garbage can?" Emily mocks gently," How could I forget that?"
Emily watches as Naomi looks down for a moment, shakes her head before bringing her eyes back up to meet Emily's with a sheepish smile.
"Yeah I wanted to clear that up with you," Naomi says, maneuvering herself in front of Emily trying to force her to stop and listen but Emily keeps on walking making Naomi walk backwards in front of her," I'm really sorry about that, it was a really stupid thing to do, you know jumping in next to you and pushing Mark out of the way but I just had to be near you."
Naomi does stop then, her eyes boring into Emily's and for a split second Emily believes her. Emily stops then, standing in front of Naomi; stares back just as deeply wondering what she's going to come up with next.
"I was being drawn to you, I couldn't help it," Naomi continues, and Emily can't help but laugh because it sounds like the worlds worst pick up line, for someone with Naomi's reputation she had expected something a little smoother.
"Oh wow what a line that was," Emily laughs as she watches Naomi shake her head," Do you use that on all the girls?"
"No," Naomi shakes her head again.
And Emily doesn't know what to believe anymore because Naomi just looks so sincere and it's contradicting everything she's heard about her, and she wonders for a second if maybe everyone has Naomi wrong. But then she remembers Effy telling her about seeing Naomi at a club earlier in the week with some blonde bimbo and she remembers why she's wary of the girl despite the obvious attraction. So she starts walking again, and Naomi keeps shuffling backwards so she's still in front of her.
"What are you doing tonight?" Naomi says and Emily stops again because she wasn't expecting that, not after everything she had just said.
"What?"
"Or tomorrow night, or this weekend?" Naomi keeps going, stuttering slightly and rambling, something that Emily finds painfully cute but tries to keep in.
"Why?" Emily asks because she is actually confused now.
"Our date," Naomi replies like it's the most obvious thing in the world.
"What date," Emily says
"You know the date you agreed to," Naomi keeps pressing.
She isn't smiling anymore Emily notices, she looks dead serious and if Emily's completely honest Naomi looks quite nervous, another thing she wasn't expecting not after their previous encounter. Perhaps Naomi was more full of surprises than she thought.
"No," Emily says
"Yes you promised," Naomi interrupts
"Well I guess I changed my mind then," Emily brushes past Naomi and keeps walking, figures Naomi would give up by now but learns quickly that isn't the case when she keeps following.
"Look I get it okay," Naomi somehow manages to get in front of her again and forces Emily to stop," You don't know me, you get a stranger coming up to you on the street and its weird okay. But there's something about you Emily, I can't explain it because I can't even understand it honestly but its like I can't get you out of my head. And when I see something that I want I go for it you know?"
Emily smiles shaking her head, thinks Naomi's really pulling out all the stops on this one. She's persistent that's one thing Emily will give her she really doesn't give up.
" You're good," Emily says through a disbelieving smile," you're really good."
"What?" Naomi replies looking completely confused now.
"You're fantastic," Emily continues.
"No, you're getting me all wrong," Naomi says seriously," I'm not normally like this."
Emily just keeps looking at her, waging whether she's able to believe anything the girl is saying or whether it's all just a load of shit. But there's something about the look on Naomi's face that's causing Emily to think that maybe she might be being sincere.
"I can be fun, pensive…smart…superstitious," Naomi starts naming off, laughing awkwardly in the middle as if she doesn't know what she's doing anymore," Brave, uh light on my feet," she starts shuffling around and Emily can't help but crack a smile because she really does look ridiculous," I can be whatever you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that for you."
Naomi is looking at her expectantly, waiting for some sort of reaction but Emily doesn't really even know how to respond because Naomi just looks like she's floundering here. Like she's thrown completely off her game and is clinging to anything to keep herself afloat.
"You're dumb," Decides to keep up with her strategy of teasing
Doesn't expect Naomi's face to drop and go completely sullen in front of her.
"I can be that," Naomi nods.
Emily feels a rush of something then, must be affection because all she really wants to do it take Naomi by the hand and tell her that she isn't dumb at all that she actually seems rather bright and that she verbally spars pretty well. Keeps playing coy though because she wants to know if Naomi is for real about this thing, wants to know if she'll keep trying even if Emily doesn't give her much to work with. She walks by Naomi with a smile and heads towards her dad's car, hops in the passenger seat and waits for him to finish up at the store so they can go home.
"Come on just one date what can it hurt?" She hears Naomi yelling and rolls down her window."
"Nope," she yells back.
"What can I do to change you're mind," Naomi says
Emily smiles at the thought of Naomi not giving up so easily, thinks to herself that if Naomi is being this persistent it must mean that it means something to her. Decides then to give her something to go off of, to let her know that she's interested but will need some convincing.
"I guess you'll have to think of something," Emily shouts and rolls the window back up.
Seconds later her dad shows up and she's driving off watching Naomi standing there with her hands on her hips biting her lip in the rearview mirror as they drive away.
"Maybe this summer won't be so horrible after all," she thinks to herself.
