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"What the fuck?"
The familiar voice caused the blond to open her eyes and her head tilted up to see who it was that had entered her domain. The brunette stood in the door way with her eyebrows raised slightly at seeing Naomi and the red head cuddled together. Naomi raised her hand to put one finger in front of her lips to indicate to Effy that she needed to be quiet. "Shhh…" Emily moved slightly in her sleep only to grasp tighter to the taller girl's slender form. The act wasn't lost on the mysterious girl who was smirking as she walked over to the bed to sit down.
"So, you got your head out of your ass, eh?" Effy said in a whisper.
The blond gave her friend a look and gently shook her head. If the equestrian rider wasn't cuddled into her form, she would be giving the blue eyed brunette a curse out, or at least a slap on the shoulder. "Suppose so."
"Well, I'm heading out to JJ's, and I was thinking of dragging you along to see Red over there, but it looks like she won't be at the farm." Her lips curled into another smirk and she slowly got up from the bed and turned around. "I'll see you around… maybe when you're not in such a compromising position next time."
Naomi lifted her hand and put her middle finger up as the girl slipped out of the room, making sure to close the door firmly behind her. Blue eyes looked down at the red head that was still attached to her form. She could feel her bladder needing to be emptied, but she just couldn't pull herself away from the beautiful form on her left. After a few minutes, however, she knew she needed to get up before it was too late. The blond carefully lifted the non-offensive arm and she managed to slip out from under her. She reached forward to grab her walker and managed to get to the toilet before it came out.
The blond took her time in the bathroom and took the time to wash her hands and face before making her way back to her room. By the time she slowly hobbled in, she was being looked at with big brown eyes. "Hey sleepy head," she said with an ever-widening smile crossing her features.
Emily sat up straight, stretching her arms up above her head and arching her back. She wasn't use to sleeping on such a soft bed and her back was protesting against her. It was the first time in the past few days that she had actually been able to sleep without waking up to a nightmare. "I… I'm sorry, for being the way I was when I got here."
Naomi took a few hobbled steps forward until she plopped down on the bed. "Don't be, Emsy. I just… I don't know what's going on, and so I don't know how to act to be able to help you." Crystalline blue orbs turned to look into the warm blues of the younger twin as her hand moved over to softly intertwine their fingers. The blond wanted Emily to know that she was there, and she wanted to help, but most of all, that she supported her.
The red head looked down after feeling the warmth surrounding her hand. A smile cracked from her lips for but a moment before her voice whispered, "She's gone, Naomi."
'She? Who is she…' Naomi quickly starting to ask herself, '…and where has this person gone? Does she mean gone gone… like… dead?' Her slender fingers squeezed the red head's hand softly, and as her grip loosened she could feel the trembling hand that hers was holding. The blond leaned over to place a kiss on Emily's temple.
"It… it was horrible… to come home to… to that… to hear what had happened from Katie." Her voice faltered and she could feel herself becoming choked up with tears. Her entire form was shaking slightly and she tried to go on but was unable to force her mouth into forming any words. Emily swallowed… her mouth and throat becoming slightly dry. Brown orbs closed and two tears exited through the corners of her eyes and they cascaded down her cheeks.
The blond was listening carefully to everything that Emily was saying, but things just weren't fitting together like a nice easy puzzle. She didn't expect that whatever had happened would be easy for her friend to talk about, but she didn't know she would be jumping all over the place either. The only thing she had concluded was that the girl's twin was okay, and that someone was else was gone in some way.
The younger twin had mixed emotions racing through her form and it was difficult for her to speak about anything related to the incident that happened on the farm.
"Naomi, there was an accident on your friend Emily's farm it was on the news…" Gina half shouted as she opened the door. Apparently she had forgotten that the short red head was at their house having been distracted by Xfactor on the telly. She stopped mid sentence as she saw two pairs of eyes looking up at her from the bed. Their hands were connected and were sat softly on the red head's lap. "Oh…" she said softly as her orbs darted from her daughter to the broken looking girl beside her. "I'm sorry, Emily, I forgot you were coming over. Naomi's been so worried and, it was on the telly…" she tried to explain herself but decided that ending her sentence would probably be the best thing for her to do.
Naomi looked from her mum over to the girl at her side, then back again. Even her mum knew before she did. She really just wished her mother would have spit it all out, and then she could know what was going on, and then she would have some idea of what to say. As it was, she watched Gina back out of the room after a few more mumbled 'sorry's' directed at the red head at her side. Immediately after her mum was out of the room her head snapped to the side and her voice softly spoke out, "What accident?"
"It was so horrible, Naomi. My mum decided… that she was going to clean out Rain's stall." She paused briefly, realizing that the girl had no idea about the horses stabled at the farm. "Rain is Thunder's biological daughter." Emily watched as the blond nodded her head before she continued. "Mum didn't let Rain out, and she got spooked and reared up. She broke my mum's arm and her hoof grazed her face. She's in the hospital, and Rain had to be put down. I… I have no idea why she would even go in Rain's stall; she never does any of the chores around the stables."
The taller girl nodded her head as the twin went on with the information she had. She remembered Thunder, the massive black horse, but she didn't ever meet Rain, at least not that she could remember. The only reason she remembered Thunder was because he was the steed that Emily rode during the competition. "So, is… is your mum okay?"
"Yeah, she's fine. In the hospital of course, but fine other than that," She sounded bitter about it, but left it at that.
Naomi could feel the anger and stress in the way the girl was squeezing her hand, but didn't mention it. Her mind went to the younger horse that had been killed. It was sad that it had to happen, but if a horse was a danger to humans, then maybe it was meant to be.
"Rain was a good girl, Naomi. I don't know what it was that my mum did to spook her, but it had to be something drastic. I've been having her work with Thunder and I. She's a great little filly… was a great little filly."
Part of her really didn't think it was her place, but she couldn't help herself. "So, why aren't you at the hospital with your mum?"
After a few heartbeats worth of silence the red head softly replied, "There's no point in having more people in that room. It's already crowded enough with all the nurses plus my dad, brother, and sister."
Naomi got the hint, she didn't want to go, but it seemed she was obviously more emotional about the horse than she was about her own mum. She wasn't one to judge though, it really wasn't her place. If she thought about it she really didn't know Emily, which meant that she really didn't have room to even think about what she could or should have done. She knew there was something she was keeping from her, but for now she would let it slide. "Ems… do you want to go out, you know… do something."
The reply was so soft that one had to struggle to hear the reply, "I'd rather stay with you…" Brown eyes turned slightly to find the crystalline blues belonging to the only daughter of Gina Campbell. "I … I need to know what's going on with us, Nai, because I don't enjoy being confused."
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