Title: Run Baby Run, Don't Ever Look Back.
Author:
Characters/Pairings: Naomi/Katie,Emily/Naomi.
Rating: K
Category: Romance/Drama.
Spoilers: None.
Disclaimer: I do not own Skins or the characters, just the storyline. xD
Summary: Prequel to Home Can Be Anywhere When I Am Holding You.
A/N: I decided to write the prequel to Home Can Be Anywhere because I thought it would be interesting to have the whole back story in there.
The walk to Naomi's house was quiet, very quiet; in fact it was way too quiet. I decided to start a conversation.
"So… who do you live with?" I asked her generally. The truth is that I knew nothing, I didn't know where she lived or who with or anything like that. It was always Katie who obviously knew the stuff like that.
"My mum, and like fifteen other people. Communal living or some shit. My mother's idea of saving the world day by day, she's a freak, a cliché" she replied quietly.
"Oh, should be fun. Take it she won't mind me staying over tonight then?" I asked her.
"No, she doesn't even notice me half the time to be honest" she replied again but this time a bit louder. She turned to me and gave me a weak smile. I felt awful for her, I didn't know what she was upset about, me yelling at her earlier or the whole Katie thing.
"You are aware, if we hang around with all of them lot, they won't be happy with what's happened, you know they all love Katie and not us. Cook will make remarks and comments but he won't be pleased, none of them will." She said.
"That's what your upset about isn't it?" I asked and she nodded. She has a good point, they all will have a problem and I know it but it's not going to stop me.
"It's not going to stop me hanging around with them, they're not my best friends or anything, they're loose friends who we drink and get high with and we're off our heads half the time anyway so it can't be that bad and also, Katie can get fucked. She made it clear that she's not my sister and even though I care about her, I can stop. I can ignore her and forget about her. She only has friends because they all want to fuck her." I ranted. Naomi nodded her head again and stopped outside a yellow house. Wow it's a yellow house, I've never actually seen a yellow house before, and this was interesting.
"Naomi? Is that your mum waving at us?" I asked her. She looked up and raised an eyebrow and gave another weak smile.
"Yeah, I told you she was a freak" She said strongly and led to me to the front door and inside up to her room. "My mum won't even check on us, this is my room and she knows it, mine and mine alone and that's how it will always be and she knows that. In fact, she's never actually been in here I don't think, well not when I've been in or when I've just come back" she said, I think she said that as a meaning to the fact that we can talk about anything and not be disturbed or we can do whatever we want and she's not really going to come in and stop us drinking or smoking or whatever else. I nodded at her. We sat down across from each other, cross-legged on her bed. She got up straight away to put music on, I listened to the sounds of a band that came on, I was intrigued and I liked it a lot, it wasn't the sort of music that you got in mine and Katie's room, this was Naomi's different music. This was one of the ways that she was different. It seemed to really reflect the mood, it was uplifting but depressing at the same time, and she came back to the bed and sat back down.
"I always loved you Ems, always. Since the first time I saw you, you for me were the meaning of love at first sight, it's been like this for ages now and I'm sorry I didn't take this chance before. No offence to Katie or anything, but if I knew you liked me months ago, if you did like me months ago then I could've been so much happier and I know it" she said to me, looking me in the eye. I smiled.
"I've loved you since I first met you too, and I wish I'd told you before you and Katie happened, every time you came around to ours I was so happy and then I remember you were there to see her." I replied.
"I'm sorry Emily" She told me, pulling out a bottle of vodka from under her bed, unscrewing the cap and taking a large drink before passing it to me. This was going to be a night to remember.
"Me too Naomi, me too" I said back to her before taking a drink myself.