Hello everyone….. I know I haven't updated this story in well forever. If you've been reading complicated life then the explanation was on the first chapter of that. But to cut it short I had the chapters written for this on my computer which fucked up. They wouldn't fix it even under warranty but made me a deal, saying they would get my files back. Did they bollocks. So I've taken matters into my own hands and have just started re-writing it all again. Sorry it's been so long. Hope your all still interested in this. Anyways…

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Next eventful 24 hours - chapter 8

"YOU DO NOT LOVE THIS…. THIS… THIS GIRL EMILY FITCH!" A voice booms from behind us causing me and Emily to freeze on the spot.

Before me or Emily have time to respond Katie appears in the kitchen from nowhere. She looks angry, worried and if I'm honest slightly scared. She composes herself quickly though and plasters a Katie Fitch glare on her face sending the person behind us a look filled with hatred. Now that's a glare not even I've received before, it's filled with venom.

"What the fucking hell are you doing here?" Katie questions.

"Do not swear at me Katherine, your mother called me and said that Emily needed to come and stay with me for a while. Your mother said she had been corrupted and now I can see what she meant." he answers Katie. And for the first time I notice his Scottish accent.

Who the fuck is this bloke? I've never seen him before. He's tall and lanky, a bit like Freddie. But he's more filled out than Freddie, has broader shoulders and more muscle. Looking at his face carefully it's his eyes I recognise. He has Jenna's cold eyes. I'm going to guess her brother maybe? Either way he's defiantly a relation.

"Do not call me that. I'll fucking well swear at you if I bloody well want to Tosser. Dad is going to flip if he comes home and finds you here. And you must be mad if you think I'm letting you take my little sister anywhere. She isn't going anywhere with you. Over my dead fucking body. Now get out Will." Katie argues back.

So his names Will? Why does Katie seem to hate him so much?

Will takes a step towards Katie and I see something I never thought I would see. Katie Fitch backing down. She takes a step back.

Emily is still frozen by my side watching the scene mute just like I am.

Katie takes a deep breath and seems to change her mind. She takes a step forward again towards Will, and stands her ground. For some strange reason I fell the need to back her up, she's obviously protecting Emily from this bloke for a reason.

I step away from Emily and walk over to Katie's side standing next to her. She relaxes a bit with me by her side, but her facial expression doesn't change, she's still looking at this guy like she wants to kill him.

"Don't call me Will Katie. You know I hate that, it's William and it's Uncle William to you. And I said do not swear at me, this isn't your decision, your mother has already made her mind up, Emily is coming with me." He replies still calm.

But it's the sort of calm that someone has when you know they could blow up at any second. He's forcing his cool persona, trying to remain friendly. It's the way he says that Emily is coming with him that makes me realise this is serious. He says it in a matter of fact way, like a challenge. Challenging Katie to disagree with him. And Uncle William, so I was right. Jenna's brother.

Katie doesn't get a chance to argue with him because I do.

"You are not taking Emily anywhere." I state from my position next to Katie.

He turns his gaze to me.

"This does not involve you, this is all your fault. You and your sick little mind. You have corrupted my niece, people like you are disgusting. Was Emily just an easy target? I hope you realise you are ruining a family with your sick ways. Other people might be happy for you to prey on there family members. But my family isn't like that. We will not stand for this. We are going to protect Emily from you, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. So if you could just leave now please. That would make this a whole lot easier." he spits at me.

I open my mouth to answer but a Fitch beats me to it.

"Don't you dare talk about her like that, if anything I corrupted Naomi with my sick little mind. I chased her, not the other way around. And I didn't do it because she was an easy target, I did it because I was in love with her. Because I am in love with her. Just because people like you and Mum are still living like the old ages doesn't mean everybody else is. It's totally acceptable now to be gay, the quicker you learn that the better. I'm not going anywhere with you. And Naomi isn't leaving. Now this is our house so get the fuck out of it." Emily all but shouts at him.

He seems taken aback by Emily's outburst like he's never seen this side to her. Even Katie seems shocked, she obviously hasn't encountered this side of Emily to much either. Me though I'm just proud. Because this is the Emily that I fell in love with. This is the Emily that usually only I get to see. Everyone has her labelled wrong. Quiet, shy, innocent, good. There all things people say Emily is. And for the most part it's true. But there's another side to her. Loud, brave, naughty, guilty, rebellious, feisty, there all things that should be labelled with her as well.

He opens his mouth to answer her but a thick Liverpudlian accent cuts across him.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN MY FUCKING HOUSE?"

Will turns his attention to who I'm guessing must be Emily's Dad.

"Rob don't be like that. Jenna called me, explained the situation, I'm going to sort Emily here out. She's going to come and stay with me, we'll get it sorted. She isn't safe around here, to easily influenced." Will explains only making Rob's anger increase.

"Situation? What situation? We don't have a fucking situation and even if we did I wouldn't let you take any of my kids with you, not after last time. Now you better get the fuck out of my house." Rob answered walking further into the kitchen.

"But Jenna called me." Will protested "Emily needs help Rob, surely you can see that as clearly as me and Jenna can."

Rob turned to Emily looking at her expectantly.

I moved away from Katie, now happy to leave her standing in front of Will on her own with Rob here and walked back over to Emily. I took her hand and intertwined her fingers through mine. Rob looked down at our hands and noticed the gesture but seemed completely unfazed by it.

"Emily?" He urged her.

I squeezed her hand to reassure her and saw the corners of her lips turn up into a small smile.

"Dad," she took a deep breath, "I'm Gay." she announced.

Rob blinked hard a few times and was about to answer her when Will cut him off.

"See that's the situation, this freak has made her think she's gay." He said referring to me. Fucking hell I do have a bloody name.

"Actually my name is Naomi, not freak." I answered sarcastically.

Rob smirked at my sarcasm and then became serious again.

"And you think that's a situation?" He asked Will.

"Well it is."

"No it isn't. Emily just announced she's gay Will. You don't get a choice in the matter, you either are or you aren't. That isn't a situation. It's just a change that we'll have to get used to. I don't love her any less because of it, and I accept both her and Katie for who they are." Rob protested.

"I'm not gay as well Dad." Katie shrieked, horrified by what he was implying.

"I know love, I was just saying even if you were I would accept that."

"But Emily isn't gay, she's been brainwashed." Will protested.

Rob turned to me.

"Naomi, have you brainwashed my daughter kiddo? Are you gay?" He asked.

This was a question I had been dreading. I still didn't know what the bloody hell I was. All I know is that I love Emily and that was all that mattered to me.

"I…erm….. Well. Honestly I don't know. All I know is that I love your daughter more than anything, and that's what matters to me. Not really into labels I guess." I explained with a shrug. He smiled at me to let me know it was okay.

"See Will, Naomi doesn't even know if she is gay, if she doesn't know how is she supposed to brainwash Emily? I'm sorry Jenna called you, but really there is no problem. So now you better get the fuck out of my house before I break your legs just like I promised I would if I ever saw you again."

Will open his mouth to argue but Katie cut him off.

"And you better leave before I rip your bollocks off." she added.

Will said nothing more, just throw us all a filthy look each before he left through the door he had come in.

Katie collapsed against Rob as soon as he had left and Emily through herself into my arms. I wanted to question why everyone hated him so much but even I knew now wasn't the time.

I hugged Emily to me attempting to comfort her with words every now and then. Rob did the same with Katie, hugging her tightly and telling her everything was fine. To be honest I was just following his lead, my earlier attempt at comforting Emily had proven to me that I was shit at it. So I just copied Rob.

Eventually both Emily and Katie seemed to calm down enough, Emily moved from my arms and stepped in front of me, grabbing my hands and pulling my arms back around her waist, linking our fingers together and resting them against her stomach. I lent forward slightly resting my chin on her shoulder and kissed her cheek. She smiled slightly at my gesture but then looked towards her Dad.

She was waiting for his real reaction, he didn't seem to bothered by it earlier, but I guess in the heat of the moment he would of said anything to get that guy out of his house.

Katie had calmed down considerable and seemed to understand. Rob dropped a kiss on to her head and then she exited the kitchen closing the door behind her. I wondered if maybe I should leave and let Emily and her Dad talk. I must have tensed because Emily sensed my sudden train of thought.

"You are not going anywhere, this is as much about you as it is me. So no you don't have to leave." she whispered to me. I nodded slightly against her shoulder. "Well unless you want to leave?" She added now the one tense.

"I'm not going anywhere." I promised quietly.

Rob had been watching us the whole time our little exchange was going on, I wasn't sure if he had heard or not but he decided to break the ice.

"Emily sweetie, I thought you were joking yesterday. Trying to get me to give you a bit more responsibility, mind my own business, if I'd have known you were serious then I wouldn't have just dismissed you like I did. You mother told me she was sure you were lying to." he told her sadly.

I tightened my arms around her waist in reassurance and it seemed to give her all the courage she needed.

"Dad I wasn't joking yesterday. I have been seeing a girl called Naomi, well meet Naomi. Mum only said that because she thinks it's a phase. I'm gay Dad." Emily told him again.

Rob nodded his head a few times.

"And your mother thinks that her brother would be able to straighten you out. Well that's just fucking brilliant that is, what the hell was she thinking? I'm sorry Emily I didn't know otherwise-" he began but Emily cut across him.

"Dad, I don't care what Mum tried to do. I already know that Mum hates me. I want to know what you think?" She asked the question quietly obviously scared that he was going to blow up.

"I think that your mother is a fucking stupid cow is what I think" he replied.

"I'm serious Dad."

"And so am I kiddo, why in god's name did she think that would be a good idea? So your Gay, it's not the end of the world. Like I told that tosser it's a change, something that may take a while to get used to. But I'm not going to turn my back on you Emily. I'm your Dad, I love you no matter what." he answered her seriously and calmly.

Emily immediately freed herself from my arms and through herself at her Dad. He received her with open arms and hugged her as tightly as he had done Katie.

The door clicked behind us again, and I half expected to see Will. Thought he had probably come back. Only I turned to see bitchiest Fitch number one.

"Robert what the hell is this monstrosity of a girl doing in our house?" she spat towards him.

Rob looked up from his hug with Emily and sent a look of disgust her way.

"And what the fuck was the monstrosity that is your brother doing in my house?" he spat back.

Emily moved out of Rob's arms and back over to me. She wrapped her arms around my waist and I lifted my arm laying it across her shoulders. She cuddled into my side. Which successfully earned my a glare off of Jenna. Fuck me if looks could kill I'd be dead.

"Will, he came here to get Emily. He's going to help her Rob." Jenna explained simply.

"Emily doesn't need help you do." he answered matching her tone.

"Rob you don't understand. Emily thinks she's les…. Les….." Jenna couldn't even bring herself to say the word.

"Lesbian?" Rob supplied. Jenna nodded.

"Fucking hell Jen, have you lost the plot altogether? Have you forgotten what he did to Katie? That was his way of discipline back then and I'd bet a penny to a pound he still thinks that's a good way of discipline now. She was 12 Jenna, 12. We haven't seen im in nearly 5 years and you think it would be a good idea to send Emily to stay with him. What the fuck were you thinking?" he answered exasperated waving his arms around in anger.

"Emily needs help." Jenna answered coldly.

"NO YOU NEED FUCKING HELP! Emily's our daughter Jenna, we should love her no matter what. I do. I don't care who or what she is. It's her life and I'm going to let her choose her own. I'm sure Naomi's probably a really nice girl, and if she makes Emily happy then that's all that matters. Emily is my daughter Jenna, if you expect me to disown her or turn my back on her for being gay then you don't know me."

Jenna was about to answer when Rob cut her off.

"Naomi Love, I need to talk to my wife. Could you take Emily and Katie for me? You know get them out of the house?" he asked my politely.

"Of course Mr. Fitch." I answered.

"Please call me Rob, it was nice to meet you. I'd like to get to know you. If it's okay with the girls maybe us four could go for dinner later?" he asked hopefully.

I glanced at Emily face trying to read her expression, she had a grin spread across it at just the suggestion that her Dad wanted to get to know me. I know what to say.

"Yeah sure. I'd like that." I replied and sent him a small smile.

Me and Emily made our way to the kitchen door, when Emily turned back to her Dad.

"Thanks Dad, I love you."

"No worries kiddo, enjoy your afternoon. I'll phone you about dinner later okay? I love you to. And Em don't worry about a thing alright?" he answered her. Emily nodded and we made our way out of the kitchen.

As soon as we had left the room, the shouting started.

Katie was sat at the bottom of the stairs, the three of us immediately made our way out of the house and started walking up the road in silence. Emily took my hand and idly swung them between us once she had linked our fingers together.

What the fuck was that all about? I thought to myself.

So I know it's shit but I haven't written for this in ages and I kept making fuck up's because im used to writing in third person now because of complicated life my other story. Talking of which if your interested should have another chapter up later for that. Anyways….. Lemme know what you thought of this? Good bad, if your still reading, if you want to hurl abuse at me for dismissing this story for so long? Anything hit that button below. I accept anonymous reviews. All mistakes are mine. Thanks for reading. Skinsstar7 x