This story is set a few years on from the end of the first season. I'm based in London, UK, so please excuse me if I get some things wrong with how the education system works or use different words to describe things. Big first chapter, setting the scene. Let me know what you think?

Amy's head was banging with a ranging hangover. A hangover from too much beer and rum, oh god…and tequila! What was she thinking? She slowly. VERY slowly, opened one eye and checked the time on the clock on the bedside cabinet. It was nearly midday. Wow – half the day has passed already, but then she remembered that she hadn't actually gone to bed until 4am, and then didn't get to sleep until nearly six.

Amy reached out and grabbed the glass of water she had wisely carried with her up to bed and gulped the water down quickly. God it tasted good, but Amy knew it was going to take a lot more than water to make the banging in her head go away. Closing her eyes again she let out a small groan of self pity. Why oh why had she drunk Tequila?

As she laid there feeling sorry for herself she started having flashbacks from the previous night. It had been the end of term party at her college in New York and it had been a riot! Amy couldn't believe how quick the time had gone as it still only felt like yesterday when she had landed at the Airport from Austin in the big, scary world that was the Big Apple. Amy was studying creative writing and journalism and figured New York was a pretty good place to do that as it never stopped! Surprisingly it hadn't taken her long to adjust to big city life, although she occasionally still got lost on the subway.

One of her classmates had held a party at his parents amazing loft apartment in the Meat District and there must have been over 200 people there, most of them Any had never seen before in her life. The music was amazing and everyone was letting their hair down having survived their first term. Just then, Amy felt a foot brush against her leg and she slowly turned her head to look over at the gorgeous dark haired beauty lying naked next to her. Amy smiled to herself and as she remembered why she hadn't gotten to sleep until 6am, she moved closer and placed an arm around the body and snuggled in close.

"Mgmummerrgh" was the noise that came back Amy's way. Amy smiled again and planted a gentle kiss on the naked shoulder.

"Morning gorgeous" she whispered quietly.

"Moorninguuuuuh" Came the sleepy reply "What..what time is it?"

"Midday" Amy responded

"Ohhhh God….my head hurts so much"

Amy let out a little laugh before adding "mine too. I'm blaming you!"

"Me? Why?" came the response

"You suggested the tequila!" Amy heard another small groan "ooooouuuch" and she watched the brunette gently turn to face Amy, her hair all over her face, but with the same sexy smile.

"I'm sorry Ams. Will you forgive me" Came the sexy suggestive reply

Amy felt a flood of desire "I can think of a couple of ways you can make it up to me!" as she leant in and planted her lips on Kate's.

Kate and Amy had met on her second day in New York. Kate was a year older than Amy and was working at a faculty event welcoming the new students, making sure they we're settling in OK. Amy had been instantly attracted to Kate who seemed totally cool and totally out of reach. Amy assumed she had a boyfriend and given her previous track record, had tried her hardest to kept the feelings of attraction she had under control. No way did she want to develop feelings for another straight girl. It was only a few weeks later when Shane was visiting, when he had confirmed that Kate was clearly flirting with her, that Amy started to believe something could actually come of it all. They had spent the day out together and ended up in a gay bar. Shane had basically taken matters into his own hands and run up to them on the dance floor.

"OMG you two! It's clear you both fancy the pants off each other...so will you JUST KISS!" And then he had shimmied away again, leaving Amy and Kate staring at each other. Taking in his words. Taking a deep breath Amy had pulled Kate towards her and the rest...was X rated!

One night as they sat listening to music, they quizzed each other on their love lives. Amy had told Kate that she had fallen in love with Karma back in High School she hadn't gone into too much detail. The truth was Amy didn't like to think too much about that time as it had been so hard. Not only was she coming to terms with her sexuality, she had also lost her best friend. Inevitably, Karma had found out about her and Liam and there had been a big show down in the school yard where Karma had publicly informed the whole of the school what had happened and had vowed never to speak to either of them again. Amy had tried to make Karma see reason. Had tried to explain that it had been a massive drunken mistake, and that she was all that mattered to her. Their friendship was all that Amy cared about, but Karma wasn't listening. She had felt humiliated and so wanted to do the same back.

Amy had run home crying and told her mum everything that had happened. How she had hurt Karma so much. How Karma hated her. How she had lost her best friend, and all her mum could say was that if she had slept with Liam, that maybe she wasn't gay after all! Amy couldn't believe what her mum was saying and she had stormed back out of the house to escape her. She went and sat in the park and wrote Karma a letter. A letter that explained everything. Explained how rejected she had felt that night. How she had drowned her sorrows and how her and Liam had ended up seeking comfort in each other. They both were hurting, but at the same time, neither of them were thinking straight. Amy wrote page after page of words expressing how much Karma meant to her. How she couldn't imagine not having her in her life. Not being able to call her her best friend, but it ultimately made no difference.

Karma completely ignored the letter as she did Amy for the rest of their time together at school. Amy's mum had insisted she go see a counsellor to discuss her feelings. Amy knew her mum meant her 'sexual' feelings, but after reluctantly agreeing to go, Amy used the weekly sessions to sit there and talk about Karma and how hard she was finding it without her best friend.

Shane had tried his hardest to get Karma to forgive Amy, but in the end she just stopped talking to him too. Liam on the other hand, had used his charm (and obviously hot body) to beg for forgiveness. And after showering Karma with gifts and declaring his love, she had agreed to give it another go. It killed Amy to see the two of them walking around school together, holding hands, kissing whenever Karma saw Amy was near by. Amy knew she had fucked up, but she didn't have to rub it in her face so much.

As the days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, Amy learnt to look the other way. To find places at school where she could avoid Karma's obviously show of 'look at me'. It wasn't easy and many, many nights Amy would lie in bed reliving that night, thinking...IF ONLY! If only she had never told Karma how she felt. If only she had just left the wedding there and then and not drunk so much champagne, if only she had never seen Liam, if, if...it was all pointless. She couldn't undo what had happened. She had tried to make Karma see that she had never meant to hurt her, but Karma had chosen not to forgive her. She had effectively chosen Liam over her and that was the bit that hurt the most. She had lost the person she loved the most in the world and Liam had won. It just wasn't fair.

The day was so painful for Amy to think about that she just didn't try anymore. She coasted through the rest of her time at school and when the options for college were being discussed, Amy knew she needed to get away. Far away. Like 1,744 miles away! She needed to be somewhere new where she could put her past behind her and, lose the tag of 'The-lesbian-who-fell-in-love-with-her-best-friend-who-rejected-her-and-so-went-and-slept-with-her-friends-boyfriend that she had carried around for the last few years at high school.

It was a full year after that awful day before Amy finally gave into Shane's attempts to get her 'out there' again. It was pretty disastrous. There had been bad blind dates, a failed attempt at internet dating, why she had even joined the soccer team. Nothing romantic had come of any of it, but it turned out Amy was a natural goal scorer with a sweet left foot!

Then one afternoon she was sat in a coffee shop reading a book when Karma and Liam walked in and up to the counter for take outs. Amy froze when she saw them, put the book up to cover her face, and then slowly (so as not to draw any attention) kinda slid down her chair, til she was practically under the table.

"It's OK" came a voice beside the table "they've gone so you can stop hiding now". Amy pulled the book down from her face to see who was the owner of the voice, and blushed to see a really hot girl standing over her smiling at her.

"Ummm, I..I thought I dropped something.." Amy said as she climbed back into her seat, realising how stupid that sounded as soon as the words had left her mouth.

The girl gave her a look of 'really'? And they both laughed.

The girl was called Jen and she ended up joining Amy for a coffee and Amy explained why she was hiding. Well not the whole story, as that would have taken all day.

Jen was a Sophomore at another school and Amy was amazed at how easy it was to talk to her. After an hour chatting Jen announced that she had to get going, and Amy had felt disappointed at the news.

"Would you...umm...fancy meeting up for another coffee sometime?" She had found herself saying without even really realising. She didn't want this to be the last time she was Jen.

Jen had smiled and replied that she would love that.

They had dated up until Jen had to leave for college. They tried the long distance relationship, but the relationship just came to a natural end, with them both remaining good friends. Jen had proved to Amy that she definitely liked girls and not boys, and had been a much needed boost of confidence.

Amy rarely thought of Karma these days, after all it had been nearly four years since they had last spoken. Every now and then she was reminded of a memory of the two of them in happier days, but since then, Amy had been living her life and making new memories.

Amy was enjoying the effort Kate was putting in making it up to her, when she suddenly stopped kissing her and pulled away.

"Hey!" Amy protested disappointedly "I was enjoying that."

"Me too babe" Kate responded as she started rushing out the room "...but I think I'm going to be sick!"

"Gross!" Amy had shouted out the room after her as she watched Kate dash into the bathroom and close the door behind her. If ever there was a passion killer, that was it! Amy let out a small groan in the acknowledgement that her horny feeling would not be satisfied, and slumped back down on her pillow. She knew the caring girlfriend thing to be would be to go after Kate and make sure she was ok. Hold her hair back. Rub her back and all that, but the truth was it would had probably made Amy hurl as well!

Instead she gingerly climbed out of bed and pulled on a t-shirt and walked downstairs to the kitchen. She grabbed a large bottle of water from the fridge and hunted for some pain killers for then both. Her bag was thrown on the floor, along with her jacket and Kate's dress! Amy smiled as she remembered how they had practically had sex on the stairs when they had got back after the party. She felt a wave of desire again between her legs at the memory, but then the hammer in her head started banging again, and all sexual desires were quickly forgotten.

Amy picked up her bag and found the desired tablets and let out a small cheer. Her phone was flashing indicating a message. She looked at the screen and saw that she had six missed calls from a number she did not recognise. She vaguely remembered her phone ringing at around 5am this morning, but she had been too distracted with Jen to care who it was. Whoever it was they had tried to call five more times since.

Taking the bottle of water and two glasses she started walking back upstairs and dialled the voicemail number.

"You have three new messages. Message Recorded at 4.57am on Friday 20th May"

Balancing the phone between her shoulder and her ear, Amy strained to hear the message, but all she could hear was someone breathing.

Beeeeeeep "end of message. Next message saved at 5.01am"

Amy sighed. Again the same thing...there was clearly someone there at the other end, but for whatever reason they weren't speaking.

As she approached the bedroom she called out to Kate in the bathroom "how you feeling babe?"

Kate just groaned back through the door. Amy smiled and walked back into the bedroom.

Beeeeeep "next message saved at 5.10am...

"...Amy...it's...it's me. Karma..."