All SKINS (2007-2013) Characters Bryan Elsley, Jamie Brittain, E4, Paul Gay, etc.
Effy and Ashley Stonem
Chapter 1: The First Morning
It is Stonem's household, Ashley Stonem was woken up by her twin sister: Effy banging on my door, "Fuck off!" Ashley groaned and buried my face into the pillow.
"Wake up Ashley! You've got to be ready for college, first day remember?" Effy asked.
Effy yelled and whacked on my door once more. "We're leaving in half an hour, if you're not ready I have to go with Dad alone, he's in a shit mood. So you better hurry up."
Ashley reluctantly gets out of bed and stumbles to the bedroom, then turns on the shower and waits for it to heat up. Whilst Ashley did, she turned the cold tap on and cupped my hands together, splashing the freezing water onto her face to wake myself up. Her body tingles from the sensation and Ashley dry my face with a nearby towel. Slipping out of her pajamas, Ashley quickly hopped into the shower, humming the tune to some rock song she heard on the radio last night. Ashley spot of my shower gel from the toiletry rack and gets a drop of it onto her hands.
"Ashley?" Her twin sister Effy asked, her voice muffled from the running water and door between us.
"Yeah?" Ashley says whilst rubbing the gel on her neck and underarms.
"Do you want me to pick you out an outfit? You always take ages to choose one." Effy questions, "Why is she being so nice? And once again, there's no way I'm sitting in that car on my own with him. And that's why.
Ashley rolls her eyes and steps out of the shower, wraps a towel round her body and leaves her hair to air dry. As Ashley opens the medicine cabinet, she notices a packet of condoms that weren't in there yesterday. Ashley's entire being cringes at the thought of her aunt and uncle getting in on, shaking the disturbing thoughts off, she grabs her toothbrush and toothpaste.
"Ashley?" Answer me!" Effy called.
"Fuck! Just do whatever I don't care!" Ashley shouted to her, putting the toothpaste on the bristles and dampening the brush. Suddenly, Ashley felt a lot fresher as the mint escaped to the corners of her mouth, she spit it out and headed back into the spare bedroom which is basically mine from the amount of clutter. Clothes were scattered everywhere due to her cousin, meaning Ashley could barely see the floor anymore.
"Eff!" Ashley sighs, putting her hand in her head. "You better fucking clean this up when we get home."
"Here." Effy smiles and walks out her room, oblivious to what Ashley just said.
Ashley stepped over the pile of clothes to my bed to see what she picked out of her, she chose a black mini-skirt paired with ripped tights, a red corset top. She must've lent Ashley combat boots because they were nearly placed by my door. I'm going to look like a clone of Effy, which isn't my style at all. But there's no time.
Ashley go to sit at my vanity and choose some makeup that'd compliment my outfit, spreading it all out on my desk. Then Ashley assessed my appearance in the mirror. Her eyes bags were extremely dark from the lack of sleep she got last night. The thought of starting school with Effy really excited me, even though I'd never admit it to anyone. We were finally going to be at school together after 2 years of being separated, Effy got transferred to some shitty posh school after some night out that put us both in hospital. My parents didn't really care who Ashley hung out with so she got to stay at my old school.
Ashley applied some concealer to her under eyes which instantly made a difference. Ashley then brushed on some light pink eyeshadow over my eyelids, then added some neat eyeliner and added some cherry lip balm to her dry lips. The difference from her outfit to her makeup was something else.
"10 minutes till we're leaving, Ashley!" Effy shouts from her room, Ashley glances at her alarm clock. It was already 8:50. Shit!
Ashley turned on my curling iron, scrambled to my bed, threw on my clothes and ruffled them up a bit to give it an effortless look, which definitely wasn't the case with the amount of effort Ashley was putting in. Then, Ashley ran back to my vanity and began curling my hair. She messes it up a bit and locks it in with some hair serum and hairspray. Ashley shrugged as she stared at myself in the mirror, not my best work but it'll have to do. Ashley let it slide as she only had half an hour.
"Effy, have you seen my layered necklace?" Ashley asks her and barges into her room uninvited.
"Ever heard of knocking, spanner?" Effy rolled her eyes.
"No surprise, what is that?" Ashley teased and searched her room for it.
"It's on my neck." Effy grinned and shoved it in her face, showing it off.
"You bitch." Ashley huffed and went over to her drawers to raid her jewelry stash.
"This'll do." Ashley shrugged as I pulled out a gold layered necklace, this looks way better than her one.
"Yeah." Effy said.
"What's surf and turf, Eff?" Ashley asked.
"Sex." Effy said with a smile.
"Whoa. Are you sure?" Ashley asked with a smile.
"Yeah." Effy said.
"Are you having sex with someone?" Ashley asked.
"Maybe." Effy said.
"Sex in here to your home?" Ashley asked.
"No." Effy said.
"Where?" Ashley asked.
"Roundview College." Effy said.
"Whoa, wait, school?" Ashley asked.
"Yes." Effy said.
"Hot." Ashley said.
"Hmm. So, my piece of paper." Effy said.
"Where is your piece of paper?" Ashley asked.
"My locker in school." Effy said.
"How many?" Ashley asked.
"Eight to one piece of paper." Effy said.
"Okay, but can you tell me more please?" Ashley asked.
"To do: Smoking. Alcohol. Drugs. Arson. Porn. Teacher abuse. Sex in school. And Glue." Effy said.
Ashley was surprised and excited.
"Sex in school. No way." Ashley said happily.
"Yep." Effy said happily.
"Ha ha ha, oh, girl. Sex at school." Ashley said.
"That's good." Effy said.
"School rooftop?" Ashley asked.
"No." Effy nodded no.
"Locker room?" Ashley asked.
"No." Effy said.
"Swimming pool?" Ashley asked.
"No." Effy said.
"School bathroom?" Ashley asked.
"Shower room?" Ashley asked.
"No." Effy said.
Ashley walked, thought to her head and turned around to her twin sister.
"Nurse's office?" Ashley asked.
"Yes." Effy nodded yes.
Ashley was excited and happily.
"Wow. That's awesome." Lizzy said.
"You're right." Effy said.
"You is sex with someone in the nurse's office." Ashley said.
"Yeah." Effy said.
Ashley does up the clasp behind her neck and lets it fall onto her chest, sorting it out in Effy's mirror. even though it'll look weird again by the time i get out of the car. Ashley wanders back into her room without saying a word to her twin sister, grabs her phone, money and a couple cigarettes and places them onto my bed. Then Ashley chose a jacket, she decided to go with a plain leather one to match the look her cousin gave me.
Placing all her items out on her bed into the pockets, Ashley grabbed her boots and rushed downstairs to greet her parents: Anthea and Jim Stonem who were in the kitchen.
"Morning Dad." Ashley smiled which was wasted because all she got was a mere grunt from him. He didn't even look up, charming.
"Morning my love." Anthea beamed, holding a plate of toast in her left hand then embracing her with a side hug and a kiss on the forehead.
"Morning Mum. thanks for letting me stay here, again." Ashley smiled, sitting down at the table.
"That's okay my sweet, I think it's for the best right now. don't you?" Anthea was referring to her mum.
"And besides, you and Effy are like sisters anyway! So I was more than happy." Ashley sent her a quick grin, not opening my mouth as it was full of toast.
"Morning." Effy said quietly, instantly making her way to the coffee machine.
"Morning sweet." Anthea smiled at her, now washing some dishes.
"Oh yeah, morning." Jim grumbled, still looking at his newspaper.
Ashley butter her a piece of toast to save some time, and by the time her coffee was done she finished making her breakfast.
"Here." Ashley pushed the plate towards her.
"Thanks." Then we both ate in silence, not daring to start an argument with Jim. This was a regular routine in the Stonem household, don't start an argument with Jim in the mornings because he won't shut up.
After about five minutes we'd both finished up our food and were placing our plates in the sink for Anthea to clean. she shooed us out of the kitchen before we could say anything.
Ashley gets in the back seat and Effy gets in the passenger seat. Jim begins to talk to us about how much he hates his job and starts chatting some shit about his colleagues. Ashley thought he realized that we weren't interested when he saw Effy lighting a cigarette and Ashley put my headphones in, so we just drove in silence.
Roundview College, Ashley remembers her brother: Tony would tell Effy and Ashley back when we were in year 10. Those were the good times, he would tell us about how he was so high in his psychology class. and how his teacher had to escort him out due to him screaming about Sid and Anwar flying around the classroom. From what it sounded like, roundview was a really shit college where you could get away with almost anything, and that sounded just fine to me.
As we get closer to college, Ashley sees what looks like a bike in the middle of the road. Ashley thinks Effy sees it too because she tries to warn her father about it. but of course he thinks he knows best and ignores her, then we drive right over it. causing us to crash into a bollard, Ashley let out a small laugh to myself as Jim gets out of his car and begins sweating profusely. looking in the front mirror, Ashley see Effy had a smirk plastered on her face, knowing she was right and he should've fucking listened for once.
Ashley looked out my unrolled window and saw three boys starting over in our direction, whether they were looking at Ashley or Effy was unknown but, maybe it was a good thing Ashley did put in some effort into my appearance. Ashley looked in the side mirror and saw Effy eyeing them up too, but once again she wasn't sure if it was all of them or just one. A tanned boy with a scar in his chin caught my attention, he was just my type. the boy in the middle with curly hair whispered to him and pointed directly to me, making me look away.
"Right, Effy. ready?" Ashley asks whilst she gets out of the car.
"Yeah sure." Effy shrugged and got out too, leaving me and wandering off to one of the boys who were previously sitting at the table. He now had ketchup on the side of his face and was arguing with her father.
Ashley decided to go to where his friends were, not saying a word. just took his seat before they could say anything.
"Excuse me, but it seems to appear that you're sitting in my friend's seat." The curly haired boy said, looking nervous and confused.
"So?" Ashley retorted. "He seems a bit busy with my sister over there, you know the one you were staring at? I doubt he'll be coming over just yet."
The boy with the skateboard sat opposite me, trying to figure out the best way to approach me. his eyes were scanning all over my body, from my arms onto my exposed chest.
"Why are you sitting here?" He asks, now not looking at me and checking the griptape on his skateboard that seemed to be peeling off.
"Can I not sit here?" Ashley retorted. taking the remainder of a beverage and drinking it all down. beer. Ashley forgot how much she hated beer, it was too bitter.
"That's his beer. you owe him a new one." The boy with braces says to me, whilst pointing at the skateboard boy.
"It's fine, mate. don't worry i wasn't gonna drink it anyway." He shrugged whilst leaning back in his chair. "Anyway, where you heading-"
"Come on!" Effy yelled, waving over to me. "We need to go, Pandora's waiting."
"Such a shame this chat was cut short. anyway, laters." Ashley says before walking up to Effy.
What stood in front of us was the next two years of our lives, Roundview College. Ashley just didn't think such a new experience would turn so sour.
Effy rolled her eyes and walked up to the boy, dragging her thumb through some of the ketchup that was near the corner of his mouth and sucking the sauce off her thumb.
"Sweet." Effy replied, with a smile, while Ashley was gasping.
"Ketchup? Smart." Ashley raked her eyes over the boys before linking arms with Effy.
"You whore." Effy muttered making the two girls laugh, Ashley turned around to face the boy who was now accompanied by two more boys. She smiled seductively and turned back to Effy who was chuckling at her cousin's boldness when it came to guys (or girls).
"Taught by the best huh?" Ashley raised her eyebrow at Effy who shook her head.
"Oh please, you were getting boys dropping to their knees for you by the age of twelve. If anything you taught me." The two joked the rest of the way to college knowing that the boys were definitely watching them walk away.
"Sweet." Ashley laughed.
"That's funny." Effy replied, as she rolled her eyes.
Ashley turns to the boy, who has a red shirt.
"Who's that?" Ashley asked, as she turned to Effy.
"I don't know." Effy replied.
"She is with the other girl. Who's that other girl?" The boy in the red shirt asked.
"I don't know. She was her sister." The curly haired boy said.
"She has a sister." The brown haired boy said.
"Yeah." The curly haired boy said.
"You saw the other girl?" The boy in the red shirt asked.
"Yeah." The curly haired boy said.
To Be Continued…