Hey guys so this is my first attempt at writing a fanfic and i picked Naomily as my first story because come on, who doesn't love these two? Now don't be fooled by the summary, i promise the story is better than it sounds, well one would hope. Please feel free to review and let me know what i need to improve on and I will improve it for the upcoming chapters. Sorry this chapter is really sort but i felt the need to create a short intro to tie you guys in. Working on the second chapter as we speak. Anywho, enough of my useless rambling, onto the story! :) xx
Disclaimer: I don't own Skins, but boy what i would do with it if i did.
Recovery
Naomi
It's a cold night in London as I walk my usual route back to my flat. I had just got off of work and it was my night to lock up. It's late and the streets are empty with the exception of a few cars passing by every now and then.
"Jesus Christ" I muttered quietly to myself. It had to be as cold as the fucking South Pole right now and of course as my luck would have it, it started to rain. Bloody hell. I quickly glanced at my watch, 10:25. I was still a ways from home and I was in search of a café perhaps where I could grab a coffee and wait until the rain had stopped long enough to the point where I could make it home without getting drenched. However, the longer I stood here looking for a bloody café that was actually open at this time, the more I got wet.
I spun my head around frantically as I walked down the street in hopes of finding somewhere to get out of the rain. I turned my head to my left as I approached a street corner and I could see a small shop on the corner with the lights seemingly still on. I took my chances that they were still open and ran towards the building. I had reached the door and sure enough there were still people inside.
As I entered I pulled out my mobile and typed a quick message.
Stopped 4 coffee. U want 1? N x
I flipped through my contacts and found the name I was searching for under the E's: Effy. After Eff and I had left Roundview, we were both going to uni in London and the ridiculous idea that we buy a flat together and become roommates came up, eventually it just happened. We have gotten a lot closer over the past few years. Believe it or not the longer we lived together, the more we discovered that we had a lot more in common than we let on. I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket and I retrieved it. I had opened the message without checking the I.D. because I already knew who it was from.
Sure. 1 milk 2 sugars. Cheers mate. E x
I went up to the counter and gave the lady my order and sat down at a table. Over the years Effy has been getting sort of back to normal. She hasn't exactly been the same since Freddie died. She was a right mess when we told her. She had fallen back into her old habits and started hearing and seeing things again. She didn't come out of her room or talk to anyone for two weeks. Anytime one of us tried visiting her at her house she would just scream and throw anything she could find at us until we left. Cook had pretty much fucked off the night of Freddie's shed party and no one had seen him since. But only a week or so before we told Effy about Freddie, I had got a call saying Cook was in jail for practically beating the shit out of Effy's psychiatrist, John Foster. I never knew how badly Cook had done to him, but I knew the bastard deserved every last bit of it when i heard what Cook had to say. When I went to visit Cook in jail, he was pretty fucked as well. He said he doesn't regret beating Foster, and that was the same day he informed me of Freddie and how Foster had killed him.
It was a hard time for all of us. However I think Effy had the hardest time getting through it than the rest of us. Sadly though, we all fell out of contact with each other after Freddie's funeral. Eff and I live together and we write to Cook and he'll write back occasionally, JJ went off with Laura and Albert and they ended up getting married, we all missed it however because the pair of them decided to fucking elope. Panda and Thomas went off to uni at Harvard overseas in America, Katie and Emily… Well this is actually the first time I've thought of them in ages. After coming back from our trip to Goa, me and Emily had a row and broke up. Needless to say I was heartbroken. I would be lying if I said I hadn't thought about her sometimes.
I finally got my coffees and headed back home. Thank God it had stopped raining long enough for me to get back home dry. I opened the door and pushed my way through to hear Effy call out from the sitting room.
"I'm in here!" she shouted. I shut the door and I put my keys down on the table that was in the hallway and made my way in to Effy. She was sat on the couch with the telly playing an episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. I walked over to the couch and she sat up when she saw me, making room for me to sit. I handed her the coffee as I sat down and joined her.
"Thanks" she said as she took a sip.
"No problem" I replied. "I had to get out of the rain for a while so I thought I would just stop somewhere."
Effy sighed "Well I suppose I should just get this over with then seeing as you are the bearer of coffee tonight."
I swallowed hard. What could she possibly mean by that? Get what over with? Christ I had only been in the door for two seconds and she throws bad news at me. Calm down Naomi, you don't even know what she's going to say yet. I may be used to Effy's mind games and hell, sometimes I could even figure them out, but right now I was totally stumped.
"You won't believe who I ran into in town today."
