Amber: Sin? Baby? Are we going to the cinema x

Arianna: I'm coming in an hour. Do NOT tell her.

Taylor:Can you do my shift tmrw? Man's got a date ;)

"Fucking hell, does your phone ever stop buzzing?" Lina moans/yawns as the noise from my phone wakes her up.

Opening my texts, I feel a tiny bit bad for Amber- there's no hope for me and her when Lina is back. But I did say I'd go cinema with her, so I will.

"Clearly not. Everyone loves me, that's why."

She scoffs. "I don't see why."

Sticking my middle finger up, I laugh before leaning down for a kiss.

"Don't act like you don't, little red."

She rolls her eyes and I can't help but grin a childish, happy and genuine smile. Her brown hair (still finding that weird) has been tied into a low bun and now she sits in my biggest black top.

"You look gorgeous." I tell her happily.

She shakes her head. "Shut up, Sin. I'm not going anywhere, okay? I promise. So stop simping."

We kiss again and as much as I want to take it further, there is still too many unanswered questions, facts we haven't acknowledge and conversations we need to have.

"Lina. What's happening now? Are you moving in? What are we? What's going on? Are you gonna talk to the others?" I ramble, there's so many questions in my head and not enough time till Arianna gets here.

Nervously, Lina laughs, looking slightly uncomfortable.

"Woah, what is this, a questionnaire? Right now, I'm sitting on your bed, in our room, in your shirt. I mean this is better than the shack I'm staying in now, so roomie, well, that is if you'll have me...."

I nod encouragingly, wanting her to continue.

"Then your my roommate. Sorted. And if you think I didn't see the message from Arianna saying she's coming, then you have so underestimated me."

Oops.

"You missed a question. What are we?"

The awkward tension that followed my words was honestly enough to last me my entire life time. She sat there, gnawing away at those delicious lips of hers, staring at me intently whilst I shuffles uncomfortably for her to answer.

"Who needs labels, hm? I'm happy. You're happy. Everyones fucking happy." Lina shrugs, looking almost scared if I do say so myself.

What kind of answer was that?

"Right. Okay. Sure. Also, whilst on the topic of Arianna, have the others told you what's happening?"

Based on her bewildered face, I'll have to take that as a no.

"Rhiannon and Brandon are moving away. They are moving to Basildon- who the fuck would wanna raise a baby there? Patrick and Paige liked the idea so much too, that they've decided to tag along."

Her jaw drops. "They are getting married, having a baby and moving in? But they're so young. I wonder what her mum and, um, you know, think about that."

"Her mums supportive. It's just you me Arianna and Jagger left! And Zachary now. I also need to introduce you to Taylor. God, you've missed so much Lina."

For the next hour or so, we catch up on each others lives and I grill her about almost everything. It feels so great to have her with me, beside me. Every time she touches me, I honestly get why movies portray love with fireworks and all that soppy shit- because it's exactly how I feel with her.

A knock at the door makes us both jump.

"Let us in, dipshit!" Arianna and Jagger call from outside.

Lina springs up, running to the door. She freezes before opening it, looking at me hesitantly.

"It'll be okay, little red."

She nods, taking a deep breath before opening the door. "Hi, guys."

Arianna chucks an asda bag onto the floor, wrapping her arms round Lina to the point she's practically suffocating her.

"I missed you, Cat! You look so hot. Brunette baby! It suits you, really. Omg. Your wearing Sin's top! I bet you guys had fun. On the topic of sex, guess who totally has a girlfriend now! Me!" Arianna rambles, still not letting go of Lina.

Any tension from earlier has dissolved. Jagger pushes past the awkward hug fest, walking towards me. Arianna looks absolutely delighted to be reunited with her friend, as does Lina although she equally looks extremely overwhelmed.

I grab the asda bag Arianna ruthlessly dumped on our floor, emptying it out on the side. It contains 4 iced coffees, strawberries, some pina-colado which is non alocholic, presumably for me, then some other bits and bobs.

"You can let go of me now, Anna." Lina whispers.

Arianna stands back. "Right. Okay. Sorry."

They head over, Arianna sitting beside Jagger on the floor, Lina sitting on her old bed, wrapping her arms round her knees.

I place myself beside her, rubbing her back gently.

"Be nice, little red. You're okay... I promise."

She shakes me off before plastering a grin on her face. "Do excuse me guys, Anna, Jagger. I'm really tired. How have you guys been? I'm sorry that it's been so long since I've contacted. I've been dealing with some.. some stuff. I'm a shit friend, I know. Sin's already had that talk with me."

Woman are really something. You can tell she felt like shit two seconds ago, now suddenly she's all cheery, nice and saying all the right things? It's astounding where they get their power from.

"It's alright, babe, don't worry about it. We all have our off months," Arianna smiles sympathetically, "though i have missed you bitch! Talking about bitches, what the fuck is happening with Rhiannon?"

Lina shakes her head. "I'm not going to gossip, Anna. Not about someone who's up the duff, it feels wrong, if you get me. We just aren't on good terms at all at the moment."

Jagger and I exchange looks, our minds somehow both deciding to get up and walk the few steps to the kitchen.

We chat about 'typical male stuff' whilst making snacks and drinks for everyone, leaving Arianna to gossip away to Lina whilst she pretends to be somewhat interested.

Jagger and Arianna stay for around and hour and a half, smothering Lina in hugs before they go.

Once they've gone, Lina steals a pair of my shorts and gets ready as though she is going out.

"Where are you going?" I ask curiously, watching as she does up her shoes.

She rolls her eyes. "My stuff isn't going to magic itself here, is it? And anyway, you have a date you need to go on."

"What? I'm not going out with Amber- my heads with you. I'm with you." I explain with a simple tone, it should be obvious to her by now how I feel.

Lina puts her head in her hands. "You're such an idiot. As much as I despise the idea of you being anywhere with a girl I know would quite happily rip your clothes off, you said you'd go. You can't say you'll do something and then not do it."

"Oh yeah, cause you're the queen of that."

My comment welcomes the awkward tension back into the room. However, this time, Arianna and Jagger aren't here to ease it and I don't have time to fix it as she goes out to get her stuff or whatever.

She wants me to go on the date with Amber?

I've said it before and I'll say it again: girls are fucking weird.

I'm not ready to go on a date with Amber! I need time to process the past twenty four hours. Lina is back. She's back.

She's back.

Not only is she back, but she's moving in. With me. I have a roommate again, not just any old one (god i am so glad that they didn't put me with a new transfer) but my little red.

Except she's not mine. Fuck, why is she so confusing? She sleeps with me, she kisses me, she misses me... yet she doesn't wanna be with me.

Fuck, shit, crap.

I grab my phone and press Amber's contact.

"Hello?" She answers, her voice sounding sweet and excited to see me.

"Hi, Amber."

I can practically hear her grinning down the phone. "Sin! You called. I was getting worried, is everything okay baby?"

"Everythings great. I had some mates round, that's all. You still up for meeting me later?"

"What mates? And yeah of course! You can come here first if you want, like, before we go cinema."

To my surprise, the idea of going to hers actually seems to somewhat disgust me, whereas before a smirk would crawl across my lips.

"You come here, then we'll go out in the car. And no one, just Jagger, Anna and...."

I think I'll drop the Lina bomb on her in person, not over the phone.

"And?" She repeats impatiently, sounding slightly bothered.

I laugh. "Did I say and? Not sure why. Jagger and Anna popped here for an hour or so, just a check up on me really. Anna's gone out with Dee now, you know Delilah?"

"Yes, Sin, I do. I'll see you in five, baby."

"See ya." I grimace, ending the phone call with a bad feeling in my stomach/gut area.

To pass time, I decide to tidy my room, a slow and painful task that I rarely ever do. This involves dusting all the sides, binning mouldy food (disgustingly, there was a lot of this), chucking old clothes, cleaning the bloody toilet and more. My last job was to push the two single beds together- hopefully a smart move that would lead to steamy sex, not a passionate argument.

Amber arrives later, it definitely took her a lot longer than 'five' to soak herself in makeup and get here.

"Hey, Amber, you okay?" I kiss her on the cheek, dropping my usual persona as she engulfs me in a vanilla-scented hug.

She grins at me. "I've missed you! I'm surprised your not working tonight, though. Glad you can spare some of your time for me."

"Don't flatter yourself." I try to joke, but despite it being such a little and harmless comment, she looks offended.

"I was just joking, silly! How are Jagger and Anna?"

I frown. Since when was she on nickname terms with them?

"They're great, thanks. Listen Amber, there is something we need to..."

She cuts me off by gently leaning in to my lips, the kiss sensitive and sweet, unlike when Lina kisses me.

Lina.

I pull back quickly. "Amber, we really need to..."

Amber is beautiful, don't get me wrong. But she isn't fucking Lina.

God, I'm turning into a simp.

"She's back, isn't she?" Ambers face falls as she continues talking, "you've tidied. You never tidy. You pulled the beds into a double- but your bed is all messed up. Did you sleep with her? Oh my god. She comes back and straight away your in bed with her? Do my feelings mean fucking anything to you? Oh my god."

I gulp, feeling slightly guilty at the sight of a normally joyful and sweet girl look upset and extremely pissed of because of me.

"Amber, I'm sorry. You know how I feel about her. It's early days anyway, she only came back last night."

"Shut up, Sin. Call me when she fucks off again. Which she totally will, by the way."

Amber walks out, slamming the door, leaving me alone with my thoughts.

Fucking hell, this is one hell of a chaotic day and we aren't even near the end of it yet.

****

The pub is extremely busy. It reeks of strong booze and salty chips, a usual theme for this time of day. You get the alcoholic dads come in downing beer as they throw abuse at their wife, who plasters a smile across her face to keep her bratty children, who are normally trying to tear the whole place down - yet they still all call it a 'lovely family meal' on facebook.

You get the women looking for someone to fuck tonight, the women who's husband is away on 'business trips' (also known as fucking their secretary).

It may be a pub, but you get all sorts of various people coming in and it's always so obvious as to which group they stereotype to.

I'm not working today, I've just popped in for a drink (coffee for me) with Zachary. So much to talk about and I could really do with a friend at the moment.

"Sin, bro, what you sayin? Why'd you call me, everything good still?" Zachary asks, causing me to chuckle as his language is developing into even more roadman-like than before.

I shrug. "You know, man. It is what it is. Drama though, a shit ton of it."

"Spill the fucking tea! I heard our girls back. How's she doing?"

After hours of talking to Zachary, I have some idea of where my heads out and how I need to make things right with Amber, talk things through with Lina whilst simultaneously worrying about myself.

My phone pings and I sigh, every-time that's happened in the past 48 hours its been too much drama and too eventful for my liking.

Missy (bitchface): Hey! how are you? Please contact me- your my son and i want to see you. Anyway, before you throw your phone away from you, I'm not messaging about you. Obviously, it's Lina's birthday tomorrow so I need to contact her regarding her transfer to adult services. However, I'm extremely struggling to get through to her. Could you ask her to contact me please? Love you x

As I said.

Drama.

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Hi guys! It's me (obviously). I am trying to come back from the dead slowly.

Now, I have noticed I say this literally every single chapter but oh well. This chapter isn't my best (i honestly think it's one of the worst) as it's kind of a filler chapter- but it's a needed filler. The next one is extremely emotional so grab your tissues as it's just the start!

Lina's back, so obviously Sin's stressed out!
And it's Lina's birthday tomorrow? Who knew!

Will Lina actually move back in?
Is Amber going to cause problems?
Will Sin ever forgive Missy?

thank you for reading and for all the support. all my love to you readers!!

love,

a <3