6.3.23

"MUMM" i shout as i see her running out of the train station

"CHLOEEE"

"how are you!?"

"im great, how are you, your dad and your brother"

"dad's great, he's really settling into the job, and Adam is good as well, he's in the Academy, i see him around the training centre every now and again"

"oh ive missed you all so much"

"same mum, i wish i could have taken the train to come down but everything at the training work has been so hectic for the last few months, and just now everything is starting to finally calm down"

"well thats great, i wish i could have come too, but you know how work is at the NHS"

"oh gosh it was painful"

"it was, glad i get to work with you guys now ay"

"you'll be right next door to my office you know"

"thats lovely, just hope you won't pester me or im sure i can get your dad to get you a bit more work to do" she laughs as i help her with her suitcases

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i drive her to our house, where my brother also lived, its where i grew up for a couple years when i was younger, until we moved to manchester of course

i unlock the door with my copy of the keys

"oi Adam, get off the playstation" i shout into the corridor because i know when he's not at the training centre he's here in his room playing on his playstation

my brothers only 19, right now he's in the liverpool academy playing for the u21's, and according to his coach, he's not far from signing for the first team. usually his gcse's and a-levels were keeping him busy when he isn't at the academy but after he finished school he just spends his time on the playstation or with his mates. when we was in manchester, he was at the city academy, but when we moved back to liverpool, my dad being the head coach now moved him to the liverpool academy, since he thought it would just be a lot easier for him

he walks out of his room with that distinctive curly hair trim that all the boys have nowadays

"MUM!" he exclaims as he rushes to greet her

after a while, my dad arrives home from the training centre and we all sit down to eat the chinese takeaway from one restaraunt my mum absolutely loved

"right, so its your uncle Jamie's birthday next week"

"saturday right?" i say

"surprised you know your uncles birthday"

"anyone in my contacts i have their birthday saved on my calendar"

"you need to teach me that, theres no way im going to be able to remember all my staff's birthdays" my dad says

"Adam knows how its done"

"oi why me?"

"you taught me it first"

"anyways stop arguing, so basically he's having it up in London which is annoying since i just came back from London, but he says he wants to do it at his restaraunt in London"

"wait uncle Jamie has a restaraunt in London now? i thought it was down the road from his house"

"he's got two now" mum replies to me

"how did i not know?"

"oh its very new, only opened a month ago"

i nod

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11.3.23

as soon as we walk through the door of the restaraunt, i knew i wasn't going to see anyone from my family until at least midnight, because one thing that ran through our genes was the love for parties, something i used to love, but faded out after i went through the hell that was university

the restaraunt is decently big, the first floor has a buffet and some drinks and tables, but on the second floor the tables have been put aside to one corner and people are scattered across with drinks and gathered in small groups talking together

there was over 100 people in the restaraunt and i only knew about 15, which were my parents my brother and my uncles and aunts and my cousins, my mum told me to at least greet my uncle and stay for a bit instead of leaving right away, just so that i wouldn't come off as rude so i was stuck here for at least the next hour  

i spot a small armchair in a corner of the second floor which i sit on as i stare at the groups of people around me

i unlock my phone to check any messages i have

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sofie <3

CHLOE 

CHLOE STEPHENS

WHY'D YOU PICK THE DAY TO NOT BE HERE

WHEN I WANNA CRY OVER A SHOW TO U

why did u pick the day i was away to watch that show sofe

anyways u can tell me now

im bored af here 

ok

basically

i finally got to the finale of emily in paris

and i wanna cry

LIKE WHY THE FUCK WOULD THIS CAMILLE BITCH RUIN THIS ALL

LIKE JUST GO BREAKUP WITH UR BOYFRIEND IF UR GAY 

AND LIKE I LOVED EMILY AND ALFIE

LIKE ITS SO MUCH BETTER THAN EMILY AND GABRIEL

THE CHEMISTRY WITH GABRIEL IS SO FORCED FFS

KILL ME

😭😭😭

shut up im not reading that i havent watched it yet

but alfie is so fit tho

like he's the fittest banker ive ever seen

ikr

like imagine u saw him at the bank

id die lmao

me too

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i shut my phone and lean my head back for a second and close my eyes

"Chloeeee" i hear

i don't need to open my eyes to know who it is

her voice makes me want to vomit

she's what put an end to me liking this city

"Jess" i fake smile as i look at her trying to hide my shock

god she's changed so much since i last spoke to her

if it wasn't for her voice which sounded like a chicken getting crushed by a lorry, i wouldn't have recognised her face

hair dyed blonde so badly that it looked like her hair was made up of thick wire painted white

a fake tan that made her face the same colour as a bottle of fanta, which wasn't made any better by the amount of makeup caked on top

i wonder where she got all the money for all that surgery, oh wait, i do know

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