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Episode 15

"Lydia Knight will you be my flat mate" I let out a huge giggle and jumped onto him "yes, yes, a million times yes, you've made me the happiest girl in the world" we both laughed and hugged. "Okay if we’re going to be flat mates we need to lay a few ground rules” I said, he just gave me a funny look and said “ok,the first one is I don't want you bringing any guys round here, not after your last boyfriend" "ok" I said "and you cant bring any woman round here either" "and whys that?" He said with a cheeky smile. "Because there won't be room in the bed for all three of us" he nodded his head “ok agreed Gorgeous" “and you need to start watching London Street’s” he screwed up his face. “No I draw the line at that, that's too much" I gave him my best petted lip “oh come on Fran. We can cuddle up in bed and catch up on all the box sets" before I had finished he said "yeah alright,let's start right now" my god he was keen all of a sudden "ok I will tell you who all the characters are” I said as he quickly took off his shoes and came and lay next to me on the bed. He cuddled into me from behind and I unpaused the TV. I thought I felt him sniff my hair but I think he was just coming down with a cold. The TV showed poor Jason looking back at his family with a tear in his eye, "look Francis he's our favourite, we love him" "oh so Tommy is your favorite gangster" "no his name is Jason Spence" he shook his head and laughed "no that's Tommy" he pointed to Jason on the TV screen. Wow this was going to be a long day if he couldn't even get this right "His name is Jason" I said in a really slow patronizing voice. "No that's my mate Tommy, you know my neighbour that I play football with. The one that found your shoe." I was totally stunned "Your mate Tommy is Thomas Taylor and you didn't think to mention it to me" I screeched “I forgot you love that daft show" I turned to face him. "Fran if us being best friends and flat mates is going to work out you need to tell me if your friends with people on my favourite TV show or I will lose my s**t" “okay calm down" he said with a smile. By now the episode had ended, I lay out on the bed and stretched and gave Fran a big smile "thanks for cheering me up today honey" he gave me a huge smile then he went back to staring at the TV. He was messing about with the remote control and I just stared at the side of his face. He was so handsome and caring and I wished I could meet someone like him. He was perfect in every way and he deserved a nice normal girl not someone like me. I was damaged goods and he deserved someone as perfect as him. He looked down at me with his big brown puppy dog eyes and with one hand he rubbed nearly the whole length of my leg. I was a little breathless was he trying to come in to me? Would I stop him if he was? I had come to realise in those past few weeks that I couldn’t live without him. He was my everything, he was my family, my best friend and I fancied the pants off him. But did that mean that we should be in a relationship? He continued to rub my leg, his stare was intense then he asked “are you cold Gorgeous?” he reached over me and I really thought he was going to kiss me. This is it I was telling myself. This was everything I had ever wanted and then he grabbed the blanket next to me and pulled it over my legs and went back to staring at the TV “Thanks Franco” I said but I was totally deflated. We were just friends and I suppose it was for the best. I put the blanket over him too and snuggled into him. “Let’s stay here all day and watch tv and cuddle like we used to do when we were kids on rainy days” I said and rested my head on his chest” his chest was rock hard and I couldn’t help but rub my finger tips over his abs then out of no where he jumped to his feet "Ehhh I need a shower" he rushed through to the bathroom and slammed the door. What was wrong with him lately I asked myself. That was his second shower he had that day. Then I realised that I was being really stupid, the reason for all the showers was so obvious. He obviously had OCD or something, the poor thing.

Chapter 23

Before we knew it it was Christmas Eve. My mum sent us a big box each full of presents. My mum absolutely loved Fran she always said that he was the son she never had. When we were kids Fran’s Mum was an alcoholic and would sometimes disappear and my mum would always take him in. She absolutely adored him. If he hadn’t been in the band she wouldn’t have let me join and my life would have been totally different. We sat by the Christmas tree that night singing old Christmas songs and drinking champagne waiting for Chris and Carmela to arrive for dinner. The Big Man was already there but he was passed out drunk on the sofa. He hadn’t been himself since Stefan had attacked me and he had really been hitting the bottle. I sat him down to talk to him about it but he said he that he couldn’t get it out of his head that something really bad could have happened. He also said that he was missing me not living beside him so I invited him to stay with me and Fran at Fran’s house so that we could keep and eye on him. Fran and I were trying to keep him distracted from drinking but it was Christmas so we had decided to let him have a few glasses and before we knew it he had drank the whole bottle and was passed out. Although we were worried about him I knew he would be ok. After all he was the Big Man and nothing kept him down for long. Fran and I were having a laugh when he glanced down at one of the presents “look at this card on this gift from your mum” he said and passed it to me. It read ‘To Frankie, please open on Christmas Eve. I love you son from Auntie Elaine and Uncle Joe’ it warmed my heart that she loved him that much, mainly because she didn’t even like many people but she loved him because he was special. “There’s one here for you too Gorgeous” it read ‘To Speedy. I love you and you make me proud every day. Please open on Christmas Eve I love you from Mum and Dad” we both looked at each other. “I guess we better open them” he said. We ripped the Christmas paper off and both burst out laughing. She had sent us matching pyjamas with little snowmen on them. “She’s lost the plot. She still thinks we’re little kids” I said with a giggle “no she just wishes we were still little kids. It’s sweet. I didn’t even get a Christmas card from my mum” he looked sad for a second “let’s put them on for a laugh and send my mum a picture of us in them in front of the tree, it will make her whole Christmas” we both laughed “yeah go on it will be funny. Chris will piss himself laughing when he sees us wearing these cheesy pjs” we stood up and quickly took off our clothes to put on our new pyjamas. He took off his t shirt and I think my heart stopped beating for a second he was so hot. I was drooling over his perfect abs but I had to snap myself out of it before he thought I was a total pervert. I was standing in my black lace bra and thong trying to open the pyjamas packaging when I noticed he was staring at me. His eyes traced down my body and back up. I was still covered in bruises from where Stefan had kicked the s**t out of me and I was embarrassed that Fran could see them. “What are you looking at Francis?” I asked and he snapped out of his trance “nothing! Do you need a hand with that?” I still had the cast on my arm from where Stefan had broke it so I found it difficult to do some things for myself. “Yes please” I said and he ripped open the packaging for me and I put on the trousers and the shirt but I couldn’t fasten the button’s properly. By this time he had his on “what do you think?” He asked and I couldn’t stop laughing “you are so cute honey” I couldn’t help but think back to a time when we were really little and my mum would put us both into a bath together and then put us into our pyjamas and tell us a bedtime story. That was back when everything was a lot simpler. He came over to me and started to button my shirt at the front. I was looking up at him and willing myself not to grab his face and kiss him but I had to hold myself back because firstly he didn’t want to kiss me and secondly the Big Man was snoring next to us, so it wasn’t exactly romantic. “You look adorable Gorgeous” he said and bushed a stray hair behind my ear. I looked up at him and for a split second I thought that maybe he was going to kiss me, that maybe he wanted me back and then the front door bell rang. “That will be Chris and Carmela” he said and we both went into the hall and opened the door. Chris looked at us both and burst out laughing then he opened his coat and he was wearing the same pyjamas then Carmela opened hers and she was wearing them too. “Your mom sent them” said Carmela I shook my head “I’m sorry Carm she still thinks that we are kids” “I think it’s sweet” she said, we all went into the living room and the Big Man woke up “what the f**k are you four wearing?” He asked as he rubbed his eyes. I felt guilty, I looked at Chris and he looked embarrassed “Auntie Elaine sent us them” said Fran and the Big Man’s face fell “Well I take it the dragon didn’t send me any” he wasn’t wrong she hated him and she loved to leave him out. I could kill her sometimes. “I’m sorry Big Man. She’s a b***h” I said “don’t worry about it, you all look like idiots anyway” I could tell he was kind of pissed off. I felt bad for him because no one likes to be left out. Then Chris said “let me take a photo of the two of you in front of the Christmas tree and we can send it to her to prove that we wore them” Fran sat down and I jumped onto his knee and we did our usual pose. I smiled at the camera and he looked at me and smiled. When Chris had finished taking the photo I looked down and spotted another present the same size, with the same wrapping paper under the tree. I picked it up and the card read ‘To Jamie thank you for saving my girl from Elaine and Joe’ not exactly the lovely message she had wrote on our gifts but it was still kind of her “look Big Man it’s from the dragon it must be your pjs” a big smile broke onto his face. I gave him it and he ripped the wrapping paper and I could see that he was relieved to be included. He striped off his clothes to put on his pjs. “Wow look Carmela Christmas has come early” I said drooling over the Big Man’s huge muscles but she looked embarrassed and Chris covered her eyes. Then all four of us posed in front of the tree and Carmela took the photo. I sent it to my mum and within a few minutes she sent me a photo back, it was a photo of the four of us when we were kids in front of our old Christmas tree in Glasgow. I stared at the photo and it suddenly hit me. Who needs a silly boyfriend when you have best friends like these. These boys were the only soul mates that I needed.

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