Earth Girl.

chapter two,new friends

Early afternoon came around pretty quickly so i popped my head into the parlor to see a new guy sitting with jess and matt, he looked safe enough mid twenties maybe and floppy hair . leaving my nerves at the door i stepped into the room ,jess imediatly jumped up to introduce me to the new guy.

"Smith ,this is my cousin amy . she's visiting from yorkshire ." she said to the man,then turned to me "i spoke to my dad a little while ago amy , he says you apparently came here a few times when you were younger,it seems strange to me that you don't remember"

I gave a nod and smile to the guest ,who was looking a little pale at this point then spoke to jess." that's no surprise to me ,i have whole chunks of my life missing from my memory" i was very matter of fact about it , no point hiding the fact my brain is like a sieve.

"ok... so smith ,amy . amy ,smith. old friend of the family" jess said while looking a little jittery.

"hi nice to meet you ,or nice to see you again . which ever applies " i held out my hand to the stranger  who shook it gently " good to see you again , last time i saw you here you were about fourteen" he said in a soft slightly broken voice.

He suddenly stood up and took the book i was still holding from my hand and started wondering around the room flicking through it. matt just raised his eyebrows and patted the seat next to him on the sofa, i walked over and sat down still watching the odd new guy . "Shakespeare?" smith said as he came tramping across the rug and sat down next to me " you read all these when you were younger , see the notes in the margins are from when you asked me to explain what things meant" he said smiling .

"HA, i wondered who made those " i didn't feel at all nervous around this man like i normaly do with strangers, must be my sub-concious recognising him . This made me a lot more comfortable in the house , sat between two harmless blokes laughing at the notes in an old book. Then matt had to go and ruin it " so what was amy like when she was little, i can't work out weather she was quiet or not, earlier she seemed shy and submissive but something tells me if she has an opinion strong enough you'll know about it " he said laughing .

"Thanks a lot , you saying you think i'm a secret loud mouth" i said turning to him

"she's always been a little shy ,but i think that comes from being from a large family ,so many loud pushy cousins it's better to go unoticed so they can't gang up on you ,but yes if pushed enough she will give as good as she gets as long as she doesn't hurt anyone. physicaly or mentaly, she's sweet like that" smith said leaning around me to look at matt.

He really did know me, i couldn't help but smile . I think this is gonna be a good night "aww , sweetie"  matt slung an arm around my shoulder and sqeezed me to him while making cooing noises, taking the piss. grrr.

"Carful mate ,don't want to anger it" smith obviously thought he was funny.

P.O.V. Smith..

I headed inside and was just going down to the library when jess saw me and dragged me to say hi to moffat and the new guy, he seems perfect and from what i've seen of his work , he has it to a tea. We were just talking over my being back here after such a long time when a girl popped her head in the door. She was quite striking ,not in the obvious way you might think of someone, she had two colors in her hair ,red under black plus her lip was pierced twice on the bottom, she was wearing a simple t-shirt and skinny jeans, just over the neck of the shirt i can see she has some sort of writing tattooed across her chest. My chest felt like it was gonna explode when jess introduced her as amy.

Little amy ,who was always able to make me smile when she was little. all grown up and standing right there, she hadn't been to this house in years ,i didn't think she would ever be back now that she's an adult and has a whole life of her own . jess was busy talking away as usual so after saying hi i took the book amy was holding and pointed out the notes we made when she was small, i feel like i need her to know me again even if she can never actually remember me.  Her and matt seem to get on well which is nice, but then it's very easy to get on with amy.

P.O.V. AMY.

We were all chatting away nicely when jess remembered to tell me something." oh amy your dress for tonight is in your room"

"WHAT, i don't do dresses" i said looking horrified . matt looked puzzled but smith was already laughing, he must know me well enough to know i hate dresses.

"It's a formal evening, you need to . don't worry it's not pink, it's a nice deep blue and has minimal sparkles."

"any sparkle is too many , " i stressed, " but ok ,i'll wear it a long as i don't look a comlpete twit."

we spent most of the day lolling around the sofa,i was obviously getting comfy in the company of the guys as i ended up with smiths head in my lap as i played around with matt reciting lines from shakespeare , while i tried to put of going and putting on that dress.