Strangers All At Once

Wish you the best

Sophie didn't come to work for two days and Michael had no idea what was going on, he'd never seen her like this before. When he'd dropped off some food after the Hen Do, she didn't even come out of her room, he'd heard the almost broken "go away Mike, i'm fine" and he'd known she wasn't and after two days of not seeing nor hearing from her... he was worried and so called in the two people he knew would have some sort of idea as to what was going on.

Francesca and Eloise.

He'd spoken to Phillip and told him what had happened, they agreed that they needed to do something and soon...

So they'd each called their girlfriends as they'd had enough of their older brother and agreed that something needed doing. Eloise and Francesca had always liked Sophie and they'd seen the looks between the two of them during the wedding planning dinner and suspected there was more going on than anyone knew.

Between Michae and Phillip they'd been doing some digging and they knew that Benedict had been planning to ask Sophie to marry him and that he had the ring. Eloise had found it the week before the stag and hen do and Michael knew it was all a big fuck up and there had to be some sort of reason behind what Sophie thought she'd over heard... they needed to talk and sort it out.

But in the meantime, they had to know what was going on, they had no idea that Benedict had been around to Sophie's and Michael knew why Sophie had left, thinking Benedict didn't want her, having heard him say he wasn't going to ask her to marry him, and then again a few weeks ago saying it meant nothing...

So he had to wonder what was going on.

"Honestly, if i have to hear him singing everybody hurts one more time i might kill myself" Eloise grumbled

"You could stop at home rather than crashing at Ben's..." Francesca said

"Someone has to keep an eye on him, honestly it's worse than the first time Sophie left... but rather than moping, when he's not singing and pretending he's not crying he's just raging..."

"Raging?" Michael asked "what for?"

"No idea, he's careful not to say anything around mum but I heard him saying something about how Sophie just... gave up on them how they'd yelled at one another," Francesca said "he's been writing angry songs and his art is a little scary... I'm sure I saw one picture of an older woman that looked a bit like Sophie's step-mum being hung, drawn and quartered..."

Michael and Phillip looked at one another "really?"

"Yeah, I saw that... it was freaky as fuck... but honestly we need to do something. If they come to blows at the wedding... Mum might murder Sophie and i'm not sure I can live without her muffins" Eloise said as Francesca nodded.

"We do have to be careful though, just from what we've found out we don't want to make it worse... it just... feels like this entire thing between them has been a massive cock up and misunderstanding" Phillip said which caused the girls to frown

"I've... i've got an idea but I was thinking maybe waiting until we can get them both together at the wedding and then make them both see sense" Michael said

"Does Sophie even know you're coming?"

"No. we've not told her. She gave us what for the other week when we tried to give her relationship advice... so we decided not to tell her..." Michael grinned

"But the cafe?" Eloise asked

"Al and John are going to cover for us and have agreed not to tell her" Phillip said

Eloise grinned "she might kill you..."

"Nah she loves us too much and knows we do this for her rather than for the need of the money. It's just a bit entertainment for us both" Michael grinned