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Chapter 39 Boiling Kettles and Pure Salt

I felt like hell the next morning, I had maybe got four hours of sleep last night and they were nothing to brag about. I woke up before everyone else but not on purpose, it was eight o'clock when I went down stairs. Ross had fallen asleep on the sofa still dressed and the dogs were sleeping next the sofa. I went into the kitchen and made myself a cup of tea and sat down in the dining room to drink it.

I finished it before everyone else had even got up so I went to get changed, black jeans and my raven claw t-shirt with green converse. I nudged Smith awake, 'hey Turps need's my help down at the office, I will meet you there.' I told him before going to kiss him on the forehead.

I walked to the office, it was cold so I walked fast with my arms crossed, I had my keys in my hand and my bag over my shoulder. When I got to the office there was only one car but I didn't know whose. I went into the office and it wasn't much warmer then outside and went straight down to the office and dumped my stuff before going to the kitchen.

I leant against the counter as the kettle boiled, I rubbed my face with my hands and the door opening made me jump. 'You guys are here early.' Sjin's voice said, I removed my hands from my face, 'Just me.' I told him, he looked like he had only just got here, he still had his coat and bag on. 'Oh, you look a little worse for wear, not feeling well?' I shook my head, 'Not the best I have ever felt.' I told him, he was getting a mug from the cupboard, 'Well we have insomnia in a few days, let's hope you feel better by then.' He said and I nodded and the kettle pinged.

Sjin went to his office and I went to ours and sat down in my chair, my phone had a few notifications, a text from Duncan saying that Kim was going to stay at his place today and not be in. A message from Katie telling me that Ross was asleep on the sofa and I told her about him and Kim and some tumblr stuff.

I logged onto the computer leaving my phone on the desk, I was just starting to reply to a few emails and Turps walked in. I spun around in my chair to face me 'good morning, I thought I saw you come in here. Where is everyone else?' he said looking around the room, 'Smith is still probably in bed, Trott is probably trying to get Smith out of bed and Ross is asleep on the sofa at home.' I told him and his smile vanished, 'Oh did him and Kim..?' he asked and I nodded, 'bloody hell, how are they?' He asked, 'Kim is staying at Duncan's place today and Ross was in pieces last night.' I said crossing my legs on my chair. 'Damn, well if there is anything I can do to lighten the work load for the next few days let me know.' He offered and I thanked him and he asked me to remind Trott to come and see him later.

Around ten Smith, Trott and Ross all walked into the office not saying a word just sitting down at their desks. 'Do you guys need a drink?' I asked them, they all said yes and I got up to go and make tea, 'I will come and help.' Ross said standing up and following me out we walked down the hall to the kitchen which was luckily empty. 'I am so sorry about last night.' He said as soon as the door closed, 'that wasn't my intention, I don't know what happened.' He carried on, 'please say something Abbey.' He asked, 'I don't know what to say, I am confused.' I told him, 'We both let it happen.' I told him. I made the tea and didn't say anything. 'You didn't stop.' He said, 'What?' I asked, 'it wasn't just once. It was more than once.' He said, 'you didn't stop.' He said I looked at him in disbelief, 'You didn't stop either don't be placing this all on me. You started it.' I told him in a loud whisper. 'I carried on because you did.' He said his voice increasing in pitch. 'Listen let's just pretend this didn't happen.' He said, 'how? We can't just pretend it didn't happen because it did.' I said a little louder, we were interrupted by Martyn walking in.

We went back down to the office and I handed out tea to the other two. Ross and I sat back at our desks without saying anything to each other. I started up Photoshop and on the thumbnail for tonight's trials episode and I had an email come though on Google. I opened it and saw that it was from Ross, 'Can we talk about this a little more?' he said in his email. I told him we could but not now, we had a lot of content that needed to be done before we head to insomnia. 'We cant just pretend that it didn't happen. I don't know what we can do from here.' I sighed louder than I had anticipated, 'You alright?' Smith said from behind the partition, 'Yeah just forgot to start a new layer in Photoshop.' I said and he chuckled and I replied to Ross, I told him we couldn't do anything, we both felt guilty about it and both wished it hadn't of happened. I closed my email down and went back to work as did Ross.

When lunch time rolled around we all stayed in the office and worked through since Trott was editing rocket league, Ross was editing and sorting out GTA, Smith was editing trials and I was working on thumbnails for them all. We were recording with Sips in half an hour or so and we wanted it all to be done preferably before we had to record. Ross had seemed to leave the whole thing alone for now so I was able to get all my stuff done and I edited a worms episode that would go out walst we were away.

When Sips called us on Skype Ross was the only one still editing away. 'Hello?' his voice made me jump since I had my headphones on but my playlist had finished god knows when. 'Hey, what's up?' I asked closing down Photoshop. 'Not much, just got back from the hospital with my wife, we had a scan done.' He told us all about how they had to wait a while and then he had to listen to all the stuff he knew from having Austin. 'What's happening with you guys anyways?' he asked, 'Kim and I split.' Ross said which surprised me. 'Oh sorry to hear that man, how you doing?' Sips asked. From where I was standing he seemed better than I had expected him to be. 'Yeah I am getting through it.' Ross said.

We loaded up GTA and played free roam for an hour before Duncan jumped into our call. He asked us if we wanted to join the recording they were doing in a bit of some playlists with Zoey, Rythian, Zylus, Sjin, Tom and himself. We all agreed to join him in an hour and carried on shooting each other. Trott and I were hiding up in the mountains sniping the others and they didn't know where we were. Trott was doing silly voices and I was just trying to hit Sips in the head each time. Eventually Ross made it up the mountain and found Trott and I and shot us both.

We then hopped into the other recording and played with them guys for a couple of hours through some of the most difficult tracks you could imagine. There were so many of us and that dramatically reduced the chances of anybody not becoming very salty. Smith slammed his controller down on the desk so hard that is disconnected and he hurt his knuckles. And I think Duncan just quit the game by the last track and stood on the finish line moaning about how he couldn't make the jump off of the building and land without blowing up.