The Locket | Hero Fiennes Tiffin

Proper Reunion

Hero's POV of last scene

We walk into Ellie's apartment and go into the living room. I sit down on the large grey L shaped sofa  and sit Diesel down on the floor.

Ellie then walks through to the kitchen to put her shopping away and after that she shouts through "Do you want a drink?"
"Yeah, please" I reply
"Ok, we've got beer, water, tea, coffee, Pepsi, red wine, hot chocolate and eew Irn-Bru"
"Em, can I get a beer please" I reply. She must live with someone from Scotland then if they have Irn-Bru. They seem to be the only people who like it.

She comes back through to the living room and hands me the beer whilst she has a glass of red wine, which she puts down on the coffee table and then sits down to talk to me from the opposite end of the sofa. She asks me what I do. When I say I'm an actor and model she says so what have you been in and I tell her about After, Harry Potter and the Dolce and Gabbana fashion show I had just done. She then tells me that she works in one of her family's hotels. I think she said they were called "Kingsley Hotels and Resorts" that name does ring a bell though.

We chat some more just about our lives when we hear a glass shatter and then someone yell "FOR FUCK'S SAKE" someone clearly is in a bad mood and they sound Scottish like I predicted, so I better keep out of their way.

"Are you okay?" Ellie shouts through trying not to laugh.

"No, I'm not. Today has been shit. First my alarm didn't go off, so I was late for work, then you took ages in the shower so I had to skip it, then the lifts were broken so I had to run down the bloody stairs, then my Oyster card needed topped up and the person in front of me didn't know how to use the stupid machine, after that I almost had a panic attack and fainted on the tube, when I got to work my friend was so tired and It made me feel bad, then my second patient today was a judgemental bitch, then my third patient was my childhood best friend, who I hadn't seen since I moved away and didn't bother to contact me ever again, even today. The rest of the day was fine but then coming home someone spilt scalding hot coffee on me which slightly burned my skin and stained my uniform. So just now was only the cherry on top" she nearly yells through to us. Her day does seem shit though, I kinda feel bad for her.

"Wow your day was shit then" Ellie replies as we hear her start shuffling around the flat.

There is something about that voice that I recognise. I just can't put my finger on it.

We start talking again and a few minutes later Ellie's flatmate asks us what we want from Domino's. Ellie asks me what I want and I reply a meatilicious, so she shouts through my order as well as hers.

"It says it should be here in half an hour" she informs us.
"Okay that's fine" Ellie reply's

After that we continue talking and as I pick up my beer to take a sip Ellie's flat mate walks into the living room and stares at me, she looks like a deer caught in the headlights. Well this is fucking awkward. Ellie speaks up and says in a cheery voice "Millie, this is Hero. He's our new neighbour from across the hall.

Millie looks like she doesn't know what to do until she says "Hi, nice to meet you Hero" smiles and then walks over to sit next to Ellie on the other couch, brings her feet up to her chest and then starts looking at her phone.

Me and Ellie continue our conversation for a bit, when I notice Millie go outside to the balcony, looking quite distressed and upset. I don't know why but I instantly care about how she's feeling, it's like I've known her for years, yet she hasn't spoken more than a sentence to me since we met.

After Millie goes outside, Ellie leaves to go to the loo and I sit and pet Diesel until either one of them comes back. After a few minutes the balcony door opens and Millie comes back in. She looks like she has been crying, shit. I hope she's okay. She sits down on the other couch and takes out a necklace from under her top and opens it up to look at the picture. Shit I recognise that locket, it's the same locket I saw that nurse wearing earlier. Shit it is the nurse from earlier, and now I have just realised my earlier suspicions at the hospital were right.

"Are you okay Mia?" I ask her feeling concerned . She snaps her head up and stares at me like I just committed a crime and then she starts crying, probably not for the first time in the last half hour.

"Yeah I'm fine" she replies wiping the tears from her cheeks. I can tell she's lying. I always could on the rare occasions she was keeping something from me.
"Mia, I know your not fine, I can tell when you're upset. Do you not remember when we were younger I could always sense something was up"
She looks like she is contemplating whether to tell me what's wrong for a second, but then she says "Fine, I had a really shit day, I saw you and you didn't even say hi even though you definitely recognised the necklace, and to answer your question I just found out that my boyfriend has been cheating on me with the bitch who bullied me in secondary school, so yeah I'm not fine" she admits

I don't know what to say to her confession, but I know that she needs comforting, so I go over to the other couch and wrap my arms around her. She hesitates for a second and then she leans into me and sobs into my shoulder. It's like we are 10 again.