The Locket | Hero Fiennes Tiffin

Reunited

Amelia

I lie in bed for about 20 minutes trying to get to sleep, but I just can't. First my dog scratches at the door, so I go over and let her in. She bounds over to my bed and plonks herself right in the middle. Typical. Then when I close the door and go back over to my bed to try and get to sleep my brain just becomes overwhelmed with thoughts about how I'm going to survive a weekend and the week of the wedding with Ryan, without my family finding out that I hate his guts.

I decide that sleep just isn't going to come, so I get out of bed and am about to go downstairs. Then I remember that I said to Hero I'd tell him when I arrived.

I quietly pad across my room to my handbag, so that I don't wake up my dog or alert anyone else that I am awake. I reach into my handbag and root around until I find my phone. I pull it out from the very bottom of my bag and turn it on. It says it's at 50% so I don't bother getting my charger.

I go outside to my balcony and sit on my swinging egg chair. I go through my contacts until I find the one labelled Hero. I tap it and then tap the phone icon that appears on the next screen after.

I put the phone against my ear and wait to see if he is going to pick up.

Hero

I am woken up by the loud obnoxious ringing of my phone. I look over to my bedside table where my phone is, to see who the fuck is calling me this early in the morning. It's Amelia.

I unplug my phone from the charger and quickly answer it.
"Hi" I groggily say into the phone
"Hi, shit you sound like you just woke up. I forgot it's only like half nine. Did I wake you?" She replies.
I chuckle and say "yeah you did but it's fine, I was probably going to wake up soon anyway" which is the truth.
"Anyway, I'm just calling you to tell you that I arrived here fine" she says.
"That's good, what have you done so far?" I ask her.
"I only got here like half an hour ago, so not much, but my parents, dog and twat of an ex boyfriend greeted me when I got here"
"Why the fuck is he there?" I ask her. He cheated on her, not the other way around and now it seems he is trying to act like nothing happened.
"He knows that I won't create a scene this close to the wedding. He is the best man and I am the maid of honour, so I don't want to stress my sister out even more about the wedding, but as soon as the wedding is over I never want to see the arse hole again"
I hear a dog barking in the background and Amelia tells it to be quiet
"What's it called?" I ask her

Amelia

He just asked me what my dog's name is. Shit. How do I tell him I named her after him. I am going to die of embarrassment.
"Um" I can feel my face turning red "Her name is Hero" I quickly blurt out.
He laughs "Her name is Hero" he says emphasising the her.
"Yeah" I reply, internally cringing.
"You named your girl dog after me?" He says probably wondering what possessed me to do it.
"Yeah. I was 11 and I missed you"
"What type of dog is she?" He asks me. He is probably hoping that I didn't name a pug or a chihuahua after him.
"She is a Siberian husky" I reply
"Cool" he says.

We chat for a few more minutes, until I am interrupted by a knock on my bed room door. I tell Hero to hang on a minute, till I see who it is, so that if it's Ryan I have an excuse to not speak to him.

I open the door and see that it is my best friend, Katie. Our faces both break out in smiles and I give her a massive hug. I forget I'm on the phone for a minute, but when I remember I tell Hero I need to go and say I'll call him later.

"Who was that" Katie asks me smirking.
"Oh, just one of my friends back in London. He told me to tell him when I landed" I reply. I never really told any of my friends up here about Hero.
"Anyway, are you ready for the fittings?" she asks me.
"Yeah, I can't wait to see Molly in her dress again. She looked so beautiful the last time. I know for a fact that my mum is going to cry and probably so am I"
"Who is all going to be there?" She asks me.
"Obviously us, her, my mum, James' mum, Charlotte, and her friends Kayleigh and Meg. I think that is all of us. Then tonight there are like 40 more people" I tell her, hoping I didn't forget anyone.
"Wow" she replies looking impressed. Then she says "some how everyone in our friend group is back home for the weekend, so I was thinking that tomorrow we could all do something before you go back home on Sunday evening?"
"Yeah, that sounds good. They could all come over here and we could just have a catch up and watch movies or something?" I reply excited to see them all again. It also means that I can give out the birthday presents to the ones who had birthdays whilst I was away.

We natter away for a good while, until I look at my phone and see that we only have an hour until we need to be there, and we still need to pick my younger sister up from school. I must look a state, so I run into my wardrobe and grab a teal T-shirt and some blue skinny jeans. I change out of the clothes I wore on the plane and then grab my jacket and put my shoes on. I walk over to my desk and take my heavy laptop out of my handbag and place it on the desk. then I pick up my bag and we dash downstairs.

"Mum are you ready?" I shout through to the kitchen.
"Yes. I didn't realise what the time was, let me just grab my keys" she replies as she comes running out of the kitchen.
"It's fine mum, I'll drive then you's can have a drink" I say as I go over towards the front door where my car keys are hanging up.
"Thank you sweetheart, we still need to pick up Charlotte from school by the way"
"Okay, let's go then"

We walk through the house until we get to a large black door, which leads to where we keep our cars. I open the door after putting in the pin to open it. The lights automatically turn on as I open the door and we walk down the steps that lead to the underground garage.

I spot my ice blue mini convertible in the corner and we walk over to it. I unlock it and pull forward the front seat so that Katie can climb into the back seat. My mum gets into the passenger seat and I get into the drivers seat after I pull the seat  forward again. I close the door and start the engine and then the  radio "Fairytale of New York" starts playing. Oops. That shows the last time I used my car was at Christmas. My mum starts laughing because it is June and I'm playing Christmas songs already.
I put my car into drive and we head towards the ramp that leads to outside. I click a button on my keys and the big garage doors open. I drive out into the sun and we make our way towards my old school.