Sorry for the bit of the rubbishy title! Although this story does have a lot of Karen and Chris involved in it it is more about Karen and her daughters so it probably goes better in this section.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this fan fiction except Emma’s boyfriend. This story is mainly based around Karen’s youngest daughter, Laura, but Karen and Chris also feature in it a lot along with some other characters. A lot of it is from Laura’s viewpoint. All the ideas came purely from my imagination and are not meant to harm or offend anyone! I don’t exactly know where I’m going with the storyline at the moment so if you have any ideas please comment them below!
Rating: For now, PG/12
When Laura walked through the door from school she shouted hello to whoever was in the house, threw her bag in the hallway and kicked off her shoes before heading into the kitchen to get herself a drink and a snack. She pulled her neatly straightened hair out of her face into a messy bun and pulled a glass out the cupboard, pouring some diet coke into it right to the top so the froth at the top almost bubbled over. She then went into the living room and put her feet up, grabbing the remote control and watching the recording of Geordie shore which had been on the night before. About 10 minutes later she was interrupted by Karen and Chris coming through the door all loved up kissing each other passionately, Chris rushed to get Karen’s jacket off but before he could he tripped over Laura’s bag where it had been dumped in the middle of the hallway.
“Laura…! Can you please move your bag how many bloody times do I have to tell you, I am sick of it!” Karen shouted through to the lounge.
“I’m sorry, maybe if you looked where you were going instead of eating each other’s faces off it would be easier and you’d see what you were doing!”
“Excuse me young lady! How dare you talk to me like that,” Karen said sternly marching into the living room giving her daughter a glare.
“True though…” Laura muttered under her breath not even bothering to look at her mum.
She went back to watching the tv and took another sip from her coke, while Karen just shook her head and went back out to Chris, apologising to him and giving him another quick kiss on the lips as she took her jacket off and hung it on the pegs in the hallway.
“She’s getting worse I tell you she’s only 14 I didn’t expect her to be getting this hormonal so early” Karen went on to Chris leading him into the kitchen and sharing a little smooch whilst they waited for the kettle to boil up properly.
“Laura what is all this mess in here!” Karen shouted through the wall looking at all the bowls and glasses that were still piled up from breakfast.
“What????” Laura whined.
“All these bowls and plates from this morning you could have sorted them out” Karen said moving away from Chris and rinsing them under the hot tap before roughly drying them off and putting them in the proper places in the cupboards.
“Oh I’m sorry I don’t see why I should have to do it it’s mainly yours and Chris’s anyway, out of all that lot I have one bowl and there’s no reason why I should have to clean up after all you lot” Laura moaned.
“Well you could start, I have enough to do you know”
“Mum you just skate all day with your best friends training famous people, you’ve got it lightly I’m the one at school all day and college one day a week, I’ve nearly got a paper round too I’m like 2nd on the waiting list, and when I come home all I basically do is revise and do homework you call that an easy life” Laura whittled on trying to prove her point to her mum who had now just totally zoned out from the half hearted conversation/argument and her attention was now focused fully back on Chris.
“See you’re not even listening to me now!”
“Laura no I’m not listening because you are just talking a load of crap that I already know anyway, I’ve been at school too you know! And what you’re doing now I don’t really call that homework or revision!” Karen said walking crossly into the room folding her arms and standing with her weight on one hip as she looked at Laura.
“Mum, it’s Friday. I’ve been up to here in homework all week this is the only night I have free!” Laura nearly screamed at Karen putting her hand above her head.
“Get to your room I’m not having you talk like that” Karen ordered pointing in the opposite direction.
“Fine. I will. I don’t want to listen to you ramble all that **** at me anyway I’m much safer in my room I think” she said walking out the room with attitude, budging past Karen and swinging her bag over shoulder when she picked it up on her way upstairs, slamming her bedroom door which echoed all over the house.
“I don’t know what to do with her” Karen said to Chris who now had a rather shocked expression on his face, he’d only been dating Karen for about a month and this was only the third or fourth time he had been round Karen’s as they were normally round his, and all of those times neither of Karen’s girls had actually been in the house. He wanted to tell her he thought she was being a bit harsh on Laura but he thought he would have been better off just keeping quiet.
Laura was so angry by the time she got up to her room that scene happened most nights when she got home from school and it always resulted in her storming up to her room in a mood and Karen screaming her head off at her. Normally she’d just slam the door and put her iPod on the docking station full volume, playing music that she knew Karen hated. But today she felt different and she’d had enough of the constant arguments every day, she put her earphones in and sunk into the memory foam mattress on her bed and shut her eyes so no tears could escape. Every now and then she would hear her phone vibrating and the red LED light she could see was flashing out the corner of her eyes but she did nothing about it, she didn’t want to talk to anyone.
i'm doing a twit cam on the @SJsLittleAngels account soon so if I do update it tonight it won't be for a while, and if not I will do it tomorrow morning x
"Karen don't you think you were being a bit harsh to her then..." Chris said once they'd settled themselves on the sofa and were snuggled up closely and he'd finally plucked up the courage to tell her what he actually thought.
"No she deserves it, I can't just keep giving into her and I'm absolutely sick of it" Karen said angrily. Chris didn't say anything else after that he just snuggled in closer as Karen started flicking through the tv channels and deleted Laura's Geordie Shore, without really realising it.
"Laura! Dinner!" Karen shouted up the stairs a little while later, Chris was just putting the cutlery on the table and Karen was dishing up and bringing the plates through to the dining room, but Laura didn't hear Karen through the shut door and the fact that her ear phones were in didn't really help either. Realising this, Chris went upstairs excusing himself from Karen for a minute and pretended he was just going to the bathroom but instead he knocked on Laura's bedroom door, poked his head round and told her to go downstairs.
"About time too that you came down" Karen said who was now sorting drinks out for the three of them.
"Mum I don't even like milk it's gross" Laura whined as she sat down in front of the large bowl of spaghetti bolognese, turning her nose up right away. "It's not like you don't know I tell you all the time and you still give it to me" she complained.
"Oh Laura for gods sake will you just drink it or you should have got your own, it's good for you anyway it's not going to do you any harm is it it's not going to kill you" A couple of seconds Chris came down the stairs and sat down next in between Karen and Laura at the head of the table, shuffling his plate and chair over a bit so he was closer to Karen.
"Well I don't see you ever drinking bloody milk with your dinner" Laura mumbled twiddling the spaghetti around her folk.
"Laura would you please stop for **** sake"
"Why can't I have wine with my dinner like you do"
"Because you're 14 Laura, you're not drinking alcohol at that age thanks" Karen said getting more and more angry with Laura and currently just taking it out on her food and at the same time putting Chris in an awkward situation just sitting there listening to the two of them bicker on at each other.
"Well you did at my age I bet" Laura played to see how far she would get before Karen just totally flipped out.
"Laura would you just ****ing leave it please you're not me are you and your mum actually cares about you unlike mine did, that's why I'm not letting you have any wine okay you're too young, Emma doesn't drink yet? Where is she anyway"
"How am I supposed to know where the hell she is"
"Will you give it a bloody rest please and just eat your dinner"
Sorry that's a short bit I thought I had more time, and also I left the notes and ideas on my grandad's laptop, and I'm not going there till thursday, so winging it a bit! More?? X
kicking myself SO MUCH HERE!!! just wrote a huge update for this and then word went and bloody crashed, lost it all and no idea what i wrote!!!! urggghhh
“Are you okay Chris?” Karen asked as soon as Laura had left the table and gone back to her room, she’d noticed he’d gone a bit quiet and wanted to know why. For the past 10 minutes he’d been just sat staring into space while the two women argued with each other, he was taking sips out of his now empty wine glass just in an attempt to make it less awkward, but obviously Karen knew him far too well for him to cover up anything.
“No I’m fine” he said staring at his bowl.
“No you’re not… tell me what’s wrong”
“No really I’m fine, honestly Kaz,” he said, this time looking into her eyes trying to cover it up, and leant in to kiss her gently, then wiped a bit of Bolognese sauce from the side of her cheek. He then stood up and took their bowls into the kitchen piling them up on the side, and returned with a bottle of red wine that they’d already each had a glass of, and topped both their glasses up. They took a sip each before Chris leaned in for another kiss and then took Karen’s hand in his and lead her to the sofa. “I’m fine,” he said again, kissing her more tentatively this time.
“Okay I believe you now…” she chuckled a little bit before kissing him back, and they sat laughing, chatting and kissing for a while.
“Karen… I do need to tell you something actually I wasn’t all that fine, it’s nothing major just a little thing though I don’t want to worry you” he said calming down the kisses and putting his arm around his waist.
“Chris you can tell me anything you know that…” she said taking him seriously now and looking into his eyes waiting for whatever it was he had to say.
“It’s just… you and Laura…” Karen’s face dropped. “When the both of you were arguing it just made me feel so uncomfortable it was unreal, I didn’t know what to do or say” he confessed. 30 years of close friendship made it incredibly easy for them to be around each other and it was a rarity for either of them to feel uncomfortable in each other’s presence, but since that friendship had turned to a much more heated romance relationship things had changed, they weren’t the same as they used to be. The atmosphere that Laura and Karen’s bickering created seriously discomforted Chris and he didn’t like it at all it wasn’t something he could just leave.
“I’m sorry… I don’t know what’s happened between us I really don’t, we used to be more like best friends than mother and daughter, she used to tell me everything, y’know? And now we barely hold a conversation or stay in the same room for more than 5 minutes” Karen said looking down at the sofa. “I don’t know what to do with her or how to cope with it to be honest”
“Well I’m just happy to have told you because I couldn’t just carry on and hide it from you… I can hardly give you advice can I, I mean I’ve got two boys and neither of them have hit their teens yet so you know…” Chris said squeezing Karen’s hand.
“We’ll get past it” Karen said positively.
“Yes you will I’m sure… you could always ask your mum I’m sure she had enough trouble coping with you as a stroppy teenager” Chris joked playfully kissing her, creating a much lighter relaxed mood.
“Hey what you trying to say, I was a perfect little girl” Karen protested.
“Yeah in your dreams love… I seem to remember coming round multiple times when we were that age and you were always having arguments with your mum” Chris told her laughing again, and kissing her.
“Hmm… well maybe a little” Karen admitted kissing him back making it more playful and hands on.
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“Thanks for asking mum yeah I’ve had a great day, and my exam went fine too, again thanks for asking” Laura snapped at her mum who had walked in about 10 minutes ago and not said a word, just made herself a coffee and sat down in front of the tv.
“Laura give it a rest I’ve just walked through the bloody door”
“Mum I’ve just watched you sit there for at least 10 minutes you haven’t even said hello or anything”
“Sorry I guess I just have a lot on my mind… how was your day sweetie” Karen said sighing heavily, still not looking at Laura but making half an effort to start a conversation.
“It was fine thanks, how was yours…”
“It was good, nice of you to ask” Karen said looking up from the magazine she’d bought on the way home from the rink, and gave Laura a brief smile.
“You still haven’t asked how my exam went either”
“What exam are you even talking about? You did all your tests a few weeks ago didn’t you?” Karen said confusedly, she’d gone back to reading the magazine article that seemed to be fascinating her so much.
“My piano exam mum… and I have told you so don’t even go there,” Laura said angrily.
“Oh… It was a big enough surprise when you said you were having lessons and got your own keyboard in the first place to be honest, there aren’t any musicians in this family so I haven’t a clue where you got that from, it certainly wasn’t me”
“Well I passed with distinction anyways” Laura muttered, getting the impression Karen just really didn’t care.
“Well done baby!” Karen said with a little more enthusiasm, folding down the page of the magazine she was reading and putting it on the arm of the sofa next to her before getting up to give Laura a warm congratulatory hug.
“Thanks” Laura said sheepishly blushing a little at the fact her mum was actually taking an interest all of a sudden, and then she disappeared back up to her room until dinner was ready when she was summoned down again. It was just the two of them sitting at the table to eat, neither of them knew where Emma was again and this time Laura didn’t care so much as before because she was just happy Karen had started to show more of an interest in what she was doing.
“We get our reports back tomorrow and then next week we have to choose our options for GCSE” Laura told her mum through a mouthful of baked beans. Laura was in Year 9 but she was one of the oldest in her year group being born in early September and she and her group of friends were very mature for their age in a lot of ways that Karen wasn’t overly impressed with.
“Do you honey? Do you know what you want to take then?” she said stabbing her folk lightly into a sausage.
“Erm I’m not too sure really… I want to carry on music with the piano and stuff… and maybe something arty… I’m getting a careers advisor appointment so that could help”
“You don’t know what you want to do when you’re older then?”
“Nope not a clue…”
“No I didn’t either when I was your age” Karen reassured her.
This could have been a lot longer if I hadn't have deleted all my work:/ but hey... hope you all like it!
Laura was much happier now Karen had finally had a proper conversation with her for the first time in a couple of weeks, it seemed like a miracle if they’d go more than twenty minutes without arguing about something whatever it may be however serious they just couldn’t seem to manage it. So as Laura went up to her bedroom in a much lightened mood she put her tv on in her bedroom curling up in a bowl with a fluffy blanket over her legs to keep warm and watched her box set of One Tree Hill, the only light in the room was her deep red lava lamp which had a strange light to it. She had her phone in one hand and ipod in the other, tweeting and texting and BBMing all her friends.
Monday morning soon came again though and Karen was already shouting at Laura to get out of bed from her own bedroom. It was 6:30am and Laura had been awake for the past 15 minutes but she’d just been on her phone the whole time on twitter and facebook, she didn’t want to move out of her warm cosy bed.
“Laura will you move and get in the shower now please!”
“In a minute mum I won’t be long I don’t have to leave ‘till 8 it’s not like I’m going to be late if I don’t get in right this second,” Laura shouted back through the wall that separated her room from Karen’s.
“No I mean it get in now, otherwise you’re going to make me late you’re not the only one that has to get ready remember” Karen said back. After another 10 minutes a bit more shouting at each other Laura eventually moved shivering as she walked to the shower rubbing her tired eyes, resulting in another lecture from Karen about how she should go to bed earlier, etc. Once she got under the warm water of the shower however she didn’t want to get out and just stood there letting the water run over her body and soak her hair rinsing the bubbles out of it.
“Laura come on you’ve been in there half an hour!” Karen yelled banging on the door. Laura just ignored her and stayed under the water until she knew she really had to get out, deliberately taking her time to towel dry her hair and wrap it up in a turban, and then brush her teeth for much longer than she normally would just to annoy Karen. Finally she walked across the hallway back to her own bedroom receiving an angry glare from her mother on the way as they passed and Karen angrily walked into the bathroom to have her shower. Laura took her time getting dressed into her uniform that she hated. The skirts were supposed to come down to the knee and Karen made sure it did when she had bought the skirt, but Laura just rolled over the waist band until it came half way up her thighs, and put on some flesh coloured tights with it. She’d tried her hardest to persuade Karen to let her have heels for her school shoes but didn’t have much luck so she’d been stuck with flat slip ons. She never bothered with her actual school jumper she just wrote a note for her teachers saying she’d lost it and put a plain black cardigan over the top of her short sleeved blouse with the top button undone. She then spent a lot of time straightening her hair, then still deciding she wasn’t happy with it she ended up tying it up in a high messy bun, and got started on her make up which she also tried to get away with as much as possible which Karen wasn’t happy with.
“Laura come on hurry up you’re going to make me late and you haven’t eaten yet, if you’ll be wanting a lift then you’d better bloody be quick and get down here sharpish!” Karen yelled at up the stairs.
“COMING!” Laura yelled back much louder than was necessary, she quickly picked up all the exercise books that were lying on the corner of her desk and shoved them untidily into her shoulder bag because she couldn’t be bothered to check which ones she actually needed.
“Are you coming or not because I’m leaving now??” Karen said giving Laura her last warning.
“Yes I’m bloody coming!” Laura said grabbing her coat which wasn’t exactly the most practical but it was longer than her skirt and when she had all the buttons done up it actually looked like she wasn’t wearing anything else underneath it.
“Don’t talk to me like that young lady… now come on grab yourself a snack and here’s your dinner money… come on let’s go before we’re both late” Karen said sternly. Laura ran into the kitchen grabbing herself a packet of crisps and a granola bar for good measure, quickly filled up a bottle of water before piling it all in her bag and going out to the car where Karen was now waiting. Neither of them spoke a single word the whole way and Laura got out the car in silence hurrying over to meet her friends without a simple ‘goodbye’ to her mum who had drove off just as quickly and she was now late for work too.
Later when Laura came back from school Karen was already home, snuggled up on the sofa next to Chris, they were huddled in each other’s warm open arms and kissing each other’s soft lips every now and then, chatting quietly. Emma was up in her room with her boyfriend, Karen wasn’t aware of this because she hadn’t even noticed her daughter come in but Laura definitely made herself known when she walked in the house.
“MUUUUM!” she yelled as she came stumbling in tripping over both Karen and Chris’s skates that had hap-hazedly been left in the middle of the hallway.
“I told you we shouldn’t have left the skates there,” Chris said quietly to Karen.
“Well it’ll teach her to stop leaving her bloody stuff out there,” Karen hissed.
“I think there’s a difference between leaving a small handbag and a pair of skates Kaz? We’re lucky she didn’t actually fall over them that could have been a serious injury you know” Chris said seriously.
“Well that’s not my problem is it” Karen replied half heartedly.
“Hi mum, hi Chris” Laura said trying again to make an effort of making nice conversation.
“Hi Laura” Chris said friendlily, Karen didn’t say anything.
“I’ve got my report and grades, not that you’re interested” Laura said slumping down on the chair opposite where the loved up pair were sitting.
“Laura I don’t know where you’ve got this thing about your mum not caring about you… she does, you need to know that, I promise you” Chris said looking straight into Laura’s eyes with a warming smile.
“Chris is right baby… Let me see it then” Karen said turning to face Laura and suddenly acting more loving and caring towards her daughter. It seemed to cheer Laura up and a bit and she rummaged around in her bag for the a4 sized brown envelope that she had already ripped open in a hurry when she’d got it. Karen flicked through the pages not really understanding all the grades and levels as they had changed so much since she’d been at school. But she carried on, smiling at the comments and guessing whether they were good grades or not, which she came to the conclusion that they all were, the whole time Chris was silent, just peering over her shoulder. “Well done darling!” she said when she’d turned the last page, and got up to give Laura a hug.
“Oh and I’ve decided the options I’m taking,” Laura told her. “PE, History, Spanish, and Art & Design” she said while she still had her mother’s attention.
“That’s good baby, good choices I think, do I need to sign anything because if so then it’s best you give me it now isn’t it”
“Yo no sabía que eran buenos en español?” Chris randomly came out with while Laura was looking for the bit of paper that Karen had to sign, it was buried underneath all her books right at the bottom of her rather big bag. As soon as she heard Chris speaking Spanish in a wonderful accent Karen burst into giggles just because it had been so spontaneous and unexpected, she had no idea he could speak any other language. “Hey what are you laughing at?” he said trying to keep a straight face as he raised his eyebrows at a giggling Karen, but eventually failed and ended up giggling away with her, kissing her lips.
“I didn’t know you could speak espanol…” Karen said trying to put on a seductive voice and act flirty with him.
“Well there’s a lot of things you don’t know about me…”
“Okay well please save the Spanish for later eh?” Karen said suddenly turning back to Laura remembering she was in the room.
“Okay it’s just this one, here, and here” Laura said ignoring Karen and Chris’s flirty behaviour and got up to give her the slips, and as soon as they were done she disappeared upstairs again.
“así que ... ¿Por dónde empiezo?” Chris said as soon as Laura was out the room, pushing Karen back onto the sofa and leaning over her body, staring into her eyes with a seductive look in his eyes, and began placing soft kisses on her lips, and down her neck, like he was massaging her skin.
"no se detienen..." Karen replied now it was her turn to surprise Chris as the words came through her lips, her breathing became heavier as Chris continued to pleasure her in different ways.
"Yo no creía que usted sabía nada de español?" Chris said.
"Nunca negó que hice?" she replied back now they were both acting incredibly seductive to each other, Chris's hands slipped over Karen's chest, and then down to her waist, lightly fingering her curves through her clothes, until his hands wondered further down and lifted the t shirt over Karen's head, dumping it on the floor next to them...
After a few hours Karen and Chris were fast asleep in each other’s arms cuddling tightly, they looked so adorable just lying there, breathing in their deep sleeps. The next morning came around quickly, much too quickly for their liking but they got up together and showered together sleepily after their 6:30am alarm went off. It was just like any other morning when Karen eventually joined Chris downstairs after having taken over an hour to decide what to wear, and she was shouting at Laura as soon as she saw her, it was just random shouting for anything she could find to blame on her innocent daughter.
Laura had had enough and she hadn’t seen her older sister in days, now she was old enough and she had a boyfriend she found no need to be at home for more than one day a week, she just went on sleepovers with her friends wherever and whenever she could, out partying and clubbing most nights even when she had college. Laura missed Emma like crazy, especially when Chris was round, because she was just so fed up of Karen having a go at her for no apparent reason it was getting stupid. She’d had it up to her eyeballs for a couple of months now and was sick of it, it wasn’t fair that Emma got away with everything, mainly because she just avoided the house totally and Karen trusted her to just do whatever she wished, as long as she had her phone in case of emergencies.
In her lunch break Laura phoned Emma on her BlackBerry just for a little catch up, she missed her so much and knew she wouldn’t see her at least until the weekend, and all her friends had ditched her and she didn’t know where they were, either at clubs or just somewhere else in the school, none of them were answering their phones so she’d given in, it was the perfect opportunity.
“Laura? What do you want babe?” Emma answered the phone sounding busy and like she was in the middle of something.
“Hi… I just wanted a chat that’s all, I suppose you’re too busy for me as well are you?” Laura said in a disappointed tone.
“No, never too busy for you sis! I have about 10 minutes, that’s all! How are you?”
“Fed up… like seriously fed up… and I hate mum”
“You hate mum? Why?!”
“She’s just… urgh! She’s always blaming EVERYTHING on me and I’m just sick of it! Ever since you’ve not been here so much I just get the blame for anything and everything she picks up on, I swear half of its her own fault…” Laura went on.
“Yeah, that’s why I got my own life to get away from her” Emma explained. “It’s not like it used to be you know, she’s with Chris now, she’s got a new life, new boyfriend and that. It’s not like when she first split up with Dad and spent all her time with us, its not like that at all anymore”
“but she just doesn’t care!!”
“Laurs… of course she cares. She’s just so busy, she gets stressed out with work you know that, and with Chris she seems to think everything revolves around the two of them, she doesn’t mean badly but she just doesn’t have as much time for us as she used to, you need to understand that I think. Its not that she doesn’t care, and she doesn’t love either of us any less.”
“Thanks Em… if you say so I guess… its just soo frustrating though! It’s like, I can’t do anything!”
“You just need to plan more of your things and get out more, y’know, get out the house? Go to parties! You’re old enough now.”
“I suppose… so you don’t think she’ll mind if I just clear off from now and again?”
“Of she’s not going to mind you silly goose! She’s just expecting you to get on with your own life. Right… I’ve got to go now, good talking to you, I might even be coming home tonight, so I’ll see you later eh? Cheer up babe.”
Laura felt a lot happier now she’d spoken to her sister Emma who’d been through the same thing a couple of years ago, and although she had enough money to buy her own place she did still live primarily with Karen, Chris and Laura, she had her own life now and not much time to spend with family.
Quite a short update I think, this is the end of this fanfic too now because I don't think it's really going anywhere and I don't have any more ideas for it! Hope you liked it x
