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The girls had got to Charlie's yard before the meeting had actually started so they wandered around the yard until they saw Tommy and Arthur.
Aberama spoke, "I took a look round, I like this place. Fire for melting silver, canal to get it away. How much?"
Tommy stared at him for a few seconds before shaking his head, "Nothing you see here is for sale Mr Gold."
Arthur looked at the two confused who had appeared next to him, "What are you doing here? you were told to stay at mine with Ada."
"Yeah well that was before I felt the need to punch your bitch of a wife," Freya replied, missing the way the Gold boy had raised his eyebrows and held a laugh. Lottie however didn't miss it.
"What do-" Arthur was cut off.
"Arthur I love you I really do but the amount you love your wife confuses me actually it bloody baffles, she's rude, stuck-up and shows no respect to us or you whatsoever-" Freya stated before Tommy cut in, "Can you two do this later please?"
"What's going on?" Lottie asked Arthur.
"Shush and listen," Arthur replied, taking the flask from Tommy
"Oh, everything is for sale, everything," Aberama said to Tommy ignoring Freya, Arthur and Lottie's bickering and threw his drink into the fire. "You tell Mr Strong I'm going to buy his yard."
Freya had once again locked eyes with the boy. Lottie watched the two with a smirk.
"This yard has been in his family since they settled," Tommy told the man.
"But I've decided to make it part of our deal," the man told him.
"Charlie?" Tommy called and the older man walked over. "Charlie come here."
"I'm gunna spin a coin for your yard, Charlie," Tommy told the man and Freya broke eye contact with the boy to look at her brother in confusion.
"You're going to what?" Charlie asked.
"If it's heads... Abbie here takes all of this with my blessing," Tommy told him waving his hand around.
"Tommy?" Charlie spoke.
"And if it's tails... I fuck your daughter, Mr Gold," Tommy said.
Freya gasped. "Tommy! What the fuck?" she exclaimed with her jaw slack as Arthur started laughing.
"You have three daughters I hear," Tommy continued.
"Oh my god, stop. Just stop talking," Freya muttered putting her head in her hands.
Tommy ignored his sister and continued, "And uh Esmeralda is the oldest and also the prettiest, so I'll have her. So make her part of the deal and spin against the yard."
"Please tell me she's at least half his age or if not as far away from here as possible," Freya spoke causing Arthur to put his hand over mouth shushing her.
"Tommy for fuck's sake," Charlie complained.
Tommy tossed Aberama a coin, "Here, you toss the coin, Mr Gold."
He flipped the coin in his fingers before smirking, "No. Please don't believe this is a joke, the coin toss is sacred, yes, Arthur?" Tommy asked his brother.
"Sacred," he replied, his hand still over Freya's mouth as she was stood in front of him.
"You toss the coin, you take a bet before witnesses and if I win..." Tommy spoke.
"Then we'll insist that the terms of this agreement wager are fulfilled," Arthur finished as Tommy and Aberama stared at each other.
"Toss the coin, Mr Gold," Tommy demanded, not breaking eye contact.
Aberemra flipping the coin in his fingers once again before speaking, "Tommy Shelby, OBE. No wager today but with this penny I will buy a flower to put on your grave. When the time comes."
Freya had pushed Arthur's hand away from her mouth. "And I bet that will be soon but it won't be Tommy's grave that will be dug next it will probably be mine or Lottie's," she told them.
"And before that time. Please don't again disrespect my friends or their valued property," Tommy told him. "We missed Christmas, let's have it now. Peace on earth, goodwill to all men," he said raising the flask and walking away and sat down.
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Freya and Lottie had sat together watching and listening to Charlie and Johnny argue over potato's making them laugh.
"He's staring again, do you reckon he remembers you?" Lottie asked Freya.
She shrugged, "I mean I am pretty hard to forget but there was a lot of people there so probably."
Lottie hummed, "I reckon you'll end up together and get married and have kids and live until you're old and grey in a vardo."
Freya gave her sister a questioning look, "I've seen him three times and I've never spoken to him."
"So? I'm already planning your wedding," the brunette shrugged and Freya laughed at her.
"Whose wedding? Who's getting married?" Arthur asked.
"You, again and to someone who isn't Linda or any variation," Freya replied as Lottie replied, "Freya."
"To whom?" Tommy and Arthur asked ignoring Freya's comment.
"Doesn't matter, she's too much of a baby she probably won't even speak to him," the brunette stated earning a slap from the blonde.
"I am not a baby!"
"Go speak to him then," Lottie teased.
"Arthur and Tommy would kill me," Freya replied and Lottie rolled her eyes.
"Baby," she whispered playfully.
"I don't find you funny," she said as she stood up. "You ever call me a baby again after I do this and I swear Charlotte Maria Brown-Shelby I will give you a haircut in the middle of the night," and walked over to the boy not realising he and his dad had heard their whole conversation.
The blonde immediately regretted her decision as soon as she got closer to them but couldn't go back on it.
"I do remember you by the way, I remember your freckles," Bonnie told her breaking her out of her conversation with herself in her head not realising she was still walking towards them.
"Pardon?" Freya asked confused.
"I remember you, you showed up to one of to fights with that girl over there, two other girls and a woman with black hair who I'm assuming is related to you somehow," he replied.
"Oh, so you only remember me because of my freckles?" she asked.
He nodded, "And your eyes, I'm pretty sure I kept staring at you."
"You did," Freya confirmed.
"Bonnie," he told her.
"Oh no, I'm Freya," she replied awkwardly watching the boy's face break out in a grin.
"No I'm Bonnie but it's nice to finally know your name, Freya rather than referring to you as the freckled pretty girl from my fight."
Freya's face burned, "Oh, right, well it's nice to meet you Bonnie." She wanted nothing but for either someone to stop her word vomit or for the ground to open up and swallow her.
Thankfully, Ada had appeared next to her. "We have to go back down there, now," she spoke to her and grabbed the blonde's arm pulling back down to the rest of the Shelby's.
"I mean it Lottie, don't ever call me a baby again," she demanded. "Oh and he does remember me."
"Told you! But I swear I won't ever call you a baby again," Lottie agreed.
Ada and Lizzie looked at each other confused. "Sorry what's going on?" Ada asked the girls.
"Nothing!" they shouted and everyone looked at them.
"Sorry," they spoke, looking down as Ada and Lizzie laughed at them.
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