By order of the peaky blinders

3 a smile

"I was taught young how to be stone-cold,self-
Reliant, to hold myself high and poised, with a ready smile and a subtle charm ready to conquer the world. So i learned from early on to cry behind closed doors an dim lights, without sound.
"Aurora can i come in?"tommy said from the other side of the door.
" yes but wait there for a minute"
I shut my diary and put it in my pillow case.
" ok yes you can come in now"
"Whats up"?
Tommy steps into her room looking about then looking at her, " you've grown up!
"Ye i guess we all do"
"Hm, you want to come to the fair with me john and Arthur?
"Really?
"Yes"
"I need to handle some things before we leave"
"Do you carry around a knife or a gun"?
" no i don't use weapons unlike some people" i say smirking.
He hands me a knife, " keep it you might need it"
I scoff,and take the knife and put it in my pocket
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I walk to the docks where we picked up my brothers and looked over to see the same group of boys that were there a few weeks ago.
"Oi, do you jump my friend",i say walking towards them.
"And what friend would that be" Matteo says
"The one last night"
"Oh the one that was looking for something, ye we saw him"
His friends laugh
"Is something fucking funny" i look at ask them "well?"
"Don't go fucking psycho on us"
"And who the fuck are you" I ask
"Paul"
"We'll Paul come here let me tell you a secret"
He grins and comes closer, he leans in for me to tell him, I pull out my knife and cut him a smile.
" call me a psycho again and I'll do much worse than that and leave my friend alone"
Matteo laughs, "yes mam" he says sarcastically
I walk away and not looking back.

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I walk back into the house to see my brothers waiting on me.
"You took a long time where have you been?" Tommy asks taking a drag from his cigarette
I pull out the knife and throw it on the table, i walk towards the cabinet and grab a bottle of whiskey and swig it.
"Why's there a bloody knife on the table tommy?" Polly asks
"We we're just about to ask Aurora about that".
Polly raises an eyebrow and walked over to me taking the bottle out my hand, " eat this".
"What?
"Eat it"
I take a bite of the sandwich while all eyes lingering on me, "what you wanting"
"I've not seen you eat in days"
" I have ate I just go out a lot oh and about the knife I cut a guy a smile because he called me psycho and it was a warning to stay away from my friend"

I spit out the half chewed sandwich, "that was fucking disgusting, now can we go"

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I sat at the back of the car waiting for my brothers to get back they were at the back taking a piss.

"Can you guys hurry up"
"Ok we're coming" John said jumping in the back
next to her.
" tommy what are you doing?"
" I look at the back of the car to see him pulling a body out.

"Fucking hell tommy" Arthur says rolling his eyes
"Who's that" I asked as my eyes were being covered by johns hand.
" we need to bury him" tommy says placing the body on the floor.
" what happened" Arthur asks
" I had some business to take care off"
"Help me bury him".
I jump out the car, and look at the body.
"What you doing aurora?" Tommy asks in confusion.
I grab the knife hanging out the dead man's pocket.
Tommy scoffs and rolls his eyes ," you gonna keep it then ey".
" yes I might need a knife"

Arthur takes a break and takes out a bottle and takes a swig out of it.
"Whats that" tommy asks taking the bottle out of his hands
" the doctor gave me it to help with my anger and aunt pol said it would be good"
Tommy takes the stopper out and sniffs it, he pours it out on the ground and laughs, "what the fuck you doing tommy".
"This isn't medicine they used to give this to us in the trenches to stop us wanking".
My face turns bright red  and I cover my eyes.
John laughs , as tommy gave a smirk " Arthur we need you fast not slow".

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We arrive at a field with traveler house and people mucking about,

" I thought we were going to the fair" Arthur asks
" we are after this"
We pull up and we all get out the car and are greeted by Johnny dogs.
"Tommy!
"Johnny dogs"
"Tommy how the hell are you"?
"All the better for getting the city smoke oot me lungs"
"I thought you became a bit to grand for us" he says laughing
"I've been busy" tommy explains
"How have you been aurora" he says putting his hand out.
I shake his hand, "do I know you?"
He lets out a laugh, "I've knew your brothers for a long time they talk about you a lot".
I turn to look at them, "oh really" i say smirking.
I look over to see a beautiful white horse, and see 3 men looking looking at me.
I turn to them and put my middle finger up and laugh.

I look back at tommy and Johnny.

"I'm riding with the lee  family now"
" I heard Myself I'd rather live among pigs".tommy says

The lee boys look over in disgust then look back to what they were doing.
"No disputing tommy. So your first fair since France?"

I look over to see them moving the horse.
"What do you know about France you war-shy gypsy bastard"
I look away and laugh

"So this is the horse" tommy says looking at its hooves

"And that's the car" Johnny dogs said

"Hang on a minute, your not swapping the family car for a bloody horse" Arthur said getting all defensive.
"Of course we're not swapping it"Johnny dogs said walking up to tommy

"We're going to play two-up" tommy says.
As the coins get flicked up in the air and land back on the ground they pick the coins up and shake each others hand, Tommy hands him the keys.
Arthur walks up and nudges him

" I knew it"
"Tommy what the fuck" i say shaking my head.
" I knew it, Tommy you bloody idiot" Arthur shouts.
" shut up Arthur I won".
"Good" Arthur says in relief .
" I promised Johnny I would let him have a spin in the car if he lost".

Tommy looks over to see the lee brothers laughing.
Tommy walks towards them, "are you lee boys laughing at my brother"?
They walk closer to tommy as there eyes connect in anger.
"Eh? I asked you a question".
"Tommy, come on"
Johnny stands in front of them, " come on it's just a crack".
"Get your family out of here and go and enjoy yourselves"

I walk towards tommy.
One of the lee brothers point to me, " she's probably like her mother a diddicoy whore".
Tommy takes his hat off and slices the guys face in front of me.
As I get pushed back from the fight I smack my head of a wheel on a trailer.
Arthur and John take there caps off and slice em all a smile.

As the blood poured from its source meandering effortlessly as it carried away any hope of survival, staining all it touched with unthinkable pain. The world around me went black.
All you could hear was the blurred talking of the people around you.