I'd Like to be Somebody Else

Chapter 4

    When we got back to their house we found a dirty dark green bike leaned against the wall in their hallway.

 "Mam'll fucking kill you if she see's your bike there." Noel shouted as he dumped my suitcase next to it.

 "I do friggin' know. I'll shift it when the lads are gone." Liam replied from the living room.

    We sat on the settee in the room, their friend's wolf whistled when they saw me. I just rolled my eyes, I was strangely a bit flattered by their attention.

 "Oi, shut up. This is Stacy." Liam said, whacking the one sat closest to him. "Bonehead, Guigsy, and Tony." he introduced.

 "Paul." Bonehead and Guigsy corrected together, I decided I prefered the nicknames.

 "Hi." I waved awkwardly.

 "So, you staying then?" he asked.

 "Yeah, I just need somewhere to stay and stuff."

 "Stay in Paul's room, it's not like he's coming back." he insisted.

 "You never said some lass was coming. We're here for band stuff, unless she's the best guitarist ever or songwriter or something, she can eff off." Tony told Liam.

 "She's probably a better drummer than you so shut up. What's she going to do? Give songs we ant got to someone else?"

    Guigsy gave Bonehead a look, like they were trying to work out what I was doing here. "Bet she's after bedding one of them." he commented quietly.

    They started to discuss their band some more. They were reluctant to talk in front of me but Noel insisted I stayed.

    The others agreed Oasis sounded pretty cool and decided to adopt the name and adopt Noel as guitarist and songwriter.

    Soon they moved onto talking about the Beatles and other bands they aspired to be like. Liam and Noel seemed to have every one of the Beatles' records. They played a lot of records, mostly spending a lot of time arguing about which song should get played next. Unfortunately for me I wasn't a Beatles fan, I barely recognised their most famous songs.

 "Stace, your choice." Bonehead said as one song was coming to it's end.

 "I don't mind. Something by John Lennon." I didn't want them to realise I didn't know any of the songs they liked, our taste in music was very different.

    When they got bored of music they moved onto football, apparently Man City had a match on in a few hours. Dad and Luke and most people I knew supported the mighty Liverpool FC so that's who I supported.

...

 "Come on." Noel said, tapping my arm.

    I'd zoned out, they were heading out the room.

 "We're having a match. You definitely nodded." he said, he looked at me strangely. They clearly hadn't realised I hadn't been aware since they mentioned football.

 "I... alright." I got up and followed them to their back garden where Liam found a ball.

 "Don't you need at least five people a team?" I felt disorientated like I'd been to sleep, I'd zoned out for way too long.

 "Three'll do. Me and Noel are captains, I pick Bonehead and Tony." Liam said he looked around and picked out things to represent the goals.

    I was sure I'd be hopeless and let my team down, I was in no state to run around.