beetlebum - oasis/blur

DAMON'S FLASHBACKS?

DAMON'S POV

So apparently Brona snores in her sleep.

I would know as she wouldn't shut the fuck up whilst I was driving. I near crashed a few times due to the noise. Like seriously it was desperate.

We were on a trip to Liverpool to visit Brona's family, fucking loved her mum I did. She was always so lovely and wanted to see the girls and us. However, before we settled in Liverpool, we decided to spend the day in Manc for a laugh.

Neve always loved Manchester, we'd been up quite a lot. Jess, Gra, Neve and I used to go on day trips to Manc and other places when we hadn't felt like going to school-the most memorable was the Newcastle trip of '85, in which Jess and I fucked off from school and got a random couple of buses to Newcastle whilst we were both high as kites. I think we might've kissed for the first time that day, but we were so pissed I didn't think she remembered, I couldn't really either. I remember Neve and Gra chasing us around school the day after because we'd left them to deal with our soggy history teacher on their own. Christ I'd got a beaten that day.

I peered over at Jess who was staring out the window, she was just a fucking angel wasn't she? Literally came from heaven, I'm sure of it. She was getting some motion sickness from the bumpy ground we were driving over, but she was still beautiful as ever. Neve, Brona and Alex were also in the car, they were in the back, Brona was sandwiched in between Neve and Alex who still hadn't spoken in weeks. Kat was driving her and Graham, and Dave and his wife were in with them.

"You alright babe?" I teased her, sending her a small wink. Whilst being very drunk in a pub, Jess had let it slip that she still thought about the time I called her 'babe' in year 7-I was a menace.

She smiled weakly at me, "I'll be sweet, sure we're near there anyways." And she was right, we were nearly in Manchester and as soon as we were there, we would be headed for a KFC or something.

I pouted at her and I wanted to kiss her so badly, but I was driving so. "If you need me to stop so you can go and get air, I will love."

"Honestly, it's all good Dames." I knew she'd be okay, I was just concerned. I never wanted her to feel sick, she didn't fucking deserve it-bit dramatic.

"Damon, there's this thing called the fucking road and I'm certain you're supposed to have your eyes on it right now," Neve grumbled as Brona's head dug into Alex's shoulder. She wasn't having the best time in the backseat.

"Stop moaning," Alex muttered. Jesus that would be enough to start a fucking riot.

"Shut you up ya bastard," Neve hissed, getting ready to jump the poor lad.

"Calm the fuck down," Jess spat at the both of them. "I'll throw you out of this car-the both of you." She groaned, "why couldn't one of them have got in Kat's car? Then we wouldn't have to deal with their shite."

"Still here so we are," Neve spoke, "no need for the cheek." Now I was about to fucking hit her, she needed to chill. Be zen.

"Are you looking to be stranded on the country lanes of god fucking knows where?" Jess asked.

"Not really no."

"Then fuck off."

And so it was silent again, and I'm not sure if I preferred it this way or not. Don't get me wrong, listening to Neve and Alex yap at each other whilst trying to drive wasn't music to my ears or anything, but sometimes the silence between them was bloody deafening. I missed them being friends.

"Now you've woken me up and for what?" Brona cried, putting her face in her hands. Should've been an actress that one. "Like that sleep was well nice and you've all gone and fucked it up for me."

Neve shoved her back into Alex's shoulder and told her to shut up, to which she received an inappropriate gesture in response.

"So what happened the other day then, when you and Noel shared a taxi?" Jess questioned Neve. I was curious about that too actually. Alex was shooting fucking daggers.

Something in her mood shifted, I think she became fucking paler than she already was the ghost-like bitch. "Nothing," I wasn't the only one that saw that gulp, was I? "Taxi man just left him to his, then me to mine."

"Kat said you weren't there when she got back from Gra's," I said, becoming slightly quizzical.

"I'd been to the shops, then I came back." She got defensive very quickly, "yous know fine rightly that if I'd been anywhere with Noel, the paps would have it fucking spread out front page."

"No one said fuck all about you being with Noel?" Alex shot back. Chaos broke out, Jess and I decided to tune them out as we played some tunes at full volume.

Suddenly 'soul love' by David Bowie started playing, and oh my god the fucking flashbacks I got you wouldn't believe it. I hadn't heard that song in ages, it used to be Jess and I's song through out the 80s. I remember sitting in her room, it was about '82 I think and we were around fourteen. She was doing her make-up for some party we'd been invited to, and her cat Bowie was roaming about her room. I wasn't in the best mood, some girl I fancied had gotten a boyfriend and I was proper depressed. When soul love started playing, Jess had started to dance about the place acting like a weirdo, but I loved it. She'd cheered me up and I think since then I fancied her.

Thanks David Bowie!

NOTE
haven't updated in ages lmaooo
not sorry
-ur bestie xx