I'd Like to be Somebody Else

Chapter 45

They had a gig in Bath on the 22nd of June and then we were off to Glastonbury for another three days of festival fun.

I stood on my own at Glastonbury as the sky darkened with the setting sun. The lads were getting ready for their set and I was looking for some new people to hang out with. A girl with bright red hair, not ginger but dyed red, came up to me.

"Are you on your own?" She asked, probably feeling sorry for me. "You can come and meet me mates if you are." I recognised Mancunian in her accent.

"At the moment, yeah." I sounded more sarcastic than intended. "Sure, I could do with some female company."

We walked towards her friends and their tents. She was really chatty. "Are you here for the whole festival? We are."

"Yeah, I'm with a band, I think they'll want to stay again."

"You were here last year annal? Who are you with?" she questioned.

"We were. I'm with Oasis."

"Nice one! What are they really like? D'you think we could meet them? We've seen them quite a bit at the Boardwalk, never met them though."

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"Right, this is Amy and Anna, I'm Emily and this is Jenny." She introduced her friends. "I forgot to ask your name, din't I?"

"I'm Stacy."

Amy and Anna were blonde twins, Amy had short hair and Anna had really long hair, they looked like they'd be difficult to tell apart if it wasn't for that.

Jenny had ginger hair and loads of freckles.

"You didn't come to Glasto' on your Tod, did you?" Jenny asked.

"Don't you recognise her? Anna asked. "She's Noel Gallagher's bird." Amy revealed. "Aren't you?" They asked in unison.

I gave them a strange look for a moment, I was a little freaked out by the twin thing. I hadn't been friends with twins before.

"Tone down the twin powers." Emily told them, she must have noticed my look.

"I am." I confessed.

"So I read somewhere, there's a bun in the oven, is it true?" Jenny asked excitedly. "Think it was in the magazine I read earlier."

I wanted to know how the information was already being published when only a handful of people knew, obviously it was just the rumor mill at work. I was eleven weeks at the most but it was already getting difficult to hide it, especially in the summer heat.

"Nah, no way would you do three nights in a tent if you was." Emily shook her head.

I liked my new friends already, I sat with them and got to know them.

"You're right, I couldn't imagine like four days on muddy fields in the middle of summer if I was. I'm with lads that stay until they get kicked out because the venue wants to lock up as well, it would be too much." I denied and then I worried I'd protested too much.

"D'you want some wine?" Jenny asked, producing a bottle of red wine from her tent.

"No, no thanks, I'm not a wine drinker." I shook my head. "Have yous been friends long?"

"Yeah, since school. We've just graduated." Emily smiled. "Still can't believe we all got into Manchester, nevermind graduated."

I didn't know anyone who'd been to university. "Nice one. Great way to celebrate, this. Who are you here to see most?"