Oasis: Time Flies...

Hello

I answered the door wondering who it could be. We weren't expecting anyone but this was Supernova Heights, everyone wanted to be here.

She stood there with a nervous, apprehensive, excited smile. "Hello!"

"What you doing here Kate?" I was surprised to see her here without Bone', she wasn't really a London girl. "Bonehead's not..."

"I know, Paul's taking me on a date, so..." She passed me the bag she had on her shoulder.

"What?" The bag looked suspiciously like a nappy bag, one Mums with young babies always have to carry all the shit they need.

Next thing I know she's trying to hand me their daughter. "We need you to babysit Lucy a few hours, a day, tops."

"No, no way Kate!"

She frowned, disappointed in my answer and held her in front of me. "She won't be any trouble."

"We're chain smoking, alcoholic, drug users." I objected. "We can't."

"I've known Paul and his friends ages, you can't shock me." She wasn't going to take no for an answer.

"You don't know me. What if I'm a nonce?" A last ditch attempt to scare her off.

"Are you?"

"No, of course I'm not!" I obviously, emphatically denied.

"Then you can take her." She looked like she was about to drop Lucy so I instinctively grabbed her. "Thank you! You're a massive help, honestly."

"No. Kate, no I'm not, we can't look after a child." I continued to protest, I was bloody holding the kid now so there was no backing out.

"We'll pick her up in a bit, everything you'll need is in her bag." She turned and skipped away.

I shut the door and put the bag over my shoulder. "Come on then, let's see what your uncles think of this."

"Whitey, what the fuck is that?" Guigsy was the first to notice when we walked into the living room.

I didn't say a word since it was pretty damn obvious.

"You got something you're not telling us?" Noel flicked a look at me, thinking he was being clever.

"It's your bloody Goddaughter, idiot." Liam nudged his brother.

Why didn't I think of that before? I sat her on his lap. "There you go, Bonehead wants you to babysit."

"Fuck off, Kate conned you ergo the baby is yours for the night."

I dropped the bag by his feet and held my hands up. "She's nothing to do with me."

"You're part of this band..."

I very quickly interrupted that one, I wasn't going to let him pull ranks on this. "I'm here to play drums, not look after some kid. She's nothing to do with me, I wasn't even around when she was born."

"She's Lucy Oasis Arthurs, she's part of the band, are you or aren't you?" He spun his usual bullshit to get his way.

She looked at him, responding to hearing her name but other than that she sat there pretty oblivious to everything.

"I don't do looking after kids, Noel."

"Why'd you take her then?"

"I didn't!"

"You obviously did."

Liam sighed and pulled Lucy on to his knee. "What are your Uncles like? You're gonna have lads arguing over you your whole life but no paying them any attention until you're at least eighteen, yeah?"