REBEL RED // Liam Gallagher

la belle femme

July, 1996

Liam Gallagher was striding down the street, the wind pushing back his already messy hair and making his eyes water. His eyes searched around as he strutted through a neighbourhood he had wandered into by accident. From afar, he could see a a girl with a camera, taking pictures of the clouded blue sky above them both, and as she took the camera away from her face, he walked into a mailbox. Fuck.
The girls head shot up, and she lifted her camera. Liam heard a click, and then a snap, and in the corner of his eye he saw a flash. 'Did she just take a picture of me?' he thought as he stood and stared at the redhead near him, in which she stared laughing. Uh oh, he'd said that aloud. Idiot. He was still bug eyed, she was smirking now,"What are you staring at, love?"

"You, dummy. You're very photogenic, have you ever been told that before?"
He hasn't, and the flabbergasted look on his face gave away his answer. He decided to fib anyway. "Ya, many times. I'm one sexy bastard, y'know what I mean?" The girl with the camera snorted, taking yet another picture of the bushy browed man. "The name is Natalie."

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LIAM
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"Noel! Why do all the pretty birds have to be where I don't live?"
Noel looked at his brother curiously, eyebrow raised. "Did you have another fling, our kid?" The younger Gallagher got up from the sofa backstage, swaggering over to the fridge to pull out a beer. "No, but fuck, I can't stop thinkin about this one girl, man. Fuckin american birds got some kind of spell on me."
"What did she look like?" He swooned at the thought of her. "Beautiful. Redhead from what I could tell. I didn't see her up close, but I know she was bangin'" The elder Gallagher chortled. "I wouldn't count on it, you've got Patsy to worry about anyways, our kid."
Oh, right. Patsy, Liam's soon to be wife. She's hot, but they aren't really meant for each other.
He laughs nervously at his older brother as he smirks. Swaggering back to the sofa, he plops down and start to think. Hard.
Too hard.
'There's no way I'm fucking getting out of this.'
"You're talking to yourself again, Li. You really need to get your shit together, you have women throwing themselves at you, why d'ya think this bird is any different?" Liam looked at his brother, his brain, that was previously working intently, shut down. "I honestly don't know man."
His brain started up again, and all that went through it was that name.

'N A T A L I E'