Forever And Ever.

6

we kissed passionately as we walked up to the front door. I'm pretty sure we hadnt broke contact since we got out of the car. He even put the key in the door without looking.
I broke contact to breathe at my own pace for a second. Then I grabbed his hand and walked up the stairs backwards, smiling.
We went into the spare room, the master bedroom was too far away.
I giggled and he pushed me onto the bed in a seductive kind of way.
The only problem was he misjudged how far I was from the headboard and I went down like a tonne of bricks with a loud thud.
"FUCKIN' HELL GALLAGHER, TALK ABOUT RUIN THE MOOD" I shout, now with my hands on my head in the foetal position, my voice slightly muffled by the blankets "MY FUCKIN' HEAD MAN".

"JESS? NOEL? ARE YOUS ALRIGH' UP THERE?" Peggy calls from the bottom of the stairs. Fucksake. I forgot Peggy had come to drop the cats off.

"YES MAM, HANG ON" Noel shouts back. "I guess we better go say hi?" He says as if he was asking a question. Although it wasnt a question, thats what we were doing. I think thats called a rehtorical question. I glared at him, rubbing the bump that was forming on the back of my head. So much for getting laid.

We walked downstairs to the livingroom. There was Peggy, in all her glory. She still looked the same.
"Hello, Aunty Peggy" I smile and hug her.

"Hello chicken" she replies "how are you?".

"I'm alright now thanks" I say, letting go of her.

"Mummy" a very small voice says behind me "what was that loud noise?". I had forgotten Eliza's room was right next to where the headboard was in the spare room.
Noel turns and picks her up.

"Mummy and daddy were going to watch a film in the spare room as nanny is going to sleep in our room and mummy accidentally hit her head whilst getting into bed" he says with a chuckle.

"But you're both still wearing your date clothes not your pj's".

"Yes and yer very nosey, Eliza, come on lets get you back up to bed" he says and takes her back upstairs. He was a great dad.

"Shes a smart girl you know" peggy says as we take a seat "shes certainly a pleasure to babysit".

"Thank you for doing that, Peggy, it means alot".

"Its alrigh' dear. I needed to get away from manchester anyway. Seein' my granddaughter was just a bonus" she smiles then turns serious "are you and my Noelie back together then, poppet?".

I think for a second. "Well, Eliza and I have been livin' here since she got out the hospital three months ago... she still has check ups every now and then to check she is ok as she's so tiny... she even has her own room here now aswell. I dont know. I guess we are but sometimes I feel like we are just playing happy famillies".

"I get tha', has he asked yous to move in perminently?" She asks.

"No, not yet. But he hasnt exactly brought up us leaving" just as i finish my sentence, not one but both of my cats run up to me. I missed them so much. They were only four like Eliza so they had plenty more time to spend with me. I stroked them and loved them for a little bit, whispering things to them. The sort of stuff you whisper to a cat like 'I missed you', 'you're so sweet/handsome/lovely', you know what im on about.

"She's back to sleep" Noel says walking into the room "asked me to read her Red Riding Hood".

"Its one of her favourites" I reply to him.

Noel was due to go back on tour soon... when that happens, we are bound to go back to Margate and forget about all of this. At the same time I was enjoying Noel's company. It was nice having him back.

A while later we said goodnight to peggy and all went to bed ourselfs. Peggy had chosen the spare room as it was easier to get downstairs from there, so we had the master bedroom, where we usually slept.
We laid there with both of the cats at the end of the bed. They were purring away, I had missed them quite alot now I think about it.
"J? You awake?" Noel asks, holding my hand in the dark.

"Yeah" I reply "I cant sleep".

"Me neither, I just had a wonderful idea" he says.

"Go on" I reply "i'm listening".

"Well, I was thinking. Maybe you and Liza can come with us on tour" he says.

"Come with yer on tour? Noel we only just got back together... if you're serious about it" I reply.

"Of course I am".

"Is it a good idea then? Because it was the tour stress that fucked me up last time".

"No, J, it wasn't and you know it as well as I do" he mutters.

"What was it then?" I raise my eyebrows.

"Fucking Paul Weller behind my back, doing mountains of coke, hanging out with Bowie all the time when at least half the time he wasnt real, doing yer nut" he replies. 'Doing your nut' was slang for 'going crazy'. I hated being labelled as crazy but I let it go.

"Why the fuck do you always have to bring up the Paul Weller thing?" I ask "it was ages ago".

"Because it hurt me" he says "anyway thats not the point, I think it would be good for you and Eliza to come on tour with us". I dont say anything.
"Come on please, I love you so much and I dont want to lose you again".

I sigh "fine, but you better appreciate this". We didnt even need to go get our stuff from home in margate because noel had a load of my old stuff and had brought more for me and eliza.
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The next morning I woke up to Eliza in the bed and Noel getting up. The doorbell had rang and he was going to answer it. I rolled over and smiled as he left the room.
Then I just listened from upstairs.
"ALRIGHT IM COMING" he shouts to the door as the doorbell keeps going. Then runs and opens the door.
"The fuck are you doing here?" He says.
Thats when I heard it. It was an unmistakable sound, one that you know from a young age.
A baby crying.
I looked at eliza, who was looking at me just as confused.

"I'm not here for myself so spare the arguments, yeah" she says.

"I dont care who you're here for to be honest" Noel replies.

"Well i'm here for the baby. She's six months old Noel, you cant just ignore her existence".

"Let her in love" Peggy says from the top of the first flight of stairs.
I hear the door slam and they all walk into the livingroom.

"Stay here, Liza, watch cartoons until I get back" I say and turn the TV on, quickly punching in the numbers the channel nick jr. Which was a new kids channel. She liked it so I left it on.
Then I leave the room, shut the door and find my way downstairs.
They had shut the livingroom door when I got down there.

"Yer cant just fuckin' turn up like this, Meg, my wife and daughter are upstairs man" noel says. I can hear them talking through the door.

"You mean that bitch, Jessica Hamilton? The one that left you three year ago and went into hiding? Save me the sob story please" the woman, who Noel had called meg replies.

"I GOT MY DAUGHTER HIT BY A CAR" he shouts "what was I supposed to do? Leave them there?".

"Yes?" She says almost like a question.

Thats when I burst in. "Jess" Noel smiles.

"Don't 'Jess' me Noel, who the fuck are you?" I reply furiously.
I really couldnt wait for Noel to talk himself out of this one.
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A/N: whats poppin' fam. Im super tired and I forgot what I was gonna say today.
But drama is happening.
Im so excited to write the next chapter.
See you then.
- Paige X