Forever And Ever.

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I looked at him and smiled. "Noel?" I asked.

"Yes, Jessica?" He asks me, I had my head in his lap, we were sitting in the park having a picnic on a particularly sunny spring day like it was a movie or something.

My hands fiddled with my hair as I chewed gum. The sun was hurting my eyes a bit but I didnt mind. "Do you want kids?".

He scoffed a bit "Jess, we're 15, am not exactly thinkin' about fuckin' kids right now am I?".

"I meant like in the future, yer lemon".

"Yeah, I guess so" he mumbles "what about you?".

"Yeah, I want a little girl, a mini-me so to speak" I chuckle "I'll call her Ella, Ella Daisy Hamilton".

"Wont it be Gallagher if yer gonna stay with me, like?" He asks.

"Ok, Ella Daisy Gallagher" I roll my eyes. He leans down and kisses me.

"I love you" he smiles.

"I love you too Noel".

"Forever?".

"Forever and ever" I say as seriously as I can because I meant it too.
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The day the results came, Liam and I sat at the table in the kitchen staring at it as it sat unopened in the middle. Even Matilda sat on the spare chair at the table and stared at it with a confused expression, probably trying to figure out why we were.
Liam pulled both house phones off the hook and turned off our mobiles incase noel got them before us and called up hurling abuse down the line like a madman. So I had no idea what was going on in my social circles, I knew what was going on in the world because of the news.
What felt like at least half an hour passed before Liam finally said something.
"Are yer gonna open it then?" He asks.

"You do it" I reply quickly.

"Me? Its your fuckin' kid" he shoots back.

"Yours too" I mutter. He was sitting with his elbows on the table, chin resting on his hands.

"Flip a coin" he replies.

"Aint got one near".

"Hang on" he reaches into his back pocket and pulls out a two pence coin.
I take it off him. "Heads and I'll read it" he says as I put it on the back off my hand.

"Thats alright, I were gonna go tails anyway" I reply "ready?". He gives me a subtle head tilt to signify he is ready and I flip it. Heads. Thank fuck for that. I put the coin down and he grabs the envelope. The sound of him trying to rip it as quietly as he can is agonising.

"Just rip the fuckin' thing" I snap. He stops for a second then does exactly that. I mutter an apology for shouting.

He pulls the paper out, unfolds it and reads some bullshit at the top then looks for the info we need. "Ah here it is. Testing shows that Elizabeth Gallagher is 100% the daughter of Mr. Noel Gallagher". I do a little fist pump in the air like man city have just scored a goal or something. Then I look up and see Liam's face has dropped like someone just slapped him in the jaw with a large wet fish like a trout or something of that family.

"What is it?" I ask.

"T..Testing shows that Louis Gallagher is not related to Mr. Noel Gallagher or Mr. Liam Gallagher. Father of child cannot be named as we have no DNA to link".

"WHAT THE FUCK?" I shout. I was so shocked. "Seriously Liam, what the fuck?". I had stood up and was pacing the room with my hands on my head. "I gotta call Noel".