Strawberry Lemonade

3

I sat up with a start, Noel was gone, I was trying to piece together the night before. My head was a jumbled mess of clubs, drugs and other things.
I looked at the clock on the bedside table.
"SHIT" I shout and jump up. It was two in the afternoon, I was an hour late for my own brother's practise wedding lunch/dinner.
I pulled my dressing gown on over the babydoll dress I had been wearing last night and my flat pump trainers, muttering profanities the whole time.

When I ran in the whole room went silent, well almost the whole room, except the gallagher brothers who were trying not to laugh at me. I went red in the face when I made eye contact with Noel.
"Look what the cat finally dragged in" Poppy comments. They'd all dressed up smart and made an effort then here i was with my dressing gown on and my orange hair in a bush atop my head.
Martha signalled for me to sit down between her and our dad. mum sat next to andy and it looked as if it was going well. Everyone continued eating and doing whatever.

"Proper snooze fest this is" Martha whispers to me "im so bored, you're just about the most eventful thing thats happened, where were you?".

Liam was trying to get my attention from opposite, I was ignoring him on purpose he was trying to make subtle hand gestures and noises to make me look.
"I just slept in Marthy, sorry love" I reply.

Liam eventually resorted to kicking me in the left shin from under the table. I shoot him a glare of death and try not to cringe at the pain.
He points at noel, who is staring at me from next to him.
'Are yer ok?' Noel mouths to me, even though he wasnt actually speaking even miming the words had a thick mancunian accent.

'Im fine, no thanks to you I'm late' I reply also mouthing the words.

'Sorry' He replies.

I look at Martha. "marthy dear, have you met the Gallagher brothers?" I ask.

"Oh yes, im a big fan" she replies "i almost fainted when i saw them".

"I can vouch for that" liam chuckles back.

"Its obvious she hates me, i wonder whats been said" I say to them, looking at poppy who is smiling and sipping a glass of what looks like rosé. "Why did she invite us, why did andy invite us if she's just going to hate on us".

"Prehaps its got something to do with me love" my father says, he had a husky sort of old man voice and was ginger like me, he looked like a character from Harry Potter the way he dressed.

"How so?" Martha asks.

"Well, it was me that passed that law, the one that got her dad knicked and sent down for a good few years, she obviously never recovered from it, i dont blame her really her mum told her he was dead for almost a decade" he replies "makes me wonder why shes marrying my son".

"Obviously she didnt know who he was" martha replies "opposites attract and all that".

"They certainly do" I reply as a waiter brings me my food, it was steak and chips, very informal. The steak looked delicious, juicy and tender just how I liked it. There was also a small bowl of ketchup on the side.
"I love steak" I speak with my mouth full, which is disgusting but i was so hungover i didnt care "ah this is delicious, better than sex".

"You werent saying that last night" noel smirks.
I reach over with my leg and kick him in the shin.
"What im just stating a fact".

I could tell he was on a wind up, I hadnt known the gallagher brothers very long but it seems they were very predictable, noel was anyway. Liam was quite unpredictable, you never really knew what you were getting next from him.
"What did he just say?" My dad asks me.