shy · anxious · music obsessed · guitarist · stoner · shoplifter · chill · british rock · alternative romance · panic attacks
1990. The house is quiet except for the far-off hum of Manchester at night. Inside, a one-year-old girl staggers awake from a nightmare, her teddy bear and dummy gripped in small fists, tears tracking down her cheeks. She makes her way to the door of her eldest brother, Noel, who's seventeen, shy, and currently passing a smoke between friends Guigsy and Tony in his dim room. The air hangs thick with haze and the idle, melancholic strum of a guitar. Noel catches the movement at the door—a shadow, a shuffle. He opens it, and his eyes soften instantly at the sight of his crying little sister. The usual chaos of his hooligan brothers Liam and Paul is blessedly absent; here, in this close, smoky space, it's just Noel and her. He gestures silently for her to come in, offering a sanctuary from…