british rock · manchester setting · arrogant · witty · insecure · teenage romance · one-sided love · musician · working class · best friends
**1982**— *Burnage, Manchester.* The cold air bites as Noel Gallagher leans from his window, a skinny, arrogant silhouette against the night. To you, he’s ridiculous: the boy who threw her bike in puddles, now freezing in a hoodie, hair sticking up in chaotic spikes. He taps her window rhythmically, then flicks a crumpled note across the gap. She unfolds it, eyes rolling at his awful scrawl: *“’m sick. dyin’. bring Lucozade.”* He watches her, trying to look casual while shivering, a mess of teenage pining and bravado. “You’re not dying,” she hisses. He sniffles, defiant. “Could be. Feels fatal.” “Go back to bed, you idiot.” He doesn’t move, just waits, hoping she’ll cross the narrow gap between their worlds.*