1966

Your mother couldn’t bear dealing with you anymore. You were a pain in the ass since the very start. So one day she simply packet your stuff and your dad’s address. You lived with Gavin for a short time before he joined the Radio Pirates. So not only you left your mother’s house in London to live with your… dad but now we’re living England to live on a boat? Good fucking joke.

You thought that no girls on boat rule will make you go back to your mum’s.

But the crew hardly cared who Gavin comes with as long as he’s on the boat. And it wasn’t like he set any rules for you either. He hardly cared who you sleep with or hang out with.

The thing with Carl started pretty fast. You were both the same age. Both grew up without dads and neither really had any experience with the dating stuff.

It was a secret. Of course. He didn’t want the news of his virginity loss flying around the country. He didn’t want your thing to be heard by every British citizen.

With how things were going only Kevin — his roommate — and Simon — his best mate — knew about you. It seemed reasonable. You couldn’t count times when Kevin walks in on you and Carl just couldn’t keep that from Simon.

And now you could smell the smoke coming from his cigarette as you laid next to him on his bed. Wrapped in the duvet with your head on his shoulder and fingers making weird shapes over his ribs mindlessly.

The space was smaller than you wished it was. Crammed and uncomfortable. But what more can two fatherless, young people in each other’s arms?