Serenity

Saturdays were for watching Come Dine With Me omnibuses and Doctor Who at Serenity's flat.

Serenity had chosen her name, and was quite proud of it, which says all you really need to know, but we put up with her, mainly because she was the only one of us with both a TV and a TV License.

Marie

Marie was an insomniac.

Most of the time, this was good. It meant she didn't have to spend half as much on drugs as she was tripping balls near constantly anyway.

But other times it was horrible. I'd catch her shuddering when no one else was there to see, her whole body rippling and spasming with pain when she didn't think any one would notice. Tears spilling over the lids of her eyes only to be scrubbed away fiercely before they could even start their pilgrimage down her cheeks.

From what I figured, the only rest she ever got was when she passed out on those nights when she hit the bottle hard enough that it decided to hit her back.

Adam

Adam was group property. It was an unspoken agreement. We were none of us exclusive anyway, but Adam, as the irresistibly hot group member, was the person who we knew in our hearts could not be tied down.

Myfanwy, apparently, did not.

Myfanwy Lewis

It was Myfanwy Lewis' first night out with us, ever. She was sitting opposite me, with her perfectly made up face and pristine shirt and jeans.

I wanted to mess her up. I think we all did.

She knew she had something to prove to us, you could see it in her eyes. So she gulped down six shots without even smudging that pillarbox lipstick of hers.

Brigitte

Brigitte was a perfect being.

Not the same kind of perfect as Myfanwy, not by a long shot.

Brigitte's perfection was harder to find, and even when you found it you couldn't name it.

It was something about the way she held her tiny figure. Something about the way you felt when you held her tiny figure. It was a little how she bit her plump lips. The fact that no matter what you did she seemed innocent.

How she fit in the world so perfectly.

Whatever it was, it had me well and truly hooked.

Sam, Alex, Jordan and all the others, well they were good. They had their strengths and they were sweet, but Brigitte made me feel as though I was a world away.