I blame my band for getting me addicted to Gorillaz. We were gonna do a Gorillaz song xD I really wanted sing 5/4, but now we're doing Foo Fighters. Oh well V.V

I know it's not mentioned where about in London Wobble Street actually is. I'm gonna suppose that it's gonna be in a nice area. No offence to anyone who lives in Elephant and Castle, but the people who I know that have been there, haven't had nice experiences. One of my mates, well, you'll see.

Before anyone complains about language, I have put in the summery that this is a T+. Plus this is a fic with the Gorillaz in it, of course there's gonna be swearing in it.

I don't own Gorillaz or Coca-cola.

Chapter 1: Red Ribbons

"The hell's this?" Murdoc stared at the envelope in front of him.

"Letter." replied 2D, playing with the edge of his shirt.

It was 3 pm in 212 Wobble Street, London, England, and the last thing the vocalist wanted was another shoe thrown at him.

"Letter- I know it's a letter, stupid! But why the hell is it a notice of eviction?" Murdoc threw his hands up in the air.

"Apparently, we haven't paid our rent." 2D replied.

"Rubbish!" yelled Murdoc, tearing the envelope open. "Oh. You're right, Dullard, we haven't."

"I'm going out." 2D pulled his jacket back on.

"You've only just come back! Where are you going now?"

"Uh, somewhere...?" 2D said, before escaping into the hallway.

To be honest, 2D had no idea where he was going, he just walked through the streets of London, not really caring what was going on. He found himself walking behind three women. Two were dressed in smart shirts and skirts, except one who was dressed in a red tee and black shorts with black tights and a red ribbon in her hair. The thing that interested 2D was the woman's hair. It was long, falling past the hem of her mid-thigh shorts, and dyed a kind of orange-brown. it was the colour that Japanese girls dyed their hair to be 'different'. 2D could catch snippets of their conversation.

"I'm over it, Lottie." the orange-brown haired woman said, in a slight accent. Which accent, 2D didn't know. "That and him. he can do whatever he wants. He is no longer in my life."

"I hear you, Annie," her blonde friend said "You don't deserve boys who cheat, no-one does."

"He constantly criticized me and everything I liked. He said that my hair made me look like a Japanese wannabe!" snapped Annie.

2D felt crap. He automatically thought of a Japanese schoolgirl when he saw her hair.

"He said Gorillaz sucked butt." Annie continued.

Oh ho, she was a Gorillaz fan, eh? 2D thought. Interesting.

"Tell Lottie what you told him." The other girl, short and curvy with dark skin, had joined in.

"What did she say, Aisha?" Lottie linked arms with Annie.

"I said "I hope Murdoc kicks your butt", haha!" Annie grinned.

"You should have said "I hope that your next girlfriend ends up like Paula Cracker"." Aisha said nastily.

2D paused. Half of him wanted to stay and listen to what Annie's reaction was and the other half of him wanted to walk away from the conversation to that he didn't have to think about Paula Cracker.

"Nah, no-one needs a girl like her." Annie spat. "Poor D." Her voice softened "I know Murdoc's a prat but I didn't think that he would respond to Cracker's advances like that."

"So ya don't think that Mudz came onto her?" Lottie asked Annie.

"Nope. Cracker's a whore." Annie said, sadly "D deserved much more than that."

2D could no longer keep quiet. He walked up to the girls and said in a clear voice.
"Do any of you have a light?"

"Sure." Aisha began to look through her bag,

Annie's pale green almond-shaped eyes widened
"Stu-Stuart Pot!" She cried, pointing at 2D.

"A mate of yours, Annie?" Aisha passed the vocalist her lighter.

"Aish, you prat! That's-that's-"

"2D. From Gorillaz" grinned 2D "You must be a fan if you know my full name, Annie, is it?"

Aisha and Lottie gasped and looked at each other.

"Anuushka Black." Annie blushed "But you can call me Annie. Everyone else does. And your full name is Stuart Harold Tusspot!" She giggled

"You are a hardcore fan." 2D lit the cigarette and handed Aisha back her lighter. "I'm sorry to hear you got cheated on."

Annie went red
"Oh god, you heard everything?"

"Yeah..." 2D replied, remembering what they had said about Paula.

"Even the stuff about Cracker?" Annie looked away "I know she's a sore subject for you."

"Well, Lottie and I have work, so see ya Annie. Nice to meet you, 2D." Aisha grinned.

"Bye, guys." waved Annie.

Aisha and Lottie walked off, whispering together. Annie and 2D stood there for a while before

"So, Annie." 2D took a long drag on his cigarette. "How long have you been a fan?"

"Not very long, only a year. Hey, can I call you D?"

"Uh, sure." 2D smiled. "Only Russ calls me that, but you can if you want."

Annie smiled, blushing slightly.
"So, you wanna go for a walk, unless you have somewhere to be. I mean, don't you have an album to write or something?"

The blue-hair vocalist chuckled
"They won't even notice I'm missing."

"You're going to get evicted?" cried Annie suddenly.

They were sitting in a secluded corner of a small, rather busy Costa Coffee. 2D had made it clear that he didn't want to talk about himself, only Annie. She knew all about him and he knew nothing about her. But when she asked about where he and the rest of the band was living at the moment, 2D explained everything. He trusted people too much for his own good, he always said.

"Unless we come up with the rent." 2D stared at his tea.

"But you're famous musicians!" Annie waved her hands about "You shouldn't be broke!"

"Annie." 2D leaned forwards "We'll find a way out of it. We always do."

"You ended up on a plastic island a few months ago!" Annie sighed. "I'm just worried, D." Annie ran a hand through her hair.

"Don't be." 2D shrugged

"I am..." Annie took a sip of her coke and rubbed her temples, moaning in pain.

"Headache?" 2D passed the woman a small pillpot.

"Ta D." Annie smiled at the man. "Urm, how, urm, how strong are these?" she added.

"Break one in half, Annie." 2D said, looking away.

Annie bit a pill in half and passed the other half, along with the pillpot, back to 2D.

2D looked at the pillpot for a while as Annie swallowed the pill along with a swig of Coke.

When she put her glass down. 2D looked up and stared into her eyes.

"Annie, I-"

"ANUUUUUUSHKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" sang a loud voice.

Annie placed her head in her hands.
"Oh God, not her."

A girl with short white blond hair and light green almond-shaped eyes bounced up to Annie.

"Eh?" She looked between Annie and 2D
"Hey, Anuushka, he looks just like 2D from Gorillaz!" she cried.

Annie looked up
"That's because it is, Ira!" She gave the other girl a withering look.

Ira's eyes widened
"Really? NO!"

"Ira, what do you want?" Annie growled through gritted teeth.

"You were meant to come straight home and you forgot your phone so I decided to come look for you. Mum was so worried."

"Your sister, Annie?" asked 2D

"Yes..." Annie sighed.

"Hi! My name's Irinushka, but you can call me Ira!" sang the girl who looked around fifteen.

"Thanks Ira, you can go home now." Annie glowered at her younger sister."

"Mum wants you home by half six." Ira said before walking off.

"You all have really nice names, Anuushka, Irinushka. I'm just Stuart."

"My name means Grace and Ira's name means Peace. It's Russian." Annie said.

"You're Russian?" 2D gave a low whistle.

"On my mum's side. English on my dad's side." Annie replied "Normal surname, abnormal first name. Black's such a normal name, my mum wanted an unusual name to even it out. Couldn't blame her. In English, my name is Anna and Ira's is Irene."

"Anna's a pretty name too." 2D looked down as he said the next bit, "I honestly thought you were Japanese. I mean the hair and your eyes."

Anna's jaw dropped
"Not the first one to say that about me. Well, I've been asked if I was Indian. You know Anoushka Shankar, Ravi Shankar's daughter. Norah Jones' sister."

"That sitar player? Yeah, I've heard of him." 2D replied "Anyway, urm, Annie, I'd better start moving."

Annie's face fell.
"Really? Aww."

"You can walk with me if you want. It's only five." 2D smiled.

Together Annie and 2D walked. Annie didn't know where she was going, which was stupid of her, but she felt as though she could trust 2D.

"I bet if I told my mum that I had been walking through the back streets of London then she would go mental. It's not like we're in Elephant and Castle, Wanstead is a very good area, but she likes to worry."

"Ah, Elephant and Castle..." 2D said, chuckled "Interesting nights, I've had."

Annie lifted the hem of her shirt and turned around so show 2D a large amount of tanned back and a large scar that reached from her sholder, under the strap of her purple bra and disappeared under her shorts.

"Jesus..." 2D's large dark eyes widened even more, "Annie..."

"I looked at someone funny..." Annie pulled her shirt down and turned around, a serious expression upon her neat face.

"And you got knifed." 2D raised both eyebrows.

"Yeah..." Annie paused. "That was a few months ago."

"Where was your boyfriend?" 2D mentally kicked himself. What kind of thing was that to ask?

"God knows. Thank God Aisha was there to help me." Annie said darkly.

2D frowned. What kind of person went off and left two defenseless girls alone in Elephant and bloody Castle?

"What a knob..." he growled, screwing his hands into fists "I outta-"

"D, don't." Annie placed a hand on his fist. "The guy got banged up seven years and my ex is out of my life forever."

"It still pisses me off..." 2D grumbled.

"And it's sweet that you wanna do something about it, but you can't." Annie smiled, taking his hand in hers "We just have to accept that it happened."

Suddenly a loud ringing came from 2D's pocket.

"Ey up!"

Annie giggled at the goofy expression on 2D's face as he talked down the phone

"Yeah, I'm on my way. Oh, alright then. Oh, that's good. Really? Alright. Okay. Bya!"

2D smiled at Annie, putting his phone back into his pocket
"Wanna meet Noodle and Russ?" He asked.

"Can I?" She cried, her face lit up.

Awesome first chapter up!

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