When Paul and John showed up on George’s doorstep George’s mouth had, according to John at least, dropped open before he’d decked Paul shouting "Bastards!"
***
"Oh Gabby" sighed John "You should have seen it, that boy is getting more like me every day"
"John why are you calling me?"
"Because I’m at Paul’s so I don’t have to worry about the phone bill"
"Oh OK…. Should I worry that George is becoming like you?"
"Oh no, you should be very pleased Gabby. He just opens the door and hits Paulie and they’re all rolling around on the floor hitting and kicking and biting"
"Shouldn’t you have made sure neither of your guitarists kill each other?"
"Nah, I was having fun watching them act like proper hooligans"
"John you are a proper hooligan"
***
They’d shortened the silver Beatles to just the Beatles and were now playing at the Cavern club minus Stu. So with out a bassist Paul was forced to go out and buy a bass of his own. Also, their new discovery of the telephone was replacing the letters she’d get every day. Now instead every few days someone would poke their head into her room and say "Those scouse blokes are calling you again."
One day when she’d gotten back from an hours chat with George (who was at the Best house so he didn’t have to pay the bill) when Lucy accosted her.
"Right" she said "Who are those blokes who keep ringing you?" she wanted t o know
"Remember George and Paul?"
"Yeah"
Gabrielle nodded "That’s them"
"That!" Lucy exclaimed and picked up a photograph off the bedside table "The Quarry Men? You still talk to them?"
"Of course" Gabrielle sighed and flopped back on her bed "Why wouldn’t I… and they’re called the Beatles now"
Lucy pulled a face "What a bloody funny thing to call your band"