The Concert, chapter 1
"OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!" Kelsey screams down the phone to her best friend Maddie.
"Whhhhhaaaaattt???" Maddie replies in a tired and droopy voice. It was only 5:23am!
"Todays the day!!!! We're going to see Green Day TODAY!!!!!!!"
"Oh. Yeh. Wooo!" Says Maddie trying to sound enthusiastic, but failing.
"Oh c'mon! You gotta be excited, no?"
"Well yeah, duh, of course i'm excited, but it's sooooo early and i didn't get to sleep last night until gone 2am."
"Oh, right, yeah. Well, be up by 10:30am. I'll come round then we can get ready together and then we'll be off right?"
"Right."
"Cool! See ya then, Love ya!" Says Kelsey before hanging up.
"Yeah, whatever," Maddie mutters to herself.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~10:30am~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DING DONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Come in!" Shouts Maddie from the bathroom where she's finishing brushing her teeth.
"Right then, let's get down to business." Exclaims Kelsey opening up her friends wardrobe. "Now, you don't want to wear anything to dark or long-sleeved, it's going to be bloody hot out there today, especially with all those thousands of people. Hmmmmm, I don't think these jeans will do, to tight on the leg. Ah! How about these," Says Kelsey holding up a pair of loose white cut-offs. "Oh and wouldn't that just go perfectly with your sky blue strap top!"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." murmurs Maddie whilst brushing through her long, silky brunette hair. I've pre-made some sandwiches for us and i've got the camera and water bottles ready in the car, so there's no need to worry about that. All you need to do is just get ready to have the best day of your 18 year long life!!!"
Kelsey is always so organised and enthusiastic, thinks Maddie. Wish i were more like her sometimes.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~11:00pm~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Right then, do you want to drive or shall i?" Asks Kelsey unlocking her yellow VolksWagen beetle.
"You better, i havn't properly woken up just yet." Answers Maddie, climbing into the passenger seat. On the way there, the two friends sang their way through the whole of Nimrod, Dookie and American Idiot on the car CD player at the top of their voices.
"Wow! This is gonna be SOOOOOOOO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!" Exclaims Kelsey and bearing a grin that covers her whole face.
"Totally!!!! I wonder if they'll play 'She'.......that's my favourite song, ya'know."
"Probably, what about Maria? I love that one!"
"Well, we'll just have to wait and see, eh?!?!?!!!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Later at the Concert, 4pm, the support bands are playing~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"I like this band, what were they again?" Asks Kelsey whilst flicking through the programme.
"Taking Back Sunday, i think these ones were."
"Oh yeah, that's right. Cool!" Replies Kelsey lying back and enjoying the sun. They can still feel the loud music beating in their hearts, even though they were near the back of the stadium. Maddie was looking around with her camera, snapping up photgraphs of random objects, such as litter bins, hot dog stands and fans head-banging and dancing along to the music, just so she could remember the atmosphere. This was their first ever proper rock concert in all of their 7 years of being Green Day fanatics.
"Hey! Give that back!" Maddie shouts after two men who looked to be in their early twenties, who just stole her camera out of her hand and were running of with it. "Wait there," she says to Kelsey whilst dumping her back on her best friends lap and standing up, ready to chase after the men. "I won't be long."
She stood up and started running in the direction of where she remembered the men going. Maddie had a determined look on her face, but her body was feeling dis-similar. She could never get it back off two strong, big men, older than her and who could no doubt easily take her out. She was slowing down, going to give up, when a thought suddenly came to her. No. She wasn't going to quit on this. She'd been a quitter all her life, never stayed with things long enough to get results out of them. She could hear her father's voice in her head, "You're just going to quit again eh, Madeline? Stupid of me to think you'd ever learn. You take after you're Mother. She was a quitter, a failure. You're a failure Madeline, a failure." Those are the words he spoke just before he left Maddie and her mum. But maybe he was right. She was a quitter, a failure. So no, she would prove her father wrong. She would get her camera back. After all, her mum wouldn't be too pleased. It was a state of the art digital camera that her mother bought for her last christmas. Maddie had been begging for it for ages. She picked up speed again and continued to dart through they hundreds of people in her path, until she finally saw the men fiddling with her camera in a corner behind a water stall. They were laughing quietly to themselves. Probably laughing at her pictures of litter bins and stuff. Well, she'd show them. Maddie stormed up to them and snatched the camera out of their hands. Their faces looked surprised, but then she saw the larger one of them's right eyebrow slightly go up, and a smirk crept onto his face. 'This is a good time to go, now, Maddie', she thought to herself. She turn around and started to walk off, her camera in her hands, and her chin held high. Suddenly she felt a massive pain in the side of her head. Maddie fell to the ground and just saw one of the two men snatch the camera out of her hands and run off with it, before the other one gave her one last punch, this time right in the centre of her face.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~5:30pm~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Where am i..."mumbles Maddie, looking around her to see paramedics treating blood-stained and whimpering patients.
"She's speaking, nurse." Maddie hears a voice coming from the other side of her and a rather large lady comes up to her.
"It's ok dearie. Some naughty men have been giving you a bit of a hard time. You're in the medical centre backstage poppet. It's ok though, nothing too serious, no broken bones and nothing that won't mend."
The nurse walks away and Maddie reaches up to her nose where it feels slightly numb and throbbing. She brings her hand down and it is wet and covered in blood. "Oooooooohhhhhhh" She grumbles with the pain of it. She feels sick and miserable.
Just then she looks up to see Billie Joe Armstrong leaning over her. "Now, now. What have you been getting up to?"
"Oh my god. Are you really who i think you are?" states Maddie, completely ignoring his question.
"Well, it depends who you're thinking of. My names Billie Joe Armstrong, if that helps." Says Billie, grinning in a cheeky sort of way.
"Oh...........my.............god!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot believe i'm talking to you!!!"
"Heh. So, got in a bit of a fist fight have we?" Asks Billie.
"No, well yeah, well no, well.....not really. You see these two men stole my camera and i...uhh sorta chased after them and tried to get it back and ummm.....well they kinda, ya'know.....er...."
"Yeah, yeah, i get the picture." Interrupts Billie, obviously able to tell i'm slightly overwhelmed to be talking to him. "So are you here on your own then?"
"No my best mate Kelsey is here wi-oh shit."
"What?"
"Well i kinda told her i'd be right back and it's been about 1 and a hlaf hours. Let me check my cell phone." Maddie reached into her pocket and brought out her cell. It was flashing. "Six missed calls and four messages!" Maddie said, chuckling. "I better phone her."
It rang twice before Kelsey ansered.
"Ohmygod Maddie where are you? Are you ok? What happened? Why didn't you answer my calls? Or reply to my messages? What's going on?" Said Kelsey all in a jumble and sounding worried but relieved at the same time.
"Calm down i'm fine. I got into a bit of an accident and i woke up a few minutes ago in the medical centre."
"Are you alright? What happened? Did you get your camera back? I've been searching for you everywhere!"
"Yeah im fine, no i don't have my camera back and i got punched in the face a few times, but nothing serious. Oh, and you'll never guess who i'm sitting next to right now."
"Who?"
"Guess."
"I'm not in the mood for you're stupid games Maddie. Who?"
"Billie Joe fucking Armstrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Fuck off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"No, honest Kels, i'm serious. Look, if you don't believe me i'll put him on the phone right now for you." Maddie passed the phone over to Billie.
"Hello? Yeh it's me. Yeah i'm being serious. No i'm not an impersonator. That's right. Ok then. See ya round. Bye!" Says Billie passing the phone back to Maddie.
"Oh. My. God. I just spoke to fucking Billie Joe Armstrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stay right where you are i'm coming to get you."
"Whhhhhaaaaattt???" Maddie replies in a tired and droopy voice. It was only 5:23am!
"Todays the day!!!! We're going to see Green Day TODAY!!!!!!!"
"Oh. Yeh. Wooo!" Says Maddie trying to sound enthusiastic, but failing.
"Oh c'mon! You gotta be excited, no?"
"Well yeah, duh, of course i'm excited, but it's sooooo early and i didn't get to sleep last night until gone 2am."
"Oh, right, yeah. Well, be up by 10:30am. I'll come round then we can get ready together and then we'll be off right?"
"Right."
"Cool! See ya then, Love ya!" Says Kelsey before hanging up.
"Yeah, whatever," Maddie mutters to herself.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~10:30am~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DING DONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Come in!" Shouts Maddie from the bathroom where she's finishing brushing her teeth.
"Right then, let's get down to business." Exclaims Kelsey opening up her friends wardrobe. "Now, you don't want to wear anything to dark or long-sleeved, it's going to be bloody hot out there today, especially with all those thousands of people. Hmmmmm, I don't think these jeans will do, to tight on the leg. Ah! How about these," Says Kelsey holding up a pair of loose white cut-offs. "Oh and wouldn't that just go perfectly with your sky blue strap top!"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." murmurs Maddie whilst brushing through her long, silky brunette hair. I've pre-made some sandwiches for us and i've got the camera and water bottles ready in the car, so there's no need to worry about that. All you need to do is just get ready to have the best day of your 18 year long life!!!"
Kelsey is always so organised and enthusiastic, thinks Maddie. Wish i were more like her sometimes.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~11:00pm~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Right then, do you want to drive or shall i?" Asks Kelsey unlocking her yellow VolksWagen beetle.
"You better, i havn't properly woken up just yet." Answers Maddie, climbing into the passenger seat. On the way there, the two friends sang their way through the whole of Nimrod, Dookie and American Idiot on the car CD player at the top of their voices.
"Wow! This is gonna be SOOOOOOOO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!" Exclaims Kelsey and bearing a grin that covers her whole face.
"Totally!!!! I wonder if they'll play 'She'.......that's my favourite song, ya'know."
"Probably, what about Maria? I love that one!"
"Well, we'll just have to wait and see, eh?!?!?!!!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Later at the Concert, 4pm, the support bands are playing~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"I like this band, what were they again?" Asks Kelsey whilst flicking through the programme.
"Taking Back Sunday, i think these ones were."
"Oh yeah, that's right. Cool!" Replies Kelsey lying back and enjoying the sun. They can still feel the loud music beating in their hearts, even though they were near the back of the stadium. Maddie was looking around with her camera, snapping up photgraphs of random objects, such as litter bins, hot dog stands and fans head-banging and dancing along to the music, just so she could remember the atmosphere. This was their first ever proper rock concert in all of their 7 years of being Green Day fanatics.
"Hey! Give that back!" Maddie shouts after two men who looked to be in their early twenties, who just stole her camera out of her hand and were running of with it. "Wait there," she says to Kelsey whilst dumping her back on her best friends lap and standing up, ready to chase after the men. "I won't be long."
She stood up and started running in the direction of where she remembered the men going. Maddie had a determined look on her face, but her body was feeling dis-similar. She could never get it back off two strong, big men, older than her and who could no doubt easily take her out. She was slowing down, going to give up, when a thought suddenly came to her. No. She wasn't going to quit on this. She'd been a quitter all her life, never stayed with things long enough to get results out of them. She could hear her father's voice in her head, "You're just going to quit again eh, Madeline? Stupid of me to think you'd ever learn. You take after you're Mother. She was a quitter, a failure. You're a failure Madeline, a failure." Those are the words he spoke just before he left Maddie and her mum. But maybe he was right. She was a quitter, a failure. So no, she would prove her father wrong. She would get her camera back. After all, her mum wouldn't be too pleased. It was a state of the art digital camera that her mother bought for her last christmas. Maddie had been begging for it for ages. She picked up speed again and continued to dart through they hundreds of people in her path, until she finally saw the men fiddling with her camera in a corner behind a water stall. They were laughing quietly to themselves. Probably laughing at her pictures of litter bins and stuff. Well, she'd show them. Maddie stormed up to them and snatched the camera out of their hands. Their faces looked surprised, but then she saw the larger one of them's right eyebrow slightly go up, and a smirk crept onto his face. 'This is a good time to go, now, Maddie', she thought to herself. She turn around and started to walk off, her camera in her hands, and her chin held high. Suddenly she felt a massive pain in the side of her head. Maddie fell to the ground and just saw one of the two men snatch the camera out of her hands and run off with it, before the other one gave her one last punch, this time right in the centre of her face.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~5:30pm~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Where am i..."mumbles Maddie, looking around her to see paramedics treating blood-stained and whimpering patients.
"She's speaking, nurse." Maddie hears a voice coming from the other side of her and a rather large lady comes up to her.
"It's ok dearie. Some naughty men have been giving you a bit of a hard time. You're in the medical centre backstage poppet. It's ok though, nothing too serious, no broken bones and nothing that won't mend."
The nurse walks away and Maddie reaches up to her nose where it feels slightly numb and throbbing. She brings her hand down and it is wet and covered in blood. "Oooooooohhhhhhh" She grumbles with the pain of it. She feels sick and miserable.
Just then she looks up to see Billie Joe Armstrong leaning over her. "Now, now. What have you been getting up to?"
"Oh my god. Are you really who i think you are?" states Maddie, completely ignoring his question.
"Well, it depends who you're thinking of. My names Billie Joe Armstrong, if that helps." Says Billie, grinning in a cheeky sort of way.
"Oh...........my.............god!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot believe i'm talking to you!!!"
"Heh. So, got in a bit of a fist fight have we?" Asks Billie.
"No, well yeah, well no, well.....not really. You see these two men stole my camera and i...uhh sorta chased after them and tried to get it back and ummm.....well they kinda, ya'know.....er...."
"Yeah, yeah, i get the picture." Interrupts Billie, obviously able to tell i'm slightly overwhelmed to be talking to him. "So are you here on your own then?"
"No my best mate Kelsey is here wi-oh shit."
"What?"
"Well i kinda told her i'd be right back and it's been about 1 and a hlaf hours. Let me check my cell phone." Maddie reached into her pocket and brought out her cell. It was flashing. "Six missed calls and four messages!" Maddie said, chuckling. "I better phone her."
It rang twice before Kelsey ansered.
"Ohmygod Maddie where are you? Are you ok? What happened? Why didn't you answer my calls? Or reply to my messages? What's going on?" Said Kelsey all in a jumble and sounding worried but relieved at the same time.
"Calm down i'm fine. I got into a bit of an accident and i woke up a few minutes ago in the medical centre."
"Are you alright? What happened? Did you get your camera back? I've been searching for you everywhere!"
"Yeah im fine, no i don't have my camera back and i got punched in the face a few times, but nothing serious. Oh, and you'll never guess who i'm sitting next to right now."
"Who?"
"Guess."
"I'm not in the mood for you're stupid games Maddie. Who?"
"Billie Joe fucking Armstrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Fuck off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"No, honest Kels, i'm serious. Look, if you don't believe me i'll put him on the phone right now for you." Maddie passed the phone over to Billie.
"Hello? Yeh it's me. Yeah i'm being serious. No i'm not an impersonator. That's right. Ok then. See ya round. Bye!" Says Billie passing the phone back to Maddie.
"Oh. My. God. I just spoke to fucking Billie Joe Armstrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stay right where you are i'm coming to get you."
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