Violence of Summer, chapter 7
June 1991
Once Charlie had finally dragged her arse out of bed, she decided there was no point in going into school anyway seeing as half the day had already gone. As the year had progressed school had become less and less of an issue to Charlie. She would much rather hang out with Billie Joe and Tre smoking pot and listening to The Ramones or The Clash or whatever. She had been bunking off more than ever the last month and really she had Billie and Tre to blame. They were the ones taking her out on the piss every night so she never really got to sleep any time before 4am.
She went into the kitchen looking out into the garden to make sure no one was home smiling to herself as she went over to the cupboard getting out the box of pop tarts. Just as she was about to put the pop tarts in the toaster the phone rang as she sighed going over to pick it up.
"Yeah." She answered.
"Hello... " a fake erotic voice said down the line. "This is 0800-free-porn-with-Frank hotline. You're the lucky winner of this months contest and you get to suck my big dick!"
"Don't sweat it Franky boy." Charlie said, hearing Billie Joe laughing in the background. "How did you know I'd be home?" she asked.
"Oh come on. You haven't gone in all week why would you go in today, after all it's Friday... "
"Mmm, Tre true." She said shrugging.
"Sooo are you gonna come over? It's a hot as shit day... Let's go to the beach or something."
"Okay cool. Lemme have my pop tarts first, cheesh."
"Yeah alright fatty. Oh by the way," Tre paused. "We're playing two nights in a row this weekend. One tonight and one tomorrow." He said smugly.
Charlie heard Billie Joe boasting in the background, rolling her eyes. "Rock out. See you soon"
"Smooches!" Tre squealed as the two boys shouted some more rude things down the phone before Charlie hung up.
***
"Excuse me... Whoa sorry... Oops... Ow... Get outta my fuckin' way wudja?" Charlie sighed FINALLY getting backstage after having to try and get through what she would like to call "an attempt at moshpit" and sweaty topless boys for the past ten minutes just to get the guys a drink before they went back on stage after many requests.
"Oh Charlie you're an angel!" Mike said taking the drink out of Charlie's hand smiling broadly.
"Yeah right... " Tre mumbled smirking as he took his drink.
"Praise me bitch... You know what a mission it was to get those?" Charlie sighed.
"Well you'd do anything for the noble friends right?" Billie smiled taking his own drink winking at Charlie.
"Whaaatever... " Charlie sighed sitting on the couch next to Mel.
"You're gonna watch us play again right?" Tre asked looking at the two tired girls who had been jumping around for the past two hours.
"'Course we are!" Charlie said enthusiastically. "I'm ready for some more moshing!"
"Good... " Billie said sitting down quickly, stretching his legs out in front of him. "'Cause you're gonna be doing it for the next two months... "
Sid and Charlie looked at Billie completely clueless to what he was going on about.
"Come again?" Sid said sticking a cigarette in her mouth.
Billie jumped off the couch smiling broadly as Tre picked up his drumsticks standing next to Mike and Billie who were stood facing the girls on the couch.
"We're going on tour!" Mike shouted.
"WHAT!?" Charlie screamed.
"And you're coming with us!" Tre shouted pointing at both Sid and Charlie.
"Say what!?" Sid said loudly as her cigarette fell out of her mouth.
"We're going on tour in July and you bitches are coming with us!"
"FUCK NO!" Charlie shouted laughing at the same time.
"Yeah! We persuaded them to give us a summer tour, so it'll be before Kerplunk! Comes out but... We're going on tour! With you!" Billie said almost jumping up and down.
"Oh my fucking god this summer is gonna be so fucking rad!" Sid shouted jumping up off the couch flinging her arms round Mike's shoulders jumping on to him.
"Two months in a van with Mike and Sid fucking every night and Tre farting next to me while Billie's puking in some bag... " Charlie thought aloud as Billie snickered at her. "Two months away from family... Two months away from Berkley... And two months of watching some kick ass gigs on stage while getting piss ass drunk and arriving in another state the next day... HOW FUCKING COOL IS THAT!" Charlie jumped up off the couch jumping on Billie and Tre seeing as Mike and Sid were having their own little makeout session in the corner.
"GUYS!" a guy suddenly said popping his head round the curtain. "You're supposed to be on stage NOW!"
The five friends were so engrossed in celebrating two months of touring that they didn't realize that the crowd was chanting 'Green Day' outside. The three band members and best friends looked at each other in awe.
"Holy shit... " Mike said.
"Dude's, fucking go!" Charlie said pushing Billie and Tre.
The three boys took off on stage as Sid came next to Charlie and they both looked at each other for a couple of minutes before not being able to contain themselves as they jumped up and down and squealed like stupid teenies. After they suddenly realized what they were doing they quickly stopped and stood there for a couple of seconds.
"Cool... " Charlie said quietly.
"Totally... " Sid replied. The two girls glanced at each other smiling broadly before going back out to watch their three best friend's rock out.
***
Sid collapsed on the sofa next to Charlie at ten o'clock in the morning while Charlie flicked through a couple of channels finally deciding to leave it on Beavis and Butthead.
"What the fuck are you doing up so early? Are you okay?" Sid joked.
Charlie glanced at Sid rolling her eyes. "Yeah. When I said my parents were taking my brother away for the weekend I didn't mean you and Mike could use my parent's room as your fucking base."
Sid chuckled at Charlie picking up a pillow hugging it tightly going a slight shade of pink. "Well... You know... "
"Well believe or not... No I don't know... And anyway I don't care... I just hope you used protection... " Charlie smirked.
"Guess what Chaz. This is one relationship me and Mike would actually like to keep to ourselves for once in our god forsaken lives." Sid sighed.
Charlie's mouth fell open not taking her eyes away from the telly. "What's that supposed mean?"
"It means," Sid started. "That every single boyfriend I've had since I was about 14 you guys hafta know every single detail... "
"Us guys?" Charlie questioned.
"You Billie and Tre. You're all the same. And seeing as me and Mike are also best friends... As well as partners now... We will not be talking about our sex lives to you guys."
"But we're the noble friends!" Charlie said turning to face Sid.
A smile spread across Sid's face as she looked behind her quickly then back at Charlie. "Okay Charlie my wonderful noble friend. I'll make you a deal. I'll tell you aaaall the details... If you ask Tre out."
"Fuck off!" Charlie shouted.
"AH come on Chaz!"
"No fucking way! I don't want to go out with Tre." Charlie frowned. "Hey that rhymed."
"Charlie stop kidding yourself... We all know you're just trying to play hard to get... "
"I am not... "
Sid put the pillow that was pressed against her stomach aside and folded her legs under her body. "But you like him right?"
"He's my best friend." Charlie said.
"And Mike's mine."
"You and Mike are different." Charlie said waving a hand at her.
"So are you and Tre."
"No we're not. We're just flirtatious. You and Mike always had something for each other... It was just more silent than me and Tre... "
"Ah so you do have something for each other?" Sid said raising an eyebrow.
"Don't fuck with my head Sidney." Charlie said warningly.
"You have a crush on Tre, Charlotte."
Charlie rolled her eyes dropping her shoulders as she gave in to Sid. Why did she always somehow win? "Okay FINE!" Charlie said loudly. "I like Tre... I don't have a crush on him... There's a difference! I don't write down his name in my diary with little hearts around it... "
"I wasn't aware you even had a diary?" Sid said sitting back.
"I don't dipshit; it was a figure of speech."
"But you like him?"
"He's good looking." Sid looked at Charlie blankly staring at her. "Yes and charming... " Charlie sighed. "Okay yeah and maybe he might just turn me on a little bit."
"Yes!" Sid said triumphantly clapping her hands together.
"But I would never ask Tre out. You know why?"
"Why?" Sid said crossing her arms over her chest.
"One; the man should ask the girl, two; hello? It's Tre. And Three; it could ruin what we have as friends."
The last point made Sid stop and think about it. She looked at Charlie oddly as Charlie paused wondering if she should've said that.
"What do you mean could've 'ruined what we had as friends'?"
Charlie puffed out slouching down slightly leaning against the arm of the sofa. "Come on Sid... I mean... Maybe it won't happen to you and Mike... But every one knows that when two friends go out... It'll always ruin what they had as friends before."
"Yeah but... That won't happen with me and Mike."
"Probably not. Well I hope not." Charlie paused as Sid looked to her side out of the French doors watching the sun reflecting of the pool. "I mean... " Charlie suddenly said. "We're the five noble friends right? We'll never part."
Sid smiled looking back at her best friend. "'Course not."
After a couple of episode's of Beavis and Butthead and an argument over who was to make breakfast, Sid found herself making her way upstairs at mid-day to go and wake up her lazy arse boyfriend. She opened the door to Charlie's parents' bedroom seeing he was sprawled out on the bed. She giggled at him grabbing a coat hanger from the back of the door and tickled the bottom of his foot with it.
Mike stirred mumbling some un-intelligible things into the pillow until he finally opened his eyes to see Sid quietly laughing at him at the foot of the bed.
"Hey you." Mike said pouting.
"Butthead." Sid smiled. "Charlie's making some breakfast."
"How nice of her." Mike yawned propping himself up on his elbows. "We should do this more often... " Mike said looking around him.
"What stay in Charlie's parents' room?" Sid chuckled.
"Nooo... Stay with each other over night. I think I prefer waking up in the morning with you in my bed than the black cat sitting in my face."
"Well you'll be waking up next to me for the next two months. So you can save all the excitement of having your feet tickled for then."
Mike laughed at Sid grabbing her hips pulling her down onto the bed with him as they started kissing like two horny teenagers... Well... They were...
"Hey ASSHOLES!" a loud familiar voice shouted up the stairs. "I believe a very sexy lady is in the kitchen attempting to make pancakes! And failing miserably!"
"Hey shut up buttmunch!" They heard Charlie's voice shout. "I'd like to see you do better."
"I probably could!" Tre shouted back.
"Yeah alright move it then fat ass!"
"Hmm... I better go down there before they burn the house down." Sid sighed as Mike kissed her again.
"Mmmkay... " Mike mumbled getting up. Before making his way out of the door he looked at himself in the mirror tilting his head. "I wonder what I'd look like if I died my hair black?"
***
Sid and Mike came into the kitchen to see Billie Joe juggling eggs and Tre whipping Charlie's arse with a kitchen towel as she kept hitting him on the arm with the spatula.
"God never trust you three to make breakfast in the morning." Sid said grabbing the spatula out of Charlie's hands as Tre got her right in the arse.
"TRE STOP WHIPPING MY ASS!" Charlie shouted.
Tre stopped standing up straight quickly putting the kitchen towel behind his back. "Sorry." He said quietly as Billie cracked up at him dropping an egg on the floor.
"Oops... Sorry... " Billie mumbled as Charlie shoved him in the shoulder.
"Move over heffer." Sid said opening the fridge. "You guys suck at making breakfast."
Tre came up to Charlie as Mike, Billie and Sid started talking about something else. "Want me to rub it better?" Tre whispered in her ear.
Charlie fought back the urge to smile and say yes as she raised an eyebrow at him. "Tst tst... " she shook her head pushing Tre slapping his arse really hard.
"Ow... " Tre moaned rubbing his butt. "Kinky." Tre smiled raising his eyebrows.
"Watch it." Charlie said pointing a finger at him. "'Cause Tre my man... You have absolutely nooo idea... " Tre looked at Charlie as she licked her lips before going over to the fridge. Tre smiled, getting all flustered just thinking about what he wanted to do to her right now as he glanced at her arse quickly before joining in the conversation.
Once Charlie had finally dragged her arse out of bed, she decided there was no point in going into school anyway seeing as half the day had already gone. As the year had progressed school had become less and less of an issue to Charlie. She would much rather hang out with Billie Joe and Tre smoking pot and listening to The Ramones or The Clash or whatever. She had been bunking off more than ever the last month and really she had Billie and Tre to blame. They were the ones taking her out on the piss every night so she never really got to sleep any time before 4am.
She went into the kitchen looking out into the garden to make sure no one was home smiling to herself as she went over to the cupboard getting out the box of pop tarts. Just as she was about to put the pop tarts in the toaster the phone rang as she sighed going over to pick it up.
"Yeah." She answered.
"Hello... " a fake erotic voice said down the line. "This is 0800-free-porn-with-Frank hotline. You're the lucky winner of this months contest and you get to suck my big dick!"
"Don't sweat it Franky boy." Charlie said, hearing Billie Joe laughing in the background. "How did you know I'd be home?" she asked.
"Oh come on. You haven't gone in all week why would you go in today, after all it's Friday... "
"Mmm, Tre true." She said shrugging.
"Sooo are you gonna come over? It's a hot as shit day... Let's go to the beach or something."
"Okay cool. Lemme have my pop tarts first, cheesh."
"Yeah alright fatty. Oh by the way," Tre paused. "We're playing two nights in a row this weekend. One tonight and one tomorrow." He said smugly.
Charlie heard Billie Joe boasting in the background, rolling her eyes. "Rock out. See you soon"
"Smooches!" Tre squealed as the two boys shouted some more rude things down the phone before Charlie hung up.
***
"Excuse me... Whoa sorry... Oops... Ow... Get outta my fuckin' way wudja?" Charlie sighed FINALLY getting backstage after having to try and get through what she would like to call "an attempt at moshpit" and sweaty topless boys for the past ten minutes just to get the guys a drink before they went back on stage after many requests.
"Oh Charlie you're an angel!" Mike said taking the drink out of Charlie's hand smiling broadly.
"Yeah right... " Tre mumbled smirking as he took his drink.
"Praise me bitch... You know what a mission it was to get those?" Charlie sighed.
"Well you'd do anything for the noble friends right?" Billie smiled taking his own drink winking at Charlie.
"Whaaatever... " Charlie sighed sitting on the couch next to Mel.
"You're gonna watch us play again right?" Tre asked looking at the two tired girls who had been jumping around for the past two hours.
"'Course we are!" Charlie said enthusiastically. "I'm ready for some more moshing!"
"Good... " Billie said sitting down quickly, stretching his legs out in front of him. "'Cause you're gonna be doing it for the next two months... "
Sid and Charlie looked at Billie completely clueless to what he was going on about.
"Come again?" Sid said sticking a cigarette in her mouth.
Billie jumped off the couch smiling broadly as Tre picked up his drumsticks standing next to Mike and Billie who were stood facing the girls on the couch.
"We're going on tour!" Mike shouted.
"WHAT!?" Charlie screamed.
"And you're coming with us!" Tre shouted pointing at both Sid and Charlie.
"Say what!?" Sid said loudly as her cigarette fell out of her mouth.
"We're going on tour in July and you bitches are coming with us!"
"FUCK NO!" Charlie shouted laughing at the same time.
"Yeah! We persuaded them to give us a summer tour, so it'll be before Kerplunk! Comes out but... We're going on tour! With you!" Billie said almost jumping up and down.
"Oh my fucking god this summer is gonna be so fucking rad!" Sid shouted jumping up off the couch flinging her arms round Mike's shoulders jumping on to him.
"Two months in a van with Mike and Sid fucking every night and Tre farting next to me while Billie's puking in some bag... " Charlie thought aloud as Billie snickered at her. "Two months away from family... Two months away from Berkley... And two months of watching some kick ass gigs on stage while getting piss ass drunk and arriving in another state the next day... HOW FUCKING COOL IS THAT!" Charlie jumped up off the couch jumping on Billie and Tre seeing as Mike and Sid were having their own little makeout session in the corner.
"GUYS!" a guy suddenly said popping his head round the curtain. "You're supposed to be on stage NOW!"
The five friends were so engrossed in celebrating two months of touring that they didn't realize that the crowd was chanting 'Green Day' outside. The three band members and best friends looked at each other in awe.
"Holy shit... " Mike said.
"Dude's, fucking go!" Charlie said pushing Billie and Tre.
The three boys took off on stage as Sid came next to Charlie and they both looked at each other for a couple of minutes before not being able to contain themselves as they jumped up and down and squealed like stupid teenies. After they suddenly realized what they were doing they quickly stopped and stood there for a couple of seconds.
"Cool... " Charlie said quietly.
"Totally... " Sid replied. The two girls glanced at each other smiling broadly before going back out to watch their three best friend's rock out.
***
Sid collapsed on the sofa next to Charlie at ten o'clock in the morning while Charlie flicked through a couple of channels finally deciding to leave it on Beavis and Butthead.
"What the fuck are you doing up so early? Are you okay?" Sid joked.
Charlie glanced at Sid rolling her eyes. "Yeah. When I said my parents were taking my brother away for the weekend I didn't mean you and Mike could use my parent's room as your fucking base."
Sid chuckled at Charlie picking up a pillow hugging it tightly going a slight shade of pink. "Well... You know... "
"Well believe or not... No I don't know... And anyway I don't care... I just hope you used protection... " Charlie smirked.
"Guess what Chaz. This is one relationship me and Mike would actually like to keep to ourselves for once in our god forsaken lives." Sid sighed.
Charlie's mouth fell open not taking her eyes away from the telly. "What's that supposed mean?"
"It means," Sid started. "That every single boyfriend I've had since I was about 14 you guys hafta know every single detail... "
"Us guys?" Charlie questioned.
"You Billie and Tre. You're all the same. And seeing as me and Mike are also best friends... As well as partners now... We will not be talking about our sex lives to you guys."
"But we're the noble friends!" Charlie said turning to face Sid.
A smile spread across Sid's face as she looked behind her quickly then back at Charlie. "Okay Charlie my wonderful noble friend. I'll make you a deal. I'll tell you aaaall the details... If you ask Tre out."
"Fuck off!" Charlie shouted.
"AH come on Chaz!"
"No fucking way! I don't want to go out with Tre." Charlie frowned. "Hey that rhymed."
"Charlie stop kidding yourself... We all know you're just trying to play hard to get... "
"I am not... "
Sid put the pillow that was pressed against her stomach aside and folded her legs under her body. "But you like him right?"
"He's my best friend." Charlie said.
"And Mike's mine."
"You and Mike are different." Charlie said waving a hand at her.
"So are you and Tre."
"No we're not. We're just flirtatious. You and Mike always had something for each other... It was just more silent than me and Tre... "
"Ah so you do have something for each other?" Sid said raising an eyebrow.
"Don't fuck with my head Sidney." Charlie said warningly.
"You have a crush on Tre, Charlotte."
Charlie rolled her eyes dropping her shoulders as she gave in to Sid. Why did she always somehow win? "Okay FINE!" Charlie said loudly. "I like Tre... I don't have a crush on him... There's a difference! I don't write down his name in my diary with little hearts around it... "
"I wasn't aware you even had a diary?" Sid said sitting back.
"I don't dipshit; it was a figure of speech."
"But you like him?"
"He's good looking." Sid looked at Charlie blankly staring at her. "Yes and charming... " Charlie sighed. "Okay yeah and maybe he might just turn me on a little bit."
"Yes!" Sid said triumphantly clapping her hands together.
"But I would never ask Tre out. You know why?"
"Why?" Sid said crossing her arms over her chest.
"One; the man should ask the girl, two; hello? It's Tre. And Three; it could ruin what we have as friends."
The last point made Sid stop and think about it. She looked at Charlie oddly as Charlie paused wondering if she should've said that.
"What do you mean could've 'ruined what we had as friends'?"
Charlie puffed out slouching down slightly leaning against the arm of the sofa. "Come on Sid... I mean... Maybe it won't happen to you and Mike... But every one knows that when two friends go out... It'll always ruin what they had as friends before."
"Yeah but... That won't happen with me and Mike."
"Probably not. Well I hope not." Charlie paused as Sid looked to her side out of the French doors watching the sun reflecting of the pool. "I mean... " Charlie suddenly said. "We're the five noble friends right? We'll never part."
Sid smiled looking back at her best friend. "'Course not."
After a couple of episode's of Beavis and Butthead and an argument over who was to make breakfast, Sid found herself making her way upstairs at mid-day to go and wake up her lazy arse boyfriend. She opened the door to Charlie's parents' bedroom seeing he was sprawled out on the bed. She giggled at him grabbing a coat hanger from the back of the door and tickled the bottom of his foot with it.
Mike stirred mumbling some un-intelligible things into the pillow until he finally opened his eyes to see Sid quietly laughing at him at the foot of the bed.
"Hey you." Mike said pouting.
"Butthead." Sid smiled. "Charlie's making some breakfast."
"How nice of her." Mike yawned propping himself up on his elbows. "We should do this more often... " Mike said looking around him.
"What stay in Charlie's parents' room?" Sid chuckled.
"Nooo... Stay with each other over night. I think I prefer waking up in the morning with you in my bed than the black cat sitting in my face."
"Well you'll be waking up next to me for the next two months. So you can save all the excitement of having your feet tickled for then."
Mike laughed at Sid grabbing her hips pulling her down onto the bed with him as they started kissing like two horny teenagers... Well... They were...
"Hey ASSHOLES!" a loud familiar voice shouted up the stairs. "I believe a very sexy lady is in the kitchen attempting to make pancakes! And failing miserably!"
"Hey shut up buttmunch!" They heard Charlie's voice shout. "I'd like to see you do better."
"I probably could!" Tre shouted back.
"Yeah alright move it then fat ass!"
"Hmm... I better go down there before they burn the house down." Sid sighed as Mike kissed her again.
"Mmmkay... " Mike mumbled getting up. Before making his way out of the door he looked at himself in the mirror tilting his head. "I wonder what I'd look like if I died my hair black?"
***
Sid and Mike came into the kitchen to see Billie Joe juggling eggs and Tre whipping Charlie's arse with a kitchen towel as she kept hitting him on the arm with the spatula.
"God never trust you three to make breakfast in the morning." Sid said grabbing the spatula out of Charlie's hands as Tre got her right in the arse.
"TRE STOP WHIPPING MY ASS!" Charlie shouted.
Tre stopped standing up straight quickly putting the kitchen towel behind his back. "Sorry." He said quietly as Billie cracked up at him dropping an egg on the floor.
"Oops... Sorry... " Billie mumbled as Charlie shoved him in the shoulder.
"Move over heffer." Sid said opening the fridge. "You guys suck at making breakfast."
Tre came up to Charlie as Mike, Billie and Sid started talking about something else. "Want me to rub it better?" Tre whispered in her ear.
Charlie fought back the urge to smile and say yes as she raised an eyebrow at him. "Tst tst... " she shook her head pushing Tre slapping his arse really hard.
"Ow... " Tre moaned rubbing his butt. "Kinky." Tre smiled raising his eyebrows.
"Watch it." Charlie said pointing a finger at him. "'Cause Tre my man... You have absolutely nooo idea... " Tre looked at Charlie as she licked her lips before going over to the fridge. Tre smiled, getting all flustered just thinking about what he wanted to do to her right now as he glanced at her arse quickly before joining in the conversation.
