The One I Want, chapter 1
<p>"Oh c'mon Giselle everyone else wants to go!" Giselle rolled her eyes and sat down on the couch.<br /> Giselle and her band mate, Mandy were arguing on where to go for celebrating for being on the verge of signing onto a major record label. They were in a band named "All Regrets" with Mandy, as the guitarist, Giselle as the drummer, Sidney as the bassist, and dumbfuck Kevin and the second guitarist/lead vocals. They put together their ideas on deciding where to go, and of course everyone decided against Giselle's idea and went with Mandy's. Which was a concert to-<br />"Green Day. You know how much I dislike Green Day." Giselle said to her long time friend, of 18 years Mandy.<br />"Yeah, but everyone else wants to go. Besides, it's better than your idea of going to Chuckie Cheeses or whatever." Giselle smirked. "Besides last time I went to Chuckie Cheeses some kid pushed me off some thingy, and I flipped out and pushed him into the Rat guy."<br />"Why don't we just go to some bar thing? Maybe you could pick up someone." Giselle wiggled her eyebrows. "You could probably even get la-"<br />"No! And besides we already got the tickets. Plus Giselle, you better get used to them. We are signing into the same label."<br />Giselle sighed, "Fine. I'll go. But I never said I'd enjoy it."<br />Kevin, the guitarist in the band and one of the annoyingest, poked his head into the Living Room. "Finally, the brainless drummer has decided."<br />"Hey at least I can talk unlike your fish Sparky."<br />"Oh no, not the fish." Mandy said looking back and forth at Kevin and Giselle.<br />"Geez.. I've always wondered.. How can you tell if a fish is a boy or a girl? 'Cause I've looked all over Sparky, and I haven't seen no penis or-"<br />"Sparky is a BOY. BOY. B-O-Y." Kevin retorted.
<br />"And how do YOU know?" Giselle said back.<br />"I have good instinct."
<br />"Phht. you can barley tell if you're a boy-"<br />"Hey you guys why don't we go find our bassist?" Mandy interrupted Giselle and Kevin's argument about "Sparky"<br />"Sidney? Oh I think she went to the Grocery Store or something." Kevin said<br />"What the hell? She already has enough food at the house." Giselle said<br />"She went to go pick up stuff for the spaghetti.. You know spaghetti have noodles and she forgot to pick them up. Anyways who cares! Back to Sparky. He is a boy! TRUST me!"<br />"Whatever." Giselle said while lying back on the couch. All she knew that the concert would be some long concert..</p>
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<p>Giselle woke up the next day in her San Francisco home, with the sun shining brightly through her window.<br />"Damn Sun." Giselle mumbled to herself. Then she groaned to herself realizing that today was the day of the concert. Giselle got up, went to her closet and picked out a random t-shirt and a pair of jeans. Today was going to be a long day.<br />She walked out of her room and into the kitchen, where she could find 4 messages all from Kevin, but one. One said "Giselle! CONCERT. WAKE UP!." another one said. "GISELLE IT'S 7:00 AND YOUR STILL NOT UP." Giselle laughed at that one. No one in the right mind would wake up at 7:00 on a Saturday, when they had nothing to do. The third one basically the same and the forth one, was Mandy. "Okay Giselle. Sidney and me are coming to pick you up in 30mins. and the time is now.. umm.. 30 mins. before we are going to pick you up. BYE." Giselle sighed.<br /> "Nice Mandy real nice." She mumbled to herself.<br /> Giselle went to the fridge and got some cereal out of it, she also made coffee for her bandmates. Suddenly the front door burst open with faint sounds of people coming in and talking. Then they finally came to the kitchen: Mandy, Kevin and Sidney.<br /> "Knock much?" Giselle said.They all ignored her and walked to the coffee and began pouring themselves a cup.<br /> "Mmm.. coffee.." Kevin said while sipping some.<br />"Guess not." Giselle said as she went back to eating her cereal.<br />"So are you ready?" Kevin said. "Cause you don't really look it.."<br />"At least I look better than you." Giselle retorted.<br />"Ouch.. that was cold." Kevin said, as he refilled his coffee cup. <br />"Go get ready Giz, it's almost time to go." Sidney said. Giselle sighed and went to the bathroom and brushed her hair, and brushed her teeth, and came out.<br />"There happy? Now stop eating my food and lets go." Giselle said as she walked to the door and put her converse on. Mandy and Sidney followed. Followed by Kevin, but not before he grabbed a piece of toast.<br />All the band members of All Regrets were in Sidney's SUV.<br />"99 BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL!" Mandy and Kevin sang.<br /> Giselle didn't quite hear it because she was listening to her IPod. Full blast I could add.. She looked outside, they were just crossing the Golden Gate Bridge to go to Oakland for the day. It was quite sunny out.<br />Look on the bright side, at least your not playing in front of all the "Green Day" fans.<br />Gisele thought as she turned off her IPod and looked at an irritated Sidney. "98 BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL, 98 BOTTLES OF BE-"<br />"Will you guys just shut up? You're already on the second number, and it's starting to annoy the hell out of me!" Kevin snickered.<br />"Could we stop at Starbucks before we go to "Oakland Arena"?" Giselle asked Sidney.<br />"Sur-"<br />"No we can not! We need good seats!" Kevin said.<br />"Hey I didn't agree on that!" Giselle snapped.<br />"It all comes with part of the deal. Besides you don't need coffee. You just had some." Kevin said.<br />"Yes, I do. And no I didn't have some you guys drank it!" Sidney rolled her eyes.<br />"Look, I'll drop Kevin and Mandy off, then me and Giselle will get some coffee. Is THAT ok?"<br />"Sure why not. Whatever. Just don't suspect me and Mandy to let you guys in line with us."<br />"Trust me, at least I won't" Giselle replied as she looked out the window. They were finally there.<br />"See you soon." Mandy said to Giselle as she nodded as Mandy and Kevin exited the van and walked off.<br />Soon the bassist and drummer of All Regrets were at Starbucks. As soon as Giselle and Sidney got their coffees they sat down at a table, and talked about random stuff.<br />"So.. are you excited about the signing?" Sidney asked Giselle.<br />"Well.. kind of.. it's hard to explain, you know? I want to but then I don't, because if we get really recognized then we basically can't go anywhere without someone wanting our autograph or a picture or something."<br />"Yeah.. that is kind of-" Sidney stopped in the middle of her sentence and blinked. Giselle didn't know what was going on but all she knew is that Sidney was staring at something or someone behind her back.
<br />Giselle looked behind he and she just saw some tall guy with brown hair. She turned back to Sidney.<br /> "Am I missing something.. or what?" Giselle asked as she raised one eyebrow.<br />"You don't know who that is?" Sidney asked her, surprised.<br />"No.. should I?"<br />"It's Mike." Sidney replied.
<br />"What the hell it's Mike? That guy that I met from Gilman? When I was.. ermm 19? I can't believe I still remember that it's been so many-"<br />"No you fuckin idiot! It's Mike from Green Day the bassist."<br />"Oh no wonder I wouldn't know." Giselle rolled her eyes, as she sipped her coffee.<br />"How couldn't you know?" Sidney asked.<br />"I dunno.. I guess when you avoid someone you don't know anything about them or whatever."<br />"Do you know where they live?" Sidney asked, again.<br />"NO YOU STALKER!" Giselle yelled. Everyone in the store stared at her, including Mike.<br />"Giselle!" Giselle smirked.<br />"At least they all know you're a stalker now."<br /> Sidney rolled her eyes. "Why don't you like Green Day?"<br />"Oh I guess I never really liked their music. Never listened to it. The only songs I've heard by Green Day are that Time of You Life song; I don't really like that song. And that Boulevard Of Broken Dreams it was okay at first, but I got sick of it they kept playing it OVER and OVER and OVER."<br />"Ahhh.. I like their old stuff." Sidney replied.<br />"Ok. I guess we should go back to the arena.." Giselle said. Sidney nodded, and they walked out of Starbucks, and into Sidney's SUV.</p>
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<p>"YES! Finally! YES! We are here!" Kevin stated, as the members of All Regrets sat on the floor waiting for the concert to start.<br />"Mhm.. we ARE here." Giselle said sarcastically. "In a way I'm excited 'cause we get to mosh."<br />"Nice." Mandy said, as we began to stand up with the crowd.<br />"Suddenly music started and a Pink Bunny came out on stage carrying a beer bottle. The croud was cheering.<br /> "WHAT THE FUCK?" Giselle said her band mates. "IS IT DRUNK OR SOMETHING?"<br />"NO IT'S JUST STUMBLING AND FALLING DOWN AND ACTING DRUNK!" said some boy beside Giselle.<br />"Smartass." Giselle stated.<br />Mandy turned to me and grinned. "The Pink bunny gave me one of its babies." Giselle laughed.<br /> Then the Pink Bunny left.<br />"Awwhh I liked the bunny." Giselle said.<br />"Hey maybe you will enjoy the show." Kevin said.
<br />"Maaayybbee.. probably not." Giselle said as Green Day came rushing onto stage and started playing "American Idiot." Giselle didn't know the song but she was guessing they were against Bush. That made her like them a bit but not THAT much. They played a couple more songs then they got to "Hitchin' A Ride." That's when Mandy said.<br />"Ooh.. I love this song. Billie masturbates in it." That's when Giselle started cracking up.<br /> "What he does. Just wait and see." Just then Giselle looked up on stage and there was the front man.<br />"Oooohh Ohhhh Ooooohh Ohhhh SOMEBODY FUCK ME!" He said while rubbing in a CERTAIN part of his pants. Giselle laughed.<br />"That's probably the best it will every get" Giselle said.<br />"Ohh just wait till Knowledge.. Me, Sidney, and Kevin have a plan."<br />"What do they do in Knowledge?" Giselle asked.<br />"Oh you'll find out soon enough" Mandy said with an evil grin.<br />After Hitchin' A Ride Billie went to the back while Tré came up and sang "All By Myself." Giselle laughed at the drummer, and quickly asked Mandy who it was. <br />"Oh, that's Tré."<br />"I HAD A ERECTION! I WAS ALL BY MYSELF!"<br />"I had an erection?" Giselle said laughing.<br />"I'm not sure did you?" Mandy replied. Tré ran back to his drums and the next song started.<br /> After Billie introduced everyone he went to himself. <br />"And I'm George W. Bush." Everyone in the croud booed but Giselle just look at Mandy with on eyebrow raised.<br /> "But my friends call me asshole!" Everyone cheers.<br /> "Now I'd like to introduce a band called Operation Ivy. A 1 2, 1 2 3 4" Mandy and Kevin grinned at Giselle, and all she did was roll her eyes and push people out of the way. To her it was easy 'cause all there was in Mike's section were girls. So her band mates followed her and finally they were at the front.<br />"Are we going to do a whole band? Okay lets do a whole band." Billie said into the microphone.<br />Giselle stared at her friends. "You wouldn't dare."<br />"Now I need a drummer," Billie said, while he looked around the stadium.<br />"Ooooh Billie!!! She wants to do it!" Kevin said pointing to Giselle.<br />"No-"<br />"Yeah.. pick her!" Mandy yelled.<br />"I said N-"<br />"Okay c'mon up here!" Billie interrupted. Giselle backed away, but here friends forced her to go up.<br />Oh great. Speak of the devil; I have to play in front of all the fans.<br />"Now what's your name?" Billie said into the microphone.<br />"Giselle" she muttered<br />"Now exactly how long have you been playing?" Billie asked her.<br />"Why do you want to know?" Giselle snapped.<br />Great Giselle, great first impression. Oh well you don't like them anyway.<br />"Do you even want to play?" Billie asked her, but not into the microphone.<br />"No, my so called band mate friends dragged me up here." Giselle said while rolled her eyes.<br />"Oohh, that makes it even more exciting. Now go back to the drum set." Billie said. Giselle walked back to the drum set.<br />Why don't I just mess everything up? Then I might get called off stage. Maybe not everyone will think I suck. But who cares? If it's easy I'll play. Wait what am I thinking of course it will be easy. They just call random people-<br />A flick in the forehead interrupted her thoughts.<br /> "Now are you going to play or not?" The drummer asked her. She rolled her eyes and sat down. He gave her the drumsticks, and she looked down at them and laughed.<br /> "What? Are you insulting my drumsticks?" Tré pouted.<br />"They have your name on them." Giselle laughed. Tré rolled her eyes.<br />"Why of course geez I have a million of them and they all have my name on them. They are signature drumsticks." Tré said as he rolled his eyes, yet again.<br />"Oh really...well, should I feel special then?" Giselle asked, laughing<br />Tre nodded, "Dugh...I mean, not everyone gets my drumsticks on their first date"<br />Giselle suddenly stopped laughing and raised an eyebrow, "Excuse me?"<br />Tre smirked, "If I give you a backstage pass could you consider that a second date?"<br />"Tré! Hurry the fuck up. We already have the bassist!" Billie yelled to him. Tré rolled his eyes and whispered in Giselle's ear to tell her the beat. Giselle nodded and started.<br />Does that erection drummer like me? Uhh..<br />The bassist joined in while Giselle was still drumming out the beat. Then Billie picked "The best fuckin guitarist in Oakland" and the band started playing the rest of Knowledge.<br />After they had stopped, Tré tapped Giselle on the shoulder.<br />"Here take this.. you can come backstage after the show.. If you want, for some drinks or something." Giselle was about to say that she didn't want to come, but Billie had called her up to do something so Tré stuffed the pass into her pocket and she ran to go see Billie.<br />"Okay. You're doing a stage dive." Giselle grinned, at some of the gigs in the past she had done this and she loved it. She stood back.<br /> "On the count of 3 1, 2," Billie paused a second and Giselle looked at him slightly irritated so she just ran without him saying anything. <br />"Damnit it, I didn't say anything!" Billie said. Then Billie gave the guitar to the person, and frankly, it looked like he was going to shit his pants.</p>
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<p>"So..?" Kevin grinned. Giselle rolled her eyes. This was after the concert and people were just coming out of the arena, while they were still in there.<br />"He gave me this" Giselle reached into her pocket and pulled out the pass. Kevin's eyes went wide.<br /> "But I don't wanna go." Giselle said. Kevin's eye got even more wide.<br />"Oh c'mon. Seriously. No one ever gets these." Kevin said.
<br />"Well I've made up my mind. I'm NOT going." Giselle said firmly. Kevin rolled his eyes, and motioned Mandy and Sidney over.<br />"Look at THIS." Kevin said to them as he showed them the pass. Their eyes went wide just like Kevin's, while Giselle rolled her eyes.<br />"Look I DON'T wanna go!" Mandy looked at her.<br />"You know what? I DON'T CARE! We are going! Kapeesh? Kapeesh. It's done we are going. We ARE going. Yup that's right we are-"<br />"Not going." Giselle finished, as she started to walk out of the arena.
<br />"Too bad. 3-1" Kevin retorted as she grabbed her by the arm and started to drag her to the security Guards.<br /> "We have this pass.. we need you guys to get us in." Kevin said as he showed the guy the pass.<br />"Sure, right this way." The security guard led them to the back of the stage.<br />"Fuck you, you fucker." Giselle kept mumbling to Kevin, and made sure he heard it.<br />"Trust me, you'll love it." Kevin smiled.<br />"Kevin.. You really have no clue on what happened on stage, and really, I don't want you to know." Giselle said.<br />
"Oh c'mon Giselle we are going back stage anyway might as well get along. Trust me if he offers you a drink or whatever accept.. and if he talks to you just TRY and not be rude."<br />"Now your sounding like a mother." Giselle said. Kevin kept quiet.<br />There they were. Backstage. Giselle gulped. All the members of All Regrets stepped into the room and looked around. Not much people here. Just the members of Green Day, their crew, and some fans, around 8 or 9.
<br />"Hey!" Tré said as he walked over to Giselle.<br />"Hi.."<br />"You're that girl that didn't listen to me! Geez I hope you know how much people worship me and my hotness." Billie joked while flicking his hair.<br />"Billie." Adrienne came up from behind him.<br /> "Hi, I'm Adrienne, his wife, unfortunately." Adrienne said to Giselle. Giselle smiled. After they exchanged greetings and stuff, Giselle was walking about, while Tré kept on eyeing her. Then Giselle went to Mandy.<br />"Mandy.. help." She turned around and quirked an eyebrow. "Tré keeps eyeing me." Mandy laughed.<br />"I know you don't want to talk with him but just go trust me you might have fun." Giselle gave her one of her "less than pleased" faces and went to go see Tré.<br />"Hey." She mumbled to him.
<br />"Hey! I was looking for you." Tré said "I was wondering.. you wanna go get a drink or something?"<br />No don't, Giselle.. But why not? ehh what the hell.
<br />"Sure, why not?" Tré smirked and went to go tell the Crew that he was going out for the night..but he didn't really need to because this concert was the last one until the next album.<br /> Then they set out to a local bar/restaurant.
<br />When they got there they sat down and ordered some drinks.<br />"So.." They both said in unison, and they laughed. Then Tré spoke. "So what do you do?"<br />"I live in San Francisco, and the people that I brought backstage with me they are in the band I play in. So what do you do..?" Giselle paused and thought for a second. "Wait. Dumb question." Tré took a sip of his drink and waved the question away.<br />"Ahh you live in the Bay area. So do we."
<br />"Oh yeah. I knew that. You're always the talk of the area." He smirked.
<br />Why am I being so nice? I usually snap at least 5 times by now. Am I falling for him? Dumb question. Of course I'm not. I think..?<br />Tré told Giselle about his earlier life, and how he's been playing drums professionally since he was 12, and then he came to his teenage years.<br /> "Yeah.. I was in a band called "The Lookouts" since I was 12."<br />"Hmm.. funny I recognize that.. Wait. Oh yeah! I came to Gilman a lot in my teenage years and around there and you guys played there quite a lot."<br />"Yeah.. We did play there a lot.." He continued about him. He had two children, one that lived in the bay area, and one in New York, he also mentioned about various other things.<br />"Enough about you lets talk about me." So Giselle continued to tell him about her life and how she was raised in Oakland too. By her adoptive parents, and how she never really found her mom and dad.<br /> "Yeah.. I only heard that my real parents lived in Oakland for their whole life and I have 6 siblings, not including me." She spoke. "And I heard my Dad died back in 1982 when I was around 6." Tré frowned, and was about to speak but Giselle spoke before him. "It's okay I didn't even know him anyways."<br />So they continued on talking until Giselle finally looked at the time.<br /> "Tré I should get going.."
<br />"Ahh okay. I'll give you a ride." He spoke.<br />"No it's okay I'll take a cab or something. I live in San Fran anyways. It would just take you-"<br />Tré cut her off. "I'm taking you final decision." He smiled. "Besides you didn't have a choice anyways. We just have to walk to the arena to get my car."<br />"Mmkay." Giselle said as she got out of her chair, and Tré followed. <br /> They walked along the streets in Oakland, and Giselle shivered.<br /> "Ughh... I knew I should have brought that damn jacket," she mumbled to herself. Tré noticed her shivering. And said to her.<br />"This is where I'm supposed to offer you my jacket. But I'm evil like that so I'm not going to give it to you." He grinned evily.<br /> "But then again.. I didn't even bring one.." Giselle snorted, and then they finally got to the arena. Tré got his keys out of his back pocket and opened the doors of the car. Giselle hopped in, as so did Tré but he turned the car on.
<br />"Yeah.. I think you know how to get to San Francisco." Giselle said to Tré.
<br />"Or do I?"<br />"Well you should know."<br />"Why should I know?"<br />"Cause you're smart like that, either that or you're so stupid that you understand."<br />"Wow thanks for the complement."<br />"Anytime." Giselle said as she looked out the window. They were crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. Giselle had always had something for the bridge. She loved it at night when it was all lit up.<br /> "Why the hell do they call the Golden Gate Bridge the Golden Gate Bridge.. It's not even Golden colored or whatever. It's pretty stupid.." Tré started, "You know? If they called it the Golden Gate Bridge.. it could at least be golden colored." <br />Giselle laughed, "Well its pretty goldish-colored when it's lit up at night, and I bet they said something about it in History.. But then again who pays arttention to that?"<br />Tré shrugged. "Exactly. Okay so where do you live?"<br />"Okay keep going and turn right onto 2nd street." Giselle replied, Tré continued to drive, while Giselle told him the rest of the directions.<br /> "Right here." Giselle said pointing to her house.<br />"Listen maybe we could do this again sometime.." Tré said.<br />Giselle nodded. "Sure. Here's my cell number." She said while scribbling a few numbers on a piece of paper.<br /> "Well.. Talk to you later."<br />Tré smiled in a stupid, yet happy way before gently kissing her on the cheek and making his way away from her. Giselle stared at where Tré once stood before walking away and into her house. <br />As soon as Giselle got into her house, she burst out laughing. Party on how that was a bit corny and mostly on how Tré smiled, when she gave him her number. Giselle did like Tré a bit even she could admit it. But she could never admit on how much she really liked him.<br /> Giselle got ready for bed put on her Pajamas, and hopped into bed smiling.</p>
<br />"And how do YOU know?" Giselle said back.<br />"I have good instinct."
<br />"Phht. you can barley tell if you're a boy-"<br />"Hey you guys why don't we go find our bassist?" Mandy interrupted Giselle and Kevin's argument about "Sparky"<br />"Sidney? Oh I think she went to the Grocery Store or something." Kevin said<br />"What the hell? She already has enough food at the house." Giselle said<br />"She went to go pick up stuff for the spaghetti.. You know spaghetti have noodles and she forgot to pick them up. Anyways who cares! Back to Sparky. He is a boy! TRUST me!"<br />"Whatever." Giselle said while lying back on the couch. All she knew that the concert would be some long concert..</p>
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<p>Giselle woke up the next day in her San Francisco home, with the sun shining brightly through her window.<br />"Damn Sun." Giselle mumbled to herself. Then she groaned to herself realizing that today was the day of the concert. Giselle got up, went to her closet and picked out a random t-shirt and a pair of jeans. Today was going to be a long day.<br />She walked out of her room and into the kitchen, where she could find 4 messages all from Kevin, but one. One said "Giselle! CONCERT. WAKE UP!." another one said. "GISELLE IT'S 7:00 AND YOUR STILL NOT UP." Giselle laughed at that one. No one in the right mind would wake up at 7:00 on a Saturday, when they had nothing to do. The third one basically the same and the forth one, was Mandy. "Okay Giselle. Sidney and me are coming to pick you up in 30mins. and the time is now.. umm.. 30 mins. before we are going to pick you up. BYE." Giselle sighed.<br /> "Nice Mandy real nice." She mumbled to herself.<br /> Giselle went to the fridge and got some cereal out of it, she also made coffee for her bandmates. Suddenly the front door burst open with faint sounds of people coming in and talking. Then they finally came to the kitchen: Mandy, Kevin and Sidney.<br /> "Knock much?" Giselle said.They all ignored her and walked to the coffee and began pouring themselves a cup.<br /> "Mmm.. coffee.." Kevin said while sipping some.<br />"Guess not." Giselle said as she went back to eating her cereal.<br />"So are you ready?" Kevin said. "Cause you don't really look it.."<br />"At least I look better than you." Giselle retorted.<br />"Ouch.. that was cold." Kevin said, as he refilled his coffee cup. <br />"Go get ready Giz, it's almost time to go." Sidney said. Giselle sighed and went to the bathroom and brushed her hair, and brushed her teeth, and came out.<br />"There happy? Now stop eating my food and lets go." Giselle said as she walked to the door and put her converse on. Mandy and Sidney followed. Followed by Kevin, but not before he grabbed a piece of toast.<br />All the band members of All Regrets were in Sidney's SUV.<br />"99 BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL!" Mandy and Kevin sang.<br /> Giselle didn't quite hear it because she was listening to her IPod. Full blast I could add.. She looked outside, they were just crossing the Golden Gate Bridge to go to Oakland for the day. It was quite sunny out.<br />Look on the bright side, at least your not playing in front of all the "Green Day" fans.<br />Gisele thought as she turned off her IPod and looked at an irritated Sidney. "98 BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL, 98 BOTTLES OF BE-"<br />"Will you guys just shut up? You're already on the second number, and it's starting to annoy the hell out of me!" Kevin snickered.<br />"Could we stop at Starbucks before we go to "Oakland Arena"?" Giselle asked Sidney.<br />"Sur-"<br />"No we can not! We need good seats!" Kevin said.<br />"Hey I didn't agree on that!" Giselle snapped.<br />"It all comes with part of the deal. Besides you don't need coffee. You just had some." Kevin said.<br />"Yes, I do. And no I didn't have some you guys drank it!" Sidney rolled her eyes.<br />"Look, I'll drop Kevin and Mandy off, then me and Giselle will get some coffee. Is THAT ok?"<br />"Sure why not. Whatever. Just don't suspect me and Mandy to let you guys in line with us."<br />"Trust me, at least I won't" Giselle replied as she looked out the window. They were finally there.<br />"See you soon." Mandy said to Giselle as she nodded as Mandy and Kevin exited the van and walked off.<br />Soon the bassist and drummer of All Regrets were at Starbucks. As soon as Giselle and Sidney got their coffees they sat down at a table, and talked about random stuff.<br />"So.. are you excited about the signing?" Sidney asked Giselle.<br />"Well.. kind of.. it's hard to explain, you know? I want to but then I don't, because if we get really recognized then we basically can't go anywhere without someone wanting our autograph or a picture or something."<br />"Yeah.. that is kind of-" Sidney stopped in the middle of her sentence and blinked. Giselle didn't know what was going on but all she knew is that Sidney was staring at something or someone behind her back.
<br />Giselle looked behind he and she just saw some tall guy with brown hair. She turned back to Sidney.<br /> "Am I missing something.. or what?" Giselle asked as she raised one eyebrow.<br />"You don't know who that is?" Sidney asked her, surprised.<br />"No.. should I?"<br />"It's Mike." Sidney replied.
<br />"What the hell it's Mike? That guy that I met from Gilman? When I was.. ermm 19? I can't believe I still remember that it's been so many-"<br />"No you fuckin idiot! It's Mike from Green Day the bassist."<br />"Oh no wonder I wouldn't know." Giselle rolled her eyes, as she sipped her coffee.<br />"How couldn't you know?" Sidney asked.<br />"I dunno.. I guess when you avoid someone you don't know anything about them or whatever."<br />"Do you know where they live?" Sidney asked, again.<br />"NO YOU STALKER!" Giselle yelled. Everyone in the store stared at her, including Mike.<br />"Giselle!" Giselle smirked.<br />"At least they all know you're a stalker now."<br /> Sidney rolled her eyes. "Why don't you like Green Day?"<br />"Oh I guess I never really liked their music. Never listened to it. The only songs I've heard by Green Day are that Time of You Life song; I don't really like that song. And that Boulevard Of Broken Dreams it was okay at first, but I got sick of it they kept playing it OVER and OVER and OVER."<br />"Ahhh.. I like their old stuff." Sidney replied.<br />"Ok. I guess we should go back to the arena.." Giselle said. Sidney nodded, and they walked out of Starbucks, and into Sidney's SUV.</p>
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<p>"YES! Finally! YES! We are here!" Kevin stated, as the members of All Regrets sat on the floor waiting for the concert to start.<br />"Mhm.. we ARE here." Giselle said sarcastically. "In a way I'm excited 'cause we get to mosh."<br />"Nice." Mandy said, as we began to stand up with the crowd.<br />"Suddenly music started and a Pink Bunny came out on stage carrying a beer bottle. The croud was cheering.<br /> "WHAT THE FUCK?" Giselle said her band mates. "IS IT DRUNK OR SOMETHING?"<br />"NO IT'S JUST STUMBLING AND FALLING DOWN AND ACTING DRUNK!" said some boy beside Giselle.<br />"Smartass." Giselle stated.<br />Mandy turned to me and grinned. "The Pink bunny gave me one of its babies." Giselle laughed.<br /> Then the Pink Bunny left.<br />"Awwhh I liked the bunny." Giselle said.<br />"Hey maybe you will enjoy the show." Kevin said.
<br />"Maaayybbee.. probably not." Giselle said as Green Day came rushing onto stage and started playing "American Idiot." Giselle didn't know the song but she was guessing they were against Bush. That made her like them a bit but not THAT much. They played a couple more songs then they got to "Hitchin' A Ride." That's when Mandy said.<br />"Ooh.. I love this song. Billie masturbates in it." That's when Giselle started cracking up.<br /> "What he does. Just wait and see." Just then Giselle looked up on stage and there was the front man.<br />"Oooohh Ohhhh Ooooohh Ohhhh SOMEBODY FUCK ME!" He said while rubbing in a CERTAIN part of his pants. Giselle laughed.<br />"That's probably the best it will every get" Giselle said.<br />"Ohh just wait till Knowledge.. Me, Sidney, and Kevin have a plan."<br />"What do they do in Knowledge?" Giselle asked.<br />"Oh you'll find out soon enough" Mandy said with an evil grin.<br />After Hitchin' A Ride Billie went to the back while Tré came up and sang "All By Myself." Giselle laughed at the drummer, and quickly asked Mandy who it was. <br />"Oh, that's Tré."<br />"I HAD A ERECTION! I WAS ALL BY MYSELF!"<br />"I had an erection?" Giselle said laughing.<br />"I'm not sure did you?" Mandy replied. Tré ran back to his drums and the next song started.<br /> After Billie introduced everyone he went to himself. <br />"And I'm George W. Bush." Everyone in the croud booed but Giselle just look at Mandy with on eyebrow raised.<br /> "But my friends call me asshole!" Everyone cheers.<br /> "Now I'd like to introduce a band called Operation Ivy. A 1 2, 1 2 3 4" Mandy and Kevin grinned at Giselle, and all she did was roll her eyes and push people out of the way. To her it was easy 'cause all there was in Mike's section were girls. So her band mates followed her and finally they were at the front.<br />"Are we going to do a whole band? Okay lets do a whole band." Billie said into the microphone.<br />Giselle stared at her friends. "You wouldn't dare."<br />"Now I need a drummer," Billie said, while he looked around the stadium.<br />"Ooooh Billie!!! She wants to do it!" Kevin said pointing to Giselle.<br />"No-"<br />"Yeah.. pick her!" Mandy yelled.<br />"I said N-"<br />"Okay c'mon up here!" Billie interrupted. Giselle backed away, but here friends forced her to go up.<br />Oh great. Speak of the devil; I have to play in front of all the fans.<br />"Now what's your name?" Billie said into the microphone.<br />"Giselle" she muttered<br />"Now exactly how long have you been playing?" Billie asked her.<br />"Why do you want to know?" Giselle snapped.<br />Great Giselle, great first impression. Oh well you don't like them anyway.<br />"Do you even want to play?" Billie asked her, but not into the microphone.<br />"No, my so called band mate friends dragged me up here." Giselle said while rolled her eyes.<br />"Oohh, that makes it even more exciting. Now go back to the drum set." Billie said. Giselle walked back to the drum set.<br />Why don't I just mess everything up? Then I might get called off stage. Maybe not everyone will think I suck. But who cares? If it's easy I'll play. Wait what am I thinking of course it will be easy. They just call random people-<br />A flick in the forehead interrupted her thoughts.<br /> "Now are you going to play or not?" The drummer asked her. She rolled her eyes and sat down. He gave her the drumsticks, and she looked down at them and laughed.<br /> "What? Are you insulting my drumsticks?" Tré pouted.<br />"They have your name on them." Giselle laughed. Tré rolled her eyes.<br />"Why of course geez I have a million of them and they all have my name on them. They are signature drumsticks." Tré said as he rolled his eyes, yet again.<br />"Oh really...well, should I feel special then?" Giselle asked, laughing<br />Tre nodded, "Dugh...I mean, not everyone gets my drumsticks on their first date"<br />Giselle suddenly stopped laughing and raised an eyebrow, "Excuse me?"<br />Tre smirked, "If I give you a backstage pass could you consider that a second date?"<br />"Tré! Hurry the fuck up. We already have the bassist!" Billie yelled to him. Tré rolled his eyes and whispered in Giselle's ear to tell her the beat. Giselle nodded and started.<br />Does that erection drummer like me? Uhh..<br />The bassist joined in while Giselle was still drumming out the beat. Then Billie picked "The best fuckin guitarist in Oakland" and the band started playing the rest of Knowledge.<br />After they had stopped, Tré tapped Giselle on the shoulder.<br />"Here take this.. you can come backstage after the show.. If you want, for some drinks or something." Giselle was about to say that she didn't want to come, but Billie had called her up to do something so Tré stuffed the pass into her pocket and she ran to go see Billie.<br />"Okay. You're doing a stage dive." Giselle grinned, at some of the gigs in the past she had done this and she loved it. She stood back.<br /> "On the count of 3 1, 2," Billie paused a second and Giselle looked at him slightly irritated so she just ran without him saying anything. <br />"Damnit it, I didn't say anything!" Billie said. Then Billie gave the guitar to the person, and frankly, it looked like he was going to shit his pants.</p>
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<p>"So..?" Kevin grinned. Giselle rolled her eyes. This was after the concert and people were just coming out of the arena, while they were still in there.<br />"He gave me this" Giselle reached into her pocket and pulled out the pass. Kevin's eyes went wide.<br /> "But I don't wanna go." Giselle said. Kevin's eye got even more wide.<br />"Oh c'mon. Seriously. No one ever gets these." Kevin said.
<br />"Well I've made up my mind. I'm NOT going." Giselle said firmly. Kevin rolled his eyes, and motioned Mandy and Sidney over.<br />"Look at THIS." Kevin said to them as he showed them the pass. Their eyes went wide just like Kevin's, while Giselle rolled her eyes.<br />"Look I DON'T wanna go!" Mandy looked at her.<br />"You know what? I DON'T CARE! We are going! Kapeesh? Kapeesh. It's done we are going. We ARE going. Yup that's right we are-"<br />"Not going." Giselle finished, as she started to walk out of the arena.
<br />"Too bad. 3-1" Kevin retorted as she grabbed her by the arm and started to drag her to the security Guards.<br /> "We have this pass.. we need you guys to get us in." Kevin said as he showed the guy the pass.<br />"Sure, right this way." The security guard led them to the back of the stage.<br />"Fuck you, you fucker." Giselle kept mumbling to Kevin, and made sure he heard it.<br />"Trust me, you'll love it." Kevin smiled.<br />"Kevin.. You really have no clue on what happened on stage, and really, I don't want you to know." Giselle said.<br />
"Oh c'mon Giselle we are going back stage anyway might as well get along. Trust me if he offers you a drink or whatever accept.. and if he talks to you just TRY and not be rude."<br />"Now your sounding like a mother." Giselle said. Kevin kept quiet.<br />There they were. Backstage. Giselle gulped. All the members of All Regrets stepped into the room and looked around. Not much people here. Just the members of Green Day, their crew, and some fans, around 8 or 9.
<br />"Hey!" Tré said as he walked over to Giselle.<br />"Hi.."<br />"You're that girl that didn't listen to me! Geez I hope you know how much people worship me and my hotness." Billie joked while flicking his hair.<br />"Billie." Adrienne came up from behind him.<br /> "Hi, I'm Adrienne, his wife, unfortunately." Adrienne said to Giselle. Giselle smiled. After they exchanged greetings and stuff, Giselle was walking about, while Tré kept on eyeing her. Then Giselle went to Mandy.<br />"Mandy.. help." She turned around and quirked an eyebrow. "Tré keeps eyeing me." Mandy laughed.<br />"I know you don't want to talk with him but just go trust me you might have fun." Giselle gave her one of her "less than pleased" faces and went to go see Tré.<br />"Hey." She mumbled to him.
<br />"Hey! I was looking for you." Tré said "I was wondering.. you wanna go get a drink or something?"<br />No don't, Giselle.. But why not? ehh what the hell.
<br />"Sure, why not?" Tré smirked and went to go tell the Crew that he was going out for the night..but he didn't really need to because this concert was the last one until the next album.<br /> Then they set out to a local bar/restaurant.
<br />When they got there they sat down and ordered some drinks.<br />"So.." They both said in unison, and they laughed. Then Tré spoke. "So what do you do?"<br />"I live in San Francisco, and the people that I brought backstage with me they are in the band I play in. So what do you do..?" Giselle paused and thought for a second. "Wait. Dumb question." Tré took a sip of his drink and waved the question away.<br />"Ahh you live in the Bay area. So do we."
<br />"Oh yeah. I knew that. You're always the talk of the area." He smirked.
<br />Why am I being so nice? I usually snap at least 5 times by now. Am I falling for him? Dumb question. Of course I'm not. I think..?<br />Tré told Giselle about his earlier life, and how he's been playing drums professionally since he was 12, and then he came to his teenage years.<br /> "Yeah.. I was in a band called "The Lookouts" since I was 12."<br />"Hmm.. funny I recognize that.. Wait. Oh yeah! I came to Gilman a lot in my teenage years and around there and you guys played there quite a lot."<br />"Yeah.. We did play there a lot.." He continued about him. He had two children, one that lived in the bay area, and one in New York, he also mentioned about various other things.<br />"Enough about you lets talk about me." So Giselle continued to tell him about her life and how she was raised in Oakland too. By her adoptive parents, and how she never really found her mom and dad.<br /> "Yeah.. I only heard that my real parents lived in Oakland for their whole life and I have 6 siblings, not including me." She spoke. "And I heard my Dad died back in 1982 when I was around 6." Tré frowned, and was about to speak but Giselle spoke before him. "It's okay I didn't even know him anyways."<br />So they continued on talking until Giselle finally looked at the time.<br /> "Tré I should get going.."
<br />"Ahh okay. I'll give you a ride." He spoke.<br />"No it's okay I'll take a cab or something. I live in San Fran anyways. It would just take you-"<br />Tré cut her off. "I'm taking you final decision." He smiled. "Besides you didn't have a choice anyways. We just have to walk to the arena to get my car."<br />"Mmkay." Giselle said as she got out of her chair, and Tré followed. <br /> They walked along the streets in Oakland, and Giselle shivered.<br /> "Ughh... I knew I should have brought that damn jacket," she mumbled to herself. Tré noticed her shivering. And said to her.<br />"This is where I'm supposed to offer you my jacket. But I'm evil like that so I'm not going to give it to you." He grinned evily.<br /> "But then again.. I didn't even bring one.." Giselle snorted, and then they finally got to the arena. Tré got his keys out of his back pocket and opened the doors of the car. Giselle hopped in, as so did Tré but he turned the car on.
<br />"Yeah.. I think you know how to get to San Francisco." Giselle said to Tré.
<br />"Or do I?"<br />"Well you should know."<br />"Why should I know?"<br />"Cause you're smart like that, either that or you're so stupid that you understand."<br />"Wow thanks for the complement."<br />"Anytime." Giselle said as she looked out the window. They were crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. Giselle had always had something for the bridge. She loved it at night when it was all lit up.<br /> "Why the hell do they call the Golden Gate Bridge the Golden Gate Bridge.. It's not even Golden colored or whatever. It's pretty stupid.." Tré started, "You know? If they called it the Golden Gate Bridge.. it could at least be golden colored." <br />Giselle laughed, "Well its pretty goldish-colored when it's lit up at night, and I bet they said something about it in History.. But then again who pays arttention to that?"<br />Tré shrugged. "Exactly. Okay so where do you live?"<br />"Okay keep going and turn right onto 2nd street." Giselle replied, Tré continued to drive, while Giselle told him the rest of the directions.<br /> "Right here." Giselle said pointing to her house.<br />"Listen maybe we could do this again sometime.." Tré said.<br />Giselle nodded. "Sure. Here's my cell number." She said while scribbling a few numbers on a piece of paper.<br /> "Well.. Talk to you later."<br />Tré smiled in a stupid, yet happy way before gently kissing her on the cheek and making his way away from her. Giselle stared at where Tré once stood before walking away and into her house. <br />As soon as Giselle got into her house, she burst out laughing. Party on how that was a bit corny and mostly on how Tré smiled, when she gave him her number. Giselle did like Tré a bit even she could admit it. But she could never admit on how much she really liked him.<br /> Giselle got ready for bed put on her Pajamas, and hopped into bed smiling.</p>
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