Drawn to the Drummer, chapter 9

Waking up with a slight tingling-burning sensation down my back I tryed to get up but I failed hopelessly in pain and fell back down onto couch I was surprisingly on. I sat up as much as I could and thought "Hmmm I don't remember a couch being in the line to the cafeteria" my thoughts kept buzzing through my head "and I don't remember-" I trailed off when I relised that I definitely wasn't still in the line. I was sitting in a lounge room of an apartment. It was quite nice too. I wonder if was back at our hotel room. I bet the girls found me collapsed on the ground after waiting ages for my return. But nothing seemed familiar in the room.

The pain in my back grew worse for a moment. I held my back then realising there was bandages around my middle. Wow...I wonder which one of the girls has their first aid? I dunno about Krissy and Louise couldn't be bothered so I'm guessing Hannah. Then all of my theories went out the window as a man walked into the room. He took a side glimpse at me then stopped.
"Oh your awake" the man said. My eyes opened wider the same time as my mouth dropped to the floor."Wow no wonder your a good singer...check out those tonsils!" Billie Joe commented. I abruptly closed my mouth with embarrasment. This has to be another one of my crazy dreams.
"Ok I'm ready to go back to the land of nod now" I said waiting for someone to slap me out of the dream.
"Dude are you ok?" Billie asked "Oh no, you might have concussion!" Billie pressed his fingers to his lips then continued like he was taking to himself."Well Tre did say she hit the ground pretty hard-"
"Wait, wait, wait.....Tre?" I asked stunned.
"Yeah," Billie said nodding his head as if I was two years old.
"Tre?" I asked again.
"Yes Tre" he replied pulling his phone out of his pocket. "I'm going to call him and tell him about your concussion ok"
"No don't" I said stuttering "just explain to me what happened" I said a little firmer.
After a five minute process of Billie explaining the senario.
"So yeah it was Tre's extra hot frappuccino that got spilt down your back and Mike knows first aid and to Tre's guenius thinking he thought it would be better for Mike to treat you instead of going to the hospital and trying to evoid the media etc etc"
"Oh" I replied "Then where is Mike and Tre?"
"Mike is here in the back room practicing his new song and Tre went out to buy something" he answered "oh and for the record your in Tre's apartment" he said trying to do Tre's eyebrow wiggle. I blushed and my eyes buldged at Billies attempt.
"So umm what time is Tre expected back?" I tryed not to sound too interested.
"He should be back anytime now actually" Billie said glancing over his shoulder.
"Ummm would I be able to use the bathroom?"
"Yeah sure it's just down the hall on the left" he pointed down the hall.
I gritted my teeth as the pain reminded me it was still there.
"Oh sorry dude, I forgot" Billie jumped up and slung my arm around his shoulders as he slowly helped me to the bathroom. I was quite surprised at how stronge such a skinny man can be. We reached the bathroom and I held the door knob for support. Billie smiled.
"Give us a yell if you need a hand or anything alright?" he walked back to the lounge room.

I did my business and stood infront of the mirror pulling faces. I pulled out my emergency eyeliner and lipgloss and re-did my make-up and neatned my hair. I borrowed a brush from the bathroom cabinet and I tryed to brush it but my arm was also sore so I couldn't reach down that far. Hmmm I wonder if Billie could give us a hand with this hair ball.

"Hey Billie? wannna give us a hand in here?" I called out. I heard footsteps hurrying to the door. The door opened and closed and to my amazement it wasn't Billie Joe. Standing infront of the door was Tre.
"Hi" he said "Uhh you called for Billie before?"
"Ummm yeah I was going to get him to help me untangle this mess" I said trying not to blush infront of the hottest man on the earth.
"Hear, let me" Tre stepped forward and took the brush from my hands smiling warmly.
"Thanks" I replied. Tre proceeded to brush my hair and gently removing the knots with care. Everytime we make eye contact in the mirror I would turn red and quickly look away. I think Tre smiles and laughs to himself in his head at me when I do so.

After five minutes Tre said.
"There, all knot free"
"Thank you" I said looking at my long hair flowing over my shoulders."I think I'll leave it out" I declaired.
"It's pretty like that" Tre complimented wriggling his eyebrows. My heart just melted and my insides went all mushy. Amazingly I controlled my cheeks from going red. I smiled and walked to the door. We both went to the lounge room and sat down.

"So where has Billie gone? and I still haven't seen Mike yet?" I asked.
"Oh Billie went home to pick up some blankets and stuff since your staying here the night. Mike is...I dunno where Mike is...." Tre then yelled "Hey Mike, you still here?" Mike then stumbled through from the back door and beltched really loud.
"Yeah, I'm still here dude.....hey" he said then waved at me.
"Hi" I returned the wave in amazement. I had now met the whole band of Green Day (not including backing members).
"I heard your band had safely made it to America," Mike continued. Huh? how did he know?
"How did you-" I trailed off thinking. Mike gave me an expectant look waiting for me to finish what I was going to say. It was like he was trying to magicaly brain wash the answer into my head just by stairing at me.
"What? I can take a hint" I said like a dumb blonde."What's the hint?" Mike rolled his eyes, smiled and opened his mouth but Tre butted in.
"Estelle...you know the girl who approached you in the hotel?"
"Yeah but what's that got to do with-"
"Estelle is Mikes daughter," Tre confirmed.
"Oooh I see....and?" I asked.
"And we set her up to-" Mike shot a glare at Tre. "I set her up to "bump into" you and your band etc," Tre said shyly.
"So let me get this straight, Estelle wasn't the one who saw us on tv it was you and so you've been doing a bit of research on my band and stuff cause....of our music or because we are like totaly obsessed with you guys?" Tre was nodding throughout my little speech.
"Both" he grinned back.
"Tre are you ever not horny?" Mike asked walking over to the kitchen bench to make a cup of coffee.
"Nope" he simply replied and his grin turned into a bigger one. Mike laughed and so did I.
"Man you need to get layed more, you have way too much energy!" Mike added.
"I concur, that's the cool thing about Mike is that he always right" Tre let out a bit of a chuckle and leaned back into the arm chair.
"By the way what time is it?" I said relising the girls would be totaly freaking out. Tre looked at his watch.
"Seven thirty pm"
"Oh my god. I have to ring my friends and tell them what's happened" I searched my pockets for my phone.
"Hear use mine" Tre chucked me his phone.
"Thanks" I managed to get up and dail Hannahs mobile number. I put the phone to my ear. Ring, ring, ring, ring.
"Hello" I heard Hannahs voice answer.
"Hi Hannah it's Ellie"
"Ellie! where are you? and are you ok?"
"I'm fine" I said."Mike could you get me some panadol?" I asked forgeting to cover the phone.
"Ellie what's wrong? who are you with?" Hannah asked ergently.
"I'm ok, I just had a bit of an accident that's all. Nothing to worry about"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes I'm sure. I'm just at the hospital I'll be back at the hotel tomorrow morning ok?"
"Ok but you better explain everything tomorrow"
"I will, talk to you then"
"Ok bye"
"See ya" I hung up and looked at Tre and Mike. They both had confused faces.
"Why didn't you tell her where you really were?" Tre asked.
"I guess I didn't want to overload her with information just yet. She's probably been stressing all day, I'll tell her tomorrow when the steam stops coming from her ears" I concluded. They both smiled and Mike handed me a glass of water and a couple of panadol tablets.
"Thanks"
"Honies I'm home!" Billie Joe yelled from the front door. Tre hopped up and happily skipped over to help Billie with the blankets and pillows. Tre then walked past with all the stuff.
"Come, I'll show you to your room." I followed Tre to a fairly large room which was also nicely decorated. He quickly made the bed.
"You can stay here and if you want you can take a shower in the ensuite." he said pointing to a door.
"Wow an ensuite aswell"
"Yeah" Tre sat down on the bed. My back was killing me so I sat down on the bed and stretched out. I couldn't believe that Tre Cool was sitting on the same bed as I was and only a meter away. Then Billie Joe called out to us.
"Hey Tre I'm off ok dude I'll catch up tomorrow"
"Yep ok see ya"
"Yeah man I'm going to bed now, I'm rooted, night dudes" Mike called out. Mike was staying at Tre's house because his house was getting fumigated for cockroaches.
"Ok night" Tre yelled again then looked back at me.
"Oh yeah heres your phone back" I passed his phone to him. Tre took the phone from my hands and as our skin touched it sent a cold shiver down my spine. I smiled and sat up.
"Would it be ok if I took a shower now?" I said snapping Tre out of his gaze at me.
"Yeah sure ummm....do you need a hand...with umm..anything?" Tre said not sure on how to say it without being rude.
"Arrrr good point...ummm" I could tell I was blushing.
"How about you go and do your thing and...if you need a hand I'll come in blind folded" He suggested with a laugh.
"Ok" I laughed.
"Oh and hears some pjs Billie brought and a nighty gown....he got them from the shop, hope they fit"
"Ok thanks" I said and took the things into the bath room. I had a shower with no problem. I think it was the panadol that had started to work. I was putting on the pj top and I looked at the size. It was a ten and I was a twelve. Oh man this is going to make my boobs look big like I'm in a wet t-shirt competition except it's not wet. It got worse when I looked at the bottoms. They were the right size but ther were those tight fitting undies that look like short shorts except prettier and has lace! Oh well. I slid them on and put the dressing gown on over the top. I left my hair out to dry then slowly opened the door and stepped back into the room closing the door behind me. I looked over at Tre who was looking at me.
"Is it hot in here?" he asked looking at the dressing gown.
"No it's quite warm acutally"
"Then what's with the dressing gown?" Tre looked confused.
"Well..lets just say there not my cup of tea to be wearing infront of people, let alone you!" I laughed.
"Did Billie Joe get you pjs that make you look like a pornstar?" he said trying not to laugh. Embarrased I nodded trying not to smile.
"Awww poor Ellie" Tre said standing up to give me a hug. I didn't open my arms incase my dressing gown came open. Tre waited a second then wrapped his arms around me and squeezed like a little kid would do to a new teddy bear. Only Tre was a bit stronger than a little kid.
It has been a while since I last saw my mum and I was getting a tiny bit home sick. I needed someone to hug. I was getting a hug off of the man of my dreams and what was I doing? just standing there worrying about him seeing the pjs. As Billie Joe says "It's better to regret something you've done than something you haven't". I gave in to the saying and returned Tre's hug. He was nice and warm. We hugged and hugged and hugged.

"Mmm you smell nice," Tre murmured.
"Thank you" I said feeling a bit cooler all of a sudden which was quite strange. The next thing I knew was the only material that separated Tre's arms and my bare skin was the pjs.
"Oh my god" I said startled trying to cover up when Tre stepped back to see what happened.
"Oh" Tre said trying not to smirk.
"Am I kidding myself or something? I mean it's not like you haven't seen pjs before" I stopped trying to hide and stood there with my arms folded.
"That's my girl" Tre grinned seductively. I raised an eyebrow as I watched Tre step closer and place his hand on my hips. This made my heart jump into my throat. He moved his hands up and around to my back evoiding my burn. I looked at him with curiosity.
"What are you planning Mr Cool?"
"I was kinda hoping you would tell me?" I smiled and looked away with embarrasment. Tre took the opprotunety and began to kiss up my neck. He paused for a moment and I looked at him.
"You know we shouldn't do this?" I asked.
"I know" and with that he closed his eyes and started a game of tonsil hockey. OH MY GOD, talk about HEAVEN! He was such a smooth and soft kisser. It made me want to melt in his mouth. We kissed for a while then I stopped.
"Tre stop" I managed to say.
"I would if I knew you didn't like it!" he wriggled his eyebrows then continued.
"I really need to get some sleep"
"Uhuh" Tre kissed me again and totaly ignored what I just said.
"Tre did you here what I just said?" I continued to protest trying not to laugh at Tre puckering up his lips.
"Yep" he resumed the hockey game. Arrgggh boys are so subborn! I gave Tre a friendly shove.
"Oh sorry I get carried away a bit" he laughed.
"I think so" I agreed and smiled.
"I'll leave you to sleep then" he turned to walk towards the door when I took his hand gave him a goodnight kiss. I stepped back.
"Goodnight" I said softly.
"Night" he said cheerfuly and disappeared behind the door. I clambered into bed and huddled down under the blankets. Wow what a day! meeting Green Day and kissing Tre. Life just couldn't get any better...

To be continued....