"The Hopeless and Green Day", chapter 11

(In Alexia's point of view)

Tre and I had been together for a whole month and things had gone great. We were together most of the time and would go hang out where they wouldn't find us. We would go out for ice cream sometimes or something like that. But every time someone would intervene on us making out or just holding hands we would have to make so many excuses. We were both getting tired of it.

"I can't stand it anymore! It's like hiding the fact that we breathe!" We were in an empty room in Houston, Texas.

"Yeah, I know, but still Tre."

"Come on can't we even tell the guys! They probably already know!"

"I don't know Tre."

"Why don't you want them to know anyways?"

"I just don't, okay."

"Why?! I want to know!"

"Because then it'll go into the magazines and they'll hurt me again!" I looked
down and Tre just stared at me.

"What do you mean?"

"Look last year, I was anorexic," His eyes got wide. "The magazines noticed and started saying I was. I had to tell my friends and family that it was true. I went to a shrink and got better, but I still have dreams of people judging me, telling me that I'm fat, worthless, talent less. Then I met you and I thought that I could be myself. I am finally myself."

Tre just looked at me, with the widest eyes I could ever see, and then he soften his eyes and kissed me. "We don't have to tell them if you don't want to."
He hugged me and I put my head against his chest. "But I'm getting tired of this too. It's so frustrating."

"I know, but I won't do anything that you don't want to do."

"I don't know. I'm just getting tired of this." I thought if what would happen if I told the guys and then realized that it wouldn't automatically tell the press that we're together. "We should tell them."

Tre got hold of my arms and just looked at me with a weird face. "Are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm so getting tired of this." Tre smiled, grabbed me, and holded me up in the air like a baby.

"Yes, finally!" He let me go and he grabbed my hand. "Come on, let's tell them now."

He pulled me and we started walking. We went to the dressing room and everyone was there. Tre did nothing but hold my hand. He got on a couch and he told me to sit down. When I did, he grabbed me and kissed me. He thought he could use his tongue but I stopped him before he did it in front of everyone.

"Yes, we are together! God I finally feel like myself again!" He kissed me again. "Yeah!"

I whispered in Tre's ear. "When I said that we would tell them, I didn't mean that you would yell it out loud."

"Well, it's better this way." Everybody stared at us and Tre and I felt uncomfortable. "I think you were right."

"Aduh, Tre, aduh." Finally somebody said something.

"I was wondering why you two seemed so uncomfortable." Jennie said.

"Yeah, we thought that you two we only friends for a minute." Mark said.

"Nah, I thought that they just were teacher and trainer." Danny said. "Just like me and Mike."

"Nah, me and Billie already noticed already, since Alexia gave Tre a hicky." Mike said. I blushed and Tre just smiled.

"Yeah, but I really believe that Tre did burn himself. Tre is clumsy" Jay said. "Well, when Mike told me about it."

"Nah, I thought that Tre had just hit himself on the neck." Jason said. He drank some of his beer. "Well, I guess you proved a lot of us wrong."

"So, why didn't you tell us earlier?" Jay asked.

"She's under age remember, god, Jay you're an idiot." Mike said. "Well, remember no holding hands outside. You don't want the police to see."

"Yeah, we know Mike." I said. I kissed Tre on the cheek. "That's why I don't want to tell anybody. Andrea and Adrienne can know, but no one else. Not even my mother. She'll kill me."

"Yeah, okay. But Tre shouldn't have yelled it out loud." Jason said. "That's so stupid."

"Yeah, but that's why she likes me." Tre said. He kissed me on the cheek.

"Yep, or because you have great hair or because you know how to... "

"Okay, I do not even want hear that, even if you're joking." Jennie said. "I'm going to check my guitar. Bye you guys."

She went out and Mark with her.

"Come on Tre we need to go and check our instruments." Billie said. Mike with them, leaving me with Danny, Jason, Jay.

(In Tre's point of view)

Billie and Mike grabbed me both by the arms.

"You better not you use her. She's a fragile and innocent girl." Mike said.

"She doesn't deserve to get heart broken. Cause if you do, I swear Tre I will kick
your ass." Billie said.

"I won't you guys, do you think I'm fucked up or what." I pushed their hands off of me. They gave me a weird look. "Look I really like her. She's perfect, I won't
hurt her."

"You better not." Billie said.

"Good, now I can finally tell Andrea you two are together." Mike said. He got his cell and dial her number.

"You've been waiting for this for a long time huh."

"Yep, and so was Andrea."

(Mike and Andrea, on the phone. In Mike's point of view)

"Hello?"

"Hello, honey it's Mike."

"Hi, how's the tour?"

"Great, guess what?"

"Alexia and Tre got together?"

"Yep."

"Finally, god, it seemed that there was too much tension."

"Heh, but when I noticed that they were together, Tre had a hicky." Andrea laughed.

"They're perfect for each other."

"Yeah,"

"Honey, I need to go. Frank is crying."

"Bye, give him a big kiss for me."

"Okay, bye honey." Andrea hanged up.

"Did you have to tell her about the hicky?" Tre asked.

"Yeah, she laughs at stuff like that." We went back to the dressing room.

(In Tre's point of view)

As we entered the dressing room, I saw that Alexia was fast asleep on her couch.

"Sh, she told me she barely had any sleep last night, she lied down for a minute and then she fell asleep." Danny said.

"Oh, okay." I picked up Alexia slowly and got underneath her. Her head was on my lap. I put my fingers through her hair. It felt like rose. As I looked at her, I finally noticed something I hadn't noticed much before. I could her collar bones, she looked very fragile. I tried to imagine what had happened last year. "Did she say why she didn't have much sleep?"

"She said a bad dream. She didn't say how the dream went though she tells
Jennie about those things. You know girl talk." Danny said. Billie looked like he was gonna say something but was he was quiet.

"Billie, what do you know?" He hesitated but I gave a stare.

"Well, about a month ago before Alexia hanged out with us in the bus, I was gonna tell Alexia something, so I went into her bus. She was screaming in her dream, so I woke her up. She told me what the dream was about."

"And what was it about?" He didn't say anything. "Billie, I've know you for a long ass time, you better tell me."

He came to me and whispered in my ear. "She had a dream about her being in a room and voices where saying she was shit. She didn't care until she heard them say that she didn't love you. Then she said that she threw a rock at the mirror. I think that means that you gave her strength and that's why I don't want you to hurt her cause then she might shatter like the mirror."

"She dreamt of that." Billie nodded his head. I looked down at Alexia and now I really knew what people had done to her. Billie went to Danny and Alexia was waking up. She looked up at me and smiled. "Go back to sleep. You have three hours until the show."

She closed her eyes and all through her sleep, she was smiling. As she was sleeping, I whispered in her ear, "I love you too, Alexia."