Why didn't you tell me now it's too late, chapter 7
"Thank you Mr. Table!" I said as we got off the plane. Hey, what would you say if you spent 20 hours in a tin can with a dumbass called James Teefey beside you. Other than that it was a good flight after cos' about 6 hours he left me alone and I fell asleep on his shoulder (Zig reckons he likes me). Meh, what can you do? that coffee didn't work.
We got our suit cases and Poprocks, you can't forget Poprocks. Just as we were about to leave the airport I saw pink...horrible, horrible pink, one word came to mind "TEENIES!" they were all over the guys so Zig and me escaped. We ran to a big black SUV and put our stuff in the trunk and I called shotgun. About 20 minutes later Green Day emerged with pink lipstick marks of their faces and hair messed up, it was so funny Zig and I couldn't stop laughing.
"Hey whats so funny?" Billie asked as he got into the drivers seat. I pointed to his face as he looked into the review mirror, he kept on rubbing at his face but the lipstick wouldn't come off, we all couldn't stop laughing.
"Hey, what are you guys laughing at, you guys look exactly the same." he said, slightly annoyed to Tre and Mike.
We pulled out of the airport and dropped Mike and Tre off at their houses, about 15 minutes later we arrived out the front of a huge double story house with beautiful lawns and a huge swimming pool.
"So is this what being a rockstar gets ya?" I asked dazed like Zig staring at the huge house infront of us.
"Well yeah we are one of the biggest bands right now if you haven't noticed." Billie said being cocky.
"Well don't get all show-offy-ish on us there jeeze." said Zig as I opened the car door and got Poprocks and my bags and followed Billie to the house.
As he opended the door Two boys came running who I'm guessing are Joseph and Jakob.
"DADDY WE MISSED YOU!" they said in unison. I just stood back with Zig and just look stunned to see huge stairs, Zig and I are gonna have fun, we love stairs and sliding down them and she has a slight obsession with them too.
The two boys came over to us asked our names.
"Well I'm Rhiannan and this is Lucy but she likes to be called Ziggy." I said in the most non-scary voice I had because I could see the were nervous.
"Or John." she ad.ded in.
"Or John." I said
Joey was the first to speak up. "I'm Joey and thats my annoying brother Jake." After our introduction with the boys the went to play play station or something. Next was Adrienne to introduce her self.
"Hi I'm Adrienne but you can call me Adie." she said with a fake smile and cheary voice.
"Hi! I'm John and thats Toosec." said Ziggy said pointing to me with a goofey grin on her face.
"Actually, she's delusional, I'm Rhiannan and that's Ziggy and can we please see our rooms so we can get seattled?"
"Ya sure follow me." Billie said as we followed him to our rooms.
"Well we only have one spare room so you to are going to have to share is that alright?" Billie asked we nodded to say yes. Once we got to our room, Zig layed down on the bed, three seconds later she was sound asleep, nothin was gunna wake her now.
*2 weeks later*
"Come on Zig wake up." I said shaking her we had to be gone early because Billie was having an Adeline meeting. Me being Billies daughter got out to the press and I've been followed by paprazzi so me and Zig today decided to give them something to talk about. I finally woke up Zig after throwing numerous and random items at her head and we got changed into our "special" outfits. Mine consisted of a black tutu, red and black stripey thigh high socks, one of my red converse, one of Ziggy's black converse and a red top with black and red stripey sleeves. Zig's consisted of a bright green tutu to match her hair, stripey thigh high socks that had many diferent shades of blue, green and yellow, physcadelic blue converse, a blue singlet top and her absolutely fabulous green hair all spiked up in a faux hawk. Both of us had aplied eye liner generously and had a couple of spiky punk bracelets on.
When we were at the top of the stairs Zig got on the railing and slid down, all I heard as a big thump and Zig saying "Ouch my ass." I laughed and sat on the rail and slid down thinking I was gonna hit the ground but I didn't. I opened my eyes to see Chris Cheney the lead singer of The Living End laying underneath me.
"Oh hi, thanks mate." I said as he put me down
"Hey no prob, Bill didn't tell me you're aussie." he said, I was glad I had another aussie person to be around, cos Ziggy can get pretty annoying.
"He didn't? bitch slap him, So how long are you staying?" I said as Zig walked in with an ice pack on her ass. Her eyes buldged since TLE is one of our fave bands and we can play a few of their songs too.
"About 2 months, hey who's the one with the green hair?" he asked pointing to Zig.
"well thats Zig..."
"I'm John!!!!" said Zig.
"Her name is Ziggy, but she insists on being called John, shes staying here cos she's got a couple of family probs."
"That's cool, hi John." he said shaking Zigs hand "I guess you know who am judging by the size of your eyes, so you guys from Melbourne?"
"YES! most of my friends are there and I miss them sooo much and VB, I miss VB so much!" I said. (VB is the king of all beers in Australia)
"Aren't you a bit young to be drinking beer?" he said suprised.
"No way man, I got a pic of me when I was 2, taking a sip of me mums beer." I said with a typical Aussie accent.
"Oh alright." he said chuckling.
"Not me though, drinking's unhealthy for your health" interjected Zig.
I walked into the 'family room' to see all the guys from TLE and Green Day all with VB's, I was in my happy land.
I walked into the kitchen to find a VB but couldn't find one. I went back to the family froom and sat on the floor with a sour look on my face and said
"Bugger." Chris laughed and handed me his. I got up and gave him a huge hug and went back to my spot on the floor. Adrienne looked at me with a dirty look, I know she doesn't like me but I really don't care even though I don't know what I was sposed to have done. Billie looked at me like he was proud.
"Yep she's definately mine." he said laughing as I took a swig. Adrienne stood up walked over to me and took my beer off me. I stood up and took it back and said
"Mine." she just gave me a sour look and sat back down. I went back over to Chris and sat on the couch arm.
"Hey Bill can I use one one you're guitars?" I asked taking another swig out of the stubbie and sat it on the coffee table.
"Yah sure, have your pick." He said before going back to the conversation he was having with Andy.
"Kool with a k." I said dragging Zig with me.
We walked down to the basement and into a little sort of recording area with awards, guitars and basses of all sorts and a drum kit. I went over to the gutars while Zig was looking at the kit, I looked through the guitars untill I found the right one a Gibson classic (like the guitar that Billie uses for minority in B.I.A.B) and started to play 'All Torn Down' by The Living End. Zig caught on and started to play the beat and someone played the bass. I turned around to see Scott (the bass player TLE). Soon it was my queue to sing I sung the first verse.
I see the city and is isn't what it used to be
A million houses goin' up and down infront of me
No time to let the concrete set before it's broken up again
Don't care if its historic - don't really care at all
I look looked at Scott nodded his head in approval so I continued.
A hidden landscape on the brink of a development
A protest rally never satisfied with development
Both striving for a perfect world
Each having their own opinion
Don't care if it's historic; don't really care at all
All Torn Down
I see the city and it's grown into a big machine
The streets are freeways and the parks are just a memory
No time to let the concrete set before it's broken up again
Don't care if it's historic; don't really care at all
All Torn Down
You've got no reason
I finished the last chords and looked up to see the rest of The Living End and Green Day shocked, Zig and I just laughed. Zig grabbed a guitar and walked up to the mic. I walked over to Tre and wispered ito his ear
"Can you play 'Prisoner Of Society'?" he just nodded and jumped behind the kit. I walked over to Scott and whispered the plan.
I played the opening chords, Chris got what we were singing instentanously. This song sounds the best when Zig and I sing it together and it suited us so well and since TLE where here we decided to play a couple of their songs.
Well we don't need no one to tell us what to do
Oh yes we're on our own and there's nothing you can do
So we don't need no one like you, to tell us what to do
We don't refer to the past when showing what we've done
Our generation gap means the war is never won
The past is in your head, the futures in our hands
Cos I'm a brat - And I know everything
And I talk back - cos I'm not listening
To anything you say
And if you count to 3
You'll see it's no emergency
You'll see I'm not the enemy
Just a Prisoner of Society
When we finished we were suprised about the amount of applause and compliments we got, it was funny.
"Since when can you sing?" said Billie as he came over and gave me a hug to say I'm proud of you, I don't get that often so it meant alot to me. The rest of the day was just joking around playing random songs that the guys threw at us to see what our ability's like and everyone mucking around playing random instruments but all together it was fun. The I had a very stupid idea.
"Hey Zig?" I said.
"Yes'm" I whispered something in her ear.
"Hey guys us two are just gunna go and jump out of our bedroom window, is that okay?" Zig asked, dead serious.
"Yah sure." they all replied happily, we left the room, after a minute the guys smiled were wiped off they're faces as what we had said sunk in.
"WHAT!" They yelled in union and ran upstairs. Zig and me were on the balcony ready to jump. We both jumped off at the same time and I landed in a tree and Zig got the pool lucky bitch. All of the guys where on the balcony looking for me since Zig was easily found.
"RHIANNAN?" Billie yelled me being winded I managed to yell out.
"I'm in the fucking tree" I said holding onto a branch with my legs dangling. They all looked and gasped. I couldn't hold on any more so I just let go and fell to the ground in a thump.
"Fuck." I moaned and stood up and walked to Zig who pulled me into the water which ended up in a huge water fight with everyone. That was one of the most entertaining afternoon I had ever had.
We got our suit cases and Poprocks, you can't forget Poprocks. Just as we were about to leave the airport I saw pink...horrible, horrible pink, one word came to mind "TEENIES!" they were all over the guys so Zig and me escaped. We ran to a big black SUV and put our stuff in the trunk and I called shotgun. About 20 minutes later Green Day emerged with pink lipstick marks of their faces and hair messed up, it was so funny Zig and I couldn't stop laughing.
"Hey whats so funny?" Billie asked as he got into the drivers seat. I pointed to his face as he looked into the review mirror, he kept on rubbing at his face but the lipstick wouldn't come off, we all couldn't stop laughing.
"Hey, what are you guys laughing at, you guys look exactly the same." he said, slightly annoyed to Tre and Mike.
We pulled out of the airport and dropped Mike and Tre off at their houses, about 15 minutes later we arrived out the front of a huge double story house with beautiful lawns and a huge swimming pool.
"So is this what being a rockstar gets ya?" I asked dazed like Zig staring at the huge house infront of us.
"Well yeah we are one of the biggest bands right now if you haven't noticed." Billie said being cocky.
"Well don't get all show-offy-ish on us there jeeze." said Zig as I opened the car door and got Poprocks and my bags and followed Billie to the house.
As he opended the door Two boys came running who I'm guessing are Joseph and Jakob.
"DADDY WE MISSED YOU!" they said in unison. I just stood back with Zig and just look stunned to see huge stairs, Zig and I are gonna have fun, we love stairs and sliding down them and she has a slight obsession with them too.
The two boys came over to us asked our names.
"Well I'm Rhiannan and this is Lucy but she likes to be called Ziggy." I said in the most non-scary voice I had because I could see the were nervous.
"Or John." she ad.ded in.
"Or John." I said
Joey was the first to speak up. "I'm Joey and thats my annoying brother Jake." After our introduction with the boys the went to play play station or something. Next was Adrienne to introduce her self.
"Hi I'm Adrienne but you can call me Adie." she said with a fake smile and cheary voice.
"Hi! I'm John and thats Toosec." said Ziggy said pointing to me with a goofey grin on her face.
"Actually, she's delusional, I'm Rhiannan and that's Ziggy and can we please see our rooms so we can get seattled?"
"Ya sure follow me." Billie said as we followed him to our rooms.
"Well we only have one spare room so you to are going to have to share is that alright?" Billie asked we nodded to say yes. Once we got to our room, Zig layed down on the bed, three seconds later she was sound asleep, nothin was gunna wake her now.
*2 weeks later*
"Come on Zig wake up." I said shaking her we had to be gone early because Billie was having an Adeline meeting. Me being Billies daughter got out to the press and I've been followed by paprazzi so me and Zig today decided to give them something to talk about. I finally woke up Zig after throwing numerous and random items at her head and we got changed into our "special" outfits. Mine consisted of a black tutu, red and black stripey thigh high socks, one of my red converse, one of Ziggy's black converse and a red top with black and red stripey sleeves. Zig's consisted of a bright green tutu to match her hair, stripey thigh high socks that had many diferent shades of blue, green and yellow, physcadelic blue converse, a blue singlet top and her absolutely fabulous green hair all spiked up in a faux hawk. Both of us had aplied eye liner generously and had a couple of spiky punk bracelets on.
When we were at the top of the stairs Zig got on the railing and slid down, all I heard as a big thump and Zig saying "Ouch my ass." I laughed and sat on the rail and slid down thinking I was gonna hit the ground but I didn't. I opened my eyes to see Chris Cheney the lead singer of The Living End laying underneath me.
"Oh hi, thanks mate." I said as he put me down
"Hey no prob, Bill didn't tell me you're aussie." he said, I was glad I had another aussie person to be around, cos Ziggy can get pretty annoying.
"He didn't? bitch slap him, So how long are you staying?" I said as Zig walked in with an ice pack on her ass. Her eyes buldged since TLE is one of our fave bands and we can play a few of their songs too.
"About 2 months, hey who's the one with the green hair?" he asked pointing to Zig.
"well thats Zig..."
"I'm John!!!!" said Zig.
"Her name is Ziggy, but she insists on being called John, shes staying here cos she's got a couple of family probs."
"That's cool, hi John." he said shaking Zigs hand "I guess you know who am judging by the size of your eyes, so you guys from Melbourne?"
"YES! most of my friends are there and I miss them sooo much and VB, I miss VB so much!" I said. (VB is the king of all beers in Australia)
"Aren't you a bit young to be drinking beer?" he said suprised.
"No way man, I got a pic of me when I was 2, taking a sip of me mums beer." I said with a typical Aussie accent.
"Oh alright." he said chuckling.
"Not me though, drinking's unhealthy for your health" interjected Zig.
I walked into the 'family room' to see all the guys from TLE and Green Day all with VB's, I was in my happy land.
I walked into the kitchen to find a VB but couldn't find one. I went back to the family froom and sat on the floor with a sour look on my face and said
"Bugger." Chris laughed and handed me his. I got up and gave him a huge hug and went back to my spot on the floor. Adrienne looked at me with a dirty look, I know she doesn't like me but I really don't care even though I don't know what I was sposed to have done. Billie looked at me like he was proud.
"Yep she's definately mine." he said laughing as I took a swig. Adrienne stood up walked over to me and took my beer off me. I stood up and took it back and said
"Mine." she just gave me a sour look and sat back down. I went back over to Chris and sat on the couch arm.
"Hey Bill can I use one one you're guitars?" I asked taking another swig out of the stubbie and sat it on the coffee table.
"Yah sure, have your pick." He said before going back to the conversation he was having with Andy.
"Kool with a k." I said dragging Zig with me.
We walked down to the basement and into a little sort of recording area with awards, guitars and basses of all sorts and a drum kit. I went over to the gutars while Zig was looking at the kit, I looked through the guitars untill I found the right one a Gibson classic (like the guitar that Billie uses for minority in B.I.A.B) and started to play 'All Torn Down' by The Living End. Zig caught on and started to play the beat and someone played the bass. I turned around to see Scott (the bass player TLE). Soon it was my queue to sing I sung the first verse.
I see the city and is isn't what it used to be
A million houses goin' up and down infront of me
No time to let the concrete set before it's broken up again
Don't care if its historic - don't really care at all
I look looked at Scott nodded his head in approval so I continued.
A hidden landscape on the brink of a development
A protest rally never satisfied with development
Both striving for a perfect world
Each having their own opinion
Don't care if it's historic; don't really care at all
All Torn Down
I see the city and it's grown into a big machine
The streets are freeways and the parks are just a memory
No time to let the concrete set before it's broken up again
Don't care if it's historic; don't really care at all
All Torn Down
You've got no reason
I finished the last chords and looked up to see the rest of The Living End and Green Day shocked, Zig and I just laughed. Zig grabbed a guitar and walked up to the mic. I walked over to Tre and wispered ito his ear
"Can you play 'Prisoner Of Society'?" he just nodded and jumped behind the kit. I walked over to Scott and whispered the plan.
I played the opening chords, Chris got what we were singing instentanously. This song sounds the best when Zig and I sing it together and it suited us so well and since TLE where here we decided to play a couple of their songs.
Well we don't need no one to tell us what to do
Oh yes we're on our own and there's nothing you can do
So we don't need no one like you, to tell us what to do
We don't refer to the past when showing what we've done
Our generation gap means the war is never won
The past is in your head, the futures in our hands
Cos I'm a brat - And I know everything
And I talk back - cos I'm not listening
To anything you say
And if you count to 3
You'll see it's no emergency
You'll see I'm not the enemy
Just a Prisoner of Society
When we finished we were suprised about the amount of applause and compliments we got, it was funny.
"Since when can you sing?" said Billie as he came over and gave me a hug to say I'm proud of you, I don't get that often so it meant alot to me. The rest of the day was just joking around playing random songs that the guys threw at us to see what our ability's like and everyone mucking around playing random instruments but all together it was fun. The I had a very stupid idea.
"Hey Zig?" I said.
"Yes'm" I whispered something in her ear.
"Hey guys us two are just gunna go and jump out of our bedroom window, is that okay?" Zig asked, dead serious.
"Yah sure." they all replied happily, we left the room, after a minute the guys smiled were wiped off they're faces as what we had said sunk in.
"WHAT!" They yelled in union and ran upstairs. Zig and me were on the balcony ready to jump. We both jumped off at the same time and I landed in a tree and Zig got the pool lucky bitch. All of the guys where on the balcony looking for me since Zig was easily found.
"RHIANNAN?" Billie yelled me being winded I managed to yell out.
"I'm in the fucking tree" I said holding onto a branch with my legs dangling. They all looked and gasped. I couldn't hold on any more so I just let go and fell to the ground in a thump.
"Fuck." I moaned and stood up and walked to Zig who pulled me into the water which ended up in a huge water fight with everyone. That was one of the most entertaining afternoon I had ever had.
