And I Never Will.., chapter 6
INT: Billie Joe’s house, 8.00pm
BILLIE JOE STANDS OUTSIDE HIS HOUSE JUST STARING FEELING A SUDDEN STAB OF GUILT. HE WALKS UP THE STEPS AND WALKS THROUGH THE DOOR.
Billie Joe: ‘I’m home’
Adrienne: ‘Hello, Stranger…how you doing’?’
Billie Joe: ‘Good…a bit tired but good’
Adrienne: ‘I heard that you won an award well done’
Billie Joe: ‘Yeah, Tre has it’
BILLIE JOE WALKS OVER TO ADRIENNE AND HUGS HER HOLDING HER TIGHT.
Adrienne: ‘Is something wrong?’
Billie Joe: ‘No, nothing’
Adrienne: ‘Are you sure?’
BILLIE JOE SUDDENLY FELT THE PIT OF HIS STOMACH CHURN. HE WANTED TO TELL HER BUT EVERYTHING THEY HAD WORKED SO HARD FOR HE KNEW WOULD BE RUINED IF HE DID.
Billie Joe: ‘I’m fine…how are the boys?’
Adrienne: ‘There great…Joey’s at a friends house and Jake’s gone to bed’
Billie Joe: ‘It’s a bit early’
Adrienne: ‘I know…but he said he was tired so’
ADRIENNE SMILED AT HIM AND SHE COULDN’T TELL ANYTHING HAD HAPPENED HE SUDDENLY DIDN’T FEEL SO BAD AS IF NOTHING HAD CHANGED. HE PUT HIS ARM AROUND HER SHOULDER AND THEY BOTH WALKED INTO THE LIVING ROOM.
Adrienne: ‘So what did you guys get up to after the show?’
Billie Joe: ‘Well, after we accepted our award we went to the bar, had a couple of drinks and went to bed’
HE DIDN’T MENTION THE GIRLS COZ HE KNEW HOW CURIOUS SHE WOULD GET AND KNEW HE WOULD CAVE IN.
Adrienne: ‘Is that all…how boring…so Mike and Tre didn’t get up to their usual tricks then’
Billie Joe: ‘Oh no, they did’
Adrienne: ‘Do tell?’
HE DIDN’T ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED FOR THE FIRST TIME THE GUYS DIDN’T TALK TO ONE ANOTHER. THE WHOLE JOURNEY THEY WERE JUST SILENT.
Billie Joe: ‘I don’t they wouldn’t tell me’
Adrienne: ‘That’s strange’
BILLIE JOE PICKED UP THE REMOTE AND TURNED ON THE T.V. HE GOES PALE.
Reporter: ‘That’s right…One Flew Over won best new rock act…the first British band to do so at last nights Billboard Music Awards…’
PICTURES FLEW ACROSS THE SCREEN OF ALL 3 GIRLS BUT ALICE’S PICTURE SEEMED TO STAY ON THE LONGEST. HE COULDN’T HELP BUT SMILE THEN REMEMBERED ADRIENNE, HE WAS SO CONFUSED HOW COULD HE LOVE ADRIENNE AND BE FALLING FOR ALICE. BILLIE JOE FALLS TO SLEEP ON THE COUCH, ADRIENNE WRAPS HIM IN A BLANKET AND GOES TO BED.
HE WAS DREAMING ABOUT FALLING, FALLING THROUGH THE SKY, THE CLOUDS DIAPPEARED AND HE HIT THE FLOOR; HE WAS STILL ALIVE HE ROLLED OVER AND THERE STANDING OVER HIM HOLDING OUT HER HAND WAS ALICE GLOWING, GLOWING LIKE AN ANGEL, HE LOOKED AT HER HAND AND TOOK IT.
INT: Alice’s New York apartment, 8.00pm
ALICE ENTERS HER APARTMENT DROPPING HER BAGS ON THE FLOOR AND COLLASPING ON THE SOFA. SHE YAWNS PICKS UP THE REMOTE AND SWITCHES THE TV ON.
Reporter: ‘Green Day also one the award for Best Rock Album…’
IMAGES FLEW ACROSS THE SCREEN AND A CLIP OF BILLIE JOE’S SPEECH WAS SHOWN.
ALICE SMILES HIS VOICE WAS SO SEXY IT MADE HER QUIVER.
ALICE TURNS OFF THE TV, LIES BACK ON THE SOFA LOOKING UP AT THE CEILING AND STARTS TO DRIFT OFF.
IT WAS BLACK NOTHING BUT BLACK IT WAS AS IF SHE WERE BLIND. SHE WAS FUMBLING AROUND, SHE TRIPS AND STARTS TO FALL BUT IS CAUGHT SHE TURNS ROUND TO SEE TWO BIG BROWN EYES STARING BACK AT HER. ITS ARMS WRAPPED AROUND HER WAIST SHE REMEMBERS THE GRASP AND THE WAY SHE WAS BEING HELD, IT WAS BILLIE JOE HE HAD SAVED HER.
INT: Mike’s House, next morning, 9.00am
MIKE IN HIS ROBE, STILL VERY SLEEPY, WALKING BACK FROM COLLECTING THE POST AND MILK FROM THE FRONT DOOR. DOOR BELL RINGS.
Mike: ‘Oh for fuck sake…come on people…its open’
TRE AND BILLIE JOE WALK IN.
Tre: ‘That’s very dangerous that could have been anyone at the door’
Billie Joe: ‘You look like shit’
Mike: ‘Firstly, I wouldn’t have cared who was at the door, I’m bloody knackered and two not only do I look like shit but I feel like shit’
Tre: ‘Why?’
Mike: ‘I couldn’t sleep at all last night… I couldn’t stop thinking about Connie’
Billie Joe: ‘Awww…how cute’
Mike: ‘It’s not cute, I didn’t get to sleep till 4.30 in the morning’
Tre: ‘Why didn’t you call her?’
Mike: ‘Because that would have been mean’
Billie Joe: ‘So you’ve done that loads to me’
Mike: ‘Oh please can I just have some coffee…I don’t have any energy’
Tre: ‘Only if we can have some’
Mike: ‘Fine’
MIKE PUT THE COFFEE MAKER ON AND MADE THE COFFEE. THEY ALL SAT ROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE LOOKING INTO THEIR MUGS OF COFFEE.
Tre: ‘I can’t remember the last time we were like this’
Mike: ‘Yeah, I know we always talk about what we get up to’
Billie Joe: ‘Well, I suppose this weekend was different’
Mike: ‘I’ll give you that’
Billie Joe: ‘Oh yeah Tre How’s Claudia?’
Tre: ‘She’s fine… I only saw her for an hour but she’s ok…has a new guy’
Mike: ‘Really…he treating her right?’
Tre: ‘Better than what I treated her’
Mike: ‘Tre that’s not true’
Tre: ‘Yes it is I abandoned her and Frankito…I…I just…oh god’
TRE PUTS HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS AND MUMBLES SOMETHING.
Billie Joe: ‘Tre, what is it?’
Mike: ‘We here for you Tre’
TRE LOOKS UP AND WITH NO HESITATION SAYS IT.
Tre: ‘I slept with her…I slept with Hattie…and the scary thing is, is that I feel incredibly guilty’
Mike: ‘You didn’t…I thought she was dating Kyle’
Tre: ‘They’re on a break supposedly’
Billie Joe: ‘Then why should you feel guilty?’
Tre: ‘I don’t know that’s the thing…I feel has if I’m losing it’
Mike: ‘You’re not losing it Tre’
TRE GETS UP FROM THE TABLE AND STARTS TO WALK TOWARDS THE FRONT DOOR.
Billie Joe: ‘Where are you going?’
Tre: ‘To get Claudia back…she’s all I want’
Mike: ‘But I thought you didn’t love her’
Tre: ‘I’ve been trying to deny it but the fact is… is that I do’
TRE OPENS THE DOOR AND WALKS THROUGH IT A COUPLE OF SECONDS LATER THEY HEAR HIM PULL AWAY.
MIKE AND BILLIE JOE LOOK AT ONE ANOTHER.
Mike: ‘So did you go to bed after you left us?’
Billie Joe: ‘Yeah’
BILLIE JOE DIDN’T LOOK AT MIKE WHEN HE SAID IT HE HATED LYING TO MIKE, HIS BEST FRIEND OF 22 YEARS.
Mike: ‘Well, its not like you would have slept with anyone…your happily married’
BILLIE JOE FELT HIS STOMACH HIT THE FLOOR.
Billie Joe: ‘Ummm…I have to go’
Mike: ‘Why?’
Billie Joe: ‘I’m doing something with Adrienne later…cleaning’
Mike: ‘Oh God…good luck’
THEY BOTH LAUGH.
BILLIE JOE GOT UP FROM THE TABLE, WALKED OUT THE DOOR AND FELT LIKE DYING THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME IN 22 YEARS HE HAD LIED TO MIKE NEVER BEFORE AND HE FELT ASHAMED OF HIMSELF.
HE GOT INTO THE CAR AND SMACKED HIS HEAD AGAINST THE STEERING WHEEL.
Billie Joe: ‘What have I got myself into?’
INT: Hattie’s House, 10.00am
Connie: ‘So…’
Alice: ‘Yeah…’
Hattie: ‘That’s it… are we gonna talk about this weekend or not?’
Alice: ‘No’
Connie: ‘Yes’
Hattie: ‘Oh Jesus Christ…Well I think we all know what you did Connie’
Connie: ‘Yeah…but what did you guys do?’
Alice: ‘Nothing… I went to bed after Hattie and Tre left together’
Connie: ‘You left with Tre’
Hattie: ‘We just went for a walk’
Alice: ‘That’s all… nothing else’
Hattie: ‘Yes’
HATTIE LOOKED DOWN AT HER FEET SHE HATED LYING BUT SHE COULD BARELY THINK ABOUT IT LET ALONE TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED.
Connie: ‘Well, that was fun’
Hattie: ‘So nothing happened between you and Billie?’
Alice: ‘No…he’s married’
Hattie: ‘True but you two seemed to be getting along fabulously’
Alice: ‘So…I get along great with Steven and nothing has happened between us’
Connie: ‘I beg to differ…remember last Christmas…you were all over one another’
Alice: ‘I don’t remember that’
Hattie: ‘Not surprised you drunk a lot’
THEY ALL LAUGHED AND LOOKED AT ONE ANOTHER.
SCREEN FADES.
BILLIE JOE STANDS OUTSIDE HIS HOUSE JUST STARING FEELING A SUDDEN STAB OF GUILT. HE WALKS UP THE STEPS AND WALKS THROUGH THE DOOR.
Billie Joe: ‘I’m home’
Adrienne: ‘Hello, Stranger…how you doing’?’
Billie Joe: ‘Good…a bit tired but good’
Adrienne: ‘I heard that you won an award well done’
Billie Joe: ‘Yeah, Tre has it’
BILLIE JOE WALKS OVER TO ADRIENNE AND HUGS HER HOLDING HER TIGHT.
Adrienne: ‘Is something wrong?’
Billie Joe: ‘No, nothing’
Adrienne: ‘Are you sure?’
BILLIE JOE SUDDENLY FELT THE PIT OF HIS STOMACH CHURN. HE WANTED TO TELL HER BUT EVERYTHING THEY HAD WORKED SO HARD FOR HE KNEW WOULD BE RUINED IF HE DID.
Billie Joe: ‘I’m fine…how are the boys?’
Adrienne: ‘There great…Joey’s at a friends house and Jake’s gone to bed’
Billie Joe: ‘It’s a bit early’
Adrienne: ‘I know…but he said he was tired so’
ADRIENNE SMILED AT HIM AND SHE COULDN’T TELL ANYTHING HAD HAPPENED HE SUDDENLY DIDN’T FEEL SO BAD AS IF NOTHING HAD CHANGED. HE PUT HIS ARM AROUND HER SHOULDER AND THEY BOTH WALKED INTO THE LIVING ROOM.
Adrienne: ‘So what did you guys get up to after the show?’
Billie Joe: ‘Well, after we accepted our award we went to the bar, had a couple of drinks and went to bed’
HE DIDN’T MENTION THE GIRLS COZ HE KNEW HOW CURIOUS SHE WOULD GET AND KNEW HE WOULD CAVE IN.
Adrienne: ‘Is that all…how boring…so Mike and Tre didn’t get up to their usual tricks then’
Billie Joe: ‘Oh no, they did’
Adrienne: ‘Do tell?’
HE DIDN’T ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED FOR THE FIRST TIME THE GUYS DIDN’T TALK TO ONE ANOTHER. THE WHOLE JOURNEY THEY WERE JUST SILENT.
Billie Joe: ‘I don’t they wouldn’t tell me’
Adrienne: ‘That’s strange’
BILLIE JOE PICKED UP THE REMOTE AND TURNED ON THE T.V. HE GOES PALE.
Reporter: ‘That’s right…One Flew Over won best new rock act…the first British band to do so at last nights Billboard Music Awards…’
PICTURES FLEW ACROSS THE SCREEN OF ALL 3 GIRLS BUT ALICE’S PICTURE SEEMED TO STAY ON THE LONGEST. HE COULDN’T HELP BUT SMILE THEN REMEMBERED ADRIENNE, HE WAS SO CONFUSED HOW COULD HE LOVE ADRIENNE AND BE FALLING FOR ALICE. BILLIE JOE FALLS TO SLEEP ON THE COUCH, ADRIENNE WRAPS HIM IN A BLANKET AND GOES TO BED.
HE WAS DREAMING ABOUT FALLING, FALLING THROUGH THE SKY, THE CLOUDS DIAPPEARED AND HE HIT THE FLOOR; HE WAS STILL ALIVE HE ROLLED OVER AND THERE STANDING OVER HIM HOLDING OUT HER HAND WAS ALICE GLOWING, GLOWING LIKE AN ANGEL, HE LOOKED AT HER HAND AND TOOK IT.
INT: Alice’s New York apartment, 8.00pm
ALICE ENTERS HER APARTMENT DROPPING HER BAGS ON THE FLOOR AND COLLASPING ON THE SOFA. SHE YAWNS PICKS UP THE REMOTE AND SWITCHES THE TV ON.
Reporter: ‘Green Day also one the award for Best Rock Album…’
IMAGES FLEW ACROSS THE SCREEN AND A CLIP OF BILLIE JOE’S SPEECH WAS SHOWN.
ALICE SMILES HIS VOICE WAS SO SEXY IT MADE HER QUIVER.
ALICE TURNS OFF THE TV, LIES BACK ON THE SOFA LOOKING UP AT THE CEILING AND STARTS TO DRIFT OFF.
IT WAS BLACK NOTHING BUT BLACK IT WAS AS IF SHE WERE BLIND. SHE WAS FUMBLING AROUND, SHE TRIPS AND STARTS TO FALL BUT IS CAUGHT SHE TURNS ROUND TO SEE TWO BIG BROWN EYES STARING BACK AT HER. ITS ARMS WRAPPED AROUND HER WAIST SHE REMEMBERS THE GRASP AND THE WAY SHE WAS BEING HELD, IT WAS BILLIE JOE HE HAD SAVED HER.
INT: Mike’s House, next morning, 9.00am
MIKE IN HIS ROBE, STILL VERY SLEEPY, WALKING BACK FROM COLLECTING THE POST AND MILK FROM THE FRONT DOOR. DOOR BELL RINGS.
Mike: ‘Oh for fuck sake…come on people…its open’
TRE AND BILLIE JOE WALK IN.
Tre: ‘That’s very dangerous that could have been anyone at the door’
Billie Joe: ‘You look like shit’
Mike: ‘Firstly, I wouldn’t have cared who was at the door, I’m bloody knackered and two not only do I look like shit but I feel like shit’
Tre: ‘Why?’
Mike: ‘I couldn’t sleep at all last night… I couldn’t stop thinking about Connie’
Billie Joe: ‘Awww…how cute’
Mike: ‘It’s not cute, I didn’t get to sleep till 4.30 in the morning’
Tre: ‘Why didn’t you call her?’
Mike: ‘Because that would have been mean’
Billie Joe: ‘So you’ve done that loads to me’
Mike: ‘Oh please can I just have some coffee…I don’t have any energy’
Tre: ‘Only if we can have some’
Mike: ‘Fine’
MIKE PUT THE COFFEE MAKER ON AND MADE THE COFFEE. THEY ALL SAT ROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE LOOKING INTO THEIR MUGS OF COFFEE.
Tre: ‘I can’t remember the last time we were like this’
Mike: ‘Yeah, I know we always talk about what we get up to’
Billie Joe: ‘Well, I suppose this weekend was different’
Mike: ‘I’ll give you that’
Billie Joe: ‘Oh yeah Tre How’s Claudia?’
Tre: ‘She’s fine… I only saw her for an hour but she’s ok…has a new guy’
Mike: ‘Really…he treating her right?’
Tre: ‘Better than what I treated her’
Mike: ‘Tre that’s not true’
Tre: ‘Yes it is I abandoned her and Frankito…I…I just…oh god’
TRE PUTS HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS AND MUMBLES SOMETHING.
Billie Joe: ‘Tre, what is it?’
Mike: ‘We here for you Tre’
TRE LOOKS UP AND WITH NO HESITATION SAYS IT.
Tre: ‘I slept with her…I slept with Hattie…and the scary thing is, is that I feel incredibly guilty’
Mike: ‘You didn’t…I thought she was dating Kyle’
Tre: ‘They’re on a break supposedly’
Billie Joe: ‘Then why should you feel guilty?’
Tre: ‘I don’t know that’s the thing…I feel has if I’m losing it’
Mike: ‘You’re not losing it Tre’
TRE GETS UP FROM THE TABLE AND STARTS TO WALK TOWARDS THE FRONT DOOR.
Billie Joe: ‘Where are you going?’
Tre: ‘To get Claudia back…she’s all I want’
Mike: ‘But I thought you didn’t love her’
Tre: ‘I’ve been trying to deny it but the fact is… is that I do’
TRE OPENS THE DOOR AND WALKS THROUGH IT A COUPLE OF SECONDS LATER THEY HEAR HIM PULL AWAY.
MIKE AND BILLIE JOE LOOK AT ONE ANOTHER.
Mike: ‘So did you go to bed after you left us?’
Billie Joe: ‘Yeah’
BILLIE JOE DIDN’T LOOK AT MIKE WHEN HE SAID IT HE HATED LYING TO MIKE, HIS BEST FRIEND OF 22 YEARS.
Mike: ‘Well, its not like you would have slept with anyone…your happily married’
BILLIE JOE FELT HIS STOMACH HIT THE FLOOR.
Billie Joe: ‘Ummm…I have to go’
Mike: ‘Why?’
Billie Joe: ‘I’m doing something with Adrienne later…cleaning’
Mike: ‘Oh God…good luck’
THEY BOTH LAUGH.
BILLIE JOE GOT UP FROM THE TABLE, WALKED OUT THE DOOR AND FELT LIKE DYING THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME IN 22 YEARS HE HAD LIED TO MIKE NEVER BEFORE AND HE FELT ASHAMED OF HIMSELF.
HE GOT INTO THE CAR AND SMACKED HIS HEAD AGAINST THE STEERING WHEEL.
Billie Joe: ‘What have I got myself into?’
INT: Hattie’s House, 10.00am
Connie: ‘So…’
Alice: ‘Yeah…’
Hattie: ‘That’s it… are we gonna talk about this weekend or not?’
Alice: ‘No’
Connie: ‘Yes’
Hattie: ‘Oh Jesus Christ…Well I think we all know what you did Connie’
Connie: ‘Yeah…but what did you guys do?’
Alice: ‘Nothing… I went to bed after Hattie and Tre left together’
Connie: ‘You left with Tre’
Hattie: ‘We just went for a walk’
Alice: ‘That’s all… nothing else’
Hattie: ‘Yes’
HATTIE LOOKED DOWN AT HER FEET SHE HATED LYING BUT SHE COULD BARELY THINK ABOUT IT LET ALONE TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED.
Connie: ‘Well, that was fun’
Hattie: ‘So nothing happened between you and Billie?’
Alice: ‘No…he’s married’
Hattie: ‘True but you two seemed to be getting along fabulously’
Alice: ‘So…I get along great with Steven and nothing has happened between us’
Connie: ‘I beg to differ…remember last Christmas…you were all over one another’
Alice: ‘I don’t remember that’
Hattie: ‘Not surprised you drunk a lot’
THEY ALL LAUGHED AND LOOKED AT ONE ANOTHER.
SCREEN FADES.
