Adie! Can't You See How Much I Love You?, chapter 3
The door bell rang. Billie got up and answered. We had sent the boys' to Mike's house. Tre walked into the living room with Billie, they both sat. "Tre what's wrong?"
Tre looked at me with bloodshot eyes. He had been crying. "Yeah Tre what's wrong man?"
Tre broke down into tears again. I put my arm around him and hugged him to try and comfort him. "Tre...it helps to talk about what's bothering you."
Tre looked at me.
"She wants divorce!"
Billie and I frowned. "Who wants a divorce Tre?"
"CLAUDIA!"
Billie and I exchanged worried looks. "Tre it'll be OK. You probably just pissed her off, that's all."
Tre stopped crying and looked at me with fire in his eyes. "No Adie! I didn't do anything to piss her off!"
His snapping shocked me. Tre wasn't like that. "Ok Tre I was only making a suggestion to make you feel better. No need to snap!"
Tre stopped crying again and flung his arms around me. "I'm sorry Adie! I didn't mean it. I just thought we would last forever!"
I sighed and nodded. "I know Tre. I know."
Tre cried for sometime, but who could blame the guy. He really thought this relationship would last. I got up and went to the kitchen to make coffee. I remembered when Tre and Lisea got divorced, it was pretty similar to tonight's events. Tre stayed at our house while I went to his house to talk to Claudia. I rang the door bell and Claudia answered almost immediately. "TRE! WE ARE OV... "
Claudia froze when she saw me. "Oh. Hi Adie." Claudia gave me an apologetic smile. "Come on in."
I smiled back and walked into the living room. "So it's true then?"
Claudia looked at me. "What are you talking about Adie?"
"You and Tre."
Claudia shook her head. "He's at your house isn't he?"
I nodded. "Why are you getting divorced Claud? I thought you guys were happy?"
"We were...but I just...don't feel the same anymore. I mean I love Tre, but... "
"But you don't want to be married to him anymore."
Claudia nodded. "Yeah. Its like one of those relationships where your boyfriend and girlfriend for a few years then it just dies and you break up. Ya know what I mean?"
I nodded. "Yeah, but Tre doesn't know that."
"Well I didn't tell him why. I just told him it was over and we started fighting and he left."
I sighed. "Claudia, he's a mess. You have to talk to him, but give him a week to calm down. Ok?"
Claudia nodded. "I will."
After my talk with Claudia, I drove home to find Tre and Billie in the basement doing God knows what. I sighed and walked upstairs to take a shower or maybe a bath.
After that I went to bed.
The next morning
I woke up to find Billie Joe gone. I looked around our room but I couldn't find him. "Where the hell is he?" I walked downstairs and into the kitchen, then Tre popped up from behind the island. "OH MY GOD TRE!"
Tre looked at me. "What?"
"YOU SCARED THE LIVING SHIT OUTTA ME!"
"Oh sorry Adie."
I sighed. "It's OK Tre. Have you seen Billie?"
Tre nodded. "He and Mike went to pick up Joey and Jakob."
I nodded. "Oh, wait Joey and Jakob are at Mike's house. Why is Mike here?"
Tre opened his mouth to speak but stopped. Then he looked at me. "That's a good question, we should go ask Billie what the answer is."
I stared at Tre. "But Billie is with Mike and Mike isn't here."
Tre shook his head. "No Billie and Mike are in the basement along with Joey and Jakob."
I frowned. "Tre you just told me that they were all at Mike's house."
"No I didn't."
"Yes you did."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"No."
"Yes. HA HA I win!"
I smirked. "So you said that Billie, Mike, Joey and Jakob are all at Mike's house?"
"No I said that they weren't."
"Tre you just said Yes."
Tre's jaw dropped. "YOU."
He pointed a finger at me. "You tricked me!"
I laughed and nodded. "I'm telling Billie!"
I laughed even harder at Tre's girly voice. Then I watched as he ran to the basement screaming in his girly voice. "Billie Joe! Adie's a Big Meanie!"
I rolled my eyes and followed Tre to the basement. I stared at Tre who was sitting at his drum set just sitting there doing nothing. It was pretty shocking. "Tre what's wrong?"
He looked at me, in fact they all did. "You got me in trouble."
I shrugged. "So."
Tre pretended to cry. I looked at Billie. "What did you do to him?"
Billie smiled. "I grounded him."
I laughed. "Poor Tre."
June 2003
Tre and Claudia decided to still live together so they could raise Frankito properly. We had told everyone about the baby, telling Joey and Jakob was another story. "Joey, Jakob you two are going to be big brothers."
Joey frowned and tilted his head to one side. "What?"
"We're having another baby."
Jakob smiled. "Where is he?"
"He's not here yet but he will be in a few months."
Joey finally spoke. "Why? Aren't we enough?"
I frowned and looked at Billie. "Yes but we though you guys would like someone else to play with too."
Joey rolled his eyes. "Great another annoying brother."
"What makes you think it's a boy? Maybe it's a girl."
Joey looked at his father. "Well we all called it he so... "
"Honey why are you so upset about the baby?"
Joey shrugged. "Because I guess me and Jake are enough."
I knew that Joey meant he and Jakob didn't want to be ignored when the baby came. "Joey you and Jakob will not get ignored. You know that."
I hugged him, he nodded.
October 2003
Life in the Armstrong home was pretty normal for the next few months. Mike fell in love with a woman named Sarah; they are getting married. Joey and Jakob got used to the idea of another baby. Green Day took a very long break. The guys weren't doing very well in all truth. Billie would come home pissed and feeling like Mike and Tre depended on him to write songs and stuff, but Billie couldn't handle all the pressure. I could see their relationship as well as the band crumbling. I tried talking to Billie about it, but I soon realized that they needed to talk about their own problems with each other. I kept pushing Billie to talk to Mike and Tre, but he would just get pissed at me and go to the bar and drink. I knew the not talking was killing him. One day Billie Joe came home drunk and I just snapped. "Damnit Billie talk to Mike and Tre. Tell them that you can't handle all the pressure they're putting you under!"
Billie looked at me with his bloodshot eyes. "Shut up Adie! Jeez! I don't need shit from you too!"
That did it for me or maybe it was just because I was pregnant. I slapped Billie and pointed to the door. "Get the fuck out!"
Billie opened his mouth to yell back but closed it and walked out the door and drove probably to another bar. He didn't come home till late the next day this time he was sober. "Adie I'm sorry about yesterday. I didn't mean to yell at you."
I smiled and kissed Billie. "I know and I'm sorry for slapping you, but you need to talk to Mike and Tre or your friendship and the band will crumble."
Billie sighed. "I'm not talking to them."
"It's not worth it Billie! It's not worth throwing away a great friendship and a great band just to prove a point that they don't even know!"
Billie looked at me. "Billie does Mike and Tre know how you feel about them depending on you for songs?"
"No they don't."
I sighed. "You need to tell them that. It's not worth throwing away your friendship or the band."
Billie nodded. "I know."
I picked up the phone and handed it to Billie. "Call them and set up a time to meet and talk to each other about your feelings."
Billie took the phone and called Mike and Tre.
The next day
Today Billie, Mike and Tre were meeting in the studio to talk. "Adie I'll be home later OK?"
I nodded. "Bye babe see ya later."
Billie and I kissed, then Billie hugged and kissed the boys' goodbye.
Billie's POV
I walked into the studio, Mike and Tre were already there. We all sat at a table and stared at each other waiting for one of us to talk first. As we sat there my cell phone rang. I looked and saw a text message from Adie.
Billie, you have to talk first.
Love Adie
I shook my head. I put my cell phone away and looked at Mike and Tre, then I spoke. "Mike."
I looked at Mike. "Tre."
I looked at Tre. "Guys I called you here today because I have some things to say."
Mike nodded. "Me too."
Tre nodded too. "Me three."
I nodded and took a deep breath.
We talked for the whole day. I would talk then Mike, then Tre and we would do it again if there was anything else to say. It felt good to tell them how I felt, I felt so much better now that nothing was bottled up. "So we're good now right?"
Mike and I looked at Tre. "Yeah Tre, we're good."
Tre smiled. "No we're not good. We're great!"
We all laughed. We hadn't laughed together in forever. After we finished laughing Mike brought up one thing that was on all our minds. "What about the band? I mean we're not really popular anymore. Do you guys' wanna keep going?"
We all looked at each other. "Well we should still practice."
Mike and Tre smiled at me and I smiled back. Green Day was still a band. We decided to have band practice in my basement. "I'll see ya later guys'"
"Bye bye guys'"
"Bye guys'"
We all got in our cars and drove home.
Adie's POV
Billie got home as we were sitting down to eat dinner. "I'm home!"
Joey and Jakob shot out of their chairs and ran to the front door. I could picture Billie hugging each of them and picking them up. I looked up and saw Billie. "So how did it go?"
Billie nodded. "It went really well. Mike and Tre are coming over tomorrow so we can have band practice."
I nodded. "That's good."
Two weeks later
I don't think the guys' enjoyed just having practice every other day. Billie just didn't seem happy at all. "Billie what's wrong?"
Billie looked at me. "I hate having practice in the basement, it feels like we're just starting out again."
"Well maybe you guys' should think about a making a new album."
Billie sighed. "Yeah we have been thinking about that."
As you all know they decided to make a new album. At the moment they were just planning and writing songs and whatnot. Billie was much happier now that they would be making a new album.
February 2004
The baby would be born any time this month. Billie and I couldn't wait for the baby to be born, we had decided not to find out the sex for a surprise. Secretly both Billie and I wanted a girl, but we would be happy if we got a boy. Green Day was spending more time in the studio and more time practicing. Billie was writing a lot of great songs that Mike, Tre and I loved. One day Billie had been helping me with the laundry and I gave him some clothes to put in Jakob's room. When he didn't come back to get more clothes I went looking for him. I found him sitting on Jakob's bed writing in his notebook for songs. When he finished, he gave me the notebook. "Read this and tell me what you think."
I read the song and it was amazing. "Billie...this song is so...depressing yet so amazing."
I looked at Billie who was smiling proudly. "Yeah but it continues the story. It's the aftermath of that other song. Holiday, remember?"
I nodded. "Yeah so this song is the depressing part right?"
Billie nodded. If you don't know what song we're talking about it's Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Billie showed Mike and Tre and they loved it as much as me. Maybe even more!
February 12, 2003
I woke up to a sharp pain in my stomach. Billie was still asleep. I grimaced as more pain shot through me. Then I realized that I needed to go to the hospital. I tried to shake Billie awake. "Billie wake up."
He just murmured something about pancakes. I hit him. "Billie please! You have to wake up. I need to get to the hospital."
I spoke through clenched teeth. Billie just rolled over and murmured about more pancakes. "Fuck the fucking pancakes Billie! Your wife is in labor and needs to get to the hospital NOW!"
Billie finally sat up. "Did I just hear you... ?"
"Hear me say that I'm in labor? Yes you did now get your fat lazy ass outta bed and bring me to the fucking hospital!"
Billie jumped out of bed and pulled on a pair of pants that were laying on the floor and a shirt that was next to them. He pulled on his converse and ran to the boys' rooms to wake them up and get them ready. "Come on babe I'll bring you downstairs."
Billie helped me downstairs and had me sit on the couch in the living room, then he ran back upstairs to finish getting ready. A few minutes later the boys' came down looking pissed. Billie probably screamed at them to get up. "Mommy what's wrong with Daddy?"
"Well we are going to the hospital because the baby is coming and Daddy always freaks out like this."
I laughed at the memory of Billie Joe freaking out when Joey was coming as well as when Jakob was coming. "You mean Daddy did this when I was born?"
I looked at Joey. "Yup, he did the same when Jakob was born too."
The boys' laughed and Billie ran down the stairs and helped me to the car. Joey and Jakob got in the back and I got in the passengers side. I swear Billie drove 80 miles all the way to the hospital. "Billie I don't plan on dying on my way to the hospital."
Billie didn't look at me, thank god he didn't. "Adie what are you talking about?"
"You are driving way too fast. Slow down!"
Billie slowed a little bit, but not enough to calm me down. Thankfully we got to the hospital in one piece. Once they got me into a room, they hooked me up to monitors and whatnot.
Hours later.
I had been pushing for a while now and nothing was happening, so the doctor's did an ultrasound and some other tests. A little while later the doctors came back. "Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong we figured out why there hasn't been any progress."
Billie and I exchanged worried looks. "The reason is because... "
Tre looked at me with bloodshot eyes. He had been crying. "Yeah Tre what's wrong man?"
Tre broke down into tears again. I put my arm around him and hugged him to try and comfort him. "Tre...it helps to talk about what's bothering you."
Tre looked at me.
"She wants divorce!"
Billie and I frowned. "Who wants a divorce Tre?"
"CLAUDIA!"
Billie and I exchanged worried looks. "Tre it'll be OK. You probably just pissed her off, that's all."
Tre stopped crying and looked at me with fire in his eyes. "No Adie! I didn't do anything to piss her off!"
His snapping shocked me. Tre wasn't like that. "Ok Tre I was only making a suggestion to make you feel better. No need to snap!"
Tre stopped crying again and flung his arms around me. "I'm sorry Adie! I didn't mean it. I just thought we would last forever!"
I sighed and nodded. "I know Tre. I know."
Tre cried for sometime, but who could blame the guy. He really thought this relationship would last. I got up and went to the kitchen to make coffee. I remembered when Tre and Lisea got divorced, it was pretty similar to tonight's events. Tre stayed at our house while I went to his house to talk to Claudia. I rang the door bell and Claudia answered almost immediately. "TRE! WE ARE OV... "
Claudia froze when she saw me. "Oh. Hi Adie." Claudia gave me an apologetic smile. "Come on in."
I smiled back and walked into the living room. "So it's true then?"
Claudia looked at me. "What are you talking about Adie?"
"You and Tre."
Claudia shook her head. "He's at your house isn't he?"
I nodded. "Why are you getting divorced Claud? I thought you guys were happy?"
"We were...but I just...don't feel the same anymore. I mean I love Tre, but... "
"But you don't want to be married to him anymore."
Claudia nodded. "Yeah. Its like one of those relationships where your boyfriend and girlfriend for a few years then it just dies and you break up. Ya know what I mean?"
I nodded. "Yeah, but Tre doesn't know that."
"Well I didn't tell him why. I just told him it was over and we started fighting and he left."
I sighed. "Claudia, he's a mess. You have to talk to him, but give him a week to calm down. Ok?"
Claudia nodded. "I will."
After my talk with Claudia, I drove home to find Tre and Billie in the basement doing God knows what. I sighed and walked upstairs to take a shower or maybe a bath.
After that I went to bed.
The next morning
I woke up to find Billie Joe gone. I looked around our room but I couldn't find him. "Where the hell is he?" I walked downstairs and into the kitchen, then Tre popped up from behind the island. "OH MY GOD TRE!"
Tre looked at me. "What?"
"YOU SCARED THE LIVING SHIT OUTTA ME!"
"Oh sorry Adie."
I sighed. "It's OK Tre. Have you seen Billie?"
Tre nodded. "He and Mike went to pick up Joey and Jakob."
I nodded. "Oh, wait Joey and Jakob are at Mike's house. Why is Mike here?"
Tre opened his mouth to speak but stopped. Then he looked at me. "That's a good question, we should go ask Billie what the answer is."
I stared at Tre. "But Billie is with Mike and Mike isn't here."
Tre shook his head. "No Billie and Mike are in the basement along with Joey and Jakob."
I frowned. "Tre you just told me that they were all at Mike's house."
"No I didn't."
"Yes you did."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"No."
"Yes. HA HA I win!"
I smirked. "So you said that Billie, Mike, Joey and Jakob are all at Mike's house?"
"No I said that they weren't."
"Tre you just said Yes."
Tre's jaw dropped. "YOU."
He pointed a finger at me. "You tricked me!"
I laughed and nodded. "I'm telling Billie!"
I laughed even harder at Tre's girly voice. Then I watched as he ran to the basement screaming in his girly voice. "Billie Joe! Adie's a Big Meanie!"
I rolled my eyes and followed Tre to the basement. I stared at Tre who was sitting at his drum set just sitting there doing nothing. It was pretty shocking. "Tre what's wrong?"
He looked at me, in fact they all did. "You got me in trouble."
I shrugged. "So."
Tre pretended to cry. I looked at Billie. "What did you do to him?"
Billie smiled. "I grounded him."
I laughed. "Poor Tre."
June 2003
Tre and Claudia decided to still live together so they could raise Frankito properly. We had told everyone about the baby, telling Joey and Jakob was another story. "Joey, Jakob you two are going to be big brothers."
Joey frowned and tilted his head to one side. "What?"
"We're having another baby."
Jakob smiled. "Where is he?"
"He's not here yet but he will be in a few months."
Joey finally spoke. "Why? Aren't we enough?"
I frowned and looked at Billie. "Yes but we though you guys would like someone else to play with too."
Joey rolled his eyes. "Great another annoying brother."
"What makes you think it's a boy? Maybe it's a girl."
Joey looked at his father. "Well we all called it he so... "
"Honey why are you so upset about the baby?"
Joey shrugged. "Because I guess me and Jake are enough."
I knew that Joey meant he and Jakob didn't want to be ignored when the baby came. "Joey you and Jakob will not get ignored. You know that."
I hugged him, he nodded.
October 2003
Life in the Armstrong home was pretty normal for the next few months. Mike fell in love with a woman named Sarah; they are getting married. Joey and Jakob got used to the idea of another baby. Green Day took a very long break. The guys weren't doing very well in all truth. Billie would come home pissed and feeling like Mike and Tre depended on him to write songs and stuff, but Billie couldn't handle all the pressure. I could see their relationship as well as the band crumbling. I tried talking to Billie about it, but I soon realized that they needed to talk about their own problems with each other. I kept pushing Billie to talk to Mike and Tre, but he would just get pissed at me and go to the bar and drink. I knew the not talking was killing him. One day Billie Joe came home drunk and I just snapped. "Damnit Billie talk to Mike and Tre. Tell them that you can't handle all the pressure they're putting you under!"
Billie looked at me with his bloodshot eyes. "Shut up Adie! Jeez! I don't need shit from you too!"
That did it for me or maybe it was just because I was pregnant. I slapped Billie and pointed to the door. "Get the fuck out!"
Billie opened his mouth to yell back but closed it and walked out the door and drove probably to another bar. He didn't come home till late the next day this time he was sober. "Adie I'm sorry about yesterday. I didn't mean to yell at you."
I smiled and kissed Billie. "I know and I'm sorry for slapping you, but you need to talk to Mike and Tre or your friendship and the band will crumble."
Billie sighed. "I'm not talking to them."
"It's not worth it Billie! It's not worth throwing away a great friendship and a great band just to prove a point that they don't even know!"
Billie looked at me. "Billie does Mike and Tre know how you feel about them depending on you for songs?"
"No they don't."
I sighed. "You need to tell them that. It's not worth throwing away your friendship or the band."
Billie nodded. "I know."
I picked up the phone and handed it to Billie. "Call them and set up a time to meet and talk to each other about your feelings."
Billie took the phone and called Mike and Tre.
The next day
Today Billie, Mike and Tre were meeting in the studio to talk. "Adie I'll be home later OK?"
I nodded. "Bye babe see ya later."
Billie and I kissed, then Billie hugged and kissed the boys' goodbye.
Billie's POV
I walked into the studio, Mike and Tre were already there. We all sat at a table and stared at each other waiting for one of us to talk first. As we sat there my cell phone rang. I looked and saw a text message from Adie.
Billie, you have to talk first.
Love Adie
I shook my head. I put my cell phone away and looked at Mike and Tre, then I spoke. "Mike."
I looked at Mike. "Tre."
I looked at Tre. "Guys I called you here today because I have some things to say."
Mike nodded. "Me too."
Tre nodded too. "Me three."
I nodded and took a deep breath.
We talked for the whole day. I would talk then Mike, then Tre and we would do it again if there was anything else to say. It felt good to tell them how I felt, I felt so much better now that nothing was bottled up. "So we're good now right?"
Mike and I looked at Tre. "Yeah Tre, we're good."
Tre smiled. "No we're not good. We're great!"
We all laughed. We hadn't laughed together in forever. After we finished laughing Mike brought up one thing that was on all our minds. "What about the band? I mean we're not really popular anymore. Do you guys' wanna keep going?"
We all looked at each other. "Well we should still practice."
Mike and Tre smiled at me and I smiled back. Green Day was still a band. We decided to have band practice in my basement. "I'll see ya later guys'"
"Bye bye guys'"
"Bye guys'"
We all got in our cars and drove home.
Adie's POV
Billie got home as we were sitting down to eat dinner. "I'm home!"
Joey and Jakob shot out of their chairs and ran to the front door. I could picture Billie hugging each of them and picking them up. I looked up and saw Billie. "So how did it go?"
Billie nodded. "It went really well. Mike and Tre are coming over tomorrow so we can have band practice."
I nodded. "That's good."
Two weeks later
I don't think the guys' enjoyed just having practice every other day. Billie just didn't seem happy at all. "Billie what's wrong?"
Billie looked at me. "I hate having practice in the basement, it feels like we're just starting out again."
"Well maybe you guys' should think about a making a new album."
Billie sighed. "Yeah we have been thinking about that."
As you all know they decided to make a new album. At the moment they were just planning and writing songs and whatnot. Billie was much happier now that they would be making a new album.
February 2004
The baby would be born any time this month. Billie and I couldn't wait for the baby to be born, we had decided not to find out the sex for a surprise. Secretly both Billie and I wanted a girl, but we would be happy if we got a boy. Green Day was spending more time in the studio and more time practicing. Billie was writing a lot of great songs that Mike, Tre and I loved. One day Billie had been helping me with the laundry and I gave him some clothes to put in Jakob's room. When he didn't come back to get more clothes I went looking for him. I found him sitting on Jakob's bed writing in his notebook for songs. When he finished, he gave me the notebook. "Read this and tell me what you think."
I read the song and it was amazing. "Billie...this song is so...depressing yet so amazing."
I looked at Billie who was smiling proudly. "Yeah but it continues the story. It's the aftermath of that other song. Holiday, remember?"
I nodded. "Yeah so this song is the depressing part right?"
Billie nodded. If you don't know what song we're talking about it's Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Billie showed Mike and Tre and they loved it as much as me. Maybe even more!
February 12, 2003
I woke up to a sharp pain in my stomach. Billie was still asleep. I grimaced as more pain shot through me. Then I realized that I needed to go to the hospital. I tried to shake Billie awake. "Billie wake up."
He just murmured something about pancakes. I hit him. "Billie please! You have to wake up. I need to get to the hospital."
I spoke through clenched teeth. Billie just rolled over and murmured about more pancakes. "Fuck the fucking pancakes Billie! Your wife is in labor and needs to get to the hospital NOW!"
Billie finally sat up. "Did I just hear you... ?"
"Hear me say that I'm in labor? Yes you did now get your fat lazy ass outta bed and bring me to the fucking hospital!"
Billie jumped out of bed and pulled on a pair of pants that were laying on the floor and a shirt that was next to them. He pulled on his converse and ran to the boys' rooms to wake them up and get them ready. "Come on babe I'll bring you downstairs."
Billie helped me downstairs and had me sit on the couch in the living room, then he ran back upstairs to finish getting ready. A few minutes later the boys' came down looking pissed. Billie probably screamed at them to get up. "Mommy what's wrong with Daddy?"
"Well we are going to the hospital because the baby is coming and Daddy always freaks out like this."
I laughed at the memory of Billie Joe freaking out when Joey was coming as well as when Jakob was coming. "You mean Daddy did this when I was born?"
I looked at Joey. "Yup, he did the same when Jakob was born too."
The boys' laughed and Billie ran down the stairs and helped me to the car. Joey and Jakob got in the back and I got in the passengers side. I swear Billie drove 80 miles all the way to the hospital. "Billie I don't plan on dying on my way to the hospital."
Billie didn't look at me, thank god he didn't. "Adie what are you talking about?"
"You are driving way too fast. Slow down!"
Billie slowed a little bit, but not enough to calm me down. Thankfully we got to the hospital in one piece. Once they got me into a room, they hooked me up to monitors and whatnot.
Hours later.
I had been pushing for a while now and nothing was happening, so the doctor's did an ultrasound and some other tests. A little while later the doctors came back. "Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong we figured out why there hasn't been any progress."
Billie and I exchanged worried looks. "The reason is because... "
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