All By Myself, All On My Own, chapter 3
"Aww" Little Jake whined as we rounded the corner. "What movie you wanna see?" I asked as we walked towards the theatre. "I thought we were getting the last bit for your new clothes?" James said picking the little boy up and sitting him on his shoulders. "Yeah but why not have some fun while we're here?" I said stepping into the line for tickets. "Well then what are we going to see?" Kilana asked taking a step away from her son on James's shoulders who was swatting his hand at her. "I wanna see that one." Jake said pointing to a poster on the wall. So of course since he was only 5 he got what he wanted and we were stuck watching the Tiger Movie. He seemed to enjoy it but as for me and James we fell asleep. Kilana wanted to but Jake kept waking her up and at the end Jake was a little upset because James started snoring. On the way out though Jake was back up and running. He zipped through the streets like it was our own little town back home but it wasn't this was the city so handing Kilana my leftover box of popcorn I chased the boy down the sidewalk to the end of the road where I caught him on the corner and holding him under the arms spun him around then set him down to watch him sway back and forth. When the others caught up I realized we were right outside the store I had been searching for. "Hot Topic?" James asked confused. "I never been here before they got anything good?" Me and Kilana giggled but Jake didn't understand. " I hope you never shopped here before it's kind of a girl's store." Kilana said acidentally spilling popcorn onto the street. I opened the door and walked inside pulling Jake with me before he had time to get himself a snack of popcorn from the corner. 'It smells funny in here Kiki." He said pulling his skrawny arm from my grasp and looking around. "Ooo..." He said running away and hiding behind a rack of clothes. Kilana pretended to look for him then snook around behind the rack to catch him off gaurd. There was a squeal of laughter and then my best friend came out her son dangling from his ankles hanging upside down. I ignored this and continued to search for what I needed. I found the aisle I was looking for. We all came out only fifteen minutes later still plenty of time left in the day. "So what did you get?" James asked me taking the bag from my hand and searching through it. Before he found it I took it away. (I had more than just one thing in there a lot was an outfit for Kilana to wear.) "Jeeze I just wanted to see.""You'll see when it's ready." I said simply. We walked by some store and Boulavard of Broken Dreams was plying over the speaker. I stopped in my tracks to listen. I started to mouth out the words to the song. "What's that?" Jake asked grabbing my hand and pointing to the speaker where the music was coming from. "That would be Green Day." I told him. "It's them are they in there? can we see them? will you take me to see them?they sing that? they're good." Uhh...not this again."No you can't see them but maybe we'll take you to autograph signings with us then you can get one to show grandma." (grandma was Kilana's mom of course.we never really call her by her real name not even me.) "Yay!" he shouted and started running around in circles yelling "I'm gonna see Green Day! I'm gonna see Green Day!" We just kept walking and when he was ready he followed. "Great another munchkin taggin along." James sighed. "Who you callin a munchkin?" Kilana asked sounding offended but really just trying to pick a fight. That's what she was good at. Jake charged up behind us and rammed his head into the back of James' knees making him trip slightly but catching his balance. Jake wobbled stepping backwards making the stars circling his head to go away or so he says. He watches a lot of cartoons. Hey at least it isn't Barney. When we got to the hotel I got my headset from my bag and put in Dookie one of Green Day's Cds and one of my favs. Jake pulled himself up onto the couch next to me. Instead of letting him have my headset I took off the headphones and plugged in small speakers I had bought so we could all hear it. "Is it them?" Jake asked taking one of the speakers as music started to play. I turned up the volume and he dropped the speaker onto my lap at the sudden loud noise.
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Two days later I was walking with James down the street I had refused to let Jake come so Kilana had to stay at the hotel with him since he couldn't be alone. We were walking through town when in the corner of my eye in the parking lot of our hotel I swore I saw Green Day's tour bus round the corner to the back of the building I was going insane. what the hell was I thinking why would they be staying at our hotel? I ignored it but everytime we passed one of those posters or signs hanging on the windows of stores and other buildings I thought about it. I managed to get it out of my head when we entered a medium sized building...an arcade... we spent at least 20$ on games. In the end I managed to win a stuff dog for Jake and a necklace for Kilana. I know it was a lot on crane machines, pinball and air hocky but too bad as long as we had fun. It was the first time we had hung out together as boyfriend girlfriend in a long time at least without Kilana or Jake tagging along with us. After that we went back to the hotel. It was somewhere between 4:00 and 4:30 I wasn't sure but Jake was overjoyed when he saw the big stuffed husky in my hand. He quickly took it and sat it on his lap petting it like a real dog. "She's so soft." He said looking down at his new pet. "Did you decide a name yet?" Kilana asked her son putting on the necklace I gave her. "Her name is...Cloey cause well I like that nama and it's my girlfriends name." He said setting the dog by his pillow. We all started laughing at this, his girlfriend, he was only 5. Kilana went into the kitchen. "Supper's ready." she called from the other room. Jake got off the bed and bounced on one foot to the kitchen and came out holding a plate of mac 'n' cheese. "Mmm" He said as he set the plate on the rug and put the first spoonful in his mouth. I went in to get mine and handed James his plate. We all sat on the couch watching TV as we ate our dinner. It was early but I wanted to catch up on sleep cause in less than a week was the big Green Day concert and before that I would meet Billie Joe, Mike and Tre in person and for some this is no big deal but for me this was a once in a lifetime chance. I wanted to be as awake as possible at the concert and rested enough for me to be able to stay up late and get to bed on time the next day cause for me the later I stay up one night it means I'll end up being awake even longer the next night so for now we were running a bit ahead of schedual.
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The next day we were back out shopping looking for a good look for James we got him to put on some eye liner finally he didn't like it much but it did look pretty good on him. If he wore the outfit he may look like a cross between Billie Joe, Tre and little Jake. lol. Yeah we got him some pretty cool clothes that Jake helped us pick out so obviously not too cool. We forced him to try on some clothes that he really wouldn't be caught dead wearing but if he was to do that we would then have to kill him before we took him to the concert cause that was what he was wearing we even forced him to wear it around town for a couple hours just to get the feel of it and really I don't think he hates it all too much. 3 more days left till the signings!
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Two days later I was walking with James down the street I had refused to let Jake come so Kilana had to stay at the hotel with him since he couldn't be alone. We were walking through town when in the corner of my eye in the parking lot of our hotel I swore I saw Green Day's tour bus round the corner to the back of the building I was going insane. what the hell was I thinking why would they be staying at our hotel? I ignored it but everytime we passed one of those posters or signs hanging on the windows of stores and other buildings I thought about it. I managed to get it out of my head when we entered a medium sized building...an arcade... we spent at least 20$ on games. In the end I managed to win a stuff dog for Jake and a necklace for Kilana. I know it was a lot on crane machines, pinball and air hocky but too bad as long as we had fun. It was the first time we had hung out together as boyfriend girlfriend in a long time at least without Kilana or Jake tagging along with us. After that we went back to the hotel. It was somewhere between 4:00 and 4:30 I wasn't sure but Jake was overjoyed when he saw the big stuffed husky in my hand. He quickly took it and sat it on his lap petting it like a real dog. "She's so soft." He said looking down at his new pet. "Did you decide a name yet?" Kilana asked her son putting on the necklace I gave her. "Her name is...Cloey cause well I like that nama and it's my girlfriends name." He said setting the dog by his pillow. We all started laughing at this, his girlfriend, he was only 5. Kilana went into the kitchen. "Supper's ready." she called from the other room. Jake got off the bed and bounced on one foot to the kitchen and came out holding a plate of mac 'n' cheese. "Mmm" He said as he set the plate on the rug and put the first spoonful in his mouth. I went in to get mine and handed James his plate. We all sat on the couch watching TV as we ate our dinner. It was early but I wanted to catch up on sleep cause in less than a week was the big Green Day concert and before that I would meet Billie Joe, Mike and Tre in person and for some this is no big deal but for me this was a once in a lifetime chance. I wanted to be as awake as possible at the concert and rested enough for me to be able to stay up late and get to bed on time the next day cause for me the later I stay up one night it means I'll end up being awake even longer the next night so for now we were running a bit ahead of schedual.
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The next day we were back out shopping looking for a good look for James we got him to put on some eye liner finally he didn't like it much but it did look pretty good on him. If he wore the outfit he may look like a cross between Billie Joe, Tre and little Jake. lol. Yeah we got him some pretty cool clothes that Jake helped us pick out so obviously not too cool. We forced him to try on some clothes that he really wouldn't be caught dead wearing but if he was to do that we would then have to kill him before we took him to the concert cause that was what he was wearing we even forced him to wear it around town for a couple hours just to get the feel of it and really I don't think he hates it all too much. 3 more days left till the signings!
