All By Myself, All On My Own, chapter 5
All by myself on my own part five
recap://That night I helped him do five more drawings in my book and did three more of my own. Mine take longer they are more detailed than his simple doodles. We hung some more over our beds. I even showed Kilana how to draw people easily so she could do some pretty cool pics too and join in the fun. She drew one of us at the Green Day concert together watching them preform in the huge crowd. She also drew what it may look like when Jake goes to get an autograph from them it would be so funny but according to her picture he would be shorter than the table, which is possible, but he probably won't. It was so much fun. James sat on the couch on my other side watching me sketch out a picture of me and him together and all these other family pictures lightly drawn for the background. I fell asleep that night possibly more excited than Jake if that was possible.//:recap
I woke up the next morning around 8:30. James and Kilana were sitting on the couch watching TV and little Jake slept comfortably in bed. The second I opened my eyes I was filled with joy. It was today the signings and tomorrow the concert. I rolled out of bed and joined my friend and boyfriend on the couch watching cartoons for some reason. Jake didn't wake up till around 9:00 but either way it didn't matter the signings weren't until four. Jake sat on my bed looking through all of our pictures that we had drew. Every now and then you would hear the clicks of the rings snapping in the book when he would take out the pictures he liked. "What are you doing Jakie?" James would say sitting down on the bed. "No Jakie me Jake!" He would fight to get rid of his silly nickname. "I getting pictures to get signeded by Green Day." He said looking over the artwork of his and mine. "Aunt Kiki can I use this?" Jake asked holding up a Green Day picture that I drew last night. "I don't care Jake but don't you want them to sign your pictures?" I asked sitting next to James on the bed. Kilana had fallen asleep again on her bed. "You do better." Jake said showing me one of my pictures of Green Day, a crayon drawing of them in one of their famous positions, the background three shades of green and black lines going down and fading into the green like rain before touching the earth disappearing into the sky. Then he held up one of his, a colored pencil drawing of the guys standing together in front of a sign that said Green Day in bold red letters. "Fine you can keep that one I'll just draw another." I said picking up a drawing done by Kilana. It was a picture of me and her and Green Day standing in front of what seemed to be a fair or carnival of some sort. James holding Jake behind me and her and Billie Joe and Mike on one side Tre next to James on the other. It was a strange picture but it was nice and it seemed like the perfect family picture I drew almost. I took some tape from the table and hung the drawing over her bed next to Jake's first drawings. I put some tape on her top lip and pulled it up and stuck the other end on her nose and she didn't wake up. Man did she look stupid like that. I laughed a little before sitting back down on the bed and the three of us continued to look through the pictures.
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Kilana woke up about two hours later so around 10:30. She sat up and looked at us her top lip still pulled up to her nose with tape. Jake fell onto his back and clutched his sides laughing. Kilana licked her lip washing off the stickiness of the tape so it let go but still hung on her nose. She pulled it off and rubbed her nose in slight pain. "Kiki!" She yelled laughing at the same time at herself. "I'll get you for that!" She said getting off of the bed and jumping onto ours pushing me onto my back. She stuck her finger on the back of my neck making me pull back on my head laughing and holding her finger there tickling me and trapping her at the same time. She stuck another finger to my side to give me jumper cables. I screamed in shock and flipped myself over onto the floor laughing. She just sat on the edge of the bed staring at me as I lay upside down, my head and back on the floor but my feet and legs still on the bed. I couldn't stop laughing. James must have done the same to her because even if I couldn't see much going on from my position Kilana came tumbling down too and Jake and James laughed as well still on the bed. I caught my breath and calmed down. Rolling myself head over heels to get unstuck and sat on the floor pushing my hair back out of my face. "That was fun." I said letting out a soft giggle before standing up and straightening my shirt out then sat back on the bed. I lay down my legs hanging off the edge and the five-year-old little boy sitting on my stomach still trying to choose between three different pictures he liked. "Why don't you just get all three autographed?" I asked trying to sit up the best I could with him on me. "But these is yours." "So just give one to me after you get them signed." I said laying back down. "Kay!" He said folding them up and finally letting me breathe. He ran over and set the folded papers by the bags, which contained our clothes. Kilana was in the kitchen getting some lunch and James was back on the couch. I looked up at my Green Day posters. "Just five more hours and I would meet them just five more hours." I stared into Billie Joe's eyes then glanced at Tre then Mike. The greatest band of all time in my eyes and I would finally get to see them even speak with them. So much excitement was building up inside me.
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It was 3:00 we had to start getting ready I know we still had an hour left but there was just so much to do. Me and Kilana both took a quick shower. We helped pull on Jake's clothes. He looked so cute in his little outfit. His black pants went over his new sneakers just a little and his tie was just a little too big. We helped him fix his short spikes and we reapplied his eyeliner. He didn't like it too much but he agreed that it looked good on him. James also got into his new clothes. It was so funny because he didn't really like the clothes. Kilana got into a black tank top that said Green Day in green letters across the front. She had black bracelets on one arm from her wrist to her elbow and silver hoops with a little 'GD' hanging on each one for her earrings. Her high heeled shoes were buckled and laced with green ribbon and on her sweater that she wore over her shirt unzipped was red with Billie Joe, Mike and Tre written in black on the back. It didn't look too bad with her ripped jeans. My outfit though I didn't really want to show just yet. I came out of the bathroom to be greeted with a couple 'Ooos' from my friends. I wore a red T-shirt there really was no back the words Green Day were cut for cross straps in the back underneath I wore a black top. I got my jeans with a short black fake leather skirt over and a studded belt hanging around one hip. My high-heeled black shoes that I normally wore, the buckle was replaced with a Green Day symbol and my hair was tied back with a red and green hair tie. My nails were painted black with green stripes down the center of each. My wonderful handmade outfit. It looked great. Kilana gave me a hug. "You look awesome!" She shouted jumping up and down pushing on my shoulders to go higher. On the front of my shirt the words She's a Rebel were cut out and the black under shirt made the words appear black through the red shirt. In the front my shirt was just short enough to show my belly button. "Wow aunt Kiki you is hot!" Jake said examining the clothes. This made me feel weird I was just called hot by my best friends 5 year old son.
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We walked up the hill into the city plaza where a long line of Green Day fans had formed over night. "Maybe we should have come yesterday." James said behind me. "Yeah before everyone camped out." Kilana said taking a good grip on her son's hand to make sure he didn't wander off on his own. After about only a half hour we made it to the table where the three famous people of one of the greatest bands of all time sat starting to get sleepy. A huge line seemed to form behind us like everyone in front went to the back though these were new people. Jake ran up to the table and put the drawings we had made on the table unable to see real good. Kilana was right the table would be too high for him. Billie Joe leaned over the table to look down at little Jake. "Whoa Tre it's your little brother." Billie Joe laughed looking at the little boy before him. "What?" Tre asked leaning over the table to see. "Hey what's your name? You wanna join the band?" Tre joked holding out his hand to shake Jake's. "I'm Jake yeah!" He shouted jumping up and down. Mike took the papers left by the little boy and looked at my drawings. "Wow you do these?" He asked us. "Yeah I did." I said nervously. Jake seemed to take off somewhere. Kilana started calling for him and he came running back. Kilana sweeped him up into her arms. "He's really excited to meet you." She said shaking Billie's hand. "Hey so are you two." James said pushing me closer to the table. "So what you want signed?" Tre asked opening up a permanent marker. "Umm...Jake wants you to sign those pictures." I said pointing to the papers Mike was still looking at. "You sure it's him that wants us to sign them or is it you?" Mike laughed. I smiled "It's him I have something else in mind. So Jake got his pictures signed and Kilana got her shirt signed. James got his American Idiot CD signed and as for me I'll tell you later. "See you at the concert tomorrow!" I shouted waving back at them as the next people in line stepped forward. "Well they were nice." James said opening the door and we stepped out into the sunlight. "Nice they were so totally cool!" Kilana said jumping constantly with Jake in her arms. "Okay Key (short for Kilana) you really let your old self come back." I said laughing at my friend. This reminded me so much of years ago when we went to concerts at Darien Lake and other stuff like that. Jake seemed so calm but a huge smile was on his face. He hugged the drawings crinkling the paper. He seemed so happy. It was funny seeing a little boy making such a huge fuss over a band he had only known for about a week. Kilana set him down on the ground and she took off running down the street. Jake put the papers in my hand and chased off after his mom. Me and James started running as well through the streets until we reached the hotel. We slammed our bodies against the double doors and pushed our way into the lobby. When we reached our room we opened the door and collapsed on the bed exhausted especially little Jake who pulled off his tie and before even making it to the bed fell to the floor face down into the rug breathing heavily. I gave a slight laugh and looked at the papers still in my hand. I grabbed the tape from the bedside table and hung the four pictures on the wall each one had a different name on it. One had Billie Joe's another had Mike's another had Tre's and the last one had Green Day's. James was back in his room resting. "That was so cool and we get to see them again tomorrow!" I shouted as I collapsed back onto my bed.
recap://That night I helped him do five more drawings in my book and did three more of my own. Mine take longer they are more detailed than his simple doodles. We hung some more over our beds. I even showed Kilana how to draw people easily so she could do some pretty cool pics too and join in the fun. She drew one of us at the Green Day concert together watching them preform in the huge crowd. She also drew what it may look like when Jake goes to get an autograph from them it would be so funny but according to her picture he would be shorter than the table, which is possible, but he probably won't. It was so much fun. James sat on the couch on my other side watching me sketch out a picture of me and him together and all these other family pictures lightly drawn for the background. I fell asleep that night possibly more excited than Jake if that was possible.//:recap
I woke up the next morning around 8:30. James and Kilana were sitting on the couch watching TV and little Jake slept comfortably in bed. The second I opened my eyes I was filled with joy. It was today the signings and tomorrow the concert. I rolled out of bed and joined my friend and boyfriend on the couch watching cartoons for some reason. Jake didn't wake up till around 9:00 but either way it didn't matter the signings weren't until four. Jake sat on my bed looking through all of our pictures that we had drew. Every now and then you would hear the clicks of the rings snapping in the book when he would take out the pictures he liked. "What are you doing Jakie?" James would say sitting down on the bed. "No Jakie me Jake!" He would fight to get rid of his silly nickname. "I getting pictures to get signeded by Green Day." He said looking over the artwork of his and mine. "Aunt Kiki can I use this?" Jake asked holding up a Green Day picture that I drew last night. "I don't care Jake but don't you want them to sign your pictures?" I asked sitting next to James on the bed. Kilana had fallen asleep again on her bed. "You do better." Jake said showing me one of my pictures of Green Day, a crayon drawing of them in one of their famous positions, the background three shades of green and black lines going down and fading into the green like rain before touching the earth disappearing into the sky. Then he held up one of his, a colored pencil drawing of the guys standing together in front of a sign that said Green Day in bold red letters. "Fine you can keep that one I'll just draw another." I said picking up a drawing done by Kilana. It was a picture of me and her and Green Day standing in front of what seemed to be a fair or carnival of some sort. James holding Jake behind me and her and Billie Joe and Mike on one side Tre next to James on the other. It was a strange picture but it was nice and it seemed like the perfect family picture I drew almost. I took some tape from the table and hung the drawing over her bed next to Jake's first drawings. I put some tape on her top lip and pulled it up and stuck the other end on her nose and she didn't wake up. Man did she look stupid like that. I laughed a little before sitting back down on the bed and the three of us continued to look through the pictures.
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Kilana woke up about two hours later so around 10:30. She sat up and looked at us her top lip still pulled up to her nose with tape. Jake fell onto his back and clutched his sides laughing. Kilana licked her lip washing off the stickiness of the tape so it let go but still hung on her nose. She pulled it off and rubbed her nose in slight pain. "Kiki!" She yelled laughing at the same time at herself. "I'll get you for that!" She said getting off of the bed and jumping onto ours pushing me onto my back. She stuck her finger on the back of my neck making me pull back on my head laughing and holding her finger there tickling me and trapping her at the same time. She stuck another finger to my side to give me jumper cables. I screamed in shock and flipped myself over onto the floor laughing. She just sat on the edge of the bed staring at me as I lay upside down, my head and back on the floor but my feet and legs still on the bed. I couldn't stop laughing. James must have done the same to her because even if I couldn't see much going on from my position Kilana came tumbling down too and Jake and James laughed as well still on the bed. I caught my breath and calmed down. Rolling myself head over heels to get unstuck and sat on the floor pushing my hair back out of my face. "That was fun." I said letting out a soft giggle before standing up and straightening my shirt out then sat back on the bed. I lay down my legs hanging off the edge and the five-year-old little boy sitting on my stomach still trying to choose between three different pictures he liked. "Why don't you just get all three autographed?" I asked trying to sit up the best I could with him on me. "But these is yours." "So just give one to me after you get them signed." I said laying back down. "Kay!" He said folding them up and finally letting me breathe. He ran over and set the folded papers by the bags, which contained our clothes. Kilana was in the kitchen getting some lunch and James was back on the couch. I looked up at my Green Day posters. "Just five more hours and I would meet them just five more hours." I stared into Billie Joe's eyes then glanced at Tre then Mike. The greatest band of all time in my eyes and I would finally get to see them even speak with them. So much excitement was building up inside me.
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It was 3:00 we had to start getting ready I know we still had an hour left but there was just so much to do. Me and Kilana both took a quick shower. We helped pull on Jake's clothes. He looked so cute in his little outfit. His black pants went over his new sneakers just a little and his tie was just a little too big. We helped him fix his short spikes and we reapplied his eyeliner. He didn't like it too much but he agreed that it looked good on him. James also got into his new clothes. It was so funny because he didn't really like the clothes. Kilana got into a black tank top that said Green Day in green letters across the front. She had black bracelets on one arm from her wrist to her elbow and silver hoops with a little 'GD' hanging on each one for her earrings. Her high heeled shoes were buckled and laced with green ribbon and on her sweater that she wore over her shirt unzipped was red with Billie Joe, Mike and Tre written in black on the back. It didn't look too bad with her ripped jeans. My outfit though I didn't really want to show just yet. I came out of the bathroom to be greeted with a couple 'Ooos' from my friends. I wore a red T-shirt there really was no back the words Green Day were cut for cross straps in the back underneath I wore a black top. I got my jeans with a short black fake leather skirt over and a studded belt hanging around one hip. My high-heeled black shoes that I normally wore, the buckle was replaced with a Green Day symbol and my hair was tied back with a red and green hair tie. My nails were painted black with green stripes down the center of each. My wonderful handmade outfit. It looked great. Kilana gave me a hug. "You look awesome!" She shouted jumping up and down pushing on my shoulders to go higher. On the front of my shirt the words She's a Rebel were cut out and the black under shirt made the words appear black through the red shirt. In the front my shirt was just short enough to show my belly button. "Wow aunt Kiki you is hot!" Jake said examining the clothes. This made me feel weird I was just called hot by my best friends 5 year old son.
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We walked up the hill into the city plaza where a long line of Green Day fans had formed over night. "Maybe we should have come yesterday." James said behind me. "Yeah before everyone camped out." Kilana said taking a good grip on her son's hand to make sure he didn't wander off on his own. After about only a half hour we made it to the table where the three famous people of one of the greatest bands of all time sat starting to get sleepy. A huge line seemed to form behind us like everyone in front went to the back though these were new people. Jake ran up to the table and put the drawings we had made on the table unable to see real good. Kilana was right the table would be too high for him. Billie Joe leaned over the table to look down at little Jake. "Whoa Tre it's your little brother." Billie Joe laughed looking at the little boy before him. "What?" Tre asked leaning over the table to see. "Hey what's your name? You wanna join the band?" Tre joked holding out his hand to shake Jake's. "I'm Jake yeah!" He shouted jumping up and down. Mike took the papers left by the little boy and looked at my drawings. "Wow you do these?" He asked us. "Yeah I did." I said nervously. Jake seemed to take off somewhere. Kilana started calling for him and he came running back. Kilana sweeped him up into her arms. "He's really excited to meet you." She said shaking Billie's hand. "Hey so are you two." James said pushing me closer to the table. "So what you want signed?" Tre asked opening up a permanent marker. "Umm...Jake wants you to sign those pictures." I said pointing to the papers Mike was still looking at. "You sure it's him that wants us to sign them or is it you?" Mike laughed. I smiled "It's him I have something else in mind. So Jake got his pictures signed and Kilana got her shirt signed. James got his American Idiot CD signed and as for me I'll tell you later. "See you at the concert tomorrow!" I shouted waving back at them as the next people in line stepped forward. "Well they were nice." James said opening the door and we stepped out into the sunlight. "Nice they were so totally cool!" Kilana said jumping constantly with Jake in her arms. "Okay Key (short for Kilana) you really let your old self come back." I said laughing at my friend. This reminded me so much of years ago when we went to concerts at Darien Lake and other stuff like that. Jake seemed so calm but a huge smile was on his face. He hugged the drawings crinkling the paper. He seemed so happy. It was funny seeing a little boy making such a huge fuss over a band he had only known for about a week. Kilana set him down on the ground and she took off running down the street. Jake put the papers in my hand and chased off after his mom. Me and James started running as well through the streets until we reached the hotel. We slammed our bodies against the double doors and pushed our way into the lobby. When we reached our room we opened the door and collapsed on the bed exhausted especially little Jake who pulled off his tie and before even making it to the bed fell to the floor face down into the rug breathing heavily. I gave a slight laugh and looked at the papers still in my hand. I grabbed the tape from the bedside table and hung the four pictures on the wall each one had a different name on it. One had Billie Joe's another had Mike's another had Tre's and the last one had Green Day's. James was back in his room resting. "That was so cool and we get to see them again tomorrow!" I shouted as I collapsed back onto my bed.
