I Traveled Through Time To Meet Billie Joe, chapter 7
That awful class was over. I caught Billie on the hall.
"Hey sorry!" I said absolutely embarrassed.
"It's ok. It's just maths. But I liked what you said about me. See that's why I love you!"
"You love me?" I was surprised and I stopped walking so I was left behind cuz he didn't stop.
"Thrilling! He just said he loves me." I stood there in the middle of the hall until a guy passed by and hit me.
"Watch out, you dumbass!" I said annoyed.
He didn't say a thing, he just kept on walking.
To my surprise I saw Jed.
"Hey. Wait!!" I yelled. He turned around and said hi.
"Where have you been?" he asked.
"Oh it's a long story."
"What are you doing here?"
"I came to school with Billie and Charlie."
"Oh you met Charlie! That's great!"
"Yeah I know."
I talked to him until I had to go to the next class. It was a usual school day until lunch.
At lunch I and Billie met Charlie and Bobby. While we were talking a girl came and asked if she could sit.
"Oh yes," Bobby said.
"Nice like always," Charlie said sarcastically.
It was that girl again who I saw at maths.
"Hi," she said trying to make conversation.
"Hi. I'm Billie."
"I'm Fay." Don't tell me! Your name is Adrienne," I told her.
"Well no. I'm Cassandra."
"Oh." she looked so well like Adrienne. But she was from Minnesota.
"What's your first name?"
"Hahn Nesser, why?"
"Oh my god is her. But her name is Cassandra. Oh my god. I don't understand."
"So you're new!" Billie said.
"Oh my god. Billie. He can't fall in love with her now that he told me he loves me."
"Yeah. I'm from Minnesota. I and my family had to come here cuz of some problems."
"Yeah we understand," Bobby said.
"Oh no. Not that girlish figure again!
Adrienne, I mean Cassandra was dressed mostly like me. With a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. She wore her hair in a pony tail. She didn't have her dreadlocks.
"So what about you guys?"
"We're normal!" I said quickly. "Oh he's a gay!"
"Hi I'm Bobby," he said and raised his hand.
The hour lunch was over. I however was still shocked.
"Hey you can come to my place today, if you want." Cassandra asked.
"Ok Cassandra. I'll come."
"You can call me Cass. And bring your friends too, I like them. Here's my phone number. Call me," she said and run away.
At about four we came back home.
"Hey wanna go to Cassandra's?" I asked them.
"Whatever!" Billie said.
I called her and in about an hour we were at her place. I met her mom and she was very nice. To my surprise I saw that big car witch almost hit me days ago.
"Hey I wanna met your siblings," I said.
"Hey come here!" she yelled at some guy who was going upstairs. He stopped and came to meet me.
"This is Aaron," she said.
That was the guy who yelled at me when their car almost hit me. He was also the guy who passed by me this morning at school. He had brown hair and brown eyes and was kinda handsome.
"Who's this Cass?"
"I'm Fay."
"Hi I'm dumbass," he said.
"Oops, he remembered," I smiled at him until Cassandra told me to fallow her. Billie and the guys were already on the couch. Cassandra said were gonna watch a movie. The day passed quickly and in the evening we returned to Billie's house. It was kinda messy inside so I immediately cleaned up the living room.
Late in the night Billie knocked at my door. He said he had something to tell me.
"Fay, I've got to give something to you. I've been trying all day to give this to you" he gave me a piece of paper.
I read the title. It said, "Letter to the one I love!"
"It's this a poem, Billie?"
"Yes. I even gave it to Mrs.Spenlow to check it and he gave me an A. Can you believe this?" I could see him getting happier and happier.
"Yeah you're really talentated," I said.
"Fay I don't know if you realized but it's for you."
I felt something in my throat and I swallowed. I read the first lines and I realized there were some of the lyrics I knew messed up together. There were some of Redundant lyrics, then some of Worry Rock and even from 80.
I couldn't believe it. Billie felt for me the same things he felt for Adie. At that moment I was the happiest person on earth. After I finished reading it, I kissed him.
"Do you wanna go out for a walk?" he asked and I immediately accepted.
I put on my jeans and a jacket and went outside. The moon was big, probably the biggest moon I had ever seen. As I was sitting there, confused, I felt Billie's hand on my shoulder. He turned my head with his palm and gave me a kiss. I smiled. Then he took my hand and we walked trough the streets. It was night so nobody was there. We made out for awhile until he asked me if I want to come to his band practice.
"Aham. I'll come," I replied.
"Are you sure. You have school tomorrow," he said.
"Hey just because I wanned to go to school today it doesn't mean I'm a geek.
And there's nothing I want more then see you." As I was saying this he sit on a bench.
"So you never told me anything about your family," he said.
"It's not much to say," I said sadly. "I kinda miss them."
"I thought they didn't care."
"They didn't. But I miss them. Especially my sister."
"I miss my siblings too," he said.
"Oh. Where are your siblings now?"
"They left home. It was because our step dad."
"Where is your step dad?" I asked surprised. I had totally forgotten about them.
"We don't know," he said. "He'll come back in a month or so cuz he has to do some things with his parents. I don't really like him but my mom misses him a lot."
"Oh so he'll come back? When?" I asked.
"I don't know."
We were talking about special things, our families. He told me the story of his life: how he met Mike, things about his dad and many things that probably only Mike knew.
"Billie why are you telling me all this things?" I asked.
"'Cause I want you to know what kind of person I am. I can be funny but in fact I'm sad and melodramatic. When my mom married my step dad I was mad with her. I even wrote a song."
"Billie I know all this thinks. You don't have to tell me anything. I love you the way you are. And even if it's hard to believe I know everything about you. Actually I know you more than I know my own person.
"Yeah sure," he said smiling.
"No..really," I said seriously.
"How could you. You know me for..what..a month or so?"
"You're right. I can't know everything about you. I just fell like I know you since always." I raised my head to the sky and I thought at what I was about to do. I felt so desperate that I wanned to tell Billie the truth. But then I realized he would believe such crap.
We stayed there for long time. At some moment I found myself acting like that girl in Wake me up when September ends video.
"Never leave me, Billie, never!" I said hugging him.
"Don't worry. I won't!"
I pulled myself from his arms and then I noticed it was already morning.
"Oh my god. Where is the dark?" I asked sarcastically.
"Come on let's go," he said.
"What time is it?" I asked walking besides him.
"I don't know. I don't have a watch. But the band practice should start at 8.
We turned back home, we ate and changed clothes and then in about an hour Mike and Al came.
"School fucking sucks!" Mike said instead of hello.
"What happened?" I asked.
"Give me a cup of coffee, will you?" he yelled at Billie.
"No really what happened?" I asked again sitting on the couch next to him.
"Yesterday a stupid teacher told me that if I don't give up music I won't graduate. And I can't do this to mum. She knows music is everything for me but... no I'll leave the band!" he said and turned black. And so did Billie and Al.
"What?" we all asked at once.
"I don't know what to do. How the fuck did they found I was in a band," he said without answering our question.
"Mike you can't do this! Believe me. It's not worth. You can give up school cuz believe me you won't need it."
"Fay you don't understand. My mom's a kind person but she'll die if I leave school. And we don't know if the band's gonna least."
"Oh my god. What's in his mind? He can't leave the band." My face was turning pale cuz I didn't know what to do.
"I can't believe this," Billie said returning from the kitchen with a cup of coffee in his hand. He gave the coffee to Mike and sit. He was probably the most affected. Al was surprised as well and for a few minutes nobody said anything. Millions of thoughts were coming trough my mind at that moment: if Mike leaves the band it will be no Green Day.
"No you won't leave the band. You'll give up high school," Billie said broking the silence.
"No he can't do that either," I said sadly.
"Why?" Al asked.
"Dudes didn't you see Green Day Driven? Mike didn't leave school," I said in my mind.
"'Cause of his mother," I said.
"We need to have a serious discussion," Billie said broking the silence again.
"Ok stay here. I'll leave you alone." I didn't want to confuse them. They had you make some serious decisions.
So I left them in the leaving room in totally silence and walked away. I was heading to my room when I saw their instruments.
"Nice drums," I said smiling. "Let's have some fun!"
I took the drum stick and I tried to play a few times. "Hope I don't make too much noise." I was having a foolish behavior. However I played I love Rock 'n' Roll. Such a great song. Then I tried to play American Idiot but I couldn't play it correctly.
"Nice, what is it?" Billie asked and I kinda freaked cuz I didn't know he was there.
"Uhh it's not mine. It's a song of a band I found on the internet," I said thinking at the most common answer nowadays.
"Internet?" he asked.
"Oops no internet here." I couldn't think anymore.
"The band's name," I said and I laugh of my own crap. "Never mind."
"It's cool anyway."
"So what happened there?" I asked.
"He's not gonna leave us. He'll think at something. Go away. Al's gonna kill you if he sees you playing with his drums."
"Uhh...ok."
"Hey sorry!" I said absolutely embarrassed.
"It's ok. It's just maths. But I liked what you said about me. See that's why I love you!"
"You love me?" I was surprised and I stopped walking so I was left behind cuz he didn't stop.
"Thrilling! He just said he loves me." I stood there in the middle of the hall until a guy passed by and hit me.
"Watch out, you dumbass!" I said annoyed.
He didn't say a thing, he just kept on walking.
To my surprise I saw Jed.
"Hey. Wait!!" I yelled. He turned around and said hi.
"Where have you been?" he asked.
"Oh it's a long story."
"What are you doing here?"
"I came to school with Billie and Charlie."
"Oh you met Charlie! That's great!"
"Yeah I know."
I talked to him until I had to go to the next class. It was a usual school day until lunch.
At lunch I and Billie met Charlie and Bobby. While we were talking a girl came and asked if she could sit.
"Oh yes," Bobby said.
"Nice like always," Charlie said sarcastically.
It was that girl again who I saw at maths.
"Hi," she said trying to make conversation.
"Hi. I'm Billie."
"I'm Fay." Don't tell me! Your name is Adrienne," I told her.
"Well no. I'm Cassandra."
"Oh." she looked so well like Adrienne. But she was from Minnesota.
"What's your first name?"
"Hahn Nesser, why?"
"Oh my god is her. But her name is Cassandra. Oh my god. I don't understand."
"So you're new!" Billie said.
"Oh my god. Billie. He can't fall in love with her now that he told me he loves me."
"Yeah. I'm from Minnesota. I and my family had to come here cuz of some problems."
"Yeah we understand," Bobby said.
"Oh no. Not that girlish figure again!
Adrienne, I mean Cassandra was dressed mostly like me. With a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. She wore her hair in a pony tail. She didn't have her dreadlocks.
"So what about you guys?"
"We're normal!" I said quickly. "Oh he's a gay!"
"Hi I'm Bobby," he said and raised his hand.
The hour lunch was over. I however was still shocked.
"Hey you can come to my place today, if you want." Cassandra asked.
"Ok Cassandra. I'll come."
"You can call me Cass. And bring your friends too, I like them. Here's my phone number. Call me," she said and run away.
At about four we came back home.
"Hey wanna go to Cassandra's?" I asked them.
"Whatever!" Billie said.
I called her and in about an hour we were at her place. I met her mom and she was very nice. To my surprise I saw that big car witch almost hit me days ago.
"Hey I wanna met your siblings," I said.
"Hey come here!" she yelled at some guy who was going upstairs. He stopped and came to meet me.
"This is Aaron," she said.
That was the guy who yelled at me when their car almost hit me. He was also the guy who passed by me this morning at school. He had brown hair and brown eyes and was kinda handsome.
"Who's this Cass?"
"I'm Fay."
"Hi I'm dumbass," he said.
"Oops, he remembered," I smiled at him until Cassandra told me to fallow her. Billie and the guys were already on the couch. Cassandra said were gonna watch a movie. The day passed quickly and in the evening we returned to Billie's house. It was kinda messy inside so I immediately cleaned up the living room.
Late in the night Billie knocked at my door. He said he had something to tell me.
"Fay, I've got to give something to you. I've been trying all day to give this to you" he gave me a piece of paper.
I read the title. It said, "Letter to the one I love!"
"It's this a poem, Billie?"
"Yes. I even gave it to Mrs.Spenlow to check it and he gave me an A. Can you believe this?" I could see him getting happier and happier.
"Yeah you're really talentated," I said.
"Fay I don't know if you realized but it's for you."
I felt something in my throat and I swallowed. I read the first lines and I realized there were some of the lyrics I knew messed up together. There were some of Redundant lyrics, then some of Worry Rock and even from 80.
I couldn't believe it. Billie felt for me the same things he felt for Adie. At that moment I was the happiest person on earth. After I finished reading it, I kissed him.
"Do you wanna go out for a walk?" he asked and I immediately accepted.
I put on my jeans and a jacket and went outside. The moon was big, probably the biggest moon I had ever seen. As I was sitting there, confused, I felt Billie's hand on my shoulder. He turned my head with his palm and gave me a kiss. I smiled. Then he took my hand and we walked trough the streets. It was night so nobody was there. We made out for awhile until he asked me if I want to come to his band practice.
"Aham. I'll come," I replied.
"Are you sure. You have school tomorrow," he said.
"Hey just because I wanned to go to school today it doesn't mean I'm a geek.
And there's nothing I want more then see you." As I was saying this he sit on a bench.
"So you never told me anything about your family," he said.
"It's not much to say," I said sadly. "I kinda miss them."
"I thought they didn't care."
"They didn't. But I miss them. Especially my sister."
"I miss my siblings too," he said.
"Oh. Where are your siblings now?"
"They left home. It was because our step dad."
"Where is your step dad?" I asked surprised. I had totally forgotten about them.
"We don't know," he said. "He'll come back in a month or so cuz he has to do some things with his parents. I don't really like him but my mom misses him a lot."
"Oh so he'll come back? When?" I asked.
"I don't know."
We were talking about special things, our families. He told me the story of his life: how he met Mike, things about his dad and many things that probably only Mike knew.
"Billie why are you telling me all this things?" I asked.
"'Cause I want you to know what kind of person I am. I can be funny but in fact I'm sad and melodramatic. When my mom married my step dad I was mad with her. I even wrote a song."
"Billie I know all this thinks. You don't have to tell me anything. I love you the way you are. And even if it's hard to believe I know everything about you. Actually I know you more than I know my own person.
"Yeah sure," he said smiling.
"No..really," I said seriously.
"How could you. You know me for..what..a month or so?"
"You're right. I can't know everything about you. I just fell like I know you since always." I raised my head to the sky and I thought at what I was about to do. I felt so desperate that I wanned to tell Billie the truth. But then I realized he would believe such crap.
We stayed there for long time. At some moment I found myself acting like that girl in Wake me up when September ends video.
"Never leave me, Billie, never!" I said hugging him.
"Don't worry. I won't!"
I pulled myself from his arms and then I noticed it was already morning.
"Oh my god. Where is the dark?" I asked sarcastically.
"Come on let's go," he said.
"What time is it?" I asked walking besides him.
"I don't know. I don't have a watch. But the band practice should start at 8.
We turned back home, we ate and changed clothes and then in about an hour Mike and Al came.
"School fucking sucks!" Mike said instead of hello.
"What happened?" I asked.
"Give me a cup of coffee, will you?" he yelled at Billie.
"No really what happened?" I asked again sitting on the couch next to him.
"Yesterday a stupid teacher told me that if I don't give up music I won't graduate. And I can't do this to mum. She knows music is everything for me but... no I'll leave the band!" he said and turned black. And so did Billie and Al.
"What?" we all asked at once.
"I don't know what to do. How the fuck did they found I was in a band," he said without answering our question.
"Mike you can't do this! Believe me. It's not worth. You can give up school cuz believe me you won't need it."
"Fay you don't understand. My mom's a kind person but she'll die if I leave school. And we don't know if the band's gonna least."
"Oh my god. What's in his mind? He can't leave the band." My face was turning pale cuz I didn't know what to do.
"I can't believe this," Billie said returning from the kitchen with a cup of coffee in his hand. He gave the coffee to Mike and sit. He was probably the most affected. Al was surprised as well and for a few minutes nobody said anything. Millions of thoughts were coming trough my mind at that moment: if Mike leaves the band it will be no Green Day.
"No you won't leave the band. You'll give up high school," Billie said broking the silence.
"No he can't do that either," I said sadly.
"Why?" Al asked.
"Dudes didn't you see Green Day Driven? Mike didn't leave school," I said in my mind.
"'Cause of his mother," I said.
"We need to have a serious discussion," Billie said broking the silence again.
"Ok stay here. I'll leave you alone." I didn't want to confuse them. They had you make some serious decisions.
So I left them in the leaving room in totally silence and walked away. I was heading to my room when I saw their instruments.
"Nice drums," I said smiling. "Let's have some fun!"
I took the drum stick and I tried to play a few times. "Hope I don't make too much noise." I was having a foolish behavior. However I played I love Rock 'n' Roll. Such a great song. Then I tried to play American Idiot but I couldn't play it correctly.
"Nice, what is it?" Billie asked and I kinda freaked cuz I didn't know he was there.
"Uhh it's not mine. It's a song of a band I found on the internet," I said thinking at the most common answer nowadays.
"Internet?" he asked.
"Oops no internet here." I couldn't think anymore.
"The band's name," I said and I laugh of my own crap. "Never mind."
"It's cool anyway."
"So what happened there?" I asked.
"He's not gonna leave us. He'll think at something. Go away. Al's gonna kill you if he sees you playing with his drums."
"Uhh...ok."
