Green Day, Graffiti, Chilli, J, AJ, Bee, Clare, The Mainstreet, and The Underbelly, chapter 9
Chilli stares at Billie Joe through the green and black curtain of hair across her eyes and hears a car pull up outside. He scoots closer towards her, and leans forward when the door's thrown open and Chilli twists around to stare at the ocean blue eyes of her boyfriend, just as Billie Joe stops, right before her open lips.
"Chilli? Babe? What's wrong?" Tré asks desperately as he watches the tears well inside Chilli's fading eyes.
"Nothing." She says quickly wiping the tears away as Billie gets to his feet.
"Billie! What are you doing h-" Tré stops in mid-sentence and adds accusingly, "Did you do something?"
"No! Tré I-"
"What did you DO?!" Tré shouts at the cringing guitarist.
"Nothing! I swear, I didn-"
Tré looks as though murder is about to be made.
"Tré, he didn't do anything," Chilli states to the shaking drummer. "He came over and apologized. We got talking, watched TV. And we saw this really crappy acting on a soapie... so we started acting it out. It was just a joke. Then you came in, and started screaming- IT WAS JUST A FUCKING JOKE..." The rest of her words are drowned out as Chilli pretends to collapse into a fit of over-exaggerated tears, but you can tell that she's 'laughing' beneath them. Chilli actually is crying, but is making it look fake and doing a great job of it. Chilli is a good actor.
"Oh," Tré says laughing at her acting, he seems satisfied. "Okay then."
Chilli's a good liar, even though she doesn't do it very often. She feels a pang of guilt squirm in her stomach as Tré kisses her on the cheek and walks out into the kitchen.
At least Chilli protected Billie Joe by not saying he kissed her. Then Tré would kill him, but Chilli could swear she just heard Billie whisper, "I kissed her..." to himself.
Fuck.
***
"Helloo!" Chilli yelled into the house as she threw the front door open and dropped her bag on the floor. Tré ran through from the kitchen hugged her tightly.
"HEY!!! My girl's back!!" Tré shouted happily as he wrapped his arms around her as tight as he could.
Chilli scowled, "Tré?"
"Hmm?"
"Do I have a bar code on my forehead?!" She shouted.
Tré started laughing.
"And olah to you too," Chilli said with a laugh as he kissed her neck gleefully then moved up to her lips.
Chilli had been out of town for a skateboarding competition and an Underbelly thing for the last few days and it seems that Tré had really missed her.
"Did you win?" Tré asked in a baby voice, still not loosening his grip on his girlfriend. She nodded, "Can I see your trophy?"
Chilli grinned. She loved her skateboarding trophies.
"Only if you let me breathe," Chilli muttered.
Tré laughed as Chilli struggled in his arms and he moved his hands up from her hips to the back of her neck, and he kissed her lips softly, before letting his hands drop to his sides.
"FREEDOM!!" Chilli screamed in delight and jumped up and down wildly, she did her little victory dance before she calmed down and stuck her tongue out at Tré, who was laughing hysterically.
Chilli knelt down and opened the zipper of her bag. She searched for a short while before she felt her fingertips brush against the unmistakable curved metal. Chilli pulled it out of her bag to show it to Tré.
Tré seemed pretty impressed, he kissed Chilli's neck and grinned as Chilli laughed, so she decided to show him her pride and joy: her absolute favourite skateboarding trophy EVER!!!
Chilli ran up the stairs and opened the door to the bedroom. Mike was asleep on the floor. Who knows why?
Chilli snuck over to her chest of draws and opened the one in the middle. She delved deep inside and carefully pulled out a trophy. Chilli began to creep back towards the door, but couldn't help herself, and drew an 'L' on Mike's forehead in Bee's purple lipstick, which Chilli had nicked from her earlier. Chilli smiled at her work and walked back out the door and down the stairs.
"Whoa!" Is all that Tré could say when he laid eyes on it.
She couldn't help but grin. Chilli had won it in a massive contest years ago. It was her very first one, and it was very delicate and fucking AMAZING!
Chilli placed the fragile trophy down on the coffee table next to her new one and Tré stared at it in wonder.
Chilli's phone rang loudly and she left into the kitchen to answer it. It was Billie Joe. Said he was coming around. Chilli's fine with it. She doesn't care; she's going to town with AJ. Fun.
Chilli walked back into the lounge and snuck up behind Tré, who was standing with his back to me next to the TV, biting his nails and looking very worried and scared about something, even from behind Chilli could see that. She jumped up and threw her arms around his neck, jumping up, and onto his back. He screamed (like a little girl) and leapt high into the air. Chilli laughed as Tré sighed with relief and looked over his shoulder. (He was giving her a piggyback) He gently let her down, turned around and kissed her.
"You almost gave me a fucking heart attack!" Tré mumbled, "But I love you... so much."
"Which one did you break?" Chilli asked in a murmur against his lips.
Tré stopped, pulled away from Chilli and stared down at his feet, then over to the sofa. Chilli walked over, knelt down and pulled out the two, broken pieces, of her favourite trophy. She placed them gently on the coffee table as Tré began to apologise hastily. Chilli stood up, walked over to Tré and cut him off with a loving kiss.
"Whatever," Chilli said as Tré's eyes widened in the shock that she didn't try to kill him for damaging her 'precious', "I have you, that's a pretty good prize."
Tré grinned in relief and the doorbell rang. Billie and AJ. Billie Joe and Tré stayed home, while AJ and Chilli went out.
"Can you unpack my bag for me Tré?" Chilli asked as AJ rushed her out the door.
Tré nodded with a sweet smile as Billie Joe stepped into the room with an armful of beer cans.
***
AJ and Chilli returned many hours later, still laughing at this poor kid that got chased by a flying dog turd... in other words, they threw shit at people. Heh heh. Bee had joined their wonderful little adventure while they were in town and was walking a small way behind AJ and Chilli, laughing at all the retarded cars she could see parked on the side of the street. Bee even took a photo of this one with a massively oversized bull-bar.
Back home
Tré and Billie Joe were absolutely pissed...
"Tré! Babe! I'm hoome! Bee and AJ are here! We're gonna get some food, and just... y'know...hangout!" Chilli shouted while walking in the front door and dropping her two, full bags of clothes and accessories on the floor.
No response from Tré.
Chilli walked through the doorway to the lounge and found Tré completely piss-drunk on the couch with Billie Joe.
"Tré? Did you unpack my bag?" Chilli asked while looking at all the crap he had pulled out from around the house, littered amongst all the beer cans and bottles.
"No." Tré slurred shortly while taking another sip of one of the many beers that lay around him.
"Ohhh... why?" Chilli asked, looking and feeling a bit annoyed.
"Cuz I got pissed with BJ here and fucking forgot! OK?!" Tré bellowed at Chilli with a hiccup, pointing to Billie Joe whose head was rolling around as he giggled at his socks.
"No need to shout Tré!" Mike, who had wiped the L of his face, protested in Chilli's defence as he came downstairs.
"Tré, It was a simple favour." Chilli said, irritated, while standing close to Tré who was still guzzling down beer.
Tré stopped drinking. And looked up at Chilli. He threw the bottle to the ground, where it smashed and frowned at Chilli.
"I don't love you. I never did," He said to her.
Chilli then did something extremely stupid... she stood dead still... and Tré smacked his hand across her face, leaving a large red mark and causing a cut to form and begin bleeding. Billie Joe shot up from his drunken daze, swung his own arm back, and then pelted it into the side of Tré's head.
"You fuckwit! Don't you DARE fucking hit her! I LOVE HER!!!" Billie screamed at Tré before slipping on an empty bottle lying on the floor and falling flat on his ass.
Tré scowled confusedly, laughed, stood up and walked straight past Chilli, then upstairs. A loud 'thump' was heard and Mike followed Tré's path up the stairs. Turns out, Tré had wandered into the bedroom, walked into a wall, and passed out on the floor.
Chilli sat on the ground, leaning against the back of the couch, clutching her reddened, and now bleeding cheek. She let it bleed. She didn't care. Chilli knew it was just the beer talking, but those words came from his mouth, and that's what truly hurt and cut her deep.
After a short while, Tré sobers up, comes round, and jogs back downstairs, completely unaware of what has happened, what he has done, and what he has said.
He starts to walk towards Chilli with a wide smile on his face. She backs away from him. He stops in his tracks, perplexed.
Chilli moves her hand slightly and Tré's eyes widen as he sees the red, bleeding mark on her face. He crouches down and holds his hand out to his girlfriend's face. Again, she recoils.
Chilli stares up at his sad, ocean-blue eyes and Tré realises what he must have done.
"I'm sorry," He whispers as Chilli retreats even more so, "I didn't mean it babe." Chilli looks into his sapphire eyes, "I swear, I didn't mean it."
"You talking about when you hit me? Or when you said you-" Chilli stops as Tré takes her hand in his. "... when you said you didn't love me," Chilli finishes in a whisper.
Tré stares at Chilli in disbelief, "Did... did I really say that?" He asks in shocked murmur. Chilli nods and Tré leans towards her, pleading, "Babe, I-"
Bee, at that exact moment, returns to the room. She sees Tré leaning over Chilli and begins to walk towards him, her fury pulsing through the air as she curls her fists. Chilli holds out her hand for Bee to stop. Bee does so, but only because she knew that it's bad to get on Chilli's wrong side when she's depressed, upset or angry.
Chilli stands and walks out the door and away from the house she lived in, and the man she thought she loved. Right now, she is not even sure.
"Chilli? Babe? What's wrong?" Tré asks desperately as he watches the tears well inside Chilli's fading eyes.
"Nothing." She says quickly wiping the tears away as Billie gets to his feet.
"Billie! What are you doing h-" Tré stops in mid-sentence and adds accusingly, "Did you do something?"
"No! Tré I-"
"What did you DO?!" Tré shouts at the cringing guitarist.
"Nothing! I swear, I didn-"
Tré looks as though murder is about to be made.
"Tré, he didn't do anything," Chilli states to the shaking drummer. "He came over and apologized. We got talking, watched TV. And we saw this really crappy acting on a soapie... so we started acting it out. It was just a joke. Then you came in, and started screaming- IT WAS JUST A FUCKING JOKE..." The rest of her words are drowned out as Chilli pretends to collapse into a fit of over-exaggerated tears, but you can tell that she's 'laughing' beneath them. Chilli actually is crying, but is making it look fake and doing a great job of it. Chilli is a good actor.
"Oh," Tré says laughing at her acting, he seems satisfied. "Okay then."
Chilli's a good liar, even though she doesn't do it very often. She feels a pang of guilt squirm in her stomach as Tré kisses her on the cheek and walks out into the kitchen.
At least Chilli protected Billie Joe by not saying he kissed her. Then Tré would kill him, but Chilli could swear she just heard Billie whisper, "I kissed her..." to himself.
Fuck.
***
"Helloo!" Chilli yelled into the house as she threw the front door open and dropped her bag on the floor. Tré ran through from the kitchen hugged her tightly.
"HEY!!! My girl's back!!" Tré shouted happily as he wrapped his arms around her as tight as he could.
Chilli scowled, "Tré?"
"Hmm?"
"Do I have a bar code on my forehead?!" She shouted.
Tré started laughing.
"And olah to you too," Chilli said with a laugh as he kissed her neck gleefully then moved up to her lips.
Chilli had been out of town for a skateboarding competition and an Underbelly thing for the last few days and it seems that Tré had really missed her.
"Did you win?" Tré asked in a baby voice, still not loosening his grip on his girlfriend. She nodded, "Can I see your trophy?"
Chilli grinned. She loved her skateboarding trophies.
"Only if you let me breathe," Chilli muttered.
Tré laughed as Chilli struggled in his arms and he moved his hands up from her hips to the back of her neck, and he kissed her lips softly, before letting his hands drop to his sides.
"FREEDOM!!" Chilli screamed in delight and jumped up and down wildly, she did her little victory dance before she calmed down and stuck her tongue out at Tré, who was laughing hysterically.
Chilli knelt down and opened the zipper of her bag. She searched for a short while before she felt her fingertips brush against the unmistakable curved metal. Chilli pulled it out of her bag to show it to Tré.
Tré seemed pretty impressed, he kissed Chilli's neck and grinned as Chilli laughed, so she decided to show him her pride and joy: her absolute favourite skateboarding trophy EVER!!!
Chilli ran up the stairs and opened the door to the bedroom. Mike was asleep on the floor. Who knows why?
Chilli snuck over to her chest of draws and opened the one in the middle. She delved deep inside and carefully pulled out a trophy. Chilli began to creep back towards the door, but couldn't help herself, and drew an 'L' on Mike's forehead in Bee's purple lipstick, which Chilli had nicked from her earlier. Chilli smiled at her work and walked back out the door and down the stairs.
"Whoa!" Is all that Tré could say when he laid eyes on it.
She couldn't help but grin. Chilli had won it in a massive contest years ago. It was her very first one, and it was very delicate and fucking AMAZING!
Chilli placed the fragile trophy down on the coffee table next to her new one and Tré stared at it in wonder.
Chilli's phone rang loudly and she left into the kitchen to answer it. It was Billie Joe. Said he was coming around. Chilli's fine with it. She doesn't care; she's going to town with AJ. Fun.
Chilli walked back into the lounge and snuck up behind Tré, who was standing with his back to me next to the TV, biting his nails and looking very worried and scared about something, even from behind Chilli could see that. She jumped up and threw her arms around his neck, jumping up, and onto his back. He screamed (like a little girl) and leapt high into the air. Chilli laughed as Tré sighed with relief and looked over his shoulder. (He was giving her a piggyback) He gently let her down, turned around and kissed her.
"You almost gave me a fucking heart attack!" Tré mumbled, "But I love you... so much."
"Which one did you break?" Chilli asked in a murmur against his lips.
Tré stopped, pulled away from Chilli and stared down at his feet, then over to the sofa. Chilli walked over, knelt down and pulled out the two, broken pieces, of her favourite trophy. She placed them gently on the coffee table as Tré began to apologise hastily. Chilli stood up, walked over to Tré and cut him off with a loving kiss.
"Whatever," Chilli said as Tré's eyes widened in the shock that she didn't try to kill him for damaging her 'precious', "I have you, that's a pretty good prize."
Tré grinned in relief and the doorbell rang. Billie and AJ. Billie Joe and Tré stayed home, while AJ and Chilli went out.
"Can you unpack my bag for me Tré?" Chilli asked as AJ rushed her out the door.
Tré nodded with a sweet smile as Billie Joe stepped into the room with an armful of beer cans.
***
AJ and Chilli returned many hours later, still laughing at this poor kid that got chased by a flying dog turd... in other words, they threw shit at people. Heh heh. Bee had joined their wonderful little adventure while they were in town and was walking a small way behind AJ and Chilli, laughing at all the retarded cars she could see parked on the side of the street. Bee even took a photo of this one with a massively oversized bull-bar.
Back home
Tré and Billie Joe were absolutely pissed...
"Tré! Babe! I'm hoome! Bee and AJ are here! We're gonna get some food, and just... y'know...hangout!" Chilli shouted while walking in the front door and dropping her two, full bags of clothes and accessories on the floor.
No response from Tré.
Chilli walked through the doorway to the lounge and found Tré completely piss-drunk on the couch with Billie Joe.
"Tré? Did you unpack my bag?" Chilli asked while looking at all the crap he had pulled out from around the house, littered amongst all the beer cans and bottles.
"No." Tré slurred shortly while taking another sip of one of the many beers that lay around him.
"Ohhh... why?" Chilli asked, looking and feeling a bit annoyed.
"Cuz I got pissed with BJ here and fucking forgot! OK?!" Tré bellowed at Chilli with a hiccup, pointing to Billie Joe whose head was rolling around as he giggled at his socks.
"No need to shout Tré!" Mike, who had wiped the L of his face, protested in Chilli's defence as he came downstairs.
"Tré, It was a simple favour." Chilli said, irritated, while standing close to Tré who was still guzzling down beer.
Tré stopped drinking. And looked up at Chilli. He threw the bottle to the ground, where it smashed and frowned at Chilli.
"I don't love you. I never did," He said to her.
Chilli then did something extremely stupid... she stood dead still... and Tré smacked his hand across her face, leaving a large red mark and causing a cut to form and begin bleeding. Billie Joe shot up from his drunken daze, swung his own arm back, and then pelted it into the side of Tré's head.
"You fuckwit! Don't you DARE fucking hit her! I LOVE HER!!!" Billie screamed at Tré before slipping on an empty bottle lying on the floor and falling flat on his ass.
Tré scowled confusedly, laughed, stood up and walked straight past Chilli, then upstairs. A loud 'thump' was heard and Mike followed Tré's path up the stairs. Turns out, Tré had wandered into the bedroom, walked into a wall, and passed out on the floor.
Chilli sat on the ground, leaning against the back of the couch, clutching her reddened, and now bleeding cheek. She let it bleed. She didn't care. Chilli knew it was just the beer talking, but those words came from his mouth, and that's what truly hurt and cut her deep.
After a short while, Tré sobers up, comes round, and jogs back downstairs, completely unaware of what has happened, what he has done, and what he has said.
He starts to walk towards Chilli with a wide smile on his face. She backs away from him. He stops in his tracks, perplexed.
Chilli moves her hand slightly and Tré's eyes widen as he sees the red, bleeding mark on her face. He crouches down and holds his hand out to his girlfriend's face. Again, she recoils.
Chilli stares up at his sad, ocean-blue eyes and Tré realises what he must have done.
"I'm sorry," He whispers as Chilli retreats even more so, "I didn't mean it babe." Chilli looks into his sapphire eyes, "I swear, I didn't mean it."
"You talking about when you hit me? Or when you said you-" Chilli stops as Tré takes her hand in his. "... when you said you didn't love me," Chilli finishes in a whisper.
Tré stares at Chilli in disbelief, "Did... did I really say that?" He asks in shocked murmur. Chilli nods and Tré leans towards her, pleading, "Babe, I-"
Bee, at that exact moment, returns to the room. She sees Tré leaning over Chilli and begins to walk towards him, her fury pulsing through the air as she curls her fists. Chilli holds out her hand for Bee to stop. Bee does so, but only because she knew that it's bad to get on Chilli's wrong side when she's depressed, upset or angry.
Chilli stands and walks out the door and away from the house she lived in, and the man she thought she loved. Right now, she is not even sure.
