Road Trip, chapter 1
GREEN DAY ROADIE NEEDED FOR WORLD TOUR
Here at Kerplunk! we are holding a competition for fans of the three Californian punk rock heros, GREEN DAY. In three months Green Day is hitting the road, starting in San Francisco and ending in Los Angeles. Green Day will be visiting Europe, Australia, America, and Japan...and they need a new roadie.
...You could be a roadie for Green Day on their world tour...
That was enough for me. I threw the magazine across the room and screamed. Amy [Lee] and Hayley [Williams] came running in the room and saw me sitting on the sofa curled up bawling my eyes out as I screamed.
"Oh my god, Ri, what's happened?" Amy asked me, her and Hayley sat next to me. "It must be bad for you to freak."
"I could be a roadie for...GREEN DAY!" I screamed again.
"Calm down...really? That is brilliant!" Hayley asked me and I nodded.
"It says so in Kerplunk! I have to enter," I said and then pointed at the
magazine that was strewn across the other end of the room in a heap.
Hayley went and picked up the magazine and read the article.
"Ri, have you read it all?!" she asked me and I shook my head.
"No, but I love Green Day, it'll be easy," I said to her, excitedly.
"How easy do you think?" Hayley asked me, "You've got to read what you've got to do."
...To win this experience of a lifetime, and go back behind the scenes with Green Day, you've got to come to an audition on the 3rd of September at The Claremont Hotel in London. Please register before as this competition is only open to readers of Kerplunk! Also make sure you have your copy of this edition of Kerplunk! on hand.
Green Day will be there to judge and welcome aboard the lucky devil who wins this amazing opportunity. Flights to San Francisco will be paid by the band, and they will greet you at the airport. All hotel expenses will be paid by the band.
"I can do that, Hayley. It's just an audition. Simple," I said and Amy and Hayley both raised their eyebrows at me. "What? I can."
"Really?" Hayley asked.
"You freak out when they are just on TV, who knows what could happen when you see them in person, you'll freak, and you'll end up going mental and fainting or something," Amy said.
"I will not," I told them firmly, "I can go to an audition without messing it up."
"Yes, but an audition with Green Day?" Amy asked me.
"It'll be a breeze," I said.
"Okay, Ri, you can do this...just smile...and keep cool." I practised in the mirror to myself. Tomorrow was my audition for the groupie, I wasn't nervous...I was really bricking it and was suffering from anxiety.
This was life changing...and I knew I was going to prove Amy and Hayley right by messing it up. It's Green Day, and me. An obsessed fan, lifetime changing experience with the three rock gods. I am going to cock this up big time.
I imagined in my head that Green Day was sitting in front of me, and they didn't know I was now in the room. Mike was leaning back in the chair, twiddling his thumbs as he laughed at one of Billie Joe's dumb jokes. Billie Joe had his cheeky grin/wicked smile on his face, his green eyes glinting. Tré was laughing his head off, tears streaming from his blue eyes, he was laughing so much that he fell off his chair...
"... Ri, wake up." I felt Hayley shaking my shoulder and as I looked up I saw that I had fallen asleep at my desk, my notebook with what I was planning to say at the audition in it was tossed on the floor, and my desk lamp was still on. It shone brightly into my eyes and blinded me, making me flinch.
"Huh? Hayley, what time is it?" I mumbled as I sat up and rubbed my eyes.
"Its nine o'clock. Amy's ran you a bath, and we've booked the taxi, also I've made sure the clothes you wanted to wear today are clean, all what you have to do is get ready," Hayley told me.
"Thanks, you're a star," I said and then got up out of bed...
I swallowed back some of the saliva which was gathering up inside my mouth. I desperately needed a drink, yet my mouth was too moist. My hands were shaking, my teeth were chattering, looking around I guessed I was the most nervous out of all of the millions of fans crowding around me...
Hayley and Amy had waved me off at the apartment, I thought they would have wanted to come and see me fail. But they didn't. maybe they thought it would be too cruel to let me suffer from that...or maybe they'll turn up later...
"Ri!" A voice screamed from behind me. I turned around and saw Violet coming over to me with a dark brown haired girl, with emerald gleaming eyes, which shone exactly like Billie Joe's. I had never seen this girl before...yet she seemed so familiar.
"Oh my god, Violet, I haven't seen you for ages, it was before you went to America," I said as me and Violet hugged. Her friend was smiling as she saw all the crowds around waiting to audition. She had a smile on her face... as if she knew a joke about the audition.
"Anyway, how was America?" I asked her and she smiled.
"Yeah, it was ace, it truly rocked. The Warped Tour was ace, 924 Gilman Street was ace, and when Jess came over, it was... " Vi-Vi said and I interrupted her.
"...ace, by any chance?" I asked her.
"Well I was going to say great, but come to mention it, yeah, it was ace." Violet laughed.
"Jess is the welsh one, isn't she?" The other girl asked.Sshe had a strong American sounding accent with a hint of British...I recognised that voice...
"Yeah, oh Ri, this is... " Violet began, but it was deafened out by screams by all the others around us...
Green Day, everyone, was approaching... the rock gods have landed!
Billie Joe's black hair was... well a mess to put it in the nicest way, his green eyes shimmered like green water, black eyeliner framing the beauty. On his feet he was wearing a battered pair of red high-tops converse, he was wearing his tight black pants, a black shirt and tie, with a black leather jacket... damn, did his arse look fine...
...I always thought Billie Joe was hot in posters...
...he's hotter in person!
Tré Cool. His mouth was constantly moving, I thought Jess was the only loud mouth-chatterbox-pain in the mouth, but I was obviously wrong. Tré's hair was so long now, and it crazily spiked, it looked so different blonde, and his blue gleaming eyes were emphasized with thick black eyeliner, and pink eye shadow. He was wearing a pair of creepers, they looked so new, with a posh black suit, and the blazer though, was covered in badges and patches.
Mike's hair today, was styled in the "just got out of bed" look. He was wearing his usual black tank top, with tracksuit bottoms, and baseball shoes on his feet. He had a wristband on his right wrist, and...
...they were all heading over to us...
Violet's friend stuck out her leg, intending to trip Billie Joe up, but he was and grinned at her as he walked around the leg, yet Tré pretended to trip over.
"They're my converse Billie Joe." The girl moaned.
"Like I care, Rebs, you stole mine, I stole yours, and it's a simple cycle that you'll get used to," Billie Joe said.
"Yeah, the black pair of converse were actually mine," Mike said.
"You're Rebel? The girl on Bebo? You're actually her. Billie Joe's niece?" I asked and Rebel nodded.
"Yup, that's me," she said.
"Unfortunately," Tré said and we laughed.
"Shove off Tré," Rebel warned and hit Tré slightly.
"So are you auditioning?" Billie Joe asked me.
"...ye...yes," I stuttered nervously.
"Cool, what's your name?" he asked me.
"...Riona...but... you can call me Ri," I said and Billie Joe smiled at me, his teeth shining in the sunlight, entrancing me with his beauty.
"It will be a pleasure to call you Ri," Billie Joe said and then held out his hand for me to shake.
I shook his hand.
My heart started flipping a million times a minute. It was sensational. People were already staring because Green Day had stopped and were talking to us, but they were now fixated with us, just because Billie Joe was shaking my hand. Rebel and Tré was messing around hitting each other while Mike and Violet laughed and watched with the crowds.
"So do you want to know what will happen at the audition?" Billie Joe asked me.
"Yeah, that would be helpful thanks," I stuttered and Billie Joe smiled again.
"Okay, well what's going to happen is you get taken into the venue in groups and then one by one you come into the audition room, it's pretty simple," He told me.
"That simple? What about when you're actually in the audition?" I asked and Billie tapped him nose secretively.
"Ahh, and that you have to find out later!" he laughed.
"Yup, trade secret," Mike added.
I saw Jason Freese and Jason White fighting through the crowds to get to Billie Joe, Mike and Tré. I think the auditions will be starting...
When Jason and Jason were coming, I noticed that they were carrying plenty of bottles of beer.
"Hey, Billie Joe, I think Jason and Jason are coming over," I said nervously to Billie Joe and he smiled as he looked around.
"So they are! Oh, good, we can get pissed! And call me Billie," Billie Joe said to me.
"Okay Billie," Violet said and smiled.
"I didn't say you could call me Billie." He joked.
"Fine then, Billie Joe." Violet sighed.
"I think you'll find it's Your Royal Rock Highness And Sex God Mister Billie Joe Armstrong," Billie Joe said, smiling.
"Huh. Yeah. In your dreams," Jason White said laughing and started handing around the beers to us.
"Oy! Billie Joe is dead sex-ay!" Tré said and started hugging Billie Joe, hanging off his neck.
"Tré, get off," Billie Joe said as Jason White tossed him a beer.
"You weren't saying that last night!" Tré said and Rebel and Violet and I got tossed a beer. Billie Joe saw this and quickly snatched the bottles.
"Uncle Billie!" Rebel moaned.
"Your Royal Rock Highness And Sex God Mister Billie Joe Armstrong!" Violet said and everyone laughed.
"Oy! That's my pet name for Billie! Violet you can't call him that! He's my Your Royal Rock Highness And Sex God Mister Billie Joe Armstrong!" Tré screamed at Violet and started running around screeching.
"Billie why won't you let me and Vi drink the beer. I'm 18 I'm old enough here at England, Uncle Billie please. I love you," Rebel said smiling and started hugging Billie Joe.
"Don't uncle Billie me and all that I love you stuff. Anna will kill me if I did let you drink it, and Violet's 17. She's not legal here or in California. Neither is Ri," Billie Joe said and Rebel and Violet moaned, but I was shocked that Billie Joe knew my age.
"Like I follow the rules Billie Joe, you know I don't," Violet said smiling.
"I don't care and it's too early in the day," Billie Joe said.
"Huh hasn't stopped you in the past," Mike muttered under his breath.
"I'll ignore that thank you very much," Billie Joe said and then turned to Jason, "This is Ri, she's auditioning."
"Cool," Jason said to me then turned back to Green Day, "Speaking of the auditions, we need to head back to get ready, you know, relax a bit... " Jason said.
"...put on more eyeliner, make sure your hair is okay... " I joked and everyone laughed.
"Damn! We've got ourselves a stalker!" Mike said smiling.
"WHERE'S JESS?" Tré screamed worriedly.
"Don't worry, she's not here," Rebel said to him.
Here at Kerplunk! we are holding a competition for fans of the three Californian punk rock heros, GREEN DAY. In three months Green Day is hitting the road, starting in San Francisco and ending in Los Angeles. Green Day will be visiting Europe, Australia, America, and Japan...and they need a new roadie.
...You could be a roadie for Green Day on their world tour...
That was enough for me. I threw the magazine across the room and screamed. Amy [Lee] and Hayley [Williams] came running in the room and saw me sitting on the sofa curled up bawling my eyes out as I screamed.
"Oh my god, Ri, what's happened?" Amy asked me, her and Hayley sat next to me. "It must be bad for you to freak."
"I could be a roadie for...GREEN DAY!" I screamed again.
"Calm down...really? That is brilliant!" Hayley asked me and I nodded.
"It says so in Kerplunk! I have to enter," I said and then pointed at the
magazine that was strewn across the other end of the room in a heap.
Hayley went and picked up the magazine and read the article.
"Ri, have you read it all?!" she asked me and I shook my head.
"No, but I love Green Day, it'll be easy," I said to her, excitedly.
"How easy do you think?" Hayley asked me, "You've got to read what you've got to do."
...To win this experience of a lifetime, and go back behind the scenes with Green Day, you've got to come to an audition on the 3rd of September at The Claremont Hotel in London. Please register before as this competition is only open to readers of Kerplunk! Also make sure you have your copy of this edition of Kerplunk! on hand.
Green Day will be there to judge and welcome aboard the lucky devil who wins this amazing opportunity. Flights to San Francisco will be paid by the band, and they will greet you at the airport. All hotel expenses will be paid by the band.
"I can do that, Hayley. It's just an audition. Simple," I said and Amy and Hayley both raised their eyebrows at me. "What? I can."
"Really?" Hayley asked.
"You freak out when they are just on TV, who knows what could happen when you see them in person, you'll freak, and you'll end up going mental and fainting or something," Amy said.
"I will not," I told them firmly, "I can go to an audition without messing it up."
"Yes, but an audition with Green Day?" Amy asked me.
"It'll be a breeze," I said.
"Okay, Ri, you can do this...just smile...and keep cool." I practised in the mirror to myself. Tomorrow was my audition for the groupie, I wasn't nervous...I was really bricking it and was suffering from anxiety.
This was life changing...and I knew I was going to prove Amy and Hayley right by messing it up. It's Green Day, and me. An obsessed fan, lifetime changing experience with the three rock gods. I am going to cock this up big time.
I imagined in my head that Green Day was sitting in front of me, and they didn't know I was now in the room. Mike was leaning back in the chair, twiddling his thumbs as he laughed at one of Billie Joe's dumb jokes. Billie Joe had his cheeky grin/wicked smile on his face, his green eyes glinting. Tré was laughing his head off, tears streaming from his blue eyes, he was laughing so much that he fell off his chair...
"... Ri, wake up." I felt Hayley shaking my shoulder and as I looked up I saw that I had fallen asleep at my desk, my notebook with what I was planning to say at the audition in it was tossed on the floor, and my desk lamp was still on. It shone brightly into my eyes and blinded me, making me flinch.
"Huh? Hayley, what time is it?" I mumbled as I sat up and rubbed my eyes.
"Its nine o'clock. Amy's ran you a bath, and we've booked the taxi, also I've made sure the clothes you wanted to wear today are clean, all what you have to do is get ready," Hayley told me.
"Thanks, you're a star," I said and then got up out of bed...
I swallowed back some of the saliva which was gathering up inside my mouth. I desperately needed a drink, yet my mouth was too moist. My hands were shaking, my teeth were chattering, looking around I guessed I was the most nervous out of all of the millions of fans crowding around me...
Hayley and Amy had waved me off at the apartment, I thought they would have wanted to come and see me fail. But they didn't. maybe they thought it would be too cruel to let me suffer from that...or maybe they'll turn up later...
"Ri!" A voice screamed from behind me. I turned around and saw Violet coming over to me with a dark brown haired girl, with emerald gleaming eyes, which shone exactly like Billie Joe's. I had never seen this girl before...yet she seemed so familiar.
"Oh my god, Violet, I haven't seen you for ages, it was before you went to America," I said as me and Violet hugged. Her friend was smiling as she saw all the crowds around waiting to audition. She had a smile on her face... as if she knew a joke about the audition.
"Anyway, how was America?" I asked her and she smiled.
"Yeah, it was ace, it truly rocked. The Warped Tour was ace, 924 Gilman Street was ace, and when Jess came over, it was... " Vi-Vi said and I interrupted her.
"...ace, by any chance?" I asked her.
"Well I was going to say great, but come to mention it, yeah, it was ace." Violet laughed.
"Jess is the welsh one, isn't she?" The other girl asked.Sshe had a strong American sounding accent with a hint of British...I recognised that voice...
"Yeah, oh Ri, this is... " Violet began, but it was deafened out by screams by all the others around us...
Green Day, everyone, was approaching... the rock gods have landed!
Billie Joe's black hair was... well a mess to put it in the nicest way, his green eyes shimmered like green water, black eyeliner framing the beauty. On his feet he was wearing a battered pair of red high-tops converse, he was wearing his tight black pants, a black shirt and tie, with a black leather jacket... damn, did his arse look fine...
...I always thought Billie Joe was hot in posters...
...he's hotter in person!
Tré Cool. His mouth was constantly moving, I thought Jess was the only loud mouth-chatterbox-pain in the mouth, but I was obviously wrong. Tré's hair was so long now, and it crazily spiked, it looked so different blonde, and his blue gleaming eyes were emphasized with thick black eyeliner, and pink eye shadow. He was wearing a pair of creepers, they looked so new, with a posh black suit, and the blazer though, was covered in badges and patches.
Mike's hair today, was styled in the "just got out of bed" look. He was wearing his usual black tank top, with tracksuit bottoms, and baseball shoes on his feet. He had a wristband on his right wrist, and...
...they were all heading over to us...
Violet's friend stuck out her leg, intending to trip Billie Joe up, but he was and grinned at her as he walked around the leg, yet Tré pretended to trip over.
"They're my converse Billie Joe." The girl moaned.
"Like I care, Rebs, you stole mine, I stole yours, and it's a simple cycle that you'll get used to," Billie Joe said.
"Yeah, the black pair of converse were actually mine," Mike said.
"You're Rebel? The girl on Bebo? You're actually her. Billie Joe's niece?" I asked and Rebel nodded.
"Yup, that's me," she said.
"Unfortunately," Tré said and we laughed.
"Shove off Tré," Rebel warned and hit Tré slightly.
"So are you auditioning?" Billie Joe asked me.
"...ye...yes," I stuttered nervously.
"Cool, what's your name?" he asked me.
"...Riona...but... you can call me Ri," I said and Billie Joe smiled at me, his teeth shining in the sunlight, entrancing me with his beauty.
"It will be a pleasure to call you Ri," Billie Joe said and then held out his hand for me to shake.
I shook his hand.
My heart started flipping a million times a minute. It was sensational. People were already staring because Green Day had stopped and were talking to us, but they were now fixated with us, just because Billie Joe was shaking my hand. Rebel and Tré was messing around hitting each other while Mike and Violet laughed and watched with the crowds.
"So do you want to know what will happen at the audition?" Billie Joe asked me.
"Yeah, that would be helpful thanks," I stuttered and Billie Joe smiled again.
"Okay, well what's going to happen is you get taken into the venue in groups and then one by one you come into the audition room, it's pretty simple," He told me.
"That simple? What about when you're actually in the audition?" I asked and Billie tapped him nose secretively.
"Ahh, and that you have to find out later!" he laughed.
"Yup, trade secret," Mike added.
I saw Jason Freese and Jason White fighting through the crowds to get to Billie Joe, Mike and Tré. I think the auditions will be starting...
When Jason and Jason were coming, I noticed that they were carrying plenty of bottles of beer.
"Hey, Billie Joe, I think Jason and Jason are coming over," I said nervously to Billie Joe and he smiled as he looked around.
"So they are! Oh, good, we can get pissed! And call me Billie," Billie Joe said to me.
"Okay Billie," Violet said and smiled.
"I didn't say you could call me Billie." He joked.
"Fine then, Billie Joe." Violet sighed.
"I think you'll find it's Your Royal Rock Highness And Sex God Mister Billie Joe Armstrong," Billie Joe said, smiling.
"Huh. Yeah. In your dreams," Jason White said laughing and started handing around the beers to us.
"Oy! Billie Joe is dead sex-ay!" Tré said and started hugging Billie Joe, hanging off his neck.
"Tré, get off," Billie Joe said as Jason White tossed him a beer.
"You weren't saying that last night!" Tré said and Rebel and Violet and I got tossed a beer. Billie Joe saw this and quickly snatched the bottles.
"Uncle Billie!" Rebel moaned.
"Your Royal Rock Highness And Sex God Mister Billie Joe Armstrong!" Violet said and everyone laughed.
"Oy! That's my pet name for Billie! Violet you can't call him that! He's my Your Royal Rock Highness And Sex God Mister Billie Joe Armstrong!" Tré screamed at Violet and started running around screeching.
"Billie why won't you let me and Vi drink the beer. I'm 18 I'm old enough here at England, Uncle Billie please. I love you," Rebel said smiling and started hugging Billie Joe.
"Don't uncle Billie me and all that I love you stuff. Anna will kill me if I did let you drink it, and Violet's 17. She's not legal here or in California. Neither is Ri," Billie Joe said and Rebel and Violet moaned, but I was shocked that Billie Joe knew my age.
"Like I follow the rules Billie Joe, you know I don't," Violet said smiling.
"I don't care and it's too early in the day," Billie Joe said.
"Huh hasn't stopped you in the past," Mike muttered under his breath.
"I'll ignore that thank you very much," Billie Joe said and then turned to Jason, "This is Ri, she's auditioning."
"Cool," Jason said to me then turned back to Green Day, "Speaking of the auditions, we need to head back to get ready, you know, relax a bit... " Jason said.
"...put on more eyeliner, make sure your hair is okay... " I joked and everyone laughed.
"Damn! We've got ourselves a stalker!" Mike said smiling.
"WHERE'S JESS?" Tré screamed worriedly.
"Don't worry, she's not here," Rebel said to him.
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