Affections, chapter 54
The Affections of Tre Part 11
<p>Sat in the dock. Waiting for the jury guys. It's been over a month and now it's finally the end of this fucked up trial. High publicity, loads a shit in the papers. But Billie Joe said the sales of ALL our albums shot up, so, you know, crazy bitch Claudia did one good thing for us. In a round-about way.</p>
<p>The verdict coming in is just a formality really. For the first few weeks it looked really bad for me. Everyone thought that I had done it, I had killed her. Billie Joe and Adi and Mike, they all said they believed me. But I don't think they did.</p>
<p>I could see it in his face. In his eyes. He didn't want to touch me, he seemed disgusted because he had in the past. Fucking hurt, I can tell you.</p>
<p>He's looking at me now, smiling at me, the one that makes his eyes crinkle at the corners in a way that makes me want to vault the dock and jump him (can't do that just yet though, probably illegal or something). But it's an appologetic smile too, because he knows I know he didn't believe me. He died his hair back to blonde last week. It looks good.</p>
<p>Anyway, like I said, for the first couple of weeks it was going down the fucking plughole. But then my lawyer brought out the that little journal thing I wrote. Hey, I was drunk, okay? Seemed a good idea at the time, and actually it turned out it was, cause after he'd read some of it, and the jury had looked through their copies of it, it swung in my favour (except this one bible bashing guy from Texas, who just got disgusted at my filthy liaisons with Mikey. But hell, he probably though Green Day was the work of the devil anyhow).</p>
<p>The real life fucking saver was when the police found Claudia. Well actually it was a fan. He new all about the case, and saw C going into a mall. He called the cops right away, and they caught up to her. The kid wrote a really nice letter to me too, my lawyer passed it on to me. The guy is sooo getting a signed drum kit.</p>
<p>So after they found Claudia, everything was fine. Can't really have killed a woman standing right there in the courtroom, now could I? So the jury finding me not guilty was just, you know, for appearances really.</p>
<p>Jesus I'm scared. Because of course, now everybody knows. 'Bout me and Mike. I don't know how people will react. I don't know how Bill and Adi will. I don't fucking know how Mikey will! I mean, it was so messed up and busy after what happened, we didn't get a chance to think about the effects of it, let alone talk about it as a group.</p>
I'm scared for Frankito too. His mom... fuck, what can I tell him? She went love crazy over daddy? God, now that I think about it, there's just so much... so much shit to sort out. Man. Maybe in prison I would have had a bit of a break.</p>
<p>No, you can't go the easy way. Never the easy way, because that's never the right way. I think if anything we've learnt THAT over the past months. Learnt it frikkin well too.</p> <p>The right thing for Mike to do would have been to talk to Bill and Adi about his feelings. The easy thing was to screw them both to make himself feel better for a little while. The right thing for us to do would have been to tell the others before Claudia could use it against us. The easy way was to hide it. So much for the easy way.</p>
<p>Ooh, they're back in.<br />
Wait for it, wait for it...</p>
<p>"We find the defendant innocent on all counts."</p>
Bingo!
<p>Dude, the judge guy is looking at me. Oh, right yeah, stand up. Oops.</p>
<p>"And does the defendant have anything to say on his acquittal?"</p>
<p>"Yes your honour, I'd like permission to vault the stand please..."</p>
Heh heh heh...
<p>Sat in the dock. Waiting for the jury guys. It's been over a month and now it's finally the end of this fucked up trial. High publicity, loads a shit in the papers. But Billie Joe said the sales of ALL our albums shot up, so, you know, crazy bitch Claudia did one good thing for us. In a round-about way.</p>
<p>The verdict coming in is just a formality really. For the first few weeks it looked really bad for me. Everyone thought that I had done it, I had killed her. Billie Joe and Adi and Mike, they all said they believed me. But I don't think they did.</p>
<p>I could see it in his face. In his eyes. He didn't want to touch me, he seemed disgusted because he had in the past. Fucking hurt, I can tell you.</p>
<p>He's looking at me now, smiling at me, the one that makes his eyes crinkle at the corners in a way that makes me want to vault the dock and jump him (can't do that just yet though, probably illegal or something). But it's an appologetic smile too, because he knows I know he didn't believe me. He died his hair back to blonde last week. It looks good.</p>
<p>Anyway, like I said, for the first couple of weeks it was going down the fucking plughole. But then my lawyer brought out the that little journal thing I wrote. Hey, I was drunk, okay? Seemed a good idea at the time, and actually it turned out it was, cause after he'd read some of it, and the jury had looked through their copies of it, it swung in my favour (except this one bible bashing guy from Texas, who just got disgusted at my filthy liaisons with Mikey. But hell, he probably though Green Day was the work of the devil anyhow).</p>
<p>The real life fucking saver was when the police found Claudia. Well actually it was a fan. He new all about the case, and saw C going into a mall. He called the cops right away, and they caught up to her. The kid wrote a really nice letter to me too, my lawyer passed it on to me. The guy is sooo getting a signed drum kit.</p>
<p>So after they found Claudia, everything was fine. Can't really have killed a woman standing right there in the courtroom, now could I? So the jury finding me not guilty was just, you know, for appearances really.</p>
<p>Jesus I'm scared. Because of course, now everybody knows. 'Bout me and Mike. I don't know how people will react. I don't know how Bill and Adi will. I don't fucking know how Mikey will! I mean, it was so messed up and busy after what happened, we didn't get a chance to think about the effects of it, let alone talk about it as a group.</p>
I'm scared for Frankito too. His mom... fuck, what can I tell him? She went love crazy over daddy? God, now that I think about it, there's just so much... so much shit to sort out. Man. Maybe in prison I would have had a bit of a break.</p>
<p>No, you can't go the easy way. Never the easy way, because that's never the right way. I think if anything we've learnt THAT over the past months. Learnt it frikkin well too.</p> <p>The right thing for Mike to do would have been to talk to Bill and Adi about his feelings. The easy thing was to screw them both to make himself feel better for a little while. The right thing for us to do would have been to tell the others before Claudia could use it against us. The easy way was to hide it. So much for the easy way.</p>
<p>Ooh, they're back in.<br />
Wait for it, wait for it...</p>
<p>"We find the defendant innocent on all counts."</p>
Bingo!
<p>Dude, the judge guy is looking at me. Oh, right yeah, stand up. Oops.</p>
<p>"And does the defendant have anything to say on his acquittal?"</p>
<p>"Yes your honour, I'd like permission to vault the stand please..."</p>
Heh heh heh...
