I'll Stand By And Watch You Drown, chapter 5
~*~*Still Billie Joe's POV~*~*
It was true. Tre really had no clue about how to shut the fucking hell up! He went and told Veronica that we had seen Jimmy. I knew what her reaction was going to be all to well. 'Why, Billie Joe?!' or 'That shit will kill you, ya know!' and I was getting sick of it. I was already becoming fed up with Veronica and the way she talked about MY choices. What I wanted. Not her.
"Are you coming with us?" I asked her.
"Yeah, whatever...." was her reply.
"YAY! JIMMY!" shouted Tre. This time I joined Veronica in staring at him like he was some kind of retard. Oh, wait! He IS!
"What are you guys looking at?"
"What do you think?"
"A retard?" he asked, no feeling in his voice what so ever.
"Yeah! Good job, Franky!"
Tre was the first to get up and stop suddenly at the door. He turned around and saw us just sitting there, because we thought he was just leaving because we called him 'Franky'. "Are you guys gonna help me with finding Mike, or not?" "Yeah, we'll help," I said, sort of answering for Veronica. She rolled her eyes and mumbled," I don't want to, but whatever!" Veronica walked over to the kitchen counter and wrote my mom a note:
Dear Ollie,
Billie Joe, Mike, Tre, and I all went for a walk. We promise to be back later. Hopefully before 9. See you then!
Yours,
Veronica
P.S.- When we get back, I think you should talk to Billie Joe about something. Hopefully he'll tell you what's been going on in his life that I don't think you would approve of. I know for a fact I don't! Who would approve of him being on drugs?
Of course, I would find out about the last bit of that note a little bit later on that night.
"OK. I'm all set!"
"Finally!" Tre sighed.
"What the fuck did you write?!" I asked.
"Just stuff...."
I shrugged it off. She was probably writing about something so small that there was no point in writing about it at all. That has happened countless times with Veronica. She was such a perfectionist. She got A+ after A+ and never had detention, gotton i.s.s, o.s.s, or suspened. She had a clean record. She had never tried drugs or alchohol. She was the opposite of me, yet I felt that we were meant for eachother....
~*~*Veronica's POV~*~*
I began wondering if I should have put that last bit on the note. Would Billie Joe be mad at me? End the friendship we had? Or the very small new found love we had just discovered? Those were questions that I were afraid to find the answer to.
I sighed deeply and walked out the door with Billie Joe and Tre. I stared up at the sky. It looked like it was going to rain, but I didn't care. Rain was something I enjoyed. It felt so nice against my face whenever I would run outside during a storm. Then Billie Joe would be waiting inside: arms open and hug waiting. He was so sweet like that.
We walked down the street, in the direction that Tre and Billie Joe both said was Jimmy's place. I was kind of nervous. I had never met Jimmy, nor did I even want to. I just wanted to grab that jerk, Mike, and leave. Billie Joe noticed how nervous I was, and put his arm around my waist. I looked up and him, smiling, and he pulled in for a kiss.
It was much different from the one in my bedroom. It was short and sweet. Yet still showing our love for eachother. When we finished and focoused our eyes back on the sidewalk, Tre was standing there looking at us.
"Billie Joe Armstrong?"
"What?"
"Will you tell me what that was?"
"Ummmm.... a kiss?"
"To who?"
"Veronica?"
"How could you?!"
"Why are you asking me these questions?"
"How could you cheat on me? In front of me for fucks sake?!"
"Tre, quit it," I said.
"Fine. It's just fun to act gay."
"And you're really good at it," commented Billie Joe.
Tre just smiled and we all put full attention on try to find Mike faster. Billie Joe and Tre stopped suddenly, which caused me to let go of Billie Joe and fall on Tre, knocking him down. With me falling on top of him. "Well Veronica," he said," This is sudden!" He pretended to pull me in for a kiss and I tried to pull away but couldn't. He gave me a peck on the cheek and then let go of me, while he lay on his back.
"Why did we stop?" I asked.
Billie Joe pointed ahead and for the first time I realized that we were in front of an old, run down house.
"So this is it?" I asked. Billie Joe and Tre nodded.
"Yeah," they said at the same time.
"Do we go in the front door?" I asked, about to push it open.
"NO!" Tre and Billie Joe shouted, causing me to stop dead in my tracks.
"Why?"
"They jump you if you go in that way," Tre explained," There's always a group inside, waiting for the next loser to come in through the front."
"Oh," I said. "Then how DO we get in?"
"Around back."
I followed Billie Joe and Tre around back and saw Tre climb through a small window. Billie Joe gave me his hand and helped me in. "Thanks," I mumbled, since I was kind of mad, as he landed perfectly, telling me that he had been here quite a few times before.
The room was filled with smoke. You didn't need to be a smoker, just breath and you would get the same result. "So where is he?" I asked Billie Joe, staying close by him because there were so many people pushing around since it was obviously a party that anyone could go to as long as you knew how to get in. "Who?" he asked. "Mike," I said. "The reason we came here," I added bitterly. "Ummmm.... Over there," Billie Joe said, pointing to Mike and some random girl making out. Tre was the brave soul to go to Mike.
~*~*Tre's POV~*~*
"Mike?" he said. Mike pulled his head away from his 'activity' and looked straight at me. "I'll catch up with you later, Nicole." he said as the girl got off his lap.
"Were you planning on scoring if we didn't show up?"
"I knew you guys were gonna come anyways...."
"Will you come home with us? Please?"
"Is Veronica still mad?"
"If you sort things out, I'm sure she won't be."
"........OK."
"Thanks!"
~*~*Billie Joe's POV~*~*
He got up and led Mike over to where the rest of us were standing. I came up and hugged Mike, then whispered in his ear," When we get back, you need to sort things out with Veronica. And no abuse either. She already went through that with Eric." I saw Mike's face drop as he took guilt on what he had almost done eailier.
"Another?"
"Yeah?"
"Billie Joe?"
"What?"
"Don't turn out like them."
"Heh. I don't plan to."
~*~*Later that night, still Billie Joe's POV~*~*
Tre, Veronica, and I sat on the couch watching some stupid show at 11. Mike had already gone home. I was playing absent mindly with Veronica's hair when suddenly the door burst open. There stood my mom, tired for sure. She saw the note on the counter and picked it up to read it. *Oh, fuck! I didn't read it like I was planing on as soon as we got back!* I thought.
"Billie Joe?" my mom called.
"Yeah?"
"Can I see you in your room please?"
"Uh, sure." I said, really unsure of what was going to happen and what she was going to talk to me about.
I got up and made my way to my room, my mom leading the way. She told me to sit on my bed, and I obeyed.
"Now then...." she said.
"Yeah?"
"Anything you would like to tell me? Anything happened lately?"
"No...."
"BILLIE JOE! DON'T LIE TO ME!"
"NOTHING HAS HAPPENED!"
"WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY?"
"Why?" I asked, calming down some after shouting back.
"Answer the question."
"Uh, we went for a walk."
"Where?"
"Jimmy's," escaped my lips before I could reilze what I was saying.
"And who is Jimmy?" she asked, even though she knew.
"A friend," I said.
"A friend who gives you this?" she asked as she reached into my pocket and pulled out a bag of dope.
"No.... How did you kno-"
"I won't say. I will say this though. YOU ARE FUCKING GROUNDED FOR A YEAR!"
She caught me. Red-handed. She wouldn't say how she found out. I already knew. Veronica. That's what she wrote on the note. That's how she pissed me off more than she knew. That's who is responsible. Veronica.
~*~*Veronica's POV~*~*
Even though I felt really bad about what I had done to Billie Joe, I also felt like I had done the right thing. Even though I was crying, knowing that I had probably made him so mad that he won't want to see me for a few months.
"Shhhh.... Don't cry," Tre comforted me as I leaned on him.
"I can't help it. How do you think Ollie took it?"
"Obviously not good," he said as Billie Joe's mom stormed out the door. Then we heard the car pull away.
"How about Billie Joe?" I asked, not realizing that Tre had put his arm around me and we wer now bassicly (Sorry that I spelled it wrong for sure!) cuddling with eachother.
"Not good," a voice from behind me said.
"Not fucking good at all especially after my you tell my mom what I've been doing and then start fucking cuddling on the couch with my best friend!"
"Huh?" I said confused. But I wasn't confused after I felt Tre's arm move out from behind me.
Oh, shit. He thought that I was cheating on him. It wasn't true, though. I'm sure that Tre just did that so I could become more comfortable or something. I didn't think he felt anything about me exept for 'friend'. And boy, was I wrong!
It was true. Tre really had no clue about how to shut the fucking hell up! He went and told Veronica that we had seen Jimmy. I knew what her reaction was going to be all to well. 'Why, Billie Joe?!' or 'That shit will kill you, ya know!' and I was getting sick of it. I was already becoming fed up with Veronica and the way she talked about MY choices. What I wanted. Not her.
"Are you coming with us?" I asked her.
"Yeah, whatever...." was her reply.
"YAY! JIMMY!" shouted Tre. This time I joined Veronica in staring at him like he was some kind of retard. Oh, wait! He IS!
"What are you guys looking at?"
"What do you think?"
"A retard?" he asked, no feeling in his voice what so ever.
"Yeah! Good job, Franky!"
Tre was the first to get up and stop suddenly at the door. He turned around and saw us just sitting there, because we thought he was just leaving because we called him 'Franky'. "Are you guys gonna help me with finding Mike, or not?" "Yeah, we'll help," I said, sort of answering for Veronica. She rolled her eyes and mumbled," I don't want to, but whatever!" Veronica walked over to the kitchen counter and wrote my mom a note:
Dear Ollie,
Billie Joe, Mike, Tre, and I all went for a walk. We promise to be back later. Hopefully before 9. See you then!
Yours,
Veronica
P.S.- When we get back, I think you should talk to Billie Joe about something. Hopefully he'll tell you what's been going on in his life that I don't think you would approve of. I know for a fact I don't! Who would approve of him being on drugs?
Of course, I would find out about the last bit of that note a little bit later on that night.
"OK. I'm all set!"
"Finally!" Tre sighed.
"What the fuck did you write?!" I asked.
"Just stuff...."
I shrugged it off. She was probably writing about something so small that there was no point in writing about it at all. That has happened countless times with Veronica. She was such a perfectionist. She got A+ after A+ and never had detention, gotton i.s.s, o.s.s, or suspened. She had a clean record. She had never tried drugs or alchohol. She was the opposite of me, yet I felt that we were meant for eachother....
~*~*Veronica's POV~*~*
I began wondering if I should have put that last bit on the note. Would Billie Joe be mad at me? End the friendship we had? Or the very small new found love we had just discovered? Those were questions that I were afraid to find the answer to.
I sighed deeply and walked out the door with Billie Joe and Tre. I stared up at the sky. It looked like it was going to rain, but I didn't care. Rain was something I enjoyed. It felt so nice against my face whenever I would run outside during a storm. Then Billie Joe would be waiting inside: arms open and hug waiting. He was so sweet like that.
We walked down the street, in the direction that Tre and Billie Joe both said was Jimmy's place. I was kind of nervous. I had never met Jimmy, nor did I even want to. I just wanted to grab that jerk, Mike, and leave. Billie Joe noticed how nervous I was, and put his arm around my waist. I looked up and him, smiling, and he pulled in for a kiss.
It was much different from the one in my bedroom. It was short and sweet. Yet still showing our love for eachother. When we finished and focoused our eyes back on the sidewalk, Tre was standing there looking at us.
"Billie Joe Armstrong?"
"What?"
"Will you tell me what that was?"
"Ummmm.... a kiss?"
"To who?"
"Veronica?"
"How could you?!"
"Why are you asking me these questions?"
"How could you cheat on me? In front of me for fucks sake?!"
"Tre, quit it," I said.
"Fine. It's just fun to act gay."
"And you're really good at it," commented Billie Joe.
Tre just smiled and we all put full attention on try to find Mike faster. Billie Joe and Tre stopped suddenly, which caused me to let go of Billie Joe and fall on Tre, knocking him down. With me falling on top of him. "Well Veronica," he said," This is sudden!" He pretended to pull me in for a kiss and I tried to pull away but couldn't. He gave me a peck on the cheek and then let go of me, while he lay on his back.
"Why did we stop?" I asked.
Billie Joe pointed ahead and for the first time I realized that we were in front of an old, run down house.
"So this is it?" I asked. Billie Joe and Tre nodded.
"Yeah," they said at the same time.
"Do we go in the front door?" I asked, about to push it open.
"NO!" Tre and Billie Joe shouted, causing me to stop dead in my tracks.
"Why?"
"They jump you if you go in that way," Tre explained," There's always a group inside, waiting for the next loser to come in through the front."
"Oh," I said. "Then how DO we get in?"
"Around back."
I followed Billie Joe and Tre around back and saw Tre climb through a small window. Billie Joe gave me his hand and helped me in. "Thanks," I mumbled, since I was kind of mad, as he landed perfectly, telling me that he had been here quite a few times before.
The room was filled with smoke. You didn't need to be a smoker, just breath and you would get the same result. "So where is he?" I asked Billie Joe, staying close by him because there were so many people pushing around since it was obviously a party that anyone could go to as long as you knew how to get in. "Who?" he asked. "Mike," I said. "The reason we came here," I added bitterly. "Ummmm.... Over there," Billie Joe said, pointing to Mike and some random girl making out. Tre was the brave soul to go to Mike.
~*~*Tre's POV~*~*
"Mike?" he said. Mike pulled his head away from his 'activity' and looked straight at me. "I'll catch up with you later, Nicole." he said as the girl got off his lap.
"Were you planning on scoring if we didn't show up?"
"I knew you guys were gonna come anyways...."
"Will you come home with us? Please?"
"Is Veronica still mad?"
"If you sort things out, I'm sure she won't be."
"........OK."
"Thanks!"
~*~*Billie Joe's POV~*~*
He got up and led Mike over to where the rest of us were standing. I came up and hugged Mike, then whispered in his ear," When we get back, you need to sort things out with Veronica. And no abuse either. She already went through that with Eric." I saw Mike's face drop as he took guilt on what he had almost done eailier.
"Another?"
"Yeah?"
"Billie Joe?"
"What?"
"Don't turn out like them."
"Heh. I don't plan to."
~*~*Later that night, still Billie Joe's POV~*~*
Tre, Veronica, and I sat on the couch watching some stupid show at 11. Mike had already gone home. I was playing absent mindly with Veronica's hair when suddenly the door burst open. There stood my mom, tired for sure. She saw the note on the counter and picked it up to read it. *Oh, fuck! I didn't read it like I was planing on as soon as we got back!* I thought.
"Billie Joe?" my mom called.
"Yeah?"
"Can I see you in your room please?"
"Uh, sure." I said, really unsure of what was going to happen and what she was going to talk to me about.
I got up and made my way to my room, my mom leading the way. She told me to sit on my bed, and I obeyed.
"Now then...." she said.
"Yeah?"
"Anything you would like to tell me? Anything happened lately?"
"No...."
"BILLIE JOE! DON'T LIE TO ME!"
"NOTHING HAS HAPPENED!"
"WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY?"
"Why?" I asked, calming down some after shouting back.
"Answer the question."
"Uh, we went for a walk."
"Where?"
"Jimmy's," escaped my lips before I could reilze what I was saying.
"And who is Jimmy?" she asked, even though she knew.
"A friend," I said.
"A friend who gives you this?" she asked as she reached into my pocket and pulled out a bag of dope.
"No.... How did you kno-"
"I won't say. I will say this though. YOU ARE FUCKING GROUNDED FOR A YEAR!"
She caught me. Red-handed. She wouldn't say how she found out. I already knew. Veronica. That's what she wrote on the note. That's how she pissed me off more than she knew. That's who is responsible. Veronica.
~*~*Veronica's POV~*~*
Even though I felt really bad about what I had done to Billie Joe, I also felt like I had done the right thing. Even though I was crying, knowing that I had probably made him so mad that he won't want to see me for a few months.
"Shhhh.... Don't cry," Tre comforted me as I leaned on him.
"I can't help it. How do you think Ollie took it?"
"Obviously not good," he said as Billie Joe's mom stormed out the door. Then we heard the car pull away.
"How about Billie Joe?" I asked, not realizing that Tre had put his arm around me and we wer now bassicly (Sorry that I spelled it wrong for sure!) cuddling with eachother.
"Not good," a voice from behind me said.
"Not fucking good at all especially after my you tell my mom what I've been doing and then start fucking cuddling on the couch with my best friend!"
"Huh?" I said confused. But I wasn't confused after I felt Tre's arm move out from behind me.
Oh, shit. He thought that I was cheating on him. It wasn't true, though. I'm sure that Tre just did that so I could become more comfortable or something. I didn't think he felt anything about me exept for 'friend'. And boy, was I wrong!
