The Day Billie Joe Armstrong Died

Chapter 15 - Doomed

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I woke up feeling well rested. The weather however, wasn’t that nice anymore. It was cloudy, dark and grey. Billie Joe wasn’t around in my room, he had promised to be around in the mornings. I felt alone without him there, especially with the dreadful weather pulling my spirit down. I hoisted myself up in a sitting position in my bed as I gazed up on my ceiling. I heard footsteps. Fuck, either mom or dad was home. Or even both. What happened to their work?  I sighted as I turned to my phone, I picked it up and gazed at the screen. One new message. Adrienne. I opened it and it wasn’t from Adie, it was from John. He was wondering if I wanted to join he and the others at his place today. It was really tempting to write ‘’yes’’ back, but I didn’t answer him. I had this weird bad feeling, so I started getting dressed instead. I slipped my phone into my pocket as I shuffled upstairs where I greeted dad and Billie. Dad was sitting in his chair reading The Hound of Baskerville while Billie was, as always, seated in front of the telly. Dad looked like he was in a good mood. ‘’Where’s mom?’’ I asked, ‘’Work’’ he answered while still sitting glued to his book.

I went to kitchen to get some food; I sat with dad and Billie and ate my breakfast. We actually enjoyed each other’s company. Even though we didn’t talk all that much…

Later Billie went outside to play with someone named Jake, and dad was still with his book. I decided to call Adie. I went down to my room and dialled the number. No answer. It went right to the machine. I tried to call again… and again. I bit my lip and gazed around in my room. Something was wrong, she promised to stay in touch. I tried to dial her home number. No answer there either. Now I know something was up. If she went somewhere, she would have told me. And she hasn’t told me anything, we hadn’t even talked since yesterday. I knew I should have called her yesterday.

I made up my mind and went over to her house. The weather was still not nice, cloudy and grey. I walked up to the door and knocked, the door slid open. Why wasn’t the door locked? I walked slowly in trough the door, all sorts of stuff was scattered on the floor. Pictures, frames, papers and broken glass. I looked from left to right, no one in the living room and no one in the kitchen. ‘’Adie?’’ I yelled. My voice was the only thing filling the void. She wasn’t there.

I ran upstairs, no one in the bedroom, no one in the bathroom and no one in the boy’s room. Not a single soul. I bit my lip anxiously and gazed around. Something caught my eye, her phone. It was on the floor in her bedroom. I picked it up, no battery. I slipped her phone in my pocket next my own phone. I shuffled downstairs and stopped. I sat down at the end of the staircase. I just sat there looking into the air. I didn’t know what to do. Where the hell can she be? She wouldn’t leave without her phone. She would also have locked the door.  I think I lost my mind for a minute, ‘cause I started crying like crazy. Sadness filling my eyes, I held my arms around my legs. I was scared, scared and alone. I tightened my grip around my legs and stared plainly in to the air. My vision was all blurry and fucked up.

‘’Alex? Alex are you okay? Alex!’’ I tried to make out whom it was standing in front of me. I knew the voice, but it wasn’t just my eyes that where blurry. My head felt like a fucking basket case.

I rubbed my eyes and saw who was standing in front of me. I couldn’t be more relieved to see Billie Joe standing above me. I jumped up and hugged him, my arms grasped through the thin air and I ended up hugging myself. He popped up beside me, I had totally forgot that he wasn’t really there. I turned to him, ‘’where is Adrienne?’’ I gasped as I was on my way to break into another crying session. ‘’They’ve taken her, Alex! That fucking place took her! You have to go there, you have to save her! They’ll fucking lobotomies her or something!’’ He half yelled. His eyes where huge and all watery. Even though he didn’t tell me who had taken her, I knew. That fucking hospital. My head got better and my vision was coming back to normal. And I was able to understand the situation better, ‘’why didn’t you come sooner, Billie?’’ I asked curious. He shook his head and replied, ‘’I couldn’t leave her, she was so scared…’’ I understood and nodded. ‘’You’ll have to show me the way… Or we could call the police’’ I tried. He shook his head again and said ‘’hun, they will never believe you! They wouldn’t believe a child with such a weird story…’’ What was I thinking, of course they wouldn’t believe me. I sighted and nodded. ‘’Let’s go’’

Since I couldn’t drive, we had to walk the whole way. However, we didn’t get that long until we met John, Amy, Gloria, Dave and Mike. I really wanted to meet them and hangout, but not now.

They came closer, and then they recognized me. ‘’Alex! Alex? Hey!’’ I heard Amy yell as she ran towards me and pulling me into a hug. ‘’Hi’’ I mumbled, I could see Billie Joe standing not far away, looking happy despite the fact that Adie was kidnapped. I had to get my head together and continue. ‘’You didn’t answer to my message!’’ John complained, ‘’no, sorry I… I forgot’’ I tried. He nodded, ‘’where are you going? Can we join?’’ Gloria asked eagerly. Fuck, I bit my lip and answered ‘’sorry, no. I’m going to the hospital to see my… my brother! A car hit him this morning. Yup it got pretty bad!’’ God I was a terrible liar. They all looked sad and told me to say hi to my brother for them. Did they fall for it? We said our goodbyes and I continued. I heard Dave mumbled something like ‘’I saw her brother this morning with another kid’’ but I didn’t pay attention to that now. We had to hurry.

As we approached the hospital my fear grew. This was a fucking suicide mission. I looked around, Billie observed my every move. ‘’We need to be careful, you can’t go threw the main door. They’ll recognize you. But I know another way, it’s around the hospital on the other side. I think I can fuck up the electricity again, so the door will open’’ Still not facing him I started to walk around the hospital, I kept my distance from it. The building was huge, not like a regular size hospital. It looked rich, the people who wandered around look rich.

Everyone who walked by looked distant, odd in some way. Fuck, they all looked like killers to me! Walking in white suits, walking around protecting their castle. I felt like I was being watched, followed. But I couldn’t see anyone who walked after me.

In the end I reached the door Billie had talked about, it was a metal door. Looked like it was bullet proof. It had no knob. Billie Joe was right, it ran by electricity. I looked towards Billie and nodded. He smiled back and disappeared. It didn’t take long until the door slid open, I quickly looked around to see if anyone would notice me. No one there. I ran inside with only one thought in my head; I’m fucking doomed.