Listen To Your Heart ~ Book One.

Saturday in the Park

"Why can't you tell me over the phone?"

"The two of us used to be friends, David. Have I messed things up so badly that we're no longer friends?"

"Friends don't make demands like fuck me... knock me up, or else I'm going to blab."

"I know... I know. You're right. It's just... it bothers me... okay? It bothers me that Billie is carrying Finneas's baby. Doesn't it bother you?"

"Yea... it does."

"Yet you're still going along with the lie anyway. Why?"

"Because... I love Billie."

"Even though the baby isn't yours?"

"Damn it, Claudia... must we discuss this shit?"

"I'm sorry. So can you meet me at the carousel?"

"I think you've said what needed to be said."

"I promise not to mention Billie or the baby... deal?"

"I don't like this idea."

"Please? I got a gift for you. It's from me and Finneas."

"A gift?"

"Yeah. So, whether you see me now or not doesn't matter. We're gonna see one another during the tour, so we might as well do it now."

(Sighs)"Alright. I'll be there."

(Sometime later, I'm on my way to the park on my Harley Davidson motorcycle.)

(I'm sitting at a red light. I don't notice the dark car sitting in traffic facing in another direction.)

"Hey...there's David!"

"Where?"

"Over there on his Harley. Where the fuck is he going? He told me that he was laying down more tracks! I'm going to follow him!"

(Billie turns and follows me, a few car lengths back, to the park. She pulls in a few minutes after I walk away from my bike. She grabs a metal case off of her backseat.)

"What's in there?"

"My disguise, of course. Fake wig. Can't have Paparazzi or fans recognizing me."

(Billie and Zoe get out of the car and follow me down the path towards the carousel. They both hide behind a bush. Billie peeks around the bush, and spots Claudia waiting for me.)

"Fuck! I knew it!"

"What?"

"He came here to meet Claudia! Going to probably makes plans to fuck her behind my back since he now knows the baby's not his!"

"Now Billie...we don't know that for sure. So, let's not do anything hasty."

"Quiet. Let's hear what they say."

"Hi. Thanks for agreeing to meet me." Claudia says.

'Thanks for agreeing to meet me' (Billie mumbles mockingly.)

"Like you said. If we don't see one another now, we'll end up seeing one another while on tour. So, what did you want to talk about?"

"So, what did you want to talk about?" Billie mocks. "What the fuck does he thinks she wants? She wants fucked!"

"SHHH! listen." Zoe says.

"Can we sit together on the carousel again?"

(Billie rolls her eyes.)

"No... that might not be a good idea. Let's sit here."

(We move to a park bench near the bush.)

"So, you wanted to talk?"

"Yes. I wanted to thank you. I don't know what you and Finneas talked about, but him and I had a long talk. We even talked about issues we never knew we really had. Then we spent the night walking along the beach, hand in hand. Not talking, just letting our 'body language' speak for us. Then we went back to our place, and he wrote me some poetry, and gave me some roses."