The Day Billie Joe Armstrong Died

Chapter 31 - Reunion

Wuaaah, it is all soon coming to an end! D: Another, rather small chapter for you guys! Since I promised ot update today :) 

It didn’t take long until we where safe down on the ground of Oakland. I was dying to get some fresh air and it looked like the others needed some as well.

To my surprise there wasn’t a thousand crazy fangirls waiting for us on the airport, there was only a couple of people who where waiting for their flight who came by and took some photos. I guess they’re used to live in ‘’Green Day Land’’ here in Oakland.

‘’Where to first?’’ Trè asked as we waited for our limousine to arrive. ‘’My brother’’ I spoke up a second after his question. There was no other place to go first, he was the most important person we had to take care of now. Billie Joe nodded in agreement. ‘’Yes, Adie called him on the flight. He will be home in a about an hour or so.. So we’ll meet him there’’ He said firmly. Talk about what? I thought to myself as I watched the limousine arrive. Only Adie, Billie Joe and I went into the car. Adie laughed at my surprised expression. ‘’It’s okay, they’ll take the next one. Trè and Mike will take Jake and Joey home’’ she explained as the car started to roll. I nodded slowly but didn’t quit get why they couldn’t join us. I knew my brother really wanted to meet Trè… I guess he’ll have to wait.

I looked up at Billie and Adie as they shared some mysterious looks at each other. ‘’What is going on?’’ I asked curious, they both looked quickly at each other. Then at me and just smiled. ‘’Fine, keep your secrets then!’’ I grunted. They just chuckled. I hate it when there is something going on and I don’t know of it. I hate surprises.

It took around an hour to get to my house. It felt really weird coming back after all this. To see my house, knowing mom and dad won’t be there. Knowing that I’ll never see my dad sit in his chair reading Sherlock Holmes, or never see my mom making cupcakes every time I got a good grade from school. But I guess that’s for the good, it was all and act anyways. However, it’s so hard not to miss it. It had been my life for 16 years, and it was all fake. I hate to say it, but they deserved a fucking Grammy for it.

We started to slowly walk up towards the door, ‘’he’ll be here in about 15 minutes’’ Adie said and reached for a key she had in her pocket.

‘’Alex? Alex!’’ I heard someone shout my name. I turned around to see a group of people standing some meters away from us, near the park. It was my group of people. I turned to Adie, ‘’go with them’’ she smiled as she and Billie got into the house and closed the door.

I walked over to them and Amy ran to me and embraced me in a tight hug. ‘’You son of a bitch! Do you know how much we’ve missed you? I was so fucking scared for you!’’ She cried into my shoulder, she was a bit smaller than me.

She slowly let me go and backed off. Missed me? Scared for me? I thought they hated me! I thought to myself.

‘’I thought your dad killed you! You should have called us!’’ Mike complained as walked over to me and hugged me as well. ‘’I’m sorry I didn’t .. I didn’t think about it…’’ I stumbled. Gloria smiled to me, ‘’well you have to tell us all about it! Billie Joe raised from the fucking grave!’’ She smiled. Mike let me go and we all walked over to the park. We sat down in a circle and I started to explain everything. From when I saw Billie Joe for the first time, till the hospital visits and all. To say that they where baffled would be an understatement.

‘’What the actual fuck!?’’ John let out when I was done with my story. ‘’Oh my god! You met Austin Carlile! Was he hot?’’ Amy cried out, ‘’you’ve got to sort out your priorities, Amy!’’ Dave laughed and nudged her. ‘’He was really nice! And really fucking tall and slender!’’ I chuckled. ‘’You’ve got some serious balls, man. I don’t know if I could have pulled that off!’’ Mike spoke up. I shook my head, ‘’I loved how they all reacted when you spoke up in court! They where all like ‘what the fuck?’’ Gloria laughed, I chuckled. ‘’Yeah, they didn’t quite like that!’’ I agreed, ‘’but you owned them!’’ Dave laughed.

‘’Think about it, you’re only 16 and you’ve rewritten the whole music history! You’ve written yourself into it as well!’’ John said smiling, I couldn’t keep myself from grinning thinking about it. ‘’I knew Kurt Cobain didn’t kill himself! I knew it all along! He would never leave his friends and daughter behind. But I thought his wife killed him to be honest’’ Amy continued, ‘’I agree, I thought so too’’ Gloria spoke up.

I looked over at my house and noticed a little boy slowly walking towards it, Billie. ‘’Ehm guys, I have to go!’’ I spoke up, they looked curiously at me. But then they noticed that I was staring at Billie who was approaching the house. ‘’Remember to use your phone! We demand to hear from you!’’ Mike smiled at me, I smiled back and nodded. ‘’See you guys around!’’ I said and ran towards Billie. It felt good having my friends back, it felt really fucking good.

I didn’t bother to stop and say ‘’hi’’ to Billie, I just embraced him in a hug as soon as I got to him. ‘’You have no idea of how much I’ve missed you’’ I cried as I held around him. He had dropped his bags and held around me tightly. I noticed he had started to cry into my chest. ‘’I’ve missed you, Alexandria.. so much. I was so scared’’ he sobbed. His whole body was shaking. ‘’I won’t leave you again, Billie.’’ I said as I let him go. His eyes where red and sore, full of sadness.

I bent down to my knees so I was as tall as him. He’s quite small.

I looked into his eyes and held his hands in mine. ‘’You where so brave, little dude. How you helped Adie and me the night we got away! Everything will get better now!’’ I smiled, he looked at me with disbelief. ‘’But mom and dad are gone, we don’t have anyone!’’ He cried, ‘’you have us’’ a voice called out behind him. It was Billie Joe and Adie, they had walked out of the house. I guess they had watched us from the windows. Billie turned around and faced Adie and Billie Joe. ‘’What?’’ He asked shyly. Both Adie and Billie Joe bent down as I had done and looked at both of us. ‘’We’ve all ready sorted it all out. We’ve adopted you both. If it is okay for you gu-‘’ ‘’IT IS!’’ Billie jumped up and hugged Billie Joe. I stood up and hugged Adie, ‘’thank you so much’’ I cried to her. She smiled and stroke my hair. ‘’It will all be okay now’’ she smiled. That, however, was not completely true….