The Day Billie Joe Armstrong Died

Chapter 34 - Dear God

So sorry for a late update..again! 

He nodded, still with his back facing me, and started to walk. It’s odd how he knows where everything is; I just walked along with it.

This was my last chance to make him help me come back to life, and I only had about an hour or so! How can I even manage that?

‘’Hey Cass?’’ I asked as I walked closer to him. ‘’Yes’’

‘’Well, I was wondering… you know, I’ve seen in movies that you could replace your soul with someone else’s. Y’know, kinda make someone else die in your place. Is that true?’’ I hesitated. He instantly stopped and faced me. ‘’In theory, yes. However, no one has ever done that. There aren’t many people who would kill someone so they could take their place in death. And when you’re a ghost, it isn’t easy to kill someone’’ he looked at me with his head tilted to the side. It looked like his eyes investigated me, saw through my soul. ‘’Soo… it works, is that what you say?’’ I continued. ‘’In theory, yes’’ he answered and started to walk again, and I walked after him trying my best to keep up with him.

‘’You should not do it’’ he spoke up as we walked. ‘’But what can I do then? I have to live! For my friends and family! I just know that something bad will happen!’’ I argued back, I noticed that my voice got higher as I spoke. He didn’t answer, he just avoided eye contact and walked faster.

‘’Cass… do you know something? Do you know what’s gonna happened to my friends?’’ I asked nervously, ‘’no…no, of course not’’ he answered untruthfully.

I ran up above him and made him stop. I stood right above him and looked him straight into his eyes, however he still didn’t look at me. He looked nervous. ‘’Cass, can you look me in the eye and tell me nothing is going to happened to them or my family?’’ I was honestly scared of what his answer might be.

He sighed and finally looked at me, ‘’no… I can’t’’ he said in a sore tone. I felt my heart race faster, ‘’tell me… who?’’ I continued regardless of my fear of the knowledge. I knew it was death he was talking about, one of my friends would die.

He looked nervously from left to right and played with his trench coat nervously. ‘’Castiel, tell me now’’ I said sincere.

‘’Your brother is the next one I’m sent to get’’ he said without looking at me. I felt a frog forming inside my throat. ‘’My..my bro-brother?’’ I hesitated questioning, hoping he was not telling the truth. He nodded and looked pitiful at me. I shook my head, ‘’no way. I’m getting out of this after-life-shit and back! Regardless whom I might need to kill!’’ I almost shouted as I started to run towards Billie Joe and Adie’s house. No way in hell, he’s getting my brother, I thought to myself as I kept running.

‘’Alex! Alex! Wait for me’’ I heard Cass shouting after me, he sounded agitated.

Suddenly he popped right up in front of me and stopped me. ‘’I am truly sorry, but it’s not my choice. It’s faith’’ he excused as he held me still. ‘’You can shove ‘faith’ up your ass!’’ I shouted. With a blink of an eye we suddenly stood outside Billie Joe’s house. He had managed to hold a tight grip on me, so that he could zap us here.

He let go of me as soon as we stood planted back on ground outside the house. My head felt dizzy, I tried my best not to trip over my own feet. I gazed up towards the sky, it was soon morning, the clock had passed 6 now already.

The house looked grey and depressing, like a constant storm cloud was hanging over it. Honestly, it looked like a haunted house. I started to slowly walk up towards the house. I noticed Cass wasn’t following. I stopped and sighed, ‘’I’m sorry Cass, I know it’s not your fault. I’m sorry I shouted, I’ll be right back’’ I said darkly as I continued to walk up to the house. He didn’t answer, that’s a bad sign! I thought to myself.