Drowse - First Season - Finished

Chapter 46 - The Treehouse / December 1974

POV Helena

After the show at the Rainbow Theater on November 21, I had to go back to New York to fulfill my Miss Universe agenda. The boys even made a few more appearances in other cities in England, until the first of December. As promised, I lent money to my friends to pay their debts. Even with touring really they are living in misery. This is unacceptable. Trident Studios has stolen money from the band. Rog still lived in a small rented apartment with Les, near the River Thames, on Kew Road in Richmond. Freddie and Mary lived in a rented apartment at 100 on Holland Road, Kensington W14, but the apartment was a cubicle, not even Freddie's grand piano, which served as a bedside he shared with Mary, outside the collection of things Of the Biba stores that Mary brought, could hide the moisture on the walls that were already covered by fungi. John was now about to marry Veronica, who is almost two months pregnant. John lived in a rented room in Parsons Green. And Bri lived in a small room in a boarding house in Earls Court and lived on fried fish and chips and had only a gas cooker with no access to running water except in the community bathroom down the hall. And to access the cubicle he lived in, he had to enter through the gate of the building, past the heating boiler room.

On December 6, on Friday, Rog called to me in disgust, saying that the boys and him went to Trident Studios to borrow money and they heard a giant not. And John had asked for a loan for Veronica to get the prenatal checkups and they also denied it. Rog said he lost his temper and destroyed one of Trident Studios' rooms.

"Rog, you should not have done that," she said worriedly. "They can sue you.

"We're going to sue Trident, Helena," Rog said annoyed. "We've already filed an attorney with EMI Studios.

POV Roger

After Helena returned to New York, the boys and I even made some more presentations through the cities of England, until the first of December. The boys and I are disgusted. And on the sixth of December, on Friday, we went to talk to the Sheffield brothers, owners of Trident, to borrow money for us.

I wanted to move to a better apartment, rent a better apartment, but, they denied me money. Freddie wanted a new syrup piano for the upcoming tours and they also denied money, Bri wanted to borrow money also to rent a new apartment and they also denied it. When it came to Deacy's turn, my friend said,

"I already want a down payment so I can pay prenatal exams for Veronica, my girlfriend, who is pregnant and I want a four-thousand-pound advance to rent a new apartment so I can live with my future wife and son.

"That's your problem, John. We do not have four thousand pounds for loan now. "I'm sorry," said one of the Sheffield brothers.

"How do you deny my friend's request?" Did you hear well? Veronica is pregnant and needs to get prenatal exams and they need a new apartment to live in. You do not accept my request, Freddie and Bri still accept, unwillingly, but to deny a request for Deacy is inadmissible, "he said irritably with revolt.

"Roger, no use, we will not lend to any of the four," said one of the Sheffield brothers.

"You who know and will repent." You are making money at the expense of the band, while we do not even see money in our account, but, no problem. We will activate a lawyer, break contact with the studio and we will not pay termination. You're hypocrites, motherfuckers, "he said in disgust.

At that moment I kicked the sofa in the Trident owners' office, kicked the wall, dropped everything by hand to the things on one of the tables, and dropped pictures from the walls.

Deacy and Bri held me, asking me to be calm.

- BITCH CHILDREN, UNBROKEN! - I yelled spitting to the ground - DIFFICULT THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE FOUR THOUSAND POUNDS TO BUY ALL NEW WHAT DESTROYS. BITCH SONS!