Beautiful Day

Chapter 24

Chapter 24

Mike's POV

          "I'm gonna do this shit on YouTube," he said as he started turning up the music. They were all chilling out in their living room and they had Mike's keyboard and Dave and Rob were playing videogames. Chester was talking with Brad about something. Joe was filming him. He turned on the music and started rapping.

          "It finally came time to do it and let it die. So we put the chips on the table and told them to let it ride."

          He nodded his head as Chester's voice reached his ears. He wasn't singing at the moment but in the song he was. And then he heard something else. He turned towards Joe and frowned.

          "What?"

          Joe shrugged and he turned towards Chester and Brad.

          "Hey you shut up! Shut up!" Chester yelled. Mike frowned but turned to Joe.

          "Hey turn that shit off! Turn that shit off!" he said as he went to where Chester was yelling and put his arm around him. "Take it easy, take it easy."

          Chester turned back at Brad and flipped him off but Mike pulled him away before turning back to the camera, "Turn that fucking camera off!"

          Everyone in the room was staring at him and Chester at the moment and he held Chester next to him. He didn't know what was going on. He wasn't sure if he wanted to. He felt Chester shaking in his arms. Something had happened. Something bad.

          "What happened? Chazzy you can tell me."

          "He s-said it'd make money. That's why. It'd make money," Chester said and Mike stared at him.

          "What? Ches, I don't understand."

          "The story. The s-story would m-make money," Chester whimpered and all of a sudden Mike knew what Chester was talking about. It'd been a while ago but he had remembered Dave and Rob yelling about it at the park. Mike looked at Dave who shot out of his seat on the floor and hurried over to them. He gently took Chester from Mike and held onto him.

          "Hey Chaz, your wrist hurting again? Come on, let's go get some ice and some snacks for the guys ok?" Dave said softly. He led their vocalist from the room. Mike didn't want Chester to be present for the shit that was about to go down. It would just make him afraid.

          "Well now we all know who was behind the reason Chester hates showing his face in public now," Mike said as he stalked towards Brad, "And this was going to help how?"

          "Look man, she offered the band seventy-five percent of the money made. That's good shit man."

          "He's our friend Brad! He's our best friend! How could you fucking do something like that to him? How can you live with yourself?!" Mike screamed as he shook Brad's shoulders.

          "I can because it's not a lie for publicity Mike. I'm not trying to make Chester into this terrible person. It was a true story that would eventually get out anyways."

          "He trusted all of us! He is here because he trusts us Brad! You can't just go and tell that to people! Do you know what he did? He stormed down to the company that morning and demanded that nothing else about him be published. He was so upset! What the fuck!?" Mike screamed before pushing Brad back. It was quiet. The rest of the band was quiet. Rob got up from the floor and took Mike's arm.