The Day Billie Joe Armstrong Died

Chapter 8 - Band War

I'm on fire Chapter 8 here ya go! :) 

I woke up soaked in sweat, nightmare… again. More like night terrors, I hate when that happens. I’ve had a lot of nightmares recently, probably caused by stress or something. Yes, I got that from Doctor Phil. My mom watches it all the freaking time. I gazed around my room, no sight of Billie. Good, ‘cause I look like a mess in the morning. I slowly got up, and froze. No sound, mom and dad are working. Thank God, sucks for them though.  Having to work in the holidays, however, I couldn’t hear my brother either. I couldn’t remember seeing him last night. Probably sleeping over at one of his friend’s house, popular prick.

I reached out for my iPod and looked at the time. 12 pm. No clouds, sunny birds singing. Perfect day to stay out side and play with your friends, if you had any friends.

I got dressed, brought my iPod and shuffled upstairs to the living room. Nobody here, yes. I love having the house for myself. I can play music as loud as I want and sing (terribly) as loud as I want.  I felt the pill case from last night in my pocket. Guess I put it back in my pocket, I should do some research on that those meds before I head over to Adie. Who’s probably still asleep.

I put on the radio as I started cooking some breakfast, ‘’Can we all just runaway?’’ Ah, The Killers. I sang along and scrambled some eggs. Which ended up tasting horrendous, I’m a terrible cook so that was no surprise. ‘’And that was The Killers with ‘’Runaway’’ ladies and gentle men! And here’s a new band that has just arrived at the pop punk scene! I hear they started out by doing covers by the famous band Green Day, who sadly lost their lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong. Their named In the Brightest Day, and here they are with their latest hit ‘’Paper Lanterns’’ I couldn’t believe what I heard, a new band how awesome is that! Wait a second... Paper Lanterns? That’s an old Green Day song! ‘’Do you feel like you have the time, to listen to me whine?’’ The song started. Seriously? Nope, that’s not a rip off by Green Day at all! I hate when other bands copy other more famous bands. I turned off the radio, threw the rest of the egg in the dumpster and went to get my computer. I need some more information about those pills…

The medicine was called ‘’Mortigi’’ I have no idea what that means, or what language that is but it didn’t sound good. It actually reminded me of the basilisk in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, but that was named Nagini or something, or maybe Nagini was the name of Voldemort’s snake… Yeah, of course it’s Voldemort’s snake! God, I need to focus.

It took quit awhile to get all the information to sink in. It was mad, the drug or poison was used to kill popes and lords in Rome for some hundred years ago. However, back then they used liquid Mortigi and not pills. I also read that the drug hadn’t been used for centuries. It was supposedly been banished or something, and illegal. Looks like someone wasn’t following the law.

I could feel my anger growing inside me, how could they. I printed out all the information I’ve found a long with the article I found the day after Billie Joe died. I gathered all my information on how we could take them down. I named it ‘’The Billie Joe Project’’ I suck at names…

However, I was still curious on how this could have a connection with the other deaths of famous singers.  I looked around and tried to think. I started walking around in the living room while trying to figure it out, if it was something to figure out.  I gazed out the window; the window was facing the park. The park was only about 50 feet away from our garden.  I could see a group of friends playing with a frisbee; I could also spot a speaker. ‘’Humph, probably bad music anyway…’’ I mumbled, trying to comfort myself. It didn’t work, I turned around and sat back down. ‘’AUGH FUCK!!’’ I yelled out of pain, I had managed to sit down right on the remote. I wanted to throw it across the room, but instead I turned on the telly and then threw it. I got anger issues, don’t judge me. Fuck, the news channel. But I’m too lazy to get the damn remote now. Wait a minute; the hospital was on the telly. ‘’You have got to be kidding me...’’ Me jaw dropped. Well, now I know why Billie Joe was so proud of himself. Want to know what he did to make that loud bang? You know the hospital had their name made out of metal hanging on their building? He made the fucking logo fall all the way down from outside the fifth floor.  ‘’Hah! You see?’’ Billie Joe had popped up beside me, and I didn’t actually jump. I laughed my ass off, ‘’YOU ARE FUCKING CRAZY!’’ I laughed hysterically. He started laughing, ‘’yeah, I KNOW!’’ He laughed back, he looked so proud of his work. My smile faded when I recognized the doctors outside the hospital, which now didn’t have a name, hah karma sucks. They didn’t look any different; they didn’t even try to smile. ‘’Do they always walk in packs?’’ Billie Joe joked, ‘’looks like it’’ They’ve made no effort to look normal, are they high? However, the good news is that they didn’t tell on us. They said they where working when they suddenly heard a big bang. He plays safe, he knows that if he told about us, we would walk straight up to the news reporters and show them the evidence. Even though the medicine and the files wasn’t exactly something we could charge them for, we have no proof that they used the drugs on Billie and it’s normal to have files about their patients. I switched off the telly, they made me sick. I wanted to show Billie what I’ve found on the meds. And so I did.

He looked shocked at me after I was done with my little presentation. I actually think he was on his way to cry, but he hid it. He put his head in his hands and sat down. ‘’I’m sorry Billie..’’ I tried. He waved away my apology with his hand, ‘’Not your fault, hun’’ I liked how he called me ‘’hun’’ It was silent, and I decided that I had to break it. I hate silent moments, I always feel so uncomfortable. ‘’I should go to Adrienne, she needs to know. And maybe she has gotten something out of the ‘Billie Joe Confidential’ ‘’ I said while packing my ‘’Billie Joe Project’’ in a bag. He looked at me and nodded.  ‘’It’s cute that you call this operation ‘The Billie Joe Project’’ he half smiled to me. I nodded with a smile. Maybe I’m not that bad at making up names after all.

It wasn’t a long walk over to Adie’s house. I didn’t need to knock twice; she ran straight to the door and opened. She greeted me with a big smile. The house looked beautiful, and big. ‘’Ehm, where are the boys?’’ I asked shyly while walking in. ‘’Oh, sorry I sent them to their granny’s. I didn’t want them to know about this’’ I can honestly say I was disappointed. I really wanted to meet them. She saw that, and switched the subject. ‘’What’s in the bag?’’ I looked down on my bag, it was a black little bag with the Guns N’ Roses logo on it. I gave her ‘’The Billie Joe Project’’ She read the title silently and smiled. She opened it. Instead of her reading it I told her everything.

‘’Wow, you’ve really done you homework!’’ She said proudly, but I heard some sadness. Of course, it stood black on white that they killed her love. I smiled to her and nodded. ‘’What about you? The Billie Joe Confidential’’ She walked into the kitchen, it was a huge. It was really modern, but still a bit vintage. I liked it. She saw my admiration, ‘’you like it?’’ I nodded with my jaw half-opened. I guess I looked quite stupid, she laughed at me. ‘’Want something to drink?’’ She had opened the refrigerator. ‘’No, I’m fine thank you’’ I replied. She closed it and gave me the file. It was lying on the kitchen sink. She has obviously been reading it the whole day. ‘’Okay, well it was very uncomfortable reading it. It was all the information on Billie Joe, and even Joey and Jake! And… me. It all looked like it was only information about us, but on the last page it was a receipt looking thing. It looked like it was an order by someone or a company named ‘’In The Brightest Day’’ Have you heard that name before?’’ She looked curiously. ‘’No.. It doesn’t ring a be- WAIT, there was a band on the radio this morning named that! They had made some covers of Green Day, and they made a song named ‘’Paper Lanterns’’ with the intro lyrics to ‘’Basket Case’’! It was a total rip off!’’ I almost yelled, I got a bit excited.  Her jaw dropped. She couldn’t figure out what to say, neither could I actually. Does this band really have something to with his death? And a receipt from them? What the hell is going on here?