"I love you, Adrienne..." "I love you too, Mike"

The beginning

“I love you Adrienne”
“I love you too, Mike”
“What about Billie?"
"I don't care about him as long as I've got you"
Their lips met. Mike's tongue was begging for entrance into Adie's mouth. She let him in.
The kiss was passionate, the atmosphere was perfect, nobody was home...

***

A sweaty Mike was constantly turning around and around in his bed. He suddenly woke up, sitting up with a jump.
"Whoa... " he murmured.
He looked at his alarm clock. 07.57. Damn. If only he could've have slept 33 more minutes, till the alarm clock was off.
He laid back down and thought...

From the first moment he saw her... she was perfect, beautiful, very nice and punk.

-Flash back - Mike's POV-

"So you're the band that played yesterday?"
"Yeah... we... erm... " I tried to say, but Billie cut in "Yes, we are." He stretched out his hand "Nice to meet you, my name is Billie Joe."
The girl shook Billie's hand, while Billie continued. "What's your name?" he asked.
"Oh, right. My name's Adrienne. Adrienne Nesser." She said shaking my hand and Tre's.
"Nice to meet you, Adrienne Adrienne Nesser." Tre said.
She laughed. Wow, she have a beautiful smile, I thought. She looked at me. Oh my God, she's looking at me.
"And you?"
"Oh, my name is Mike."
Ok Mike, relax now, don't be silly, don't blush! You're not in love with her!

Half an hour later we were still talking, while walking home. We had lots of things in common.
The first house we arrived at was Tre's.
"Bye Adrienne, see you around". He said, then he waved from his window.
"See you Tre" was her answer.
Now there was Billie's house, right around the corner.
When we got there I saw Billie doing something I didn't believe him capable of. He kissed Adie's hand, then her cheek. I felt anger rise inside of me. How dare he?
No, wait, Mike, don't hit him! She's not your girlfriend, and he's your best mate.
I understood just then that I was in love with her. Love at first sight.
While we were walking to my house, she brought up that argument.
"You guys are very nice! Tre's such a clown, he made me laugh. And Billie... " I was waiting to hear what she had to say about him. "Billie's cute. He's been sweet before."
"Oh, well," my heart was pounding in my chest. I felt jealous, envious, angry, and sad. All together.
"He's not usually sweet." I told her.
It started raining. Soon we were soaked, so we went under a big tree, at least we could wait till it ended.
I had my hair sticked to my forehead, and Adrienne was laughing at it.
"What's funny?" I asked.
"You know, Mike, you're cute with you hair like that."
I blushed. Did she noticed? I didn't know, and I didn't care.
"Jeez, thanks" I said smiling, as she ran a hand through my hair, messing them up.
"Now, you're ok."
There was a moment of silence, before I spoke. "You know, you're very nice too."
She stared up at me, smiling, then she ran away under the rain, yelling "Catch me, if you can!"
I ran after her, till I reached her. Now we were completely wet, rain falling on us, but we didn't really care. We were standing now alone, under the rain, and she was pressed between a wall and me. We stared at each other for what seemed like ages, then she suddenly, but sweetly, kissed me lightly on the lips.
Wow.
I looked at her, she smiled at me, then she tried to run away again. But I hold her arm, so she was still against the wall. She softly smiled at me, and I leaned in for more.
Our lips touched again. They were locked, her upper lip rubbing softly my lower lip. I tried to deep the kiss a little bit, and she wasn't complaining at all. Slowly my tongue was touching lightly her lips, until she let me in. When our tongues finally touched I was in heaven. She was a damn good kisser.
A few minutes later, our tongues were wrestling. I ran my hands through her wet hair, and she was hugging me tight. Each kissed became more and more passionate.
Eventually, after about half an hour of making out, we headed home.

-End of flash back and Mike's POV-

BEEP BEEP

Mike snapped out of his thoughts. 8.30, time to get up. He looked at the calendar on the wall. 2nd July 2006. Great, he told to himself, today's their anniversary.
He walked slowly towards the kitchen, thinking. He made himself some coffee and turned the television on. He switched through many channels, but nothing was on. He stopped to MTV, where they were showing 2 photographs of a married couple.
The titles read: "Billie Joe and Adrienne. 2nd July 1994 - 2nd July 2006. Twelve years of love."
I didn't know MTV would have wanted to show something like this, Mike thought.
He took a deep sigh, and forced himself to get up and get dressed.
In the shower he was resting his head against the wall, letting the water fall on him, and hoping it would take away all of his problems.
After half an hour he was ready to go out. It was 9.30 and he had to take care of Joey and Jake while Billie and Adie went out to celebrate.
He got in the car and watched the empty seat next to him. He remembered...

- FLASH BACK - MIKE'S P.O.V. -

Tre was quite drunk that night. We went out of the pub, heading home, when Tre passed out in the middle of the street. Billie and I took him, while Adie and Jessica were walking behind us. (Jessica was Tre's girlfriend). Almost five months have passed since we met Adie. She was our best friend. Well, maybe a little more than friend.

I knew Billie loved her and he wanted to ask her out. Billie told me everything about Adie and him when we were alone, I mean, without Tre around.
The week before that night at the pub I nearly caught them kissing. Well, I walked in and saw them getting closer, but they didn't kiss. When Billie told me how he really felt about her I was listening to him carefully. He had never been so serious before. But yet, he didn't have a clue that Adie and I maked out about 6 or 7 times since when we met, and it has been five months...
When I thought about that, I always wondered why she has never told me "I love you." Maybe she was just attracted physically. That would have been bad, because I loved her really much, but I've never been able to tell her. The words didn't seem to come out.

I decided that night to tell her. Billie was driving Tre and Jess at home, while I was driving Adie at home. We were alone. We got in the car and stared at each other.
Then we said in unison, "I've got to tell you something."
Then together again, "Ok, you go first."

We looked at each other and busted out laughing. Then she started first.
"You know, Mike, I think I like Billie...". Oh no, I thought.
"You... what?"
"Yeah, well... he's sweet, handsome, kind," she was saying, looking out of the window, "He's a great boy."
I couldn't believe it.
"But you didn't even kiss." I said.
"Who told you that?", she snapped.
"Oh... Billie did."
"I see."
There was a short silence, broken by her warm voice again. "So, what did you have to tell me?" Oh, I couldn't tell her now, it's not fair. "So?" she asked again.
"Erm... well... I..."
"You?"

Oh, fuck everyone, I thought, I needed to tell her everything, I needed her to know. I brusted out telling her, without stopping, not even breathing:
"Adrienne, the first time we met I immediately liked you, the first time we kissed, I understood that I didn't like you. I loved you. And I loved you eversince. Every time Billie tells me about you two, it tears me apart, 'cause I love you Adrienne Nesser."

There followed an anwkard silence. She was looking at her knees. Oh my God, what have I done, I've ruined everything, I thought.
Then she looked up at me, smiling. "You can't imagine how much time I waited for one of you two to tell me this. You see, Mike, I love both of you, exactly the same way." I couldn't help but smile, but inside I was a bit upset, 'cause she loved both of us.

She stroke with her fingers my hand, going up to the arm, then shoulder and neck. She grabbed me by the shirt and pulled me closer. Our faces were a couple of inches from each other's.
"I love you, Mike Dirnt." she said in her sexy voice.
I couldn't help but kiss her. A slow, full, passionate kiss. I ran my hands through her hair, she was pressed against me, her hands on my chest.
She looked at me, raising an eyebrow.
"Shouldn't we go home, first?" I asked her.
She shook her head and moved down to kiss my chest, and unbutton my shirt.
Then, while looking at me, she undid my belt and you can imagine what came next.
Weird, isn't it? Our first time was in the front seat of my car.
After we finished we drove home. While talking we decided not to tell Billie a single thing.

- END OF FLASH BACK AND MIKE'S P.O.V. -