Chapter three, Rain Armstrong, same day,

Cris is now on the floor, and I haven’t got a clue what to do. He did mention not eating for weeks. James leans down, and picks up Cris.
“I was gonna get him some food, but he looks to be dead. Dude, can you check if he has a pulse? I’m going to call 911 to get them over here to take care of him….” he drags the word him, and nearly drops Cris.
“Yeah, I can…” I check Cris’ pulse. Oh fuck….
I hear James talking to someone on the phone. I look up from Cris.
“He’s dead….” I broke the news to James.
James looks devastated… Like he’s about to cry. 
“Ambulance is coming soon….” James drops down onto the floor, crying.
I want to go comfort him, but instead I grab Cris’ phone, and check his contacts list. I hover above the contact, Crush 💕 (I haven’t talked to him in years and I feel like my crush on him is going). I press call.
“Hello? Cris?” someone picks up.
“Hey… This isn’t Cris. I’m a friend of his…. Do you mind telling me who you are? You sound familiar. Too familiar…”
“I’m Billie Joe Arm- I mean Having Fun,” he replies.
“Wait a sec. Are you my ex-boyfriend and best friend from Middle School to High School?” I ask.
“Woah, are you Rain? The guy that has the same last name as me?”  Billie asks.
“Yeah…. AND YOU ARE BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG???” I get really excited.
Back when in High school, we used to date, and planned our wedding. Then he met Cris, and he really wanted to go on a date with this guy, so he lied about his full name. I didn’t think this made any sense. I then met James shortly after he met Cris, and so we broke up, and now I don’t know what he is doing in life.
“Hmmm. Last time I checked, yeah,” he replies.
“Holy fucking shit! How’s life man?”
“Shitty. I mean, Green Day is planning on releasing an album on the 14th of October, I’m sure you heard about it,” he pauses for a second. I nod my head, like he can see me. “Cris and I talked for a bit… But then he told me about how he got abandoned when he was 12, and then we sorta haven’t talked since then…. I miss him loads, and you too. I haven’t gotten a boyfriend or girlfriend ever since we broke up….”
I hear the sounds of sirens. “I see…. Well, ambulance is coming here, at Timber Mal-”
“You still live in Oakland? I do too! But what happened?” he interrupts.
“Cris passed out from starvation, and I checked his pulse and shit, and it looked like he had died…..”
My words hung in the air for about five minutes. After Billie started crying, the ambulance showed up, and took Cris away. They told James and I what the hospital name was where they were taking him so we could visit him.
Billie and I hadn’t ended the call yet, and I could hear him sobbing into the phone.
“Hey man, we’re at Highland Hospital, if you want to come over….” I spoke.
Billie sniffled before replying with, “Yeah, I’m coming over….”
“Kay bud, do you want to keep on the call while you drive over or…”
“I could use the company. Sure, I guess…” Billie sniffled.
I hear him getting up. I hear the sound of his phone falling.
“Ahh, shit. My legs. No, just stop it. I can’t get all numb and shit just because a friend o’mine died. Get the fuck up…. Well, it’s not confirmed if he died or not…..” Billie starts swearing as he tries to get up, I’m assuming.
“Wait there man! I’m coming to get you! I clearly can’t drive if your legs are numb!” I yell.
“Uh, ok I guess. I’ll just lay here numb then..”
I take Cris’ phone off of my ear.
“James, I’m gonna go grab Billie and bring him over here! His legs are too numb to even let him stand up,” I yell to James.
“Ok. See you soon babe! I love you!” he yells.
I ran out to my car, still in the call with Billie.

One of my favourite chapters of this book (that and the next one)