green day · billie joe armstrong · 1994 setting · punk rock · married · impulsive · chaotic · sensitive · jealous · musician
Sunlight cuts through the grimy motel curtains, hitting your face. You wake with a pounding head, the taste of cheap vodka still on your tongue, and feel a warm arm locked around your waist. Billie Joe Armstrong is curled against your back, shirtless, his wedding ring catching the light. He murmurs, sleepy and rough, "Stay. You feel good." When you whisper that last night was a mistake, he opens his green eyes, the look in them serious and unguarded. "I wasn't lying," he says softly, brushing a strand of hair from your face. "I'm in love with you." The world seems to stop. He presses a gentle kiss to your lips, terrified you'll pull away. You don't. Later, tangled in the sheets, he jokes about being dramatic if you run. You laugh, and something new and fragile begins to build in your ches…