My Garage Band King
Chapter 5
By: Punk Princess
Paul’s Pov
I can’t believe it! Molly was going to kiss me! This is want I have wanted for years now, but the damn phone rang. Joel said Benji is in the hospital, I wonder for what though… I didn’t beat him to badly, well not enough for the hospital. The piece a shit got what he deserved though.
After I hung up the phone, I tell Molly what’s going on and we make our way to the hospital. Neither of us say anything the ride there or once we get there either. We run into the waiting run and see distraught and frightened Joel, Billy’s there but Kacy isn’t.
Molly walks over to Joel engulfs him in a huge hug when they break apart she asks, “What happened?”
Joel wipes away his tears and says “ I came home from the store and found Benji on the floor in the kitchen with a bottle of vodka and my allergy medicine next to him,” he pauses to wipe his eyes and steady his breathing, “ …. he also looked like he took a pretty bad beating.”
As he finishes I feel a wave of guilt come a crossed me. “ Joel .. umm… I was the one that beat him up.” I say.
“ What? Why?” Joel questions frantically.
I go into detail of the two pervious days, when I finish I look at Joel and he is clinging to Molly saying, “ I’m so sorry… I ‘m sorry!” She tells him its all right nothing happened and it’s not his fault.
After another two agonizing more hours finally a doctor came out to tell us what happened. “ Which one of you is Joel Madden?” The doctor asks.
Joel jumps up from his seat and almost screamed “ That’s me, what happened to my brother? Is he all right?”
“Yes, Benjamin is fine now, it was touch and go there for a while.” He paused before saying “ However we found something in Benjamin’s blood stream, I believe it was something a long the lines of heroin or cocaine.
Which one of you was the last one to see him?”
I look over at Molly as she says, “ Paul and myself were.”
He looks at her and asks “ Was one of you responsible for the beating?”
I say “ Yes I was, but it was only in defense for Molly he was trying to rape her!” I exclaim.
“ There’s no way, if he did he had no control over his brain would have any control over his mind! Benjamin had a very large amount of the substance in him.”
I think we all breathed a sigh of relief when he said that. One for Benji being ok, and two knowing that he had no control over his actions. That was no excuse for what he did, but now we know he wasn’t purposely trying to rape Molly.
The doctor looks at us and says, “ You may see him now.” We all file in to see Benji, known of us knowing what to expect.
Molly’s Pov
After the doctor says we can go in we all just kind of stand there, for once no one is being the leader… I guess Benji always was the leader of the band even though he just said“ self proclaimed”. I look at Joel and he looks at me and we both decide to go in together. When we walk in, I immediately want to run back out. The sight before we is terrifying, it makes me want to cry, scream and puke all at the same time. Benji is laying the hospital bed with wires and tubes everywhere.
When he hears the door open he looks over at us, I can see the pain and fear in his eyes. We all just short of stand there, no one can really find a way to lighten the fucked up mood we’re in. Joel walks over and he and Benji talk and soon they are both crying and hugging. One buy on the boys go over and talk to Benji, when it is my turn I don’t know what to do. I think all the guys catch that and all take that as their queue to exit.
Benji and I just stare at one another for a while until finally I walk over to the side of his bed, I take a seat in the crappy white plastic chair and say “ Hey Benj.”
“ Hey Molly…. Now before you tell me what an ass twig I am and how horrible a person I am.”
“I just want to say I am sorry! I never meant for that happen, I have just wanted it to happen for such a long time and with the drugs I just lost control.”
“I know what I did was wrong and I can’t just blame it on the drugs but can you ever forgive me?”
When he finished he looked me right in the eyes. Both of our eyes were red and bloodshot with tears in them waiting to be shed.
I pause and think before I say “ Benji…. You really freaked me out, you became like this different person.”
“I can forgive you but it will take time because I will need to regain my trust in you.” I say sadly.
“What were you doing taking drugs anyways?” I say when I suddenly remember the cause for all this shit.
Benji lowers his head and shame and says, “ I was unhappy.. I knew I shouldn’t be because of all the great stuff that has happened to Good Charlotte and me and that would make me more and more depressed.”
He stopped and looked up at me and I nodded to tell him to go on.
“ So a friend of mine who was a dealer sold them to me.” “ I need help Molly.” He said while he started to cry.
“ Me and the guys will help you and you will get the help you need.” I say.
I stay there for another half an hour until visiting hours are over. I can’t believe how well we handled this! I mean Benji did short of try to rape me a couple of hours ago. I shrug, sometimes things are weird like that.