Chapter 9: 21 Guns – Letterbomb
Meanwhile at the police station Austin is being questioned
Officer: How long have you been associated with dealing drugs?
Austin: Two weeks
Officer: And you were aware about how dangerous that job is?
Austin: No I was just desperate for money
The officer takes note on what Austin is saying
Officer: How much money did you make from selling drugs?
Austin: One hundred thousand dollars roughly
Officer: I see, what happened back at the apartment?
Austin: My girlfriend was having sex with Jimmy and I kind of lost my mind
Officer: Why?
Austin: I don't know officer it really isn't like me to act this way
Officer: Uh huh, well Austin you seem like a nice young man so I'm only going to keep you here overnight and all day tomorrow. You'll be let out tomorrow evening
Austin: Really? Thank you sir
Officer: No problem, but take my advice kid drugs are dangerous so get off them while you can
Austin: I have no idea why I was taking them, I think this city has changed me
Officer: Then if you want another word of advice, leave here before you get to caught up in all of this
Austin: I suppose
Officer: Good man, do you need to make a phone call?
Austin thought about Ally and considered calling her, but then he thought about how she probably hated him as the arrest was all over the news
Austin: No
Officer: OK then, you may go to your cell
Austin was led to his cell, he was put inside and the door was locked. Austin sat down and began to think of how many people probably hated him for what he did, while thinking he heard talking from the cell next to him
St Jimmy: Hey Austin
Austin: What do you want?
St Jimmy: I'm sorry I got you into this mess, I didn't think any of this would happen
Austin: If you didn't have sex with my girlfriend none of this would have happened
St Jimmy: Look I'm sorry about that okay, I was high and I wasn't thinking straight
Austin: You know what Jimmy, right now you would just be better off dead
Jimmy stopped talking and sat in his cell, Austin did the same thing thinking through everything that was happening to him. Meanwhile at Trish's house Trish was sitting on her bed but not crying this time, she was staring at the bandage on her arm which was there due to her cutting herself. She kept telling herself she was over Dez but for some reason she kept doing it which was only making the cuts worse, she had to go to the hospital so many times now it's almost hard to believe she would keep doing it. Eventually she couldn't take it and she ripped off the bandage and went to find a razor, after searching through the house for a while she resorted to going to the storage shed to find something. After searching there she found a rusty razor in a box with other sharp objects, she thought about it for a second.
Trish: Am I really this desperate that I would use a rusty razor?
After thinking for a while she began crying just because of how she was seeing herself, she finally caved in and wrote a message on her arm with the razor. After she was done she looked at her arm and how horrible it looked, she went back to her room but felt a really strong pain in her arm that was stronger than usual. She passed out on her bed with her arm still bleeding, the next day her mother walked into her room to wake her up
Trish's Mom: Trish sweetie are you…OH MY GOD TRISH!
What she saw wasn't a pretty sight, her daughter looked terrible and her arm looked terrible as well. Her mother then called an ambulance and within a few minutes she was in hospital, one of the nurses stood outside her room looking at a clipboard when one of the doctor's came up to him.
Doctor: What's going on in here?
Nurse: Another self-harm patient, she cut herself with a rusty razor
Doctor: Geez, how's the arm looking?
Nurse: Not good at all, we're unsure what to do
Doctor: Well is the arm infected at all?
Nurse: From scans we've given the arm only parts of the arm seem to be infected, do you think the arm will have to be removed?
Doctor: Let's not think like that just yet, for all we know it's not as serious as we think
Nurse: Well her arm is being scanned once more to check the state of the infection so we won't know what to do until we get results
Doctor: And how long will that take?
Nurse: Up to two hours
Doctor: Alright then I'll need some info on this then, remind me what's the date today?
Nurse: September 10th 2014
Doctor: OK, what does the arm look like?
Nurse: Well it has multiple cuts in various places and a message written in the middle of it
Doctor: What does it say?
Nurse: It was hard to see but from what I was able to make out it said "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
Doctor: That sounds familiar, where could I have heard that before?
Nurse: Well sir it's a song by that punk rock band Green Day
Doctor: Oh yeah it was on that album I heard once, anyway keep an eye on the girl and I want results in two hours
Nurse: Yes sir
The nurse goes to get the results, meanwhile in New York Austin is sitting in his prison cell when a guard comes over and unlocks it
Officer: OK Austin it looks like you're free to go
Austin: Thank you so much, you can be sure that I've learnt my lesson
Officer: Yeah I'm sure, now get out of here
Austin didn't check on St Jimmy as he walked out of the prison, he walked back to his apartment wearing a hoodie with the hood up so that way he wouldn't be recognised very quickly even though nobody seemed to care. When Austin got back to his apartment he entered it and found a note on the kitchen counter, when he picked it up he saw that it was from Brittney
The Note: "Dear Austin – Yesterday was a really big eye opener for me because it was when I found out how messed up my life is, I'm a drug addict who teaches kids at an orphanage and that isn't a good look for me. So I'm leaving New York which means I'm leaving you, I'd ask you to come along but I can tell that you need help just as much as I need help. I mean let's face it you're not the Jesus of Suburbia so stop trying to be something you're not, anyway thanks for everything and I guess I'll see you later – Brittney (or Whatsername in case you forget which you might)"
Austin threw the note to the ground and lay on his couch wanting to curl into a ball and die, h regretted everything he had done since he arrived but knew there was no way of changing it
