In Joy and Sorrow Chapter 14

Suddenly, there was a knock on Castle Bam's door.

"Come in!" Bam yelled, lifting his head up. The door opened and Jimmy Pop stepped in. Bam sighed and put his head back down. Sami looked up.

"Hey..." Jimmy said, in a quiet voice.
"Hey." Bam replied, not looking up. Sami slid off Bam and went into the other room where Dico was.

"Jimmy's here?" Dico asked. Sami just nodded and picked up a grape and ate it.

"So..." Jimmy started, trying to make conversation.
"What?" Bam asked, with frustration in his voice. Jimmy and Bam sighed at the same time.
"Does Sami know?" Jimmy asked.
"Yeah..." Bam held back his tears and anger towards Jimmy.
"Listen, Bam...I know this is hard for you but-." Jimmy was cut off by Bam.
"Why do you have to take her away from me! She was the only thing making me happy! Please don't take her away..." Tears started falling down Bam's face. Jimmy sat down on the couch that Bam was on.
"Please don't cry, Bam." he said. Bam looked up at him and sighed.
"She's so important to me"
"I understand that...but she's my daughter"
"And she would be my daughter if you hadn't asked me to help with this fucking test"
"What"
"I was gonna adopt her. I asked her one night and she said yes"
"Oh...I didn't know." Bam looked away.
"Of course you didn't know." Pop sighed heavily, in anger, mostly.
"I thought you were over that Bam..." he said.
"Over it? You've got to be kidding me, Jimmy. You don't just get over relationships like the one we had"
"I did"
"Bullshit"
"It's true"
"You're lying. I can tell"
"I'm not fucking lying!" Jimmy's voice rose and so did Bam's.
"YES YOU ARE"
"NO I'M NOT"
"YOU ARE A LIAR! AND YOU ALWAYS WILL BE!" Sami looked up at the celing of the Pirate Bar, hearing Bam and her father yell. Dico's jaw dropped.

"What?" Sami asked, turning to face Dico. His mouth closed long enough to answer her.
"Nothing...I just can't belive they're fighting about this again"
"About what"
"Nothing, Sami"
Sami rolled her eyes. "Fine."

Jimmy's eyes started to fill up with tears, hearing what Bam said. He stood up and stormed out of the house, slamming the door behind him. Bam stood up and ran after him.

"Jimmy...wait!" Jimmy stopped and turned around.
"What?" he replied, angrily.
"I'm sorry...I didn't mean it"
"Yeah you did. Why would you say anything that you wouldn't mean?" Bam hated the sarcasam in Jimmy's voice at the end of his statement.

Jimmy started to walk away again.

"Sure. Just run away from me again. JUST FUCKING LEAVE AGAIN!" Bam spun around and walked quickly to the house.
"No! Bam!" Jimmy ran towards the house but it was too late. Bam shut the door in his face.

"Come on, buttwipe! Tell me what's going on!" Sami said to Dico. He laughed slightly.
"You don't want to know what's going on. Belive me." was his reply.
"Yes I do! Come onnnnnnnn!" Sami tugged at his shirtsleeve.
"Maybe later...when they both calm down"
"Good."

Jimmy slid down the door on his back and sat down on the driveway, starting to cry. Bam looked out the window at Jimmy and sighed. He hated seeing him like this. He slowly opened the other door and stepped out after a few minutes of watching him be miserable.

"Jimmy..." Bam said, softly.
"What"
"I'm sorry..." Bam sat down next to his ex. Jimmy turned to look at him. Within a few seconds of looking at each other, Jimmy was in Bam's arms.

"What happened to us? Things were going so well..." Jimmy said, burying his face into Bam's chest. Bam was silent once he asked that question. A few minutes later, he answered it.
"I don't know what happened..." He reviewed the last months of his relationship with him in his head.

flashback

"Don't ever leave me." Bam said, cuddling close to Jimmy in bed.
"I won't. I promise." Jimmy replied, softly, kissing him on his head. Bam pulled the covers up to his shoulders and rested his head on Jimmy's chest.

He was very much in love. Jimmy was too.

They had just gotten back together after a bad breakup. They hated being away from each other. It gave them too much heartache.

"I love you, Bay"
"I love you too, Jimmy." The two of them both fell asleep, Bam in Jimmy's arms.

The next few days were some of the best days in their relationship. Nice mornings, waking up in each others arms. Perfect days, no fighting. Lovely nights, sleeping in the same bed instead of one on the couch or in a hotel room.

Then the day came, when their relationship was over for good.

"Come on, Bay. Let's go." Bam said to Jimmy. Jimmy picked up his keys and walked out of the door with Bam. They were meeting the rest of the Bloodhound Gang at Duffers.

The two of them got into the car and drove off to the bar. Jimmy and Bam walked in and the first sight they saw was Evil Jared punching the shit out of some random BHG fan that was there.

"Hey, guys. What's up?" Jimmy asked the rest of the Bloodhound Gang who were all obviously hammered. None of the band members gave an answer to that question, being as drunk as they were. Bam immediately got a beer for himself and drank it all in a record time. While Jimmy was on his third beer, Bam had moved on to his seventh.

"Bam, you could slow down, you know." Jimmy said, starting to get a little irritated by his boyfriend's drinking that night. "Naaaaah...why should I? Enjoy the night while it's still young! WOOOOOO!" The drunk Bam replied, causing the two non-passed out BHG members to laugh.
"God, Bam..you're really drunk and I hate it"
"I don't care what you hate, like, or what you ate for breakfast this morning. Lemme drink." Jimmy glared at Bam and snatched his beer away from him. Bam growled and grabbed it back, finishing it off. "What the fuck"
"Bam! How would you like it if I got up and did shots all night"
"I don't care. Do 50 shots tonight. I dare ya." Jimmy sighed heavily in anger, rolled his eyes, and went over to the bar. He started doing shots with the other people at the bar doing shots.

About half an hour later, Jimmy was finished with his shots and stumbling around the bar. He sat down next to a girl at the bar and started flirting with her.

"Hey, babe. What's up?" he slurred.
"Nothing much." she replied, smiling a flirty smile.
"Wanna make out?" he asked. She nodded. They started to make out right there at the bar. Bam was sitting at the booth, taking a sip of his eighth beer. He looked over at the bar.

"What the fuck am I seeing?" he mumbled to himself, getting up angrily and storming over to them. He pulled the girl off of Jimmy. "What the hell"
Jimmy looked up at Bam.
"What"
"What the fuck do you mean, "what?"? You know what you were just doing"
"What was I doing?" Jimmy asked, in a somewhat sarcastic voice. Bam almost jumped on his boyfriend, wanting to beat him up. But instead, he just talked to him.

"You were making out with someone else other than me." Bam replied in a somewhat calm voice.
"Bullshit. No I wasn't." Jimmy slurred.
"Fucking yes you were! You were about to fuck that chick on the bar top"
"Nuh-uh"
"Jimmy, let's go home. Please...I don't want to make a scene here." Bam took Jimmy's arm and started to drag him out of the door.
"Lemme go"
"No. You're coming home with me." The sobering up Bam tightened his grip on Jimmy's arm and took him out of the bar and threw him (not literally) into the car. He got into the drivers seat and started up the car. He locked the doors just in case Jimmy would try to open it while they were on the road.

About 10 minutes later, they were home. Bam and Jimmy walked inside and Jimmy started yelling at him.

"Why'd you have to take me out of there? It's better than just sitting around here with you and being bored all day." he said.
"I took you away because I hate seeing you like a fucking drunken idiot, cheating on me with some random girl." Bam retorted.
"She was a better kisser than you"
"What the fucK? You're like changing the subject so bad"
"Well she was"
"Whatr the fuck? I would've thought you would've been too drunk to notice"
"Fuck you, Bam. You're such a dick. I HATE YOU"
"I hate you too, Jimmy." Jimmy glared at him for a minute and started to turn around and walk into their room. Bam heard Jimmy get his backpack down from the closet shelf. He realized then, that he was packing. "Yeah, just go pack. I don't care. I can live without you. Go on, leave."

A few minutes later, Jimmy came out of the room with tears of anger slowly running down his face.

"I'm leaving. I can't stand living in this house. I can't stand you." he said, through gritted teeth.
"Fine then. Leave. Bye." Jimmy took one look at Bam and punched him, hard on the arm, causing him to gasp in pain. He stormed out of the door and slammed it shut. Bam stood there in silence, listening to the sound of Jimmy's car start up and pull out of the driveway.

Bam walked slowly into his room and lied down onto his bed. He missed Jimmy already. He saw the empty space on his bed and saw how cold and lonely looking it was. He sighed and cried himself to sleep.
end of flashback