The next morning, I wake up to Dahvie trying to get me out of bed, so I sigh, then get up, and walk past him into the bathroom. I take a quick shower, then get dressed, and do my hair and makeup. I look at myself in the mirror and think that there’s really no point in hiding now, so I shrug as I walk out into my bedroom again, and grab my purse and phone, then head down stairs.
Jayy calls me into the kitchen, and when I get there, he tells me to sit at the counter, and then places a plate in front of me. I look at what he’s made, and arch an eyebrow when I see my breakfast smiling up at me. He’s somehow made it look like Dahvie with the pancake as the head, whipped cream and cherries for the eyes, the nose is made out of half a strawberry, as is the fringe, and then there’s bacon for the mouth. It’s almost . . . creepy.
I see him smile at my reaction to the breakfast, then roll my eyes, and begin taking tiny bites of the pancake. I eat slowly, and this is way too much food for me as it is. I eat about half of the breakfast, then I can’t eat anymore, so I take care of it, then wash my plate, and set it in the dishwasher.
I head into the living room to find Dahvie, and he asked, “You ready for some shopping?”
I shrug, but don’t argue. Arguing with Jayy or Dahvie isn’t really a smart idea, and as I learned last night, it’s not very wise to try to hide shit from them either. Jayy grabs the car keys and his phone and wallet, then we head out to the car. I get in the back seat, and Dahvie and Jayy get in the front.
When we get to the mall, it’s huge. Scary huge. They get out, and Jayy opens my door. I slowly get out of the car, and they walk with me into the mall. Most people would be thrilled to have this opportunity. Me? I just want to crawl under a rock, and stay there.
Once in the cool mall, Dahvie asked, “So where to first?”
I shrug, as they look at me expectantly, then Jayy sighs, and says, “How about Hot Topic? Get her some new stuff. Plus, we said we’d meet the guys there anyway.”
Guys? What guys? I wonder, as I watch the two of them.
Dahvie smiles and nods, then grabs my hand and drags me to Hot Topic. Once in the store, he drags me over to the clothing, and asked what bands I like. I tell him my top 10, and he sets to work. He then stops and asked my size, and I tell him XS. He looks at me with wide eyes, and then says, “That’s too skinny girly.”
“He’s right. We need to get a little more meat on them bones,” I hear from behind me, and when I turn I see all the guys of Black Veil Brides, and then Danny and Ben of Asking Alexandria. Seriously? Why do they have to be here?
I mean, I’m not complaining, I just really don’t understand why they’re all here.
I clear my head, shrug, and say, “It’s alright.”
Out of the corner of my vision, I see Dahvie shakes his head as he starts to work on finding some new shirts for me. After he’s grabbed nearly one of every band shirt I named off, he drags me to the fitting room, and tells me to try the shirts on, while he looks for pants to go with them. I groan, then set to work, until I hear a knock on the door, and when I open it, Dahvie shoves an armful of skinny jeans at me.
I nod, then close the door again, and set to work. At one point Jayy asked me to model the outfits, and I reluctantly do so. They tell me their opinions, then I head inside to change into the next. This continues for almost an hour.
After we finish with all the clothes, they take me over to the accessories and jewelry, where they let me choose what I like. I get a few arm warmers, then some jewelry, Converse sneakers, and finally Dahvie grabs about 12 different hair dye colors.
When we’re done, they pay for everything, and we head out, to another store. It’s like Hot Topic, but it’s for your bedroom. This is perfect for me, I think as I walk though, and look at all the different bedspreads, paint colors, posters, and other bedroom accessories.
I run my fingers over a black and green, silk zebra curtain and instantly know what I want to do with my room.
“Those are nice. You like zebras too?” I hear Ashley ask from behind me. I nod, as I admire the beautiful cloth in between my fingers. He then asked, “You going to do your room in zebra prints?”
I nod again, then turn and smile up at him. He’s taller than I expected to tell you the truth, but hey, whatever works I guess. I take his hand in mine, and we walk through the store, talking about how we should go about doing my bedroom, and everything.
I then see a sign on the wall that is beautiful. It’s black with white lettering, and says, “Life’s a journey, and only you hold the map” on it. I smile at the saying, then another catches my eye, and it reads, “Life is a song. Love are the lyrics.”
Just then I hear Jayy ask, “So, find anything you like?”
When I turn I look at him, then shrug, and Ashley wraps an arm around my shoulders, and says, “She found a lot, but she’s too shy to admit it.”
“Well, show us!” Dahvie says, bouncing slightly.
I shoot Ashley a look, but walk over to the art work, and point to the two sayings, then a few posters of my favorite bands, and finally take them to the other items I liked a lot.
“So, green and black zebra,” Jayy says, looking at the bed spread, “That’s actually not a bad idea.”
“As far as furniture goes, what do you like?” Dahvie asked me. I sigh, then walk over to a chrome and black four-post bedroom set. Dahvie laughs, and says, “Now, that’s scary.”
I arch a confused eyebrow at him, and say, “Huh? What’s so scary about it?”
“You’re room’s going to end up looking like a female, teenage Ashley Purdy’s room,” Jayy tells me, laughing his ass off too, and Ashley and the others join in.
“Nope. Never had a four-post bed, dude,” Ashley counters through his fits of laughter.
“Umm . . . Okay?” I say, still slightly confused. I enjoy Black Veil Brides music, and know who the members are, but I don’t know anything about them, so yeah. Pretty lost, needless to say.
“You like chrome, right?” Andy asked me. I nod, and he says, “Its Ashley favorite color.”
“And zebra’s?” Jinxx asked, and again I nod, to get in return, “Favorite animal.”
“Stars?” CC asked, pointing to the stars I liked that were hanging on the wall. I nod, and he grabs Ashley’s necklace, and says, “He has tons of star necklaces, tattoo’s, and even some of those on his walls at home.”
“You’re a female, teenage Ashley Purdy!” Dahvie gasps out, as he finally falls to the floor in his fits of laughter.
I roll my eyes, then turn to the bed set again, and hear Jay ask, “What kind of canopy you want on it?”
“I’m thinking the same green as the zebra print stuff,” I answer, just about a whisper.
He nods, then walks over to the lady behind the desk. He talks to her, and she types a few things into the computer in front of her. Dahvie interrupts my field of vision and says, “Next, we’re going to hit the food court, and get some lunch, then mattress shopping.”
“But I have a perfectly good one at home,” I protest.
“But we want to make sure you have the perfect room. Oh, by the way, what kind of chairs would you like in there?” he asked.
I shrug and say, “Don’t know.”
“Well, you could go with bean bag, mushroom, butterfly-” Dahvie begins ranting about different styles of chairs, and I say, “Butterfly,” just to shut him up. I don’t really care about different styles of chair, or anything like that. It’s not really my thing.
“Alright, and color? Lime green? Black? Silver?” he asked.
“Why not one black and one green, with silver legs?” I counter.
“Excellent choice!” he shouts. Is he always this hyper? I kind of hope not.
“Well, let’s go add those to the list,” Danny says, walking over to Jayy.
After they finish ordering everything for my new room, we head to the food court, and split up to get what we want. I opt to follow Jayy to Subway, and get a 6 inch veggie sub. Once we’ve got our food, we head over to the tables, and I wonder how we’ll find the others, just as someone shouts, “We’re over here guys!”
When I look to my left, at a large table are all the guys, while Jake waves us over. When we get there, I see it’s not one large table, but 3 four-person tables smashed together, and I sit between Ashley and Andy, while Jayy sits across from me.
When I look over at Andy, I see he’s working on a new song. He notices me looking at it, and says, “I’m stuck.”
“May I?” I ask, holding my hand out for the notebook. He passes it to me, and I read what he has wrote.
“I ruled the world. With these hands I shook the heavens to the ground. I laid the Gods to rest. I held the key to the Kingdom, lion’s guarding castle walls. Hail the King of Death. Then I lost it all,” and then it trails off. Hmm . . .
“Can I write what I think should come next?” I ask him. He nods, then passes me the pen he was using, and I begin to write.
“Dead and broken. My back’s against the wall. Cut me open. I’m just trying to breathe, just trying to figure it out. Because I built these walls to watch them crumbling down. I said, then I lost it all, and who can save me now?”
I finish writing, then pass the pen and notebook back to Andy, and he reads it. I take a bite of my sub, while he reads, and watch as his eyes widen in shock, and he begins to smile. He looks at me, then says, “Katie, this is . . . This is amazing. Where’d you come up with this?”
I shrug, then tell him, “Don’t know. Just came to me, like all my other songs do.”
“So you write music of your own?” Ashley asked me.
I nod, and take another bite of my sub. We sit there talking and eating our food for a while, then head to a few more stores, and then home.

Notes

Outfit: http://www.polyvore.com/untitled_157/set?id=96290641