You never realize how much someone means to you until they're gone. Carolyn never knew that until now. Sure, her mother had died when she was younger but she was too little to understand that. She didn't know what any of it meant. Now that Andy was gone, she was a complete mess.

Before that day, Carolyn had never cried. Not when she was born, not when she was a little kid, not when the kids at school called her names, not even when she cut. No longer having Andy with her, but an immense emotional burden on her. She didn't feel like doing anything or going anywhere.

Part of her didn't understand how he could just leave her so quickly like that. But then she thought she was being selfish.

"Think about all his other fans." She told herself. "They missed him for all those months just as much as you miss him now."

She knew he wasn't going to come back but that she still had hope. He would wait for him to return to her every day. She would sit at the window for hours on end, watching cars pass and pray that one of them was going to turn into her driveway an bring Andy back to her. None of them ever did.

She began to realize what that odd feeling she had never felt before was. It was love. She had finally learned to love someone. She learned to love Andy.

Unsure of what to do, her father just let her be. She was already out of school but he didn't force her to go to dance or even leave her room. He would bring food up to her every so often, give a weak smile, and leave.

"What am I supposed to do?" He would sit at his kitchen counter, looking up to the heavens and ask his dead wife. "What would you do, dear? Let her sit there in her room and cry all day and all night? I don't think that's very healthy for her. I just wish there was something I could do..."

He waited for the next few days and hoped his answer would come. He went to the nearest Hot Topic to buy things for his daughter. He thought maybe new t-shirts or a new CD might cheer her up.

He looked around and spotted a t-shirt with a familiar face on it. He recognized the boy as the one Carolyn had spent so much time with. Suddenly, everything clicked. The boy on the t-shirt was the boy Carolyn had become such good friends with. The t-shirt was a Black Veil Brides t-shirt. Black Veil Brides was Carolyn's favorite band. This was bound to cheer her up, he thought.

He brought the shirt up to the heavily tattooed guy with many piercings and neon blue hair standing behind the counter. The guy scanned the tag and glanced at the shirt before folding it up and putting it in a bag.

"That'll be 22.50" He said. As Carolyn's father rummaged through his wallet, looking for a twenty, the guy continued. "You know, they're on tour right now. They'll actually be in Lowell within the next couple weeks."

The father's head shot up and all his attention was focused on the guy in front of him. "Where can I buy tickets?" He asked immediately.

"Here, I can bring the website up now and you can pay for them right here if you want." The guy said. "I'll can put your address in and have them sent to your house."

"You, son, are a miracle." The father replied. He looked up at the ceiling and smiled. This was his wife giving him that answer he had been waiting for.

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