Battle Born

"I'M HOME!" I yelled as I walked through the door of my empty house, but to no surprise, heard no response back.

"Figured, same as usual, why should I have expected anything different?" I muttered to myself as I closed the door locking it behind me and put my bag down on the small table taking my shoes off by the door.

Not that I expect anything different, but it would be nice to come home to someone for once. Then again, I guess I understand since dad's a novelist who prefers to work away from home, mom's an actress and my favorite and only brother Jeremy is a famous drummer in a band. I don't like to bug any of them so I just keep to myself. Sure it gets lonely, really lonely, but I've sorta learned to live with it. I haven't seen mom in a few weeks, Jeremy's been gone on tour and so far he's the one to mostly try and make contact with me. He calls me everyday but I still miss the complete hell out of him. Dad doesn't come back home till really late at night and even then he doesn't want to talk. Just walks past my bedroom door and locks himself in his. Every morning when I wake up for school I get ready and then quietly go downstairs and make dad breakfast and coffee. When he comes downstairs I tell him good morning but get nothing in return, he doesn't even look at me. He just eats as fast as possible reading the paper and sipping his coffee and then leave for the rest of the day. I've tried asking for a ride to school at one point but was shooed away and told he didn't have time, so I either walk or catch the bus.

Mom is kind of the same way, except when she comes home it's to announce how well her role in a movie went, mostly to dad though. When she looks at me it's a mixture of disappointment and disgust. She usually avoids me too, like dad, unless she's had a bit to drink then she'll actually talk to me and tell me she loves me. I haven't gotten a hug from either of them since I was 13. They look up to my brother though, hell, I even look up to him. Just because they love him more doesn't mean I'm going to hate him. He's the only one in the family who loves me back and associates with me.

Hi, I'm Lilith Heyde, little sister of Jeremy Spencer Heyde who's drummer of Five Finger Death Punch. I'm 16, 5'5", love to drum and play guitar as well as piano. I sing, sometimes without knowing because it's out of habit ever since Ivan got me into doing it more. I was always too shy or nervous to do anything around people, I felt like eveytime someone looked at me that they were judging me in their mind. I never liked who I was or loved myself, I got pushed around at school and had absolutely no friends, nothing but a small piece of metal that sat in my dresser. Even got caught one time by mom when she walked in the bathroom and I was sitting on the floor gliding the blade across my skin as tears streamed down my face. Although she didn't seem too surprised, just angry and yelled at me for getting blood on her marble tiles telling me to clean it up.

I sighed internally thinking about about how I missed how my parents used to be and how I missed their love. I suppose it's not all bad, somehow my brother still loves me and I'm fine with that, but knowing that my parents don't care for me much anymore leaves me with an empty shell of a heart.

"I miss you jerbear.." I muttered as I walked up the stained-polished concrete stairs and going to my room. I left the door open usually because no one's around half the time anyways. That and because my husky Callisto likes to come and go out of my room. Lately he's been spending more time around me, I assumed it's because he sensed my loneliness and sadness.

I quickly rid myself of my school uniform and put on my bruce the shark pj's. I tied my hair up in a messy bun and grabbed my Brave bear cub pillow pet nuzzling my face into it as I laid down on my bed. http://www.polyvore.com/im_sleeping_go_away/set?id=104034329

I heard faint trudging steps downstairs immediately knowing who it was before they reached the stairs. I whistled and smiled to myself once I heard the steps hurriedly run up the stairs and down the hall to my room. I saw Callisto slide past my door once he tried to turn quickly and giggled.

"Oh cal" I muttered as he raced into my bedroom and into my bed struggling to get his head under my arm. I giggled again and rolled onto my side opening my arms for him to roll on his back. I wrapped my arms around him as he happily stuck his tongue out still panting from his running through the house. He calmed after a minute and rubbed his head against my face. I smiled giving him a kiss on his head and petting him gently until I started to fall asleep. I tiredly pulled the blanket over me and Cal just before we both drifted off to our own dreams.

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They call me sonic,
cause I am faster than sound I keep on jumping around

I awoke to the sound of my phones' ringtone going off. I groaned and groggily grabbed it from my nightstand checking who it was calling me at 'are you fucking kidding me? You're calling me at 8 in the morning on a Saturday?!' I thought as I saw the time and name of the dumbass that decided to wake me up so early.

Blue hedgehog sonic

"Lilith can't answer the phone right now due to the fact that she's trying to fucking sleep, leave a message after the damn beep" I said groggily annoyed, "beep" I said blankly hearing a chuckle in response.

"Lily pad get up, you're wasting daylight" Ivan said.

"Are you serious? It's only 8 in the morning, I'd still have all day if I just would have woke up at 12 like I planned, asshole" I said irritatingly and hung up. I heard my phone go off again once I started falling back asleep. I groaned and looked at my phone seeing a text from Ivan.

Ivan - Well that was rude! I'm hurt that you would hang up on me like that. Sad face :((( lol

I rolled my tired eyes and couldn't help the smile that grew on my face.

Me - Haha why? I do that to you all the time XD dumbass. WHY ARE YOU EVEN CALLING ME AT 8 IN THE DAMN MORNING ON THE WEEKEND WHEN YOU KNOW I ALREADY HAVE TO DURING THE WEEK FOR SCHOOL?!

I sent the message and got a reply within a minute.

Ivan - Hey hey, how about you stop being such an oscar the grouch and just get up? 8D

Me - Hey hey, how about, go fuck yourself? (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

I replied back trying to fall back asleep again but shot up in my bed when I heard a familiar laugh come from downstairs in the living room.

"No fucking way, Ivan?" I said under my breath staring at my open door frame. I heard a faint slap and a whisper and immediately got up running down the hall and descending the stairs. Once I got to the living room I froze and felt my breath hitch in my throat as I stared at the 5 familiar guys I've missed so much. My eyes started to tear up as my mouth hung open. My brother was finally home.

"Hey lil, I missed you" he said smiling. I smiled back at him and ran into his open arms hugging him for dear life.

"I missed you too jerbear" I said as a tear managed to slip down my cheek. I smiled when I felt him hug back stroking my hair and kiss the top of my head. He pulled away to wipe the tear and looked into my eyes.

"Is mom and dad still ignoring you, Lil?" He asked me sadly. I just nodded and smiled sadly.

"It's okay" I muttered.

"Don't worry, you won't be here for much longer Lily pad" ivan said walking up to me and hugging me tightly.

"What do you mean?" I asked looking at him confused.

"Well, since it pains us to be away from you and know how you're being treated here, you're coming with us for download festival then you're joining us for our American Capitalist tour right after" he said grinning widely. My eyes grew wide and I looked back over to Jeremy to see if this was just a joke.

"Is he serious? Cause if not then I'm ripping out his vocal cords" I said pointing at Ivan. The rest of the guys laughed and nodded.

"Yeah baby sis, he's serious. We thought it'd be a lot better for you" he said shrugging.

"Well technically it was your idea, we just agreed" jason chimed in chuckling as the others nodded. I smiled and hugged them all again.

"Then when our tour ends, how about you come live with me from now on?" Jeremy asked rubbing my shoulder causing me to nod frantically. He chuckled and nodded, "alright then, and don't worry, you can bring Callisto with you too. Since I know mom and dad don't exactly care for him much either because he's yours. He can even come on tour with us" he said causing me to jump in excitement.

"Thank you thank you thank you jerbear!" I said grabbing him in another tight hug.

"Anything for you lil. When we come back from tour, we'll come get the rest of your things and move you into my house" he said resting his head on mine.

"I'm so glad she's coming with us. It was so boring without her" ivan whined to Jeremy moving him so he could hug me again.

"Missed you by the way, ya jerk" he said playfully shoving me once he let go of me. I chuckled and punched his arm, "you too, dillhole." One by one the other guys hugged me all saying the same thing, how they missed me and my company. I wished my parents would do the same when they got home. I frowned thinking about it again and sighed internally to myself.

"Hey lil, why don't you go start packing your clothes and anything else you plan on taking on tour? We'll wait down here" Jeremy said smiling at me. I nodded and sadly smiled back before turning and going back up into my room.

Well, Lilith, looks like you get a start on a new life. A better one.

Notes

Hello there fellow readers. This is a new story I had created a few weeks ago but didn't know what to make of the first chapter. Unfortunately bvb won't show till the next chapter. I apologize. But I wanted to do something a little different. I love ffdp so I thought why not create a story that involves them? So here you go. I hope it's not too bad so far. I'm sorry if you don't like it :(
Also, I'm the writer for the stories Broken Lungs and Who Will Tell The Story Of Your Life, so if you haven't read those yet, it would mean a lot to me if you checked them out, or even just one of them. Thanks! :)
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