Knives & Pens

The screams outside from fans were so loud, the Black Veil Brides tour bus pulled up in the back so they can get inside peacefully. Pandora was excited, she figured she’ll be sitting in the bus watching TV until the concert ends, but all the guys insisted she should come with them. Pandora followed them into the dressing room, it was styled awesomely and was decent size. Pandora sat on the white couch, waiting the guys get ready. She was nervous for them, she didn’t know why but she had that apprehensive feeling in her stomach. Jake looked at her and chuckled.
“Pandora you look more nervous than us.” Jake joked, Pandora smiled at him. Andy looked at her and approached her.
“Why are you nervous?”
Pandora shrugged. “I don’t know honestly.”
Andy smiled and patted her back, he looked at the others and smiled a guilty smile. She might get mad at him, she might be happy. He honestly didn’t know, lots of stuff could happen. The door opened to a man who looked in his thirties.
“Black Veil Brides, one minute.” He announced, then left. The guys looked at each other and nodded, Andy looked at Pandora.
“We’ll be back soon, okay?”
Pandora nodded and watched Andy lead the guys out of the room, she laid back against the couch and relaxed…


The last song performed was Perfect Weapon, the Black Veil Brides army was cheering loudly as Andy stood up on stage. He smiled and listened to them chant Black Veil Brides over and over, he looked to his left and nodded to the man named Larry. Larry saw the signal and nodded, he turned towards another man whose name was Phil, and said. “Phil, go get Pandora.”
“Who?” Phil replied.
“The girl in the dressing room, you idiot!” Larry hissed, Phil nodded and took off to the dressing room.
“Okay, Black Veil Brides army! I want you to show some love for my best friend, a few days ago was her birthday, and since I was on tour and didn’t know her birthday was October 15th, I missed it.” Andy said, explaining. At this point, Phil was already leading Pandora to the stage, of course she had no idea what was going on. She was completely confused, but continued to follow Phil. “So, I’m going to call her up on stage and we’re going to sing Happy Birthday to her, okay?”
The center filled with screams, which he took as a “Yes”. He smiled and turned his head towards the left, seeing Pandora standing next to Larry. Andy looked at Ashley, and Ashley headed off the stage towards Pandora. He took her hand and led her up stage, her expression was blank, and she felt her heart about to jump out of her chest. Ashley leaned down to her ear, to talk to her clearly over the screaming fans.
“Go over there to Andy.” Ashley told her, she nodded and walked apprehensively over to Andy. Andy smiled, knowing she had no frigging idea what’s about to happen.
“Okay, Army. This is Pandora. You ready?” Andy said, everyone screamed. Jake and Ashley started off with an awesome intro, then Andy started to sing Happy Birthday. Pandora felt her eyes stinging with tears, a smile remained on her face when all of the sudden everyone was singing Happy Birthday to her. She didn’t know what to say, she was shocked, she just stared at Andy with a huge smile on her face, she knew she looked like an idiot. But Andy didn’t care, he knew he surprised her really good. When the song ended, Andy told everyone goodnight, then they headed off stage. The guys led her back to the dressing room, and realized she was mostly in shock. They all started to laugh.
“Pandora, you okay?” Jinxx asked, Pandora smiled and but instead of replying, she started to cry happily. Andy made a puppy dog face and approached her and hugged her, and before she knew it, they all were hugging her. This was honestly the best, late, birthday Pandora has ever had.
They headed towards the tour bus after a few minutes, Andy leaned up against the wall and lit a cigarette and made Pandora stay with him. They were quiet for a while, until Pandora noticed he was texting with a smile on his face.
“You look happy.” Pandora said, Andy looked up at her and put his phone back into his pocket and exhaled his cigarette, she watched him blow the smoke out and watched it float away in the air.
“Yeah, me and Juliet got back together.” Andy said, Pandora smiled at him, glad that he was happy.
“I’m glad you two are, you make a great couple.” Pandora said, she looked at the concrete road and then back at him.
“Thanks, Pandora.” He said, Pandora nod lightly.
“No problem.”
The awkward silence fell between them again, but Andy broke it as usual.
“So, did you like the surprise that we did tonight?”
Pandora smiled. “Yes I did, it was awesome. Thank you Andy.”
Andy smiled. “Don’t only thank me, you should thank the others.”
Pandora nodded. “Yeah I should, I’ll be right back.”
When Andy realized she was going to go to the bus, he grabbed her by the jacket and pulled her back.
“I’m about to go in when I finish my cigarette, stay and talk to me.” Andy said, Pandora hesitated, then nodded as an “Okay.”
They were quiet again, once Andy finished his cigarette he dropped it on the ground and stomped on it once. He looked at Pandora, who stood right beside him.
“How old are you now?” He asked her, Pandora grinned.
“Eighteen.”
“Hell yeah, high five.” He said, holding up his hand. Pandora high five him and they both laughed, Andy stared at her for a few minutes, looking into her eyes. Pandora blushed, and Andy chuckled.
“What?” Pandora asked.
“Your blushing.”
“I am not.”
“Yes you are.”
“Not.”
“Are.”
“Not.”
“Are.”
“Not!”
“Yes you are!”
“No I’m not!”
“Yes!”
“Andrew! I am not arguing with you over this.” Pandora said, then crossed her arms over her chest. Andy laughed.
“Don’t call me by my first name. It’s Andy.”
Pandora looked at him. “Andrew.”
Andy gave her a playfully push, and she pushed him back. That’s when he grabbed her and they both locked eyes on each other, Andy started to lean down. Wanting to kiss her. But before his lips connected hers, Pandora jerked away quickly, and Andy felt awkward. Suddenly the tour bus door opened and there stood Jinxx.
“What the hell you two? Get your asses in here!” Jinxx called out, Pandora started to walk towards the bus and Andy followed. She walked up the steps and entered into the bus, and almost had a heart attack when everyone jumped out at her.
“Surprise!!” They yelled, she realized it was a surprise birthday party.
“Are you serious?” Pandora asked, completely shocked. Everyone laughed.
“No we’re joking, everyone put all this up. And move on. NO! We’re serious.” Jinxx said, Pandora laughed, feeling tears again, but she fought them back.
“Thank you all so much!” Pandora said, the guys smiled.
“Hey, you deserved a birthday party.” Ashley said, Pandora smiled.
They had an awesome time eating Pizza, drinking Sodas, well. Some had rum and 7up mixed together, Pandora didn’t drink. Just a sip of Ashley‘s drink. But nothing big. By two o’clock, Pandora was asleep on the couch. Andy thought everyone was asleep, but he didn’t know Jinxx was outside on the phone with Sammi. Andy dumped his drink out in the sink and threw the cup into the trash can, he looked at Pandora, seeing her curled up in a ball snoring peacefully. He walked up to her and grabbed the blanket that rested on the back of the couch, he unfolded it and covered her up. She continued to sleep, and Andy decided to go outside to smoke. He saw Jinxx sitting on the sidewalk saying Bye to Sammi, he hung up before Andy reached him.
“I thought you were asleep.” Andy said with a cigarette resting between his lips as he searched his jeans pockets for his lighter.
“I decided to call Sammi before I went to sleep.” Jinxx said, Andy nodded and finally found his lighter. He lit the cigarette and exhaled, then blew the smoke out seconds later. They were quiet for a few minutes.
“So, what did you almost did to Pandora?” Jinxx asked, Andy looked at him confused.
“What?”
“Dude I’m not stupid, I saw the look on your faces. So, what happened?”
Andy sighed. “I almost kissed her.”
Jinxx’s eyes widen for a second, then he grin. “I knew you had a thing for her.”
“I couldn’t help it.” Andy said in defense, Jinxx nodded and chuckled sarcastically.
“That’s bull, I know you like her.” Jinxx said, Andy rolled his eyes.
“I love Juliet.”
“Biersack, if you loved Juliet you wouldn’t be like Pandora.”
Andy went silent, then he sighed. “I still love Juliet though, I’m always going to love her.”
“Dude think about it, when you met Pandora at the concert, you spent days looking for her to do what? Meet her, get to know her. Then Juliet dumps you, and you start hanging out with Pandora more and caring about her. During that moment you liked Pandora, then Juliet came crawling back and you ignored the feelings for Pandora and the feelings for Juliet came back out and now your dealing with two different feelings for two different girls. But, Pandora is here, and Juliet is not,” Jinxx said, Andy looked at him. “Don’t give me that look.”
Andy sighed and shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t know Jinxx, but I like Pandora more as a friend than that way.” Andy said, he dropped his cigarette and stomped on it.
“For now.” Jinxx said, Andy rolled his eyes.
“Whatever you say Jinxx, I’m heading to bed now. Night.” Andy said, Jinxx watched Andy walk away and head back into the bus. He laughed, and stood up slowly, heading to bed too…

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