Knives & Pens

The tour bus of Black Veil Brides pulled up behind the Performance center of California San Francisco, the bus came to a slow stop in front of the back doors. The door immediately opened and Ashley came walking out of the bus with a big smile on his face, right behind him was Jake, his excitement was obvious. Behind Jake was CC, he kept a smile on his face the entire time, he was excited to get on stage. But who wouldn’t be? Right behind CC was Jinxx, he kept his cool, acting mature but he was really excited. He followed the other three band members into the building, where a man who looked like he was in his thirties began leading them to their dressing room. Andy stepped out of the bus, he was a little late because he was in the bathroom and no one told him they stopped until Pandora did, last but not least was Pandora, she followed behind Andy playfully complaining about how tall Andy was and she couldn’t see. So he made her get in front of him and he playfully complained about how short she was, the whole walk to the dressing room was hilarious to them, when Pandora started to laugh Andy started to laugh and before they knew it they were laughing at each other’s laughter. Pandora and Andy entered the dressing room, of course it was different from the other dressing room, Pandora helped Ashley get ready this time, helping him with his hair. Everyone was laughing and having a good time as they got ready, they discussed what song they should perform first, but none of them could come to an agreement, so they had Pandora choose. She chose The Legacy, and they agreed to perform it first. The dressing room door opened and there stood a man in his thirties, he looked at his clipboard then back up to everyone.
“Black Veil Brides, one minute.” He announced, they nodded and said “Okay” then he closed the door and left. Pandora looked at Ashley’s hair and smiled, she made it look good. She gave herself a pat on the back, Ashley looked at his hair in the mirror, smiled and turned to Pandora and said; “Thanks, you did a good job.” Then he leant forward and kissed Pandora’s cheek. She could tell at once she blushed by the heat in her cheeks.
“Alright Black Veil Brides, we ready?” Andy asked, standing up from his chair. Everyone stood up and replied with a loud “Yes”, Andy smiled and walked up the closed door, he grabbed the smooth silver handle and turned it.
Pandora followed them back stage, she could hear the screams of the fans on the other side of this curtain. She hugged everyone of them as they passed her to go up stage, when she heard The Legacy begin, she couldn’t help but to sing along with Andy. She knew every lyric to that song, and it was almost impossible not to sing along with them. It was like a magnet, once the song begins, and Andy starts singing, and you know all the lyrics, you immediately start singing. Even though the employees back stage making sure nothing went wrong with anything couldn’t hear themselves talk to each other they could surprisingly hear Pandora sing, and they all agreed she was pretty good at singing The Legacy.
After The Legacy was over, they started to play Youth & Whisky, which was another song Pandora absolutely loved. She started to sing along with that song too, of course she couldn’t help it. As she singed this, she remembered back at home when she tried singing a song, everyone would tell her to “Stop singing that pathetic emo song” she always did listened and just lip singed, even though that wasn’t fun. As she stayed there and listened to Black Veil Brides perform her cell phone started to vibrate in her back pocket, she sighed and wondered who would be texting her. She pulled the phone out and looked at the screen curiously.
Sierra.
Pandora sighed and decided to read the text, she click the View Now button and waited until the text screen show up.


Sierra: Meet me outside Dora, I know your in the Performance Center.


Pandora felt her heart race in fear, but instead of not going. She did. She stepped out into the cool October air, the sun had already set and the street lamps were on, and it was already becoming dark. She saw Liam’s red mustang parked on the side of the street, and saw Sierra and Liam leaning on the hood with their arms crossed. Pandora took a deep breath and started to approach them, she acted as if she wasn’t afraid of them, but she was of course. She got close enough to them and stopped, and looked at them, waiting for them to say something. Finally Sierra did.
“Dora, you need to come home. Mom is beating herself up because you left, and so is Dad.” Sierra said, Pandora rolled her eyes and closed her arms, looking at Sierra like she knew she was lying.
“Do you expect me to believe that Sierra? I was there for years and they didn’t care about me at all, and now your telling me now that I have ran away their missing me and wishing I was there? I don’t believe it.” Pandora said honestly, she saw the anger in Sierra’s eyes.
“Quit this act Dora!” Sierra hissed.
“What act?!”
“This, ‘Oh poor me’ act! There is nothing wrong with you, you have your life made!” Sierra hissed, Pandora looked at the concrete road and shook her head side to side.
“I’m not coming home, that’s it.” Pandora said, she turned on her heel and started to walk away.
“Yeah, go back to that faggot band Dora! They’ll help you. Their just rock stars, that don’t give a damn about you.” Sierra hissed, Pandora stopped and turned around.
“Don’t you dare talk about them like that! You don’t know anything about them! You never met them!” Pandora hissed, Sierra giggled and Liam chuckled, watching Pandora defend Black Veil Brides.
“Yeah right Dora. It’s so freaking pathetic, you dyed your hair black, started wearing all that makeup, and dressing all in black.” Sierra said, Pandora looked at her.
“I don’t wear all black Sierra! See, that shows how much you pay attention doesn’t it? I may have dyed my hair black, but everyone else does too. Your going to go call them pathetic?” Pandora asked, Sierra was quiet for a few minutes, but it seemed like for hours.
“You think just because you make fun of me it makes you cool? It doesn’t, it shows how big of a bitch you are Sierra! And you, Liam, it doesn’t show how ‘bad’ you are, ‘cause guess what your not. The people you bully because their ugly, emo, a geek, or any of that, doesn’t make you seem cool at all! People like that will end up somewhere, somewhere great, they’ll have a great life! And while their out there living their dream or doing something they love, you’ll be useless! Those people you make fun of, is amazing! And your just a bunch of big jerks, look at me! You bullied me since I was thirteen years old, where am I now? I’m with Black Veil Brides on tour with them! And where are you? At home!” Pandora hissed, Liam and Sierra was completely quiet, they didn’t know what to say at all. They just stood there with a blank expression. “Now, I’m going back inside to listen to my favorite band perform. I’m not coming home, so leave me alone.” Pandora said, she turned on her heels and started to walk away, feeling good about saying that to them.
“I hate you Dora!” Sierra yelled after her, Pandora shrugged her shoulders and stuck her middle finger up in the air. Then kept on walking, she knew they saw that. As she walked back into the Performance Center, she was thinking about everyone whose been bullied, she wanted to tell them their amazing, she wanted to help them. She thought about Andy when he was getting bullied, look where he is now. Pandora smiled when she heard them performing Perfect Weapon, she might can’t tell everyone whose been bullied that their amazing right now, but she hopes Black Veil Brides is telling them that through their music. Because even though Pandora couldn’t tell every single person whose been bullied their amazing, she does think it, and she hopes they know that they are amazing. Because they are, no matter who or what they are. Their amazing..

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