Knives & Pens

Pandora lifted up from the couch and sat up straight, her legs crossed under her as she listened to see if she could figure out who Andy is talking to.
“Hey, sorry I stopped by without letting you know.” Juliet’s voice said, Andy closed the door.
“It’s fine.” Andy said awkwardly, honestly not knowing what to say to her, he knew Pandora was in the living room of course and Juliet was now standing in his house about to talk about who knows what.
“Is Pandora around?” Juliet asked, looking at Andy.
“Uh yeah, she’s in the living room.”
“Can we talk in the kitchen?” Juliet asked him, Andy swallowed hard and nodded and started to lead her to the kitchen. Pandora sat on the couch suspiciously, deciding on whether to listen to their conversation or not. She bit her bottom lip in thought, looking around apprehensively, making sure no one else would just show up. She got up from the couch, and tiptoed to the kitchen door and leaned her ear against the closed door, hearing Juliet’s voice beginning to talk.
“So, I took the pregnancy test.” Juliet said, Andy opened the refrigerator and grabbed a bottle of water.
“And?” Andy asked, looking at Juliet.
“I am pregnant…” Juliet said, her voice trailing off. Andy swallowed his water hard and slowly screwed back on the lid, he set the bottle down on the counter and ran his fingers through his hair.
“How am I so sure the child is mine, Juliet?” Andy asked her, Juliet stepped forward and tried to grab Andy’s hand, but he moved away from her.
“It is yours, Andy, you’re the only one..” Juliet told him, Andy still wasn’t one hundred percent convinced, his heart didn’t believe it, but his mind did.
“I’ll help you out with whatever I can, but I can’t trust you again to start dating you.” Andy told her honestly, Juliet nodded.
“Do you want to keep the baby?” Juliet asked, Andy bit his bottom lip in thought, he nodded lightly.
“Yeah..”
“You don’t sound very sure.” Juliet said, Andy looked at her.
“I’m stressed out, and I’m thinking.”
Juliet bit her bottom lip, and she looked down at the floor. “Does Pandora know?”
Pandora heard her name being mentioned and leaned against the door a little bit more.
“She doesn’t know for sure yet.” Andy replied, Pandora smiled guilty.
‘I do now’ Pandora thought, then continued to focus on Andy and Juliet’s conversation.
“I’m going to go, I just wanted to tell you in person. I’ll talk to you soon Andy?” Juliet said, heading for the door Pandora was hiding behind, Pandora jumped up from the floor and ran for the couch, and as soon as she jumped and landed on it, Juliet opened the door and looked at her suspiciously, Andy appeared behind her.
“Yeah, call me.” Andy told Juliet, Juliet nodded and waved bye to Pandora and headed for the front door. Pandora and Andy stayed quiet until they heard the door click shut, Andy crashed down on the couch beside Pandora and sighed, she looked at him.
“Are you okay?”
“Yeah I’m fine, just thinking about some things.”
“She is pregnant, isn’t she?” Pandora asked, Andy looked at her, staring into her green eyes and nodded.
“Congratulations Andrew Dennis Biersack! You’re going to be a Daddy!” Pandora said teasingly, Andy looked at her.
“Now you just pissed me off, I told you not to use my name, and how in the hell did you know my middle name?” Andy said, Pandora leaned forward with a creepy smile.
“I know everything about you.”
“Do you now?” Andy asked, staring into her eyes.
“Yes I do.” Pandora replied.
“Prove it.” Andy challenged, Pandora pulled away and put her hands on her hips, Andy bit his bottom lip.
“You were born 1990, December 26 in Cincinnati, Ohio. You attended a Catholic elementary school, in high school you attended Cincinnati’s School for Creative and Performing Arts and majored in drama and vocal music. You left school before graduating to move to Los Angeles to further your career, six days after you turned eighteen. You’re an Atheist, but many of your family members are Catholic. And when you were fourteen, you and a few of your friends formed your first band called “Biersack”. Pandora said, Andy’s jaw was dropped open and he was looking at her like she was crazy. But then he smiled.
“You got that off of the internet didn’t you?”
Pandora smiled guilty. “No.”
“You liar!” Andy hissed, and tackled her to the floor.
“I don’t lie!”
“Your lying about lying!” Andy chuckled, he held her hands down and looked at her trying to fight him off.
“Get off of me large butt!”
“I do not have a large butt.” Andy defended, Pandora laughed.
“Dude, seriously, get off of me, I can’t breathe and I’m claustrophobic.” Pandora told him, he looked at her.
“Oh are you now?”
“Yes I am, would I lie about being claustrophobic? No, now get off of me Andrew!”
“Oh I was going to, but you just called me Andrew, so. Hell no Pandora.” Andy said, with a grin.
“No! I’m sorry, I won’t call you Andrew again. Now get off of me?”
“What’s the magic word?” Andy asked, Pandora looked at him.
“Please?”
“Please what?”
“Will you please get off of me?” Pandora said, Andy smiled and got up, pulling her up along with him.
“See, was that so hard?”
“Yes it was, very hard.” Pandora said sarcastically, she sat down on the couch and looked at him with her arms crossed over her chest.
“You look so cute angry.” Andy said, Pandora looked at him with wide eyes.
“What did you say?”
Andy swallowed hard, knowing he had to recover. “What?”
“You said something about me?”
“No I didn’t.”
“Yes you did!”
“I did not, your hearing things.” Andy said, sitting down on the couch and crossing his arms.
“Oh my god your lying!”
“I am not lying!”
“Liar!”
“I’ll talk, Ms. Lying about lying.” Andy said, crossing his arms and looking away.
“What? Your lying!”
“No I am not.”
“Stop acting like a child!”
“I am not acting like a child!”
“Your not?”
“No I’m not!”
“You sure about that?”
“I am positive.”
“Whatever.” Pandora said, looking away.
“See that was childish.”
“What was?”
“Saying whatever and looking away.”
“That’s childish?! Look at what your doing!”
“I have my arms crossed!”
“Yeah and looking away.”
“Girl, stop arguing with me.”
“I’m not arguing with you, we’re having a very heated conversation.”
“That’s arguing.”
“No it is not!” Pandora hissed, Andy rolled his eyes and shook his head.
“Okay, whatever floats your boat.”
“You did not just roll your eyes at me, and shake your head.”
“I did, and I will do it again.”
“Okay, don’t talk to me anymore.” Pandora said, looking away. Andy grinned, knowing he was getting under skin, and he wasn’t going to stop yet.
“Hey Pandora, Pandora, Hey, guess what. I’m talking to you.” Andy said, Pandora shook her head side to side and rolled her eyes. Andy stood up and grabbed the blanket that was laying on the back of the couch, he unfolded it and covered Pandora up. He grabbed the remote and laid on the couch, putting his legs in her lap. She pulled off the blanket and pushed his legs off.
“Do I look like a leg stool to you?”
“Yes you do, now hush.” Andy replied, putting his legs back in her lap.
“You did not just tell me to hush!” Pandora hissed, she pushed off his legs and got up and faced him angrily, Andy smiled and looked at her.
“Your in my way.”
Pandora gripped a couch pillow and hit him with it, he jumped up and grabbed a pillow and started to hit her back, and before they knew it they were arguing and having a pillow fight at the same time. She gripped the pillow and threw it, planning on hitting Andy, but he dodged and the pillow hit a lamp, knocking it off the table and broke on the wooden floor. Glass went everywhere, and Pandora covered her mouth with her hands and Andy looked at her.
“You broke my damn lamp!”
“Good, I hated that ugly lamp anyways!” Pandora hissed, Andy gave her the weirdest look and ran forward, picking her up and slinging her over his shoulders, then he headed towards the back door.
“Andy put me down!”
“No!”
“I mean it, put me down right now!”
Andy smiled, and opened the back door and stepped outside. It was already dark, and you could hear cars nearby. Andy looked at the inground pool, the lights inside the pool were on, making the water look blue. He headed towards the edge, and smiled.
“So you really think that lamp was ugly huh?” Andy asked, Pandora didn’t know what was about to happen, and didn’t know they were standing in front of the pool.
“Yes, very ugly.”
Andy shrugged his shoulders. “You shouldn’t have said that.”
‘Dude, are you quoting Twlilght?” Pandora asked, Andy didn’t answered and grabbed her and threw her into the pool. Pandora didn’t realize what had happened until she realized she was under water, she swim her way back up to the water and looked at Andy, seeing him standing there and laughing. She pushed her hair out of her eyes and started to splash him as hard as she could, getting Andy soak and wet.
“You bitch!” Andy hissed, looking at her. Pandora started to laugh, and Andy jumped into the pool, making the biggest splash and the loudest. He was swimming under water, and grabbed Pandora’s legs, jerking her under. She felt her heart jump out of her chest, and when she saw Andy in front of her, she pushed him. He flipped her a bird, and swim back up, Pandora followed.
“You’re an ass! I cannot believe you pulled me under!” Pandora hissed.
“I cannot believe you splashed me!”
“I cannot believe you threw me in!”
“I cannot believe you broke my lamp!”
“I cannot believe we’re doing this!”
Andy snaked his arm around Pandora’s waist and jerked her forward and connected her lips with his, Pandora was shocked and couldn’t believe what was happening. Andy pulled away slowly, and looked at her, seeing her eyes widen. He didn’t know what she’d say, she was quiet for a little bit, then unexpectedly slapped him across the cheek.
“Ow, what the hell was that for?!”
“I don’t.. know.” Pandora replied. She started to swim to the steps to get out of the pool, Andy watched her get out and headed back inside to get dry again. He shook his head, feeling stupid that he kissed her, he couldn’t help it, he just kissed her without even thinking.
Pandora changed out of her clothes and dried her hair, she was laying on her bed in her pajamas in thought. Still not believing Andy kissed her, as she thought about it, she decided she wasn’t going to get herself into that. When has a ordinary girl and a rockstar’s relationship turned out great? That only happened in fairytales, this is real life, her and Andy would never work out.. Right?.. She closed her eyes, listening to her Ipod while Smoke & Mirrors played, it was now midnight and Andy was already asleep in his bed. Pandora was the only one up since she couldn’t sleep, she was relaxing, almost asleep, when suddenly something or someone grabbed her ankles and jerked her off of the bed. Pandora’s eyes flew open and before she could scream, Andy started to laugh. Her heart was racing fast, and when she looked up to see Andy pointing and laughing at her, she pulled the earphones out of her ears and stared at him.
“Really Andy?!” She stood up, and set her Ipod on the nightstand.
“Yes really, I couldn’t resist. You have to admit that was funny.” Andy said, still laughing, Pandora shook her head side to side.
“That was so mean! I thought you were asleep!”
“No, I was laying in the bed thinking, I wasn’t asleep. But I saw you almost was, and I couldn’t have that.” Andy replied, laying down on her bed. She pushed him off, and he fell onto the floor.
“No, you are not laying on my bed.”
“Uh, it’s mine. Your just sleeping on it.” Andy said, getting up from the floor and looking at her.
Pandora sat down on the edge of the bed, and Andy laid down beside her.
“So, now that you dragged me off of the bed, and we’re both here. What are we going to do now?” Pandora said, looking at Andy. Andy shrugged his shoulders, and stretched his arms over his head.
“I don’t know, I guess talk?”
Pandora looked at him. “About what?”
“I don’t know, but when you think of something, wake me up.” Andy said, he grabbed a pillow and placed it over his face, then he grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around him and closed his eyes. Pandora stared at him and shook her head side to side, she wasn’t going to think of something to talk about while he sleeps, she wanted to sleep too. So, she wrapped herself in a blanket and placed a pillow under her head and closed her eyes, and eventually the two of them were asleep….

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