Knives & Pens

“Is it bad that your jealous of Juliet?” Ella asked, Pandora sighed.
“Yes it is bad, because that means I’m falling for Andy and I can’t!”
“Why can’t you? Andy isn’t a bad guy Pandora.” Ella told her, Pandora sat down on the bed cross-legged.
“I know he’s not a bad guy, he’s a good guy. But a guy like him and a girl like me won’t work, he’s a singer, and I’m an ordinary girl. Relationships like that only work in fantasies.” Pandora said, Ella knew what she meant, which Ella did agree with it.
“Well I do know Andy likes you, a lot actually. Maybe there’s small hope you and him will work out.”
Pandora sighed, and looked down.
“I know he likes me, but I don’t want to get my hopes up and think we’re going to work out when we’re not. Besides, I think he still likes Juliet.”
Ella sighed, she thought the same thing. “Jake and I think the same thing, he told me Juliet is pregnant. I can’t believe it, and I can’t believe Andy is actually letting her stay at his house.”
“Yeah, I think she’s going to try to get back together with him.” Pandora said biting her bottom lip.
“I wouldn’t doubt it one bit.” Ella said, the two of them went quiet for a few seconds, both of them in thought.
“How do I stop getting jealous?”
“It’s impossible to do, you’ll continue to be jealous, or just stop liking him. Because that’s all jealously is, liking someone and wanting them to be yours. No one else.” Ella told Pandora, Pandora nodded.
“Thanks Ella for talking with me about this.” Pandora said, Ella smiled even though Pandora couldn’t see if she was smiling or not.
“Of course, I’m always here if you need to talk. Keep me up to date with what’s going on over there, okay?”
“Will do, I better get going. Talk to you soon.” Pandora said, getting ready to hang up her phone.
“Bye Pandora.”
Pandora smiled and ended the call, she laid the phone on the bed and laid back. She sighed, looking up at the white ceiling in thought.
‘I hate being jealous.’ She thought, she closed her eyes for a second and rested and before she knew it she had fallen asleep.










“Maybe we can work it out Andy.” Juliet told Andy as he walked into the kitchen to get something to drink, they’ve been talking for what felt like days about this whole situation between them and as they talked Andy realized he may still have feelings for her. He sighed, opening the refrigerator and grabbing a bottle of water. He closed the refrigerator door and turned around to face Juliet, she was looking at him with a look he melted into.
“I don’t know..” Andy said, his voice trailing off. Juliet stepped forward and took his head into her hands, he tried looking away so he didn’t have to look into her eyes but she managed to make him look into her eyes.
“I do love you.” Juliet told him, Andy stared at her, losing thought in her blue eyes. Before he knew it he snaked his arm around her waist and kissed her passionately, he didn’t know what had come over him but he felt the need to kiss her. Juliet, of course, kissed back. Wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him deeply, maybe these two weren’t completely done. You know what people say about love, it can never be replaced. Andy felt a strange feeling go through his body he couldn’t explain, but when he pulled away from her lips the feeling immediately went away and they were both speechless. They just stared at each other, unsure of what to say…





Pandora woke up the next morning still in her jeans and sweat shirt, she was confused at first but then remembered she never did change nor climbed into the bed, she just laid down and fell to sleep and stayed asleep. She lifted up, running her fingers through her hair and looking down at the floor. She smelled something, nothing bad, but something good, but she couldn’t recognize the smell. She stood up, feeling dizzy a bit but didn’t bother to sit down for a second until the dizziness went away. She opened her door, stepping out into the hallway and headed downstairs. The smell was coming from the kitchen, so she figured it was Andy cooking breakfast. She entered the kitchen and didn’t bother to look at the oven, she just approached the refrigerator and looked for something to drink.
“Morning.” Juliet’s voice said, Pandora was silent for a minute, thinking about last night about her being jealous of Juliet.
“Morning.” Pandora said, her voice sounding awkward and still tired. She closed the refrigerator door after grabbing her a Mountain Dew, she sat down at the island seeing Juliet cooking bacon, eggs and sausage.
Pandora was suspicious at first, trying to figure out why she was cooking breakfast. Then Pandora noticed Juliet was wearing one of Andy’s shirts, she sighed and felt sick to her stomach.
“So, did you sleep good?” Juliet asked, Pandora looked at Juliet and shrugged her shoulders.
“I guess so. You?”
“Yeah, I slept pretty good.”
‘Yeah I can see that.’ Pandora thought, she didn’t say it of course. She felt embarrassed and weird being jealous over Juliet, but of course Juliet was just like Andy, another celebrity, a singer, their relationship would work.. Possibly.
Suddenly Andy entered the kitchen, his eyes locked on Pandora immediately and felt awkward now. Two girls, he liked in the same room as him. With his pregnant ex wearing his shirt while cooking breakfast, and his best friend that he likes sitting at the island looking awkward. This might take him a while to get use to.


After breakfast, Pandora and Andy cleaned everything up. After they cleaned up, they all just hung around in the kitchen.
“I was going to head out to Hot Topic, Andy you want to come?” Juliet said, Andy shook his head side to side.
“No, me and the guys have an autograph signing to get to in a little while.” Andy said, Juliet frowned a bit, but then Andy had an idea. “But, Pandora do you want to go?”
Pandora’s head snapped up, and she looked at Andy, then Juliet. Not knowing what to say.
“That would be fun.” Juliet said, with a smile.
“Yeah, it would give you two a while to get to know each other better.”
Pandora was speechless, then she nodded slowly and swallowed hard. “Uh, sure.”
‘What is going on around here?’ Pandora wondered, Juliet smiled and so did Andy.




The car ride with Juliet was awkward and silent, but Pandora also had her headphones on just to ignore a conversation with Juliet. When they arrived at the mall, Juliet was of course noticed by fans and signed some autographs. But finally they got away from the crowd, and entered the Hot Topic store. They both split up for a little while, Pandora was looking through band shirts when Juliet approached her and started to look with her.
“So, you and Andy are close huh?” Juliet said, Pandora swallowed hard and it took her a minute to answer.
“Yeah, we’re good friends.”
“I’ve noticed. And I’m just curious, what are you going to do when I have this baby?” Juliet said, Pandora looked at her confused.
“What do you mean?”
“Well, I just mean, Andy is going to be even more busier than before. And you’ll be left alone basically.” Juliet said, Pandora bit her bottom lip and went back looking through shirts.
“Yeah, well.”
“What?” Juliet asked, wondering if Pandora was going to finish her sentence or not. Pandora bit her tongue, and just shook her head side to side.
“Nothing.” Suddenly out of nowhere, a teenage girl screamed and started to run up to Juliet and Pandora. And at first Pandora thought it was another fan of Juliet’s, but she was wrong. The teenage girl, who looked like she was fourteen or fifteen approached Pandora with a huge smile on her face, with tears forming in her eyes. Pandora looked at the girl, not sure what to say, she was speechless and a little confuse. Juliet was confuse too, she didn’t understand why the teenager was screaming over Pandora.
“Your Pandora Chambers aren’t you?!” The girl said excitedly, Pandora nodded.
“Yeah I am.”
“Oh my gosh! Your like my role model! I watched your video on Youtube, and you did gave me hope. And your best friends with one of the members of my favorite band, your so awesome!” The girl said, Pandora smiled, still speechless.
“Aw, I’m glad I am.”
“Is it okay if I get a picture with you?” The girl asked, Pandora nodded and watched the girl pull out a cell phone. They stood together, with their arms around each other and a smile on their face, then took the picture.
“Will you say hi to Andy for me please?” The girl asked, Pandora smiled even more.
“Of course I will, what’s your name?”
“It’s Kayla.” Kayla said excitedly, Pandora kept on smiling. This was unbelievable, strangers knew her, and even watched her video on Youtube.
“I’ll be sure to tell him.” Pandora said, she hugged Kayla one last time before she took off with some of her friends. Pandora turned back around and saw Juliet staring at her still in confusion, Pandora didn’t say anything and went back to looking through shirts.


She bought a Black Veil Brides tee shirt at Hot Topic before they left, it took her a while to find it, but she did. They arrived back at Andy’s and saw the guys were there, Pandora hopped out of Juliet’s car and took off running to the door with her Hot Topic in her hand. She was like a kid arriving home with some important information, or having something amazing to tell or show.
“Andy! Andy! Andy!” Pandora called, when she entered inside the house.
“Pandora! Pandora! Pandora!” Andy called back from the living room, he was sitting on the couch with all the others guys when Pandora entered the living room and crashed down on the couch beside Andy.
“Guess what!”
“What?” Andy said, a smile forming on his face.
“Some girl at Hot Topic recognized me, she came up to me and told me I was her role model and asked for a picture.” Pandora said, all the guys smiled and congratulated her.
“See, I told you you’ll have fans.”
“Welcome to the fan club Pandora!” CC said, high fiving her.
Pandora giggled, and Andy smiled at her. He liked seeing her happy over someone knowing who she was, and actually liking her. Andy knew she’ll become a role model to some people, not giving up, still pushing through, and now she wants to help others with the same problem. Andy looked up and saw Juliet standing behind him, the guys continued to talk to Pandora about her experience with a fan when Juliet tapped on Andy’s shoulder and motioned him to follow her. He stood up and followed her outside on the porch, she looked confused and not really happy, Andy didn’t know what was up with her but he was pretty sure he was about to find out.
“I don’t understand what happened at the mall back there, with that girl and Pandora.” Juliet told Andy, Andy leaned up against the porch railing and looked at Juliet.
“A while ago Pandora posted a video on Youtube telling people her story, and how her life is becoming better, and how she supports others and knows their life will get better like hers. And also, she is known to be hanging around with us, she’s been in an interview and also on the News and magazines with paparazzi thinking we’re dating. She’s known by lots of fans by us probably, and she’s now gaining fans of her own.” Andy explained, Juliet sat down on a porch chair and crossed her legs.
“Oh.” Juliet said, she bit her bottom lip and looked at Andy. “When the baby is born, she’s going to leave you know?”
Andy looked at her with his eyebrows raised in confusion. “Excuse me? She isn’t going nowhere unless she wants to, this is her home now Juliet.”
“I know, but what I meant is once the baby is born your going to have your hands full with a newborn and the band. She’s going to feel left out and just decide to leave.”
“Or that’s what your hoping Juliet?” Andy asked, looking at her. Juliet didn’t reply for a few minutes, but finally did.
“I’m just trying to give you a heads up babe.”
Andy shook his head side to side and looked at the yard, not bothering to look at her. Pandora wasn’t going to leave, Andy would make sure of that. Pandora has nowhere to go, nobody wants her, he wasn’t going to just let her leave without any help. If she wants to move out, he’ll help her out. She isn’t going to face life alone with him around.
Andy looked down and shook his head, then headed back inside. Once he closed the door, he heard laughter and all the guys voices talking at once in the living room. Andy sighed, wondering if he even wanted to look. He peeked into the living room, and saw Pandora pinning Jake down to the floor. CC and Ashley was cheering for Pandora and Jinxx was cheering for Jake to get up, Andy chuckled and decided Jake needed more support, so he was on Jake’s side.
“Jake come on get up! Your going to lose to a girl!” Andy yelled, Jake was struggling under Pandora but Pandora wouldn’t release him.
“That’s my girl!” Ashley yelled.
Juliet had heard the yells inside and decided to go check up and see if everything was okay, she stood beside Andy watching Pandora and Jake wrestle.
“Jake get up!” Jinxx yelled.
CC and Ashley was jumping up and down and cheering loudly, laughing as they were.
Jake finally found enough strength and pinned Pandora down to the ground, he pinned her arms down as she struggled under him.
“Come on Pandora!” CC yelled, Andy laughed and couldn’t keep a straight face to cheer Jake on.
“That’s it Jake! Come on!” Jinxx yelled.
Pandora was running out of options to get free from Jake, then she remembered, she’s a girl and he’s a boy. She kneed him, and he fell to the ground groaning and rolling in pain and wouldn’t get back up. Pandora had won this battle.
“Hell yeah!” Ashley yelled, he ran over to Pandora and CC followed him, they both lifted her up on their shoulders and started to do a victory lap around the house, cheering “Pandora” over and over. Jinxx and Andy helped Jake up and patted his back, Jake was embarrassed that he lost to a girl, but he never expected Pandora to be that strong in million years.
“She’s tough.” Jake said sitting down on the couch out of breath, Andy chuckled.
“I believe you there Jake.”
Ashley and CC returned to the living room and set Pandora back down on her feet, she walked over to Jake and hugged him and apologized for kicking him in the nuts. He chuckled and hugged her back, and forgave her. Then they all just sat around, talking about the wrestle match Pandora and Jake had.


Once the guys left, and Juliet left Pandora and Andy alone to get a shower, Pandora started to talk to Andy.
“So, are you and Juliet together again?” Pandora asked, keeping her voice down just in case Juliet could hear her. Andy shrugged his shoulders and looked at Pandora.
“I guess, I don’t know. I think I still like her..” Andy told her, Pandora nodded and felt a little heartbroken but pushed the feeling away.
“You should give her another chance.” Pandora said, then she paused, even confuse with herself.
‘What did I just say? Did I seriously just tell him to give her another chance?’
Andy nodded and rubbed his hands together. “I thought about it too.”
“I think it would be good for you two, since you two have a baby..” Pandora said, realizing her voice was cracking. She swallowed hard, realizing her throat was burning, was she really going to cry?
Andy looked at her, seeing her looking at the TV that was turned off. He continued to look at her, getting a little worried.
“What’s wrong?” He whispered, Pandora looked at him and he felt his heart break, seeing a tear rolling down her cheek. He reached forward and pulled her into a hug, holding her tightly against his chest. She held off the tears, or at least tried. He kissed her head, and stroked her hair. “I’m still going to be yours though.” Andy told her, Pandora smiled softly and hugged him back. She wanted him to be happy, and she saw him being happy with Juliet. She was going to support him and Juliet, no matter what. Even if she didn’t like Juliet much, or wanted to be with him herself, or whatever she wanted. She knew it wouldn’t happen, if he was happy, then she was happy. That’s how a good friendship should go, no matter what, you support your friend.
She pulled away from him and smiled, no longer were tears falling, but her eyes were red and Andy pretended not to notice.
“Still my Robin?” Andy asked her, making her smile even more.
“If you're still my Batman?”
“Girl please, I’m always going to be Batman.” Andy told her, she laughed and pushed him playfully.
Pandora smiled, knowing that it would be for the best if they stayed friends. So she wouldn’t lose him, she’ll always have him as a friend, and that’s all she wants. Or was it?.

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