Saturday afternoon.Pandora had been apprehensive since she woke up this morning which was around eleven, she was apprehensive about hanging out with Collin today, she was afraid he won’t like her as much if he got her away from work and saw a different side of her. Juliet was actually happy that Pandora was going out with a guy, but she was only happy because she hoped Pandora and Collin would start dating and she’ll leave Andy alone, but it irritated her to see Andy’s expression when the time got closer to when Collin was coming over to pick her up. To Juliet he looked jealous, and a little suspicious and worried. But all Andy knew was that he was worried about Pandora and hoped Collin wasn’t a jerk and wouldn’t hurt her, there was nothing wrong with that. Friends can protect friends and worry about them.
Three o’clock came quickly, and while Pandora was upstairs finishing getting ready there was a soft knock at the door. Andy stood up from the couch and ran his fingers through his hair, which he had done a lot. He approached the door and grabbed the doorknob, opening the door and seeing Collin standing there with a soft smirk.
“Is Pandora here?” Collin asked, Andy pulled opened the door wider.
“Yeah she’s upstairs getting ready, come on in.” Andy said, Collin stepped inside and realized how tall Andy was, Collin actually felt short for once. Collin had never really looked at Andy, and now since he was in the Andy Biersack’s house he couldn’t help but to look at his tattoos and the lip piercing he had.
“So, your Andy right?” Collin said, Andy nodded and Collin followed him into the living room.
“Sure am, and your Collin?”
Collin nodded and put his hands in his jacket pocket. “Yeah, so are you and Pandora best friends or something?”
“Oh yeah, we definitely are,” Andy said picking up his water bottle and unscrewing the lid, Collin nodded and looked around the living room as Andy chugged his water for a few seconds then set the water bottle back down on the coffee table. “Would you care if I say something?”
Collin looked back at Andy. “Oh no, go ahead.”
“If you hurt her, or put your hands on her when she doesn’t want them and I find out, I will beat your ass and I won’t hesitate. She has put up with enough shit, and she doesn’t need anything else to add up to it. Understand?” Andy said through his teeth, Collin nodded.
“I won’t hurt her nor put my hands on her, so yes I understand.”
Andy nodded. “I mean it, you better treat her like somebody.”
Before Collin could say anything, Pandora entered the living room with a smile on her face. Andy smiled and pretended he never threatened to kick Collin’s ass just a few seconds ago before she arrived, Collin looked at Pandora and smiled even more.
“You look cute.” Collin said, Pandora turned red.
“Thank you.”
“You ready to go?” Collin asked her, pulling the keys out of his pocket. Pandora nodded and approached Andy and hugged him bye, Andy walked them both to the door and let them out, watching them both approach the car that Collin drove. Andy closed the door and turned around, sighing heavily before heading to the kitchen to get a snack.

Collin had decided they’ll stop for dinner before they did anything else, so he drove to a steak house that he enjoyed and hoped Pandora would to. He opened the door for her and let her in first, after the waitress sat them down at a booth and they received their menus and ordered their drinks, the conversation began.
“So, tell me more about yourself.” Collin said, he was curious and what Andy told him back at the house “She’s put up with enough shit” had him curious of what she’s been through.
“Well, what do you want to know?” Pandora asked him, still looking at her menu that laid on the table.
“Well let’s start with the basics, what’s your favorite color?”
Pandora smiled and thought for a second. “Black and dark red.”
“Not bad colors, what’s your favorite movie category?”
“Horror, or I could watch basically anything if it sounds good. But I prefer horror most of the time.” Pandora said, suddenly the waitress returned with the drinks and Collin asked for a few more minutes to order their food. After she left, Pandora tore the paper off the straw and pushed the straw into her sweet tea.
“That’s cool, I feel the same way. What kind of music do you like?”
“Well Black Veil Brides is my favorite band, so I like heavy rock, and metal.” Pandora replied, then she picked up her drink and sipped it slowly.
“Not bad, okay so that’s all the basics I know to ask. So, why don’t you live with your parents?” Collin said, Pandora set her drink back down and swallowed hard, she knew this question was coming.
“Well, um. My father was an alcoholic, my mother was always busy working and paying more attention to my sister, and my sister picked on me. So, one day I got sick of it, and just ran away.” Pandora replied, Collin looked at her.
“Oh I’m sorry.”
Pandora forced a smile, and looked at her. “It’s okay, I’m fine now.”
“And you don’t go to school?” Collin asked her, she shook her head side to side lightly.
“No I dropped out basically, plus school wasn’t good to me neither. It was worse than at home, I could probably handle home more than I could have handled school.”
Collin nodded. “If you don’t mind me asking, what do you mean by school was worse?”
“Being bullied, called names, picked on, tripped. All of that.” Pandora replied, for that second Collin wished he didn’t ask because of the look on her face but he wanted to get to know her better.
“I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay, things are getting better now because of Andy. I just want to let every other person out there whose going through all of that, that it will get better, eventually. They just have to stay strong and stand up for themselves.” Pandora said, Collin smiled.
“You sound like a very good role model to be honest.”
Pandora smiled. “I’ve been told that.”
Suddenly right then the waitress returned, and Collin was glad, while they were talking he decided what he was going to have. He ordered a medium-rare steak, a baked potato and curly fries. Pandora ordered a salad, a well-done steak, a baked potato and onion rings. After Collin had learned about Pandora and half of her life, she started the questions on him, and he knew his life wasn’t as interesting as hers.
“So what about you, question master, what was your life like?”
Collin smiled at what she called him and sipped his drink before answering. “Well I’m adopted, so I never met my biological parents. I was in and out of foster home’s since I was four to the time I was fifteen. After I was adopted and actually kept, I got into a lot of trouble for a while. Drinking, and smoking, and fighting and getting into trouble at school. I finally realized it wasn’t worth it, so I stopped all of that by the time I was seventeen. I paid attention to my school work and graduated, thank god. After I moved out, I got a house and got a job.” Collin said, Pandora nodded.
“I’m glad you turned your life around.”
Collin smiled. “Me too, I don’t know where I’d be at if I was still doing all of that. Probably in jail..” Collin said, Pandora nodded.
“At least you changed, and your now who you want to be.”
Collin smiled. “Your really good at talking to someone about that, you know?”
Pandora giggled and blushed. “Thank you, I guess I just like helping people.”
“You do an excellent job at it I can tell you that.”
The rest of the dinner was great, and after they left Collin decided to walk around town and talk. It was around eleven when Collin took her home, he walked her to the front door and kissed her cheek goodnight. She headed inside with a smile on her face and headed upstairs to her bedroom, she was happy and a little excited, after she changed into her pajamas she fell asleep quickly..


That next morning Pandora headed downstairs and entered the living room, seeing Andy sitting on the couch watching Batman. He did this every Sunday morning, Pandora shook her head side to side and dropped onto the couch beside him.
“Hey.” Pandora greeted, putting her legs into his lap. He looked at her and smiled, leaning back against the couch.
“Hey, how was your date last night?”
“It wasn’t a date, it was two people hanging out.” Pandora said with a smile, Andy rolled his eyes.
“It was definitely a date.”
Pandora sighed. “Well, we had dinner and we got to know each other better. Then we walked around town for a while and talked even more, and then he took me home.”
Andy rolled his eyes again. “I could do better than that.”
“Oh could you?”
“Hell yeah, we wouldn’t just go to dinner, and walk around and talk.” Andy said, Pandora crossed her arms over her chest and gave him a crossed look.
“I’m curious Biersack, what would be your plan?”
“I don’t know, but it would be better than that, I know that for sure.” Andy said, Pandora giggled and Andy smiled.
“What are we doing today?”
“Anything you want?” Andy said, looking at her.
“Anything?”
“Anything.” Andy replied, she smiled.
“Can we go to the racing track that opened?” Pandora asked him, he thought for a second, making Pandora impatient then finally answered.
“Sure.”
“Can Jinxx come?” Pandora asked.
“If he wants to.”
“Can Jake come?” Pandora asked, smiling as she did.
“Sure.”
“Can CC come?”
“Okay this is going to take forever to name all the band members, so if you want all of them to come, then yes.” Andy said, Pandora removed her legs from his lap and ran upstairs to start getting ready, leaving Andy smiling. He pulled out his Iphone and texted all of the band members, and they all agreed to go. The two of them finally left the house before three, and headed to the new racing track that was built almost two weeks ago. When Andy’s mustang pulled into the parking lot, he saw all the guys standing by Ashley’s car talking and messing around with each other. The parking lot was full, and Andy was glad no one was outside at the moment. He parked right beside Jake’s car, and turned off the engine. The two of them got out of the mustang and approached the group, Pandora was all smiles when she saw Ella and Brittan and felt glad she wasn‘t the only girl here.
“Well this is going to be fun.” CC said, the guys agreed and Pandora spoke up.
“Alright, what about boys against girls?” Pandora asked, Andy smirked and looked at her.
“You are so going to lose.”
“In your dreams Biersack.” Pandora replied, making everyone laugh.
“I think boys against girls is a great idea.” Ella said, eyeing Jake with a smile.
“You are so going to lose Ella, so don’t look at me like that.” Jake told her, Ella rolled her eyes and shook her head side to side.
“Well, let’s go settle this.” Jinxx said, heading towards the building. The eight of them entered the building and smiled as they heard the race cars racing, there was also a food court which was good for them all. Andy approached the counter and the woman looked up and looked as if she was about to faint, she started to pant as she tried to speak.
“Oh my god! Your Andy Biersack!” The woman said excitedly, Andy smiled.
“Yes I am.”
“I am a huge fan! What can I get you guys?” The woman said, trying to calm down and do her job.
“We want to race, so eight tickets?” Andy said, the woman nodded and handed him eight tickets and let him and the others head on. Everyone was staring and talking, and most of them knew who they were and started to freak out and take pictures. They approached the race track, and was greeted by a male employee.
“How many riding?” He asked, taking the tickets from Andy.
“Eight.”
“Alright, take your helmets and hop in.” The employee said, the girls wore red helmets and the boys wore black helmets. They all hopped into the race cars and put on their seatbelt around their waist, Ashley looked at Pandora who was beside him in her race car with a smirk.
“Your going down!” He told her, Pandora rolled her eyes.
“Alright, there’s four laps. Just follow the track.” The employee said, closing the gate so no one could enter the track and get run over. Andy nodded and looked at his team, he knew they were going to win, they were certain they would. They heard the beeping noise to count them down before they take off, Ashley was getting excited and he was desperate to win. Suddenly the buzzer sounded off, and Andy was the first one who took off and started to lead. The boys fought to be first, but Andy and Pandora were leading and they could hear the others cussing each other behind them.
“No!” Jake yelled at Ella, making her laugh.
“Pull up your skirt Jake and be a man!” Ella told him, making them all laugh at Jake.
The last lap came and Pandora and Andy were right beside each other, Andy started to get nervous as Pandora started to get closer to the finish line and as he tried to speed up faster, the buzzer went off again to let them know that was the last lap.
“The girl won!” The employee announced, making the guys sigh in frustration.
“I told you that you couldn’t beat me.” Pandora said as they exited the race track, Andy shook his head side to side, not believing he lost to girls.
“I will get you back.” Andy told her, she giggled.
“Sounds good to me, I’ll just kick your sore butt again.”
The eight of them headed back outside with a smile on their faces, the boys finally forgave the girls and told them they won fair. The eight of them decided to go get something to eat at the Chinese restaurant not far from here, they had a great time and Pandora had an excellent time. When they returned home, it was 7:30 and Juliet was in the living room watching TV. Pandora headed upstairs to leave Andy and Juliet alone to talk, she entered her bedroom and took off her jacket and laid it on the bed. She washed her makeup off and changed, after she had pulled her hair into a ponytail her cell phone started to go off to alert her that she had received a text message. She approached her nightstand and picked up the phone, seeing it was a text from Collin. She clicked View Now, and started to read the text message, feeling butterflies in her stomach.


Collin: Will you go out with me?



Did she wanted to go out with Collin, or not? She honestly didn’t know.

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