Knives & Pens

The birthday party was today, Andy and Pandora spent an hour blowing up the birthday balloons while Juliet worked on the snacks. Pandora had been trying to tell Andy since she woke up this morning but it kept getting interrupted with phone calls and Juliet, she was beginning to get frustrated with it and thought about giving up, but she knew she shouldn’t and she wouldn’t. She would keep trying for as long as it took to tell Andy, and whenever she knew she had the chance, she don’t care where they were at or what was happening she would tell him. Jinxx told Andy he’ll bring Ashley to the house at seven thirty, which gave them four hours to finish decorating and getting ready. Pandora blew up the last balloon and tossed it to Andy, the floor was covered in black balloons which would looked like fun to dive into them if there were more balloons and they wouldn’t pop.
“Okay, what’s next on the list?” Andy asked Pandora, she grabbed the clipboard and looked at the To Do List.
“The music is next,” Pandora replied, Andy thought. “Okay what about we just play songs from my Ipod?”
“Don’t you only have Black Veil Brides on your ipod?” Andy asked while chuckling, Pandora giggled.
“No, I don’t only have Black Veil Brides, that’s my Black Veil Brides play list. You haven’t heard the other songs I have.” Pandora told him, Andy raised his eyebrows.
“I don’t know if I want to know, I might be scared.”
“Oh ha ha.” Pandora said with sarcasm, Andy chuckled and stood up.
“But we’ll use your Ipod since it will be easier, what next?”
“Well, Juliet is doing the snacks and the drinks. So, that’s it.” Pandora said, putting down the clipboard and getting up from the couch.
“Yes, high five.” Andy said, Pandora gave him a high five and smiled. “Alright, it’s almost four now. So, I guess we’ll start getting ready because people will be arriving between five and six.”
Pandora nodded. “Sounds good to me.”
The three of them spent a while getting ready, Pandora took the longest it seemed but it paid off.
After she had applied her makeup her cell phone started to ring, she picked it up and saw it was a text from Collin.


Collin: Hey babe, I’ll probably be a little late to the party, but I promise to be there. See you soon sweetheart.


Pandora: Okay that’s cool babe, missing you!!





Pandora really liked Collin, he was a nice guy, caring, understanding and he liked her for her, even after he saw her scars. Andy knew Pandora liked Collin, and he was happy for her, but slightly jealous but he wanted them to last forever if it made Pandora happy. The clock ticked and turned, people started to arrive and Andy introduced Pandora to all of them. The cars weren’t parked in the driveway, they were hidden so Ashley wouldn’t suspect anything. By seven thirty, all the lights were off and everyone was standing in the living room while Jinxx and Ashley walked up the porch steps. Ashley was completely clueless about the party, and didn’t even wonder why the lights were off in the house. Jinxx opened the front door, and let Ashley in first.
“Why in the hell are the lights off?” Ashley questioned, Jinxx laughed.
“You know how Andy is, he’s a strange, strange man.”
Ashley entered the living room and the lights were flicked back on and everyone yelled “Surprise”, catching Ashley off guard and leaving him standing in shock.
“Holy shit!” Ashley said, he looked around at everyone in shock.
“Happy birthday!” Pandora said, running towards Ashley and hugging him. He didn’t mind that at all, he wrapped his arms around her waist and hugged her tightly.
“Thank you.”
“Dude, she has a boyfriend!” CC yelled from the food table, Ashley rolled his eyes and Pandora pulled away from the hug.
“I can’t believe you guys did this.” Ashley said, Andy smiled.
“Ah, well you are getting old so I figured we should make this birthday special for you.”
Ashley pushed Andy, making him laugh.
“Dude fuck you, I’ll remember that when your birthday comes around.”
Everyone was having a good time, and finally around eight thirty Collin showed up. Pandora and Collin stepped outside onto the front porch and took a seat on the swing to get away from the big crowd inside, Pandora was holding her drink and looking down at the porch floor. Collin could tell something was bothering her, but he couldn’t figure out exactly why.
“Babe what’s wrong?” Collin asked, Pandora jumped slightly and looked at him.
“Nothing, why?”
“I can tell something is on your mind.” Collin told her, Pandora smiled softly.
“Is it that noticeable?”
“Very noticeable, so tell me. What’s up?” Collin said, putting his arm around her and leaning back.
“I heard something the other day that Andy should know, and I keep trying to tell him but it keeps getting interrupted.” Pandora said, Collin bit his bottom lip.
“Well, is it serious?”
Pandora nodded. “Very, very serious.”
“What did you hear?” Collin asked her, Pandora looked at him, her green eyes staring into his eyes.
“Juliet’s baby isn’t Andy’s.” Pandora said, her voice trailing off at the end. Collin’s eyes widened and he looked at her.
“Are you sure?”
“I heard Juliet talking to someone on the phone about it, and what I can tell she’s making Andy think he is the father so he’ll have something to do with her.” Pandora told him, Collin sighed.
“Damn, poor dude.”
“Yeah, I don’t know what to do.” Pandora said, Collin rubbed her back.
“Keeping it a secret another day isn’t good, you should see if you can go tell him now.”
Pandora looked at him. “Really?”
“Yes really, come on. I’ll keep people away from you two.” Collin said, he stood up and took her hand. The two of them reentered the house and went into the living room, Pandora spotted Andy standing by the food table with Ashley.
“There he is.”
“Deep breath.” Collin told her, she took a deep breath and approached Andy.
“Andy, can we talk. Now?” Pandora asked him, Andy looked down at her, seeing the expression on her face as serious as it can be. He knew something was wrong, but he didn’t know what.
“Yeah sure.”
Pandora took his arm and led him upstairs to her bedroom, when Collin saw them going upstairs he sat down at the bottom step and made sure no one went up there until they came back down. Pandora pulled Andy into her bedroom and closed the door, thinking about pushing the dresser in front of the door to keep people out.
“You might want to sit down.” Pandora told him, Andy looked at the bed and took a seat, getting extremely nervous now.
“Okay, you better hurry up and tell me because I’m curious now. And if it’s bad, or if someone hurt you, I will kill them.” Andy said, Pandora swallowed hard.
“It’s not about me, it’s about you and Juliet.”
Andy raised his eyebrows and looked at her in confusion. “Okay, go ahead..”
“I’ve been trying to tell you for days now, but we kept getting interrupted.. The other day when you left me with Juliet, I went downstairs and heard her on the phone with a friend or whoever it was. She said she didn’t want to lose you, and she didn’t want to tell you the baby isn’t yours. Because you’ll be heartbroken.. She said if the baby isn’t yours, she thinks she knows who the daddy is but she wouldn’t tell you because she’ll lose you. And it’s like the baby is the only thing keeping her with you..” Pandora said, Andy looked at Pandora in shock, unsure of what to say. He stood up and ran his fingers through his hair, he was beyond pissed off and he didn’t know what to do or even say. He felt cheated.
“I can’t believe her!”
Pandora swallowed hard. “Sadly, I can. I tried to tell you, but it kept getting interrupted and I didn’t know when I would be able to tell you, but it’s been killing me that I knew and you didn’t. I had to tell you.”
Andy looked at her. “It’s okay, I understand. I have been busy,” Andy said, he looked at the door angrily. “I’m going to confront her.” He said, he took off towards the door and left before Pandora could stop him. She didn’t want Andy to ruin Ashley’s birthday with an argument with Juliet, but she was positive she wouldn’t be able to stop him when he‘s mad as he was now. Collin stood up when he heard footsteps coming downstairs, he backed out of the way as Andy stormed past him into the living room, he looked at Pandora in confusion.
“There’s going to be an argument.” Pandora told him, grabbing his hand and dragging him into the living room. Andy stormed over to the radio and paused the music, making everyone’s attention turn towards him but he didn’t care, all he cared about was confronting Juliet about lying to him this entire time about a child that is most likely not his. Juliet was sitting on the couch, she looked up at Andy, seeing his angry expression.
“You and I need to talk right now.” Andy said through his teeth, everyone was confused but Pandora was sure in a minute everyone will know what’s going on. Juliet stood up from the couch and approached him, she looked up at him.
“Okay, we’ll go outside.”
“Oh why should we? Maybe I want people to know what you lied to me about.” Andy snapped, Juliet looked at him in confusion.
“I don’t know what your talking about.”
“Oh you don’t?” Andy asked, crossing his arms over his chest as he got even angrier.
“No I don’t, I didn’t lie to you about anything Andy.”
“You’re lying right now!” Andy hissed, Pandora bit her bottom lip and stepped forward.
“Andy, please, stop this. You don’t want to do this in front of everyone.” Pandora said, trying to be somewhat quiet so people wouldn’t hear only he would.
“Oh no I’m sure I want everyone to hear, why should I let her keep acting like she’s innocent when she’s not? I’m not going to, I’m not going to let someone walk all over me with lies!” Andy snapped, Collin pulled Pandora back and made her stand beside him just in case something bad happens.
“Andy, you need to calm down. I don’t know what you’ve been told, but I’m sure it’s a lie.” Juliet told him, Andy got even angrier.
“I’m sure what I’ve been told wouldn’t be a lie, so tell me Juliet, who's the father of that baby? Because apparently it’s not mine.”
Everyone looked at each other in shock, not knowing what to say. The guys looked at each other, then looked at Pandora, seeing her biting her bottom lip. Juliet knew she wasn’t going to get away with this now, not with what Andy had said.
“Andy, please we can talk about this tomorrow.”
“No we’re not talking about this tomorrow, because you’re leaving tonight!” Andy spat, Juliet swallowed hard.
“Andy I’m sorry, but I didn’t want to----’
Andy interrupted. “Didn’t want to lose me am I right? But you thought lying to me would make everything okay?!”
Juliet was crashing down, she felt her eyes watering at Andy’s words, but he was so mad right now he didn’t care if she was upset or not. Why should he feel sympathy for someone who lied to him and walked all over him? He shouldn’t.
“Andy I’m sorry, I didn’t know what to do, I knew we talked about kids before and I thought the baby was yours at first. But as I thought about it, it didn’t add up..” Juliet said, her voice cracking.
“How long have you known?”
“Not long, a few days. I was going to tell you.” Juliet told him, he bit his bottom lip in anger.
“Don’t you lie to me Juliet.”
It took her a second to answer. “A few days after I told you I was pregnant..”
Andy shook his head side to side, feeling his blood pressure rising. “Who’s the father?”
Juliet shook her head side to side. “Andy I can’t.”
“Tell me Juliet, who‘s the father?” Andy demanded, Juliet stepped back and looked down, shaking her head as tears rolled her cheeks.
“If I tell you, I will lose you.”
“Oh trust me, you’ve lost me already. At least you can do is tell me who's the father of that baby.” Andy told her, Juliet had to change the topic.
“Who told you about this?”
“It doesn’t matter who the hell told me, stop dodging the question and answer it!” Andy spat, Juliet felt overwhelmed and she didn’t know what to do for that slight second but to tell him.
“It’s Jamie, okay!”
Andy went silent, Pandora’s jaw dropped and the guys looked at Andy in complete shock.
“Pandora’s ex Jamie?!” Andy hissed, Juliet nodded as tears flooded her cheeks. “Get the fuck out of my house right now, and you can stay out of my life too.”
Juliet knew she had lost him for good, she turned from Andy and walked to the door way, but stopped to look at Pandora.
“I will make your life a living hell.” Juliet told Pandora, she looked at her.
“I’ve been told that before, but you won’t.”
Juliet rolled her eyes and went upstairs to pack, she packed her bags, grabbed her car keys and left. Leaving Andy with a broken heart. He looked at the floor and smiled a fake smile, he started to play the music again and headed into the kitchen to make a drink. The guys and Pandora followed him, along with Collin. He looked upset, but tried not to show it. Ashley approached Andy, and hugged his best friend. Even though it was Ashley’s birthday, he was going to make sure Andy had a good time tonight too. Andy ended up tipsy, the birthday party continued until one thirty. Most of the guests had already gone home, but Ashley, CC, Jinxx, Jake, and Collin stayed to party. Finally around two thirty, the guys left and so did Collin. Andy was laying on the couch when Pandora entered the living room after telling Collin by, he looked at her and smiled softly.
“Pandora?”
“Yes?” Pandora said, beginning to clean up the mess.
“I don’t know what I did wrong..” Andy said, Pandora looked at him and saw him looking upset again, which made her almost want to cry. She set down the trash bag and approached him, sitting down on the floor and looking at him.
“You did nothing wrong.”
“Feels like it..” Andy said, Pandora smiled softly.
“You didn’t though, you’re a nice, caring, understanding guy Andy. She doesn’t deserve you.” Pandora told him, Andy smiled.
“Your right.”
“You’ll find another girl, and she’s going to be the girl of your dreams and you’ll love her more than you ever loved Juliet.” Pandora told him, he smiled.
“Wish she was here now..”
“I bet you do, but I’m sure she’s around.” Pandora told him, Andy smiled.
“She better be, don’t think I can handle another day without her.”
Pandora giggled. “She’ll show up when you least expect it.”
Andy smiled and held open his arms. “Cuddle me!” He whined like a child, Pandora rolled her eyes.
“I can’t, I’m cleaning since you’re too drunk to.”
“I am not drunk!” Andy protested, Pandora stood up and grabbed the trash bag.
“That’s what a drunk person would say.” Pandora told him, he laughed. He watched her clean for a while, until he passed out on the couch…

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