Knives & Pens

July was coming fast and so was Pandora’s pregnancy, it seems like the other day she just found out she was pregnant. She’s almost seven months pregnant, looking like it too. Skye was healthy as can be, she was growing just fine, the ultrasound shows a healthy baby girl, she’s kicking and moving. Pandora was doing fine as a mother, staying away from the food she’s not supposed to eat. Not drinking alcohol was easy, as she’s underage and she’s smarter than that. Andy was getting excited with the idea of a baby in the house, he couldn’t wait to spoil Pandora’s daughter, and turn her into a Batman fan. It was a fun idea for him, as he was an only child, and he’s not a father. The idea of a child being around him made him apprehensive but excited at the same time, he knew he’d protect Skye with his life as he did with Pandora. Both of them meant everything to him, even though Skye wasn’t born yet, he was protective over her already. Pandora knew Skye would have a happy life, she was loved and cared for already by so many people. Andy would be a great friend to her, and he’s already offering to baby-sit, Ashley was her father and would be a great loving Dad to his little girl, CC was going to be a great friend, playing with Skye and teaching her things, Jake was going to be a great as well, showing her things and chasing her around, Jinxx would be a great person to go for advice when she got older, she could always look up to him. The band members were going to be a great impact in Skye’s life, and Pandora knew that and was so grateful for it. Collin was going to be great too, Pandora could picture it. Even though Skye isn’t Collin’s daughter, Pandora could see him being a father to her as well. And she hoped Ashley would be okay with that. The idea of having a child changes your entire life, it takes a lot of responsibility and you need to know you’re ready. Don’t let anyone tell you that your decision is wrong. Because it’s not, it’s your body, your child, your decision. Pandora knew that too, months ago she didn’t see herself being a mother, but now that she was a yet-to-be-mother, she was excited and apprehensive about it. You don’t become a mother when you are pregnant, you become a mother after you have your child and raise your child, that’s what makes you a mother. Pandora was going to try to be the best mother she could be, and the mother her daughter deserved, she just hoped she would succeed in that..

“What about a light pink?” Ashley asked Pandora on a Saturday afternoon, today they were going to start working on Skye’s nursery. Andy made it clear that Pandora could do whatever she wanted to do to the guest bedroom, he sat her down last night and had a long conversation about it and she finally gave in. She was at Lowes with Andy and Ashley, trying to figure out a color on what to paint the nursery.
“Or blue?” Andy said, Pandora was in thought, she couldn’t decide.
“Or purple.” Ashley said, looking at the colors of purple.
“Or red.” Andy said, Ashley nodded in thought.
“What color do you want, Pandora?” Ashley asked, looking at her. He wore sunglasses, hoping no one here would recognize him. Pandora chewed on her bottom lip in thought, looking at the colors of blue, purple, pink and red. There was so many colors she could choose from and turn it into a ‘girl’s color, but she didn’t know what color she wanted at all. She stood there in thought, trying to picture the nursery in her head. Andy began looking for other colors, looking at light colors and darkish colors. He knew Pandora wanted the nursery to be perfect, and hell he did too, but he didn’t know what color they could do.
“What about we do a pink color?” Pandora finally said, Andy’s head turned and he approached Ashley and Pandora.
Ashley nodded, trying to picture a pink color. “What shade though?”
“It could be light, but not extremely light. Or dark, but not extremely dark.” Pandora said, looking at the two men. Ashley nodded, the picture in his head becoming clearer.
“I say light.”
“Andy?” Pandora said, wanting his input as well.
“Yeah I’m with Ash on this one, I say light.” Andy told her, a huge smile appeared on her face. They decided on the shade and grabbed four cans of paint, then went and got paint brushes and other things they needed. Then they went to the checkouts, Ashley paid for the paint and paint brushes after arguing with Pandora about it. She finally gave in and he bought everything, they left without being noticed and headed back to Andy’s place, seeing the guys parked in the driveway waiting.
“Hey!” CC greeted once they got out of Ashley’s SUV.
“What are you guys doing here?” Andy asked, approaching the group.
“Well, we told the girls Pandora was working on the nursery today and they basically forced us to take them and help her.” Jake replied, Ella appeared with a smile.
“Yes, so you boys can just sit on the couch and do what you do best and we’ll help Pandora paint.” Ella said, joining Pandora’s side. Brittan appeared as well, and that’s when Andy realized he was one man short.
“Where’s Jinxx?”
“I don’t know, I couldn’t get a hold of him. Must be busy with Sammi or something.” Jake replied, Ashley rolled his eyes.
“Good for him, alright well we’ll help the girls with the paint I guess.” Ashley said, Jake and CC and Andy followed after him, grabbing a can of paint for each of them. They headed inside and upstairs, passing Andy’s bedroom, Pandora’s bedroom and finally reaching the guest bedroom. Andy opened the door and everyone stepped inside, Ella looked around.
“This will be a decent size nursery.” She said, Pandora nodded in agreement.
“I wonder if we can take down this bed.” Andy said, looking at the boys in thought. They shrugged their shoulders, they didn’t know.
“Let’s find out.” CC said.
“Hold on, we need some music.” Pandora said, leaving the room and running into her bedroom to get her Ipod. then headed downstairs, plugging her Ipod up to the sound bar and turning the sound bar up as Black Veil Brides began blasting throughout the house. When she returned to the guest bedroom she saw the girls taking off the sheets and blankets, throwing them out in the hall. Once the bed was just a mattress and a bed frame, the boys lifted up the mattress and began carrying it out of the room. Pandora had to admit, watching them all work made them look pretty good looking. Once the mattress was gone, Andy came back inside the room and looked at the bed frame.
“Yeah we can take this apart.” Andy said, Jake nodded.
“Do you have tools?”
“I do, but I don’t think I have the kind of tools to take this apart.” Andy replied, Ashley held up a finger, stopping everyone.
“I got it.” He said, then left the guest bedroom. Everyone looked at each other in confusion, then shrugged their shoulders. Ashley returned with a tool box, the girls looked at each other in confusion, wondering where the hell he got the tool box. He opened it and grabbed the tool he needed, then started to take apart the bed. Once the bed was apart, the boys carried it out into the hallway. They took out all the furniture in the room, leaving it completely empty. Ella laid out the plastic to cover the floor, so no paint would get on the carpet. While they did this, Andy was finding a place for the guest room stuff.
“Alright, let’s paint this room!” Ella said excitedly, Pandora giggled and grabbed a screw driver from Ashley’s tool box and opened the can of paint. They grabbed paint brushes and began painting, turning the white walls, pink.


“This is an awesome color.” Brittan said, Ella giggled.
“Of course it’s awesome, Pandora picked it out.”
Pandora laughed. “She’s right.”
The girls broke into laughter for a few seconds, then calmed themselves down. “So, are you going to start baby shopping, or wait and see what you get at the baby shower?” Ella asked, hoping Pandora would wait.
“I don’t know, what do you think I should do?”
“Wait.” Both of the girls responded, Pandora giggled.
“Okay, then I’ll wait.” Pandora told them, they both smiled, looking at each other in thought.
“Good, I think that will be the best bet.”
“Have your parents tried getting a hold of you anymore?” Brittan asked suddenly, Pandora shrugged her shoulders.
“Not on my phone, but I haven’t checked my Facebook lately. So I don’t know.” Pandora replied, Brittan looked at her.
“I think it would be best if you stayed off Facebook for a while.”
“Me too, like Amy said, stress isn’t good for you or Skye.” Ella said, smiling at the sound of Pandora’s daughter’s name.
“I probably will, besides I don’t like Facebook anyways.”
Ella laughed. “That makes two of us girl, okay, we’re going to need Andy to reach the high places.”
Pandora laughed and stood up, they had already finished half the walls, all except some higher places. “Andy!” Pandora yelled, suddenly they heard running up the stairs and all the guys appeared with worried expressions.
“You alright?” Andy asked, running to Pandora’s side.
“Yes I’m fine, I just need your help.”
Andy sighed. “Pandora you yelled for me, I thought something was wrong and all you needed was help?”
Pandora frowned. “I’m sorry.”
“Hey asshole, upset her will you?” Ashley snapped, Andy gave Ashley a look.
“Shut up,” Andy demanded, then he looked at Pandora. “What do you need help with?”
“We can’t reach to finish the wall.” Pandora replied, pointing to the places they missed. Andy chuckled and nodded, grabbing Pandora’s paint brush and beginning to paint while the other guys started to helped as well.


“You did awesome.” Andy said, giving Pandora a high five. She giggled and hugged him from the side, shortly after the guys and girls left, leaving Pandora and Andy alone they both looked at the painted room, slowly becoming a nursery.
“Thank you.” Pandora mumbled into Andy’s shirt, he sighed.
“I wish you would stop thanking me, seriously.” Andy said, she pulled back and he smiled.
“I can’t help it, you have no idea how thankful I am.”
Andy looked into her green eyes, his blue eyes dead serious. “I know how thankful you are Pandora, I know you don’t take any of this for granted.” Andy told her, she smiled and looked back into the nursery.
“My whole life has changed.”
Andy smiled. “Are you happy with it?”
“I wouldn’t change it for the world.”
Andy smiled, then he pulled her into another hug. “I’m glad, because I got an amazing best friend out of it and I wouldn’t want to take her back for the world neither.” Andy said into her hair, she smiled and hugged him tightly.
“I feel the same way.”
They both stood there for a few seconds, just hugging for no absolute reason. The sun was setting and they could see it through the window, Pandora let out a big breath, feeling Skye kicking her once again. Skye was always kicking it seemed, Collin swears she’s learning Kung Fu in there.
“Let’s go fix some dinner, I’m sure your hungry.” Andy said, pulling back from her. She giggled and nodded, following him down the hallway.
“When am I not hungry?” Pandora said, joking about her eating habits now.
“I know right, you’re like Jake!” Andy joked in return, Pandora laughed.
“I’m sure I’m worse than Jake.”
“Both of you are pretty bad.” Andy told her, entering the kitchen. She sped up a little bit and smacked his arm lightly and he let out a fake cry, which caused her to hug him and apologize. They fixed spaghetti and garlic toast, which was absolutely amazing. Once they were done, they headed into the living room where Pandora insisted they played the board game Sorry. Andy gave in quickly and they both sat on the floor in front of the coffee table playing Sorry, Pandora was winning and she couldn’t tell if he was letting her win, or he just naturally sucked at playing Sorry. She beat him pretty badly, and he wanted a rematch. Finally around midnight, Andy gave up, realizing Pandora was impossible to beat. Once they put up the game, Andy joined Pandora on the couch, the TV was off and it was quiet. Pandora liked it that way, when Andy sat down she laid her head against his shoulder and cuddled up with a blanket.
“Sing Lost It All to me.” Pandora told him, he chuckled.
“Why?”
“What’s the point of living with Andy Biersack if he won’t sing to you?” Pandora asked jokingly, he laughed.
“I guess you’re right, fine I’ll sing to you. You ready?”
“Ready Freddy.” Pandora replied, he smiled and began.
“I ruled the world. With these hands I shook the heavens to the ground. I laid the gods to rest. I held the key to the kingdom, lions guarding castle walls. Hail the king of death. Then I lost it all, dead and broken. My back’s against the wall, cut me open. I’m just trying to breathe, just trying to figure it out, because I built these walls to watch them crumbling down. I said, then I lost it all.. Who can save me now? I stood above, another war, another jewel upon the crown. I was the fear of man. But I was blind, I couldn’t see the world there right in front of me. But now, I can. Yeah. Cause I lost it all, dead and broken. My back’s against the wall, cut me open. I’m just trying to breathe, just trying to figure it out, because I built these walls to watch them crumbling down. I said, then I lost it all. Who can save me now? I believe that we all fall down sometimes, can’t you see, that we all fall down sometimes? I believe that we all fall down sometimes, can’t you see that we all fall down sometimes? Yeah. I believe that we all fall down sometimes. Yeah.” Andy sang, his deep voice soft. He smiled and glanced at Pandora, seeing her head against his shoulder, but she wasn’t moving nor saying anything.
“Pandora?” He asked, her breathing was steady. Which told him she was asleep, he smiled and reached over, flicking off the lamp on the table, making the house completely dark. He kicked his feet up onto the coffee table, then got comfortable, closed his eyes and fell to sleep….

Notes

(Hey guys, I would like to thank the hearters and fans of this story. I'm getting so many reads and hearts, it's really amazing. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and I am sorry it is taking me a while to update, it's because me and the editor are trying to edit these chapters but he's working five days a week now and he's editing from his phone so it's taking a while. Please leave comments about this chapter I will update soon guys, thanks for being so patient!)