Knives & Pens

Skye was now four days old and she was very healthy, Pandora was exhausted though since she wasn’t sleeping through the whole night. Pandora was up every three hours during the night, but she didn’t complain since she decided to take this responsibility. Andy would wake up sometimes too to check on Skye and Pandora, his protectiveness was worse now it seemed, but there was a baby in his house now, his unrelated niece. It was Sunday and Pandora was sitting on the couch rocking a sleeping Skye slowly in her arms, Andy laid on the second couch enjoying Tom and Jerry on TV.
“This show is so old.” Andy said, as he watched the show in boredom.
“Still awesome though.”
“Not as awesome as Batman.”
“Why do you love Batman so much?” Pandora asked with a giggle, Andy looked at her with an serious expression on his face.
“Why do you love my band so much?”
“That’s different.” Pandora told him, he arched his eyebrows.
“How is it different?”
“Black Veil Brides is real, Batman is fictional.”
Andy gasped dramatically as if her words were daggers stabbing him in the chest.
“Take that back Pandora Chambers!”
“Take what back, that Batman isn’t real?” Pandora asked, Andy’s face went even more serious and Pandora didn’t think he could get any more serious than before.
“Batman is real.”
“How do you know?” Pandora asked him.
“Because I am, Batman.”
Pandora shook her head and smiled. “You’re a nut.”
“No, I’m Batman, but I have nuts.”
“I didn’t need to know that Andrew, too much information.” Pandora told him, shaking her head. He smirked, he loved messing around with her, her reactions were priceless.
“Every male has them, so does Ash, of course you’d know.”
Pandora turned tomato red in embarrassment. “Shut up Andrew.”
Andy chuckled then the doorbell rang and he sighed, getting up.
“I’ll get that, since you’re holding the baby and won’t let me hold her.”
“She’s sleeping.” Pandora replied as he walked past the couch, he nodded then walked out of the living room and approached the door. He gripped the door knob and pulled the door open, to see James, Gail, and Sierra standing there in front of him.
“What do you want?”
“We want to see Pandora.” Gail replied, like Andy would let them into his house while Pandora is in the living room with Skye.
“Pandora isn’t here.” Andy told them, he may not be Skye’s father but he was her uncle and he would protect her with his life, same with Pandora.
“Where is she?”
“Um,” Andy began, trying to think of something. “She’s at her boyfriend’s house.” That sounded really believable.
“We’ll come back later then.” James said, putting a hand on Gail’s shoulder to turn her away. But before Andy could close the door, Skye began crying and Gail gasped.
“Is that my granddaughter?” she asked, she slammed open the door and ran inside, running into the living room to see Pandora standing up with a crying baby in her arms.
“Oh my gosh, she’s a cutie!” Gail said excitedly, Pandora looked up to see her ‘family’ and her eyes widened.
Please not now, Pandora thought desperately. Andy shut the door in frustration after Sierra and James welcomed themselves into his house, he found it rude and it really pissed him off. Gail approached Pandora and looked at Skye and her heart melted, the last thing Pandora wanted or needed was her family here.
“When was she born?” James asked, taking a seat on the recliner. Andy gave him a ‘I hate you’ look, he was really close to kicking them out.
“Five days ago.” Pandora replied, she really needed to get away from them and get her daughter away from them.
“Oh, can I hold her?” Gail asked, holding out her arms like she was going to take Skye out of her mother’s arms, Pandora stepped back.
“No, she needs to be changed I think.”
“Oh that’s okay I can do that for you sweetie, you look exhausted already.” Gail said, Pandora felt like she was about to break down, she didn’t need her mother to help her take care of her daughter, she knew what to do.
“No, she’s my responsibility mom.” Pandora snapped slightly, she walked away from her mother. Andy watched angrily.
“She’s just trying to help, Pandora.” James told her, trying to calm his daughter now. Pandora stopped and turned around to look at her family, tears forming in her eyes.
“I don’t need either one of your help, I never have and I never will.”
“Pandora, what’s wrong with you?” Gail asked, sounding clueless. Did she really forget what happened months ago?
“Everything is wrong with me, I want you to leave me alone and leave my daughter alone. This is way too much, stop showing up here and trying to take my daughter out of my arms!” Pandora spat, she walked out of the living room and stormed upstairs without another word. She just wanted to be alone right now, that’s all she wanted. Gail swallowed hard and looked at James, and he shrugged his shoulders. Andy uncrossed his arms and decided to step in.
“Oh well, shit happens. Nice of you all for stopping by, and please don’t take this the wrong way, wait you know I don’t care if you do, but get out of my house.” Andy said, he walked out of the living room and approached the door, opening it and holding the door open for the Chambers as they walked out of the living room and out of his house. Once Sierra stepped out of his house, he slammed the door and locked it. He sighed loudly, then headed upstairs to check on Pandora. He found her in the nursery sitting in the rocking chair, rocking back and forth slowly with Skye still in her arms. She had a blanket over her chest and Skye, and he knew she was feeding Skye. Tears were streaming down Pandora’s face and she was holding back a sob.
“I kicked them out,” Andy said, she turned her head and smiled at him. “Are you alright?”
“Yes and no, I just don’t know if I can forgive them and let them in Skye’s life.”
“What about this, when Skye gets to the age let her decide if she wants her grandparents in her life. But for now, keep distant Pandora, it will help.” Andy told her, she smiled and nodded in agreement.
“Thanks Andy, you always know what to say.”
“Anything for you,” he said, he approached her and kissed her forehead. “When you’re done what about you come back downstairs and we’ll watch a movie or something?”
Pandora nodded and he planted a kiss on her head, then walked out of the nursery. These last few months was a complete life changer, she was just a seventeen year old bullied High School student with terrible parents and a terrible sibling. Then she was saved by her favorite band, and went touring with them. She was able to smile and laugh, and put down the razor. She became pregnant and met a wonderful guy, and now she has everything she could ever have. In this moment she thought about all the kids being bullied and self harming, she understood what they felt, they felt alone and like they were a burden to everyone. She wished she could meet every single one of them and tell them everything will be okay and could hug them, because she knew that’s what they needed. She wished she could’ve told the ones who took their lives that everything could turn out okay in the end, you have to go through the storm to find the sunshine. She wanted everyone to know that they should be proud to be themselves, and that self harming wasn’t the answer. She wanted peace, she wanted to see smiles, she wanted to hear laughter. The scars on her wrists were a reminder that she got through it, a reminder that she was strong. A tear rolled down her cheek and she smiled, she was finally happy.

Notes

There is only one more chapter and then the story ends. I know it's sad... Leave comments about this chapter, I'll update again soon!