Knives & Pens

Pandora was embarrassed with the bruises on her face, she tried to cover it up with makeup the best she could, but it barely worked, just covered up a little bit. Her parents didn’t care she was attacked and beaten, they only cared about Sierra and her broken nose. She hid from Black Veil Brides, not wanting them to see her bruises and her new cut. She made excuses of why she couldn’t go hang out with them, she wanted to, don’t get her wrong, but she was scared.
Andy didn’t know why she wouldn’t hang out with them, he started to think they done something wrong,or something happened. He was worried about her, not knowing why she wasn’t coming around anymore worried him.
It was Friday, and the guys were hanging out at Andy’s place. They all sat around, trying to find something to do.
“What is Pandora doing today?” CC asked, looking at Andy when he did.
“I don’t know,” Andy said, then looked at him. “She won’t answer my texts or phone calls.”
Jinxx looked at Andy with his eyebrows raised, the Well-Go-Check-On-Her look on his face. “Why not?” Jinxx asked, all the guys looked at Andy. Andy shrugged.
“I don’t know. Whenever I try to hang out with her, she says she can’t, but never gives me a reason.”
Jake threw a pillow at Andy, and Andy dodged it. “You know where she lives!” Jake hissed, Andy rolled his eyes.
“Jake, I’m not going to show up at her house and demand for her to tell me why she hasn’t been hanging out with us.” Andy said, the guys sighed and went silent. Then Jinxx looked at Andy.
“What if something is going on and she won’t tell you because she’s scared?”
Andy looked at him. “I’m pretty sure she’ll tell me if something was going on.”
Jinxx raised his eyebrows and gave Andy the Are-You-Sure look, Andy jumped up from the couch and grabbed his mustang keys. “I’m going to go check on her.”
“Yep, and so are we.” Ashley said getting up, Andy looked at him and saw the other three coming. He sighed and decided not to argue, the five got into the mustang and headed to Pandora’s house.

The mustang pulled in front of the white two story house, Andy cut off the engine and looked at the driveway, seeing all the cars gone. He looked at Jinxx who sat in the passenger seat, and shrugged.
“I don’t know if she’s home.” Andy said, Jinxx looked at him, and Andy took off his seat belt. “Fuck it.” He said and opened the door, Andy stepped out of the mustang and closed the door, the four followed him up the porch steps. Andy ringed the doorbell and waited patiently, suddenly the door opened, then closed quickly. Andy knocked.
“Pandora, open the door.” Andy said.
“Go away Andy!” Pandora yelled from the other side of the door, Andy sighed.
“No, we need to talk. Please?”
“Andrew go away!” Pandora yelled, Andy got worried then.
“Pandora, open the door or I’m breaking it down!” Andy threatened, knowing she’ll open the door then.
The door opened slowly, and barely, leaving a small crack. Andy saw an eye peaking through the crack at him.
“What do you want?” Pandora asked, Andy sighed.
“To see you, now open the door. Please?”
Pandora sighed and opened the door, that’s when she saw the four of them. Andy stared at her, looking angry, then sad, angry, then sad. It was a complete mix of angry and sad.
“What happened to you?” Andy asked, the words coming out into a rush. He rushed inside and turned her around and looked at her face.
“I fell.” Pandora lied, Ashley looked at her.
“You didn’t fall.” Ashley said.
“Who did this?” Andy asked through his teeth.
Pandora sighed and entered the living room, she took a sit on the couch and covered up in a blanket. She was watching Harry Potter.
“It doesn’t matter.” She replied, Andy stood in front of her, his anger rising off of him like smoke.
“Doesn’t matter? Pandora, look at you!” Andy hissed, Pandora looked up at him.
“Andy, just forget it! See, this is why I did not want you to see me!” Pandora hissed, she threw the blanket off and ran off upstairs. A second later, Andy heard a door slam. Andy looked at the guys, Jinxx pointed Andy to go upstairs and the others nodded in agreement. Andy nod, then he headed upstairs, trying to figure out which way she went. He found a closed door, which had the sign of “Keep out!” on it, he knocked on the door lightly.
“Pandora?” He said, he heard a faint “What?” in response.
“Can I come in?” He asked her, it took her a while to answer.
“It is just you?” Pandora asked, he nodded even though she couldn’t see him.
“Yeah, just me.” He heard the door unlock, and it opened. Pandora was standing in front of him, with tears running down her cheeks. Andy stepped inside and closed the door, she walked over to her bed and sat down on the floor. Andy joined her, sitting beside her.
“What happened?” Andy asked her, his deep voice was soft.
“I punched my sister in the nose at school.” Pandora replied, Andy looked at her.
“Your sister done this to you?” He asked, she shook her head side to side and wiped her tears away.
“No, but her boyfriend and his friends and a friend of hers did. I was walking home, and they pulled up in a car and got out. I ended up on the concrete and they started to kick me in the stomach. After that, my sister’s friend punched me in the nose. Then they left.” Pandora explained slowly, Andy felt anger rushing through him, it doesn’t take much to piss him off, and this just won a gold metal. He bit his bottom lip and heard her sniffing, he put his arm around her and pulled her into a hug. Understanding her pain. Since he was bullied. She started to cry into his shoulder as he stroked her hair and rubbed her back.
“It’s going to be okay.” He told her, she shook her head side to side.
“No it’s not, I’m bullied constantly.” Pandora cried, Andy looked down.
“It will get better, take it from someone whose been there. I promise you. don’t let it bring you down.” Andy told her, she was quiet for a minute. Then she pulled away and looked up at him.
“When Ashley met me, what did he mean by ‘That’s the girl’?” Pandora asked, Andy looked at her.
“When I saw your scars.. Afterwards I wanted to find you, like I wanted to help you. So, I decided I’ll try to find you. I spent days just looking at people trying to recognize if it was you, I was close to giving up and just moving on. But something told me to keep looking, and surely enough I found you.” Andy explained, Pandora smiled.
“So, you really did care?” Pandora asked him, Andy nodded and wiped her tears away.
“Of course I do, I care about everyone in my army.” Andy told her, Pandora smiled. Andy looked at her. “Listen Pandora, those kids who bully you. Isn’t nothing, their nothing compelled to you. Your great, don’t listen to a thing they tell you. People who just focus on things that hate, and just hate people to be hating. Is miserable. No one should ever listen to a bully. Their nothing. Your great, your awesome. Don’t believe a word they say.” Andy told her, Pandora looked up at him, her green eyes sparkling with light.
“Thank you Andy.”
Suddenly there was a knock on the door, Pandora’s head snapped towards the door.
“Come in.” She said, the door opened and there was Ashley.
“What’s up?” He asked, seeing the two in the floor. He opened the door wider and stepped inside the room, the three following him.
“Everything okay?” Jake asked, sitting down on the bed and looking at the two of them in the floor.
“Yes, everything is.” Pandora replied, Jake smiled and Andy grinned at her response.
“That’s great!” CC said, looking at Pandora with a big smile.
“Hey, I have an idea,” Ashley said, getting everyone’s attention. “I’m hungry, let’s go get some pizza?”
The guys looked at Pandora, she smiled.
“I’m into pizza.”
Ashley smiled. “Yes! Come on!”

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