Shadow Children

Bryan’s POV:
I received the song in an email from Andy.
“Chris! I got the song!” I yelled. He ran in and I played it.
“Wow! And this is by CC?” He asked for clarification. I nodded my head.
“Get the camera… let’s film this!” I said.

time lapse

“Hey guys! It’s Bryan here bringing you what’s new in music. Since I’ve gotten all of the Black Veil Brides fans hyped up over the new song I only found it fair to share it with you. Enjoy… Oh and CC has an important announcement at the end of their first concert on tour. Be sure to tune into my channel for the live stream. And here is Black Veil Brides with Let You Down.” We then cut to the song and uploaded it to YouTube. There was a million views in less than a minute. And in five the video went viral.

Vic’s POV:
It was the next morning. “Mike! Bryan uploaded the video!” I hit play and blasted it so everyone could hear it. I saw Jay at the corner of my eye slowly walking into the kitchen. A single tear dropped down her face. I pulled her into a hug.
“He always said that to me… I swear these words are true. I believe in you…”
“Well chica, it looks as though he still believes in you. You better accept the apology… seeing as the tour starts tomorrow.”
“Yeah, my birthday…”
“Dia del San Valentin?”
“If you mean valentine’s day than yes.”
“Well there must be something special planned!”
“I doubt it…”
“Well at least we can celebrate tonight with Kellin and the cute wittle babies!”
“Taco night?”
“Correctamundo!” I said.

time lapse

Jay’s POV:
It was night time already. I attended practice today with my band. Blade and I basically tackled each other with hugs. And I had some girl talk with Niki about her relationship with Ash. It’s been a great week with Pierce the Veil and Sleeping With Sirens. I was supposed to only be with Vic for three days but Jaime really wanted to hang out with me, plus I had to record back up vocals for both bands. The doorbell rang and I knew it was the Quinn family. I opened the door and there was cute little Copeland holding Kellin’s thumb and walking into the house.
“Hi Kellin, Katelynne, Rowan, Liam, and Copeland!” I said hugging Kellin and kissing Katelynne on the cheek. Like that weird “hello” I never understood between close friends and family members and such… like ugh whatever hopefully you get it. I sat on the floor and began playing with Copeland. Kellin ended up joining me.
“You ready for tomorrow?” He asked me.
“Not at all…”
“Aw, come on it’ll be amazing. Your first tour ever and you’re going to be 18… oh wait. I’d be nervous to. Like all of those creepers could now legally hit on you. See Copeland that’s why daddy is so protective. There are strange people out there, and even though they are my fans I sometimes think they need Jesus or something… what ever they believe!” I chuckled.
“I understand why you’re not nervous, you’ve been doing this forever! It’s just that I hate the idea of hundreds of people judging me rather than 20 or 30…”
“Look at me. You’re going to be fine, I believe in you. Everyone here believes in you.” I just nodded.
“Tacos!” Jaime yelled. We got up and went into the kitchen.
“Nobody’s going to judge you, they all are your fans too…” Kellin whispered into my ear as he put Copeland into her highchair.
“Hola mis amigos! This is a toast to our friend Jay for turning 18 and going on her first tour!” Vic proposed.
“May you have amazing fans and let them be as crazy as they want…” Tony said.
“And as a close friend once said as a reminder to everybody: Without the fans our bands ain’t shit!” Kellin included. We raised our cups and clinked glasses.

Time lapse

Kellin’s kids and I were playing call of duty when Kellin and Vic stepped into the middle of our game.
“We challenge thee Justine to a battle of war known as call of duty!” Kellin yelled.
“You’re on!” I yelled.
“But guys…” Rowan and Liam yelled in unison.
“Isn’t it your bed time anyways?” Kellin asked.
“But it’s only 10pm!” Liam yelled.
“No it’s not your bed time… it’s actually an hour later. Aren’t I a great dad?”
“Okay! Fine! We’re going!” They yelled back.
“Now let the games commence!” Vic yelled all nerdy like.
“My love for you was bulletproof, but you’re the one who shot me!” Vic yelled at Kellin.
“You can’t quote your own lyrics when playing a videogame dude. It’s not cool…” Kellin responded. As he was just standing there I shot him and won!
“I’m the winner motherfuckers!” I yelled.
“Shit! It’s 3am… you have to go to bed!” Vic yelled at me.
“VICTUR I AM NOT A BABY!”
“BED! NOW!” Kellin yelled.
“Fine…”

Time lapse

Mike’s POV:
Vic insisted that we surprise Jay for her birthday, so he made her a breakfast burrito with extra bacon and extra cheese. Just then there was a knock at the door.
“Kellin! Blade! Niki! Jagger! Gabe! Justin! Jesse! Jack! Wait where’s BVB and the rest of my band?” Vic quietly shouted.
“They’re stuck in traffic…” I said after reading the text from Jaime. Blade ran upstairs to wake Jay up. All that was heard was.
“Go away!”
“Never!” and then a whole bunch of laughing. Eventually they came downstairs and the door bell rang again. In walked the Jaime, Tony, Andy, Jinxx, Ashley, Jake… and when CC walked in Jay just placed the plate down and ran to him with an intense make out scene following.
“I guess this means she accepts his apology…” Niki said.
“No I’m not apologizing because those are just words… I want to make amends and that takes work.” CC said. Jay whispered something in his ear and CC just smirked and then he cover his mouth with his hand.
“I think you’ve been spending way too much time around Ashley…” He said.
“What? What did she say?” Ashley’s ears perked up.
“That’s only for CC to find out…” Jay said turning around and winking at CC.
“Hey Andy, you need to check this out…” I said walking to the recording room with Kellin. I played the tracks with the appearance of Jay.
“That’s my girl…” He said when they were over.
“You better have her singing in the concert…” Kellin said.
“She’s singing a cover of Death Valley.” Andy replied.
“Wrong! She’s singing King for a Day with us!” Kellin yelled.
“Okay! Fine! Fans won’t care it’s a longer concert!”
“At least your first two are in L.A.” I said.

Time lapse to concert

Jay’s POV:
I was in the dressing room with my band waiting for Bryan to show up.
“Hey, we kind of need Blade and Niki… the technicians need help setting up the drums and one of Niki’s guitar strings broke so she needs to replace it.” Ashley said.
“Looks like the interview is just you and me…” I said to Jagger.
“Looks like it’s just you…” He said answering a call on his phone. Just then Bryan walked in.
“You must be Justine…”
“Jay please.” I smiled.
“I thought it was a whole band interview…”
“Yeah about that we kind of need to set up ourselves because we are very OCD about our instruments… Sorry!”
“It’s cool! Anyways, shall we begin?”
“We shall!”
“Hi everybody I am Bryan Stars currently here with Fear the Silence. Can you please state your name and role in the band?”
“Justine and I play Bass for my band Fear the Silence.”
“I have heard that today is your birthday, happy birthday!”
“Thank you! It’s really awesome to be able to play my first concert on my birthday…
“Speaking about this concert what has it been like dating Christian?”
“It has it’s ups and downs like any normal relationship, but he always knows how to make me smile. I can never stay mad at him forever.”
“Well on a serious note, If you were a porn star what would your name be?”
“Yes… on a serious note,” I chuckled, “Well here’s the thing you really need to re-ask Andy that question because my brother’s name if you take off the first name, Blade, is Dennis Westtower… but my porn star name… hmm I really got to think about this one. Isn’t it like name of your first pet and the street you lived on? So mine would be Chelsea Chelsea.”
“Wait is his name seriously Blade Dennis Westtower?”
“Yup.” We both started cracking up.
“Tell me something about your band that makes you different than anybody else.”
“Well… Sometimes the police think we’re murdering a cow but really it’s just me singing…” I said. He laughed.
“Sing something for me!”
“Like what?”
“Anything!”
“Are you cool with some Celine Dion action right now?”
“Go for it!”
“Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you. That is how I know you go on. Once more, you open the door and you’re here in my heart and my heart will go on and on!” I got a round of applause from Kellin.
“Hey look who it is! Kellin Quinn!”
“This girl can fucking sing, I don’t know why she puts herself down like that!”
“Kellin tell the viewers why they should listen to Fear the Silence.”
“Jay is an amazing person and her songs are very relatable if you are going through a hard time. The whole band has been friends forever so you know that their friendship is authentic and Jay is hilarious! Did you ask her what her porn star name would be?”
“Chelsea Chelsea… it was the first pet and street thing…” I told him.
“Okay this question has been eating at me and you don’t have to answer if you don’t want to… but what happened earlier on when you went MIA?”
“Bryan, it’s not personal at all if it was on the news so I might as well share it… CC and I got into a huge fight because of a promise that I broke and it was just a disastrous fight…”
“Show them, it’s okay I promise…” Kellin whispered but it was audible enough for the camera to pick up. I rolled up my sleeve just enough so that way the gauze wrapped around my wrist was showing.
“Anyways Bryan what are some good questions?”
“If you were a Disney princess which one would you be?”
“Well I’m giving Snow White to Kellin, so I must be Ariel…”
“Why is Kellin Snow White?”
“Yeah why am I Snow White?”
“Because you are the fairest maiden in all the land and you have the highest singing voice out of the rest of us princesses… Like seriously dude, it’s so high what do you do? Get kicked in the groin before you sing?”
“No! Gabe punches me in the groin get it right!”
“Hey look it’s Andy!”
“Hey guys what’s up?”
“Favorite pick up lines on three!”
“Oh god man… This is hard… Oh I got one! If you were a booger I’d pick you first… or if you were a Pokémon I’d choose you.” I said my inner nerd coming out.
“I already gave you mine, what was it… like our 6th interview!” Andy yelled.
“Oh! I’ve got one!” Kellin yelled, “How you doing?” Andy and I started cracking up at the Friends reference.
“Hey Jay?”
“Yeah Bryan?”
“Did it hurt?”
“Well I mean it was a complete accident; look I was playing beer pong with this guy and I won. I was so happy that I was jumping up and down and then my foot slipped and it all happened so fast. I’m pretty sure I broke my nose…”
“That was quite the answer… What about you Kellin? Did it hurt?”
“Well not really as much as it probably hurts for a girl, but I mean I got an adorable baby out of it…”
“Okay I don’t think I’m following… are we talking about heaven or sex?” Andy asked.
“Hey yo Kellin! We need you dude!” Vic yelled.
“Guess we’ll never have an answer…” I said.
“Is there anything fans can expect from Fear the Silence during this tour?”
“Just come in with an open mind, we do covers and a few originals and since the other band dropped out of this tour because they were asked to go on a different one we will have a lot more time.”
“Except for tonight…” Andy said.
“Why what do you guys have planned?” I asked.
“Since PTV and SWS are here they wanted to perform a song or two…”
“Is there anything you would like to say to fans before we sign off?”
“I know our fan base is still really small, but it doesn’t matter because I am here for each and every one of you. Write me on twitter, email me, or find me on Facebook… do what ever you can because I want you to know that there is someone out there that cares even if you feel like nobody does. I promise to be there for you as much as I can because without you guys I wouldn’t be where I stand today.” I said.
“Andy?”
“I say this all the time, but it’s true you guys are what makes us a band. Fuck the haters because in reality their comments just spread the word about our band even more. I’m here for you, Jay is here for you and that is all that matters…”
“Alright silly faces before we go?”
“1!2!3!” I rolled my eyes back and stuck my tongue out, Bryan made a duck face, and Andy just was Andy.
“Thank you so much for interviewing me!” I said once we were done. I looked over and the camera was still rolling for the uncut edition.
“No thank you for agreeing to it. It was great to meet you!”
“Alright who sounds like a dying cow?” Niki yelled.
“Vic’s warming up with Jagger…” Mike answered.
“Bryan! Give me that camera!” Kellin yelled. He took the camera and followed me into my changing room.
“And here is the wild Jay in her natural habitat doing her hair and make up…” I started laughing.
“Would you care to answer a serious question for the fans?”
“Of course!”
“Would you rather take on 100 duck sized horses, or 1 horse sized duck?”
“Give me a second to think about this… Well I mean… here’s the thing; ducks are just evil twats and horses are just cuddly cute animals and they could make cute party gifts… but a horse sized duck… well you’re fucked.” Kellin started cracking up.
“Give me the camera!” I yelled taking it from him. I walked into Vic and Jagger’s vocal warm up session.
“Me, me, me, me… OO, OO, OO…”
“And these are the dying cows…” I said walking out of the room quickly. I walked out to the stage and sat down in the center of it. People with certain VIP passes (the kind for sound check and meet and greet) started walking in, I didn’t think that they would see me so I pulled my guitar over to the camera. I started playing random chords.
“Hey guys look! It’s Jay from Fear the silence!” A small group of girls ran over to the front of the stage but security stopped them.
“It’s fine!” I yelled to the guy, I felt bad because I didn’t know his name.
“Could you sign my guitar for me?” One of them asked.
“Sure! What are your names?” I asked.
“I’m Jade…” the shyest one of them said.
“I’m Alexa!” The girl handing me the guitar said.
“And I’m Kelsey…”
“Thanks for being fans, I never really thought I would have any…” I said handing back the guitar.
“You guys are amazing! And Done for you was an amazing track!” Kelsey said.
“Thanks! It was the best accident I’ve ever had.”
“No problem, I just wish I had the ability to play it but my parents don’t want me to play anything that strays far from classical…”
“Well take a seat and I’ll show you.”

Time Lapse

The show was starting in a few minutes and Vic stole Bryan’s camera.
“Ready Jay?”
“For what?”
“A mini vocal performance for those watching this interview!”
“And the show is about to start, I might just pee my pants… Vic is holding the camera and Kellin is getting a piggy back ride from CC… Andy is trying to do Bryan’s make up… Matt is shoving food into his face…” I sung like it was an opera.
“And that was the multitalented Jay!” Vic yelled. Andy requested that the music playing before we went on was to be from his iPod so Motley Crue was blasting from the speakers. It’s not like I was complaining. The time came where we had to run on and do our set. It was amazing… well more than amazing it was perfect.
“I just want to say thank you to everyone here tonight for welcoming us and not chucking food at us on stage although that has happened before… Also I want to give a huge thank you to Black Veil Brides for having us on this tour. They are amazing guys and great friends we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for them. Thank you so much! We are Fear the Silence!” I yelled. The crowd cheered and we ran off stage.
“Minnie that was perfect!” CC yelled as he ran over to me, lifted me up and kissed me. I hung out in the dressing room with everyone as Vic and Kellin were on stage performing. They just took suggestions from people in the crowd.
“Hey guys I want to talk to you for a moment…” I heard Vic say.
“I made this amazing friend recently and she helped me out with this new track called Hold on ‘till May. And I was hoping that she could come out and help me sing it…” CC helped me up and walked me over to the stage. This guy, Dylan, from stage crew handed me a mic.
“So Jay are you up for it?” Vic asked as I walked onto the stage.
“Are they?” I asked right back.
“Hopefully because I’m going to play it either way…” I smirked. We sung the song and it was followed by a huge group hug from Pierce the Veil.
“Can I get my girlfriend back now?” CC yelled from the side of the stage.
“Fine…” Jaime said. Then Sleeping With Sirens walked out.
“Isn’t this one amazing line up?” Kellin asked Vic jokingly.
“Yeah, we come here to hang out with friends and then we’re thrown into their concert… it’s like one big house party…” Vic answered.
“Hey it was both of your ideas to sing some songs since you were coming anyways!” I said from the side of the stage. All of our microphones were still on so the crowd heard us all talking.
“Anyways… Jay stay on stage for this. This song is I’ll Take You There!” I had way more stage time than I was expecting. When that was done I sprawled across the couch.
“You know… this whole rock star thing is exhausting!” I sighed.
“You’ll get used to it…” Jinxx said handing me a glass of wine. I just stared at him, normally he was against the whole underage thing.
“It’s okay. It’s your birthday and you just had your first concert and you have one more stage appearance to make…” He said. I completely forgot that I still had to play Done For You with Andy.
“Thanks Jinxx…” I said.
“No problem… How’s your arm?” He asked. I was wearing a tank top so the gauze was showing.
“It doesn’t hurt anymore, so I guess that’s good.” He nodded.
“Jinxx let’s go!” Ashley yelled.
“Break a leg!” I yelled after him.
“Thanks!”
The time came when I had to go onto the stage again.
“So guys we are going to slow it down for a little bit with Done For You. Welcome back to the stage Justine Grey!” Andy yelled. I walked out when a guy in the audience yelled.
“Get her off the fucking stage! I came here to see Black Veil Brides not this chick!” He proceeded by flipping me off. CC just stood up from his drum set and walked over to Andy’s microphone. He took out his in-ears in order to hear himself.
“Listen here, I don’t know who you think you are you fucking prick but this happens to be my fucking girlfriend and she worked hard to get to where she’s standing. When you have the talent and skills she has I would like to see you up on this stage and some mother fucking dick flip you off.”
“Wow she can’t even speak for herself…” He replied.
“Now listen here douche bag!” I yelled, “I have a fucking voice of my own and I don’t know what your problem is but you can either enjoy this show that we all worked our asses off for just so that way the fans could enjoy themselves or you can grow a pair and get a life because I am fucking done with pricks like you trying to make others feel like shit! I am so fucking done!” The anger was boiling inside me as the crowd cheered. Security escorted him to the exit.
“Any ways as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted by that guy, this is Done For You!” Andy said. I sat on the stool next to him and played the guitar. At the end of the song CC took the mic again.

Notes

I know this is really long, but i felt like it all had to be in one chapter. Enjoy and if you need anyone to talk to i'm here. <3