Reyas POV
I grumbled as I shifted my back. I was blissed out. I could feel my head lightly rising and falling. I pulled open my eyes and saw Andy's sleeping face, his eyes closed and a blank expression on his lips. It was still very dark in the basement, but a little bit of morning light was beginning to spill through the two windows on the top of the walls. His long black hair was randomly sticking up in some parts. Trying not to laugh, I reached up with the hand that was on his chest and attempted to flatten up a partially wild patch of his hair. Sleepily, he tightened his arm around my back and pulled me firmly into him, not that I'd complain...I let out a little giggle and he turned his head toward me, smiling, he opened his eyes. "Well good morning." his voice was low and raspy, sending a shock up and down my back.

"Good morning." I pulled myself up on the couch and leaned over his face. I stared into his blue eyes for a moment, before pressing my lips delicately against his. I felt him smile against my lips. I pulled back and layed my head in his chest again.
"What time is it?" he said while yawning.
"Mmmm I don't know. Come on, let's get up and check." reluctantly, I sat up and stood from the couch. Andy rolled over on his stomach and layed face first on the couch. "Oh come on Andy, I know its early, but you gotta get up." he mumbled something into the couch cushion. I sighed and walked around to the back of the couch. I crawled over the back and poked Andy a few times. He didn't budge. "Oh, I guess I'll have to make you get up."
Lifting his head from the pillow he glared at me, "you wouldn't dare."
"Oh, au contraire. I would." I devilishly smiled at him. I reached out and tickled him. He started laughing and twitching around. "WAKEY WAKEY BATMAN!!!" I yelled. He went to roll over and rolled off the couch. He thudded onto the concrete floor. I began to laugh hysterically.
"Oh you think this is funny?" he growled from the floor.
"I'm laughing aren't I?" I giggled. He sat up from the floor and he made this maniac looking face, like when he screamed in the video for Perfect Weapon. Oh god. He jumped up and wrapped his arms around my waist, throwing me over his shoulder. "Andyyy." he stood up and walked up the stairs with me over his shoulder. I stopped fighting and just went limp over his shoulder.
"You don't anger Batman. Batman has a dark side and batman seeks revenge," he said trying to make his voice really low and evil sounding.
I lifted my head as we reached the top of the stairs, looking out the back window of the house into our backyard. "Oh my god."
"What?" Andy said as he set me on my feet on the top of the stairs. He turned to see where I was looking. He followed my gaze out the window, seeing that our old oak tree, at least 100 years old, was uprooted and laying on its side, crashed through the neighbors fence and laying in their yard. Tree were down everywhere. I ran around the foyer to our front window. My parents cars were both gone and a huge branch was laying across the hood of my car, with a bunch of other ones covering it.
"My car..." Andy walked hesitantly over to me and put his hand on my shoulder.
"It's just a car, Reya, it can be replaced."
"Andy you don't understand, all of my equipment is in their still!!" Against my doctors orders I ran up the short stairs into our living room and ran all the way to my room, grabbing a jacket and slipping on my vans canvas shoes.

"Reya, just wait a second!" Andy yelled as he grabbed his converse from my room. I was already out the front door, jumping over a sapling on our front walk and running to the car. I heard the door open land Andy saying my name. I stopped when I noticed all of the shattered glass on the drive. I stood frozen. A tree branch had gone through the windshield, all of the windows were broken, and I could see the water damage on the interior. Unconsciously I walked to the side of the VUE. "Reya...be careful." I stepped over the glass and reached over the shattered window of the drivers door. I pulled the lock and opened the door. Water started leaking out of the open door. I wanted to scream. I wanted to cry. I wanted to break down. I wanted to punch through a wall.
"Dammit!" I yelled as I slammed the door shut. The remains of the window broke and fell off the side of the car. Andy rushed over and grabbed my arms.
"Reya, it will be OK. Come on, we can go call your insurance. They will have to come assess the damage before you could get anything out anyway. Come on." I didnt even pay attention as Andy dragged me back to the house. We walked to the kitchen and he had me sit down at the table. "Wheeres your insurance card?" he asked. I pointed to the side of the fridge door. He scanned the cards that were stuck with magnets to the fridge side. He pulled off one and glanced over it. Setting it down in front of me he asked, "Is that it?"

"Yeah." I picked up the card and dialed the number on the face. I spoke to our insurance rep, telling him about the damage to my car and did my best to estimate the value of my sound and mic equipment. The company said they'd do their best to send a rep or agent out in the next two days, and to not touch the vehicle. I hung up. "Great, how the fuck am I supposed to get around?"
Andy sat next to me. "Come on, I'll call my driver. Let's get dressed and go see how bad the damage is. Your mom left a note on the counter for you."
I walked over the counter and picked up the note written on the back of an envelope.

Reya,

Sorry, stat call from hospital. Multiple emergencies.
School canceled due to damage. Go check on arrangements.
Dad had to help with storm clean up at work.
$20 on your nightstand for food.
Call you later.

Mom

"Appearnetly I don't have school." Andy walked over and leaned against the counter.
"Well come on, I'll get a shower and we can go out for awhile."
"Alright. I can straighten my hair while you get a shower." I lead Andy back to my room. "You can borrow more of Brandon's stuff if you need to. Personally, I like those jeans you had on yesterday." I said with a wink at him. He tiredly laughed and mumbled "will do." I grabbed my make up and straightener stuff from the bathroom and went back to my vanity. I laid it all out and plugged in my straightener. My hair was a wild mess, but at least since I straightened it yesterday morning it woukd be easy to take care of today. I heard the water kick on in the shower. I brushed through my hair, admiring the color in it. Oh god. Surely mom and dad saw my hair yesterday. What did they think? Why didn't they say anything? Were they waiting for Andy to leave? Oh my god I'm going to be in so much trouble. Shit. Shit. Shit. I combed through the red dip dyed bangs and straightened the bottom of my hair, which hung around the base if my ribs. I ran my fingers through the red bottoms of my hair too, trying to smooth it. I picked up my felt tip eye pencil and drew the thin black line on my tip lids, swiping Up on the ends for a light cats eye. I very lightly lined the bottom, applied my mascara, and touched up some acne scars in my face with foundation. I had such pale skin. I was practically ivory skin toned. I looked up from the mirror to see Andy walking out of the bathroom. He had on his black ripped skinny jeans and my brothers Asking Alexandria shirt that had the sleeves and sides cut out. God Andy looked great in those shirts. His hair was a wet tangled mess. "Haha well that was fast."

"Trust me, when you live on a bus with four other guys and you all needed a shower in half an hour you learn to wash and get your ass out. Jinxx used to just rinse off and he smelled fucking horrible. I'm so glad Sammi came along to make him have a hygiene regime. He smelled worse than a fucking dog. We called him stinky bones."
"Haha, you look like you could use a hair cut, unless you wanna go all We Stitch These Wounds hair again." I said as I stood up frm the vanity bench. I leaned up and kissed his still damp cheek.
"Yeah, I could use a cut, it's getting all matted and shit again. I can't even get a fucking brush through it. I'll call my manager and have him get our stylist at the next show. I'm sure the other guys need to get their hair trimmed up a bit. Here, you go get dressed and I will raid your eyeliner." He winked as he sat down on the bench. I leaned over him and handed him my eyeliner pencil and kissed his cheek again. I ran to my. Lost and pulled out my white denim shorts, a black leather studded belt, and my black tee shirt. It was one of my favorites, the back was black and white mesh and almost completely see through, the front had a large silver cross with the words "Love, peace, happiness" written in the patterns on the cross. I glanced over at the mirror to see Andy concentrating on putting the eyeliner on his top eye. I quickly swapped into the new clothes and looked back to see him capping the pen. I grabbed my pyramid studded silver and black gladiator flats. I zipped them on and walked over to Andy, and he wrapped his arm around me as I stood next to the bench. He pulled me over, pulled me to sit on his lap. I stared at our reflections in the mirror. Andy rested his head on my shoudler, god he was tall, even sitting.
"come on, Andy. Let's go scope out the damage." I stood up and took his hand. We got by the front door and I stopped for a moment, seeing my black studded spike heels by the doors. I wanted to wear those to the dance, but Seth didn't want me to. "Hold on a second, close your eyes." I said as I dashed across the room. I slipped off my gladiator flats and pulled on the black heels. I tip toed back over to Andy, he had his eyes closed and was swaying back and forth.
"Can I open them yet?" he said as I stopped a few feet away.
"Open." I said. He opened them and looked at me. He furrowed his brow and looked down.
"Wow, nice heels. You are still shorter though," he said with a smile.
"Shut up Biersack." I still had to lean up a bit, but I put my lips against his, laughing when I hear the smooch noise when they parted.

We stepped outside and put on our sunglasses. A black Cadillac SUV was waiting by the curb in front of my house. Andy and I walked to the door, as we saw a driver (suit and all) step around the back of the vehicle to open the door. I stepped up into the cab, scooting over for Andy to get in. "OOOH Fancey." I said in a weird voice.
"Compliments of the news label. They want to know where we are at 24/7. A bit of a pain in the ass but we get some cool benefits."
"It is the same company that wants to sign Prescription Poison?"
"Yeah. Hey Tom, can you take us to the high school. You wanted to go there, right Reya?"
"Uh-yeah. I need to speak with my councilor about work. I don't know what I'll do if we go on tour."
I thought the damage was bad in my subdivision, High Crest. As we got closer to the main road of town, I saw the damage become more severe. Trees down, power lines swinging free, siding pulled out, patches of roofing missing, windows broken, cars damaged, lawn pieces scattered everywhere. My jaw dropped as we pulled up to the school. A huge tree had fallen onto the arts wing, where my choir room, school recording studio, band room, art lab, CAD class, and design classes were. A light post had fallen across the pavement in the parking lot. I stepped out of the car and hurried over to a small group of students, staff, and community officials. I could hear the principal speaking.
"And the damage to the art wing is substantial, at least fifteen thousand dollars. The roof is leaking and we have water and electrical damage through most of the building. It will be a week at least before crews can restore power, but we will continue classes in a week. The local college has offered to allow a few hours of sessions to be held in their auditorium. Each grade will meet at the college at a specified time to ensure lessons in order to take final exams. The school board has concluded that semester finals will be held on the 22nd of May for freshman, the 23rd for sophomores and so on. We will release further information as soon as possible."

Scanning through the officials I found my councilor, Ms. Ash. I moved through the small crowd and approached her.
"Excuse me, Ms. Ash?"
She turned around, she was a young woman, fresh from college. She had only been here for two years, but she was a great listener and inspired to help her students as best she could. "Yes? Oh, Reyalie, how are you?"
"I'm doing alright. I needed to talk to you."
"Sure. Why don't we step away from this mess?" I followed her down the walk about thirty feet away from the mess of students and staff and sat on the bench next to her we had in the from hard of the school. "Allright, you needed to talk?"
"Yeah. Um...I really don't know how to go about this. Well...You know I'm in the school choir, and Siren and most of my friends are in the schools band. We started a rock band."
"Oh wow. I bet that's fun." she added with a smile.
"Yeah, it is. Well we played at a rock festival in St. Louis two weeks ago. A producer from Chicago wants to contract us. If we can get our parents to let us go, we leave at the end of this week for Chicago and a short tour for a month."
"Congratualtions!" she pulled me into a light hug.
"I don't know what to do though. I won't be here for the last three weeks of lessons or for exams. I want to graduate still, as do Siren, Tyler, Allie, and Dylan. How can we do that if we go off?"
"I can see about setting you guys up on the online track through the college. We are already going to be setting up an emergency online course recovery for everyone who has been placed in emergency housing. Oak Creek, and South Trail were practically wiped out. About two hundred people have been moved out becauses of damage. You guys woukd have to watch the seminars and complete the work everyday, no getting behind for any reason. However you would need to return to take the exams in person."
"I think I can arrange that, thank you. I'll let you know as soon as I can." I got up and starred walking back to Andy's vehicle, when my way was blocked by a group of popular girls, including Annmarie.

"Hey Reya, what's up with the sudden style shift?" she sneered.
"Looks like you raided a Emos are Us store." the brunette said.
"Leave me alone. I don't want to argue," I said as I tried to step around them. Annmarie pushed me back.
"Oh, no talk when your little whore friend with the crazy hair isn't around?" She said.
"I don't want to fight, just go away," I said raising my voice slightly.
"You know it's really a shame you don't want to be with Seth anymore. Too bad he was with me for th past three months."
"You know Annmarie, congratulations. If I didn't already think you were a slut, you just confirmed my theories even more."

She pulled back her fist to hit me, but I moved sideways and grabbed her wrist. I turned it over, making her streak in pain. "You little bitch! I hope you kill yourself. Go cry to your emo fag friend. The one who looks like something out of an insane asylum. Go home and cry into your razor blades, I hope you bleed out, hoping you had only taken the chance to be one of us when you wanted to. Go bleed you little bitch! Go die! No one cares about you."
I felt a tear slipping down my face. I pulled off the heels and ran to Andy's car, wiping away the tears as I got in.
"Reya are you OK?" he asked, his voice full of concern.
I sniffles and blink back the tears, crossing my arms. "I'm fine. Lets just go."
"Reya..."
"No, I'm fine. Just go."

In reality, I wasn't fine. I was far for fine. My wrist ached, preparing itself for the feeling of my blade. I craved it more than I had that night in the bus. I didn't want Andy to see me cry. I needed to get away from him for a bit. "Hey, um...Siren is gonna come over, and...h-her and I need some time to figure some stuff out. How about I just see you tomorrow?"
His face was full of confusion. "Yeah I guess. Are you surer there isn't anything you want to tell me?"
"Yeah, I just need some alone time with her." I got out of the car, now at my house. "I'll see you later."
I got out and tried not to look hurried as I walked past my ruined car and into the house. I sprinted to my room, ignoring the pain in my ribs. I opened my room and went to the bathroom, searching, searching. Where is it? Where is it? I scanned through the drawers, throwing things on the floor, smiling as my fingers wrapped around the plastic of my razor. I smashed the head of it into ten counter, breaking the plastic around the blades. I pulled one away from the rest, walking backward and sinking to the floor of my bathroom. Staring, marveling at my silver friend.

Notes

Cliffhanger!!!!!!

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