The Girl With The Dragon's Blood

The rest of the week passed by in a blur. I managed to hide out and keep from getting another ass kicking before the concert. My bruises were starting to fade and the ones on my face could now be easily covered up with makeup. The gash on my head was almost completely healed. When Friday afternoon rolled around and the final bell rang, Christi and I raced out of our art class as fast as we could. Both of us rushed to our lockers and quickly grabbed what we needed before running to my car and hopping in before we could get cornered by the preps.
Christi was staying the weekend with me so we could get ready for the concert together and plus I was saving her the torture of having to ride the bus.
Christi was two years younger than me and was like my baby sister. My mom treated her like a daughter and she even had a room at my house. The entire night she was so excited she wouldn't stop talking about the concert and I finally fell asleep to her rambling. The next day I was woken up by someone shaking me.
"If this isn't an emergency then you obviously dot value your own fucking life. Why the hell are you waking me up so fucking early?" I asked without opening my eyes. I heard Christi laugh and a clink on my bedside table. "It's two in the afternoon and we leave for the concert at five Tortor. You have to get up and get ready. There is a monster beside you so drink it and get your lazy ass out of bed. " she said before I heard her leave. I groaned and slowly opened my eyes before reaching over and grabbing the monster.
I say up and popped the tab chugging it a matter of seconds. I rolled over and crawled my way out of bed before walking into my bathroom and jumping in the shower. I let the hot water steam around me and finally woke up. When I got out I wrapped a towel around me and walked back into my room to see my mother. She was sitting on my bed holding my outfit.
She had specially designed Christi and I's outfits for the night that were simply works of art. Christi and I agreed that I would e wearing all black to contrast my hair and she would be wearing all white to contrast hers but the outfits would essentially match. My mom handed it over with a smile and left the room.
I slipped into the form firing black ripped pants and pulled on the black corset. At first glance it didn't look like anything special but in the right light the were lyrics sewn into it in glitter black thread. I was wearing the lyrics to the Morticians Daughter on my corset an Carolyn on my pants. When I realized this I laughed at my mothers genius.
I went to my mirror and pulled my long white locks into a classic pinup girl hairstyle and tied it up with a black bandanna. I used makeup to cover the visible bruises on my body and face before getting to work on my war paint. When I was done it was something of a cross between Ashley Andy and Jake. I smiled and slipped into my black knee high combat boots and walked out of my bedroom.
It had taken me to hours to get ready and we only had about thirty minutes to get on the road. I was about to knock on Christi's door when she walked out wearing and outfit like mine but in white. Her corset contained the lyrics to Knives and Pens and her pants had children's surrender. She wore white wedge heels and her black hair in spikes. Her makeup was like Jinxx and Cc with a touch of Jake. We smiled at each other and grabbed our bags before walking down stairs to say goodbye to my mother.
On our way out I grabbed my brass knuckles from a tray by the door jut for emergencies and tucked them into my waistband. We arrived at the concert and were in the very front row. When the band came out everyone freaked out but I just smirked and clapped. I was never one for uncontrolled excitement. Before I knew it we were all rocking out and I was even singing along to some of the songs. After two hours that felt like mere minutes the concert was over and Christi and I were heading towards backstage to meet the band. When we got to the guards we showed them our passes and he waved us through. We were led through a hallway until reached the area that the boys were greeting fans and signing merch. After awhile Christi and I got up to them and we started to talk. The boys introduced themselves and have us hugs. I accepted all of them gratefully until Ashley came up and tried to hug me when I slid away and pretended not to notice what he was trying to do. All of the members looked at me then each other and then shrugged.
"I just wanted to thank you all. Your music save my life. Literally." And then I told them the story of my bullies minus the part where my deathly violence comes into play all the way up until 4 months ago when I was about to swallow a bottle of pills before their song Carolyn came on and made me rethink. I managed to leave out the fact that I still cut and by the end of it they were all staring at me in sadness. Andy hugged me again and when he did he managed to squeeze one of my bruises making my flinch. He pulled back and looked at my arms expecting to see something that wasn't there. He pulled his hand away and saw that it was covered in makeup and he looked back at my arm where a large fading bruise could now be seen. He winced when he looked at it and asked me how I got it. I explained about Corey and her followers and then shrugged it off.
"How are you not crying right now? That looks like it hurts so much." He said looking at my eyes. Christi stepped in. "Tora has never cried a day in her life I've seen her get pushed down stairs and beaten for hours but she never cries. Once she broke her leg in three places and she didn't even cry then. " she said quietly to the band. I shrugged and smiled
"I'm just not really the weepy type." I said. Ashley had been staring at me strangely the whole one and finally spoke up.
"I feel like I have met you somewhere." He said to me. My fists clenched and my eyes hardened before I turned to him.
"I don't know what your talking about darlin. But I can assure you we've never met." I said using what I have begun to call my ice bitch voice. Ashley's back was to the crow an his face was screwed up in confusion. All of a sudden a man in the crowd started yelling to get his attention and Ashley turned around. "Hey Purdy. You think you can sleep with my girlfriend and get away with it?" He yelled and that's when I saw it. While the guards were trying to get to him to detain him he ha pulled out a pistol and aimed it right at Ashley's heart. He had a perfect shot. Before the guards got to him I saw Ashley's eyes widen in realization and then a shot rang out and everything disolved into chaos.

Notes

Oooh cliffy. Sorry I know you hate me but I just love cliffhangers. Well review comment tell me your ideas wants needs anything. I love you all
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