Adopted By Christian Coma ✩ Book 1 {Editing}

0.3: The Mall And...Batman?

"LYRIC GET UP GET UP!!" Someone screamed next to my ear. I screamed too and jumped up. Unfortunately I hit my head really hard, and flopped back down.

"Owww!" I rubbed my head. I turned my head and saw CC standing there with an innocent smile. "Thanks for the beautiful wake up call dude."

"Sorry sweetie but still get up we're going to the mall today! Oh, we're almost home too!" He turned and walked to the kitchen.

"Yay!" I swung my legs over the edge and walked after him. Everyone was eating pancakes and I sat cross legged next to Andy and Ashley. I usually didn't talk in the morning, like, at all.

"How'd you sleep last night?" Andy asked me.

"Slept better than I have in awhile." I shrugged a little and only at one small pancake. Hey I have the stomach of a bird, don't judge.

"Why don't you go get dressed for today, okay?" I nodded and stood up, picking up my empty plate and theirs. I went back to my bunk and grabbed my shorts that covered all of my scars on my legs, and Bring Me The Horizon long sleeved shirt. I walked into the bathroom and showered quickly. I got dressed and applied my makeup. I walked back out and all the guys were waiting for me.

"There you are, we pulled up to the mall about five minutes ago. Let's go." We all filed out and walked in. "So where do you wanna go first?"

"Um, Hot Topic?"

"Can we get Batman stuff there?" Andy asked like a kid.

"Yes we can get Batman stuff there."

"Yay!!" He grabbed my arm, and dragged me around until we found the Hot Topic. He was looking at all of the Batman stuff they had while I looked at some t-shirts like BOTDF and Falling In Reverse. Soon the other guys had shown up.

"Hey why don't you get some posters for your new room," I nodded and walked over to where they kept all of there posters, which was mostly at the front of the store. I only picked out about three though.

"Is that all you're getting? C'mon you have to get more than that."

"No, I don't want you spending a lot of money on me." I said, shaking my head at him.

"I insist you buy more, I honestly don't mind." I knew that he wasn't going to give up.

"Ugh why are you so stubborn?" I gave him the posters I was holding, and walked up to the front to get two more. "This is all I'm getting. Happy!" He gave me a smile and went to pay for the posters. He tried to pay for my t-shirts too but I refused to let him.

"Let's go get some food." Jake said. "Like pizza, pizza would be good." We walked to the food court and got pizza like Jake suggested. I swear these guys could eat pizza for days. While they all were eating a bunch of food I only had a slice.

"What are we going to do now?" I asked.

"We should watch some movies." Andy suggested. I nodded and smiled because I haven't seen a movie in forever.

"Okay what movies should we watch?" CC asked.

"We should watch The Nightmare Before Christmas." That was my favorite movie as a kid even though I only saw it three or four times.

"That sound cool. Can we watch Batman, too?" Of course, Andy would ask this and I just simply nodded. "Yay!" He threw his arms up like a little kid and earned some looks from strangers.

We threw away our trash and headed back to the bus. My phone went off. I saw that it was the number that was texted me the night before, though I chose to ignore it.

"Who's that?" Jinxx said looking over my shoulder. I locked my phone and put it in my pocket. Turning towards him, I gave him a reassuring smile.

"Oh it's no one. Just some notifications." I lied. I rarely lied, but this was one of those times when I did. I didn't want to get the guys upset or anything so I just kept it quiet. I don't think Jinxx believed me because he frowned.

"Are you sure?" He kept going on.

"Yes. I promise if there is any problems I'll tell you, okay?" I said it in a tone that was nice but also signalling that I don't want to talk about it anymore.

"Fine." We climbed back onto the bus and I went to the bathroom and showered. Before I got dressed, I examined all of my healing cuts.  Things have changed so much since then and I'm glad they're here to help me. I put on some shorts that covered most of my scars on my legs, and a Panic! At The Disco shirt.

I came out and all of the guys were sitting in the lounge area. I sat down on the end of the couch and checked my phone. I saw that the number was still spamming my phone.

Unknown: You better answer me back bitch, or else.

I furrowed my eyebrows and decided to text back.

Me: You know I don't have to do anything you say right. I know you're just trying to get to me and it's not going to work.

Unknown: Wow you're so stupid and disgusting. I still don't see why CC would even adopt you. You're so fat and ugly, and I've seen your scars. You're just an attention whore freak who no one loves. You'd be better off killing yourself.

I quickly set down my phone and looked up. No one was looking at me, thankfully. I looked back down at my legs.

"Um, hey Lyric," Andy called, breaking me out of my thoughts. I looked up at him. "If you don't mind me asking, how did you end up in the orphanage?"

Oh God, this isn't going to be good. "Well, when I was four my parents got divorced because my dad was always drunk and hitting my mom. She didn't want me but she took my brother Michael with her so I was left with him. He became a full blown alcoholic and started to do things to me. He'd call me names, burn my with his cigarettes to put them out, hit me with the beer bottles and smash them over me. It wasn't the worse that could've happened but it wasn't that great either...

"One day when I was six, I went downstairs and he was lying on the couch with an empty bottle of pills on the floor. Being the idiot I am, I just sat there and cried, I tried waking him up but nothing was working. I called 9-1-1 and they came and took me away."

My face was wet and I realized they were tears. I didn't even know that I was crying, I must have been to focused on the story to notice.

"I'm so sorry that happened sweetie. I shouldn't have asked I'm sorry." Andy pulled me into a tight hug joined by the rest of the guys.

"We're here to protect you no matter what sweetie. Always remember that we all love you." CC said.

"I love you guys, too." I wiped my eyes, and gave a small smile. We all continued to watch the movie and everyone started to go to bed one by one until it was just me and Ashley left.

"Are you okay Lyr?" I looked at him and he had a sad look on his face.

"Yeah I'm fine. Why'd you ask?"

"Because of your legs and arms." He grabbed my arm gently and pulled up my sleeve. "It's okay I won't tell anyone. Just promise me you won't do anything to hurt yourself as long as I'm here."

"I promise." I smiled at him and he smiled back.

"We should probably go to bed. It's almost three in the morning." I nodded, getting up and walking back to my bunk. For a few minutes I just laid there. My eyes started to get heavy and finely I fell asleep.

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Hiya guys, sorry I haven't updated in a while and that this chapter is short. And that it sucks but whatever. Thanks for reading, love you all. ~Ricky