Don't Judge Me || Ricky 'Horror' Olson

Chapter 6: In Blood I Draw The Line

Song for this chapter: Goodbye Agony- Black Veil Brides

Rachel's POV

"Rach?" TJ whispered as he shook me softly.

"What?" I mumbled, without opening my eyes.

"Time to get up," He told me.

"No it's not," I disagreed, "It's my day off so I'm sleeping."

"No you're not," He argued and pulled on my arm.

"TJ fuck off," I groaned.

"Why?" He whined.

"I'm so tired from this fucking case I just want to sleep." As if on cue my phone started ringing. I sighed heavily through my nose and answered it without looking at the caller ID. "Rachel Paige speaking."

"Miss Paige? It's Chris."

"Oh hello Mr. Cerulli," I greeted, trying not to let my frustration show. "What can I do for you?"

"It's Ricky," He sighed. "I don't know what to do; he won't get out of bed and he just yells at me to go away. I think he's genuinely depressed and I was wondering if you could talk to him? You don't have to because I know it's your day off, but-"

"No don't worry about it, I'll come up," I assured him. TJ gave me a confused look and I gave him an apologetic look back.

"Thank you so much! I'm so sorry! Hopefully you can do it quicker than I can."

"Of course Mr. Cerulli I'll see you in a bit," I dismissed him and hung up the phone. I sighed heavily and ran my fingers through my hair.

"We aren't going out are we?" He sighed.

"We are," I said quickly, "Just not yet."

"It's fine," He shook his head and gave me a fake smile.

"TJ I'll be twenty minutes at the most I swear," I promised him.

"No this is your job so take as long as you need and I'll be waiting for you to get back," He smiled.

"I'm so sorry this happened," I sighed apologetically.

"It's fine," He smiled understandingly, "It's your job Rach."

I hugged him tightly. "Love you T," I smiled into his chest.

"Love you too Rach," He said, squeezing me harder for a second then letting me go.

I ran upstairs, threw on a pair of leggings and a Marilyn Manson tank top then shoved my hair into a ponytail. I grabbed my sunglasses and shoved them on my face then grabbed my phone and keys, kissed TJ on the cheek goodbye then ran out of the door.

I drove as quickly as I could over to Ricky's and as I pulled into his drive Chris and the man with long black hair, who I'm guessing is Ricky's roommate, stepped out of the house and walked over to me.

"I'm Angelo," The guy smiled and held his hand out to me.

"Rachel," I smiled and shook his hand firmly. I turned to Chris and he had both a frustrated and a worried look on his face.

"I don't know what to do," He sighed. "I've tried everything. He won't eat, he won't move off of his bed, he's been like this since you left yesterday and we left to see if he would be better today but he's not and he won't even talk to us he just groans and flips us off. We were wondering if you could try?"

"Sure," I sighed. "Give me a few minutes?"

They nodded and went and sat down on the porch swing. I went to walk past them and Angelo grabbed my arm. "Good luck."