Re-Adopted by Black Veil Brides

You Have A Phone And I Have Five Dads!

Audrey's POV:
"Hello?" I ask. Is that really him? Why is he here?

"Oh hi!" He says. He walks into the dark room and the sunlight from the window gives enough light to see that it really is him.

"You're Ashley Purdy!" I gasp in awe. This guy is the bassist for one of my all time favorite bands!

"Haha yea. You look like a fan!" I'm guessing he sees my shirt. What a coincidence I wore their merch today.

"You didn't hear that did you? 'Cause if you did I'm sorry for making your ears bleed." I ask.

"Haha no I surely did hear it and it was really good! Your voice is nice too!" I see him glance behind him and then I see his hands close to his chest like he's nervous.

"Thanks."

He comes forward and sits with me on the dirty floor.

"I saw what those kids did to you."

"You did?"

"They made you cry so much. Your eyes are so red."

"Yea they do that to me quite often."

Ashley's POV:
"They made you cry so much. Your eyes are red." Honestly, why are kids so cruel to each other? It gets them nowhere in life. Why would they hurt my baby girl?

"Yea they do that to me quite often." A tear streaks down her cheek. The tear is black which means she's wearing makeup. I wipe the tear away and she looks up.

"Often? Why? Why do they hurt you?"

"Because...because they know that I hurt myself. And they taunt me. And that makes everything worse for me."

I can see more tears beginning to form in her eyes and it's truly breaking my heart to see her in so much pain. The same heartache when Laney was in pain. She hurts herself. Because of these dumb kids. Well not only because of them. I'm a big reason too. I want to hug her and tell her that she's going to be okay. But I have to hold that back until later.

"You hurt yourself? Let me see your arms."

"There's a lot." And then my heart sinks. A lot. She said there's a lot of scars.

"Just let me see honey. I won't hurt you. I promise."

And so she takes off her bracelets one by one. Slowly I start to see the cuts and most of them look pretty fresh. Angry red and so scary to look at that just a few tears swell in my eyes. She wasn't kidding. There are a lot. On both arms.

"I told you..." Audrey says as she put the bracelets back on.

"I just want to be normal. I want to be a regular teenager with regular teenager problems. I don't want to struggle with razors. I don't want to be so self conscious that I don't eat. I want to have a mom and dad. I don't want to be alone anymore.That's all I ask for and yet the universe thinks it's too much to give." She says and she starts sobbing again. Harder this time.

This is really killing me. She wants parents and I couldn't give that to her when we were younger. She suffers from self harm and anorexia because of me. Because I was too drunk and weak to support my baby.

"Honey you don't have to be alone anymore."

"What do you mean?" She snuffles and looks up at me.

"I mean you don't have to live here anymore. You could leave here today with us."

"You want to adopt me?" She asks in awe.

"Yes honey of course. That's what I came here to do."

"Wait, you're not joking right? I've had parents before that gave me up in less than two days."