Bradies pov
Tonight was our opera house show, one of the biggest shows we were ever going to play. For the last hour I had been bashing my drums, trying to calm myself a bit. But now I needed some alone time.
BRADIE HEY HEY BRADIEEEE!! WE GOT YOU FLOWERS BRADIE!! some girls had found me. I had been sitting on the back stairs, thinking. I couldn’t let ims go. No matter what. I wanted to tell the fans who found me to “fuck off” but I didn’t want to sound rude, everyone thought I was innocent. Truth was I wasn’t. When I turned to Face this girl I wished I had told her to fuck off. It was Callie. She was back. She had her arm hooked with another girl, I had seen this one before too. Taylah. If our little tour family hadn’t been through enough lately. ‘hey bradie Shaun ne—’ Ashleys voice faded off and she was gone. Bam. Back to her old self. She had matured so much lately, but when I turned around to look at her she was frozen, her mouth hanging open and tears in her eyes. The difference was incredible.
I guess one person can be a massive influence on some peoples happiness. The lights of her eyes were gone, her smile was wiped.
I heard footsteps coming up behind us ‘ash what’s taking so long. We need bradie’ Ims voice came from somewhere inside. Callie and taylah were all smiles, wearing bright dresses and acting like they were my best friends. When ims saw Callie she turned white and grabbed Ashley. We all just sat around for about 15 minutes, Callie and taylah were all smiles. Me Imogen and Ashley were all shocked. Nobody said anything, it was just awkward and in a way kind of eerie. Shaun had obviously had enough of waiting because his voice was the next one to appear ‘bradie get in here already’ he called out before he appeared next to me. Last time Shaun saw callie he told her to get a fucking life. Last time he saw taylah he full on attacked her. This time obviously wasn’t going to be any different. ‘Shaun don’t you even think about it’ I hissed at him. But as usual he didn’t listen to me. He never did. I had only blinked once and Shaun was infront of them, blinked one more time and Ashley was between them. It was almost in slow motion the way this happened, Ashley was screaming, taylah was slapping her, Shaun was trying to hit taylah, then Ashley was trying to stop him making contact with taylah. It was messy. This fight, only lasted a few minutes, but Ashley had a red hand mark on her face and a bleeding lip. Shaun was still angry and taylah was now screaming.
It wasn’t pretty at all, no girl should be screaming what taylah was. I managed to drag shaun inside, Imogen was all red and nearly in tears. Ashley was shaking, she slapped taylah one time before running inside. Taylah swore and dragged Callie away, Callie was swearing her head off at Imogen. I would never ever say anything those two had been saying. It just was not right. I slammed the door behind me and ims, hugged her and went to find Shaun and Ashley. It took me forever to find them, but we did. They had locked the door of the bathroom but I knew they were in there. Ims smiled quickly at me before motioning at me to go away. I walked off rejected.
Naxes pov
I had been sharing a raspberry slushie with aleesha when bradie came in, looking less than impressed. All he said to us was ‘aleesha go find Ashley she’s in the bathroom’ the look on his face was a seriously hacked off look, aleesha got up and ran in the direction of the bathroom. I handed the slushie to bradie and chased after her. I didn’t know anything about Ashley but I knew this wasn’t good. In the bathroom Shaun let us in, looking disappointed with himself. Ashley was in the corner trying to hide her wrists from me. Too late. I had never seen her without sleeves. I didn’t want to now I had. There was several deep cuts up her arms and she looked guilty. Aleesha ran at her telling us to get out, so I got out. I was freaked out. Outside I turned to Shaun, he looked really upset with himself and ‘spill’ was all it took for him to crack. He told me everything that had happened, how helpless he felt. How guilty he was when he couldn’t stop Ashley trying to kill herself. She wouldn’t listen to anyone. Not even him.
He broke down after telling me everything, taking deep jagged breaths trying to stop himself loosing it infront of me. Why didn’t anyone tell me Ashley was so messed up?
I was still reeling over the shock when jay came over trailing a pretty brunette haired girl. She was wearing a leather jacket, a purple dress and converse. Jay had stalked this girl down I remembered, he saw her a few times in Melbourne and after a few times of seeing each other they realised they both felt the same way. ‘hey britty’ I greeted her with a hug before walking away. I need to think. If Ashley was this messed up what about aleesha?
