You're Not Alone (Andy Biersack Love Story)

Chapter 2 (Wild Child)

"Are you okay?" Andy repeated, his voice oozing concern.

"I....uh....I....um, yeah. I-I'm fine," she stutters. Never in Melanie's whole life did she ever imagine she would ever meet Andy Biersack, especially under these circumstances.

"No, you're not. Here, come with me, we'll get you fixed up," he said while grabbing her uninjured wrist, well mostly uninjured, and guiding her into an alleyway.

Andy opened a door that lead to the backstage area. After weaving through the hallways in complete silence for about a minute, they get backstage.

"Hey Mark, could you find some tape, a wet rag and bandages, my friend here got hurt," Andy said to a built,  brown-haired, middle-aged man. 

"Sure, no problem," he responded.

He left and returned not even thirty seconds later.

"Here you go," he said giving the tape, rag and bandages to Andy.

"Thanks man," Andy said.

Melanie just stayed silent the whole time, trying to absorb everything that had happened. But, her thoughts were interupted by Andy cleaning up her arm. Melanie looked at Andy as he gently pressed a wet rag to her wrist.

"Why?" escaped Andy's lips.

"Why what?" Melanie asked.

"Why did you do this to yourself?" Andy asked while looking right into Melanie's eyes.

"I-I don't really know. I felt alone, worthless, and ugly. Everyone at my school told me to cut or kill myself. They said no one would miss me if-if I died. I wanted the pain to be lessened for a little bit," Melanie responded with tears gently streaming down her face.

"Listen to me," Andy said while wiping away her tears with his thumb, "don't ever let anyone tell you that you aren't loved, cared for, or worth anything. You are a beautiful and strong young woman. Those imbiciles just don't realize it. No matter what happens, know that I care about you."

"Thank you," she whispered.

Andy hugged her close to him, and Melanie couldn't help but feel something stir in her heart. She had always loved Andy, but not in that way. She pushed the thought away and just let him comfort her.

When they finally pulled their bodies away from each other, Andy asked, "I just have to ask out of curiosity, why were you here so early? The show doesn't start for another three hours."

"I, um, kinda ran away from home and I didn't know where to go, so I just drove for a while and ended up here," she told him. 

"You ran away? Why?" he asked geniunly curious.

"My parents didn't like me, they told me that I was a faliure constantly, and when I ran out of school today, I decided to leave. Simple as that. I'm turning 18 tomorrow anyway, so by then it won't matter," Melanie explained.

 "I'm sorry that they treated you that way. Do you have a place to stay?"

"I don't actually. I was just planning on sleeping in my truck, since I don't want to go back to school. I'm going to just see what happens."

"I wouldn't feel right letting you fend for yourself. You could, um, you could join me and the guys on tour if you wanted. We have an empty bunk on the tour bus," Andy offered. Melanie noticed a bit of colour rise in Andy's cheeks, but she thought it could've been that he was warm. He couldn't like her, right?

Melanie knew that Andy had been dating a nice girl named Juliet Simms since Warped Tour, which only ended roughly four months ago. They were still together, weren't they?

Then Melanie's brain rewinded back to the part where Andy said she could go on tour with Black Veil Brides. Of course she wanted to, but at the same time, she didn't want to be a burden to her heroes.

"Yes! I mean, I wouldn't be a burden on you guys, right?" she blurted out.

"No! Of course not! Besides, you seem like the kind of girl that could tell off Ash, and to be honest, he needs to be told to fuck off every once in a while," Andy joked.

Melanie smiled her first genuine smile in a very long time. She was going to be touring with the men who saved her life, but she wasn't going to tell them that. At least not yet.

She hugged Andy tightly and quietly whispered into his ear, "Thank you."

"Andy!" a voice called.

Melanie let go of Andy to see who it was. It was none other than Ashley Purdy, Jinxx, CC, and Jake Pitts. Melanie was in such a state of shock that she forgot that she had a bloody rag on her wrist.

"Whoa! Are you Alright?" Jinxx asked.

"Wha-oh, yeah. I'm fine," Melanie said, only just realizing he was talking about her bloody wrist.

"I got it," Andy said to Melanie.

Andy removed the rag and wrapped the bandages around her wrist and taping it.

"What happened?" CC asked.

"Nothing important. At least, not anymore," Melanie said, sending Andy a small smile, which he returned.

"Oh, by the was guys, Melanie here is going to be joining us n tour, if that's alright with you guys," Andy said.

"Depends. How old re you?" Jake asked Melanie.

"I'm turning 18 tomorrow," she replied timidly.

"Fine by me, how about you guys?" Jake asked the rest of the group.

"It's cool with me," CC said.

"I'm okay with it," Jinxx replied.

"I'm alright with it. Well, as long as she shares a bunk with me," Ashley winked at Melanie.

"Not happening Ashley. I'm not that easy," Melanie laughed.

Ashley pouted while Andy and everyone else laughed. 

"Aww! Don't pout Ashley!" Melanie said. She walked up to Ashley and gave him a small kiss on his pouted lip.

Ashley quickly turned his frown into a smile. But, Melanie couldn't help but notice that Andy had a look of what seemed like jealousy plastered on his face.

"Anyway," Jinxx began, " we came to tell you Andy, that sound check starts in five, well more like two now. So, we need to head on stage."

"Alright. Melanie you can hang out back here, alright?" Andy said.

"Sure, no problem," she smiled.

"See you in a bit sexy!" Ashley flirted. 

"Can't wait!" Melanie giggled.

When the guys walked about ten feet away, Melanie saw Andy hit Ashley on the arm, hard. Melanie couldn't help but laugh at the stupid expression on Ashley's face.

Maybe Melanie's life was actually going to be okay now.   

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