Happily Ever After? **In Editing**

Chapter 3

*The next morning, Ember's P.O.V.*

The next morning, when I woke up I was sore all over and in pain. I slept like crap and I felt like a weight was on my chest and stomach, crushing me and once I sat up I was shocked.

I looked over my bed. The quilt, sheets, most likely my mattress, and my pillow were heavily stained in blood... My blood. At first, it freaked me out, but then I remembered what happened and groaned.

I slowly got out of bed and headed to the kitchen. I was starving, but of course would there be food in the cabinets, fridge or pantry?? Nope.

And do I have money? Not a dime.

Hunting skills? If I tried to hunt... Well I better just start running from an enraged animal now...

Looks like I had to starve.

Fun.

*A year later, 3rd Person P.O.V.*

Ember Purdy was now 18 and had to celebrate her birthday alone which consisted of lying in bed, ill and listening to her stomach growl.

Even though, by now she had acquired very little hunting skills, she was not doing well at all. You see, Ember had run out of ammo for her "father's" gun and like said earlier, she had no money. And her "father" had a bow and arrows, but she usually missed the animal and the arrow got lost somewhere... Or the animal ran with the arrow stuck in it and she lost it's trail.

Her food sources mainly consisted of scavenging around the forest, looking for campsites, then camp out in a tree and wait for night fall. At night fall, she would quietly climb down and get as much food as she could carry, then run off and eat as little as possible and stretch the small food source out for as long as possible. She would normally return as soon as possible, but usually didn't because she always woke someone and they'd stay awake all night keeping watch, then leave as soon as day light came leaving her hungry.

Meanwhile while Ember starved and laid in bed, dying, Black Veil Brides, a band from L.A. which consisted of Andy Biersack, Ashley Purdy, Jake Pitts, Jeremy "Jinxx" Ferguson and Christian "CC" Mora were living kings.

They partied and drank nearly every night, ate endless supplies of food, had body guards, lived life traveling 3/4 of the year, and when they weren't traveling? Well they had a huge mansion that they lived, an enormous parking garage consisting of cars such as Ferraris, Lambourghinis, Chargers, Pickup trucks, etc...

More in their high life was that they had gorgeous girls pretty much throwing themselves at their feet and groveling before them. Plus to make it better, they were all in their 20's and single and what the majority of people would consider 'sexy' or 'smokin' hot'.

AND they were famous. They had awesome music, an awesome message and were genuinely nice guys. They were always so nice to any fan they met. Which was pretty much everywhere they went, considering they had thousands of fans, boys and girls.

BVB walked back onto their tour bus after their last show for a while, all being loud- Laughing  and tipsy, smiling and happy as could be. All except for Ashley. He was sad... Depressed you could say because today marked the day Amber, his wife, had died. Today she had been dead for 18 years. And their baby girl, Ember? Well he thought she was dead, when in reality she was just still a missing person. She had been missing for years and years.... She was 3 weeks old when she was kidnapped.... She would be 18 years and 3 weeks old...

Ashley shuffled to his bunk to mourn their loss and go to bed. He wasn't in a partying mood tonight. You see, normally he would be out at a bar partying with the guys, but tonight he just wanted to stay in so he had asked them to leave they obliged and he trailed the loud bunch home.

*Ashley's P.O.V.*

I climbed into my bunk after getting ready for bed, brushing my teeth and stripping down to my boxers, and crawled under the covers, pulling them over my head. I felt a tear slip down my cheek as I pulled my phone out from under my pillow and went into my pictures.

I scrolled through them to the very beginning and looked at the few pictures I had of Amber on there, and the couple of Ember. My chest heaved with the pang of sadness and despair that took me over and got heavier on my soul. How could they be gone? I still didn't believe it even though it had been 18 years... I still thought this was one big, horrible dream that I would wake up from any moment and looked to my left and see Amber sleeping by my side, and Ember in her crib at the foot of my bed. How could this be.

"Yo Ash!?! You in here???" I heard Jinxx shout, walking into the bunk room. I sighed and wiped my eyes then exited out of the pictures and put my phone back under my pillow and shifted just as I heard my curtain rip open.

"Ash, whatcha doin' in here?? Why aren't you out in the living room watching new Batman movie??" He asked me, pulling the covers away from my face.

"I'm tired... 5 months of touring gets to ya... I'll watch it tomorrow because Heaven knows that Andy's going to watch it on repeat for the next 29 million years..." I said. Jinxx chuckled and looked at me.

"Come on Ash. Around this time every year you get really depressed for a week or so no one  knows why... I'm not going to ask why, just ask that you come out and watch the movie. It'll take your mind off of whatever you're sad about." He said, with a friendly smile.

I smiled and sat up and slid out of my bunk, avoiding the low-hanging ceiling of it and landed on my feet, cracking my ankle and making a silent thud. I stood up straight and looked at Jinxx, then he walked out. I put on a pair of pants and an old shirt so I was sitting 3/4 naked in a room of 4 other guys.

I trailed Jinxx out and sat on the floor next to Andy who had the popcorn and CC on his other side.

"Haha, wait to go Jinxx! You got him out!" Andy said proudly, congratulating Jinxx. I laughed and grabbed a handful of popcorn and shoved it into my mouth just as the new Batman movie started.

I smiled and looked around at the men I could consider brothers who, even though they didn't know what was wrong, they tried cheering me up without prying.

I did have a pretty awesome life.

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