Broken Hearted, Broken Dreams [COMPLETED]

Chapter 3: Forever Invincible

Chapter 3
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Crim comes back into the room and looks fricken awesome. She's wearing a black and red plaid button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up to her elbows, black skinny jeans and dark red converse high tops. I see tattoos covering her arms from her wrists all the way to where her sleeves are rolled up to at least. Her hair is all wacko and she has stitch lines of makeup on her face leading from her ear to her mouth. Her eyes are filled in with eyeliner and her nose has a larger nose ring in than before. She grabs a bottle of hairspray and ruffs up her hair and sprays it on heavily. I look in awe at her. She sees me and smirks,
"You like the look?"
"Yeah, I love it actually!"
"Yo, you guys we need to set up oh and Erin Christian needs to talk to you." Axel says as he pops his head into our room. We get up and Crim fist bumps Axel and as we are walking to the front of the bus I get to see Axel in his show clothes. He wears a plain white tee shirt and black jeans, his chin length hair is shaved on one side so it's all on the right. He has on black fingerless gloves and black lace up boots. He glances back at me and winks, I smile and get a look at his face. His normally clean face has black makeup around the eyes and down his neck. We're now at the front of the bus and step out into the fresh night air. I see Asher, Cash, Logan, and Christian. Ash is wearing a black muscle tee with the same black skinny jeans, his short black hair is the same. His arms and neck are covered in black makeup, his hands are also covered by fingerless black gloves. Cash is wearing the same thing as Axel but with a black T-shirt, Christian is wearing a leather vest that is unbuttoned to reveal his bare chest. Half his face was black with what I think a combination of bruises and makeup but he looked good. Logan was also there, hanging out and talking to Cash. Christian beckons me over and we walk a little ways from the group.
"Hey I just wanted to make sure our doing ok. After the accident earlier yesterday the counselor told me what happened and I just have to ask. You are now my responsibility because you are 17."
"I mean, I'm a little better but to be honest I'm not healed. Mom did a lot of things to me because you weren't around to defend me." I reply nervously, I had a small flashback to when I was younger...
It was a summer afternoon and Christian and Logan were at a friends and I was alone at home with my mother. She was yelling at me while I was sitting on the ground with my knees tucked under my chin,
"You worthless piece of trash! You're just a messed up child!" She smacked me across the face and the younger me winced. She picked up a glass bottle and raised it above my head and brought it down. I screamed as glass shattered around me and cut open my skin. She was about to go for round 2 but just then my brothers burst through the door smiling. Christians face fell when he saw us, he ran over to me and picked me up. He yelled to our mom,
"Leave her alone already! You can't abuse a child as innocent as her forever!" He handed me to Logan and he sat me down at the table and started to fix my cuts, but the yelling continued.
"What's gonna happen when I leave huh? You're going to kill her from the abuse! Leave her alone." And to think that was the better of my days. My mind flashes slightly forward in time, it was the fall after Christian had left the house and gone off to college. I was talking with my only friend, Crimson. When my mom came into the room and asked that Crim went home. I looked wildly towards her and pleaded her not to leave with my eyes, but she left quickly. My mom came over and sat on the couch next to me, she held a knife in her hand and didn't even say a word to me before she took my arm and slashed a line in my skin. I screamed and yelled, trying to pull away. I heard footsteps coming down the hallway and saw Logan step into the room, he stares in awe as my mom makes another slice in my arm but Logan doesn't say anything.
I come back to the present and see I'm rubbing my arm where the scars still show.
"Hey! I know things were bad then but you're not around her anymore ok? You can and need to come to any of us here if you need to talk or need help alright. I care about you and love you Erin." I nod and we walk back to the group.
"Alright, we're all here sweet! We should make our way back stage." Ash says, as we walk some fans come by and scream, the band hugs them and we continue on and soon we're behind the stage. The band huddles up before I know it me and Logan are standing in the front row and the Second Hand Warriors are coming on the stage. We cheer and they play their set list, at the end Crim came to the edge of the stage and put her hand down for us to grab, Logan came up first, then me. I blush from all the cheering. She leads us over to Ash who has the mic and says,
"These 2 amazing people are here today because they belong on this stage," a huge surge of cheering erupts.
"They've had a tougher life than most people and deserve a chance at dreams. Give it up for Erin and Logan!" I blush even harder and feel an arm around me and look over to see Christian smiling at me, I look around and see all the members of the band standing around us.
"C'mon give it up for these 2!" Shouts Crim, Christian reaches across me and gets the mic from Ash and shouts,
"We all have dreams and we were all lucky enough to find the place where we belong," he looks around at Ash, Cash, Crim and Axel, "now let's give the chance to my sister and brother!" The cheering gets louder if that's possible and we walk off the stage and security surrounds us as we walk back to the bus.
"That was awesome!" I say after a minute, hugging Ash and Christian who lift me up onto their shoulders.
"Of course it was sis, you're with us!" I laugh and they set me down as we reach the bus.
"C'mon everybody, group hug." Cash insists and we all come together, arm in arm. And in that moment I swear I was invincible, happiness took over my mind and for that 30 seconds I forgot everything bad that had ever happened. It all melted away until there were only amazing surges of happiness in my heart. We all broke off and hopped into the bus. Everyone seemed to know what to do and so I headed to Crim and I's room. Everyone was giving high fives all around and we all split off. I make my way through the door to the room with Crim behind me. We stood there for a moment and then at the same time we both went and engulfed each other in a hug. She picked me up slightly and hugged me tighter as if she ever let go I would disappear. She sniffles and says,
"I'm glad I have my best friend back at my side." I laugh and tears pop out of my eyes. She pulls away and looks at me with her hands on the side of my head, her eyes are glazed with happy tears,
"You're ok, we're okay." She hugs me tight again and continues, "For now we are invincible and nothing is ever gonna take that away from us."