By a Chance of Fate | Andy Biersack

Chapter 22

Andy picked me up in the morning and drove me straight to a McDonald's so I can get breakfast. He ordered for me knowing what I usually get when we skip school together.

When we got to his house I plopped down onto his couch and began eating. He sat next to me and pulled my legs onto his lap. I ate slower than usual trying to gather my thoughts and remember the plan before I tell Andy everything. After about 20 minutes I saw the impatient look on his face and felt bad. I took a sip of my orange juice and began to speak.

"Are you ready?" I asked him.

"Have been for the past twenty minutes." He said jokingly.

"Alright."

"Wait, lemme get the tissues just in case."

"Good idea I said."

While he left to get the tissues I took in a deep breath and held it for a while. I kept thinking to myself "you can do this." Over and over. Finally Andy returned with two boxes of tissues.

"Okay now I'm ready."

"So let me start from the beginning..."

"I would hope that's where you'd start."

"Stop joking around this isn't funny!!"

"Okay okay, I'm sorry." He said and then kissed my cheek.

I blushed and then started talking again. "When I was three a man and a woman adopted me. Mr. And Mrs. Cortez, they seemed fine but after awhile they weren't. I started to notice that they were having problems. Mr. Cortez started drinking a lot and smoking a lot. Mrs. Cortez would take loads of pills at a time. I was never really scared either of them until she would leave me alone with him. Some days he would just smack me around. Some days he'd make me undress in front of him and he would touch me... I would scream and cry but no one ever seemed to notice. Mrs. Cortez did though. She would see the bruises and cuts he would leave from beating me. She would see my tear stained cheeks." I started to cry and Andy pulled me into his chest and let me sob for a minute. He continued to say "I'm sorry" over and over.

It took me a minute to calm down and catch breath.

"There's m-more that I need to tell you."

"You don't have to continue if you don't want to."

"I have to."

"Okay."

"Sometimes Mrs. Cortez would be gone for several days and so I'd try to hide until she came home. It never worked he'd always find me and then when he did he would bend me over his lap and pull my pants down, h-he would take wooden spoons and spank me until the spoon broke. The day you were in the hospital and you talked about cigarettes the only reason I didn't seem okay was because he use to burn me with them when I'd scream. He always said 'I'll give you something to scream about.' Finally after 4 years of it happening Mrs. Cortez took action after she saw the blood pooling from my private area. She rushed me to the hospital and they said that it was because someone shoved something 'large' up there. I didn't wanna talk about it but she figured it out and ended up divorcing him. We left and he went to prison. She started drinking more and taking more and more pills til one night I found her overdosed when I was five. After that I ended back in the system. When I was seven I was adopted again by Mr. Harvey and Mrs. Harvey. They took good care of me up until he found his wife cheating on him and he took his anger out on me and beat me til I ended up in the hospital. She got custody of me after that. A couple months later her boyfriend got fucked up and he ended up hitting on me and raped me. She walked in and blamed me for the whole thing. Since then I haven't been adopted again. I had to go to therapy til I was 15. After that they stopped letting me go for free because I was old enough to get a job."

Andy sat there staring at me with shock on his face. He grabbed me and wrapped his arms around me and I felt him crying against my chest. I felt a few tears stream down my face.

"Now you know."

"Ade I-I"

"I know, you're sorry."

"I don't know what else to say."

"Don't say anything, just hold me. That's all I need."

He cuddled me closer and we stayed like that for hours until I began to get hungry. Andy made me a fruit salad and gave me juice.

After I finished eating Andy cuddled me some more and I fell asleep. I heard him mumble sweet nothings in my ear as I slowly fell asleep. A few of which stood out.

"I love you beautiful. I'll never let anyone hurt you again. You're mine."