adopted by all time low

chapter two

(by the way, this takes place in March)

its been a a moth or two since i saw all time low, and i feel as if everything has gone downhill in my life.

i transferred schools life has been a whirlwind. it's a long story.

when i first started school in seattle everything was fine. i had friends with common interests. even met a few boys. that's the problem. 

boys. they expected a lot from me. i was a new student, i'm a orphan. i'm a weak, fragile, innocent. they thought they could have their way with me. they did, not in the way you think they did. 

there was this one boy. peter, he has a bad reputation. he was notoriously mean to people that weren't up to his standards. fortunately, or should i say, UN-fortunately. i was. 

we started dating and we were strong for a few months, i didnt know how relationships worked, so i just went with the flow. but one day he asked me for nudes. 

sure, i knew what they were. and i asked them to keep them private. 'of course' he said. 

what a fucking lie that was.

 he spread them around the whole school and broke up with me. i should've seen it coming, thats why i had Harley transfer me. 

but your past follows you. no matter how hard you try. that photo, that horrible photo, that ugly photo, the photo that ruined my life. still haunts me to this day and probably will my entire school career 

in retrospect, i should known better. but i didnt expect my past to follow me across town. just thinking of that story makes me depressed. more depressed than usual. 

but thats my life i guess. 

I was on the couch, scrolling through the explore page on instagram, when the house phone rang, i didnt bother to get up for two reasons.

one, harley was home. 

two, it's a lot of work. and i'm the laziest piece of shit. 

but she answered it and they talked for a while, at least an hour. when she finally hung up, she looked at me and smiled. 

"that was Alex. they're coming in two days. they're going to adopt you" i didn't know what to say.

why? why did they choose a sad, sorry case like me?

i didn't know where to be excited, or to be scared for them. 

--two days 

today was the day, the day that my new family was coming to get me. today was the day i get to leave shitty seattle. i was excited but i wasn't showing it, mainly because i didn't know how to show it.

i haven't shown any in a while. 

maybe, maybe it'll be different. maybe.. 

i had my suitcase next to me in the livingroom, i was on my phone like it was a fucking thing to do, but i have no one to text, i'll have no one to miss, no one except Harley. 

i was really going to miss her, i was NOT going to miss traveling from group home to group home, state to state. looking for my forever home. because in my heart of heart i knew.

no one wants me, no one likes me. soon enough the guys will see it too, they'll send me back just like the rest.

the doorbell rang. this was it, the first day of the rest of my life. 

I sat against the couch as Harley opened the door, Only Alex walked in.

"hey victoria" he said, walking over and giving me a hug. i hug back lightly. i was getting used to this whole 'love and affection' thing. 

soon after, Harley and him went to the office room to sign the papers. 

--harley pov (oh shit) 

I was extremely excited that victoria was getting adopted, this boys seem nice and happy, which is what she needed. but i needed to tell him what has happened in her past that will trigger her. 

"now victoria, is a special kid" i said as we walked into the office. 

"yeah she seems really amazing" he said, smiling.

"as you know she's a quiet kid. but some things will trigger her, aka cause her to have a panic attack" he nodded. 

"she's doesnt like to be hugged at first, once you get her to trust you, she'll be fine. But sometimes it'll trigger memories." he looked confused but nodded. 

"i have her file, you can read through it. there's... a decent amount of triggering things. but most of those things will go away once you get her to trust, which will take time" i handed him the file, he put it down as i gave him the papers to sign. 

--back to victoria

i was waiting for him to sign the papers, i heard her talking but no responses coming from him. i didn't know whether to be scared. 

after what felt like hours, they came out. beaming. 

"ready to go" Alex exclaimed. i 'smiled' and nodded. I said goodbye to Harley, and we were off. 

it was obviously a rental car, but none of the guys were in the car. did he fly to seattle all by himself? 

"we bought a temporary home in seattle so you can finish out the school year, we decorated your room and everything, it looks pretty sick" Alex said bubbly as he started up the car and started driving. 

i "smiled" on the outside but on the inside. i was groaning and screaming, i really thought i had a shot of getting out of this stupid town, no. getting out of this stupid city. 

i just looked out the window. looking at the fading houses, thinking what secret lay inside them. any house looks normal on the outside, so do people.

 but when you get inside a house, and when you get to know a person, the face you see doesnt seem so normal, and that house you've look at doesn't seem so beautiful. 

"you alright?" he asked, snapping me out of my random thoughts, i nodded. 

"yeah, just...yeah" i said, and internally face palmed.

 i sounded liked a fucking weeb. which is a dweeb with a d, because they don't get any. god what is my life. 

the car came to a stop and i realized that we were in a driveway. the driveway of my home for the next 3 months. 

"the guys were there all morning, setting up your room, plus the house. i would've helped, but manual labor. ew" he stated which made me laugh a little. 

he opened the door... 

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