Chapter One
“Come here!”
“No way Oli!” I laughed.
“Fine then, I’ll come and get you!”
I was hanging out with my one of my friends, Oliver Sykes. Yes that Oliver Sykes. We met at a BMTH concert two years ago. I had backstage passes, and got to meet him! He was having some girl problems and I had helped him a bit, so we kept contact thru email and face time. I had just turned 18, so I moved down the street from him so that we could hang out more. Our friendship had gotten super strong in the past couple years, and he had introduced me too several of his other friends. I got to meet Dahvie Vanity, Jayy Von, and all of Black Veil Brides and Falling In Reverse, as well as some other people. They were all super sweet and we all became good friends. So today, we were going to see Dahvie and Jayy at their new house and help them unpack.
We got in the van and headed to their house. On the way, we listened to our favorite bands and sang along all the way there. Dahvie and Jayy were waiting for us outside when we got there. We jumped out of the van and walked over to a very unhappy Dahvie and Jayy. They looked super mad about something.
“Hey you guys! Whats wrong? You guys look mad or something...” I said.
“Hey Ash, hey Oli. Yeah we’re kinda upset. We just found out that my cats sick.” Said Jayy.
Dahvie chimed in. “Yeah we took her to the vet and he said she had some kind of cancer.”
“Oh, man that must suck, is it treatable?”
“No. She’s not gonna live much longer” Said Jayy.
Dahvie changed the subject to the house.
“So, you guys gonna come inside and help us or what?” he teased. “I don’t wanna have to do all the work by myself!” He laughed.
“Yeah Dahvie, we’re coming, right Oli?”
Oliver had been unusually quiet since we had gotten to their house.
“Oh, yeah we’re coming..” He mumbled.
“Oliver is something wrong?” Asked Dahvie. “Are you alright?”
“Yeah I’m fine..I guess I’m just tired.”
“Well alright then, lets get going, I kinda want to finish this today!!” Shouted Dahvie.
We all walked inside too help unpack the boxes and boxes of stuff they brought. We started by going thru everything. There were so many boxes of fan mail and gifts they had gotten from fans. There were shirts, hats, fan-made signs, and countless envelopes of mail from random fans.
“Wow you guys..This is a lot of mail. Have you ever actually read all of it?” I asked.
Dahvie laughed and said, “Yeah we read everything we get. We love to read what our fans send us, even if it’s hate mail.”
Jayy chimed in, “Yeah if we get hate mail, we just burn it and roast marshmallows!!” He laughed.
I giggled and started going thru the boxes again. I was going thru a box full of pictures of them and saw one of Jayy and Daniel. I looked over at Dahvie, who had seen me pick it up, and mouthed the words “Should I just leave it?” He said No, just give it too me. So I handed it over and went back to unpacking.
Oliver and I decided to spend the night so that we could finish tomorrow. They gave us the guest room, and we quickly fell asleep. During the night, I awoke from a sound sleep because I had heard a crash. I quickly sat up and looked over to see Oliver sleeping on my left. I glanced thru the open door across the hall to Dahvie’s room. I saw that the door was closed, so I figured Jayy was downstairs. I couldn’t get back too sleep so I decided to go downstairs and join Jayy. When I got too the kitchen, I noticed that the lights weren’t on, and I got a little worried. I said out loud, “Jayy? Is that you?”
I got no reply. I worried he might have fallen and gotten hurt or something. I walked into the kitchen and flipped on the light. After a thorough search of the area, I saw nothing. I figured I had just imagined the noise and turned to go back upstairs. I walked over, and turned out the light. Just as I started to walk up the stairs, a rough hand covered my mouth and a voice said into my ear, “Don’t move, or scream. I will kill you.”
