The Path To Heaven Runs Through Miles Of Clouded Hell

Part 5

When we arrived at dans house I went up to my room.

I looked in the mirror and saw my face. there was a huge bruise below my eye. crap what am I supposed to do when the guys see me.

I left the room and saw all the guys sitting at the counter.

"Hey Aja!" they all came up to me and hugged me.

"Hey!" "what happened to your face? don't tell me dan did this"

I stayed quiet "Daniel Reynolds! come here!"

Dan came down the stairs.

"What do you want Wayne?"

"Did you do this to Aja?"

"Oh my god Aja! are you okay? what happened?"

I'm confused. what just happened. is he playing an act?

"You hit me, called me a bitch and told me how I could only love and fuck you?"

"What? when?"

"Earlier" "no! I didn't!"

"Wayne what's going on?"

"Dan seriously! are you taking your medication"

"What are you talking about Wayne?"

"Dan takes medication because when he's mad he forgets things and he turns into a monster. that's probably what happened earlier. I'm sure he didn't mean it but are you okay?"

"I'm fine, dan can I talk to you?"

"Yeah"

We went up to our room.

"Do you love me?"

"Why would you ask me that? of course I love you! your my little Aja, I would do anything for you"

"I love you. what I said earlier about charley was just me being stupid. there is only one guy out there for me. one guy that ill love with all my heart for the rest of my life. and that's you"

"Thank you. that's all I ever wanted to hear"

I smiled. he put his hands on my face and kissed me.

"Dan?" "what?" "Can you stop hitting me?"

He looked me in the eyes. "I'm sorry for every thing I have done to hurt you. I know I screwed up a lot but I'm changing. I'm taking my medication. and I have my other medication right here"

"What do you mean?"

"My cure for my depression is you"

"He kissed me again and pulled me onto the bed. (you know what happens next)

When we woke up it was 7 am. dans arms were wrapped around my waist as always. his head was stuffed into my neck. I tried to get up but he had a tight grip on me.

"Aja" "what?" "Are you trying to leave me?"

"What? no of course not! i just wanted to get out of bed to make you breakfast!"

"I love you" he let me go and I walked down stairs.

"Hey Aja!" I heard Daniel say from behind me.

"Morning Daniel" "you wanna go out for a smoke?"

"I-I don't smoke" "c'mon lets go!" he tried to pull me.

"No!" "please it'll make you feel better. I promise"

"Fine just this once" we went outside. "here" he handed me a cigarette. I inhaled it and it was disgusting but I liked the feeling. it made me feel happy and energetic.

"Daniel what's in this?" he stayed quiet. I inhaled some more and dan came outside.

"Aja? what are you doing?" Dan looked all blurry. I squinted to see him clearly but that didn't work.

"Daniel asked me if I wanted to smoke with him"I started laughing so hard and so was Daniel.

"Daniel! what the fuck! you got her high!" I stood there laughing. dan picked me up and carried me to the room. "stay here and sleep some more" I fell asleep.

Dan's P.O.V.

I laid Aja down on the bed and went down to the living room.

"What the fuck Daniel?!" I pushed him against the wall. "I thought she liked it! I mean she was happy" Daniel laughed for a while longer.

"No shit she was happy! she was high! what do you expect?"

"I'm sorry but nobody ever wants to smoke with me"

"Because you don't smoke! you do drugs! I stopped doing drugs so we could tour and for Aja! now it's your turn to stop! why do you even do drugs?"

"I need my energy somehow for when we perform"

"Well find your energy some other way! or else..."

"Or else what?"

"Or else ill kick you out of the band!"

"No! you can't do that! I'm the back bone of the whole band! you can't let me go!"

"No! your wrong! Ben is the back bone of our band! I can easily find a new drummer! Either you stop doing drugs and stay in the band or you keep doing drugs and I find a new drummer! so what is it going to be?"

Ben came down the stairs "What's all the yelling about?"

"Ill stay in the band and stop doing drugs, but I need your guys' support, I can't do this alone"

I put a hand on Daniels shoulder. "thanks, you have all our support" I hugged him and Ben came for a hug.

"Aw now what happened?"

"Ben weren't you listening?"

"No! so what happened?" I filled him in on what had happened.