Brendon's POV (wHaT?? pOv cHAnGe??):
Nat looked really surprised that I had just allowed her to cuss. I didn't think it was that big of a deal, seeing as I did it all at time and so did a lot of the people she would be around.
We continued to listen to music as we made our way to the mall. I explained to her about how Ryan and Jon left after Pretty. Odd. and how Spencer left after Vices to go to rehab. I told her about Zack, how he has been our "bodyguard" since the beginning and how he was one of my closest friends. She looked genuinely interested in the band and especially the music. I was glad she liked it.
After about 20 minutes that felt like 5, we arrived at the mall. We made our way across the parking lot and into the mall. We decided to go to a place called Forever 21, because her friend told her that it was a nice store with clothes she would like. After about an hour of Natalie looking and me convincing her that she can get more than what she had picked out, she decided she had gotten plenty and that we could go look in other stores for things too. The total came out to about $198, which was really not that much to me. We moved on to the Nike store, where she picked out a pair of tennis shoes, a few pairs of shorts, some sweatpants, and a few hoodies. We went to a few more stores after, including a dhoes store where we bought about 5 pairs of shoes, after I convinced her again that it was okay to get more. I took her to the Apple store and got her on my plan, which got her the latest iPhone. Finally, I decided to take her to Hot Topic before we went to go get party supplies. She automatically gravitated towards the twenty øne piløts merchandise, before inevitably noticing the P!ATD merch. She picked out a few things that we didn't sell in the online store, as they were custom made by Hot Topic. We left after looking around a little longer, now in search of a party store.
We found a store that had all the things we needed and checked out. Finally, we took her many bags to the car and made our way home. I was exited for her to meet everyone and for everyone to meet her. I already felt like I had known her fir years, even though we were still awkeard around eachother. Hell, she had just met me a month ago, and she had just moved into the house yesterday! I think that's a valid reason to be a little awkward around eachother.
"Okay, lets get this stuff up to your room, you can change if you would like, and then we'll set up for this party!" I exclaimed.
"Okay!" she chimed back cheerfully.
After about 10 minutes, Natalie walked into the living room in an outfit very similar to the one I had changed into. A grey t-shirt with a pocket, some ripped black skinny jeans, and some all black high-top Converse.
"Well this is awkward." I chuckled.
"A little, but also kinda cool?" she said, sounding more like a question than a statement.
"Yeah! We should totally wear this tonight." I said.
She giggled. "Okay, should we start setting up?"
"Yeah, probably." I replied.
And with that, we set up the decorations and prepared food and drinks for the party. We joked and had fun as we did, which made me feel a lot better, because it seemed like Nat was ready for this.
Natalie's POV:
Soon people began to arrive. I could tell as there was now multiple voices coming from the living room. Brendon and I decided that we should wait till everyone gets here to have a little surprise introduction. So I stayed in my room, Brendon would come get me once everyone arrived. While I sat in my room, I set up my phone. Brendon had wrote his phone number on a piece of paper and left it on the table next to my bed, so I added it into my phone. Soon enough, Brendon broke away from the party and made his way to my room. He poked him head in the door and I nodded, stood up, shoved my phone in my pocket, and followed him downstairs into the living room. He stood on the coffee table in the middle of the room, pulling me up with him.
"Can I have everyone's attetion?" he called out.
Everyone turned to us and gave their undivided attention.
"I would like to introduce you to my daughter, Natalie," I seen heads turn and soft whispers in the small crowd when they heard the word 'daughter' "I adopted her last month and she moved in yesterday, and we decided it's time to introduce her to everyone!" he exclaimed.
I waved shyly and we both got down from the table. Soon enough, 3 men had made their way over to me. One was really tall and skinny. The ather two were around Brendon's height.
They all just sort of looked at me confused, then the tall one introduced himself first, after reciving Brendon's elbow in his side.
"Ouch... Hi, I'm Dallon." he stuck his hand out to invite me to shake it.
"I'm Kenny." said one of the shorter guys. I don't know why, but he gave off a weird vibe. I ignored it and shook his hand.
"I'm Dan." he just smiled at me, and I figured he was kinda shy as he didn't offer a handshake. I didn't mind though, I always found handshakes odd and an invitation for awkwardness.
"I'm Natalie." I gave them all a smile. I stayed very close to Brendon though, as I didn't really like large crowds of people, especially people I didn't know.
Brendon wrapped an arm around my shoulders and called over Spencer, the guy he said used to be the drummer for the band.
"Oh, hi! I'm Spencer!" he gave off a bright smile that made me smile too. It was weird, he just had such a nice smile.
"I'm Natalie, or Nat. Nobody really calls me Nat very often, so you can call me whatever." I rambled.
"That's a really nice name." he replied.
"Thanks." I said before Brendon pulled me off in another direction.
He stopped in front of a larger man. He had short red hair and a large beard.
"This is Zack." he said pointing towards the man.
I waved at him shyly. "I'm Natalie, nice to meet you."
He gave me a small smile before asking Brendon to talk in private and pulling him off to the side. I wandered around the house, when I spotted Tyler fucking Joseph and Josh Dun talking to Dallon. I quickly walked in the opposite direction. I finally spotted Brendon walking towards me.
He bent down low to whisper into my ear. "Tyler and Josh are here if you would like to properly meet them."
I nodded softly and Brendon led me to them. He placed me in front of them and stood behind me with his hands on my shoulders.
"Tyler, Josh, this is Natalie." he said as I waved shyly at them just as I had been doing all night.
"You look familiar... why do you look familiar?" Tyler asked with a confused face.
"I met you a few years ago at a concert." I managed to say, as my troat went dry.
"Oh my god! See, I told you! She was the one really nice girl that brought us water and the amazing drawings!" Josh said, punching Tyler's arm.
"That was me." I said shakily, my cheeks reddening. I looked down and fiddled with my hands.
"Yeah, we really liked you! You were one of the only people who weren't freaking out and actually acting normal! I told Tyler you would've probably been cool to hang out with, but now we can actually hang out! How cool!" Josh rambled on as Tyler gazed at him, like he always does.
Soon after, everyone started to leave and eventually the house emptied out. Brendon said that the cleanup could wait till tomorrow, and we both went to sleep soon after.
A/N: Sorry for the incredibly long chapter, I was trying to fit the whole party and Natalie meeting everyone into one chapter ://
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Fanfic*this is not edited yet so it has a lot of spelling mistakes!! also like the first 9 chapters are not the greatest, i was just really excited to write.* cover by me! natalie is 13 years old. she was born to a teen mom, who wanted what was best for h...
