The End Of All Things // B.U

The Time I Turned 16 (Part 1)

Saturday 29th December
I was shaken awake by Brendon and shot up in bed. "What?" I asked rubbing my eyes.

"Happy birthday!" I didn't realise it but Sarah, Sebastian, Kayla and Jack we're in my room too.

"Thanks guys." I yawned. I wasn't really that happy but I put on a fake smile since it was my birthday.

"Can I talk to Ava alone for a minute?" Brendon asked. Everyone replied with some form of yes and went downstairs. "Princess. He's gonna be fine. He's awake. He woke up this morning. The first thing he asked was 'where's Ava? What have I done?'. He misses you."

"He can't just run back to me. Yeah he may be injured but I lost my dad and he avoided me for the day. Then when we got back we didn't talk for a while. Then we argued again and he left me again. I have had so many arguments with Sebastian but we've never left each other. He's not the Harley he was before. I'm prepared to avoid him till that Harley's back."

"Okay, but he's realised his mistake. You're always on his mind. He did that because when he called you, you denied him and said that you're spending time with Sebastian. He's been your best friend and he wanted to sort things out but you made an excuse. He wanted you to persuade him out of that but you brushed him off."

"Are you trying to pin this on me? Because you're not doing a very good job of convincing me otherwise. You're just making me feel even guiltier than I already was. Thanks for the amazing start of my birthday do you want the worlds best dad award?" I grabbed a hoodie and threw it on then walked downstairs and sat on Sebastian's lap. I curled up into a ball and snuggled into his chest.

"What's wrong baby?" He asked.

"Nothing. Just wishing I was never born." I muttered.

"What? Why?"

"No reason."

"Baby tell me."

"I just feel guilty. That night I stayed at yours after the last show I did with the band Harley called me. That was the week before he crashed. He called me so I could talk him out of it. But I made an excuse and now look where he is. I just need some alone time. Tell Brendon I'll be in the studio."

I went into the studio and sat at the keyboard. I started playing a few random chords which then turned into me figuring out a piano version of Slow Dancing In The Dark. Then I wanted to write a new song. I grabbed the notepad I keep in the bottom drawer and started playing random things. I wrote lyrics a while ago I just needed to work out some music for it so I flipped to it and started playing.

A few hours later
I was in the middle of playing when Brendon knocked on the door. "Hey. You coming downstairs? Someone's here to see you." He asked. I nodded and followed him downstairs. I'm not gonna lie. I did silently hope it was Harley but it wasn't.

"Hey guys." I said as soon as I got to the door. It was all of the band except Harley.

"Happy birthday." Oli said handing me a bag.

"Thanks."

"Well bye." They walked away and I stood in the doorway confused.

I closed the door and went back into the living room. I put the present with the others and sat next to Sebastian. "Are you gonna open them?" Brendon asked pointing to the pile of presents. I nodded and sat in front of them.

"Wait. I wanna vlog today." I replied running upstairs to grab my camera. I turned it on and put on a smile. "Hello guys and welcome to the vlog. It's currently the 29th December which most of you know is my birthday. So far I got up and wrote some songs and that's pretty much it." I started walking downstairs while still talking. "Okay so here with me today I have my dad Brendon, my mom Sarah, my best friends Kayla and Jack and my boyfriend Sebastian. So I'm gonna hand over the vlog to Brendon and Sarah because why not." I handed Brendon the camera and he started talking.

"So today is my not so little girls 16th birthday. She's gonna be a junior next year. Times flying by too quick. Anyway we bought her all these presents." He turned the camera around so it was facing me sitting in front of my pile of presents then back at him. "We didn't get her a lot mainly because she didn't ask for a lot so yeah. Time to open them." He pointed it back at me."

"Is there a particular order?"

"Nope."

"Okay then. I'm gonna go from smallest to biggest." I opened the smallest one and it was a really nice compass necklace. The next was a new phone since mine was messed up and wouldn't let me do anything. Next was a midi board since Brendon didn't want me using his. Next was a new laptop. See I managed to break mine because it got a virus. Last was a box. I opened it and it had three bags in it. They were all numbered so I opened them in order.

The first one was full of gift cards. The second one had a note in it.

You sold out your tour

I looked at Brendon with wide eyes. "Really?" I asked shocked.

"Yeah." He replied laughing.

"Woah. That many people. It's a world tour as well. I can't believe that." I opened the last one and it was four tickets. Two were plane tickets and the other two were vip passes to the APMA's in June. There was also a piece of paper. On it was a screenshot of an email sent to Brendon.

"Read it out loud."

"'Dear Brendon. We would like to ask you if you and Ava would wanna host a segment on the show. It's based around father and daughter duos. We would also like you to sing a song together. Hope you consider this and get back to us soon. Alternative press.' No way. Are we really?"

"Yeah."

"I'm so excited!"

"Me too." I decided I would open the present from the guys next so I opened the bag and inside were five boxes.

In the band each of us had a different colour that corresponded with us. For example Miles' drums were blue so his colour was blue, Harley's Guitar was green so his was green, Oli's Guitar was yellow so his was yellow, Ethan's bass was purple so his was purple and my mic was silver so mine was silver.

Each box was a colour that corresponded with us. I opened my box and it was an empty black charm bracelet. So I assumed that each box had a different charm in it and I was correct. Oli's was headphones since when we met we bonded over music, Miles' was drum sticks because we had a drum off and I won so he gave me his favourite drum sticks which I didn't wanna take but he insisted and I bought him the same ones in dark blue since they were green before, Ethan's was a dog since we used to sit there for hours looking at pictures of dogs and slowly dying and Harley's had two. One was a motorcycle since his name's Harley and the other was a Mickey Mouse charm because of when we went to Disney World. I smiled and my eyes started watering. "Thanks guys if you're watching this. You didn't have to get me anything." I mentioned. "Seb is this from you?" I pointed to the bag next to me and he nodded. "Okay." I pulled it towards me and opened it. It was a bag full of hoodies and at the bottom was a box with a ring in it. "Thanks Seb." I went and hugged him when walked back over to the presents. "Who's that from?"

"Gerard and Mikey." Brendon replied. I opened it and it was a bunch of Spider-Man comic books.

"They know me so well. Thanks Uncle Mikey and Uncle Gerard."

"Okay so everyone else is coming later since we're gonna go out for a meal." He handed me the camera and I spoke into it.

"Thanks everyone for the lovely birthday wishes. I'm gonna go and maybe write a few more songs. I'll be back when something exciting happens." I turned the camera off and Brendon left the room and came back with a box.

"I didn't want you to open this on camera." He put it down and I opened it. It was a new electric guitar.

"You didn't. Brendon! This is a $1000 Guitar!"

"It's also your dream guitar."

"Dad no. I can't accept this."

"Can't I spoil my daughter?"

"No."

"Too bad. It's yours now."

"Thank y-" The doorbell rang cutting me off so I went to open it. When I opened the door I didn't expect him to be here.

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A/n - I'm back home now so updates will hopefully become more frequent. Hope you enjoy.

- Ava x