One Last Chance At True Love (a black veil brides fanfic sequel)

Chapter 21- final chapter

Andy's POV

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I smiled down at Lea, watching her take another bite of her sandwich. I laughed as a piece of lettuce hung out of her mouth. She looked over at me and blushed a deep crimson as she quickly bit the lettuce in half and put the rest on her tray. I kissed the top of her head, "you look adorable when you blush."

She looked up at me through her eyelashes with her gorgeous blue eyes and bit her lip, "you have to think that."

I shook my head, "I don't have to. But I do, because I think you are adorable no matter what."

She giggled and looked back at her sandwich, everyone else too mixed up in either their own conversations or food to notice us, and pulled off a piece of bread. She looked at me as she ate it then smirked, "even when I do that?"

I leaned down a bit and kissed her cheek, not pulling away, and spoke softly, "especially then. I love watching you eat. Knowing you're done starving yourself makes me so happy."

She smiled but it faltered slightly, "there's something I never told you, and I don't know if you want to know but I feel like maybe you should."

I raised an eyebrow at her and she pulled me out of our seats and outside, leaving our half eaten dinners behind. She turned to me but her eyes focused on her hands as they held mine. She began speaking, her voice shaky, "before, like a while ago, when you first started checking my weight. I didn't get better. I started making myself throw up after every time I ate." She paused and looked up at me. My jaw dropped as memories flashed through my mind: her getting somehow skinnier; her always insisting she got ready or went to the bathroom after she ate; and how she always looked uneasy after she came back. I brought my hand up to her face and held her cheek, wiping a few tears away with my thumb, then mouthing 'go on.' "Ok... well after you came to visit me at college I started getting a bit better, I ate almost every meal, but I still threw up after dinner. Then being with you again I completely forgot about that and then with being pregnant. I wasn't happy with how I looked, and after Sabby was born I starved again. I forced myself to throw up nothing.

"I was diagnosed with anorexia and bulimia when Dahvie took me to the doctors because he was worried about me. They monitored me, him and Jayy, making sure I ate and never threw up after. I became more depressed if that's even possible. I cut more then I already was, carving words into my skin. I was a complete mess. Eventually, I won and they stopped forcing me to eat. They begged me to, and I did sometimes. Maybe once every two days or so. I stopped puking after I had gone to the hospital from lack of nutrition and dehydration. I didn't want them calling my mom or my brother, because then you would find out. I wanted you to think I was happy without you. But truth is, I wasn't. No where near it. I lied to everyone, and to myself. It hurts me to think how bad I let myself get up until today basically," she laughed through her tears and looked into my eyes.

I was completely shocked. She got that bad. I was blind when we were together. I'm an idiot and she still loves me. She let out a deep breath, bringing me out of my thoughts. I leaned down and kissed her as softly as I could. She kissed back, and I pulled away, "Lea, don't you ever think you need to do any of that again. You are beautiful, you've always been beautiful, and you always will be. In my eyes nothing compares to you. Your personality, what you like, dislike, how you act, how you pour your heart and soul into whatever you sing. That's what I love. I love everything about you because that's what makes you, you. And I love you Lea."

She smiled, "I know I said you had until the end of warped to gain back my trust, but, you've had it all along. I love you too Andy."

I smiled probably the biggest smile I have in a while and pulled away from her, getting down on one knee like I had done a bit more then a year ago, and saying these words, "Lea Mora, I have loved you for years and I will continue to love you no matter what. You are my one and only. I've fucked things up but I want to make them better. Will you do me the honor of marrying me?"

"Yes Andy yes!" she squealed and pulled my into a hug. I slipped the ring on her finger and kissed her. I kissed her with as much love and feeling I could come up with, because that's what she deserves. She's mine again and will be forever. I know it.

She pulled away and smiled at me, I smiled back, "shall we go back and finish out food?"

She nodded and pulled me back into the restaurant all our friends were at. "You guys ok?" CC asked as we sat down.

Everyone's attention turned to us and Lea helded up her hand with the ring on it, the same ring I had given her the first time, the same ring I had kept with me sense the minute I let her get away, but that won't happen ever again. "Couldn't possibly be better."

Faith, Ivy, Ella, Sammi, and Sara started talking to her about the ring as everyone else gave me congratulations and warm smiles. CC smiled at me knowingly, "what did I tell you man? I knew she'd forgive you. Welcome to the family."