Ashley Purdy Is My Saviour. (COMPLETED)

Chapter One: Love At First Sight

I was walking home from school again.  My mom forgot to pick me up. No worries! It's only half hour by foot, 20 minutes by car. She's probably passed out drunk again. Ugh! I hate my life. I continued walking. I felt a hand on my arm and being dragged into a alley. What the hell is going on!! A man, no 2 men where pumbling my face in. One hit me in the jaw and broke it. Great! I have a broken jaw and can't scream my lungs out!! I tried to fight them off, but one of the men held me down as the other hit me. Then the men's weight vanished. I got up and ran like hell. I stopped after a few blocks holding my jaw because it was broken. I heard heavy footsteps, I turned around to see Ashley Purdy jogging my direction! Ashley Fuckin' Purdy! Oh my God! "Did they break your jaw?" he asked in a huff. I nodded for it might fall off any moment.

He took me into his arms and ran me to the nearest hospital. I had had to have surgery on my head, and jaw and I aslo had a minor conctuation. My mom never showed. As usual. I woke up with a huge headache, and looked around dazed to find Ashley in a chair, asleep. I didn't want to wake him, so I just watched him sleep, he looked so peaceful. "Hey, you're awake"  he said as he stretched out. Then he leaned in and put his hand on mine and said, "Where's your mother? Shouldn't she be here?" I couldn't asnwer his question through talking obviously. But, thankfully, I know Sign Language. I hope he does too... (I'm not sure if he does or in real life! But in this story he does!) So I signed, "She hates me. She don't care if I die or come back alive. I've threatned to kill myself, run away or do both. She's always drunk off her ass  and she don't remember my name half the time. Why should I care if she shows?" When I was done, he looked away, he clearly knows sign and was shocked. "How do you know she hates you so much? She's your mother." She's dead to me. I couldn't bare to tell him that. I signed, "She tells me every single day. She keeps threatening to kick me out... She's known as the town drunk. Big shocker there. She has no love for me. Just her damn beer." He sat back in his chair and looked at his knee, which was overlapping his foot. We where quite for a long time, not the wierd, awkward kind. But the good kind.

Then, the door swung open nearly breaking off it's hinges. It was her. She found out. She stared directely at Ashley with her deathly, terrifng stare. "Who the hell are you!"  She screamed at him. He rose, clearly toller than her and with "OUTLAW" tatooed on his stomach in a arch, wearing no shirt, just a black leather vest. "Ashley Purdy, Ma'am" He responded firm and clearly defendent. "I don't fuckin' care 'bout your name! You shoulda just let ther die! She is no use to me!" She screamed. "You're her mother! You should be taking care of her! If it wasn't for me, she would be dead!" He screamed back but his voice was deeper and firmer. "Bastard broke her jaw. Deserved. Every. Hit." She said to me, and not Ashley. "Leave. You do not deserve her as a child. You do not deserve to have children. I am taking her away from you." He still had a hand on my shoulder, tightening his grip with every word. "Take her. I don't give a fuck anyway. You where a mistake! You little whore!" She was screaming at me this time. Then she left, slamming the door on the way out. That last part actually hit a nerve. Ashley took his hand off of my shoulder- finally. I signed, "Why did you say that?" He answered, "You deserve to be in a happy home and not with.... That. I see why you don't like her. I can tell just by looking at you that you're not a whore, but a beatiful girl."

Two Months Later:

I had to have several surgies on my jaw, and had to re- learn how to talk. I didn't want Ashley there for that part. I wanted to do that part on my own, and it made me feel awkward and slow with him there. He legally adopted me like he said he would. Then out of the blue, the rest of the band comes in.  "Hey Ash! Where've ya been!" It was clearly Andy with him and his deep voice. We where sitting at the kitchen table when they came bursting through the door. I rose, and walked into the living room without a word. They stopped in thier tracks. Ashley came right behind me, "Guys, this is Joey. My daughter. All thier eyes widend in shock, "You have a daughter! Since when!" They said in uncian. He laughed and put his hands on my shoulders and said, "As of two months ago. Be nice to her, she came from a broke-" I cut him off by saying, "I can speak for myself now, Ash."  Continuing with, "I'm Joey Purdy." I waved greating all of them. Do they know my story? What do they know? Did Ash tell them yet about what happend two months ago?  "I'll be upstairs, call if you need anything." I said and walked upstairs to my room.

Ashley's point of view.

They surrounded me from every angle, once she was gone. Not knowing what to expect from them. Jake was the first to ask, "Who the hell was that! She's so not your daughter! She looks nothing like you." The others just stared at him. "I legally adopted her. Of coarse she's not mine. She chose to use my last name. I was perfectly fine with it. Her parents abanded her and left her for dead. I had to take her. I love her as my own." I saw reget and shock in Jake's eyes and said, "Damn, she's a fighter." And that was the end of that. "How come she don't call you dad?" That was CC... "Because she's  not comfertable saying it. I don't mind it actually." They're probably going to ask impossible questions untill she gets back. She's going to be pissed. "That's where you've been for two months? With her?" Jinxx asked. "Yes, she had to mulitaple surgies on her jaw. It was completely broken." Andy interjected, "So... What's she like?" Great. The most impossible question. Ever. We hardly ever "talk" or whatever you call it. We text a lot but that's really it.  "Come on Ash, there's gotta be something you know about her." Oh my god. He won't give up. Fine, "Quite. Reserved. Protective. We text a lot, that's really it. That's all I really know." Now they won't leave me the fuck alone. "That's it? Two months and that's all you know?"