Chapter One

I was sitting in the common room waiting for a friend of mine to get out of class. My name is Sam, short for Samantha, Magnox. I am 5 foot 9 inches tall with short black hair and teal highlights, bright emerald green eyes, pale bronze colored skin. I also have long fingers that I use to play Piano and guitar, though never really telling anyone about my passion for either of them. I was dressed in black jeans, a black My Chemical Romance t-shirt and my black converse all-star shoes I was also sitting listening to my IPod waiting. I was lost in my own world with the lyrics of the music of several songs and artists that it was a good distraction from everything around me that bugged or bothered me in general. As I was listening to my music I was tracing my Libra tattoo on my left wrist mindlessly, it was one of five tattoos that I had on my body. One, a crescent moon, was located on my right foot another, a tribal heart, on the inside of my right wrist, a third on my left shoulder of Scorpio and the last a Celtic star on my lower back. As I was listening to 'Enemies' by Shinedown I felt the table shake and I looked up to see who bumped into the table curiously and realized that it was Amber.

"What is Wrong Amber? What happened this time to make you look so angry and have your anger and frustration roll off of you?" I asked as I took a close look at her and took out my ear buds from my IPod worried about her, of course, with her back ground, who wouldn't be worried about her with the fact that she always had a constant fight with her mother. I took a long hard at my friend knowing something was up and that what was up had to be due to her mother.

"My mother, that's what. She has been driving me mad. She wants me home immediately to do my chores and to make sure that I get everything clean and ready to go before we have visitors at the house. My aunt is coming, though beats me why she is coming, mother never got along well with my aunt and they always fought so I never knew, and I don't know why she is coming now. I just need to get out but I can't afford to get out of the house and leave the mad woman." Amber said as she sighed and put her head in her hands stressing out as she ran her hands through her long hair.

"You won't be going home tonight, so you would be disobeying your mother's orders to get home and do the chores, you will need this and I know that but don't argue with me. There is a good reason why you won't be going home." I said as I leaned over to the chair next to me to dig through my blue leather purse which carried all the little essentials and my twilight book which I was only a quarter of the way through it, then I found the envelope carrying the flight tickets and the concert tickets to go see MCR in concert, Front row and even where are room was which was adjacent to the Guy's room too which was going to freak her out the most too.

"What do you mean I won't be going home tonight? Mother will make my life hell if I don't come home, you know that. What's this good reason that you have that will get me out of the insane Asylum I call home that my mother lives at as the medical doctor that does experiment's on people's reaction to certain things?" Amber asked as she watched me lay the envelope on the table in between the two of us and I couldn't help but chuckle at the thought that she was this upset and the fact that it was partially true though, sadly.

"I know but we will find an excuse for this one and I will come up with a good reason to why you weren't at home doing your chores for the next three days at least. This is your birthday and your Christmas present from me. I won't be getting anything else for you for a while, this took a big hit on my bank to get this for us and I thought you would like to go with me since you…just open it and you will see why. I am really hoping that you will like this I know I will." I said smiling as I slid the envelope over to Amber waiting to see her big reaction to what I was giving her to make sure that her next few days would make a life time and there was another secret with those tickets there was a meet and greet with them so that she could meet the one person that changed her life, Gerard Way.

"What's this? I hope that it isn't something totally ridiculous that it would be outrageous for us. I doubt that it is what I think it is because if it is I know that I would have to find some way to return the favor in getting you something just as special in return." She said as she slid the envelope to her and slowly began to open it and I just grinned like a silly child knowing what it was. I was getting a little excited for her to get a move on in opening the envelope so that she would be just as excited as I was.

"You will have to see before I can tell you exactly what it is. Go on. Well you will just have to see what is inside so that you know what exactly it is in order to truly judge that call." I said giggling like a little child, though being 22 years old, I was still pretty young but not a child any more. That was when she literally opened the envelope, finally, and took out the stuff inside and looked at it and then I saw comprehension come across her face.

"NO! No! YOU DID NOT JUST GET US TICKETS TO SEE THEM LIVE?!" She squealed and jumped off of her chair and started jumping around excitedly. I couldn't blame her, I was just excited and I knew that she would want to go regardless of the consequences of her mother.

"I did and not only that we get to meet them in person, Front row tickets and an adjoining room to theirs. It cost a pretty penny to get those but it is all worth it and even though it is October I am hoping that you will like the early birthday and Christmas Present. I brought your cloths and stuff I packed for you, we need to get going to get to our flight on time." I said grinning happily as I picked up my purse zipping it shut and took my bottle of water too and my car keys.

"Oh my gawd I can't believe that you actually got us tickets to see them. I am supper excited, this is far more then I can ever repay you back. How will I ever pay you back for this?" she asked as we walked to my poor old car which, far from what I will know just yet, I will never see again.

"Just remember this in how you can pay me back. You will owe me a total of five favors, one for each band member. Once the fifth one is owed you will no longer owe me anything after that. However I may have to call you at any time regardless of what it could be and it will be anything depending on exactly what I need or want it won't matter. There will be a time where I will need you." I said getting a feeling that it would be true though I just didn't know it at the time but just had a feeling at the time that one day she would have a major role to play and that I would need her to be a part of it and I would need to call her for those favors.

"Any time and anything that you will need, I will pay off this debt that I owe you for this. I will make sure of it." She said as she sat down and we were finally on our way to the airport to get on our flight to Australia.

The drive to the airport felt like it had taken forever and the fact that both of us were just too excited about the concert that neither of us, Amber mainly, that we couldn't settle down. I was just glad I had my book with me so that I could read on the long flight to Australia for the Concert and I knew that Amber would criticize me for the fact I was reading 'Twilight' rather then something else. As we got to our seats I took out my book as she sat next to me and was bouncing around like a little bunny.

"Why are you reading that crap? That is a good book yes but the Vampires shouldn't glow like diamonds in the sunlight but the ideas are great in it. Too bad that it isn't real though, Vampires I mean, the thought of immortality. It would be delightful to be immortal wouldn't it?" asked Amber as she settled into her seat.

"I am reading it for my own entertainment purposes I do like some of the story lining and most of the characters however but the fact that the vampires sparkle is what kills me too. Though I like the fact that they have super human strength, don't ever age, the venom, their skin so hard that bullets wouldn't kill them and their abilities along with their eyes to where they are either gold or red and how they go black when they are hungry. That's what I like the most but other than that I do understand why you would be so furious about the books, I mean that character Bella for instance, I don't know, something about her bothers me a lot." I said getting comfy and opening the book. I did rather enjoy the book part of it though and liked the idea part of it but some little things got me like how Bella ends up so needy when Edward leaves her in the second book and how she went into a huge state of depression, though I did understand depression I just don't like the fact it had to do with a man. People now days so strange and weird about these things.

"There is that too but I was thinking if there were vampires, wouldn't you want to become one in order to live for forever?" she asked as she turned to look at me causing me to stop in a middle of a sentence in the book just to look up and answer the question, which I had no problem with.

"Yes and no, to be fairly honest. My reasoning for my Yes is because I wouldn't mind living for forever and having the ability to watch the world grow or destroy itself in its own way and I would like to live for forever. However the reasoning behind my No answer is because it would mean watching all those that I love die and I would remain alive for a very long time, never having those people near me, never hearing their voice and never being able to hug them again. I do like the idea but it scares me too if that makes sense." I said to her being very honest in my answer, the thought did intrigue me but I wouldn't want to watch everyone die around me just because of my selfish needs and wants to live for forever.

"I guess that is a good point too though. I have no one to really want to stay human for to be real honest. It's just that, my mother thinks the worst of me and she wouldn't really care if I lived or died to be fairly certain." Amber stated as she looked up the isle to see what was all the racket was that was happening up in the third row which ended up being a 5 year old kicking and screaming about wanting sweets but his mother wouldn't give him any because it was so late in the day and she wanted him to go to bed that night without sugar in his system. Which I did agree with the mother in all respects.

"Amber, I honestly think that your mother would not want you dead just because you guys can't come to an understanding in life. You should know that by now. Parents do care, 90% if not 99.9% of them do because some just have kids and don't give a flying rats fart about the child but to be honest I believe your mother would care about if died or not. I know that she may not show it but I believe that she would care if you did die." I said being honest because I wanted to make sure that she knew that she would be missed in one way or another and I know that I would miss her if anything happened to her.

"You are only saying that to make me feel better about myself Sam, you really don't know if she would care or not if I did die or if I lived. She would treat me the same regardless." She said and then went quiet which I respected that.

"As you wish Amber, as you wish." I stated and went back into my book reading about how Bella was just starting to realize what Edward was. Which sadly I was surprised that she hadn't figured out what he was beforehand which irritated me the most because it was really obvious to us. I ended up totally absorbed into the book.

By the time we landed we were ready to get off. We were both tired of sitting and we had 4 hours before the concert and the fact that we still had to get to our hotel room and drop off our bag which wouldn't take long. We weren't that far from the Hotel anyway but we wanted to take a taxi, which we did in order to get to the Hotel since neither of us felt like walking to the Hotel.

"Wow the Hotel is gorgeous. How the hell did you afford this?" She asked as we got our hotel keys and were headed up to our room.

"Doesn't really matter does it? Just know that we will be staying here for two nights and three days here to enjoy the day after the concert then we have to catch the plane again. We will be back in the states after that." I said smirking and opened our door to the room which was a large spacious room with two beds and red carpet, golden yellow painted walls and comforters with red and gold. The beds had red and gold pillows and white sheets.

"Wow!" she said as she entered the room placed her beg on the bed nearest the window, I didn't blame her. She laid across the bed and I placed my bag on my bed and took out my PJs and tooth brush and tooth paste, along with my hair gel to spike my hair up. I placed my book on my pillow so that I can re-pack my purse for the concert later that night which I knew Amber was just excited and I knew that she would be biting the moth's butt to get going to the concert which I had something for the guys to sign later when we went to the meet and greet. I also brought something for Amber too.

"When is the concert again?" Amber asked as I got things organized and into my purse ready to go in order for the concert which I was excited for it too. I placed the book into my purse as well ready to go.

"It is in 3 hours we have time but we should probably get going or getting ready to go so that we have time and to get our seats and get pumped for the Concert." I said smiling and I couldn't help it.

"Your right. I claim the bathroom, for now at least. Do you think I should add the orange and red streaks to my hair to make it look a little bit more fashionable when we are there?" Amber asked as I had claimed one of the two smaller mirrors in our room so that I could spike my hair and to add my liquid black eye liner and silvery green eye shadow to go with my eyes which would make them stick out more.

"Well I would to go with the concert, at least I packed the wash out ones so that when we get back you can wash it out whenever you want. Don't forget to wear your makeup too, it would be best if you do for the concert." I commented as she rushed in the bathroom with the hair spray color for her hair and I could hear her spraying her hair.

After I was done, which was faster than Amber who was still trying to get her hair just right for the show, I didn't blame her, I found my glitter for my hair that I added quickly to make sure that it would shine bright in the crowd. I grabbed my purse and added my Twilight book again, I knew we would be getting there early so I just decided to bring it along for my own sake and then I grabbed a book, I knew Amber would want to get it signed, it was the Umbrella Academy book I had gotten her and I wanted Gerard to sign it for her. I looked and found my book about the guys and put that in my purse as well so that they could sign the book for me. I was now ready to go to the concert which was saying something, but now I was waiting on Amber who was fussing with her makeup now.

"Finally, got my makeup right. Ready to go? I know I am and I can't wait to see them in Concert. I heard that they sold out for this concert too." She said excitedly as we walked out of the room and went to catch a taxi to the concert which wasn't hard to do since there was like five of them empty and ready to go.

"I was ready a while ago but now I am so giddy with glee that I am so looking forward to this concert. I hope you didn't bring your Cell phone with you." I said as I looked at mine and saw 15 missed calls and 10 voicemails on top of over a hundred texts from Ambers mother wondering where the hell Amber was and why she hadn't made it home yet since now the time period was so off from here to Minnesota that it would be a different time there then where we were at.

"Why is it that bad? Has she been badgering you on where I am at all of a sudden?" Amber asked looking over at me as we climbed into the taxi who we told where to head to which he then took off towards where the concert was being held.

"Yeah it's pretty bad considering that she has sent me several texts left over 5 voicemails and called me fifteen times. It's ridiculous so don't take a look at your phone, it will just piss you off when you do. Wait till after we get home then you can take a look at your phone to see what she wants, but by then I think she would have kicked you out because of not being there. It's sad to be honest but then again you'd be free of her." I said as I shut my phone off and then started humming NA Na Na by MCR which Amber was now singing the words to as we waited to get to our destination, which didn't take more than twenty minutes to get there. I paid the man and we went to find our seats.

Before we went in we looked at the stands, I bought myself two t-shirts, a key chain and a few wrist glow sticks to fasten to my wrists when the lights went out and it was just strobe lights. I saw that Amber didn't have hardly any money so I bought her a T-shirt and a few other items to go with her outfit so that she didn't feel like she didn't get anything at the concert when we came here, it would be the only good memory for her for a while knowing things at home were hell. I couldn't help but hand her items to her which she didn't want to accept but did anyway since it was the only few things she would be getting here and that she would have to enjoy them when it lasted too.

"Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!" Amber said pulling on my arm as we went to find our seats which were directly in the facing the stage and she couldn't help but giggle excitedly as we sat down which she was practically bouncing out of her seat because of her pure excitement.

"Excited much Amber? You're like a two year old on pixie sticks hyper as crap." I said laughing as she continued bouncing up and down, I knew that she was excited about the concert and I didn't blame her, but most of all she was more excited to actually see Gerard, her favorite of the group, in person, though I knew she was going to freeze up by the time of the meet and greet to see the guys, I would too though so fair enough.

"Of course I am, I am excited to see Gerard and the guys up on stage and I want them out here now playing music!" she groaned longingly as we waited, only 30 minutes to the show so I knew the longing too.

"Amber, we have 30 minutes before the show even begins." I said pulling out the Twilight book again and she glanced over at me and rolled her eyes as she saw what I had pulled out.

"Again with the book? Seriously do you have to take that thing with you at all times or something I mean jeesh it's not the bible or anything." She said and yelled out for Gerard to come out on stage, which, to me, was amusing.

"Yes again with the book, I know it's not and it's not like I bring the bible with me, I just brought it to pass some of the time away while we waited for the guys to come out." I said rolling my eyes as she looked everywhere and was hopping on the floor now, refusing to sit like she had the bad case of the flees.

We waited patiently and soon the lights dimmed and the music started to play, I put my book away and we were screaming and singing to the music. Amber was thrilled when Gerard showed up in front of her. He started singing and then he glanced down where Amber was causing her to blush furiously and I felt a flush on my face for her. I watched the guys play the guitar and couldn't help but watch Frank be…well Frank.

The concert was now over which was tragic, the past hour of the concert was really epic for both Amber and I and neither of us wanted to leave in the next two days because that meant Amber would have to face her Mother. I had to deal with that and I was not a happy camper on that one and I would be hearing Amber cry to me on how things would be going and what was going on. We weren't thinking of that at the moment we were thinking of meeting the guys and that was what we were most into at the time, not even really thinking about Sarah, Amber's Mother, at the moment of bliss we were both facing at the second. Amber was flushed and so was I as I grabbed her book out of my purse and handed it to her so that she could get it signed for herself and I was pulling out my book I brought for them to sign. As we were headed up there I felt Amber pull away.

"What's wrong Amber? Are you ok?" I asked as I turned to look at her all nervous looking and scared at even heading up to the guys, which I guess was understandable which anyone would be a little scared about, which secretly I was too though.

"I…I…I can't go up there, I am afraid." She said as she went to a bench and I looked at her in concern as it was now my time to ask for their signature which I was a little scared about myself.

"Wasn't there another girl with you?" asked Frank as I offered my book for them to sign though my hands were shaking slightly.

"Yes…she is over there on the bench. She really wanted to come over but she is scared to because she fears that she would make a fool out of herself if she came to close and she has a book for you guys to sign but…as I said, she is a little scared to ask." I explained as Frank looked at me while I explained.

"Well we can't have that can we? Poor thing should have that book signed since she is here." He said then leaned over Ray to speak to Gerard who looked at where Frank pointed and then nodded in agreement. They got up and went over to Amber and I Followed them shyly though and smiled.

"Is she always this shy?" Asked Frank as I stood near and I looked at him a little scared and then blushed red and noticed him smiling.

"Yes, especially around you guys, well mainly Gerard. She wouldn't mind it but she is supper shy." I did say and did notice Gerard glance my way and smiled slightly.

"Hey Amber. It's Amber isn't it? Your friend here told me that you would like something signed but were a little scared to come up to get it. Would you like to have something signed?" Asked Gerard with a black sharpie ready to go. Amber looked up and nodded slightly lifting her book I brought for her which was of course the Umbrella Academy which Gerard had written. Gerard looked at it and smiled slightly.

"Well, Well, someone likes to read comic books." Said Ray who couldn't help but smile and Frank ended up laughing but not at Amber but the ironic thought that Amber would have brought something so Ironic.

"I am the one that brought it for her since she didn't have anything to have signed so I bought it and brought it for her so that she could have it as a keep sake." I said making Frank shut up and made Mikey get an amused look. Gerard didn't say anything but did notice the red marks of stress that she put in her arms, I knew that she had a severe stress depression issue. Thus she would cut and she would cause what was on her arms. I did notice it as Gerard asked for the book to sign and when Gerard had handed the book over to Ray.

"You did this to yourself? Why did you harm yourself? Someone as beautiful as yourself shouldn't do this to yourself." Gerard said gently taking her arm and tracing where her nails had dug and scraped her skin.

"It's when I get scared, depressed, or very stressed which would cause me to do this. Sometimes I don't even realize what I have done to myself because I try to distract myself through the pain." She said in a winded voice and in one breath.

"He is right dear one. Doing this would be bad for you." Said Ray after all of them had signed it handed it back to her gently.

"We should get back to the hotel. It's getting late and we have to get going soon enough in the next two days. It was good to have met you both." Said Gerard as he walked back to the table and started getting his things packed so that they could go to the room that we were adjoined to.

"We should get back too. Come Amber we need to get some sleep. However I doubt that we will ever get any sleep after tonight!" I said guiding her outside and got a cab to go back to the Hotel room so we could relax from all of the excitement.

By the time that we got back to the Hotel, Amber couldn't shut up about what Gerard had said to her and that he actually 'touched her'. I smiled and opened the door and plopped down on my bed opening my book again just as she went to the bathroom to get ready for a sleepless night. Which she would talk my ear off all night. While she was in there I got to the baseball field area where they were playing baseball. That's when I saw a mysterious light appear from the book and sucked me straight into the book causing the book to close where I was. Luckily I had my phone. As I started getting disoriented from the action I landed right in front of James. Back in my world Amber came out of the bathroom.

"Hey Sam. What songs do you want to listen to from their CD?" said Amber and she noticed me gone, my book where I was.

Amber went into panic mode if Sam wasn't here where could she have gone off to, it couldn't be far and if she had gone somewhere she would have at least said something before she had gone but…if something had happened…no she couldn't think that way, not now. She looked at the book and shook her head and left it there she didn't think that the book could have captured me in it's own little pages and that if anyone found out they would have wanted to know how the hell I got in there to begin with. I didn't blame them I would have thought the same thing too. I would have been highly suspicious as well. At least that was my feeling of it.

Amber decided to put in her favorite CD in and listened to it and as she went to go to bed with the loop on the whole track she fell asleep with it on hoping that I had stepped away for a while and that I would be back in the morning and then we would be able to eventually get our things together and be on our way back home after sight-seeing of course which she wanted to do because of the concert and she was hoping that I would as well but then again everything seemed to be strange lately and the fact that Gerard actually talked to HER someone who meant nothing at all and the fact that of all the people he could have talked with he actually talked with her, due to my help of course too.

After all these events and the memory inside her mind continually playing over and over again, Amber did manage to go to sleep but before she did she whispered:

"Where are you? You wouldn't leave me here alone why would you now you would be here making sure that I was ok and that you would have told me to keep away from my mother but without you to remind me who do I have left to say that to me now?" she asked as her eyes closed and she fell asleep not knowing that I was not going to be there in the morning, not knowing I wasn't going to be there until days later when I would be changed and still changing and would abandon her for a second time to keep her safe and happy. I would, of course, make sure that she got to her plane to take her home so that she would be able to continue going to school but as for me…that was a different story for things for me were going to change drastically and even for her…soon enough. She would have to figure things out on her own and deal with the problems that lied ahead though I would always be watching from the shadows, always watching always waiting always keeping tabs. For now though…she would fight the system till she understood.

As she did fall asleep I had no idea where I was going, what I was going to find or what awaited for me on the other side, if I ever got to the other side. All I knew was that I was falling and falling fast and I was going to be into something soon. I was going to have to see when we got there though I was not to thrilled but whatever the outcome of this I was going to face, I was going to look at it and take it for what I got and deal with it. I was going to have to.