Love Kills
Chapter 1: Bloom of Love
There he was. The perfect guy. Long, jet black hair, pale, muscular, tall, and the most gorgeous blue-gray eyes I've
ever seen. I saw him at one of our first gigs. The Dead Hearts. That was the name of the band. It consisted of Frankie,
Karen Kaylee, and me. My name is Mandy, Mandy Hart. I'm 17 years old and I'm a punk rocker. I have deep burgandy
hair with purple hightlights all into my straight, below the shoulder, choppy hair cut. I have pale skin, no freckles, dark
green eyes, and around my eyes was always dark eyeliner. Mostly black but sometimes other colors. I was only 5' 2"
and I was thin but curvy. In my school I was an outcast. I've heard it all. Looked down on, out of the crowd, not normal,
blah, blah, blah... Basically I'm a freak. But I could care less. It's highschool. It's not like it's all that important to me.
Anyways onto my friends. Frankie was punk, Karen was gothic, and Kaylee was emo. The only thing is she never cut
herself. She just liked the style. Frankie had blood red hair that was shorter than mine and had green eyes and was
about the same body build as me. Karen's long, wavy hair was black with red streaks and she had red contacts but her
original eye color was blue. She was taller than me, still thin, and even more pale than me. Kaylee had platinum blonde
hair that had a variety of bright colors and was in the regular emo hairstyle. She was a bit taller than me and thin with
brown eyes. They were my best friends. Actually come to think of it they were my only friends. In the band I was the
singer and one of the guitar players, Frankie played guitar, Karen had bass, and Kaylee was on the drums. Suprisingly,
alot of people actually liked our band. Even the popular kids. My band and I never called them the popular kids though.
To us they were known as the preps and nothing but the preps. Of course we only played metal, alternative, and just
plain rock but they still listened to us for some reason. Back onto my dream guy. While singing one of our most
popular songs I allowed my eyes to venture over to where he stood. He saw me staring at him and he just smiled. My
face turned red, embarrassed of being caught. For the rest of the concert I tried to keep my eyes off of him but they
found their way over to him. After the concert I frantically searched for him and then someone tapped me on the
shoulder. I spun around and blushed, realizing it was him. "You guys were amazing. You have a beautiful voice." His
comment made me blush. "Thanks...I'm Mandy." He smiled and returned the remark, "I'm Ray. Nice to meet you." He
stuck out his hand and I grabbed it. Was I too eager? My pale face burnt red. "So..." He moved his eyes to the floor.
"I was wondering if you wanted to go to the Flyleaf concert with me this weekend?" His pale face burnt red. "Really!" I
bit my tongue. "Yeah. That'd be awesome!" I was so happy that I didn't even think my decision over. What if he was
dangerous? I hardly know him... He smiled and my bad thoughts about him melted away.
That weekend
Time went by too slowly. All through practice I kept messing up from the lack of concentration. Finally practice ended
and I left Frankie's garage. I rushed home and up to my room to get changed. I threw on my purple Flyleaf shirt, my
purple and black dyed over skinny jeans, my black Converse, a studded belt, a choker, and my spiked bangle. I
restraightened my hair and reapplied my makeup. I threw on my black and gray striped sweatshirt and headed out of
my house at the sound of a horn beeping. He drove a new Chevy Camaro that was painted black and lime green.
Was he rich or something? I hopped in and complimented his car. "Sweet car. Love the colors." "Thanks." I tried to
start a further conversation with him but it wasn't going too good so I gave up. "So when are you guys going to be
playing again?" I looked over at him. "The band? Next Saturday at the mall." He smiled. "I'll be there." My eyes
widened as I thought to myself. Wow he's so sweet he hardly knows me and he's taking me to a concert with some of
my favorite bands and coming to more of our performances. Silence went on for a bit longer and then he said, "Nice
outfit. Great shirt." I blushed. "Thanks...I had to wrestle another girl for it." He started to laugh and I joined in. We
arrived at the stadium and we both walked in. "Wow this is gonna be great!" "Yep..." he replied. Inside the music
started and Flyleaf sang 'I'm so Sick'. I lip synced along and I screamed until I thought my lungs would be shriveled up
from the loss of oxygen. The concert ended and we finally reached the exit of the stadium. Rain was pouring down and
what Ray did next surprised me. He grabbed me around the waist and pulled out and umbrella from under his coat. "I
wouldn't want that pretty face of yours to get wet." My heart completely flipped when he said that. How could I have
thought he was dangerous? He was...perfect. We reached his car and when we got back to my house he gave me his
number and I gave him mine. "Would you like to hang out again?" I eagerly nodded. He got out of his side while I
wrote down his number and then he opened my door. "Thanks." He walked me up to my door and he gave me a huge
hug and then he kissed me on my blushing cheek. He quickly drew back and spun around. He ran to his car and before
he got in he said, "Night!" I waved back as he drove out of sight. I walked into my house and started to talk to myself. I
looked down at his number and smiled. I went up to my room and got ready for bed. That night I had sweet dreams
about Ray and me. I was deffinately going to call him tomorrow.
~I had written this story the previous summer and I just found it last night and I reread over it and thought it had a cute story line so I decided to edit it and share it with you guys! Tell me what you think! PLease review and thanks for reading! I really don't need ideas quite yet because I still have alot of it written that needs edited yet! I also added alot of new stuff and I know they blush alot! XD~
~Rosie