NEVER GIVE IN. CHAPTER 1.
I slowly opened my eyes, awakening from my sleep. "Huh? Where am i?" I mumbled when I noticed the unfamiliar room. All the walls were white and the lights were quite bright. Suddenly I noticed where I was. I was in a hospital. I felt a sharp pain in my head and gasped quite loudly.
"Oh honey, you're awake." I heard a familiar voice say. I looked in the direction of the voice and saw my mom sitting in a chair next to my bed.
"What happened?" I muttered, talking too loud made my head hurt.
"You got in a car crash, honey. You got a pretty bad concussion and you crushed your ankle." She explained.
"I what?" I practically yelled. I sat up in bed and noticed a huge cast on my foot. "How the fuck could this happen? Tour is in a couple days!" I was panicking now. I was looking up to touring for so long. This was black veil brides' first tour to. How the hell could I let this happen?
"Andy calm down." My mom started. "And watch your language, you have a younger roommate." She pointed to a boy sleeping in a bed next to mine. He looked about 10.
"How can I calm down?" I whispered. "This is so important for us!"
"I'm sorry, sweetie. But knowing you, you'd tour with all your bones broken." She chuckled.
"You're gonna let me tour?" I said hopefully, a smile was creeping up on my face.
"Unfortunately it's not for me to decide." She sighed. "You also had some internal bleeding when you got here. They had to perform immediate surgery. Nobody's sure how long it's going to take you to recover."
"What are you talking about? I feel fi- ah!" I gasped again when I felt an extreme pain in my lower stomach. It felt like someone was stabbing a billion knives into my stomach. I gritted my teeth and clenched my fists, trying to ease the pain.
"Hold on let me get the nurse." My mom said and left the room, leaving me gasping in pain. About a minute later a nurse came in and injected some fluid into my IV. I felt almost immediate relief. The nurse did some stuff to the sleeping boy then left the room. I looked over at my mom and noticed dark circles around her eyes.
"Mom, go home, well to my place." I sighed. "I'll be fine." I said and put a pretty convincing smile on my face.
"You sure?" She asked, still concerned.
"Go." I practically demanded. She nodded and got up. She kissed my forehead, which made me a little embarrassed and left the room.
"Your mom's really nice." I heard the boy say from the bed next to me.
"Thanks." I chuckled and looked over at him.
"Hey, you're the guy from black veil brides! Andy!" He almost screamed.
"Yeah, that's me." I laughed.
"I've always wanted to go to one of your shows. But my sister and the doctors and stuff won't let me." He sighed.
"Well, you are a little young to be going to concerts, but who am I to say that?" I chuckled. "I started going to concerts when I was 10." This kid was nice to talk with, he reminded me of myself when I was 10, full of energy and always getting into a conversation. I wanted to ask him why he was in the hospital, but I felt it would be rude.
"It's not that I'm young. I'm just not allowed to leave this stupid place, well on occasion I am. And I have leukemia. I know you were wondering. Everybody does. "
"Well, I'll have black veil brides do a personal concert for you. I promise." I smiled at him. Wow, leukemia. I really felt bad for this kid. It was weird how he was so happy though, he didn't let this bring him down.
"Really? You'd do that?" He said excitedly and sat up in his bed.
"As soon as I get out of here I will. And if I end up getting out of here and I have to go straight to tour, I'll do it immediately after. I promise you, kid."
"Wow, thanks! And by the way, my name's Riley."
"Well, it's very nice to meet you riley." We started talking about bands and shit, and I told him how I got in here and all that stuff.
"Look's like you've made a friend." I heard someone say from the doorway. I looked over to see a girl standing there, she looked about 19, my age. And she was... beautiful. She had long brown hair, with curls in it, and stunning blue eyes. I found myself staring.
"Hey Alice!" Riley said and waved to the girl. "This is Andy! From black veil brides!" He pointed to me. "And Andy, this is my sister, Alice!" I managed to give her a nervous wave and a weak smile, I was afraid that if I spoke... well I couldn't speak.
"Ah, so you're from the band that my brother obsesses about. It's nice to meet you." She smiled and sat down in a chair next to Riley's bed.
"It's nice to meet you too." I said, pushing the nervousness to the back of my mind so I could talk.
"And Black veil bride's is going to give me a concert!" Riley added.
"Oh really? That's very nice of them." Alice smiled at me, I practically melted inside. I smiled back at her.
"Alice, can you go get me a soda?" Riley asked, Alice nodded and left the room. "You like my sister." Riley chuckled.
"What? No." I denied, now that I realized it I did like her, she was beautiful, and something about her just clicked.
"Yeah you do, you're eyes went all googly and mushy when she walked in the room."
"What? No they didn't…" I mumbled.
"Whatever." Riley sighed. I noticed some paper with drawings all over them on the table by his bed.
"What's that?" I asked, changing the subject.
"These?" He responded and held up the pile of papers. I nodded. "Drawings..." He chuckled.
"Can I see them?"
"Sure." He handed me the pile of papers and I started to look through them. There was a couple vampires, zombies, batman, a drawing of…me, and some other stuff.
"You're really talented, Riley." I complemented. "These drawings are really good. Especially the one of me." I chuckled.
"I've been wanting to give you that for a while now, but since I haven't been able to go to a show or anything, I haven't been able to." Riley sighed. "But now you can have it!"
"Wow, thanks little bro. This is great. Can you sign it?" I asked and pointed to a spot under the picture. Riley's jaw practically dropped.
"You want ME to sign it?" He asked, puzzled.
"I have a feeling you're going to be a famous artist someday." I smiled at him. "You're really really talented."
"Wow cool!" He voiced and grabbed the drawing from me. He then signed it with the best cursive I've seen a ten year old do and handed it back to me. I put on the table next to my bed and spotted Alice standing in the doorway.
"How long have you been there?" I asked.
"Not too long, just long enough to hear you two have your cute little conversation." She chuckled and handed Riley a soda.
"Ha ha" I said sarcastically. She rolled her eyes and went to sit by riley. I bit my lip and noticed the piercing wasn't in it.
"Shit." I whispered. I spotted it on the bedside table and put it back in my lip. I sighed in relief once I had it in. I looked over at Alice and saw her looking at me with a weird look on her face. "What?" I asked.
"I've never seen someone so attached to a piercing." She chuckled.
"Well, I've had it for so long it feels like a part of my lip is missing when I don't have it in." I explained.
"Hello!" I heard Sandra yell as Ashley and her walked into the room. I waved and smiled at them.
"No way! Sandra and Ashley!" Riley exclaimed as a huge smile spread across his face.
"This is Riley, one of our youngest fans." I explained when I saw the confused look on their faces.
"That's awesome dude!" Sandra said and gave Riley a high five. She and Riley started to talk to each other and Ash sat down in the chair next to me.
"How are you, dude?" He asked.
"A little sore, they've been loading me up on pain meds."
"What's the damage?"
"Shattered my ankle, got a pretty severe concussion, and I had some surgery for internal bleeding." I answered.
"Fuck, I didn't know it was that bad." He sighed and leant back in the chair. "Is tour still on?"
"You bet it is. I wouldn't miss it for the world. But I have to get medical clearance." I sighed. A nurse walked in and came over to me.
"Andy, there's lunch in the hospital cafeteria. I thought you might like to get up instead of having it brought to you. You seem like the kind of person that doesn't like to sit still." She said.
"Thanks." I smiled. "I'd like that." I was so happy that I was going to get up and walk around.
"Alright, I'll go get you a walker, and then you can go." I nodded and she left the room.
"Damn, she was hot." Ash commented. I punched him in the shoulder and he chuckled. "What? It's true!" I shook my head and a few seconds later the nurse came back in with a walker. She helped me get up out of bed and I smiled my thanks once I was standing up. She left the room once more.
"Come on Sandra lunch time!" Ash called when we were almost out of the door way. Sandra cheered and came up to us.
"Hey Andy!" I heard Alice say. I turned my head to look at her. "Nice underwear." She chuckled and I could feel my face turn red. I was wearing my batman briefs. I flipped her off jokingly as I walked- well kind of walked- out of the room.