Chapter 2
We were pretty quiet as we drove off, probably from the shock of actually meeting our favorite band. When I got out of the car, Taylor barley said goodbye to me before she sped off in a daze. I really hoped she would get home okay. I turned around and walked up to the trailer me and my father lived in. There were no lights on. I twisted the door knob and was surprised and pissed off to see that the door was locked. My dad did this, obviously. He was always threatening to lock me out, but I never believed him, until now. I sighed when I realized that I'd have to spend the night outside. It was freezing out here!
I threw my backpack on the ground and sat down. Having nothing better to do, I started my homework. My AP World History Teacher had assigned seven pages of notes to write over the weekend. Jerk. I was so absorbed in my homework that I didn't notice the tour bus pulling into the open lot next to my trailer.
Andy's POV
We pulled into a spot. It was right next to a trailer home. A girl was sitting in front of the trailer, doing what looked to be homework. The girl looked strangely familiar.
I looked at Ashley and said, "Hey, Ash, does that girl in front of the trailer look familiar to you?" We stepped out of the bus to get a better look and Ashley said, "Duh! That's Taylor's friend Clarissa!" I smacked myself on the head and Jinx shouted, "SHOULD OF HAD A V8!"
Jinx's shout was so loud that it startled Clarissa and she looked up.
Clarissa's POV
I was doing my homework when suddenly, I heard someone shout, "SHOULD OF HAD A V8!" Startled, I looked up and saw Jinx, Andy, and Ashley standing outside of their tour bus. Jake and C.C. were just stepping out probably to inspect all the noise Jinx was making.
The guys waved at me and walked over. "Hey, what are you guys doing here? Shouldn't you be staying at a hotel?" I asked.
Andy grinned and said, "We're banned from a lot of hotels, for you know, being ourselves..." I laughed and said, "Well, that would do it!" Ashley pretended to be hurt and Andy glared at me, but that just made me laugh harder.
Andy looked around and said, "Why are you sitting outside? I take it you live in this trailer."
I answered, "Well, my father locked me out, so I'm kinda' stuck out here." Just as I was saying that, the door to the trailer opened and my father, clearly drunk, came outside bellowing, "WHO THE FUCK IS MAKING ALL THIS NOISE?" I cringed.
"Sorry, Dad, that was me. Hey, will you let me come in now? Please?" I said. He looked at me and said in a quiet, but very scary voice, "Why the hell would I do that? You wake me up in the middle of the night with all this noise and I come out here to find you hanging out with a bunch of FREAKS!"
Andy, Ashley, Jinx, Jake and C.C. all said, "HEY!" at the same time, offended. At any other time, that might have been hilarious, but not now. "I'm sorry Father. And they're not freaks. They're normal human beings, just like you and me. They just look different."
Dad quickly walked over to me and grabbed the front of my shirt, forcing me to my feet. "What did you say to me? Did you just talk back to me?" With a loud smack, he backhanded me with such force that I hit the table on the porch, knocking it over and falling to the ground. Instantly, Andy stepped between my father and me saying, "Clarissa is your daughter. Why would you hurt her? You are such a - "
I stumbled to my feet and said, "Andy, stop. It's fine, I'm fine." Then I stepped between him and my father and said, "Dad, I love you. What will it take for you to realize that. What do I have to do to prove it to you?" Tears were starting to fall down my face.
My father smiled a menacing smile and said, "You want to prove that you love me? Okay," he disappeared into the trailer, but was back a moment later. In his hand he held a knife.
He handed it to me and said, "Prove you love me. Take this knife and kill yourself. Kill yourself and then I'll believe that you love me."