Sequel: Closure ›
Status: Completed 12/28/10 to 3/1/12
A Start of Something New
"What Could Be Worse?"
When Ronnie woke up it was late afternoon. It wasn’t because he was well rested or that a beautiful ray from the sun woke him up peacefully. It was because Nason had hit him with a pillow. This made Ronnie nearly jump out of bed. A bed that was very comfortable compared to a crappy bunk bed with an itchy mattress he had slept on for 2 ½ years.
“What the hell Nason!?” Ronnie yelled
“Time to get up its 4 in the afternoon” Nason explained. Ronnie slumped back in his bed Nason hit him again with the pillow
“Get up!”
“C’mon a few more minutes?” Ronnie pleaded Nason held the pillow up again as a threat with a deadly facial expression saying Try me, and see what happens
“Ok, ok, I’m up I’m up!”
“Put some clothes on, we all are going to the mall in a few so hurry up,” as Nason was about to leave the room then he stopped “Ronnie, I think its best if you stay away from my cousin, you can be cool with her if you want. That’s fine with me but, its just she a kid man, she’s like 17”
“Oh sorry dude, I had no idea how young she was”
“Yeah besides she’s a weird little kid anyway” Nason told him, Ronnie laughed
“Why would you say that?” Ronnie inquired
“She’s really anti-social you know, always in her room listening to weird music and she hardly comes out. Olivia has been living me with for almost a year now most of the time I forget she’s even here”
“Why doesn’t she live with her parents or something? I mean like why here with you?”
“Well, her parents died and her grandparents are too elderly and no one else would take her in so I did”
“Wow,I didn’t know. I’ll keep my distance”
Olivia removed her ear from her wall. She had been listening to Nason and Ronnies conversation. She almost wanted to cry. She felt like slapping herself for even putting her hopes up. There was no reason too; she had always felt like an ugly outcast. She had almost though she could actually make a friend out of Ronnie and possibly become more. That defiantly wasn’t going to happen, not after what her cousin had told him. She wasn’t 17 though she’d been 18 for over a month. She wasn’t surprised Nasty forgot about it. Olivia got out of her bed. Even though she’d been up since early in the morning she hadn’t left her room but only twice and that was to go the bathroom down the hall. She looked at her self in her mirror.
‘I was stupid to even think Ronnie would like me’ she thought running her fingers though her thick, curly, ethnic hair and examined herself. ‘Too skinny Too tan, I guess trying makeup now wouldn’t be too bad right now, after all what could be worse’
Olivia never wore makeup before and she knew Nason, Jacky, and Derek had enough of that stuff under the sink. And with that Olivia left the comfort of her room and walked to the bathroom down the hall she knocked on the door
“Just a minute” Derek said Olivia waited outside the door a few seconds passed by and Derek came out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist
“Oh hey, Oli” He greeted
“Hi Derek” Olivia said then maneuvered around Derek and closed the bathroom door locking It. she dug under the sink and pulled out eyeliner and black eye shadow.
‘Ok let’s see if I can do this.’ She seen girls before at school do so it didn’t look too hard. A few minutes later she was finished it didn’t look terrible. She merely shrugged as she opened the door Ronnie was right there. Both of them kind of jumped in surprise
“Hello Oli” Ronnie greeted her, he blushed as he did when he was around girls now
“Hi Ronald”
“What’s up kiddo?”
“I’m not a kid”
“Ok you teenager” Ronnie laughed
“I’m 18 thank you very much” Olivia said matter of factually
“Oh really, that seems legal enough” Ronnie said smiling at her
“Yeah, I guess” Olivia said looking down and biting her lip
“That’s weird because Nason said you were 17”
“Nasty doesn’t pay any attention to me, so that’s not surprising he would say something about me like that”
“So, me and the guys going to the mall in a few, if you hurry up and put on some clothes you can tag along” he invited me
“Wow! Really?” Olivia asked getting excited since she lived with Nason and the rest of the guys they never invited me anywhere. But then she remember something
“Oh, wait. I don’t think Nasty would me to go” she said in disappointment
“Nasty wouldn’t want what?” Nason said from behind Ronnie
“I was inviting Oli to come with us to the mall” Ronnie said
“Oh, Olivia it was suppose to be a guys day” he said
‘of course every time you go out it’s always a guys day’
“Yeah I know, um I have to get ready for work anyway” Olivia lied
“Are you wearing makeup? Thats the first time since you lived here I’ve ever seen you were eyeliner” Nason pointed out
“But then again you rarely see me at all, Nasty”
“Sure whatever, Ronnie are you ready?” He said with a slight smirk on his face
~xXx~
Max was trying to fix his cell phone he had broken the previous day. Out frustration of course. He managed to put it back together but the screen was badly cracked.
“Ah, I’ll just buy a new one later” he said to himself “What could be fucking worse?” he mumbled to himself He was really drunk. All night he had been drinking and sulking. Contemplating over what he should about he’s old best friend that he grew up with. In a way he was sort of reminiscing on all the good times they had.
Lexus Amanda was not as sad as Max but not exactly happy. She had been talking Ronnie and Nason on twitter
and Facebook. And to get her mind of Max she found some new friends to hang out with to occupy her time. Justin whitesel from a band called love hate hero and some girl she met at a party named Lisa. She called herself Lisa HotFuss on twitter and Facebook Lexus was sitting on her king sized bed with her laptop lounging when texted Lisa
“Guess what?” she texted
“What?”
“Nasty just invited me to come party with him and Ronnie Radke”
“Holy shit ru serious?!”
~xXx~
Ronnie was trying to dodge cameras in the mall. He had gotten more famous then before he was in prison, it seemed like every store he went into almost everyone was either was a huge fan or had heard about him. Which was the complete opposite what Ronnie was accepting. The time he spent in prison he thought he would fade away, but he guess he didn’t. He and all the guys were hanging out in the food court eating subway, Nason was on twitter on his phone when he announced
“Monday where all are goin’ to Pure, I got some pretty hot chicks tagging along to bro. All the way from Los Angeles”
“Who are they” Derek asked
“Um, some girls named Lexus and Lisa”
“Whoa, wait. Lexus Amanda?” Ronnie inquired
“Yeah, I think”
“You do know that Lexus is Max girlfriend?”
“Chill, they broke up a few days ago from what she told me”
“You’ve been talking to her a lot?”
“Kinda, so what do you think?” Nason asked Ronnie thought of it for a little bit
“Awesome, fuck what Max has to think or say anyway.”
Olivia was still at her cousin house by herself. In her room listening to music when she felt and uneasy ping in the middle of her stomach. She hadn’t eaten all day and it was around 6 in the afternoon now. She went downstairs into kitchen to raid the refrigerator. Which was almost completely bare like it usually was. The only thing that Nason ate most of the time ever ate was total cereal. Which Olivia didn’t like at all. So she had no choice but to walk to Wal-Mart and find something. She ran upstairs and grabbed her purple hoody then into her cash stash she had hidden in her closet. She was saving money to go to collage one day. She remembered every summer since she was 14 getting a job and never spending one dime of her paychecks. Now she didn’t want to take any money but she had to get something to eat. She only got a few bills. Olivia was sliding on her winter boots and was about to go out the front door when Little (Nasty’s minicher Chihuahua) came right behind her and barked then scratched her heel. This only meant she wanted to go outside. ‘Grreeaaattt’ Olivia hooked the leash on to Little’s pink studded collar and adventured off on to the streets of North Las Vegas.
It was very cold outside. The snow was falling but it melted as soon as it touched the desert ground. Olivia had forgotten the doggie bags so after Little used the bathroom a few times in a neighbor’s yard. she just walked away quickly. Deciding that a convenient store would be closer and just more well... convenient. Besides she was too hungry to walk in the snow anymore, plus Little was becoming tired as well. Looking down the isle grabbing hand fulls of snacks. Candy bars a six pack of sodas chips and cookies until she couldn’t hold anything else she piled all the goodies on to the counter. The cashier was ringing up her stuff when the manger of the store came out of a storage room
“Hey! No dogs allowed in this store” he shouted at Olivia
“Oh sorry, I didn’t see a sign outside. Besides am about to leave”
the store’s manger was about to say something but before he did a fluffy white cat come sauntering out of the door in which he just came out. The cat drawled up and hissed. Little barked and before either the manger or Olivia could do anything. The two animals went after each other.
When Little ran after the cat. Olivia hand slipped on the leash. They all watched in horror as both Little and the cat ran around the convenient store knocking over item from shelves.
“GET YOUR DOG AND LEAVE!!” The store manger order scooping up his cat as it ran by his foot.
“I’M SO SORRY” Olivia tried apologizing but she decided it would be better if she just leave
Craig Mabbitt was by himself at his house in Los Angeles. He was awaiting he friend’s decision as to what to do about Ronnie. He though back at the first time he had ever meet him. It was at the very end of the black on black tour 2007 when Craig was the lead singer of bless the fall. He had just finished performing the last show. Everything was going good until he had discovered he had been robbed. He walked off his tour bus, someone had stolen all of his money, his laptop, his clothes, everything. He was sitting on the steps of the bus crying. When Ronnie was about to get on his own bus
“Hey man, what’s the matter?” Ronnie asked concerned
“I just got everything of mine stolen, I have no money! I have a baby girl that I have to pay diapers for.” Craig cried he was very depressed. Ronnie looked at Craig and felt a great amount of sympathy. Grimacing he dug in his pocket pulling out a ward of cash. 300 hundred dollars he had in his hand and he just handed it to him
“Here man, it’s my last 300. Go buy your girl some diapers.” Ronnie told him. Craig held the money in his hands barley grasping what just happen. An almost complete stranger had given him money to help him out. He got up from the steps and gave Ronnie a hug
“Thank you. Thank you so much!” He said
“Craig come on! Its time to head home” One of Craig’s band members called out from the tour bus. Craig went back on his tour bus with out looking back and that was the last time he had ever seen Ronnie Radke face to face.
“What the hell Nason!?” Ronnie yelled
“Time to get up its 4 in the afternoon” Nason explained. Ronnie slumped back in his bed Nason hit him again with the pillow
“Get up!”
“C’mon a few more minutes?” Ronnie pleaded Nason held the pillow up again as a threat with a deadly facial expression saying Try me, and see what happens
“Ok, ok, I’m up I’m up!”
“Put some clothes on, we all are going to the mall in a few so hurry up,” as Nason was about to leave the room then he stopped “Ronnie, I think its best if you stay away from my cousin, you can be cool with her if you want. That’s fine with me but, its just she a kid man, she’s like 17”
“Oh sorry dude, I had no idea how young she was”
“Yeah besides she’s a weird little kid anyway” Nason told him, Ronnie laughed
“Why would you say that?” Ronnie inquired
“She’s really anti-social you know, always in her room listening to weird music and she hardly comes out. Olivia has been living me with for almost a year now most of the time I forget she’s even here”
“Why doesn’t she live with her parents or something? I mean like why here with you?”
“Well, her parents died and her grandparents are too elderly and no one else would take her in so I did”
“Wow,I didn’t know. I’ll keep my distance”
Olivia removed her ear from her wall. She had been listening to Nason and Ronnies conversation. She almost wanted to cry. She felt like slapping herself for even putting her hopes up. There was no reason too; she had always felt like an ugly outcast. She had almost though she could actually make a friend out of Ronnie and possibly become more. That defiantly wasn’t going to happen, not after what her cousin had told him. She wasn’t 17 though she’d been 18 for over a month. She wasn’t surprised Nasty forgot about it. Olivia got out of her bed. Even though she’d been up since early in the morning she hadn’t left her room but only twice and that was to go the bathroom down the hall. She looked at her self in her mirror.
‘I was stupid to even think Ronnie would like me’ she thought running her fingers though her thick, curly, ethnic hair and examined herself. ‘Too skinny Too tan, I guess trying makeup now wouldn’t be too bad right now, after all what could be worse’
Olivia never wore makeup before and she knew Nason, Jacky, and Derek had enough of that stuff under the sink. And with that Olivia left the comfort of her room and walked to the bathroom down the hall she knocked on the door
“Just a minute” Derek said Olivia waited outside the door a few seconds passed by and Derek came out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist
“Oh hey, Oli” He greeted
“Hi Derek” Olivia said then maneuvered around Derek and closed the bathroom door locking It. she dug under the sink and pulled out eyeliner and black eye shadow.
‘Ok let’s see if I can do this.’ She seen girls before at school do so it didn’t look too hard. A few minutes later she was finished it didn’t look terrible. She merely shrugged as she opened the door Ronnie was right there. Both of them kind of jumped in surprise
“Hello Oli” Ronnie greeted her, he blushed as he did when he was around girls now
“Hi Ronald”
“What’s up kiddo?”
“I’m not a kid”
“Ok you teenager” Ronnie laughed
“I’m 18 thank you very much” Olivia said matter of factually
“Oh really, that seems legal enough” Ronnie said smiling at her
“Yeah, I guess” Olivia said looking down and biting her lip
“That’s weird because Nason said you were 17”
“Nasty doesn’t pay any attention to me, so that’s not surprising he would say something about me like that”
“So, me and the guys going to the mall in a few, if you hurry up and put on some clothes you can tag along” he invited me
“Wow! Really?” Olivia asked getting excited since she lived with Nason and the rest of the guys they never invited me anywhere. But then she remember something
“Oh, wait. I don’t think Nasty would me to go” she said in disappointment
“Nasty wouldn’t want what?” Nason said from behind Ronnie
“I was inviting Oli to come with us to the mall” Ronnie said
“Oh, Olivia it was suppose to be a guys day” he said
‘of course every time you go out it’s always a guys day’
“Yeah I know, um I have to get ready for work anyway” Olivia lied
“Are you wearing makeup? Thats the first time since you lived here I’ve ever seen you were eyeliner” Nason pointed out
“But then again you rarely see me at all, Nasty”
“Sure whatever, Ronnie are you ready?” He said with a slight smirk on his face
~xXx~
Max was trying to fix his cell phone he had broken the previous day. Out frustration of course. He managed to put it back together but the screen was badly cracked.
“Ah, I’ll just buy a new one later” he said to himself “What could be fucking worse?” he mumbled to himself He was really drunk. All night he had been drinking and sulking. Contemplating over what he should about he’s old best friend that he grew up with. In a way he was sort of reminiscing on all the good times they had.
Lexus Amanda was not as sad as Max but not exactly happy. She had been talking Ronnie and Nason on twitter
and Facebook. And to get her mind of Max she found some new friends to hang out with to occupy her time. Justin whitesel from a band called love hate hero and some girl she met at a party named Lisa. She called herself Lisa HotFuss on twitter and Facebook Lexus was sitting on her king sized bed with her laptop lounging when texted Lisa
“Guess what?” she texted
“What?”
“Nasty just invited me to come party with him and Ronnie Radke”
“Holy shit ru serious?!”
~xXx~
Ronnie was trying to dodge cameras in the mall. He had gotten more famous then before he was in prison, it seemed like every store he went into almost everyone was either was a huge fan or had heard about him. Which was the complete opposite what Ronnie was accepting. The time he spent in prison he thought he would fade away, but he guess he didn’t. He and all the guys were hanging out in the food court eating subway, Nason was on twitter on his phone when he announced
“Monday where all are goin’ to Pure, I got some pretty hot chicks tagging along to bro. All the way from Los Angeles”
“Who are they” Derek asked
“Um, some girls named Lexus and Lisa”
“Whoa, wait. Lexus Amanda?” Ronnie inquired
“Yeah, I think”
“You do know that Lexus is Max girlfriend?”
“Chill, they broke up a few days ago from what she told me”
“You’ve been talking to her a lot?”
“Kinda, so what do you think?” Nason asked Ronnie thought of it for a little bit
“Awesome, fuck what Max has to think or say anyway.”
Olivia was still at her cousin house by herself. In her room listening to music when she felt and uneasy ping in the middle of her stomach. She hadn’t eaten all day and it was around 6 in the afternoon now. She went downstairs into kitchen to raid the refrigerator. Which was almost completely bare like it usually was. The only thing that Nason ate most of the time ever ate was total cereal. Which Olivia didn’t like at all. So she had no choice but to walk to Wal-Mart and find something. She ran upstairs and grabbed her purple hoody then into her cash stash she had hidden in her closet. She was saving money to go to collage one day. She remembered every summer since she was 14 getting a job and never spending one dime of her paychecks. Now she didn’t want to take any money but she had to get something to eat. She only got a few bills. Olivia was sliding on her winter boots and was about to go out the front door when Little (Nasty’s minicher Chihuahua) came right behind her and barked then scratched her heel. This only meant she wanted to go outside. ‘Grreeaaattt’ Olivia hooked the leash on to Little’s pink studded collar and adventured off on to the streets of North Las Vegas.
It was very cold outside. The snow was falling but it melted as soon as it touched the desert ground. Olivia had forgotten the doggie bags so after Little used the bathroom a few times in a neighbor’s yard. she just walked away quickly. Deciding that a convenient store would be closer and just more well... convenient. Besides she was too hungry to walk in the snow anymore, plus Little was becoming tired as well. Looking down the isle grabbing hand fulls of snacks. Candy bars a six pack of sodas chips and cookies until she couldn’t hold anything else she piled all the goodies on to the counter. The cashier was ringing up her stuff when the manger of the store came out of a storage room
“Hey! No dogs allowed in this store” he shouted at Olivia
“Oh sorry, I didn’t see a sign outside. Besides am about to leave”
the store’s manger was about to say something but before he did a fluffy white cat come sauntering out of the door in which he just came out. The cat drawled up and hissed. Little barked and before either the manger or Olivia could do anything. The two animals went after each other.
When Little ran after the cat. Olivia hand slipped on the leash. They all watched in horror as both Little and the cat ran around the convenient store knocking over item from shelves.
“GET YOUR DOG AND LEAVE!!” The store manger order scooping up his cat as it ran by his foot.
“I’M SO SORRY” Olivia tried apologizing but she decided it would be better if she just leave
Craig Mabbitt was by himself at his house in Los Angeles. He was awaiting he friend’s decision as to what to do about Ronnie. He though back at the first time he had ever meet him. It was at the very end of the black on black tour 2007 when Craig was the lead singer of bless the fall. He had just finished performing the last show. Everything was going good until he had discovered he had been robbed. He walked off his tour bus, someone had stolen all of his money, his laptop, his clothes, everything. He was sitting on the steps of the bus crying. When Ronnie was about to get on his own bus
“Hey man, what’s the matter?” Ronnie asked concerned
“I just got everything of mine stolen, I have no money! I have a baby girl that I have to pay diapers for.” Craig cried he was very depressed. Ronnie looked at Craig and felt a great amount of sympathy. Grimacing he dug in his pocket pulling out a ward of cash. 300 hundred dollars he had in his hand and he just handed it to him
“Here man, it’s my last 300. Go buy your girl some diapers.” Ronnie told him. Craig held the money in his hands barley grasping what just happen. An almost complete stranger had given him money to help him out. He got up from the steps and gave Ronnie a hug
“Thank you. Thank you so much!” He said
“Craig come on! Its time to head home” One of Craig’s band members called out from the tour bus. Craig went back on his tour bus with out looking back and that was the last time he had ever seen Ronnie Radke face to face.