Love Isn't Always Fair

"We're home!" CC shouted as he dropped to his knees in the middle of the airport and kissed the floor.

"Ew, CC. Get off the floor. That's gross." Ashley helped him off the ground.

"That's the CC we were missing." Andy patted him on the back.

"Yeah, I guess I was just feeling a tad bit homesick." CC said, although he knew that wasn't the real reason he was so happy to be home.

They were finally back in L.A. CC had met Athena at their Warped tour stop in L.A. which meant that Athena lived in California. Somewhere. California is a big state but CC had a feeling she lived in the L.A. area. Well, he hoped at least.

They walked out of the terminal and into the bright, L.A. sun. Andy, Jake and Ashley rode in the same car because they all lived generally close to one another. CC went with Jinxx. CC threw his luggage into the trunk of Jinxx's car before jumping in the passenger side.

"Good to be home, huh?" CC said, looking over at Jinxx as he got in the car.

Jinxx started the car and started on the twenty minute ride to drop off CC.

"Yeah, I can't wait to see my Sammi." Jinxx said.

An awkward silence fell over them. CC looked out the window at the houses going by and wondered if any of them could be Athena's. He wanted to find her, no matter what it took.

"Hey, CC?" Jinxx's voice pulled him out of his thoughts.

"Huh?" CC looked back over at Jinxx.

"Did Andy tell you about the local gig we have coming up?"

"Gig? Where?"

"House Of Blues. I'm not sure why we're doing it. John set it up for us, I think. But yeah, and I heard it's open to the general public like a normal sh-"

"Really?!"

"Um, yeah... Wh-"

"When is it?"

"Would you stop cutting me off?"

"Okay... I'm sorry..."

"It's next week, sometime. Thursday, I think."

"Great! I'll see you later?"

By this time, Jinxx had pulled up into CC's driveway.

"Yeah. We'll probably have a practice soon. I'll text you. Sleep, okay? You need it." Jinxx advised.

"Oh, yes Father." CC joked.

He closed the car door and walked up the narrow path way to his front door as Jinxx pulled out of the driveway and drove off. He unlocked the door and pushed it open. He stepped into the living room, dropped his bags in the middle of the room, walked over to the couch and plopped himself down, finally relaxing for the first time since Warped tour started.



Athena awoke that morning in a cold sweat and tears rolling down her cheeks. She had another bad dream, but this time, it was about Eric. She cleaned herself up and sent a quick text to Lacey.

To Lacey: Can you come over? Jane has Eric over and I would feel a lot better if I had a friend right now.

Lacey replied within a few minutes.

To Athena: Be there in 5.

Sure enough, five minutes later, there was a knock on the door. Lacey didn't know about what happened between Eric and Athena. No one but Eric and Athena knew. Athena wanted to tell someone but she didn't want them to judge her. She didn't want people to know what she had done.

The only thing Lacey knew was that Athena hated Eric. It was hard not to hate him, though. He just had an ugly personality overall. No one knew what Jane saw in him.

Athena raced down the stairs to answer the door. "I got it! It's for me, anyway!" She called out as she ran down the hallway towards the door.

She opened the door and, sure enough, there stood Lacey.

"Hey, you-" Lacey began but Athena grabbed her hand and pulled her away from the house.

"Let's go for a walk." Athena suggested.

"Well, alright, I guess." Lacey said.

They started walking down the side walk, further and further from the house.

"Hey, I have an idea." Athena said. "Let's sing some Black Veil Brides song really loud and obnoxiously and annoy all the neighbors."

"Sounds like fun to me!" Lacey exclaimed.

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CC had just put his head down on the couch pillow when he started to hear some kind of weird noise coming from outside. It sounded like... singing?

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"THE LEGACY! BORN FROM A DREAM! ON LEATHER WINGS, ROSE FROM THE STREETS WITH OUR HAND ON DESTINY!" Lacey and Athena shouted together as they walked along.

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As CC got closer to the curtained window, it sounded like the voices were scream-singing their song 'The Legacy'. He pulled back the curtain and looked out the window. There, walking by his house, was Athena.

His mouth dropped open and he rubbed his eyes as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing. That couldn't be Athena... Could it?