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Willow

“Son of a bitch.” I heard Vanity curse, no surprise it was her. Her vocabulary consisted of nothing but foul words.

“What?” Gia asked curiously.

“We don’t have a key. I’m going to have to hot wire this bitch.” she replied as we stood in the garage and shivered from the coldness of it. I sighed as Vanity opened the door and look around before setting her sights on Lila’s dad’s tools. She grabbed a pair of pliers and got to work while kneeling on the ground. I watched her as she skillfully found the red wire and connected it with the others.

“How do you know so much about this?” I asked curiously as she scoffed at me.

“I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear that ridiculous question. I learned from Tommy what do you think?” she replied with a smirk. “And I call you my friends.” she said shaking her head. She let out a sigh of frustration before finishing the job as the old mustang roared to life. Gia and Lila let out a small cry of happiness as Vanity stood up and wiped her forehead.

“You’re a woman of many talents.” Gia smirked as Vanity chuckled slightly.

“I know.” she replied sheepishly as she looked at us.

“Well throw your shit in, let’s go.” she said motioning her hands as Gia and Lila tossed their bags into the trunk while I frowned. I didn’t have much with me. I didn’t dare go back home until I knew Reese wasn’t there. I hauled ass to grab a bag of my clothes and my baby, my iPod. I grabbed my tote bag and an extra pair of shoes, knowing I couldn’t take much else, where I put it? I took a deep breath to calm myself and managed to sneak back out of my house without saying goodbye to my family. It would’ve only made things harder.

Everyone else had no problem saying fuck you to their family. They didn’t get on very well, I didn’t particularly either, but I did love my parents. They were good to me I guess. I felt guilty for doing this, but was there any other choice?

“What’s wrong?” Vanity asked as I looked up out of my trance. Lila and Gia were sitting in the back of the car as I shrugged.

“Nothing.” I replied as she rolled her eyes and slugged me in the shoulder softly.

“Come on. I know what you’re thinking, and don’t think it. This is for the best.” she replied as I shrugged.

“Maybe.” I whispered.

“Will, the asshole can’t hurt you anymore. No one can. It’s over now. It’s just us…the way it should be.” she replied sincerely. For the first time in a long time, I saw a faint innocent look in her face. No one understood why Vanity was so…hostile, but she just was. I was a bit taken back but I nodded at her. She put a hand on my shoulder for comfort and she smiled softly.

“Let’s blow this lemonade stand.” she sighed as I got into the passenger seat while putting the seat belt on as Vanity reversed the car out. How no one managed to hear us was beyond me. I guess we were lucky.

We didn’t get very far, the car was parked on an empty road with only the moon to act as a light for us. Stars sprinkled the sky in familiar patterns as I pointed out the Big Dipper in my head. It was late, at least past 2 in the morning. Silence filled the air as Vanity kept her eyes narrowed and looking straight ahead, hands gripping the steering wheel.

“You know we’ve been sitting here for 20 minutes now.” Gia cut the silence as Vanity tore her gaze away to look back at her.

“I know.” she replied quietly.

“Where are we going to go?” Lila put in as Gia shrugged.

“I don’t even care anymore. Let’s go anywhere. Go to Disneyworld, Vegas, get fucked up in TJ, anywhere.” she laughed.

“Somewhere where it’s not obvious we’re a bunch of runaways.” Vanity scoffed.

“I think we should just let the road decide for us.” I spoke up as they looked at me.

“Yeah?” Vanity asked with a raised eyebrow as I nodded faintly. Gia smiled as she undid her seatbelt.

“I have an idea.” she said as she reached into her bag pocket and pulled out a small object. She got out of the car as we followed her in confusion. She smiled as she held up a Smashing Pumpkins pin.

“Let’s make it interesting. Pin up, we go west. Pin down, we go east.” she said simply while Vanity smiled at her.

“You’re kidding me.” she replied as Gia shook her head.

“My life’s fucked up, anywhere we go is good enough for me.” she responded as Vanity shrugged after thinking for a moment.

“Fine. Do it to it.” she said holding out her hands as if on cue. Gia played with the coin before closing her eyes and dropping it. We all watched it hit the ground with a slight clank. The pin landed upside down.

“We go east.”

Lila

I don’t remember much after we got back on the road. My body felt exhausted as soon as my head touched the seat. Everything slowed down until I was submerged into sleep. I heard music, Nirvana to be exact. I couldn’t find the strength to open my eyes but the sound of Vanity cursing loudly made me open them. I felt the car slow until I realized we were parked on the side of the freeway. The sun was up, clearly morning still.

“What’s going on?” I asked her as I noticed smoke coming from the car as she glared at me.

“You’re car’s a piece of shit, that’s what’s going on.” she retorted as se popped the hood and got out, proceeding to slam the door. She waved her hand to clear out the smoke and pulled the hood up as smoke came out full force as she coughed and swatted her hands. Gia and Willow opened their eyes as they looked around.

“Where are we?” Gia asked as I shrugged.

“Great, what happened to the car?” Willow asked as they got out with me following them. Vanity of course was looking ready to kick the car as she groaned.

“I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with it. More importantly, I don’t know were the fuck we can go to fix it, and oh yeah! I don’t know where the fuck we’re going to come up with money to fix it.” she hissed and looked away from the car.

“Let’s calm down shall we.” Gia put in as Vanity rolled her eyes. I sighed as I looked around at the cars passing through the freeway. I felt my stomach start to twist with knots with no apparent reason as I began to doubt this would seriously work…

Vanity

Fuck me sideways on a Tuesday morning. It figured this piece of shit had to break down. I wanted to just sit on the ground and wait for something happen, but it was obvious no fairy fucking Godmother would be there to rescue us out of this. I guess this was just part of being on your own.

“Well unless anyone knows a good mechanic in the middle of nowhere, I’m more than sure we’ll be just peachy.” I couldn’t help but say to them. It wasn’t helping the situation but I didn’t give a damn at the moment.

“Just relax Van, maybe someone will be kind enough to help us.” Willow put in as I rolled my eyes inside. Leave it to the optimistic.

“Whatever you say.” I replied sarcastically. I plant my happy ass on the hood of the car and bring my knees up to my chest. This whole thing wrecked my drive, literally.

I watch God know how many cars pass by, none of which seemed to want to help us as I chewed on my lip. I certainly didn’t want to spend my afternoon stuck on a freeway. I let my mind wonder, I didn’t even notice the others will tapping my shoulder. By the time I realized they were, I found myself irritated.

“What?!” I snapped at them.

“Look!” Gia said quickly as I turned my head to see a van parked behind us. Great, a kidnapper van. I watched the door open and four, then five guys came out of it. I looked at them curiously as I wondered if they were heading to a funeral. They were dressed in black, two of them even wearing eyeliner. The hell?

“Let’s just not think about it and run.” I told Gia as she shushed me.

“They might be trying to help us!” she offered.

“Help us where? Into their creepy ass van?” I whispered as she glared at me.

“Stop it.” she hissed as I sighed deeply.

“You gals having car trouble?” one asked. He was fairly average sized. His skin was pale, his hair was more black than a raven, slightly shaggy as it came down to the his chin. He wore a suit like outfit with a red tie. His eyes caught my attention as I noticed they were hazel and glossy.

I still couldn’t resist to mumble No shit as Gia elbowed me in the ribs when he wasn’t looking.

“Yeah. We don’t know what the hell is going on.” Gia smiled nervously at him. I felt eyes on me as I turned to see the other guy looking at me as I laughed slightly. He was about my size, with me being slightly a little more taller. His hair was black, but cropped in the back, the front was a fringe that framed his face. His lip ring beamed in the sun. I studied the other three guys, they certainly weren’t like anyone I’ve seen before.

Who the hell were these guys and more importantly, did I even want to know?

Gia

“Well…we’re not mechanics, but maybe we could help with something.” he smiled at me as I felt myself blush. I made myself snap out of it as I smiled at the other guys politely. Two raven haired guys walked to the front of the car while observing it. I couldn’t help but find it ironic they knew might know something about cars. Through the hood, I kept my eye on the one with the hazel eyes. I didn’t’ know what it was but I just couldn’t stop staring. When he caught me looking at him, I looked the other way immediately like an idiot. I heard the two whispering as one looked slightly annoyed but shrugged a second later.

“Well ladies, the problem is most likely your transmission. Obviously we’re not mechanics, but I think our tour manager might possibly know a feel people.” the short one asked. I didn’t mean to be rude, but he was kind of fun sized, like Vanity. Maybe that’s why she was so pissy all the time.

“Tour manager?” I asked curiously. He nodded.

“He usually helps us get out of a bunch of shit.” he smiled.

“Oh, is he around here?” I asked as the both of them laughed.

“What’s so funny?” I ask slightly offended. The raven haired guy turned back to me.

“Umm we’re actually in a band…and we’re kind of tour…with warped you know?” he asked as I nodded as if I didn’t know what the fuck Warped Tour meant. Was he serious?

“Anyways, we’re kind of on our way to our bus which is where our manager is. If you want we can give you a ride there, and then you can figure out a situation hopefully. We‘d help you if we could, but we‘re kind of broke.” he shrugged.

“What about the car?” I asked confused.

“You leave it and hope it’s still here when you get back, or you leave it all together.” the fun sized one spoke up as I looked at Vanity she looked back at me as our eyes locked. We didn’t have to speak to know what the other was thinking. We didn’t have any options. We had to leave the piece of crap.

“We might as well just dump it. We won’t have money to fix it.” I whispered as she nodded.

“I know. But I don’t know if I like what’s going on here. We don’t know them.” she pointed out.

“They said they’re in a band.” I offered.

“How do you know!” she whispered sarcastically.

“Come Van, at this point we don’t have any other people offering to help us.” I replied as she rolled her eyes and sighed.

“Fine whatever.” she retorted as I nodded.

“We’re going to drop this piece of crap, was never a friend of our anyways.” I smiled.

“Sorry to hear. Well we kind of have a schedule to follow, but we have room in the van I think.” Raven haired guy smiled back as I blushed once more but nodded.

“Oh, umm how rude of me. I’m Gerard.” he quickly said while holding his hand out as I took it, boy was it soft.

“Gia.” I replied as he smiled.

“Nice to meet you Gia.”

“You too.”

Vanity

“I’m Frank.” the short one said as I looked at him. Okay so he wasn’t that short, but still. I didn’t handle meeting new people well.

“Vanity.” I replied carefully as he raised his eyebrow.

“Vanity?” he asked as I nodded.

“Problem?” I asked curiously as he held his hands up.

“None at all miss.” he replied as I narrowed my eyes.

“Good.” I replied simply while he smiled at me. I rolled my eyes inside as I looked at the other guys.

“I’m Ray.” the one who was pretty tall and he was to the say the least, fro-tastic. His hair was so poofy, it was kind of cool.

“Mikey.” the super skinny one said next as I eyed him. He looked a lot like Gerard, except his eyes were brown and his hair was chest nut color, plus he wore glasses, and oh yeah; he’s a skeleton.

“Bob.” the last one said with a strong voice. Stocky, but he looked muscular. His hair was a ginger blonde that was short. He also had a lip ring. By the way he was standing, you’d think he was in the secret service with his sunglasses and all. I nodded absent mindedly while looking away.

“I’m Willow.” she spoke as she gave a small wave.

“And I’m Lila.” she said shyly while I caught her staring at Bob. I rolled my eyes again. Good Lord. All I wanted was a ride

“Well ladies, welcome aboard.” Gerard motioned to the van while I sighed and we grabbed our bags while tossing them inside. The van looked larger inside as I at least felt slightly better about that. The idea of being crammed with a bunch of dudes didn’t sound too appealing at the moment.

We got in one by one as I was slightly squished between Frank as he kept staring at me when he thought I was looking. For now I would just try to ignore it, I had stuff to focus on, like getting the fuck out of here.

“Thank you guys, we really appreciate this.” Gia said sincerely, of course she directed this at Gerard for the most part as he smiled at her.

“Don’t mention it.” he replied softly as she blushed once more. I leaned my head against the window and closed my eyes in an effort to block out everything and everyone.

What the fuck did we just get ourselves into?
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A/N: Here’s chapter two! Vanity is something isn’t she? I can safely say the real story shall begin next chapter now that I’m hopefully done building a foundation. Hope you’re interested (: Also, just to mention, this story is based on MCR 2005- warped tour era if you hadn't figured it out (: Thanks for the rate reviews, lets continue with them? ♥ Gia