Jack’s POV
After Lunatics and Love’s signing, I looked for Dawn. Where did she go? I decided to ask the person that would definitely know, Care. I jogged over to her. “Where did Dawn go?”
“She went to the bus.”
I nodded and started to walk to their bus. I couldn’t wait to see her. I had gotten her an opal necklace and a light blue teddy bear. I knew how much she loved her birthstone and stuffed animals. I finally got to her bus. My feet took me up to the top of the stairs.
“Dawn?” I called out into her bus. Care told me that she went in here because it was too hot outside. I figured that she would be sitting on the couch playing a fighting game, but when I entered, I didn’t see her anywhere. Where could she be? “Dawn?” I walked over to her bunk and peeked inside. She wasn’t there either. I furrowed me eyebrows together in confusion. Where could she be? The only place that I hadn’t looked yet was the bathroom. Why would she be in there for this long though? I didn’t hear the water running. Could she be…? I started to bang on the door. “Dawn, are you in there!?”
“Go away.” I soft voice said.
I put my hand around the knob and turned it. Thank God! It was open. I pushed the door open with all my force. The sight in front of me made my heart drop. Dawn was sitting on the tile floor, calligraphy pen in hand, and carving into her arm. I grabbed the pen away from her and threw it across the room before engulfing her in my arms. “Why?” She shrugged. I pulled away a little and looked her straight into her eyes. “Don’t give me that. There has to be a reason why you’re still doing this. Aren’t you happy? Don’t I make you happy?” My heart broke a little bit. Was I not good enough? Was I really unable to solve what I had caused in the first place?
“I’m sorry,” she started to sob. “I don’t know why. I just can’t stop.” I pulled her back into my chest. I didn’t even care that my shirt was getting wet. I had to hold her. She was in so much pain, and it’s my entire fault. I had to do something to help her.
“I think we need to have a band meeting. I don’t want you doing this to yourself, and I know they don’t either.”
“If you think it will help, then I’ll do it.”
“First thing first.” I let go of her and grabbed her writing utensil. “I’m taking this away from you. That way you won’t be able to hurt yourself anymore.”
“O….K…”
“Now I’m going to text to others.”
“Ok.”
I helped her up off the tiled floor and led her over to the couch in the back lounge. I took my phone out of my pocket and send a forward to both of our bands. I know that Rian and Alex (mostly Alex) were still upset with her, but I knew that Zack would want to be here. If two of us were here, we might as well have the rest of us here.
When the message was out, I sat down on the couch next to Dawn and pulled her into my chest. My lips kissed her head. Not too long after, both of our bands made their way into the back lounge with us. Worried faces appeared on their faces when they saw that Dawn was a wreck.
“What the hell did you do?” Logan exclaimed. Of course he would think that I did something. He didn’t like me that much, especially after Dawn told her band mates about our past together.
“I found her carving into her arm,” I answered.
“What do you mean that you found her ‘carving into her arm’? Dawn doesn’t do that stuff.” I guess she never told them that too.
“Actually, Dawn does,” Care said. “She did it before she met Jack and after they broke up. I thought that she stopped after you guys got back together.”
“Dawn’s been doing this to herself, and you didn’t get her help?” Logan questioned her. “Why didn’t you tell us? We could have helped!”
“Therapy never helped her. She tried it when she first started to after the second time as well.”
“How did she get over it the first time?”
“Music,” I answered.
“That’s the reason why she called music her therapy?” Brandon asked. “She told us that she used it as such, but she never said why. We just assumed it was because she was picked on. We never thought that it was that bad, well, is this bad.”
“I called this meeting to try to find a way for her to stop. Music isn’t helping her that much, so I guess that is out of the question.”
“Why don’t we just get her to admit that she’s an idiot for even starting in the first place,” Alex said.
I let go of her, stood up, and got right in his face. “She’s not an idiot! She’s hurt because of what I did. Don’t talk about my girlfriend like that!”
“Whatever.” He stormed of the bus. What the fuck? It didn’t matter that he didn’t like her. She shouldn’t have said that. “Where are you going?” Dawn was getting up and walking out of the door.
“What’s she doing?” Zack asked. I shrugged.
“Why don’t you be a ninja and look?” Luke asked.
I quietly walked by the door. I could see Dawn walking up to Alex. Was she going to talk to him? She is.
“I know you don’t like me, but what you did was uncalled for,” I could hear Dawn tell him.
“No. What you did was uncalled for.”
“I know. I am stupid, but you know that Jack is protecting of me. If you were going to call me stupid, you should have waiting for him to leave.”
“I didn’t care that he was going to yell at me for it. You’re a fucking idiot, and I’m going to speak my fucking mind!”
There was a little bit of silence before Dawn started talking again. “Why do you hate me so much? We used to be friends. Zack is over what I did, and Rian is starting to get over it.”
“Do you know who he came to every single time he heard your name or thought about you? He came to me. We’re like brothers. Do you know how much it hurt to see him like that? I’m the only one that knew that he only had one-night stands because he couldn’t get over you. I’m the one that always rooms with him. I’m the one that always has to listen to him cry himself to sleep. I bet you never thought that he missed you that much. He was fucking heartbroken for years. I can’t just forgive you just like that for causing him that much pain. I don’t want you with him because I’m afraid that you’ll hurt him again.”
“It’s not just that though, is it? It’s about your brother, right? You didn’t want Jack to go down the same path, and now you’re afraid that I will have the same destiny has him. I bet you do still care about me even though it’s just a little. You don’t want me to end my life, and you definitely don’t want Jack to do the same because I’m gone. I’m I right?” Alex didn’t say anything. He just slowly nodded. I saw her pull him into a hug. She pulled him down to her height and gave him a kiss on the cheek. “Don’t worry. I’m going to try to get over it, ok? I don’t want Jack to be upset. I hate seeing him upset just as much as you. I love him.”
“If I forgive you, will you promise me that you’ll try to stop?”
“Of course.”
“Ok, I forgive you.” He pulled away from her. “I think that we should go back now. We don’t want to worry him anymore.”
“Yeah.”
I was far from worried. I was happy. My girlfriend and my best friend have made up, and she promised that she would try to stop harming herself. Although, I had a feeling that something was going to happen though.

Brittany’s POV
I heard everything. I had been outside their bus, trying to find a way to make pay for what she did. Now that I knew that she was still doing this, I had the perfect plan. However, I’m going to wait. I’ll wait ‘til she stops. Just imagine how upset she would be. A devilish smirk appeared on my face as I walked away.

Notes

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