Take Your Hand In Mine {Andley}

Chapter 41: Andy's POV

I comb my hand nervously through my hair, which is being tousled slightly by the breeze. I notice Ashley's frame shivering.

"Are you cold? I ask. He shakes his head in response, but I don't believe him.

"You're shaking! Here." I insist on giving him my jacket: I've got to admit, he looks super adorable when he's swathed in leather.

Nevertheless, his teeth are chattering. Now here's an excuse if ever there was one - I go in for a hug. I feel Ashley going less tense as my embrace warms him.

"Hey," He says, pulling his head from my shoulder, "Andy..."

"Mmm?" I murmur in response.

"Before we get murdered, kidnapped or mugged?"

"Oh my!" I interject, making a Wizard of Oz reference; Ash smiles at this.

"Can I tell you something?" He tilts his head.

"Anything." I say with a warm smile.

"Well, I've fallen in love." He confides.

"Oh really? Tell. Me. Everything." I'm so intrigued that Ashley has finally found someone instead of having someone new every night. As long as he's happy, I should learn to get over it.

"Okay," He takes a breath, playing with his hands, "So I've known him for a long time-"

"Him?!" I exclaim. Then I remember: he's bi. I'm so ignorant sometimes - I have to apologise.

"Anyway," He continues regardless of my interruption, "I've been letting all this stuff, about whether he likes me or not, get me down over the last week, so I decided to finally let him know."

"Oh?" This is really interesting; it's a whole new side to him. "And how are you going to do that?"

"Well, I was planning on a super-romantic dinner, but I guess... An alleyway at midnight will have to do?"

My heart skips a beat. Is he saying what I think he's saying?

"Do you mean...?"

"Andy Biersack. I've loved you ever since I met you - as a brother. But now, I want to be something more than that. And I know we could never be together..." His voice wavers, close to tears; he seems so vulnerable.

"Ugh, this is stupid. All I wanted you to know, is that I've fallen for you. Hard." He laughs out of bitterness, and it echoes around the now silent alley.

"But I guess... You always want the one that you can't have, right?" He turns around, attempting to leave, to salvage his pride. To give up on me.

I've got to do something about this.

"Not always."

A/N F*cking finally, right? I can't believe it's taken Ash 40 chapters to grow some balls XD