Please tell me what we have is real

“Andrew, are you even listening?” Our history teacher asked sternly, making me chuckle. Andy had been giving me flirty looks since lesson started. They were too flirty to be taken seriously and we had just made a joke out of it.
“Nope, I was distracted, Sir” he said cheekily and winked at me. Another chuckle from me and giggles from the girls. Jinxx just shook his head, grinning at the two of us.
“Now, could you please leave Ashley alone and pay attention? You two can flirt later” the teacher said and sighed. Andy let out a fake gasp at that.
“But Sir! Ashley is as straight as a fucking ruler! I don't even stand a chance! I bet if the girls would take a good look for once, they'd be all over him!” Andy exclaimed. I physically couldn't hold back any longer and burst out laughing. Of course Andy was talking bullshit and fooling everyone in the class. The most hilarious part was that the girls actually did start to check me out and whisper to their friends. That just made me laugh even harder. Our teacher yelled for us to be quiet and just continued his lesson.

“Man, what did you do?” I said still laughing when the three of us left the classroom at the end of the lesson. Andy and Jinxx couldn't stop laughing either. Jake and CC, who waited in the hallway, just looked at us weird.
“Did you see that, Ash?! They practically eye-fucked you!” Andy leaned against the wall for support and I wiped away the tears caused by all the laughing. We told Jake and CC what just went down in the classroom and both of them started laughing.
“But Ands, seriously, they'll never leave me alone now!” I whined, making the guys laugh even harder.
“Aw, Ashy babe, I'll protect you from the mean opposite gender!” Andy cooed and we both cracked up laughing once more.
“Ok guys, enough fun for this morning. Romeo here and me need to go to English or that bitch will throw a fit” Jake said grinning. I hit his arm and muttered “Asshole” before following him to class.

When we entered the classroom, we heard a whispered “Girls! There he is!” and suddenly all the girls' heads whipped around to look at me. Jake started laughing and patted my back while I just groaned inwardly. What the actual fuck was happening?
We sat down in our usual seats but throughout the whole lesson, the girls shot me flirty looks and I was beyond annoyed by the time it was our lunch period. Seriously, I looked the same as usual and all they ever did but now all of a sudden, just because Andy was joking around, they were interested in me? I didn't understand high school. Not at all.
Jake and me went to our usual table and I plopped down next to Andy, ready to hit my head on the table. CC, Jinxx and Andy all looked at me and just burst out laughing. I chuckled and dug into my food. And just this one time it was me resting my hand on Andy's thigh, squeezing it lovingly. He smiled at that and happily shoveled food into his mouth.
“Dude, is Ashley giving you a handjob down there or why are you smiling like an idiot?” CC asked, making Jinxx and Jake nearly choke on their food. Andy just flipped him off and I concentrated on my lunch. We really were the worst today.
“You're just jealous!” Andy said cheekily and I laughed.
“Anyway, Ashley, you and your hot looks were the talk in all of our classes, what the fuck man?” CC said laughing and I groaned.
“Please tell me that was a joke” I said but CC just shook his head.
“Nope, girls are all over you” I inhaled deeply and shook my head to that.
Just then a few girls came to our table and sat down next to us. They didn't even ask or something. They looked at me, winking, smiling, being all flirty. God, no.
I gave Andy's thigh one last squeeze before withdrawing my hand with an annoyed sigh.
“I wanna go home” I whispered only loud enough for Andy to hear.
“I totally understand that” he whispered back and I could feel that he just wanted to press a kiss on my cheek. If I were honest I wanted that too. But I just sighed and shoved my plate away. I just wasn't hungry anymore.
The girls had started chatting among themselves and when one of them looked at me I just raised an eyebrow. Why the fuck were they always staring at me? Obviously, that was the wrong thing to do because it threw all the girls into a fit of giggles. Andy nearly choked on his food, then hit his thigh lightly against mine.
“Stop flirting with them!” he whisper-yelled, so the girls couldn't hear us.
“I'm not flirting!” I defended myself and gave him weird look. What was he thinking? He had this jealous expression on his face and hell, did that turn me on.
“Of course you did! Ash, I know what flirting looks like!” he argued back and I sighed, ready to answer him but then Jake interrupted us.
“Guys! You need to see it differently!”
“Like what?” Andy asked annoyed. I was just confused and looked blankly at Jake, telling him to continue.
“Let him flirt with the girls. It's a perfect cover up. We all know you are together and that Ash is as gay as a pink unicorn on a sparkling rainbow. But if the girls think he likes boobs, then let them. At least they won't suspect that you guys are together and maybe the jocks will give up bullying him all together if they see that the girls like him.”
Jake explained. I looked at him with shock all over my face. No way would I do that. That was practically cheating.
“Jake, you're a genius!” Andy exclaimed. I turned around to face him.
“What? Andy, no!” I said, my eyes wide.
“Yes!”
“No way!” He couldn't be serious.
“Yes way! Sit with them every once in a while at lunch and every-”
“NO!” I shouted, successfully interrupting him. The girls went quiet and lookied at us. I faced them with a fake smile.
“Ladies, I ain't trying to be rude but this is kind of personal, ok? I would appreciate you not listening in. Thanks!” I said and turned around to face my boyfriend once again. He just looked at me with raised eyebrows and I shrugged.
“No” I just said and looked at him, determined to stand my ground. I would not cheat on him, even if he wanted me to. Just a minute ago he was jealous like fuck and now it suddenly didn't matter anymore? I didn't buy it.
“At least think about it!” Andy whined. I sighed and a bit of the conversation coming from the girls.
“He's so cute! Calling us Ladies!”
“God, you're practically drooling over him!”
“Well, he's very handsome to say the least!”
“Do you think he will go to prom with me?”
I ran a hand down my face and heard Andy chuckle.
“You already have them! Just give them a flirty look or two and they'll be convinced you're the awesomest male human ever. And the hottest!” He tacked on.
“Is awesomest even a word?” I just asked, bored with the topic already.
“Shush, of course it is!”
I laughed and resisted the urge to peck his cheek. Sometimes he really was too cute for his own good.
“Anyway!” CC exclaimed, drawing once again the attention of the girls to us. “Rehearsal tonight?”
“Yup” Andy said happily. “Ash still needs to show me that song of his though!” I chuckled and nodded. After all the drama we somehow forgot about that.
And then the whispers started again.
“Oh, he's in a band! That's hot!”
“Do you think he's the singer?”
“Oh my god, seriously?” I mumbled. Andy laughed and in that moment the bell rang. I looked at the girls and winked and it felt so wrong.

“I am the hottest and awesomest male human anyway, right?” I whispered into Andy's ear as we went to our next class.
“Of course, babe.” he answered and smiled at me. I smiled back and hugged him, my new substitute for pecking his cheek or lips, I decided. His smile got even wider and then we were in different classrooms.

The rest of the day seemed to drag on endlessly. Every girl in our year seemed to flirt with me and I was sick of it, even though I acted polite towards them. They blushed and giggled when I so much as looked in their direction. I couldn't be happier when the final bell rang and I could go home and cuddle with Andy before rehearsal. I just hoped that the girls' fascination for me subsided within the next few days and surely after the week end everything would be back to normal, right?
“Hey, Ashley!” a girl's voice called from behind me just as I stepped outside. I groaned inwardly but turned around with a light smile on my face.
“Yes?” I asked, making an afford to keep my tone nice. I came face to face with a blonde girl. Every guy would probably call her hot but I just didn't swing that way. She linked her arm with mine and walked down the steps next to me. I looked at her confused.
“I thought that we should do something together, now that this awful school day is over” she said seductively and licked her lips. I resisted the urge to gag and kept on smiling politely.
“Sorry, but I fear I'm busy” I said and took my arm from her.
“Oh well, maybe some other time” she said and walked away. I practically ran towards Andy after that.

“New friend?” he asked with a pissed look on his face. I shook my head and grabbed his arm, dragging him away from the school grounds.
“Let's just get out of here” I said. Andy chuckled and fell in beside me.
“Kina is the worst of them” he then said. I threw him a look that told him that I had no idea what he was talking about. “That girl. Her name is Kina. She's in our history class. She had every guy, well except for the five of us. She's head cheerleader too. Practically the most popular girl in school.”
“What a slut” I mumbled. When we were well away from school, I turned around to check whether any girls were stalking us. Nope. So I grabbed Andy's hand and laced our fingers together. A content sigh escaped my lips and Andy squeezed my hand. I smiled at him.
“But you know, Jake's right.” Andy suddenly insisted and I groaned.
“Well, at least you're hot when you're jealous” I winked. We both laughed and stopped in front of my flat. I opened the door and let ourselves in.

“I'm so excited for rehearsal!” Andy said as he sat down on my sofa. I smiled and plopped down next to him.
“Me too, babe” I turned around and threw my arms around him and cuddled into his side. “First cuddles, though” I heard Andy chuckle at that while hugging me back. My lips found the skin on his neck and I pressed a kiss right below his earlobe.
“Don't get me hard” Andy warned and I grinned. “Better show me those lyrics of yours, so maybe we can get some actual work done before rehearsal.” I nodded at that and bit my lip, walking to my bedroom to get my notebook. I opened it up and gave it to Andy before retrieving my acoustic guitar. I sat down next to my boyfriend again, who had claimed a spot on the floor by now for the “real band feeling”. I tuned the instrument and finally began to play. I was actually pretty nervous but this was Andy so there was no need to worry. But maybe he thought I sucked... I'd have to try though. So I started to sing.

Andrew Biersack's Point of View

I stared at Ash in total awe as he began to sing. His voice was just so beautiful.

Through sadness you have taught us to be one with the crowd
Unveil the sacred order, hymns of falling down
You told the greatest stories, of love and bleeding crowns
But to the sick and hungry, you cannot be found

We are young and we are strong
Through strength in self we become
Something more than they can be
I raise my heart and sing!

That I won't believe this lie
I know there's something more inside
When darkness is all you'll see
This is our Sweet Blasphemy

Silence the crooked holy, unchain the tied and bound
No time for allegory, one true reigning sound
Unite the lonely mourning, a simple servant now
We are the only glory, hear us screaming loud

We are young and we are strong
I raise my heart and sing!

That I won't believe this lie
I know there's something more inside
When darkness is all you'll see
This is our Sweet Blasphemy

My mouth hung open and even though I could literally feel Ashley's fear of my judgment I just couldn't get a word out. It was so amazing and I really didn't know why he hid that talent from us.
“Andy?” his soft whisper brought me out of my thoughts. Seeing that he laid the guitar to the side I just threw myself at him and hugged him monkey-style with my legs and arms around him.
“Babe, why didn't you say anything? You are so amazing! And I love your voice so much! You MUST sing more for me! And those lyrics are amazing, Ash, we'll SO do that song!” I gushed and was even more happy when I felt Ash hugging me back hesitantly.
“Really?” he said quietly. I pulled away and beamed at him.
“Really!” I said through laughter and kissed him passionately. With an “umph” we landed on the floor, with Ashley on his back and me on top of him. Too much enthusiasm from my side maybe, but I liked it. I never broke the kiss though, it just felt perfect, lying here on Ashley's living room floor kissing. I felt like I finally found my only home, the place that made me happy. Ashley's arms.

Notes

"Asshole" reference, anyone? :D

I hope you lked it (though it was a bt shorter than usual).

xoxo RebelliousRedamancy