“Well, Blasko made us some plans while you were on the phone.” Andy said with a slight sigh as he wrapped an arm around me, pulling me to him in the bed. “We’ve got an interview with a magazine based out of Mexico City in two hours. Then this evening sometime when the concert was meant to be scheduled, we’re doing a meet and greet at one of the music stores.” He informed me.

I chewed on my lower lip as I listened to him, nuzzling into his neck. “Where’s that leave me, Andy…? Do I get to be at the interview and the meet and greet too?” I questioned.

“If you want to be, of course. Sight unseen at the interview but, at the meet and greet, you could sit beside me. I wouldn’t mind.” He admitted and rubbed over my back to sooth my nerves. I nodded a bit.

“I’d like that…but wouldn’t your fans, well… you haven’t even made an official statement about Ju---,” but he cut me off.

“Actually, while I was on the laptop, I did make a statement about the breakup. Since we posted the photo we did together, rumors have swirled just like we imagined. I had a lot of fans asking me on Twitter, Facebook. So I posted an official statement to my Facebook and the band’s page as well.” I could tell that a part of Andy sounded hurt over making an official statement, but the other part of him… it almost sounded relieved.

“Well I want to read it,” I said quietly and he dug his nails into my lower back, making me gasp.

“No…” he whispered, gazing down into my eyes. “I want to read it to you.” Andy said in a somewhat husky voice and I nodded my head some. We shifted around in the bed so he could get his laptop and he started to read it to me, not really facing me as he did so.

“As much as it pains me to type the words I’m about to type—I feel the need to go ahead and address these rumors as fast as I can, so no party involved is implicated or hurt. On the night of the Louisville, Kentucky concert, my Dragonfly of the last year and a half broke up with me. Although it may not be a mutual breakup, like that of breakups in my past… I respect her decision and I wish Juliet the best. She is a beautiful woman with so much talent and has a full life and career ahead of her. In a way, I can only imagine that for the last year with my near constant touring or recording, I have held her back in some form or another.

Juliet Simms has helped me through a lot. Broken ribs, a broken nose, my Grandfather’s passing. She supported me when I really felt I had no one left. I’m sure she can say the same about me and how I’ve stood beside her when she needed me the very most. A reason for the breakup really was not explained to me and although I am heartbroken, I know that I want to continue being friends and partners with my now ex-girlfriend, my Dragonfly for eternity.

To address the other half of the rumors: it is true that I am on tour with another woman. I did not meet this woman until the day after the breakup with Juliet. I decided to bring a Starbucks barista out on tour with me because I felt a connection with her I’ve never felt with anyone else before. At first I thought she was just going to be an advice-giver, a best friend…a companion who isn’t in my ‘inner circle,’ so she could give me an outlook that’s from ‘outside of the box.’ But over the last going on four days, I have fallen really hard for this girl.

My fans know that I am a man who believes in fate and destiny. I believe it is fate that I met Livvy Barrington at the meet and greet in Louisville and then stumbled across her again at a Starbucks the next day. Out of all the Starbucks in Louisville…why did I go to that one? Fate. As I sit here in a hotel bed in Mexico… a piece of me is broken, broken beyond repair because of the split with Juliet. Right now there are a lot of things uncertain about if we will remain friends, which I’m hoping we will. But I am getting through this, and I feel a sense of peace, I feel like a new man when I am with Livvy. I feel like this is a new chapter of my life.

I will not go so far as to say things are official between Livvy and me. I have not asked her to be my girlfriend as I find that would be in poor taste, especially when things are rather unresolved with Juliet and me. But Livvy is someone very special to me, and I do intend to keep her by my side for as long as she wants to be there.

Yes, Livvy is on tour with me. A lot of you fans will have the pleasure of meeting her at upcoming tour dates. I can only hope that the fans, who respect me, will respect my wishes and be nothing but courteous and kind to her. Livvy has done nothing wrong; she did not cause the breakup between Juliet and me. In time, I hope you all are able to get to know her and find her to be every bit as lovely as I do.

As always, rebels, thank you for being there for me. I’m still Andy, I’m still here, and I am Bulletproof. I will continue bringing you the music you love and giving you the show you deserve while out on tour. Thank you.”

To say that I could actually believe the words that were coming out of Andy Biersack’s mouth would be a lie. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing…but I knew it was the truth. Every single bit of it had to be. I could hear him sniffling somewhat as he read it, which tore my heart to absolute pieces. My stomach even lurched, feeling somewhat sick. To hear the strongest voice I’d ever heard sound so vulnerable…it broke me.

When Andy finished speaking, I reached around him and started to close his laptop. He turned his head away from me, as if he didn’t want me to see him crying. I sighed a little and turned him to face me, gazing into his reddened blue eyes.

“I’ve seen you cry already, Biersack… I’ve consoled you. I’ve seen you at your rawest, don’t hide from me now.” I said in a soft voice and stroked his chin with my thumb. “I think what you wrote... was very mature. I’m sure your fans will understand,” I whispered. “If I were just a fan… sitting at home, reading it for myself, I’d find it in good taste.”

“I hope so,” he said in a quiet voice, gazing back into my eyes. “I hope they do because… I don’t want you to get hurt by them. My fans came to love Juliet, a lot…and I’m sure a lot of them are very protective of her. You’re going to get a lot of shit, maybe not from my fans…but from hers.” Andy said quietly and I rolled my shoulders.

“Andy, what’s life without a little risk? What’s life without a little drama? It keeps things fresh and interesting. You’re worth all their negative words. And ultimately, at the end of the day… it may sound wrong but…who cares if your fans are happy or not? As long as you’re happy… I don’t care,” I said honestly. I knew maybe part of my sentence upset him, saying that it didn’t matter if his fans were happy or not…but he understood where I was coming from.

I wasn’t sitting in this bed here in Mexico to make his fans happy. I was here to make him happy. I knew that everything from here on out that I was going to do in my life would either be to make myself happy or to make Andy happy and I was ready to live with that.

“I’m here to make you happy, Andy…and in the long run, you being happy, it makes your fans happy.” I reiterated my wording a bit, which made him feel a little better…or at least it eased his facial muscles. “Smile, for me…?” I asked quietly, earning a small chuckle from him.

“That’s what I love about you, Livvy. You can make such a serious situation into something so beautiful and happy…” his voice trailed off as he pulled me closer to him in the bed, the two of us just lying there together.

It was hard for me to believe that this was real. Part of me truly believed I was still in bed in Louisville having a very vivid, very long dream sequence that involved Andy Biersack. We laid there together in silence for what felt like the longest time, but I knew in truth, it had only been ten or so minutes.

“Andy,” I broke the silence in a quiet voice, barely above a whisper. “I know that you and I have only known one another four days, but I want you to know, that they have been the most amazing four days in my life.” I felt like I owed this to him, for the shit storm that he would face because of me. “I’m looking forward to finishing out this part of the tour with you. I’m looking forward to you meeting my Mom, and going to Los Angeles with you eventually…since I’ve never been to California, and it’s always been a dream of mine,” I admitted while my cheeks tinted a bright pink.

“I know that I’m not your girlfriend yet…and I know that, at some point you’re going to have to face Juliet. And even after that, there’s still a chance we might not become an official couple for a while…but I’m still going to be here. No matter what you decide. Okay?” I asked as a few small tears formed behind my green eyes.

The dark haired tattooed male laying next to me nodded his head as he gazed into my eyes, a few tears caught in his jet black eyelashes. “You don’t know how happy it makes me to hear you say that. To hear you say that you’re looking forward to this tour, to meeting my fans…to see how happy it makes you to just know you’ll be able to sit with me during a meet and greet. Baby do you know how boring that would be to Juliet, or hell before her, to Scout? They’re both famous in their own way, and sign autographs dozens of times a day…so to watch me do it, it’s nothing to them. They aren’t enamored with my life. But you are.”

To hear Andy call me baby… it was like… the most beautiful thing I’d ever heard in my life. It was better than the music he sang his heart out after writing, it was better than just hearing him say ‘Livvy.’ I blushed and he raised a brow, not exactly catching on I don’t think to what he’d said.

“You called me, baby,” I said in a soft voice and he blushed a little, chewing on his lip rings. “I didn’t really realize I did… I like calling my girlfriend, baby. It may not be official to the world…but between you and me… you know you’re my girlfriend, Livvy. You know it.”

Part of me did know it…but there was a sliver of me that just couldn’t wait for it to be officially, official.

Notes

Word Count: 1,970

I want to apologize that this update took so long! I've started the 2YN course, two year novel, and that's been time consuming. And then to top it all off, on Monday, March 4th, I spilled soda in my brand new (of seven months) laptop...it worked fine for SIX days until Sunday, March 10th, and it stopped working completely. Thankfully, I had backed up the three main stories I was working on (this one, Temptation, and another) on the day I spilled the soda pop...so I lost no progress on the stories!! but, since the new laptop is being fixed by Dell at the moment...for the last week, even though I've been using my old laptop.. I've just been so devastated that I felt I couldn't write. So I'm very sorry about that everyone :(

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