It was now the beginning of March and the band was headed off to start their UK and Ireland tour, which would be supported by D.R.U.G.S. Andy was excited to be going over to the UK again, he loved the fans over there, but he was also excited because this time around Dess would be with him. No more staying up late or getting up early to talk to one another. No more Skyping or sending millions of selfies to eachother and no more crying. Andy smiled as he handed over his last bag to the girl behind the airline’s ticket desk and he turned to Dess.


“Are you ready?” He asked, taking her hands in his as he looked down at her.

“Ready as I’ll ever be.” She said nervously as she felt his lips brush against hers; it calmed her slightly but Odessa could still feel the butterflies in her stomach swooping around, feeling more like bats than anything else.


Andy smiled down at her softly as he looked around at his other bandmates. Jinxx had his arms around Sammi, who sadly wasn’t able to come with them due to prior commitments and Jake, CC and Ashley were joking and laughing loudly. He wasn’t looking forward to being on a ten hour flight, but atleast he would have Dess with him to keep him company. Usually he wrote while they traveled, but Andy hoped to spend some quiet time with Dess. He knew that as soon as the tour started it would be chaotic and he wouldn’t have as much time with her like he wanted.

Finally the group began to head over towards security and then to customs. There was a slight problem when CC had tried to get a large can of hair spray through security but it was quickly resolved and they were on their way. Andy and Dess walked hand in hand, smiling until suddenly a short man with a very large camera jumped out in front of them. Andy held up a hand in front of his face and turned to look down at Dess. Her eyes were wide and she looked startled at first, but then she placed a small smile on her lips and looked over at the photographer.


“Hey Andy! Where are you guys headed?” The photog asked as he snapped away and Andy removed his hand from his face, his other hand gripping Dess’ tightly.

“We’re, uh, getting ready to start our UK Tour.” He said as they continued to walk towards their gate. The photographer obviously got what he wanted as he soon walked off, leaving the group to continue their journey in peace.


Odessa looked over towards Andy and after catching his eye she nodded her heads towards a small Starbucks stand. He said something quickly to the band as she moved away from him and looked up at the board. Quietly he wrapped his arms around her from behind and hummed softly in her ear. Dess placed their order and as she was waiting she turned to look up at him.


“So that was, um, interesting. Does that happen a lot?” She asked as Andy rubbed a hand on the back of his neck and stared down at her.

“Not really. It’s happened more and more over the past year, but thankfully it’s not gotten too crazy.” He smirked down at her before reaching to gather their drinks. Odessa took a sip of hers, feeling the warm liquid coursing through her veins and finally she began to feel awake.

“So do you want the window seat?” She asked him playfully as they continued on their walk towards the gate. Andy laughed softly, placing an arm around her shoulders he leaned down and pressed a kiss to the side of her head.

“Whatever you want babe. I just want to sit next to you, maybe take a nap and work on some stuff for the album.” He said quietly as finally they walked up to the gate and joined everyone else. Andy kissed her lips softly and then went to go sit down, pulling a pad of paper out of his carryon he began to write fiercely. Deciding to leave him be, Dess walked over and took a seat next to Jinxx.

“Don’t worry Dess…Andy just gets really intense sometimes when we’re on the road. Once we play a show or two he’ll calm down. You excited?” Jinxx asked and Dess turned to look at him and smiled.

“Yeah, I’m really excited. I’ve never been overseas before.” She said and Jinxx smiled over at her.

“What’s up motherfuckers!” CC yelled from behind them as he jumped over the back of the connected chairs and stared over at the two of them.

“CC, darling, how many energy drinks have you had?” Dess asked, laughter in her voice as CC just smiled and held up a hand.

“Only five dude!” He said loudly as people around the terminal stared over at them. Dess felt a blush creep up her neck and as she sipped her coffee she looked around.


A lot of people were openly staring at them. One woman had even moved her family down a few rows from where Jake and Ashley were sitting, their ripped jeans and black shirts obviously offensive in some way. Odessa looked down at herself, noting her deep purple sweater, black skinny jeans and black ankle boots and suddenly she felt like a caged freak.

She knew that they most likely weren’t staring at her, but she felt self conscience all the same. Suddenly a voice came over the loud speaker, announcing that their flight would begin boarding. She reached down to gather her things and Odessa looked over towards Andy. His nose was still buried in that pad of paper and sighing she got up and followed Jinxx towards the gate.


“Hey babe…” Dess felt an arm wrap around her shoulders and she smiled softly as she felt Andy kiss her temple softly. She was trying to be understanding, but deep down she was worried that he would spend the entire tour writing and leave her in the dust.

“Did you get some stuff written?” She asked, looking up at him as they both handed over their tickets and began to walk down the tunnel towards the plane.

“Yeah. Sorry about that…when I get something in my head I just need to separate myself and get it out. I’ll try to keep my disappearances to a minimum.” He reached down and kissed her as they quickly found their seats and Odessa moved to sit by the window.


The two of them sat there hand in hand while everyone else on the plane got to their seats and the flight attendants began to go over safety regulations. Odessa felt happy in that moment because she knew that every night after a show Andy would be there for her. No more waiting up to hear from him, no more falling asleep at her computer waiting to see if he would skype her.

But she also knew that she wouldn’t wake up to see the little adorable texts that he had sent to her the night before or the million selfies that he took in the dressing room while the band waited to hit the stage. She preferred having the real Andy in her life, but she would also really miss the little things that they had shared.


“What’s wrong babe?” He asked her and Odessa shook her head, smiling at him she squeezed his hand as the plane began to take off into the sky.

“Nothing. Just thinking about things.” She smiled softly and he felt his heart go out to her. Dess was always worried about something and Andy was going to try his best to make sure that she didn’t have to worry about him at least.

“Oh. Well relax babe. We’ve got a long flight a head of us and then as soon as we touch down we have to head to a show. Did you want to come? I mean if you’re too tired I get it, you can always go crash back at the hotel while we play.” He smirked down at her. She loved that he seemed so concerned about her happiness and wellbeing, even though sometimes Dess wasn’t so concerned with it herself.

“I’ll be there, you know I wouldn’t miss a show of yours for anything.” She smiled over at him and reached in to her bag. She pulled out her head phones and slipped them into her ears, smirking she saw Andy do the same and finally all was quiet as they sat there hand in hand.


They sat like that for a while, both of them listening to their respective music and Andy scribbled in a notebook, while Dess worked on some sketches for work. After about the fifth hour food was brought around and Dess removed her headphones and stashed her sketchpad back into her bag. She took the plate from the flight attendant gratefully and watched as Andy did the same.

They ate in a happy silence and she giggled as Andy held up his roll and chucked it back towards where Ashley was sleeping. They talked softly to one another, making plans for things that they wanted to see while in the UK and Andy had plans for things that he wanted to show Odessa once they got to Ireland. Finally they went back to working in happy silence.


“Whatcha writing?” Odessa asked, looking over at the pad of paper that Andy had laid out on the tray in front of him. In The End? She read over the lyrics, her mouth moving slowly to the words until finally a hand came smacking down on top of the paper. It made her jump and as she looked to Andy she saw that his brow was furrowed in frustration as he looked at her.

“Don’t.”He growled at her lowly and Odessa just looked at him, her eyes wide and shocked. He had never been so gruff with her before and silently she wondered what she had done to piss him off.

“It’s not ready. When it’s ready then I will let you read over it. Give me some space Dess.” He muttered as his hand began to fly across the page again. Well now she was pissed. Space? He wanted space? Fine. Space is what he would get.

“Get the fuck over yourself Biersack. Excuse me.” She snarled over at him as she shoved the rest of her things into her carryon bag and shoved past him quickly. She stood there and finally saw that Jinxx was off sitting alone, his eyes staring out the window quietly.


Silently Odessa moved towards the back of the plane, avoiding eye contact with Jake as she passed him and CC. She felt like crying, but wouldn’t, she couldn’t give him the satisfaction. She couldn’t believe he had just told her to give him space. Here she was, flying to another country while her baby sister was back home sick and possibly dying. He had begged her to come with him, to move in with him and although Moira had encouraged it, Dess knew in her heart that it was a mistake. Silently she sat down in the aisle seat next to Jinxx and shrugged sadly as he looked over at her.


“Biersack being impossible again?” He asked gently, his hands coming to rest on top of hers and she could no longer hold back her tears.

“It’s okay Dess. I told you he gets like this when we tour. Please don’t take it personally. Why do you think we all sit with one another and leave him to be off by himself?” Jinxx laughed as Odessa looked over at him and gave him a small watery smile.


Jinxx reached out to her, placing a hand ontop of hers he squeezed gently and gave her a fatherly smile. She inhaled deeply, trying to calm herself, but Odessa was scared that this was just the beginning of something that she couldn’t handle. She decided to stay next to Jinxx for the rest of the flight because if Andy wanted space then that was what she would give him.

Jinxx was finally able to make her crack a smile when he mentioned how much of a whiner Andy could be and Odessa knew it was true. After a few failed attempts to sleep Odessa finally realized that the plane was descending through the air and that they had finally arrived.

Odessa followed behind Jinxx as he stood up, stretching his arms above his head, she looked off towards the front of the plane and saw that Andy had also stood. He seemed to be looking for her and as his eyes scanned towards her Odessa felt her eyes turn to slits as she glared at him. He looked confused as he rubbed the back of his neck and reached above his head to remove their two other carry-ons from the compartment. Jinxx placed a hand on her back, urging her to move forward. Andy didn’t move from his spot and as she passed him Odessa felt his fingers reach for her, grabbing at her wrist softly but she tugged away.


“Just give him some time Dess.” Jinxx whispered once more into her ear as they reached the tunnel and began to walk up towards the gate.


She nodded silently, but her heart felt like it was tearing apart. All of the band finally came together at the gate and Andy was the last to emerge as he once again looked towards Odessa and was met with a blank stare. CC loudly led them towards customs and baggage claim and once again Dess stuck with Jinxx, laughing as he joked about the last time they were over here.

Andy tried to reach for her once again, but she just brushed him off, not a word was spoken between the two. The band had to head to sound check and Odessa had told Andy that she would go and so when they all got into the van to head towards the venue Dess joined them, but she still sat towards the back with Jinxx next to her.

As they pulled up to the venue and the rest of the band exited Odessa was the last out of the back of the van but before she could exit Andy jumped back in, closing and locking the door behind him. Shit. She was never very good at confrontation and so with her arms crossed Odessa just sat back down and stared out the window.

She heard shuffling and soon Andy was sitting next to her, his hand reaching out and grabbing hers away from her chest as his fingers intertwined with hers. He said nothing, but just sat there looking at her as she stared out the window. Finally she felt him remove his hand from hers and she sighed as she felt him place his fingers on her temple, brushing a piece of her hair aside.


“I’m sorry for whatever I did Dess. I love you…” He whispered into her ear and before she had time to react he had exited the van and walked into the venue.


Dammit, she couldn’t stay mad at him forever. Could she?

Notes

Uh-oh. First big fight for the love birds. What's going to happen? Read and review to find out (or just wait until tomorrow when I update *teehee*)

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