Sink Your Teeth Into Forever

Ivy's POV
I felt better as soon as Sandra and I entered the cool night air on the beach. I didn't have any shoes on and the sand between my toes felt really good. We walked quietly on the beach for a while. The temperature was in the low sixties and the sounds of the waves was soothing. I felt really relaxed, and Sandra seemed to be really nice so I didn't mind being alone with her. Finally after couple minutes of walking she finally started the conversation.
"So, how well do you know Ashley?" She said, I wasn't expecting to have a conversation with her about this.
"Uhh, not well at all, really," I said.
"Wow, I would have expected that you two knew each other well," She said.
"Why would you expect that?" I said, really confused.
"He talks about you a lot,"
"Are you serious?!" I said stopping quickly, in my shock. My heart started to beat faster, maybe he did like me back.
"Well, it's not that he talks about you a lot. I had to take care of him for a while, because he had a wound on his leg that got infected, so he spent a lot of time trying to sleep with a pretty high fever. You know how that is, you're kinda in and out all the time, not really awake, but not really asleep either. Well when he was more asleep than awake he would mumble your name a lot. I mean a lot too, it wasn't just every once in a while. It was constant," She said. I stared at her for a minute, waiting for her to reveal the joke. Laugh at me and say that my face was priceless and that I should move on to a guy who's more my speed but she didn't. She didn't laugh.
"Are you serious?" I said, still not believing her entirely.
"I'm serious, that's why I asked you out here, I wanted to know, but I didn't want to like embarrass you in front of the whole band," She said, shrugging. She kept walking so I did too.
"Wait, what does he say about me?" I asked, my heart pounding.
"Not a lot, mostly just your name," She replied. My mind was spinning, was this even possible?
Ashley's POV
Andy had said that he wanted to talk to me. I didn't understand why we weren't talking. We were just walking. We'd made almost an entire circle of the beach around this island and not a word had been said yet. The silence was thick and awkward, I could tell that he had something he wanted to say, I just don't know why he wouldn't just come out with it. I noticed that he was drifting to the side as we walked I followed him as he moved closer to the ocean. Then he sat down so that the ocean water just barely hit his bare feet. He sighed and ran his hand through his hair. He did that when he was stressed. Maybe it was my turn to talk and I should try and see what was wrong with him. I sat down next to him, and I was about to say something but he beat me to the punch.
"I know how you feel about her," He said. My heart skipped a beat, I decided to play dumb.
"About who, Sandra?" I said. I don't know why I even bothered lying, I knew that he knew that I was just trying to waste time to avoid talking about what I knew he was trying to talk about. He gave me a look, the you-know-what-I-mean look. I decided to keep playing dumb, I gave him an innocent look.
"Sandra and I are just friends man, don't you know that she likes boobs," I said, trying hard to keep a straight face. I knew who he was talking about, but I didn't want to admit it, it felt just plain wrong.
"Come on dude, really? You know who I'm talking about," Andy said, he sounded exhausted, I didn't want to keep messing with him. He seemed like he had enough stress without me giving him a hard time. I stared at the ground. Feelings where not my strongest suit.
"You're talking about Ivy," I said. I could feel myself blushing.
"You know bro, you have to find a mate at some point, and she fits," he said.
"No she doesn't, she's way too young, right?" I said. The ages between mates where never more than ten years apart.
"She's seventeen bro, that's only eight years," Andy replied. My heart started to pound, but I was still trying to be in denial. I'm Ashley Purdy for god's sake, I didn't date!
"No," I said stubbornly.
"Dude, you can't deny how you feel,"
"I'll get over it, she doesn't like me anyway," I said.
"Yes she does, she gets nervous whenever I mention you," Andy said. I was about to say something back when we heard voices coming down the beach. My heart leaped up into my throat when I heard Ivy's voice. Andy stood up and looked down the beach, I stood up too. I started to get nervous, I was sweating and my hands started to shake, I swallowed hard. Suddenly I was very aware of the fact that I was a little bit drunk and probably didn't look too good. I wanted to turn around and run in the other direction. Too bad Andy grabbed onto my elbow and started pulling me in the direction of the voices.

Notes

Hey guys, I'm so sorry that this is late. I'm on a break and I lost track of the days. Hopefully I'll be able to give you guys a few updates this week and we'll see if we can get this story done. Anyway please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. Remember if you think that no one loves you, I do.