Captured

Sleep is an escape from reality and sometimes an escape is what's needed, especially when it came to Andy and Ashley. They lay there in their beds, both of them sleeping quietly with only the lightest of snores and some quiet mumble sounds. There was also some movement with the two in their sleep with Ashley turning over every so often and Andy actually ended up moving enough to have one leg and one arm off the side of the bed. It seemed like they were completely out for count, both in a deep sleep.

Well, they were both sleeping in a pretty deep sleep until that blaring alarm started up. Both of them flinched awake and Andy flinched enough to fall out of bed with all the covers around him. Feeling startled and wary, he quickly sat up and stared over to Ashley who looked pretty confused and alerted.

“What's going on??” The bassist of the band quickly got to a stand and moved off towards the door to peer out the gap. Andy watched him for a moment then proceeded to stand up and join him in looking out of that window gap in the door. All they saw was two masked guards rushing down the hallway.

“It could be a fire or something? It is an alarm after all,” Andy said, rubbing his forehead with a frustrated glance on his face. That loud alarm was starting to give him a seriously unnecessary headache.

“Maybe, but wouldn’t they start evacuating us or are they all really that cruel? I don’t feel like burning,” Ashley sighed lightly, and then he couldn’t help but smirk a little bit. “I’m too pretty.”

“We’re all too pretty to burn.”

“I’m the prettiest.”

“Shouldn’t you use a word that’s less feminine?”

“I’m doing it on purpose.”

“No you’re not,” the singer grunted, moving to sit on the bed. “Not that it matters anyway. Just remember you’re the member of the band that a lot of people mistake for a girl so I’m not sure if the word ‘pretty’ is helping you.”

“Well you know I’m not a girl, I know I’m not a girl. If I was a girl, we wouldn’t be having this conversation right now as I would likely be sitting right there on that bed playing with my boobs and that’d be something I’d be doing all day every day,” Ashley snickered, moving to sit next to Andy. It’s in this moment that the alarm stopped and quietness resumed apart from all the yelling that could be heard in the distance within the furthest hallways.

“And it’s off,” Andy uttered lightly, ignoring everything that Ashley just said. He then had a thought go through his head and glanced to his band mate. “Why are you sitting on my bed?”

“Your bed?” Ashley couldn’t help but laugh. “This isn’t your bed. It’s not even my bed.”

“Don’t get all technical. This is considered my bed and the other is considered your bed for the time being. Go sit over there. You fidget with your zip all the fucking time and the little sound of it does get irritating after a while.”

“You’re so petty.”

“I’m not.”

“Yes you are. You complain about everything, especially when you’re in a bad mood.”

“Well I have the right to complain. Look at the damn situation we’re in! This is absolute shit.”

“I know what it is.”

“Then shut up.” Andy began to glare a little, getting more pissed off again.

“No,” Ashley scowled a little, shaking his head as he looked off towards the door. It was at this point that a sudden sharp gasp escaped Andy as he flinched, shifting more onto the bed to have his back against the wall, feet up on the bed. Meanwhile, Ashley looked very confused.

“WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!” With that yell from his friend, he couldn’t help but laugh.

“Wow, man. What, did you get touched by a breeze at your feet or something?”

“No! There was a feeling of someone wrapping their hands around my ankles and it freaked me out. Is there a girl under this damn bed that you didn’t tell me about?!” Andy scowled.

“No,” Ashley smirked. He was about to speak up again but then he also felt grabbed which caused him to flinch and gasp very similar to what his band mate did. “What th-…” And then he felt it even more as a grip. “WOW.” He flinched and put his feet up on the bed. The two looked at each other and then their eyebrows rose slightly to the faint sound of laughter.

“That chuckle sounds familiar,” Andy whispered, trying to figure out who could be under the bed. Then, it hit him and his expression fell into a scowl. Ashley simply looked on, watching him move onto the floor on his hands and knees. That azure gaze of Andy’s landed on a very familiar face.

“You two sound like an old married couple when you’re arguing!” It was CC.

“You fucker,” Andy scowled a little, shaking his head, standing up. It’s at this point that Ashley shifted to glance under the bed.

“How the hell did you get under there?” Upon asking that, CC began to belly crawl more, shifting from under the bed to stand up.

“Air duct thingy. I crawled through there and followed the sound of your arguing.”

“Wait, there’s a crawl space?” Andy’s ears pricked up to that and he looked back at CC and Ashley. “We need to go through there right now. I want out.”

“Okay but you’ll have to be really quick to get in there. Jake and Jinxx didn’t make it in. Jake got caught and Jinxx… I’m not sure what happened to him. He could’ve been the reason the alarms went off but I really don’t know,” CC shrugged.

“Either way, like Andy said, we need to go through there,” said Ashley in a serious tone, standing up. “Come on. We need to try locate those guys.”

“You two can go ahead and go first then and when you get to where there’s three different directions, don’t go left. I came from there.”

With that said, all three of them proceeded in moving that bed over and checking out the entrance to the ventilation duct. Ashley began to think about how small the space is and shook his head.

“That looks like such a squeeze,” he said, kneeling down to inspect it further.

“Uh, I don’t care. I’m going in.” With that, Andy moved onto the floor on his belly and began to belly crawl inside there. “It’s not that bad.”

“It really isn’t. It’s not that much of a squeeze once you get used to staying on your stomach,” added CC, glancing around the room for a moment before returning his stare to the other two. By the time he looked back, all he could see were Andy’s feet disappearing into the duct. He patted Ashley’s shoulder. “Now you go, man.”

“Okay,” the man replied, sounding unsure. He just got down onto the floor anyway and began to follow the same movements he witnessed Andy doing. CC looked on for a moment then after that while of waiting for Ashley to get fully into that duct, he went back on his stomach, proceeding to belly crawl.

“This reminds me somehow of a certain orifice found on a woman…” Ashley snickered quietly as he crawled.

“Shut up, Ash,” Andy snorted while CC began to laugh.

It seemed their plans were to try and get out somewhere in a hallway to start their search for the two missing band mates. Though that plan only briefly got voiced, it seemed like the most instinctive plan to go by for all three of them. They needed to be reunited if all five of them were going to somehow get out together at the same time.