Isis POV

We sat in the studio early in the morning, as Andy was finishing vocals in the sound room. I was still in shock over what happened and really don’t know what to think of it. I was still suffering from a hangover and the sound of the loud music was not helping.. I pulled my shades over my eyes and stepped outside where I could be alone.
"See this is why I don't drink." Said a voice from behind me, I turned to see Gemma closing the door behind her.
“That and you’re pregnant.” I smiled.
"Well yeah but meh." She said, "you ok?"
“umm.. yeah?” I said, “Why?”
"Once more with feeling," she smirked, "I saw what happened yesterday, so tell me truthfully, are you ok?"
“What exactly did you see?” I asked.
"Ashley being a possessive jerk." She replied, "you weren't really ill were you?"
“Well I did throw up before I left..?” I said, hoping that’s a good enough of an excuse.
"So you were pissed," she said, "everyone was, well most people, why did he take you back to the hotel, and don't lie, you're too easy to read when you're hungover." I rolled my eyes although she wouldn’t be able to see it and sighed.
“I honestly don’t know.” I replied, “I don’t want to talk about it.”
"Hmm." She replied, I could see the skepticism on her face.
“I know that I didn’t do anything wrong,” I said as I tried to remember, “But I know that what I have done could’ve been embarrassing for Ash”
"Screw Ashley." She said, "you need to have fun as well, dunt matter if he's embarrassed, he's gone funny lately. I don't like how he's starting to treat you, but you know that."
“He hasn’t done anything!” I said defensively, “He’s just stressed with a lot of things and I’m not helping the situation. I don’t blame him.”
"See," she said, "seriously, he's got you blaming yourself, this is only the start, believe me, I've been there done that, got the emotional scars."
“You know I’m too stubborn to allow him to control me.” I reminded her.
"I thought so too when I was where you are now." She said, "look, I'm worried about you, and yeah I worry about everyone, but you need to take yourself out of the situation emotionally and see what we see, I'm not the only one that saw it yesterday. It'll only get worse, and I don't want him to hurt you. I saw how angry he was with what happened with Jake, all of us did, and we were talking about it, it's nothing like a normal amount of jealousy, it's worse than that, all of us are worried about you."
“Why were you guys talking about me?” I asked annoyed, “It’s none of your business and it’s not as extreme you make it out to be.”
"It is my business when someone I care about is being broken down to nothing!" She said frustrated, "you need to sort out things with Ashley, he's going down a very dark path." I stood there absorbing everything that was said.
“But what if it’s nothing?” I asked, “I would feel so ridiculous for thinking these things.”
"To be completely honest," she said, "I think he will play it off as nothing, my ex did, it wasn't till recently I saw what he actually done to me." I sighed.
“I’ll try to talk with him.” I said worried. I knew it wasn’t going to be easy.
"Ok, but don't let him brush it off." She said, "we are all here for you when you need us, you know that right?" I nodded.
“I guess since he isn’t doing much today,” I said thinking out loud, “I could probably get him to leave early and go back to the hotel.”
"Yeah," she said, "we're only down the corridor later if he annoys you."
“The corridor?” I asked looking at her confused.
"At the hotel, we're three rooms away from you." She laughed, "plug your brain in, woman."
“Wait.. So the hall?” I said laughing.
"Oh my god!" She laughed
“Well excuse me! My brain is more dead than usual this morning!” I protested.
"There's nothing more dead than non existent." She stuck her tongue out at me.
“My point exactly!” I said throwing my hands up.
"Freak." She laughed. “Come on then. Lets go back in.” I nodded and followed her back inside. When we walked in, the room was filled with everyone sitting on the couch, completely silent playing on their phones.
“Ceeses Pieces..” I looked directly at CC and saw him sitting there playing with his hair. Everyone turned to look at him as he got louder, “Ceeeeeses Piiiieces…” I laughed.
“Yeah that one is yours..” I said to Gemma, “..again.”
"What the fuck?" She replied, "who gave him sugar?" She looked at Andy, who tried his best innocent face, and failed.
“See I’m not that bad.” I said as I sat down next to Andy.
"Yet." Gemma added.
“But Andy is the one poisoning people!” I said pointing to him.
“Hey I did no such thing!” Andy said.
“You grabbed my boob!” I said laughing.
"Accidentally!" He protested.
“So you say..” I said.
"It's the truth!" He said still protesting.
“Yeah whatever..” I teased and turned to Ashley, “Can we leave now?”
"Keep quiet this time please!" Said CC, "we could hear you in our room!"
“Wait what?!” I said looking at CC confused.
"You're very loud." Gemma said. I looked at them funny.
"Uh! Ashley! uh! fuck! uh!" Said Andy in a really high voice while thrusting towards Ashley. I covered my face with embarrassment and fear of Ashley’s reaction.
"Fuck off!" Ashley groaned.
“Should we just leave now so we can get a head start?” I asked him jokingly as I realized this could be a good opportunity for us to escape from everyone so we can talk.
"No," he said looking pissed, "don't encourage them."
“Whatever..” I sighed as my mood was killed, “I’m out..” I stood up and walked out of the room. I started walking out of the main doors when I heard Ashley call my name. I stopped and turned around. “What?”
“Are you seriously upset because I just told you no?” He asked in disbelief.
“It’s more than that.” I said, “But I don’t want to talk about it here. Are you able to leave right now?” He checked his phone and sent out a text.
“Yeah, lets go.” He muttered. We got into a cab and made it back into the hotel.
"So what did you want to talk about?" He asked as he closed the room door behind us.
“Look...what happened at the party was not okay.” I started, “You’re becoming too possessive.”
"What do you mean?" He asked.
“You overreacted about everything!” I said, “With what happened with Andy and Jake.”
"No I didn't overreact there," he defended himself, "you were out of order flirting like that!"
“What?” I asked confused, “I was not flirting!”
"You really were!" He said, starting to get frustrated, "you all had your hands all over each other!"
“With who? Andy?” I asked, “We don’t see each other that way! We were only joking around and then yeah.. It just happened.”
"Whatever!" He said, "you didn't see yourself, it was embarrassing."
“Uh being completely topless in front of people who I don't know is embarrassing enough for me!” I said, “Which, by the way, wouldn't have happened if you didn't make me wear that tee shirt!”
"Why'd you think I told you to wear it?" He asked.
“It got in the way.” I shrugged. “It provided something for Andy to grab...other than me.”
"But he still did, and I didn't see you complaining about it!" He raised his voice.
“Because I knew it was an accident!” I said raising my voice as well, “It was innocent. He was just trying to cover me up.”
"Whatever!" He said, "you need to stop embarrassing me while we're out."
“You need to stop trying to tell me what to do.” I warned, “Everyone is starting to talk about us. You’re the only one who's embarrassing yourself.”
"What do you mean?" He asked annoyed, "you've been telling people about us?"
“I’m not telling anyone anything.” I said, “I dont need to. Especially after the way you snatched me off of Jake in front of everyone.”
"I done that to stop you from making a fool out of yourself!" He shouted, "don't you see that?"
“I don’t see what I did wrong..” I said double guessing myself. “Everything that happened could’ve been worse.”
"You were flirting with one of my friends, my band mates!" He said, "you're supposed to be my girlfriend!"
“I was not flirting!” I yelled frustrated, “Stop saying that! Why would I try to ruin things since we barely back together?”
"I don't know," he said rubbing his face, "maybe I'm not enough for you anymore!"
“So I’m not allowed to have friends now?” I asked, “Are you gonna ban me from seeing Andy like you banned me from Ben?”
"Leave him the fuck out of this!" He shouted, "Ben can fuck off, and I can try!"
“Well thats not going to happen!” I argued and tried to be brave although he looked really intimidating, “Just so you know, I can talk to whoever I want, including Ben..”
"No!" He said, "I draw the line at him! He just wants to take you away from me! And I've nearly lost you too many times to lose you to him!"
“You might end up losing me either way if you keep acting like this!” I threatened as he stared at me in shock, “You can’t keep me away from everyone just because you get jealous. You have to trust that I wouldn’t hurt you again. I regret doing what I did and I love you too much to even think about risk losing you again.”
"You know I don't want that either," he said, "every part of me is telling me I need to protect you, and that's what I'm doing, in the only way I know how, I don't know any other way than to keep you close to me."
“I promise I won’t go anywhere anytime soon.” I said feeling a little bad, “But you gotta loosen up! Get floppy..” I snickered and he smirked.
"That's a problem I don't have." He said as his serious face returned, "but loosening up, I'm not too sure I can do, not after seeing you laying there close to death in that basement." I sat on the bed as I remembered that day. I looked down at my arms.
“That’s probably an image that will always be in your head, huh?” I asked as I looked up at him again. I felt horrible knowing that he saw me like that. Just a breath away from dying right before his eyes.
"Yeah," he said, "I honestly thought I had lost you for good, I beat the shit out of Jacob cuz I thought he'd killed you. I realised then that I couldn't live without you in my life. I might have become possessive but I don't know how to turn it off anymore." I stood up and hugged him.
“Thank you for everything.” I said in his chest, “I’m so sorry for everything that I’ve put you through.”
“Not all of it was your fault.” He said, “Just that some people can’t keep their hands off what’s not theirs.” I snuggled up into his side a bit more, the last thing I remember, before sleep took hold, was him kissing the top of my head.

Notes

So here's the next chapter, a bit late, as usual, but meh, we've been busy.

So has anyone see the trailer for Danny Worsnop's new film? The Devils Carnival 2? I really wanna see it, have seen on of the films made by the same people, Repo! The Genetic Opera, and if that's anything to go by then it's gunna be an awesome film, I've not seen the first film yet though, of the Devils Carnival films, but it looks like its gunna be a gory and so good lol. Have had the Repo soundtrack stuck in my head since I watched it, it's got Antony Head (Giles from Buffy, and King Uther from Merlin), Sarah Brightman (the original Christine Daae from the West End production of The Phantom of the Opera, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's wife), Alexa Vega (the girl from Spy Kids) and the guy who played Montague in Baz Lurhmans Romeo and Juliet.

Anyway enjoy this chapter
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