I Thought I Could Never Love Again|Andley •a.u.•|

Chapter Two.

My breaths turned short and sharp once I realized I had purred in front of Ashley. Mewls of worry and panic erupted from me and tears welled in my eyes. "Andy! What is it? Are you ok?" Ashley started rubbing my back as my breathing started to return to normal. "A-Ash..." I stuttered and I looked at him. "I-I have t-to tell you something..." Worry filled his honey-brown eyes "What is it, Andy?" He asked me with the same amount of worry in his voice. I looked down and my ears twitched in different directions.

"You're a neko?" Ashley asked me, no longer in worry but in fascination. He was ok with this? I looked up at him with a simple nod. I flinched as I felt a hand behind my ear, but soon turned into a fit of purrs when Ashley started to scratch me there. He laughed as he continued to do so. "A-Ashley.." I purred and he looked at me. "Yes, kitty?" I blushed at the nickname, "I still have to unpack. Where's my room?" I asked softly and bit my lip gently. I wanted to stop the purrs considering the fact that Ashley's dad was still here. "Oh right, forgot to show you that."

Ashley showed me to the extra room and I smiled. It had dark walls and carpeting. A desk stood on the wall from the left of the bed and there was a dresser. Next to the bed was a- Wait. Is that a spinny chair? It is!

I ran towards the chair and sat in it. Ashley laughed as I spun around in the chair and giggled. "Who knew you were so childish." He said and brought my neglected luggage into the room and sat on the, well, my bed.

"Jag är väldigt barnslig."("I am very childish.") I said with a small giggle. "Andy... I don't know what that means!" Ashley whined to me and that's when it hit me that I had spoken Swedish. "Oops. Sorry. I said 'I am very childish.'" He made an 'o' sound and I laughed. "You just have to get to know me better." I shrugged and got off the chair.

"So. What shall we do today?" I said, plopping myself onto my bed next to Ashley. He scratched me behind my ear and I purred. "Well, now that we're seeing each other in person, maybe we can have our first 'official' practice? I can call my friends over and you can all meet each other." Ashley suggested and I smiled. "Ok, let me get out my notebook." I said and got up. I walked over to my carry-on bag and pulled out a green notebook. Ashley ran off to his room to grab his bass so I flipped through the pages to find my song, Knives and Pens.

Ashley returned and sat on the bed besides me. "Ready?" He asked and I nodded. He started playing the chords that we had came up with and I smiled.

"Alone at last we can sin and fight."

"And I've lost all faith in this blurring light."

"Stay right here, we can change our plight. Storming through this, despite what's right."

We continued to practice the song and Ashley smiled at me as I screamed the last words.

"We tried our best. Turn out the light. Turn out the light."
"That was awesome, Andy!" Ashley exclaimed and I smiled. "I wrote another song recently..." I said and looked at the notebook. "Well then, let's here it!" I smiled at his enthusiasm and looked for the song.

"We're born into the night like, children of the damned."

"And our pain will shine our light to, those who understand."

I looked at Ashley to see him messing with his bass strings. I suppose he's coming up with the chords.

"Born into the night. Pain will shine our light."

"Whoa-oh-oh. Whoa-oh-oh. Sink your teeth into forever."

"Whoa-oh-oh. Whoa-oh-oh. Sunlight burns, children surrender."

"An exercise of life to cut, beneath our hands."

I continued singing as Ashley kept messing with the chords. By the time I was done, Ashley was playing the chords he had came up with. I smiled at him, "That sounds cool." I said and he smiled. "Really?" I nodded. "Ok, well then let's write them down." He exclaimed as he grabbed a pen and paper.

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A few more songs later, Ashley called his friends over and now we were all sitting in Ashley's basement.
"So, Andy, you're from Sweden?" Jake- one of Ashley's friends- asked. I simply nodded in response and looked at Ashley. I wasn't ready to speak English in front of them yet and Ashley told me to take my time with it. "Now, we got some songs to present, don't we?" Ashley asked, grinning at me. Dammit Ashley! I sighed and stood up, along with Ashley.

I grabbed the mic that Ashley had on the table and looked around. Am I really sure that I want to sing... in front of them? I sighed and looked at Ashley once again with an unsure expression. He nodded with a genuine smile and that's all I needed. Then I remembered something important. I ran to Ashley and told him the song. Grabbing his bass, he started playing the chords he made for Children Surrender. I took in a deep breath and began to sing.

"We're born into the night like, children of the damned. And our pain will shine our light to, those who understand."

"Born into the night. Pain will shine our light."

Ashley played the chords as I prepared myself for the chorus. He soon joined in on the backing vocals along with me.

"Whoa-oh-oh. Whoa-oh-oh. Sink your teeth into forever. Who-oh-oh. Whoa-oh-oh. Sunlight burns, children surrender."

"An exercise of life to, cut beneath our hands. Like souls who missed their plight, we'll bleed along the sand."

"Born into the night. Pain will shine our light."

"Whoa-oh-oh. Whoa-oh-oh." This time, I was surprised at what I heard. Ashley was singing on the 'whoa' but so were the others. They had pick up on this fast.

"-Sunlight burns, children surrender."

I inhaled a deep breath of air as I prepared myself for the scream. I really hope I don't scare these guys because I don't know how I can play this song without this scream. Then again, I didn't scare them on the other screams..

Ashley played the whole time and I screamed on cued. "Yeah!"

The guys cheered at the sudden scream and just as quick, stopped as I began to sing again.

"Sink your teeth into forever...."

"Whoa-oh-oh. Whoa-oh-oh. Sink your teeth into forever. Whoa-oh-oh. Whoa-oh-oh. Sunlight burns, children surrender." We repeated the last chorus of the song a second time and then we we completed. I let out a sigh of relief that I had no idea that I was holding.

"And he speaks!" I heard CC joke and we all laughed. "Yeah, he's been able to speak English for a while. He doesn't really like to talk to anyone in English other than me since I did teach him in a way." Ashley informed them. My smiled widened when I was pulled into a sudden hug by CC.

"Welcome to the group, man!"

The rest of the guys came into the hug and I swear,

I was being squeezed to death.

They all pulled away while Ashley stayed beside me.

"Andy... you have to tell them." He whispered to me and my smile disappeared.

Notes

There shall be a double update today because I realized that I never posted this chapter on here! xD