The Hand of Destiny

[A/N] Just gonna share this with you because it made me lol :P


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ANDY’S POV

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After I awoke earlier I managed to fall asleep again, that time I didn’t dream though. The next time I woke up it was to the alarm on my phone blaring - that was annoying considering it was Sunday…

I must have forgotten to disable it the night before; you’d think I would have learnt by now considering the painful amount of times I’ve been rudely awoken by my phone on a lie-in day.

Since I was fully awake now I decided I may as well get up. It usually takes me ages to wake up in the mornings but as my phone selects a random song from my library to use as an alarm, I woke up to ‘Diamonds Aren’t Forever’ by Bring Me The Horizon on full volume. I am now very, VERY awake.

I stretched my arms and legs as I lazily threw the covers off my body, not bothering to straighten them out from the bundle they landed in on the end of the bed.

I walked to my bathroom and winced as my bare feet hit the tiled floor. I always forget how cold they are in the morning.

Afterwards, I brushed my teeth and took a quick shower; briefly enjoying the soothing feel of warm water cascading down my body.

I wrapped a towel around my waist when I was done, good thing to because when I wandered back into the living room I heard a knock on the door. I would have just quickly disappeared back into the bathroom and let Jinxx answer the door if it wasn’t for the fact that I could hear Jinxx snoring softly from his room.

I ran my fingers through my wet hair quickly and gripped the edge of my towel before opening the door, I didn’t want it falling down half way through talking to whoever’s at the door (seriously, it’s happened before and I do NOT want a repeat of that. Ever.)

I pulled the door open expecting to see Jake, who I knew was coming round later (he’s rather early though, Jinxx isn’t even awake yet!) So I was surprised when I saw Ashley standing there.

Damn he looks good today, seriously, I tell him it would be better if we stay friends and he dresses in a way that makes me want him more?! That’s just mean…

He was wearing black leather skinnies that hugged his legs (and hopefully his ass – I’ll have to check when he turns around) and a skinny sleeveless jacket which was open and showed off his flat stomach.

“Hey” he said with a smirk, probably because he noticed me staring.

“Hey!” I said blushing, tearing my eyes away from his chest.

“Nice outfit” he said and nodded towards my waist.

Wait, what?

I looked down and realised I was still only wearing a towel.

Oh God, kill me now…

“I’m just gonna go change quick” I said, eager to get to my room and change.

He just smiled lazily at me, “No need to rush, I’m not in a hurry”

I pulled the door to in my room and threw the towel on the floor, quickly putting on boxers and the first jeans I could grab hold of that looked clean. I got out a Motley Crue t-shirt and put that on as well, it was too big on me but oh well I like it.

I decided that no matter how quick I was trying to get ready, there was always time for eyeliner (even if I did have to put it on in such a hurry that I probably looked like a mad child rubbing a Crayola on their face).

As soon as my eyeliner looked reasonable, I gave my hair a quick rub with the towel - trying to get it at least a little dryer - then went back into the lounge to find Ashley stretched on my couch mucking about with his phone.

He looked up at me and smiled that sexy little smile of his when he saw me return. Immediately, he moved his legs from one end of the couch so I could sit down next to him.

“So, what’s up?” I asked, curious as why Ashley was here this early in the morning without calling first. Not that I had a problem with him just popping by or anything, it’s just he’s usually more of a check-before-coming-over guy.

“I was wondering if you wanted to go out for breakfast or something” He asked, casually as fuck.

“Um.. Okay” and yes, and I did make a decision half way through the sentence, problem?

“Brilliant, I know the best coffee house, it will blow your young mind!”

I giggled. (Yes giggled, once again, problem?)

“Let us depart then, to the establishment that is in high standing in the mind of Mr Purdy - top connoisseur of the coffee beverage!” I yelled as I jumped off the seat, pointing towards the door as I did.

Thank god he laughed, I was momentarily afraid I’d creeped him out a bit.

I grabbed my hoodie from it’s place on the floor by the door (I don’t own a coat-rack okay? Not like I have actual coats anyway, hoodies and sleeveless leather is all you need!) and headed out, following Ashley for promised delicious caffeinated treats.

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“And I’d typed it all out.. and I was like.. actually doing it right for once… and then!” he had to stop his story for a second to laugh. We’d been sitting in this coffee shop for over an hour now (and yes, as promised, the coffee was phenomenal) just talking. It was kind of shocking how little we knew about each other after these last few weeks. I really enjoyed talking to Ashley actually, it was easy, enjoyable and we didn’t run out of things to talk about. We were sharing embarrassing stories and I’m not gonna lie, it was fucking hilarious. Ashley was telling me about the first time he tried dirty-talk-texting and by the sounds of it, it didn’t go well…

“So I’d got all this stuff on there.. and I hit send.. and then it came up with that little sent screen you get.. you know the one? and then I realised.. I’d accidently sent it to my mum!”

I lost any sanity I had managed to retain and laughed so hard I fell sideways in my chair because seriously, oh my god!

“You’re kidding!” I said, oh God that’s just so much of a fail!

“No joke. Seriously dude, who would joke about that?” he asked, grinning like a mad man.
I wiped the tears of laughter from my eyes, probably smearing the eyeliner I had spent so much time worrying over earlier. Honestly though? I couldn’t care less.

“Okay, okay, I got one! So I was in this fish and chip shop right, and I wanted one of their sausage things but I couldn’t see any in the glass-counter-display-thing they had. So I turned to the man behind the register and very sincerely asked…”

I let out a short burst of laughter I was having trouble holding in and Ashley leant forward.

“What did you ask?”

“I very sincerely asked the man if he had a jumbo sausage.”

Then we were gone, laughing so much that the waitresses started shooting us filthy glares for making so much noise.

“That’s not even the whole thing! Of course, being me I couldn’t just shut up so I started apologising and was like ‘Well that came out wrong, sorry, I wasn’t enquiring about your... sausage area…’ and by now the whole chippy was laughing at me and I resembled a member of the beetroot family and just, oh my God it was soooo embarrassing!”

We talked like this for a while, simply enjoying being in each other’s company. Too soon for my liking though I had to head back, Jake was due to be coming round soon so we could work on some band stuff. As we paid and went to leave I noticed something and tapped Ashley on his arm to get his attention.

“Hey Ash, nice moustache”

“What?” He reached up to touch his upper lip and quickly pulled his hand back when it came into contact with the cream from his drink.

“Oh lovely” He said before using his tongue to clean his top lip.

I left the little coffee house feeling really happy and my good mood was still strong and present when I arrived home. Last night I was worried that Ashley was going to ignore me but in-fact he did quite the opposite.

Maybe this friends thing could work out, and yeah, I still got those feelings of wanting something more in my stomach when I was with him, but I could deal with it if it meant still being able to hang out with him. At least until I can sort out this whole worry in my head about a Craig situation repeat. It's not that I don't trust Ashley, it's that I don't want to always be second-guessing the situation in my head. He deserves to be with someone who has their feelings clear. Right now I can't give him that, but I hope i'll be able to soon.

Jinxx was up now and in the kitchen making a (frankly quite questionable looking) sandwich. For the first time in a long while I came home smiling. What made me smile more though was thinking about the person who made me feel like this.