Chapter 1

Unfolded Secrets

It was a hot and rainy night in August, and as usual, Ashley was sitting around on his bunk in the tour bus with his shirt off, reading a porno magazine featuring boobs all over the place, with beer and wine on the side, showing off his OUTLAW tattoo to the entire band if they were to walk by. Of course, he wasn't hiding his magazine from anyone. The curtain to his bunk wasn't closed – rather, it was open so anybody who passed by could see everything he was doing. That's how he was; open, deviant, and rebellious to the world and didn't give a fuck who saw it or if they did a damn thing about it. Of course, Andy was secretly watching him from across the aisle of the tour bus, sitting in his own bunk and hiding his blush with his arm draped over his cheeks to mask it, blushing only due to the fact that he was staring right at Ashley's tattoo, and the skin right under it that was shown because of his low-riding black leather skinny jeans. Eventually, Ashley started to notice that Andy was constantly staring over at him, and he looked up and over at him. "Hm? What is it Andy?" he said, causing Andy to close his eyes and blush a little more. "N-Nothing!" he quickly said to evade having to admit anything, and rather just pushed his face into his pillow.

Ashley could tell there was something up with Andy, because he was acting very strange and unlike his usual behavior, was acting very shy and jumpy. "Andy, come over here and tell me what's up. You're acting so jumpy and shy tonight.." he said, pointing out Andy's obvious behavioral problems compared to how he usually was. Soon as Andy sat down beside Ashley, he was sitting in an odd fashion – he was hunched over, his knees to his chest, obviously hiding something by his legs, and his eyes not making any sort of contact with Ashley's. "Andy, what are you hiding? Stop acting so weird!" he said, trying to unfold Andy and get him to sit up straight. When he finally got him to unfold and sit upright, he noticed that Andy was hard, and he coughed and looked down, then away. "Uh.. Andy? Why?" he asked after a solid minute of silence, to which Andy responded with a dark blush on his cheeks and stammers. "Uh-um.. N-Nothing, Ashley, n-nothing, o-okay?".

Immediately, Ashley could tell it was more than just nothing, otherwise he wouldn't be hard in the first place. He looked over into Andy's eyes, then closed the room to their bunk-room, locked it and went back to Andy, holding him down onto the bed. "What's causing that problem down there, Prophet?" he said, using Andy's sometimes stage name, which made Andy blush a bit more and look away. "You locked the door right? And you can keep a secret.. can't you?" he asked him, Ashley looking a bit curious and nodding his head in response. "Yeah, and I can, why?". "Look.. I've been trying to find a way to say this for months, and I haven't known how. I don't know how to say it, so I'm just going to say it.. because I want it out in the open and I want you to know.. I'm gay, and I like you, Ashley..." he said, his eyes closing and his head turning to face the other wall, Ashley's facial expression changing to show that of shock and surprise. "Really, Andy? Just how long has "months" lasted?" he asked Andy, sitting up and looking at Andy still. "Almost a year now.. Ever since you became a member of our band." he said, causing Ashley to lean down and hug him, soon feeling a kiss planted on his lips. "M-Mm?!" he muffled against Ashley's lips, pulling away to take a breath and stared into his eyes.

"A-Ashley, what are you doing?!" he asked, looking as if he'd seen a ghost. "Andy, I like you too. You would never guess from how I act, but I'm gay too, okay? I use all those magazines and stuff to hide it so nobody would ever have room to guess it about me.. I wasn't sure how anybody would react, so I didn't tell anybody.. I know why you didn't say anything either." he said, sighing as he watched Andy sit up and lean over to him, giving him a kiss to return the one Ashley had given him. "So.. The Deviant and The Prophet together as a couple. How about that? I like the idea.. honestly.." Andy said to him, smiling a half-smile. "I do too. I didn't get this OUTLAW tattoo for nothing..~" he said to Andy, smirking before taking his hand into his own slightly larger one. "Then that's what shall become of us. The Deviant and The Prophet." he added to his own sentence, smiling as he lay back to go to sleep. "You should go lay back in your own bunk. I know we have a casual bromance going in front of them but.. I don't want them to get the wrong idea.." he said, Andy nodding and going over to his own bunk, unlocking his door and giving Ashley one final kiss before making his way over. "Good night Ash.". "'Night Andy.".