Andy had been avoiding Shaun over the past few months, simply because he knew Shaun needed to sort his head out, Shaun regretted even telling him that because he missed Andy, he just wanted Andy to stay with him forever because he thought it through a dozen times, he wanted Andy to be his boyfriend and he wanted to do it right. That's the reason he kept trying to call him but he just won't answer any calls or texts and it's driving Shaun insane, he messaged Bradie asking if he had heard from Andy, which he had. So what was the god darn problem?
This drove Shaun insane enough to get in his car, driving all the way to Andy's. An hour fucking drive always worthwhile for Andrew-fucking-Clemmensen.
Shaun got out of his car and went to Andy's door, knocking a few times. Licking his lips with anticipation. Andy opened the door, dressed up in something he'd only wear to cup day, which made Shaun raise an eyebrow because it was far from cup day.
"What-"
"Shaun what are you doing here?" Andy acted stunned, awkward
"I need to talk to you, why are you dressed up?"
"I have a date.."
"What?" Shaun shrieked. Of course he was too late, he was mentally slapping himself.
"What? I found a girl who liked me and we've been going out for about a week"
"Great.." Shaun mumbled
Andy sighed "Did you need to tell me something? If so I'd rather you come inside"
Shaun walked in, turning to Andy, looking in his eye only caused Shaun to want to scream. He just wanted Andy to be his.
"So?"
"I love you.." Shaun said softly
"Dude I'm going on a date in 20 minutes, and you said you wouldn't ask for sex anymore"
"No! Andy, I, love, you"
It took Andy a second before his smile faded "oh.." Andy waited for the moment he'd say that with meaning, but he was too late, not late enough luckily.
"I love you too Shaun, I really do"
Shaun leaned in for a kiss, Andy looked down "why couldn't you tell me before?"
"I tried! For weeks! Andy" he grabbed Andy's hands "Andy I don't know what to do, you're all I want forever, please..." He rested his head on Andy's "tell me what you want to do, because I'm willing to give myself to you, and you're going for someone else—"
"No" Andy interrupted "I'm busy being yours to find someone new, but I tried, and now you tell me this"
"I'm sorry" Shaun breathed, kissing his forehead, Andy sighed "I have to break it off with Danni now, it'll be hard since she's become very fond of me" he looked at Shaun
"What changed your mind?"
"After seeing Brooke and Austin, it reminded me that it should be us, being a couple, doing couple things like brunch and breakfast in bed with a bit of naked morning-after cuddles...moving out into our own place with Thor, living as happy as we could be, I want you to be the one I settle down with. I couldn't care less about anything else; you've stuck around longer than anyone else I know. Andy, I love you, I really love you." Shaun rambled. Andy blushed and kissed Shaun lightly. "Go to my room, I'm going to sort it with Danni when she gets here...I love you too, you cheesy fuck" he laughed, smiling wide, Shaun smiled his cheeky happy smile before walking to Andy's room where he waited.
Andy opened the door to Danni, he was in his trackies now, whilst she was in her dress and high heels, her brown hair was up in a ponytail.
"Andy babe, why aren't you ready?"
"We need to talk" he bit his lip, her green eyes grew worried, she walked inside and sat on the couch, Andy sat across from her and sighed "something's come up, and I can't stay with you..." He straight out said it, she couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"What?"
"I'm in love with someone else"
"Right" she laughed, standing up "fuck you, Andy. I should've listened to every girl that warned me about you. Did you even think for a second that I was falling for you-"
"Honestly, no" Andy butted in casually "I was too busy loving someone else"
"Fuck you. We're done, don't ever come crawling back"
"Oh trust me. I won't" he chuckled "I like it up the ass" he confessed, taking a gulp of his beer, she looked at Andy in disgust and left, slamming the door. It was easier than Andy thought, he'd been with girls that caused a much bigger scene.
Shaun walked in awkwardly, making sure she wasn't there.
"She gone?" He asked
"for good" Andy smirked, looking over at Shaun from the couch. Shaun jumped over the couch and sat next to Andy, kissing his cheek.
"I love you..."
"I love you" Andy smiled wide
They spent the rest of the night watching the football with beers, Thor happily sleeping on Shaun's lap. For the moment, they were content, Andy's arm wrapped around Shaun. But he knew that tomorrow would be hard, as they said they'd come out to their parents, then Bradie, then Shaun's band...then to the rest of the world.
They woke up next to each other, for the first time in a while. Shaun's arms were wrapped around Andy, snuggling into him and that's all Andy ever wanted, for his eyes to open and see Shaun, holding him, no matter if he snored or had a sneaky fart (it happened) Shaun still cuddled and kissed him. That was when Andy realised his whole life was leading up to the moment where he'd wake up next to him.
"Goodmorning" Andy sheepishly smiled, Shaun closed his eyes and smiled back, groaning.
"morning"
Andy poked Shaun's cheek "wake up"
Shaun whined "no"
"up!"
"no!" he smiled wide, Andy laughed, pushing Shaun onto his back, leaning over to give him a kiss before getting out of bed.
"come on sunshine"
Shaun sat up, Andy giggled at how tired Shaun looked, along with his hair looked messier than usual. Shaun groaned and rubbed his face
"shut up"
-
"ready to do this?" Shaun asked Andy as he stared at his mum and step-dads house, nodding "yeah, definitely"
They walked up the driveway, Shaun patted one of their cats on the way to the door. He was avoiding any reason to reach that door, he was terrified because he grew up around these guys, now they were going to find out he was fucking their son.
"Andrew! It's so good to see you" his mum smiled, hugging him tight, Andy laughed.
"hey mum"
"Shaun, I haven't seen you in a while either"
"yeah I know" Shaun laughed, his hands in his pockets "about three years"
"well it's good to see you" she smiled. She had Andy's smile, but her eyes crinkled more than his. Shaun never noticed that before.
"mum is Gerald home?" Andy asked, he wouldn't even look at Shaun in this moment. He was terrified too.
"yeah darl he's just in his study, go sit on the couch boys, I'll get him. Chris is in there too" She let them inside, walking down to Gerald's office. Shaun and Andy sat in the lounge, Chris went over to Andy with a large smile on his face.
"Andy!"
"hey little man, what you got there?" he asked, taking the paper from his hand.
"I was, I was painting a picture of me for school" he smiled proudly, even though the painting was just blotches of paint, Andy laughed.
"that's cute" he passed it back "do you remember Shaun?" he asked, pointing to him. Chris leaned into Andy, shrugging "sort of, but my heads not as good as it used to be" he replied, punching his head softly, Shaun laughed, causing Chris to laugh louder.
"well I'm Shaun"
"yes I know" Chris nodded "do you wanna see my little sister?"
"our" Andy corrected him.
"yeah whatever" he giggled "I'll be back"
he walked off as Andy's mum and Gerald walked in, Gerald smiled, that wide smile Bradie has.
"You boys better not be planning on getting the band back together"
"oh no, no!" Shaun shook his head
"dear god, no" Andy laughed
Chris came back, dragging the young girl with white-blonde hair into the room.
"no Christopher! I was playing, stoooop" She whined
"oi!" Andy smirked, Ashley gasped.
"Andy!" she ran up and jumped on him, giving him a huge hug before shying away into his neck as she noticed Shaun smiling at her.
"hey there" Shaun greeted, she smiled slightly
"hi. W-What's your name?" she asked
"I'm Shaun, what's your name?"
"Ashley"
Shaun chuckled at how gorgeous she was, Andy was more relieved because this was avoiding the whole point they came here, until...
"so why are you guys here? Strange enough that you two are even hanging together" Gerald wondered, sitting on the couch, his wife sitting on the arm of the couch. Ash walked off silently to her room, as if she had better things to do, Shaun and Andy shared a look before Andy's hand slowly grabbed Shaun's knee, looking at them.
"I-I got to tell you something"
"you're gay?" his mum's voice squeaked at the end, Andy licked his lips anxiously "i'd prefer bisexual" Shaun shuffled closer to Andy "look, over the past, year...a lot has changed, and it just so happened that me and Andy sort of...fell in love"
"I can't say I didn't see it coming" Gerald shrugged it off like no big deal "you boys shared a chemistry, and a bed whenever you came over, Shaun. It was always between you two, never Bradie."
"that's true" his mum agreed. Andy was secretly shitting himself, grabbing Shaun's knee tighter, Shaun put his hand on his back, assuring him it was okay.
"Andy, honey, there is nothing wrong with being gay—"
"bisexual"
"whatever, I am your mother, either way at the end of the day, I will love you...I'm more worried about grandchildren"
Andy was suddenly relieved, but rolled his eyes "mum, you have a lot of kids to carry the family name. And if me and Shaun wanted kids, we'd get a surrogate"
"suppose that's true" she laughed "we love you"
they both stood up, as did Shaun and Andy and they all hugged each other and had a cup of coffee, nothing really felt any different, Andy was so happy that they accepted him for who he was.
By the time they sat on Shaun's parents' couch and asked for a conversation alone, Shaun's brothers decided to join. Great, Shaun thought, exactly what I needed.
"so, what did you need to say?" his dad asked, Shaun didn't know how to say it and felt pretty exhausted from telling Andy's family. But this was his family, so he just said it.
"Andy's my boyfriend, we're together"
Shaun's mum chuckled "bit late for April fools don't you think?" the rest of his family stayed quiet
"no I am not joking mum, me and Andy are together"
"really?" she asked
"really" Andy spoke up,
"tell me something I didn't know" Luke inputted, taking a bite out of a biscuit he was eating
"what's that suppose to mean?"
He pointed to Liam "we went on tour with you, god, if Brooke where to have known—"
"oh shut the fuck up" Shaun scowled.
"son, are you really serious?" his dad asked, he nodded. Andy thought he was more terrified than Shaun at this moment.
"okay"
"okay?"
"what else can I say? You're almost 26, you're an adult, I have no right to voice my opinions on your love life"
"I agree with your dad, Shaun. You didn't need to do this, you could've just called. We honestly wouldn't have cared less"
"really?"
"yes really"
"plus, it's kind of obvious, you guys are stuck together like glue" Liam added, Andy still felt awkward, like they were only being nice because he was there.
They didn't come across as welcoming as Andy's family, which really peeved Shaun off because it was disrespectful to Andy, but it didn't matter now, they knew and that was the end of it.
They got to Shaun's and called up Bradie. Shaun passed Andy a bottle of beer as Andy put it on speakerphone. They started drinking till the ringing stopped.
"Hello?"
"Bradie, hey it's Andy"
"what do you want? You can't be drunk in Sydney at 4pm on a Tuesday" Bradie spoke with that sassy tone of his, causing Andy to give him a bitch face through the phone.
"Bradie I'm not drunk"
"then this must be really important" he spoke more serious now
"yes, Bradie I have Shaun here"
"oh, hey Shaun!"
"hey Bradie" Shaun laughed, the more people they told, the less he seemed to care.
"anyway, we wanted to let you know we're dating and no, this is not a joke"
Bradie laughed in disbelief "really? And it took you how long? Wow, congrats Andy"
"I did my best" Andy laughed, Shaun was suddenly confused, did Bradie always know?
"took you six years and here you are. I'm happy for you two"
"thank you" they both said. So he did know.
"anyway, I better go. Got a few things to do"
"okay, talk to you later"
"sure thing, bye"
"bye"
he hung up, Andy looked at Shaun "do we have to tell your band now or what?"
"nah" Shaun shook his head "let's tell the world" he laughed, Andy smiled. He couldn't believe how quickly Shaun went from being afraid to wanting to tell the whole world. It really was amazing.
They came out on the internet and of course, everyone blew up, 'Shandy' haters were happy for them but also embarrassed with themselves, as for the 'shippers', they were apparently squealing and crying happy tears. Many others thought this meant Short Stack were getting back together, which the boys didn't quite understand since all Shaun did was post a photo with Andy kissing his cheek, captioning it 'it's happened #shandy' and had to assure many people that it wasn't a joke and it only took half an hour for an article to be released. Andy didn't even want to look at his twitter, not that he really did anyway.
They felt exhausted by the time they got to bed, they looked at each other and smiled. Shaun stroked Andy's cheek and leaned over, kissing him gently. Whenever their lips brushed, Andy still felt those butterflies he felt when they first kissed. And when Shaun pulled away, their eyes still met like two oceans meeting in the middle of the sea.
"I hope this lasts forever" Shaun admitted
"probably will" Andy laughed softly "you know what they say about gay couples. Plus, I aint going anywhere"
"hm, I love you" Shaun grinned, kissing Andy again, tenderly, Andy's arm wrapped around Shaun's body, pulling him closer before pulling away from his lips with a soft smile.
"I love you too, always"