We'll Be Each Other's Saviours

Chapter Thirteen

"No time to explain. CC, what happened to Ashley?" I frantically asked, tears threatening to fall.

CC stared blankly at me, seeming to have returned to his dazed state. Jake then stepped up and told us what had gone down. "Ash was hanging out with some chick called Nikki and went to go to the bathroom. She got worried and came to get us when he'd been gone for half an hour. Ceece broke the door down when he saw blood coming from under it and we found Ashley lying on the ground. He tried to kill himself." I pressed myself into Andy, knowing almost for sure that I was probably the reason he had done it. Ashley had been really cold towards me lately.

It was then that a woman with huge fake looking boobs and lips to big for her narrow face rushed out of the bar and up to the stretcher. "Ashley? How are you babe?" She asked him, grabbing his hand, failing to notice that he was completely passed out. She must be Nikki.

"Excuse me please, we have to load him into the ambulance," a paramedic told us, moving us back. "Is anybody here family?"

"I'm his girlfriend," Nikki said. Our jaws hit the ground and we looked at her like she had just grown another head. Even CC was snapped out of his trance at that.

"GIRLFRIEND?" We all said in unison. She just gave us a strange look and stepped up into the ambulance after Ashley.

"You guys are free to follow us to the hospital," the paramedic said to us. He hopped up into the ambulance and it took off towards the hospital, it's lights and sirens blaring. We hailed a cab and all squeezed into it, me having to sit in Andy's lap, which I didn't mind.

We made it to the hospital and had to sit in the waiting room before we could see Ashley four hours later. It was like when Andy was in the hospital when he tried to...

Just then the nurse came out and said that Ashley was awake and in stable condition. Nikki was already with him. She said that two other people could go back and the guys said that Andy and I could go. We followed the nurse back to his room and stepped through the doors. We saw Ashley and Nikki laying on the hospital bed together, Ashley's arm around Nikki and her head pressed into the crook of his neck. It was something I never thought I would see.

"So, you managed to tame Mr. Player, huh?" I said jokingly, trying to lighten the mood.

Their eyes snapped up and landed on Andy and I. Well, Ashley was mostly focused on me. I pursed my lips and made my way over to Ashley, sitting down on the edge of the bed while Andy sat in the chair next to the bed. "What happened Ashley?" Andy asked quietly, scratching the back of his head. Ashley squeezed Nikki tighter into his chest, obviously trying to keep up his tough guy demeanor and trying not to cry.

"I can't tell you," he said quietly, shaking his head. I tried to meet his eyes but he was looking at everything except me, and that gave me a good idea of what had happened.

"Hey guys, can I talk to Ashley alone?" I asked them. Nikki narrowed her eyes at me but nodded, pecking Ashley on the lips before getting up and leaving. I heard her high heeled feet clicking all the way down the hallway and into the waiting room. Andy stood up and kissed my cheek. He gave Ashley a bro hug and then left as well.

"So, mind telling me what's up?"

Ashley still wouldn't meet my eyes, instead looking down at his bandaged wrists. "Hey," I said, grabbing the top of his head and making him look at me. "What. Happened."

Then the dam broke."WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK HAPPENED?! I SAW YOU AND ANDY BEHIND THAT TOUR BUS. THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME! NOT HIM! ME."

I was taken aback by his outburst and was silent for a few moments. I'd had a suspicion that this was the the cause of Ashley's actions but I hadn't been sure until now.