Ribcage- Andy Biersack/ Black Veil Brides

Chapter 32

"Looks like Mum and Dad went out." Andy states as he and Delia enter the empty house. "Nevermind, um, right the stairs here can be a bit of a pain because there isn't really anything to hold on to. We'll leave the bags here and I can carry you up to my room and then I'll come back for the bags in a minute."

"I'm sure I can manage to crawl up the stairs without a hand rail Andy." Delia laughs as she carefully sets her backpack down on the floor.

"I don't care you're not taking that risk." Andy declares before carefully picking Delia up in his arms like he had done so many times already; it had almost become natural to Andy at this point. Holding Delia in his arms felt right and like home.

Andy had been wanting Delia to meet his parents since he spoke to them again and he knew his Mum was extremely excited to meet Delia; after all, Amy just wanted to see him happy. Andy had also come up with the idea of wanting to see how Delia would respond to a new place that she did not know after all that had happened. He had been researching PTSD and took note of some of the signs to look out for so that he could best help Delia, one of them being that new and unknown places could become stressful and hard to adjust to. As much as Andy wanted Delia to come to LA with him, he also wanted what was best for her. At least by only visiting his parents' house, if she responded negatively and found it too stressful, her parents were a 20 minute drive away.

Entering Andy's room, Delia was immediately met by the many Batman posters that covered the walls, it made Delia chuckle slightly at the thought of a younger Andy being just as Batman obsessed as he is now.

"What's funny?" Andy asks in confusion.

"It's just cute to see that you've always been Batman obsessed." Delia grins looking at him.

"Oh, um, yeah. He's always been my favourite, I used to own the majority of the comics too." Andy explains awkwardly before scratching the back of his neck "Knowing my luck, Mum will bring out the embarrassing baby photos of me later and I can guarantee many of them will be of me in some form of Batman suit or Batman outfit."

"Andy, it's adorable." Delia reassures him as she proceeds to sit on the bed to take the pressure of the crutches off her broken ribs; she then looks at Andy in a teasing manner. "Although I can't wait to see these apparent embarrassing photos, I bet sweet, innocent little Andy is super cute."

"Oh behave it you." Andy winks whilst grinning like an idiot "I'm going to get the bags up, I won't be long."

After watching Andy walk out of the room, Delia let out a long sign before carefully laying on one side of the double bed that occupied Andy's childhood room. It was hard for her to imagine Andy living here and being happy, she still found it hard to believe that he had changed his ways at times. Yes, Delia would admit that she fell for Andy faster than she would like to confess, but she had a feeling Andy may have fallen harder than her, after all, he was so adamant on not wanting to date and here he was; he wanted to take care of Delia's every whim and make sure she was okay, he was protective and recently he had been smiling more than she had ever seen him smile on tour. In fact, Delia questioned if she'd ever seen him smile on tour when he was with the group and not playing an act for the fans. Maybe this was all part of the act as well? Maybe there was some truth in her nightmare; maybe Andy just pitied her and was pretending to care.

"What are you thinking about?" Andy asks softly after he had climbed onto the other side of the bed to lay beside Delia. When Andy had gotten there, Delia did not know, how long had he been there even?

"Nothing, nothing." Delia shakes her head slightly to try and get the thoughts out of her head.

"It was obviously something, you had that same look on your face that you always have when you're thinking about something or trying to sort something out." Andy explains as he carefully cups Delia's face to make her look at him.