It's Complicated (A Black Veil Brides Love Story)

Telling the Guys

*The Next Day*

*Riot's POV*

After we got off the phone with CC last night, we started packing clothes into our drawstring bags. Echo's was a black Blood on the Dance Floor bag with neon blue straps and mine was a black Black Veil Brides bag with hot pink straps. We always carried them everywhere and they were the biggest bags we had other than our zebra and cheetah print duffel bags. (A/N: Yes, we actually do have these bags, but not the zebra/cheetah print ones. I have a zebra one, but I don't know if she actually has a cheetah one or not.)

Neither of us talked this morning. We sat silently in the kitchen eating breakfast and tracing the patterns in the wood with our eyes. I had three pieces of nutella toast and Echo had a pop-tart. It was hard for us to stomach the food, even before we found out about the baby.

After breakfast, we both got dressed in all black, then went to the bathroom and started straightening our hair and doing our makeup. We still hadn't said a word to each other.

When I finished with my eyeliner and mascara, I put everything away and sighed. Echo was still working on straightening her hair when I started talking.

"So have you thought about how you're going to tell him?"

She sighed and set her straightener down on the counter. "Kinda, but not really. I can't really think of anything that won't scare him or make him want to leave me."

"Well, why don't you just kinda hint at it? Like we could tell them to take us to Walmart really quick and we can get some baby toys or something like that."

I watched as a smile formed on her face as she thought about the idea. "That's actually not bad. I was thinking that we could cook dinner for them and use things like baby carrots and baby back ribs," she looked at me hopefully.

"That's even better than my plan!" We both laughed as our apartment buzzer went off. "That's probably them!" Echo picked up her straightener and I ran to the door. I answered the buzz by hitting the little intercom button. "Come on up!" I pushed the unlock button and ran back to the bathroom.

Echo was just starting to put on her eyeliner when I walked through the open door. "Almost ready! Are they on their way up?" she asked.

"Yeah they should be up in a minute. Don't even bother with mascara. Just finish the eyeliner and put on some chap-stick or something, okay?" I heard a loud knocking on the door and smiled.

I ran out of the bathroom and fixed my shorts so they weren't too short and opened the door. I laughed so hard that I almost fell to the ground and hit my head. CC had a smiling Andy on his back and Ashley had a sleeping Jinxx on his back. Jake was standing in between them, making sure nobody fell over. They were all wearing black pants with white shirts, which looked kinda awkward to me, but they all still looked really really attractive.

"Riiiiiooooooooottttttttt!!!!!!!!" Andy whined. "Why are you laughing!? It's not funny!" His voice was all nasaly from him being sick and it made me laugh even more. "Riot, STAAAAAAAAHHP!!!!!!"

I laughed even harder and moved out of the way so they could come in. Ashley walked in first and went straight the the couch so he could put Jinxx down. I heard him start snoring as soon as Ashley lowered himself to sit on the floor next to the couch. Jake walked in next--more like he ran in. He went straight to the kitchen and started opening random cupboards.

"CC! Come in here!" I heard Echo scream from the bathroom. He sprinted in the small apartment and Andy jumped off of his back before CC could drag him into the bathroom with him. Andy stood next to me and smiled as he shut the door with his foot.

"Hello, beautiful," he whispered. It came out all crackly and I giggled. He started pouting and walked over to the little reclining chair next to the couch. I laughed again as he put his feet up on the little wooden coffee table.

I slowly made my way over with a huge smile on my face and sat on his lap. "What, no kisses?"

"Nope," he replied. "I'm sick, silly."

"So am I. Plus I was probably the one who got you guys sick in the first place," he smiled and shrugged at me.

I repositioned myself so that my head was on his shoulder. I felt his arms snake around my hips and I let a small shiver run up my spine. I watched him smile and lift his head up slightly so that our lips met. Even though he was sick, his lips still felt amazing against mine.

I pulled away when I heard Echo laughing loudly. When I looked up, CC was carrying her upside-down out of the bathroom. I giggled and put my head back on Andy's shoulder as CC and Echo sat on the floor by Ashley. Jake finally joined us and sat right in front of the coffee table, with a pop-tart in his hand.

"So, we figured we'd cook for you guys tonight," Echo said after she finished laughing.

I heard a few comments said through the room along the lines of 'What are we having?' and smiled. "It's a surprise," I said. "You'll find out soon enough, boys."

I laughed when all of the guys--minus Jinxx--sighed. I was expecting a comment from Andy, but when I looked at him, he was sound asleep. I giggled quietly and kissed his cheek before removing his arms from my hips and standing up. Echo got up with me and we walked towards the door.

"Alright, we need to go to Walmart really quick to pick up a few things for dinner. Please try not to destroy the place while we're gone!" I said to the guys.

 Too involved with watching Spongebob, they all muttered random responses that I couldn't hear. Echo laughed and I rolled my eyes. We walked out the door and outside to the car. It was still only around noon so the sun was extremely bright.

The whole drive to Walmart, I couldn't help worrying about the small apartment and what they might do to it. I'm sure it can't be that bad . . .

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Not sure if I ever mentioned it, but it's like . . . Beginning of summer. Okay so . . . Yep . . . I'm working on a project for "The Great Gatsby" and I'm very stressed so sorry if my updates suck . . .