I'll Always Let You In (Ricky Horror Fan Fic)

My Heart Is In This Fight

AN: Hello everyone! I am really sorry about not updating any of my stories. It's been a crazy school year for me. I was going to my high school half of the day and the local community college the other half of the day, so I had a ton of work. My English teacher gave us so much work to do. She would expect us to read a book in a week or two. With all my school work I just didn't have time to update. Then, my grandfather got really sick during the winter (he's recovering now for anyone who is wondering), so I was in charge of getting my grandmother to the hospital to see him and if you knew my grandmother, you would know how time consuming that was. When he was recovering from his first surgery, my great grandmother got sick and passed away. Most of my winter was spend driving to and from the hospital and visiting everyone in there. Then, there was a ton of senior stuff for my high school (meetings, graduation prep, senior research paper, etc). Also, I have an Etsy store (check out the link if you're interested, almost everything is band-themed and I try to keep prices down the shoes in the pictures are for sale) and I had to make time to fill orders. I really just didn't have the time this year and I was a little short on inspiration. This is one of my least favorite stories that I'm writing, so I kept putting it off. I have a really good idea now for what is to come for Liz and Ricky, though, so I'm hoping to update more often. I'm also hoping to be able to write my other stories more often now that school is out. I hadn't realized that I didn't update for almost a year with all this stuff going on. Again, I'm really sorry. Also, this story is dedicated to @XThatOneMisFitX for asking me to update. And enjoy the new Motionless song. I've been listening to it on repeat while writing this.

Song: Motionless In White - 570

Liz

    Ricky ended up spending the rest of the day hanging out at The Word Alive's merch tent with me. While it did gain some curious looks from fans buying t-shirts, I was glad to have his company. Motionless In White was playing last, which also made me happy. The tents usually packed up after all the other stages were done for the night, which was long before the last band played. This meant he was able to keep me company all day. Unfortunately, though, Ricky's presence did not keep Andy away all day. Don't get me wrong; I thought he was a nice guy. I just wanted time alone with Ricky. I could literally feel myself falling more and more for Ricky every minute I spend with him and I liked the feeling. I didn't want Andy to ruin it for me. Also, if andy really did like me like everyone was telling me, it would be an awkward conversation. I wasn't good at talking to people to begin with and adding on the fact that I had to focus on making it obvious that I wasn't interested in Andy made me ten times more awkward. I just wanted to be let alone with Ricky.

    "I feel like selling merch would be boring. All you do is count money and look for sizes all day," Ricky said, looking at all the shirts The Word Alive was selling this tour.

    "It's not the most interesting job, but tour is fun so its better than having a regular job," I replied. I enjoyed my job because I got to spend time with my friends and see the world for pretty much free. If that meant that I had to sell t-shirts and CDs, I was fine with that.

    Ricky was about to say something else when I saw Andy walking towards the tent. He shot me a smile as he stopped next to Ricky. Next to Ricky, Andy still looked like a giant. Ricky and I weren't very tall people.

    "You didn't come see us play yesterday," Andy said without even saying hello first. He also barely acknowledged Ricky's presence. I was actually started to think Telle and Paul might be right in thinking that Andy liked me even though I still didn't understand why.

    "Sorry. I didn't want to ask Paul to come for me two days in a row. Maybe I'll come later in the tour," I responded. I hadn't even asked Paul if he could watch the tent so I could go see Black Veil Brides. While I was a fan of the band and would like to see them, my job was more important. I shouldn't be going to see bands when I was needed at the tent. Paul had his own job and didn't need mine overtop of his.

    "I really was hoping you would come, though," he urged. Another reason I didn't want to go see Black Veil Brides play was because I was hoping it would make my feeling towards Andy very obvious. I mean, if I liked Andy back, assuming he did have a crush on me, I would have made the effort to come see him play, right? I thought my absence from their set would show Andy that I didn't have any romantic feelings for him, other than my faint fangirl crush of course, and make it clear that I did have feelings for Ricky. Obviously, though, my plan had not worked because Andy was still bothering me. Again, it wasn't that I disliked him; I just wanted to be with Ricky.

    "I'm sorry," was all I said even though I really didn't have anything to be sorry about. I didn't have to go see him play if I didn't want to.

    "You went to see Motionless play, though," he insisted. I couldn't tell if he was getting mad at me or if he was just joking around. I didn't want to make him mad. I had been nothing but nice to him since we met.

    "Ricky asked me first," I told him with a shrug. I wanted to added that I really liked Ricky, but I kept that part to myself. I really just wanted Andy to leave, but it didn't look like I was going to get my way.

    "I see who you like better then," Andy continued. Again, I still couldn't decipher if he was actually angry. I mean, if he wanted me to like him back, getting mad at me wouldn't help. It would only defer me from wanting to see him.

    I was going to apologize again just incase he actually was mad when Ricky spoke up. Ricky had toured with Andy before so he knew him better and probably could tell Andy was actually angry. "Look, she's busy, Andy. She doesn't have time to see every band because she has a job and if she doesn't want to see you guys she doesn't have to," he told Andy coldly. I was a bit taken aback by how outspoken Ricky had all of sudden gotten. The usually quiet, shy man I had a crush on had suddenly become an angry, defensive guy. It was kind of nice to know that he was willing to come out of his shell to defend me. He was cute when he got angry, but I thought he was cute when he did anything.

    "I know, but she obviously makes a lot of time for you. And this really doesn't have anything to do with you, Ricky," Andy responded. His outburst didn't surprise me like Ricky's did. I was only afraid now that they would get into a fight or something.

    "It does involve me since you decided to have this conversation right next to me. If she wants to spend time with you, she'll make time for you. Don't you have somewhere else to be?" Ricky snapped. I was thinking that I should intervene, but I wasn't sure how to. My shyness was taking over and all I could do was watch the two men in front of me fight over me.

    "I don't see why she wouldn't want to spend time with me. For some reason she likes you and I know I'm more interesting than you," Andy continued. Every comment that was made made me more worried that one of them would hit the other and I knew I had to stop this verbal fight before it escalate.

    "Can you guys stop?" I finally heard myself say. I had never been put in this situation before. I had never had two guys fighting over and I wasn't sure how to handle it.

    With that, Andy gave Ricky a dirty look before walking away and lighting up a cigarette. "Sorry about that," Ricky apologized, "he was just getting mad at you for no reason."

"It's ok. Thanks for standing up for me," I replied with a small smile. He shot me one of those killer grins in return. I know Andy was cool and everything, but how could I like him when I had Ricky?