Stepping into ashley's house after about a twenty to half an hour ride, you proceeded to look around at the room as ashley turned on some lights.
"So this is where you live?" You speak distantly, like you wherent really paying attention to what you where saying.
"Yeah. It's not huge but it's not small." He says, dropping his bass guitar on the nice looking sofa.
"Hm.." you reply, ending the conversation.
"Okay so follow me." He says, gesturing for you to come to him.
"Ash are you gonna murder me?" You adk, funky serious.
"What? Of course not! Why would you say that?" He asks, suprised by how casual you where about asking the quiestion.
"Well, you are leading me down a dark hallway soo.." you say matter of factly.
"Well...I'm not!" He says, bewildered from your....oddness? If you will.
"So where are we going?" You ask.
"My bedroom" He replies in a cuasul tone.
"So soon don't you think?" You joke, earning a smirk and an eye roll from him.
After a moment of walking side by side, you reach a room that has a bed with rather nice and comfertable looking blankets, a wood chair, a wood nightstand which held a small desk lamp that was currently off, and many different guitars
"Wow. Can I live with you?" You joke.
"Only if you pay rent." He replies jokingly.
"Here," He says, handing you a white with black stripes bass guitar while he grabbed himself what appeared to be a black bass(The top photos. First photo is the one he gave you the second is the one he grabbed for himself.)
He pointed for you to sit down on the chair that was now facing, and rather close, to the bed.
Sitting down on it and situating the strap to rest on your shoulder, ashley had put his guitar down on the bed and kneeled in front of you.
"Okay so let's start with an A" He says, taking your left hand in his softly and positioning your fingers in the right spot as he told you how to do it.
"Okay good! Now, strum." He says and you move you thumb across the strings of the guitar, rather unsure of how your supposed to strum.
"Good! Now, take your fingers off of the strings and put them back on A." He instructs and you do so with a bit of help.
His touch was rather gentle which yU found comforting, it actually reminded quite a lot of how Sam, you older brother, used to be around you. He was always gentle, comforting, and warm. He always felt safe. You took comfort in it. And, oddly, this made you not mind ashley touching you (don't even think about it like that. Get your head it of the gutters.)
You caught on rather quick. Even though you never talked to people, kept to yourself and had a ton of problems, you where rather smart when it came to learning things such as lines, chords, songs, etc.
Within a half an hour you had learned the chords: A, B, C, G, F, D6, C7, AM7, and GM along with some beats and such, also the chords he used for f/bvb/s (favorite black veil brides song) so you had learned a bit of it, not to mention he tought you how to tune it, and change strings.
"Alright, I think that that is enough from today, it's a lot to remember." He says after you both get done strumming the beginning of f/bvb/s.
"Okay. Thank you again for doing this, but I don't think I can feel my fingers anymore." You say, looking at the tips of your fingers with concern.
Ashley luaghs slightly and says, "Yeah they are probably gonna hurt for a day or two also.." He says.
"No. Ashley. You don't understand. I can't feel them. Like, totally numb! Ash I'm gonna have to get them removed! This isn't good! I need my finger tips! Excpessailky right now!" You say, slightly panicked.
"Y/n I promise that you will be fine. Come on, let's go get food." He says, putting his guitar back and carefully taking the one from you aswell.
"Ashley if I loose my fingers I'll strangle you! I swear to god!" You say, looking up at him with alarm.
"Okay. 1, you would put have the fingers to grab my neck, and 2, you couldn't reach my neck even on your tiptoes." He says with a slight luagh.
"Then I'll shoot you!" You say.
"Aww that's just mean." He says, giving you a small pout.
"Also I'm like a 4 inches shorter then you!" You say, realising that you are literally 5'5 and he is .I keep 5'8.
"Toché." He says and you roll your eyes.
"Com'mon, let's get some food before Andy picks you up."
" you are speaking like I'm a child and I don't appreciate it, Ash!" You say resentfully.
"Come on y/n you know I don't think that." He says and you huff.
"Fine. So what food? Also where is your girfreind?" You ask, not remembering if he had one or not at the moment.
"Urm...I dont Acutally have one so I don't know where she is. Also why did you askk?" He says, furrowing his eyes as he looks at you.
"I just couldn't remember if you had one or not and if you did, I wanted to know why she wasn't at your house." You reply.
"You know even if I did have a girlfriend that doesn't mean she would be living with me." He replies and you nod your head to the side in agreement.
It was strange to you. Usually you never felt this comfortable with anyone. No one but your family but that was so long ago...it felt weird.
You couldn't explain exactly why you where so comfertable around ashley. Was it truly just becuease his actions towards you resembled your brothers so much? Was it becuease he was just the kind of person that no matter who it was, everyone liked him? Even from where you didn't know any of them and was just simply a fan of their music and saw interviews he always made you smile when he would do something rediculous or silly, or simply just spoke so calmly. Really, the more you thought about it, the more you noticed how much his actions and tone truly did resemble your brothers. Perhaps that's why he made you happier then the others did? Simply becuease he reminded you so much of your brother. You really where close with your siblings. Really your whole family to be honest. But mostly your brother and sister.
Your brother even played guitar a little-
"Y/n are you okay? Why aren't you answering me?" It was ashley's vice that pulled you out of your thoughts and snapped your back into the harshness of reality.
"Hm? What? Sorry I wasn't listening I drifted off." You say, your eyes now focusing on Ashley.
"It's alright. As I was saying, Andy messaged me and said that he is gonna be like another hour and a half becuease he apparently got stuck in traffic on his way there for like a half an hour to an hour becuease there was a really bad accidint and he just got to the grocery store" He says.
"Oh. Okay, so...uh..what are we gonna be doing for that whole time?" You ask.
"We could watch a movie or something? What do you enjoy doing?" He asks.
"Ummm.....I dont know I mostly just sat at my house drinking and listening to music. I guess I drew a little too.." you say thiguhtfully, once again casually leaving out the part of where you also spent half the day cutting on various parts of your body.
"What did you draw?" He asks.
"Um..." you murmur, trying to remember what you really would draw.
"I guess like different characters, what the world would look like if everything was dead, my family and memories that I have of them, things I saw around my house." You say, naming the things as they came to mind.
"Wow, sounds like your probably a really good artist."
"Is that an attempt to mock me?" You say, your full attention falling back on to him.
"What?! No! Of course not! No it really sounds like your a good artist!" He says sincerely.
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Shut Off // Andy Biersack x Reader
Hayran Kurgureader has anger issues, depression, trust issues, anxiety attacks and many other problems. most of this started after she had lost her parents and siblings in a house fire. once she was forced to move in with her abusive aunt and uncle, things only...