A Second Chance • A.F. {#wattys2018}

Chapter 8

Andy

We were an hour into our journey and as much as I tried to sleep I just couldn't. Melody was on my mind and it broke me.

The scene played in my mind, her face, the way all hope left her, including me.

I wanted to stay more than anything but Blair...

Blair doesn't like the idea of girlfriends, he tells us that we can have them but when the fans ask we have to say we're single and that we'd love a girlfriend but that's not me.

I don't want to have to hide someone that I'm proud to have, which is why I left Melody.

I was falling madly in love with her but when I left for the X-Factor I intended to return back home and hopefully have something with Melody but then that failed and that's when Blair offered us starting a new band which was the birth of RoadTrip.

However that came with disadvantages, I changed the way I sung, the colour of my hair, changed my style abit and I left everyone I cared about behind.

I was pulled out of my thoughts when I heard the driver say that we would be taking a short break and I was so relieved because my legs were starting to hurt like mad.

I turned to Rye and saw him asleep with his head resting against the window, a small smile appeared on my face as I looked at him.

He was my brother, we'd both been here since the start and I still never told him about Melody, I could tell it hurt him that he never knew because in all honesty we knew everything about each other.

The coach pulled to a stop and I looked around at the rest of the boys, they were all asleep apart from Mikey.

He saw me stand and followed me off the coach, as soon as our feet touched the pavement we both stretched and took a quiet walk into the spar.

Mikey pulled his beanie a little further on to his head and then stuffed his hands back into his pockets, I had my arms crossed as we walked over to the drinks.

The silence was weird because we're normally very loud and being silent left me with my own thoughts, which could be dangerous at times, but the short silence was broken when Mikey turned to me.

"So, do you want to talk about what happened at the coach station?" His eyes were dark due to lack of sleep and I shook my head.

"Not really Mikey, I broke her even more that I did the last time and right now I hate myself for it" he stopped and wrapped his arms around me, Mikey was always hugging people when they felt like shit, people always say that his hugs are tight and comforting and they're right.

We broke our hug short to gather some food and drinks for the rest of the journey home, we paid and then made our way back onto the coach.

Mikey and I had bought the boys some food because it's obvious that they'd end up waking up and as soon as the coach pulled out of the service station Rye stirred in his sleep, he twisted over and rested his head on my shoulder, some fans found it weird how close we all were, some even thought we were gay, but that wasn't true, we had practically grown together, we'd seen each other's ugly sides and we knew every detail about each other.

Melody

My vision blurred with tears as I felt my body fall to the floor except I landed in a pair of arms, I would've looked but at this minute I couldn't care less, all I could care about was the fact that the guy I love had just walked out of my life... again.

I could feel people staring as I caused yet another scene over Andy and although I hated myself for falling for him all over again I couldn't help the love I had for him.

I turned to see who had caught me when I fall and there was Luke. He helped me up from the floor and we walked in silence to his car.

We decided to go through a McDonald's drive thru since we were both hungry and as we were driving, I took the opportunity to speak.

"You knew he would do that, didn't you?" My mouth was dry and I kept my focus forward, away from Luke.

"Mel, I'm sorry, I knew he would leave, but not like that" his voice was low and I blinked away some tears that were once again threatening to fall.

"What do you mean 'not like that?' Clearly you knew he didn't care" my voice rose slightly and I could tell Luke felt awful.

"Mel I thought it would've gone differently to that, please just drop it okay"

I dropped the conversation and as we were sat waiting at the drive thru I turned to face Luke again.

"Can I ask you something" he rested his head against his hand and tapped the steering wheel lightly.

"Sure what's up"

"Can I have Andy's number?" I could suddenly feel the tension in the car as Luke grabbed his phone and sent me a text which included Andy's number.

I sat there and contemplated using it or not but I finally started typing.

Mel💍🌷
Hey I don't know if you care, but this is Melody, I just wanna say that I'm sorry for thinking we could be something. I would drop everything for you, but you still haven't given me a reason Andy. If you don't want to keep in contact with me anymore then fine just say but next time you're in Manchester don't dare walk into my bar with that smug face that made me fall in love all over again.

I clicked send and grabbed my food from Luke, we drove back to my place and we just sat there for about 3 hours just talking about meaningless crap until my phone rang and there was a name I suddenly dreaded.

Andy🎤 is calling...

I held my breath as I clicked accept, I stayed silent.

A: hello?!
A: Melody, if you're there then I just want to say I'm sorry, I hated seeing you like that and I'm honestly worried about you, please just talk to me.

I scoffed at the fact he was worried about me, if he was worried he should've stayed

A: I can hear you scoffing at me you fool

He let out a little laugh but soon became quiet so I took it as my opportunity to speak.