Devil in the Details

Back in Each Other's Arms

"Where the hell is Ashley?" Jake questioned, he and rest other 3 band members of the band were walking though the backstage halls back to their dressing room.

"Probably ran off, you know him." Andy rolled his eyes.

"He hasn't run off for the whole tour. Why would he start now?" CC questioned.

"Guys just leave him be, I think we've butt in enough on his life." Andy sighed, walking past the other three and heading into the dressing room.

Andy ignored CC and Jake's bickering as they continued to try and figured out where Ashley had gone. He grabbed his phone and checked it, seeing emails from all their different managers, and some from his solo managers. He sighed when his phone buzzed in his hand, a text from Juliet. He moved to the messages app and stared in shock at how many messages she had sent, 49 messages in the course of 2 hours

I miss you

I love you

Andy?

Baby?

Why aren't you answering?

Andrew!

Fucking hell why aren't you answering me!

That was a majority of the messages, he sighed and quickly messaged her back.

We were on stage, I left my phone in the dressing room.

He sighed, locking his phone before shoving it in his pocket. Turning around to pack up his stuff so he could get back to the hotel, chuckling lightly when he saw Ashley's suitcase already packed and by the door, ready to be loaded on the bus. He had packed a majority of it before the show and quickly changed out of his stage gear and into jeans, a t-shirt, a sweatshirt, and a leather jacket within a minute, putting his stage stuff back in his suitcase before grabbing his phone, wallet, and tour badge before running off to go find Alex.

He looked around the dressing room, seeing Jake and CC had left, probably to go out for something to eat, leaving him and Jinxx alone in the dressing room.

"You know where he is, don't you?" Jinxx questioned Andy.

"I do, but I'm not telling you because that's his secret to tell and not mine." Andy said firmly.

"I'm not asking you to, I just want to know if he's okay and if I should be worried. You'd tell us if he was in trouble right?" Jinxx questioned.

"Jinxx trust me, if I thought Ashley was going to end up hurt you'd be the first person I go to, but he's happy, really happy. I think we should leave him be and let him tell you guys when he's ready." Andy smiled softly.

"As long as he's okay, he can take as long as he needs." Jinxx smiled softly before going to pack up his suitcase, which was an absolute mess.

"You need to learn how to pack dude." Andy laughed seeing the mess around Jinxx's suitcase.

"I'm working on it Andy." Jinxx rolled his eyes with a smile.

"Not well enough dude." Andy smirked.

"Oh shut up." Jinxx laughed again, throwing one of his shirts at Andy who let out a muffled yell when it hit him in the face. He retaliated with throwing the shirt back.

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Ashley grinned, taking Alex's hand as they got out of the taxi that had taken them back to the hotel they were staying at for the night, they had gone out to a bar for a late night snack and a few drinks. Both of them were a little tipsy, Alex a little more on the drunk side but they weren't completely hammered.

Clinging onto each other as they entered the elevator, lips meeting each others haphazardly as they gripped each others clothes, trying to get closer to each other in the best way possible, both of them wanting to make up for the 4 months apart, 4 months of no hugs, 4 months of no hand holding, 4 months of no kisses, 4 months of no sex.

Alex groaned when Ashley pinned him to the wall of the elevator, hand training down the front of his shirt, slowly inching its way down to the waistline of his pants.

The elevator dinged signalling it had arrived at the floor of Ashley's hotel room.

"Ready for some fun tonight?" Ashley whispered in Alex's ear, biting his earlobe lightly, earning another groan from the man beneath him.

"Babe, I've been ready for 4 months." Alex moaned lightly.

"I'm gonna wreak you tonight." Ashley grinning wickedly, pulling away from Alex's neck, pulling him from the elevator, the two of them stumbling and falling into the wall opposite of the elevators, Alex taking the opportunity to press his body against Ashley's kissing him hard in an attempt to fight for dominance. He heard Ashley groan at the action and push away from the wall, pulling Alex to his room, their lips still connected at the kiss got messier and sloppier as their desperation for each other increased, tongues fighting for dominance as their teeth scraped against each other, both gasping for air but not willing to pull away.

Alex gasped for air when Ashley shoved him up agains the wall next to the door of his room, pulling away for a second before going to his neck, Alex couldn't hold back the moan as Ashley bit down on his sweet spot and started sucking, intending on making a mark, to claim what was his.

"Fuck Ash." Alex moaned, rolled his head to the other side to give Ashley better access to his neck, he let out another moan as Ashley kissed up his neck and latched on intending on making another mark. At this point Alex didn't know if he was gonna make it out of this without a hickies covering his body, and it was completely okay with that.

"Fuck." He let out another moan as Ashley started on the third hickie. He managed to clear his thoughts enough to reach around into Ashley's back pocket and fish out the room key, struggling to get it into the key slot as his legs were slowly turing to rubber as Ashley continued to assault his neck. He managed to get the card in and unlock the door. Pushing it open, he let out a yelp of surprise when Ashley pulled away from his neck and pulled him from the wall in a harsh movement, dragging him into the hotel room so they could continue their night together, kicking the door closed with his heel as he went back to Alex's lips. This was going to be the best night on tour, and he was going to make sure it was the best night for Alex too.

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As Ashley and Alex were obviously occupied by each other, neither of them heard the second elevator open and saw the two people that walked out, unstaring in shock at what he had just witnessed.

"Ash...and a guy? He's hooking up with a guy?! But he's straight- or, is he?" CC questioned staring at the spot where he saw his best friend making out with one of the male fans that had been at the show that night, both of them clearly too engrossed in each other to notice their surroundings.

"Did you know about this?!" He questioned, spinning on his heel to face Andy who was standing next to him, Andy internally cursing because after seeing that he knew Ashley and Alex would be keeping him up all night.

"Goodnight CC." He said, not wanting to deal with CC's questions until the morning, he walked back to his room, glad he only heard muffled moaning from Ashley's room, hoping it wouldn't carry too much to his as he tried to sleep.

CC stayed where he stood by the elevators, still staring in shock, had this been what Ashley was hiding from them? That he had been hooking up with guys during the tour, or that he possibly had a boyfriend? He didn't care that Ashley was attracted to guys, he was thrilled Ashley was being himself and doing what made him happy, but he couldn't help but feel that twinge of hurt and betrayal over the fact that Ashley hadn't told him. Why didn't Ashley tell him?