Oli’s P.O.V

After a quick run down of the past week, to say the group was baffled would be a severe understatement. I imagined their heads were swimming with questions, and confused thoughts but I let it be known that I wasn’t in the mood to talk about it anymore. I sighed and dialed Matt’s number once again, after 3 rings he answered.
“Ols? What’s going on?” he sounded concerned, it made a pang of guilt run through me.

“ ‘m fine Matt, I guess im just bloody tired, and scared for Austin…”I could feel tears pricking in my eyes, but I refused to let them fall.

‘WhatsthepointinnotcryingOli?everyoneknowsyourcrazyanyway!plusthisisallyourfault.’

I bit my tongue and tried to stop the angry voice in my head, I wished it would stop. If only I could make it that way…

“Oli I am not letting you go through this any more! I am coming down there ya hear? I will be on a flight first out, no ands ifs or buts. I will literally kill someone if they hurt you.” I expected to hear laugh or a ‘just kidding’, but his tone was dead serious, and he was dead silent.

“No Matt! Don’t do that…please don’t do that…ill be fine! I promise okay? I will be…” I could no longer fight the tears, as a sob rushed through me. I could feel they guys eyes on me, along with the other people in the room.

“Oh Matt im so sorry…im so sorry. Im not okay Matt, but I cant have you come to my rescue every time I fuck up, or my mind gets fucked up. Matt im so-“

“SHUT IT OLI. Look you aren’t as big as a ‘burden’ as you think ya are! I actually love being the person you come to, I love the fact that you feel like you can tell me anything, cause you can Oli. I love…” he stopped talking abruptly, I froze. What was he trying to say? “well look Ols, I miss the fuck out of you anyway. I wont have to stay with ya, but it would be nice if I could see you again, I wanna hug my best friend, and tell him that things will be better.”

I smiled into my tears, and hung my head down low. After all this time he still cared? I haven’t seen him in well over 6 years, save for Skype, and yet he was willing to drop everything he was doing; he was the best friend I could ask for.

“So you don’t blame me for being mental?” I asked in all seriousness, but he just laughed.

“Oh Ols, if I cared about that I would have never spoken to ya! I’m serious though, I just booked my flight to LAX, you cost me a fortune ya know that, Sykes?” he said it in a joking manor, but it still hurt like hell.

“Thank You Matt, I’m sorry but I don’t have a way to get you…”I mumbled into the receiver.

“I will pick your friend up…I think that’s what you were talking about anyways.” I glanced up to see Phil smiling, waiting for my answer.

“Would you really?” I asked in bewilderment, he eagerly nodded.

“Yeah it wouldn’t be a big deal, I doubt the shop will be open tomorrow after what happened tonight…so it would be fine!” I nodded slowly, and shot him a sheepish smile.

“Thanks Phil.” He smiled brightly as ever, and turned his attention back to some game on his phone.

“Uh Oli? What’s going on?” Matt spoke up, making me realize we were still on the phone.

“Oh right, my…friend Phil said he would pick you up. What time does your flight land?”

“7. Cause its cross country; I’m leaving in 3 hours actually, fuck this will be a long trip. You are so lucky I could get someone to cover for me at work! I will only be in LA for 5 days…so we better make the most of it!” he sounded slightly agitated, probably due to the fact the only sleep he would be getting would be on a plane, wow I felt awful.

“Matt, you’re the fucking best. Really. I cant wait to see you after all this time!” I cheerfully reminded him. I heard him scoff,

“You wont believe it, I look so much older now, and I’m sure you’ve got a thousand Tats now, I’ve got a few but nothing compared to you I’m sure. When I see you I hope I recognize you! We haven’t even skyped in awhile!”he was right, we hadn’t spoken on there in a long time, I wonder what he looked like nowadays.

“Well I hope you recognize me, and your probably right, I’m like 80% covered in Ink.” I smirked into the small phone, which was growing hot from being on the phone for so long.

“Well Ols, I have to go pack and go to the airport, I will see ya soon. Don’t forget me at the airport! Remember I will be there at 7, 7 pm. I hope your friends okay Oli, I will call you on my layovers.”

“Okay, be careful Matt. I will give Phil your number so he can text you and you'll have his. I love youuuuuu.” I purred into the receiver before cackling like mad, when he made a fake vomit noise.

“You are gross Ols, but I love you too. See ya!” he didn’t even leave me a chance to retort, as he ended the call. Little wanker he was, but he was doing a really nice thing for me so I wasn’t going to complain. In fact, I liked that he had distracted me from the realization of why I was even here.

I lifted my head, and told Phil that he would be in at 7, he nodded in acknowledgment, and asked for Matt’s number, which I punched into his phone and saved. He smiled, and went back to his game; I took this time to study Austin’s friends, trying to keep the bad thoughts like ‘he could be dead’ or ‘he is dead’ out of my head.

Tino was tapping his feet rhythmically on the tile floor, I could tell right away he played the drums. The look on his face looked like concern and exhaustion. Aaron was uncomfortably playing with his fingers, a frown etched on his face; I could see he was lost in thought. Alan on the other hand had an interesting emotion painted on his face, it was a mix of…anger and concern? He looked pissed, that was for sure…he caught my gaze and shot me a small smile, that was so fake I wished that he would have just turned his lip up in disgust. I quickly averted my eyes, and felt Austin’s phone vibrate I looked down to see a text.

“Phil:
Ignore Alan, I don’t know if you knew this but he and Austin dated for awhile, a long time actually. So I think he may just be jealous that you spend so much time with him, please don’t judge Austin for it if he hasn’t told you.”

I felt my eyes grow a bit wide, and a small blush decorate my cheeks. Austin was bi? Well that certainly explained a lot, why he was so flirty was one of them. But Austin couldn’t like me…I mean I’m…me. I hit reply,

“I don’t judge based on all that, its no biggie to me. I guess I get where Alan is coming from though, but nothings going on between me and Austin..”I hit send and relaxed into the chair, watching as Phil replied to my text, I clicked on the message as it came in.

“Phil:
Well that may be true, but do you like him? I wont say anything and you can delete these messages when were done chatting.”

I read it in my head, and felt my face warm up, did I like Austin more than a friend? I tried to come up with a hint or reason why I didn’t; and failed. Yes I finally have come to terms with it, I had a huge fucking crush on Austin. I pondered telling Phil, and hoped he was true to his word about not saying anything to Austin or anyone else.

“Uhm I kind of do honestly, but I’ve never liked a guy before…so I don’t know if it’s the way I think its turning out to be or something else.”

I watched as Phil read it, he nodded and began typing furiously on the small cell, I opened the text once it came through.

“Phil:
Well, that’s something you should talk to him about Oli. Austin…well I can tell he has a thing for you, not in a bad way though! He’s really a great guy, like a ‘I want to take things slow, and take you out to dinner a thousand times before I even kiss you’ kind of guy. He learned his lesson with his EX wife, I’m sure he told you about her; she was an awful cheater. But I think you should tell him, it can’t do any harm, if anything you will get your answers, and he will in a way, get closure.”

Phil was right and I hated to admit it, I caught his gaze and smiled at him; mouthing thank you. He did the same, mouthing your welcome at me. Before I could blink a nurse holding a clipboard came into the waiting room.

“Austin Carlile?”

We all stood up and her eyes went wide, “wow that’s a lot of people here for him. Well I have good news, he is stable and awake. He had a small scale heart attack, but we were able to catch it fast enough to prevent any major damage. He is awake and is asking to speak to an ‘Oli?’ so whomever that is can go see him, he is in room 122 on the right, the rest of you can go in two at a time once he returns.”

We all sighed in relief, and I faced the gang who all nodded at me, except Alan who scowled and sat himself back down on his chair. I waved and quickly made my way to his room, before rushing inside.

My breathe hitched, my heart flew into my chest; there in front of me laid Austin. The man who was my hero, my savoir in every sense, and he looked so broken, so fragile, with arms laced with lines of fluids, and monitors hooked around him; his face was decorated in a small smile and an oxygen line rested in his nose.

“Oli…come here..”I obeyed silently, and sat next to him, shock still shaking through me. He reached for my hand and I carefully put my palm to his, he squeezed it slightly.

“Oli I’m so sorry, I’m sure I scared the shit out of you back there…” I intervened.

“Austin stop, I was worried is all, I’m so glad your safe. If I lost you…” tears began to fall down my cheeks, “I couldn’t lose you Austin, please don’t leave me.”

I let the tears fall freely and he squeezed my hand tighter, “Oli I promise I wont ever leave you…I couldn’t leave you behind, ever.”

I smiled slightly, “Matt is coming to visit me tomorrow, crazy man just decided to book a flight down here and see me, and he wants to meet you too. I haven’t seen him in 6 years, so it will be interesting…Phil is even going out of his way to pick him up from the airport...oh and I kind of told them what has been going on…”

Austin smiled, “I’m happy he decided to come, I can’t wait to meet him! It’s good you went ahead and told them what has been going on lately…and speaking of the guys... I’m guessing there here?” I nodded, he grinned.

“Those guys are the best, thanks for calling them Oli. Can I see my phone by the way? I wanna call my dad... haven’t spoken to him in some time, perhaps I should let him know what’s up.”I handed him his phone and a sudden realization hit me, I hadn’t got a chance to delete those messages! I paled, as he opened his phone and the screen lit up with the text thread from Phil. He read it silently and I could feel myself shaking violently, oh god he was going to hate me now.
His face turned an awful shade of red,

“Uhm I see you and Phil were talking about…stuff….Oli I can explain…, …I…oh man this is awful….I’m going to kill him! Oli please don’t be mad…but he is right…I do like you Ols…and you said you thought you liked me….well I don’t want you to feel like you have too, or that you owe me anything because that’s not true and I-“

I couldn’t take another second of his rambling, I needed answers, and now would be the time I got them. I stood up and leaned over him carefully, inhaling slowly and coming down to meet his gaze, I put our faces a short distance from each other, and exhaled. He bit his lip and watched me intently, I sighed and closed my eyes, I was going to do this even if it was rash. I leaned in slowly and pressed my lips to his, my brain exploded with a million emotions as he pushed his soft lips back against mine. We stayed like this for a moment, my heart fluttering, and his heart beating a little faster than usual, the monitor let me know that fact. I slowly pulled back, taking in his facial expression, he had a small tint decorating his cheeks, and a small smile placed on his lips.

“Oli…do you still feel the sa-?” I silenced him with a quick kiss on his cheek; I don’t know what had taken over me, but I…liked it. I sat next to him and laced our fingers together once again, smiling as I did so. I rested my head next to our intertwined hands; he carefully played with my hair.

“You really are too perfect for your own good,” I chuckled,

“Austin I am not perfect, you of all people should know that. No one is perfect…” I muttered tiredly.

“Whoever said I was talking about being a perfect person? I meant that you are just perfect in the sense of…your everything I could ever want. I could never be enough to deserve you.”
I gasped; no one had ever said anything that…nice to me before. I looked up and was met with his perfect brown eyes, “Austin, I think you are yet to realize that it should be reversed, you are the most incredible person I have had the pleasure of knowing. You are stunning, genuine, which is hard to find mind you, And all around everything I’m not.”

He sighed, a small pout marring his face, “Well I guess we will never agree on this…so can I at least try to convince you sometime? If you know what I mean…” I felt my face flush, and I shook my head trying to show I was confused.

“Well I was going to ask…if maybe I could, take you on a date... Like dinner somewhere, or something along those lines. You don’t have to say Ye-“

“I would love too,” I cut him off, before standing up, moving the hair from his face and placing a small kiss on his forehead.

“They guys probably want to see you, I will have them come back…let them know if you need me, Im going to walk around a bit.” I smiled softly as he did the same. I turned to leave,

“Mkay, oh and Oli?” he called after me, I pivoted around to look at him,

“Thank you beautiful.” He winked and I felt like jumping up and down and screaming like a teenage girl, but I decided a smile was the best route to go.

-&-


I smiled all the way to the waiting room, and spotted Phil and Tino, they let me know that Alan and Aaron, who had left to get food for everyone. I nodded and pointed them in the direction of Austin’s room, Phil raised his eyebrow at me, and I nodded sheepishly. He grinned in an understanding manor before following Tino to see there friend. I suddenly didn’t feel like walking around, sleep sounded so much nicer…I laid back in my chair from earlier and wrapped my jacket around me tighter, I still wondered what Matt was trying to say earlier tonight, it wasn't like him to stop talking. Chuckling a bit I closed my eyes, before drifting into a peaceful sleep.


-&-


Unknown P.O.V

I sighed as I lit my cigarette; this wasn’t how I had wanted to spend my night in the slightest. No, this was ruining all of my perfectly formed plans; this was not working out as well as I thought it would. It was always something, some small detail that I didn’t calculate that would ruin everything.

No.

I wouldn’t let it, I shuffled my feet along the concrete, trying to reform, re-calculate my game plan but my mind was at a standstill, I was exhausted, and frustrated to no end.

I glanced around, dully looking for my companion for the evening, he finally returned with bags in his hands, and drinks in a carrier.

“You ready to go, Alan?”

Notes

Oh my god, so if you hadn't (somehow) figured out that this person was Alan...well ta-da!
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