“This is the best welcome home ever!” I announced as I threw my head over the arm of the chair as my legs dangled over the other arm “Shit,” I cursed, I’d forgotten to call my mom.
I ran up to my room and into my bag where I found my phone and as I ran back downstairs I turned it on only to have it explode with messages which I didn’t bother to read since they were all from my mom, I hit call and listened to the long rings waiting for her to answer the phone.
Matt’s P.O.V
I remembered Riley, I remembered a lot about her actually, we had ‘play dates’ set up by our mother’s when she was about three and I was six, I hated them because she was still a baby and play dates are usually between kids of the same age and I always complained about babysitting but it was just while the mothers sat around drinking coffee and talking about nothing. I remember how broken Charles was when her mother flew her away to Arizona and for a while I did miss the little kid, but now she was back and she was beautiful, I haven’t been able to keep my eyes off of her since she came out to see us outside Charles’ house. She was about 5”4 so she was tiny compared to me and I was betting that she would fit perfectly in my arms, her long, bright blue hair was pulled into a loose ponytail at the back of her head and she had obviously removed any makeup but I think I preferred her natural face, her big brown eyes were to die for, her plump, kissable lips were so cute and she had a septum piercing, two small tunnels in her ears, a tragus piercing in her right ear and if she had anything else pierced it was hidden, I couldn’t see any tattoos either on her milky white skin, I’m sure that would change the longer she was here.
“Yeah mom, sorry, I know, I was caught up with-“ I heard Riley speaking from the kitchen as she paced around on the phone to her mother “How did you know?” She laughed “I can’t believe you knew and didn’t tell me,” There was a pause as Fiona replied “Mom, you know I’m slow with a lot of things, this is one of those things, I almost lost my cool,” She laughed and then shushed her mom “I am not doing that! No! Goodbye mother, I shall call in the morning,” She said with a fake British accent before hanging up and walking back into the room laughing lightly to herself.
“Riles, I didn’t know what you ate so if you don’t want ribs or wings there’s fries and some… healthy shit,” Charles said handing her the brown paper bag with something girls eat inside, she laughed and put it back down on the table.
“Fuck that,” She laughed “Give me the meat!” She demanded in a satan-girlie voice, it was a total turn on, she was sitting here watching baseball, eating wings and ribs while drinking a cold beer and lounging on one of the comfy chairs, if she was good in the sack then she was every guys wet dream.
‘damn it Matt, stop thinking like that, you’re still in love with Val’ I reminded myself as I mentally slapped myself. Sure, my relationship with Val had been on the rocks recently, I had reason to believe that she was cheating on me with any guy she met, we hadn’t had a good relationship… sexually either but the fact that she was my high school sweetheart made it hard to call things off, yeah, I’m still young but I don’t want to have to start all over with a new girl. But Riley makes that sound all worth it.
After the game finished and all the food was gone Riley stretched in the chair and yawned before announcing that she was going to bed.
“Hold up Riley, come down by the car lot tomorrow, I’ve got something you can have, you just gotta get her running,” My dad smiled at her, she told him she would be there before saying goodnight to us all, kissing her dad on the forehead and padding her way up the stairs.
Riley’s P.O.V
I woke in the morning feeling well rested, I’d only had a few beers last night and I slept better than I had in years, there were no weird dreams or nightmares, only pleasant dreams filled with Matt, for whatever reason.
I collected my toiletries and walked into my bathroom, I hadn’t set anything up in there yet. I showered and shaved before blow dying my hair and wrapping it up in a messy bun and tying a red and white polka dot ribbon around the top of my head and applying some smoky eye makeup and red lipstick. I dressed in a white vest top with a red shirt over the top and tied it under my breasts before slipping into light denim high waisted shorts and bright red Vans.
“Morning Pops,” I chirped as I bounded into the kitchen where dad was sitting at the table with a newspaper and a cup of very, very strong coffee, clearly nursing a hangover, I guessed Matt and Mr Sanders had stayed for a few more drinks before heading home.
“Morning darlin’, how’d you sleep?” He asked before wincing and holding his head making me laugh.
“Better than I have in years, can you give me a ride to Mr Sanders car lot?” He nodded slightly before walking down the hallway to his bedroom to get ready, I made myself an omelette and poured myself a flass of orange juice.
“Ready to go?” Dad asked as he walked back into the kitchen dressed in his uniform and ready to go to work, nothing safer than a hung over cop.
“Yep,” I said popping the ‘p’ and jumping up from the table.
Gary’s car lot wasn’t too far away but I needed to be reminded of where it was. We arrived about fifteen minutes after leaving the house, there were loads of old cars, and a few people having a look around.
“Ah there you are!” Mr Sanders said as he hurried over to me as dad drove away “She’s through here,” He said as he led me through the hundreds of cars and into the garage to reveal an old, yellow Volkswagen Bug that was in need of a little TLC “Your old man claims you know your cars, so, you get her running and she’s all yours, for free,” He smiled and walked off to serve a customer, leaving me with everything I needed to get this baby working, oh how I loved old cars.
Matt’s P.O.V
The guys and I were meeting at the car lot today, I didn’t tell them why I picked my dad’s business as a place to meet instead of my place or one of the guys places, but I’m sure they would work it out as soon as they got here, I’d just arrived and I’d already spotted her. She had her amazingly blue hair wrapped up with ribbon, really short, shorts and her shirt was tied up under her breasts, she was walking around the old Bug my dad kept in the garage for some reason, admiring it and biting her bottom lip as if deciding what to do.
“Hey dude,” Brian said as he climbed out of his SUV and walked over to where I was sitting inside the building where I could see Riley through the glass, I waved at him and shushed him too “Well what has all of your-“ Brian followed my gaze and shut up “Well, well, well, look at that,” He whistled taking a seat next to me.
By the time the rest of the guys arrived Riley had already popped the hood and was replacing something inside while cleaning something else too. She still hadn’t noticed all five members of Avenged Sevenfold staring at her, or, if she had she wasn’t paying us any attention.
“I would totally-“ Jimmy started but I smacked him on the back of the head “Ow,”
“Don’t finish your sentence Jimbo, Matty might get angry,” Johnny cooed.
“Shut it short shit,” I snapped at him and went back to watching Riley, steam shot up out of the car and she stepped back and wiped her sweaty forehead, she had some oil smudged on her face and neck, her hands were dirty and she had finger prints on the side of her white vest top from when she stood with her hands on her hips.
She was looking around for something when she smiled to herself and untied her shirt and pulled it off, her figure was amazing, she had perfect, perky breasts that would fit in my hands perfectly, perfect curves and an ass you could bounce a dime off of. After another ten minutes of doing something with her hand she had wrapped her shirt around she put everything back inside and leaned in the driver’s window and turned the key and brought the car to life. The guys cheered and whooped at her and she looked at us, smirked and saluted quickly with two fingers against her temple before cutting it again and she started to walk over to us.
Riley’s P.O.V
I knew that Matt and the rest of the band were watching me the whole time, it was rather distracting but I refused to let it break my focus, one little slip and the car would be impossible to fix. I got the car running and they all started clapping and cheering, I saluted them with a small smirk before turning it back off and heading into the office where they were sitting watching me from all over the room.
“Enjoy the show?” I asked, wiping my hands off with my shirt that I would have to throw out now.
“Absolutely, I’m Jimmy,” The Rev said, bouncing over to me with a shit-eating grin on his face before he pulled me into a bone crushing hug.
“I know, I’m quite the fan,” I admitted before he let me go and looked me over, I was confident in myself a lot of the time but suddenly I felt beyond self-conscious as Jimmy looked over me, basically drooling, but not in the sleazy way that old men do.
“Our hottest fan ever!” He exclaimed before hi-fiving Johnny, Brian and Zacky introduced themselves too and I admitted to loving Synyster’s fingers and instantly regretted it when there were many jokes made. I was going to say thank you to Mr Sanders and the guys were leaving to go to the studio to chill out but I was stopped when I heard a familiar voice shouting.
“Dad, I have to go, just pick a damn car, I can’t be late to open the bar tonight,” I looked across the lot and saw just who I expected.
“Sally fucking Swanson!” I yelled and her head snapped up to look at me with a glare which quickly changed into a look of disbelief before she screamed.
“Riley fucking Richards!” She yelled back and started running across the lot to me as I ran towards her and we met in the middle with our bodies smashing together as we wrapped long arms around one another and screamed at each other before she pulled away and punched me in the arm, hard.
“Ouch, what was that for?” I pouted.
“Where the fuck have you been, bitch?” She demanded an answer with the stomp of her right foot.
“Did you just stomp your foot?” I asked with my eyebrows raised.
“Don’t change the subject, where the fuck have you been?” She asked again, copying my facial expression my raising her eyebrows too.
“Since you last saw me?”
“Yes, since we were 15,”
“Uh, I went back home to Arizona and then mom wanted to move out to Houston to live with Thomas and then I came back here when they wanted to travel more, you know me, I don’t like moving around much,” She nodded and hugged me again.
“When did you get back?”
“Got in yesterday, just grabbed myself a car,” I said, pointing to the Bug in the back and she nodded approvingly.
“Hey, what are you doing for work? Or are you scrounging from your old man?” She chuckled lightly.
“Actually, I was going to look around for somewhere that’s hiring, I can do basically anything and I learn the things that I can’t pretty quickly,” I shrugged.
“I know two places that are hiring, Johnny’s Bar and Bert’s Diner,” She told me “If I come to Johnny’s with you, you will definitely get the job and you’d be working with me,” I nodded and walked over to say thanks and goodbye to Mr Sanders before saying my goodbyes to the guys and physically dragging Sally away from them while saying goodbye and I heard Jimmy shouting something about free drinks tonight as I drove away in my own car.
“Can you start tonight?” Johnny asked with a big smile, I remember Johnny, he called my dad out a lot, during the day and night when I was a kid because fights needed breaking up and they were close friends.
“Of course I can!” I exclaimed, taking the t-shirt he handed me and hugging him “Thank you so much for this,”
“No problem kiddo, I owe your dad and I’m sure you can bar tend and I just know that Sal will give you plenty of tips to get people buying more drinks.
I left Sally at the bar to set up for the night while I headed over to Bert’s diner, I used to eat there with dad after we’d watch baseball in the park, I guess being the chief of police’s daughter did have some perks, you knew everyone in town.
“Can you start tomorrow, 12 oclock?” Bert asked after giving me an impromptu interview.
“I sure can!”
After settling everything with Bert I needed to quickly go home, tell dad the news and get ready for my first shift at the bar.