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Animosity In The Ranks

Chapter 17

"So have you seen Jeph? He didn't come home last night and I miss him terribly," Bert said a few minutes later.

"Yeah he's still at my place," you said as you cleaned off your clients arm with alcohol.

"Still?" Bert questioned from the floor.

"Yes still. Don't get your skid marked briefs in a bunch, nothing happened," you said as your client went to go check her arm out.

"Suuure," Bert drew out teasingly.

"Ugh," you sighed.

"That's what we said when she told us the same excuse," Lexi added.

You were happy that at least your coworkers were use to seeing people like Bert in here. They didn't get as many of them as clients as you did, but had gotten use to seeing them, especially when a good many of them were your friends and stopped in randomly. Like Bert. And your guys.

"So what are you doing now?" Bert asking impatiently from the floor.

"I'm waiting for," you began but were cut off by Zarin.

"She's going to lunch so she doesn't work through it again. And she's taking you with her," he said.

"Yay lunch date with Kailey!" Bert shouted as he jumped up from the floor.

You shook your head, Bert was the only one allowed to call you by your whole name without dire consequences. You sighed and shook your head, again, as you cleaned up your mess and thanked your client who happily nodded her head and made moon eyes at Bert. You shook your head, again, chuckling. You knew Bert was a good guy, a little crazier than most and slightly dirty, but still. It was weird seeing girls, and guys, swoon over him. He was just Bert.

"Let's go 'Cracken," you said grabbing your purse.

"Weee're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz," Bert sang as he looped his arm with yours and began skipping out of the shop.

You laughed and started skipping along side of him, not really having a choice in the matter since he had a powerful skip and would drag you along otherwise.
-xXx-
You got to your favorite Chinese restaurant and got a table outside so you could smoke freely, since Bert was a massive chain smoker and didn't do well with being cooped up inside where he couldn't smoke.

"Yay noodles!" Bert shouted when he opened up the menu, upside down.

"You do know its upside down? Right?" you asked as you laughed at his abundance of energy.

"It doesn't matter it's all Chinese to me. Plus I already know what I want," he said placing the menu down and lighting a cigarette.

"And that would be?" you asked as you still poured over the menu, deciding to go with something different for a change.

"Noodles!" Bert shouted once again.

You chuckled and shook your head. You figured the whole reason you put so much crap in your hair was because of all the head shaking you did when around the people you knew. It seemed to be the logical reason.

You ordered your food, grabbing a couple of Chinese beers to top the meal off. You and Bert just chit chatted, he brought you up to date on how the past tour went and that they had just finished recording their next album.

"So where's your derelict of a brother anyway? Is he home yet? I miss my Shadow," Bert asked as he shoveled noodles into his mouth with chopsticks.

"You seem to miss everybody. But yeah he's home, all of them are. They're working on their new album," you said as you ate your General Gaus chicken.

"Wonderful! Now we can party and all will be good. We're thinkin about asking them to go on tour with us soon, again," Bert added.

"That should be interesting as usual. The stories I heard from last time were, well outrageous to say the least," you replied, smiling as you remembered the stories of the guys antics and the late night drunken phone calls.

Your brother and Jimmy had a bad habit of drunk dialing, but you didn't mind. It meant you got to talk to them more often while they were touring.

"You should join us this time," Bert said as he finished his beer and waved the waitress down for another.

"I'd love to, but it would be near impossible. I'm booked solid for the next month or so. And then I'm still busy. Zarin overbooked me as usual," you said sipping on your beer slowly, only feeling like one since you had to go to work still.

"That's what you get for being popular. But you could still make it, we won't be touring for a little while. You could work double time, cram your clients in and then when it lets up, cram more in. Then give your clients to some of the others, because I highly doubt they're as booked as you, and take some well needed vacation time," Bert said like it like it was nothing to hard to handle.

"You say that like it's easy. It's not. And my coworkers have plenty to do already. And I highly doubt touring with you and my boys would be what most people would call a vacation," you added.

"Come on it will be nice to have the sibling team on tour with us. Shadow and Shadow-less," Bert teased.

"Oh hell no. Who told you about that nickname?" you asked as you hung your head.

"None other than the glorious one who created it. Zacky," Bert grinned.

"Oh for the love of fuck," you said, glaring at the nickname.

"Hey at least I didn't out right call you Peter Pan," Bert chuckled.

"Which is good cuz if you did I might have had to kill you," you added.

"Whoa breathe missy, breathe. It's only a nickname," Bert said, fake backing up as he put his hands up to defend himself.

"A nickname from Zacky," you said, slightly miffed.

"Come on Zacky's a good guy. A little whorish and bouncy in the bed, but still a good guy. He's mad fun," Bert added in Zacky's defense.

"I know everyone says so, I just don't see it. Ever. Never have," you replied jabbing your chopstick into a piece of chicken.

"I don't know why you two don't get along," Bert sighed.

"To tell you the truth Bert, and you can't repeat this to ANYBODY or I WILL stop being your friend and probably kill you. I, I don't know anymore either. I just do, hate him that is," you sighed as you remembered the fun you had had the other day with all of them, Zacky included.

"Guess old habits die hard," Bert added as he lit the cigarette you had placed in your mouth.

"Guess so," you said inhaling deeply.
-xXx-
"So I'm off to go do, well I don't know, something," Bert said throwing his cigarette off into the street.

You were standing at the edge of the outside area of the restaurant, you had paid already and were just waiting for your receipt.

"And I'm off to lovely work," you replied, throwing your finished cigarette to join Bert's.

"Don't be a stranger now that you know we're back," Bert said giving you a hug after you had signed the receipt.

"Like wise 'Cracken," you said as you started to walk back towards the parlor.

"Love you Kailey Mae," Bert sang loudly and off key as he skipped away waving over his shoulder.

You just laughed and picked up your pace, trying to get back to work as quick as possible. Maybe Bert's plan would work.

"It'd be nice to go on tour for once. Even if I had to deal with Zacky on a regular basis," you mused to yourself.

Notes

Noodles!!!

Comments

Out of all the fanfics this is the one I've read through 3 times through all 108 chapters. This is one of the best Zacky fics I've read and I still hope it'll be continued one day ; v; a very good read for any Zacky fan.

Tipikly Tipikly
5/3/18

Annnd new chapters....now?! Lol please.

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11/10/17

Update, please!! I love this so much!!!!

Holly Holly
12/24/16

I need moar!!!!

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2/4/15

OMG PLEASE UPDATE!!!! <3 this story!

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9/3/14