“Why am I at a Used interview session again?” you asked as you stood outside a rather modern looking building.

A building you knew rather well as the guys had dragged you to it multiple times before for business.

“Because. It will all make sense just come on,” Jeph said, more like begged.

“All right, thank god I never liked dating sane guys anyway,” you said as you grinned up at him.

“Good because sanity is so over done,” Jeph said as he placed a kiss on your bridge piercing and then a quick one on your monroe piercing before pecking your lips softly.

“Crack pot taking me to a Fuse interview,” you said as you followed Jeph inside the tall building.
-xXx-
“So Miss Sanders you can wait right here if you so wish. We have couches right next to the cameras, and anything you need just ask,” a Fuse employee with a headset on said.

You simply nodded your head yes and sat down on the giant overly comfy looking couches and waited. Jeph had been whisked off to makeup for the interview so that had left you to be directed around by the nice employee in the head set. You sat and waited patiently, bag folded in your lap, fingers tapping. You were still confused as to why you were being dragged from work early and brought to an interview. It’s not that you minded, you had accompanied Avenged to several as you had said, it was just how Jeph had phrased it. Why he hadn’t just outright told you that you were going to an interview in the first place was way beyond you. As you mulled things over in your head you absentmindedly traced your fingers over the screen printed design on your bag of Bert’s face in wild colors and in black, you traced over the sequins and the odds and ends sewn onto it. It made you smile. It had been such a random gift, one everyone had thought had been a joke, he had given you but you had fallen in love with it so much. And only Bert would think of giving someone an item with his face printed on it all gaudy like as a serious gift.

You found yourself chuckling softly as you flicked a sequin that was sewn tightly to the canvas.

“Miss?” you heard a voice asked softly beside you.

You looked up from you lap and into the profile of a young girl dressed similar to the other employee who had ushered you here.

“Yes?” you asked.

“I was told to you bring you coffee, with two creams and two sugars. And to tell you that there is food on a buffet table just around the corner. And that the interview will be starting soon,” the girl said as she handed over a very large, actual coffee mug full of steaming coffee.

“Thank Jeph for me,” you said kindly as took the coffee mug from her.

“Will do,” she said with a smile.

“And of course I am forgotten every time,” a familiar voice whined from behind you.

“Bert I don’t know how anyone could possibly forget you. You’ve been burned into everyone’s mind with acid,” you said as he jumped over the back of the couch and landed beside you.

You had held out the coffee mug so as not to spill it, as you had figured that he would do some stunt like that or another.

“Not my fault, it’s just the way I am wired,” Bert said as righted himself on the couch.

“Sure it is. Now what was I forgetting about you?” you asked as you took a sip of the steaming coffee.

“I was the one that had told her to remind you about the food being right back there. I was bummed not to get the credit, Jeph gets all the credit,” Bert said as he twiddled with his fingerless gloves, tearing little bits of them off.

“You don’t see me complaining about not getting credit for telling the girl to remind Kales that the show would be starting soon,” another voice said from beside you.

One you hadn’t heard in forever but would be hearing more of come the start of the tour.

“I shall give credit where credit is needed. Hello Quinn,” you said as you smiled up at the guitarist.

“Hello, long time no see. Which is odd seeing as how you’re basically now more family then you were before,” Quinn said as he stood and leaned against an opposing wall.

“I know, been busy. But you’ll be seeing so much of me you’ll get sick of my face come the start of the tour. We shall create havoc,” you said as you smiled and then took another sip of your coffee.

“You and Bert on the same tour together is a bit more than havoc. It’s more like pure and utter total madness, chaos, everything. Should make it memorable to say the least,” Quinn said smiling from his piece of wall.

“I agree. It was foolish of you all to want to invite me on this tour,” you said grinning evilly.

“Oh that’s right. It was OUR decision to bring you in the first place,” Quinn said as if he had forgotten.

“Speaking of all this future tour stuff where is your other? Where’s Dan?” you asked, taking a bigger gulp of your coffee, it was cooler now.

“Dan’s ill, a 24 hour bug or something. Nothing major, but he wasn’t going to be well enough to do this. If it had been just a written interview then yea, but it’s not. And he looked like shit. So he’s back resting,” Quinn explained.

“Poor Dan,” you said affectionately.

You really did love all the Used guys like family.

“Poor Dan is right. You should have seen his face, he looked practically teal around the edges. Hello love,” Jeph said as he came up behind you and bent down to kiss you quickly.

“Mmm coffee lips,” Jeph said after he pulled back.

“I want coffee lips,” Bert said excitedly from beside you.

“Time guys,” a fairly official looking guy in a impressive head set said at Quinn, Bert and Jeph.

“Gotta run babe. I think you’ll like the interview,” Jeph said as he gave you one last peck before walking toward where the official looking guy had gone.

Quinn waved at you as he turned and followed Jeph’s direction. Bert stood up with a sigh of complaint and then stopped directly in front of you and placed a cheek facing you. You sighed as you shook your head and leaned in and placed a peck on his cheek.

“There, now you have coffee lip prints as well,” you said as you chuckled a bit.

Bert shot you a grin before bounding off towards where the interview was being held. This being all of a few feet from you. You could see where the guys were sitting and would be able to hear every word.

“Hi and welcome back to Steven’s Untitled Rock Show, today we have The Used with us,” Steven’s voice rang out as the red light came back on, signaling that they were recording.

You sat back down and watched the show unfold.
-xXx-
“So basically this tour is going to be one hell of a whirlwind,” Steven asked the guys.

The little interview had been going on for a bit at this point. Periodically taking breaks since they were doing it in segments since this one was going to be a bit longer because of the upcoming tour.

“It should be one to remember, we’ve got some new additions to it this time around,” Bert said, his eyes glistening with mischief.

Jeph shot him a quick glance and Steven seemed to catch it.

“We’ll get to that in a minute. But on other question first. Jeph what’s the news on this mystery girl you’re with? Or is there really a girl? Is it really Paris or Ashley? Spill it,” Steven said as he grinned over at Jeph.

You felt your eyes go big when you saw Jeph smiled back at Steven. You knew why you had been brought to the interview.

“Good thing you asked, I was about to make a total ass of myself and steal over your show for my own purposes, but now you've done the work for me. Actually I have been seeing a certain girl in fact and up until this point we’ve been keeping it sort of hush hush. But I figured now was the best time to introduce us as a couple to everyone out there. And no it’s not who you think, it’s even better. Kales,” you heard Jeph explain and then shout your name to you.

You got up and shook your head at your boyfriend. You were going to kill him. Slowly you walked over to the set and walked on it, taking the seat made for you on the couch between Bert and Jeph.

“You’re dating Kales Mae? The infamous tattoo artist and younger sister of M. Shadows?” Steven asked, rather shocked looking.

“That would be correct my dear Watson,” Jeph said as he placed an arm around your shoulder and placed a quick peck on your temple.

You stuck your hand out to shake Steven’s hand.

“Wow. I have a friend who waited weeks to get in to get a tattoo by you,” Steven said as if forgetting he was interviewing on his show.

“Thanks,” you said awkwardly.

“So yeah, wow. This is news to the music world. And nice news I might add. Though I should have seen this coming, you two scream the perfect couple. But wow, I bet the music world didn’t see this coming. Well besides the two bands involved here, well sort of,” Steven said.

“Well one other. Now Jared Leto doesn’t have to keep his mouth shut anymore, should make him very happy indeed. But yeah, I snagged the most perfect girl months ago and now I get to share it with the world,” Jeph said as he looked you in the eyes.

You got so caught up in his stare that you forgot that there were cameras pointed at you, that Steven of Steven’s Untitled Rock Show was sitting in a chair next to you, or that Bert was flicking your bracelets up and down your arm.

“Well I guess we’ve heard it first. Jared Leto knows more than he tells, Avenged has got a killer album due out some time in the near future, The Used are touring soon with said new album producing band, and Jeph is the luckiest guy on the planet. That’s it for The Used, coming up we have a our favorite green punk rockers newest video,” Steven said at the camera.

At that the cameras went down and the red light went dark. You turned to face Jeph and smiled sweetly at him. He smiled back at you, albeit a tad nervously. You sweet smile turned into an evil grin slowly. You grabbed your purse and swung it at him.

“You butt hole, you could of told me you were going to tell everyone on like national television,” you said loudly, but not upset.

You swung your purse back around and hit him again in the shoulder. Jeph’s hands flew up to protect his head as you continued to beat him with your not so light bag.

“Ow. Crazy lady. I figured. Ow. It would be. Ow. A nice. Ow. Gesture. This way. Ow. We don’t have to. Ow. Hide it,” Jeph said in-between hits.

He had stood up off the couch and gone behind it trying to avoid your long arm and giant swinging purse. You had simply stood up and kept on whacking him with it.

“Still could have given a girl some warning ya dodo head,” you said as you cracked him one more time upside the head with your purse.

“I thought it would be sweet and night in shining armor-esque to want to surprise you with telling the world that you were mine, and that I had to be the luckiest man in the world because you were willing to give me a chance,” Jeph said softly from behind the couch.

“Okay that wins you many special points,” you said before jumping at him and wrapping your hands around his neck as you kissed him.

“Does anyone else see the symbology here that she was hitting him with something that bore my image?” Bert asked out loud while you were busy kissing Jeph standing behind Steven’s Untitled couch.

Quinn simply reached over and cracked Bert on the head.

Notes

And now it's out in the open for the world to see!
But does publicity always make for a good bed mate?