Matthew paced around the room. He was restless since yesterday morning, when both Jimmy and Blake were gone from his grip. He couldn’t concentrate on anything and to think he was a workaholic - that was something that he himself couldn’t imagine.

“Dude, you’ve been walking on the same spot for over 30 minutes. Are you okay?”

He looked up to the owner of the voice. It belonged to Arin who was sitting cozily on a chair with PSP in his hands. They were now in the Warner Bros meeting room, and were waiting for Larry to brief about their new schedule after they had done their Canada tour last week.

Matthew hesitated to tell Arin about Blake – or Jimmy. Because Arin’s girlfriend was also there. Matthew didn’t quite know the girl as she was a bit too clingy to Arin and didn’t communicate much with the other band members. She kept peeking over Arin’s PSP and commenting on how he should do the moves whatsoever. So Matthew couldn’t just tell him out loud about what was going on in his mind. The girl must have known about Rev’s death, but to tell her that he came back from the dead – it was something that Matthew wouldn’t do.

“He’s missing.” He simply said that and hoped Arin understood.
“Who?”
Damn it. “You know who. J.”
“ J – Johnny?”
Matthew pursed his lips. His eyes darted to the girl and back at Arin.
“You mean - ?” Arin sat up straight. As he met Matthew’s sharp gaze, he understood. “Oh.”
“What? Who’s missing, babe?” the girl asked eagerly.
“Uh, nothing serious, Ann. Johnny’s always missing.”
“Arin, I know when you lied.” Ann – as Arin called her earlier, urged again.

Arin looked at Matthew. Probably was asking for a permission to tell her what happened. Matthew closed his eyes and nodded.

“The thing is, Ann. Don’t freak out.”
“I won’t. What is it?”
Arin took a deep breath before glancing at Matthew again. “Jimmy came back.”
“Who’s Jimmy?”

Matthew raised his eyebrows at her. She didn’t remember who Jimmy was. Hell, she didn’t even know him personally.

“Jimmy, the Rev.”

Ann stared at him for a while, and then her forehead slowly started to crease as she frowned at him.

“You mean, your drum idol? Isn’t he dead or something?”
“Yeah. He came back.”
“HOLY SHIT. You saw his ghost?!”
Arin cupped his hands on both sides of Ann’s cheeks. “Baby, don’t freak out. I didn’t see his ghost. I just saw a person being possessed by him. That’s all.”
“Possessed? This is even more scary - ”
“It wasn’t anything like that!” Matthew cut off suddenly. He truly wished he didn’t have to explain this towards a total stranger but Arin was part of the family, and Ann was a package that came with him.

Ann glared at Matthew. She didn’t like his tone. Among all the band members of Avenged Sevenfold, she wasn’t fond of Matthew the most. It was a mutual feeling for Matt too.

“Do not tell anyone about this.” Matthew glared back at her, fighting with his own piercing sharp stare. Ann leaned back to the chair and crossed her arms on her chest.

“Ask me nicely.”

Both Matthew and Arin looked at her in disbelief.

“Ann, what the hell?” Arin turned to her face to face. He knew Ann didn’t actually liked Matthew but she had never been this rude to him before.

“I don’t like his tone.” She tattle tailed, making a pouty face and Arin cursed to himself for feeling weak at the sight of it.

“Listen here, girl. I don’t fucking care if you don’t like me but don’t tell this to anyone. Not even your mom.”

She glared at Matthew again. There it was, that tone again. The tension in the room rose up higher until Larry finally went in, bringing a folder with him.

“Sorry I’m late guys. Have a meeting this morning that I can’t-” he paused, seeing Matthew and Ann were staring at each other. “Uh, what happened here?”

Matthew stood up straight and straightened his clothes. “Nothing. So, what’s up?”

Larry frowned at them for a while before continuing to walk forward to the nearest chair and sat on it.

“Next venue, Vegas baby. You guys are gonna do Vegas show next week. It’s a pretty big event. Metallica’s also gonna be there.”

“Get out of here!” Matthew gasped in surprised. They hadn’t played with Metallica for a long while and now they will have this opportunity again. Arin jumped from his seat too and quickly marched towards Larry with a wide grin on his face.

“You don’t believe me? Hetfield requested for you guys personally.”
“You’re fucking kidding me, Larry? Hetfield! Seriously?”
“Uh-huh.”
“Wow, this is some news! We gotta tell the others, like right now.” Arin and Matthew hugged in happiness, forgetting the tension earlier for a moment and just drank in the good news for a while.

“Good for you, babe! Eventhough Jimmy is missing, this is really great news!”

Matthew, Arin and Larry stunned hearing Ann’s sudden remark. Especially Matt. His mouth dropped open in horror as he turned his head slowly towards her. This damn bitch couldn’t even keep her mouth shut?!

“Jimmy’s missing? What are you talking about? Which Jimmy?” Larry asked in panic, stood up abruptly with hands on his hips.

“Uh, nothing. Just my friend from way back. His name is Jimmy, too.” Arin replied with a sharp glare set on Ann’s eyes.

“Oh, phew. I thought someone dug into Rev’s grave and stole his body or something. You know fans nowadays. They will do just about anything for their idols.”

Matthew chuckled nervously at Larry. “Not our fans, Larry.”

Larry shrugged at him and settled back on the chair. He was mumbling something about their show in Vegas as Matthew mouthed a simple ‘thank you’ to Arin.

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Blake stared around the house but her feet didn’t move from the spot where she first came in here through the door. It was a mansion actually, with a lot of pictures hung on the wall, wrapped in canvas – non-framed and portrayed the faces of a beautiful friendship. A huge picture of five persons smiling and laughing on a stage scene splayed across the main wall in the living room and right on the opposite of it, a rather large wedding picture of Michelle and Brian holding hands, staring into each other’s eyes was displayed proudly.

Jimmy took a good look at those pictures too, as he hadn’t been here in a while and he had never seen their wedding photos before. Despite all that, his mind hay wired as Blake was no longer on speaking terms with him. Just because he saw her naked, and called her a virgin, she turned cold shoulders on him.

Well, to mock her virginity was a bit uncalled for. But being in his world, that thing was actually rare. He was – fascinated.

“Blake, are you still not talking to me?”

Blake ignored him and walked towards Michelle, Brian and Zacky who were standing in front of her and staring.

“You’re okay, Jim? Uh, you are Jimmy right?” Zacky asked when he saw Blake was making her way towards them.

“Yeah man. It’s just…it’s been a while. I’m just a bit – shocked.”

Brian went over and smiled as he landed his palm on her shoulder. “We know. Why don’t you take a rest upstairs? It’s a long day for you.”

Blake glanced into his brown eyes and nodded. She accidentally reached for Michelle’s hand as she was prefer to be beside a female presence rather than the two buffed tattooed men. Michelle smiled and took her upstairs.

“Call Matt and Johnny?” Brian asked, as they were done watching Blake and Michelle disappeared into the second floor of the house.

“Yeah, we should.”

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“So, we are back at this again huh.”

Blake ignored Jimmy as she sat on the edge of the bed in front of her and admired the spacious room instantly. The room was decorated in such simple furnishing, mostly white in color but the walls were painted in blue. Her eyes caught on something from behind a half opened oak door and she immediately went towards it.

“That’s the library, Jimmy. You wouldn’t find anything interesting in there.”

The truth was, Blake was a book lover. She hadn’t been reading for a couple of days now and it made her restless.

“You have a library in your house?”

“Yeah. You know I love to read.”

“Really? Me too!” Blake jumped a bit, forgetting that she was pretending to be Jimmy earlier. Jimmy snorted and burst out laughing.

“Hah! You clearly don’t know me, Blake!” he yelled.

“Uh, no you don’t Jimmy. You hate books. The only book you read was your drum music notes book.” Michelle frowned at her after seeing her jumped excitedly like that. Blake was caught cheating.

“You’re right, I don’t.” Blake replied. Her eyes were still avoiding Jimmy at this time.

“For God’s sake, Blake! Give it up and stop pretending to be me!” he groaned in front of Blake and made her winced a bit.

“What’s wrong?” Michelle touched her shoulder when she saw her winced shortly just now.

“Nothing, just a cold wind, that’s all.”

Michelle smiled and excused herself, leaving the two of a kind alone.

“Seriously, Blake. Why are you doing this?”

Blake glared at him. “You know why.”

“Okay, I’m sorry. I won’t do it again. I respect your – whatever it is you wanna call it. May you find someone perfect for you to pop your cherry.”

“There you go again!”

“Okay okay! I’m sorry! I won’t tease you anymore! Forgive me? Start talking to me?”

She didn’t answer, but she also didn’t budge when Jimmy went closer to pull her into an embrace.

“Maybe I can pop it for you, if you know what I mean.” He teased again and made her struggle to get away from his arms. But Jimmy tightened his hug and refused to let her go.

“I don’t wanna lose my virginity to a ghost!”

Jimmy let out a loud laugh.

“If I was alive I would have make you mine.” He stated calmly while stroking her hair. Blake stopped struggling and stunned hearing his words. Her heart was beating heavily against her chest and Jimmy can feel it on his upper belly.

“What, are you nervous around me now?”

“No.” she answered instantly. “You have a girlfriend.”

Jimmy laughed again and parted from the embrace but just enough to keep his arms around her waist.

“Yes I did. And I’m also dead.” He gazed into her blue eyes deeply. He didn’t know why, when he looked into those eyes he quickly immersed, erasing all the thought he had for Leana or even anyone else.

Is this love? Then why didn’t I feel this way towards Lea before?

They paused staring at each other for a long while. His eyes kept glancing over her dry pink lips and wanted nothing more than to run his tongue all over it.

“Blake, can I kiss you?” Jimmy suddenly asked, breaking the silence between them and made her eyes widened. She was a bit startled by the question and her face went full red at the thought of their first kiss the other day.

“You already did last time, without asking me.”

“Ahh, but this time I won’t possess you.”

Blake bit her lower lip, giving him permission and Jimmy grinned widely. He leaned in and brushed his lips lightly on hers, making her heart raced faster than her own adrenaline.

But when Jimmy was about to fully take her lips, the door was burst open and both of them flinched at the sight of Zacky.

“Jimmy! They’re here. Matt and Johnny. They wanted to see you.”

Blake was standing awkwardly in the middle of the room and Zacky felt somehow he was interrupting something important just now.

“Er, you’re okay dude?”

Blake glanced at her side. Jimmy was rubbing his neck in frustrated but nodded his head nevertheless.

“Yeah.”

“Okay. Come down soon.”

After Zacky moved away from the door, Jimmy turned to face her once again.

“So, you’re really wanna do this? You don’t want me to possess you anymore?”

“No. But I also don’t want to pretend to be you.”

Jimmy smirked. “Yeah, you need to know a lot to pretend to be me.”

Blake chuckled and took a deep breath before going out.

Notes

A/N: so.......what do you think guys? :D