All I Ask Is... Why?

An hour after congratulating Zacky and Mercedes on their new addition, the girls and I agreed that it was time to leave and celebrate. We all decided to head out for some fun by going to a male strip club not far from Valary's house. We didn't tell the boys that we were going to a male strip club because unless we were invited, they wouldn't tell us that they were going to a female strip club. Don't get us wrong, a female strip club was our first choice, but we all expected that if Zacky and Mercedes were going to have a baby, then hopefully they will eventually get married. It's only fair. So Mercedes will need to get out all of her demons on the male strippers as much as possible before the baby is born, and if anyone can speak for her on that, then that person would be Valary. We all made our way to Matt's truck, which Valary stole the keys, and drove off together. Valary and Mercedes sat in the front and I sat in the back with Kimberly and Lacey at my sides. "So, how far long are you?" Val asked Mercedes.

"I checked with the doctor this morning and he said I am four and a half weeks pregnant. I had a gut feeling that I was pregnant and I haven't really started showing symptoms since two days ago. Zacky thought I just had a really bad flu and begged me to go see a doctor." She smiled.

Valary smiled a little. "Well, I'm very happy for you guys. Having a family of his own has always been Zacky's true dream. He may put on the image that he's a player, but he's really very sensitive when it comes to talking about having a wife and child, or children, of his own one day. He's tried with his ex-wife time and time again before he divorced her, but he did it in hopes that she would give up her career as a nude model for being a wife and mother to him and his kids. She didn't want that, so they both agreed that they should file for divorce since they both wanted things out of each other that they knew they were never going to get. He wanted a wife and kids, and she wanted his support on her career as a nude model. But as a mother, I feel that I should be honest and not sugar coat the fact that having a rockstar as a father to your child is not easy, neither is raising the child on your own while your man is on tour. It's cool and everything, but at the end of the day, all you want is for him to come home and be with you and the entire family. Any other woman would back out of this as soon as they found out that they were pregnant, but I see what you and Zacky have, and it's special, real. I have no doubt that you two will make things work and will be amazing parents."

"Thanks Val, I really needed that." Mercedes responded.




The rest of the ride to the club was spent in senseless chatter, and that senseless chatter even continued from the moment we got off of the truck til we took our seats near the stage inside the club. A shirtless waiter wearing a black man thong made his way over to our table. He smiled at each of us and I could already tell that Lacey was getting pretty excited. The man had an extremely hot body and was oiled from chest to toes, at least I think, he was wearing combat boots. His gaze instantly caught to me and his smile never left his face. "Welcome lovely ladies. Can I start you off with some drinks?" He asked.

"Yeah, I would like a Green Tea Mojito." Val started.

"I want a Cosmopolitan." Lacey added.

"I will try a Caribbean Bellini." Kimberly said after looking through a small menu.

The guy looked at Mercedes to write down her drink order. "Do you have any Virgin Strawberry Daiquiri's? I'm pregnant and I don't want any alcohol in my drinks." She asked politely.

"Yes ma'am, congratulations." He winked at her. "And for you, beautiful?" He asked looking at me with a seductive smile. Just by his looks, I could already tell what he was thinking. He was giving me the same looks that Ryan used to give me when he wanted to have his way with me. It was making me very nervous, so I tried my best to talk without looking at him.

"Uh, I will just get a water." I quickly replied.

"Are you sure? We have plenty of other options." He replied, a little confused.

"Nope. Water is just fine for me." I smiled at him quickly before looking around in the club. 'Please go away.' I kept repeating in my head. Chances are that I was being a little paranoid with all of this, but something told me deep inside to watch out for this guy. He had bad intentions and I felt it as soon as I felt his eyes set right on me when we walked inside the club.

He walked away with our orders and the girls couldn't help but look at me a little weird. "Eve, are you sure you don't want a drink?" Kimberly asked me.

I shook my head slightly. "No, I'm fine with just water. The two beers I had back at the cookout was enough for me for tonight."

I know that by me not drinking was kind of a buzzkill for everyone, but I learned the hard way that I can't control what I do with alcohol, and if I were to drink and get crazy like the girls want me to, then there will be no telling as to what would happen after I black out, especially with the waiter that has been giving me bad vibes since we got here. I took my cellphone out of my purse and slipped it into my front left pocket just in case. If I needed to, I wasn't going to be afraid to call Brian to pick me up from here, but I was at least going to try and enjoy the night with the girls.

It took the waiter ten minutes to arrive with our drinks and we wondered what took him so long. He made the excuse that he had to gather the right ingrediants to make sure everything came out perfect for all of us, I could tell instantly he was lying. As he walked away, he looked back at me and winked with a small smirk. I rolled my eyes and watched as the dancers came out as a group first. They were dressed as combat army men and did a march around the stage before beginning to dance and strip for all of us. Instantly we all began cheering and laughing as the men made their way off stage and started giving random girls lap dances. One guy came up to Valary and she was getting super excited as he placed her hands all over himself and she started stuffing money in his thong. As I continued to drink my water, I started to see a little funny, everything would be blurry for one second and be perfectly clear the next. I figured that maybe I was just tired, after all, it was close to one in the morning, and the club doesn't close til four.

Leana and Gena eventually showed up within the hour and took their places at the table with us. Gena sat between Valary and Mercedes, and Leana sat between me and Kimberly. They were both dressed really nice, like they had just left another club before coming here. As they prepared for another dancer to come out, the same waiter came back and brought us all refills of our drinks and took Gena's and Leana's orders. Once again, he smiled and winked at just me. I was hoping the water would help me and get out of this foggy sleepiness I was suddenly feeling, but it seemed to only be making it worse. Gena and Mercedes were talking and getting along great at first until she asked Mercedes how she knew the guys. Mercedes instantly dropped the bomb to her about having been Zacky's girlfriend since the beginning of November. "Oh really?" Gena asked surprised.

"Yeah, actually, I'm having his baby." She dropped. Gena's eyes became wide and smiled at Mercedes just a little bit.

"Well then... Congratulations." Was all Gena said before she stopped talking to Mercedes completely. From then on, she would carry on conversations with only Valary and every once in a while made it seem like she was small talking with Mercedes and tried to act like she was so interested in what my sister had to say.

The rest of the night seemed to drag on and each one of us got a lapdance from a dancer, and when one dancer came to dance on me, I couldn't help but get turned on when he took my hands in his and glided them all over his body. My hormones were raging and my mind was starting to become less and less in control of my body, but then I snapped a bit back into reality. What was I doing? Why was I feeling so weird? I haven't even had enough alcohol in my system to start feeling like this. I needed to step out for fresh air fast. As soon as the dancer moved away from me to go dance on Lacey, I got up and quickly made my way towards the door with my purse in hand. I wanted to go home, or at least back with Brian. I stepped outside and the cool breeze felt so good against my skin. I leaned against the wall and looked around in my purse. I had Brian's pack of Marlboro cigarettes that I bought for him before we left Vegas and forgot to give to him once we landed. I normally don't smoke, but I felt like I could really use this smoke. I opened the pack and placed the cancer stick in between my lips and looked around for a lighter. My heart started pounding when the main door opened. Val stepped out and looked around before her eyes set on me. "There you are." She smiled and made her way over to me. Her eyebrow raised when she noticed the unlit cigarette between my lips. "I didn't know you smoke."

"I don't." I replied, still searching for a lighter.

She pulled a lighter out from her front pocket and lit the small yellow flame. "Here you go."

I lit up my cigarette and took a small drag. I've watched Brian smoke long enough to see how it was done. "Thanks." I smiled as I breathed out the smoke.

"No problem. May I have one?" She asked politely.

"Sure." I shuffled through my purse until I found the pack and handed her the brown and white stick. She smiled and placed it between her lips and lit it up.

She took a drag and breathed out the smoke with a smile. "God, I haven't had a smoke since a month before I got pregnant with River. It feels so nice."

I smiled at her. I don't understand what everyone finds so great and delicious about these things, they were fucking nasty to me. I tried taking another small drag before making a disgusted face and coughing a little.

"You'll get used to it eventually." She chuckled. "So, now that you and I have a moment, I wanted to talk to you." Her voice began to echo as my mind started going somewhere else. The fresh air was the only thing that was able to help me focus at this point. "I know that when we first met, I really couldn't see myself ever becoming friends with you. I mean, you show up with Brian in your little shitty ass car and I instantly knew that something happened between you two. And when he was completely blowing off Michelle for you, it had me pissed off because she's my sister, and I didn't want no man treating her like shit. After that, I started hating you. But after hearing about what Michelle did to Brian with the baseball bat and the whole thing between her and your ex, I knew then that there was something going on that she and Brian were not telling us. She told me everything, how she cheated on him more than once, how she would get violent with him, and how much she hated him for no reason at all. That made me change my mind a little as to why you continued to be in Brian's life. After getting to know you little by little tonight, I would like for us to be friends, because you are a cool girl and I know you are making Brian happy. If I ever did anything to offend you, I'm sorry. So I would like for us to start off with a clean slate."

I really hope that I wasn't imagining this right now. And with the way that I was feeling at the moment, I wasn't so sure. But I placed a smile on my face. "I would love for us to be friends. I don't want any awkward tension between any of us because of the relationship I have with Brian. He makes me happy and I want to make him happy for as long as possible. I told Matt that I was going to try to be friends with all of you no matter what, because I wasn't going anywhere and I felt it would only be fair to both of us if we all started on a clean slate. You didn't do anything to offend me because I would have done the same thing if I were you. If any of my sister's boyfriends were cheating on her with someone else and I didn't know what else was going on, then I would be reacting the same way that you did."

"I'm glad you understand where I was coming from. What Michelle has done, I will admit that it wasn't okay with any of us. But from now on, I just want us to forget the past and start all over as friends. What do you say?" She extended her arms out a little to hug me.

I smiled and hugged her back to the best of my advantage. "Of course. I'm glad we had this talk." We parted from each other and leaned our backs against the brick wall.

"Me too." She smiled at me before taking one last drag and putting out her cigarette on the cement. "Well, I'm gonna head back inside and let Mercedes know that you are okay. Or did you want to come in with me?"

I shook my head a little. "No, I'm going to stay out here for a little while longer. Get some more fresh air."

"Okay. Well don't stay out too long, we would like for you to come back and join us." She smiled before giving me one last small hug and walking back inside.

As much as I wanted to go back inside and hang out with the rest of the girls, I wasn't feeling quite right and a part of me wanted to just go back to Brian's home and sleep the rest of the night away in his arms. His strong, muscular, tatted up arms. Oh God I need him. I grabbed the phone out of my pocket and turned it on to the bright screen. My eyes couldn't adjust well as I tried my best to find Brian's number. I became more sleepy and my vision became more blurry. I finally picked a number and lightly pressed the phone against my ear. "Hello?" I heard the male voice.

"Brian?" I asked, my voice a little slurred.

"Yes babe?" He asked.

"Brian?" I asked again.

"Babe are you alright?" He asked, sounding a little worried.
I didn't hear the door open once again, but I did hear the footsteps come closer and closer.

"Brian, I want to go home." I said, a little more slurred.

"Where are you?" His tone getting a little more worried.

Before I could answer, I felt another hand grab the phone out of my hands gently. "Hey sexy." The man said in a seductive voice. I could see that it was the waiter from inside. The phone was still on when he placed it on his pocket and took my hands in his, standing extremely close in front of me. "I was wondering when I would get you all alone, I've had my eyes on you all night."

"Who are you?" I asked.

"Baby, for the rest of the night, you can call me daddy. Or papi, since you look a little on the mexican side." He smirked.

I started to struggle for him to let me go. "Get away from me." His grip became tighter. "Let go of me!" I said a little louder.

"A fighter, I like that. Gives me a reason to get rough with you." He pressed me against the wall and held both of my hands above my head with one hand. He tried to move in to kiss me, but I kept moving my face out of the way.

"No! Get off!" The more I struggled, the stronger he got. "Go away and leave me alone!" I struggled even more. I could tell that no matter how loud I screamed, nobody was going to hear me, everyone was inside partying and there wasn't another person in sight. He then grabs me by the shoulders and drags me to the alley near a dumpster. I struggled and fought to get out of his grip, but he was too strong. He then knocks me down and sits on my legs on top of me. "BRIAN! HELP ME!" I screamed out as loud as I could. He then rips my shirt and ties my hands together to the dumpster as tight as he would without ripping the fabric even more. "NO STOP! SOMEONE HELP ME!" I screamed out. He then slaps me really hard, and his gold ring cuts me on my face.

"Stop screaming you little bitch!" He said in frustration. I still fought as much as I could as he moved down lower to take off my pants and shoes.

"BRIAN! SOMEONE! HELP ME!" I continued to scream. I felt my bare legs hit the cold concrete and he grabbed a knife out of his back pocket. He flicked the blade out and pressed it against my neck.

"Scream again bitch and I will slit your throat!" He threatened. He then made his way down to my underwear and slowly started gliding the blade underneath my panties. "Let's see what surprise awaits for me." He smirked.

I closed my eyes tightly and began to cry. I wanted to black out again like I did when Ryan tried to rape me. Before I could even wish for it, I felt the man's body get forcefully pulled off of me. I opened my eyes to see Matt untying me and Brian beating up the guy that was trying to rape me. Matt cutt the fabric off and Zacky went and grabbed my pants and shoes and Matt carried me out to his second truck. Laying me down in the back seat he began barking out orders. "Arin, go inside and get the rest of the girls! Zacky, call an ambulance!" He then focused on me. "It's going to be alright. I will be right back." He then shuts the door and runs back to the alley to get Brian.

Zacky then opens the door to the other side and sits next to me. He wraps one arm around me and covers me with his jacket. "Are you okay?" He asked softly.

I nodded. "Yeah, I'm okay. He tried to drug me. He put something in my water, I know he did."

Before Zacky could answer, Mercedes opens the door and embraces me in a tight, but gentle, hug. "Oh my God! Evelyn are you okay?!"

"I'm fine. I wouldn't have been if these guys haven't shown up." I looked over her shoulder to see that everyone was worried about me. Even Leana was there, Gena was nowhere in sight, but I could care less about her. As long as she didn't start anything with my sister. I could hear Mercedes whisper 'thank you' to Zacky.

Brian and Matt eventually make their way over and Brian's fists were red and had spots of blood on them. He made his way over to me and Mercedes let go so he could hold me. "Baby I'm so sorry." He whispers to me.

"Brian, you and the guys saved me. You have no reason to be sorry." I spent the rest of the time in his arms until the ambulance and police showed up. The cops questioned all of us while his partner arrested the man in the alley. Everyone was able to confirm that I haven't had anything but water since me and the girls arrived to the club.

When they arrested the guy, he shouted. "Hey! What about the asshole that was fighting me?"

The cop then looked at us and looked back at him. "This young man was defending this young lady's life. And as far as I'm concerned, you were the one doing any harm. They are being let go."

As soon as I heard those words, I smiled at Brian and he smiled back, kissing me softly on the lips. "Brian, I want to go home."

He nodded in agreement. "Okay baby. Let's go home."

Everyone gathered together and Valary took the truck with the girls, Johnny and Arin. Matt took the other truck with Zacky sitting in the front and Mercedes and Brian sitting in the back with me. Mercedes helped me put on my jeans and rested my legs on her lap and I rested my head and shoulders on Brian's lap, using Zacky's jacket at a blanket for my chest. I eventually fell asleep, but before I drifted off to sleep, I could feel Brian kiss my forehead softly. "I love you Evelyn." he whispered.

"I love you too Brian." I whispered back before falling into a deep sleep.

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