Hail To The King
Eighteen
It was pretty awkward for me to hang with the whole family of Haner and Avenged Sevenfold altogether in this long dinner table. Brian was sitting far away from me and Michelle didn’t sit right next to him. They were separated by Zacky and Gena. Maybe they were still fighting and hadn’t make amends yet. But one thing I realized was, Brian’s eyes were no longer set on mine. They were everywhere but looking at me.
Good. I didn’t want him to stare at me like he always did, anyways. But one sharp stare that I noticed during dinner was from Brian Sr. He was sitting right opposite me and beside him was Suzy, his wife and Arin.
“What?” I whispered, shooting a glare at him. He glared at me back, bulging his eyes open and gestured to his left. I glanced over. Brian was playing with his food and not eating at all. Eventhough Zacky was talking animatedly next to him, he would just smirk and twisted his fork in the plate.
I shook my head at Brian Sr, indicating that feeding his son was not in my job description. But his eyes piercing sharp – just like his son's but a lot more terrifying – forcing me to do something about it.
“Shit.” I pulled out my phone and had no choice but to start texting Brian.
I saw him peeking at his phone, but he didn’t smile or anything. He just chose to ignore my text and shoved it away. Nevertheless, he picked up his spoon again and started eating. I felt relieved.
I looked over to Michelle. She seemed quite happy conversing with her twin sister and the rest of the guys. I wonder what made them fight that Brian looked so devastated while she looked ecstatic.
A familiar Arctic Monkey’s song appeared out of nowhere and made me jumped. Everyone at the table turned to look at me.
“Uh..sorry.” I gestured a palm and picked up the call, a little quite further than the guys. It wasn’t from Andy. Or anybody else that I know of.
“Yellow?”
The other line remained silent.
“Yellow?” I tried again.
“Addison Wayne, is it?”
An unfamiliar voice crept through my speaker phone.
“Who is this?”
He let out a devilish laugh. “You don’t know me, cunt. But I know you. Oh..I know all about you.”
Fuck. Who is this?! Why did he sound so self assured? Did I really blow my cover?
“Shit, who is this?!”
“I’m the ghost you’ll never see, a shadow you’ll never catch.”
“Stop playing motherf-”
“Stay away from Gates. Or I’ll cut your fucking throat. For real.”
“Hey Andy, I got a call from anonymous just now. Private numbers but I think I got it recorded on my phone. I’ll send it to you for analysis. Bye.”
I pressed the end button so fast, I didn’t want Andy to pick up at all. Shit, what really happened between us? I searched for a recording feature in my phone that will allow me to record all my conversations through it and sent it to him. I hope he will get some information out of them.
"Are you talking to your informant?"
I jumped and spun around. Brian Sr was there, eyeing at me curiously. Jeez, what's up with these father and son? Always sneaking up on people!"Brian, you gotta stop watching those Bond movies. I have no other informant. You're my only one."
He blinked at me. "Wow, then you must really suck as an agent."
"Excuse me?"
He burst out laughing while I stared at him quizically.
"You should have seen your - hahahha! I was just kidding, Addie! Just relax for a sec okay?"
Damn it. Dealing with comedians, I had to expect things like this to happen.
"So anything new?" he asked and my bubble of thought disappeared.
"Um, just a guy that you used to stalk-"
"I didn't stalk him! He was the one-"
" - he's your nephew."
He widened his eyes and gaped at me.
"What?"
"Yep. Apparently he's the right hand man for the king and also, in line for the throne."
He walked forward for a bit, his hands buried within his pockets while his eyebrows scrunched, thinking hard probably.
"Why would my father wants Brian as the next king if he already has my nephew?"
I shrugged. That unanswered question had been bugging with my mind too.
"I suggest you go back and visit your dad, and ask him everything. I'll take care of your son here. Don't you worry."
He glared at me intently. "Does Brian know you're here protecting him?"
I closed my eyes and let out a sigh. "He knows I'm his security girl."
"But he doesn't know that you came here for him?"
I shook my head. "He doesn't need to. After all of this shit done, I'll be away and it will be as though he didn't know me at all."
Michelle faked her laugh at something Valary said, but the corner of her eyes kept catching Brian who was listening to Zacky nonchalantly. They hadn't talked properly ever since the plane had landed here. She was frustrated about 'finish-the-boner' thing but she didn't wanna let it show in front of the family and the guys here.
Brian had apologized, and they got back together in one room again. To Michelle, other things like the security bitch didn't matter anymore. She will have Brian all to herself now and they were in one of the most exotic beaches in the world. Anything can happen here. She might also get pregnant.
Yes. That was her plan to make him stay.
She glanced over at Addie. That girl was away from the table and hid somewhere behind a wooden pillar, talking to her phone. She was probably talking to her gorgeous boyfriend, Michelle thought.
Michelle excused herself from Valary – saying that she wanted to hit the washroom, and then slowly sneaked behind Addie and Papa Gates without anyone noticing.
"I suggest you go back and visit your dad, and ask him everything. I'll take care of your son here. Don't you worry."
She listened closely, but still remained hidden behind those two.
Take care of his son? Brian? Taking care of what?
"Does Brian know you're here protecting him?"
"He knows I'm his security girl."
"But he doesn't know that you came here for him?"
What? She's here for Brian? What's that supposed to mean? Was she stalking him or something? This little bitch. I knew there's something up her sleeve! This can't be done. She has to fucking go!
"He doesn't need to. After all of this shit done, I'll be away and it will be as though he didn't know me at all."
Their lips touched gently, he can feel the heat from her strawberry flavored lips pressing against his as he took the fullness of them in his mouth entirely. She was frozen, her body went stiff, and her eyes bulged in surprise.
But as he wanted to go deeper, she pushed his body away and stared at him, question marks screaming loudly on her face.
“Andy..?” she whispered.
Cat got his tongue. He couldn’t speak nor find the right words to explain in his mind.
“What was that for..?”
“I was..”
Being in character. That was his excuse at last, after baffling over some ridiculous answer in his head. Addie looked pretty pissed. She said goodbye to the guys over at the BBQ place and ran back to her house. To avoid suspicions, Andy had to follow her from behind.
She didn’t wanna talk to him later that night. Andy knew she was confused as fuck so he let her be for a while and now she left a voicemail saying that she’s on her way to Cabo?
Andy stared at the phone in his palm, his SIG Pro rifle in the other, ready to be triggered. He can feel it in his guts that Addie was trying to avoid him ever since the party at Brian’s house ended. He didn’t know what came over him actually, he just kissed her out of spontaneity and urge. She looked so sexy that night that Andy realized; a pair of eyes other than his kept watching her with lustful desire.
It was true that he didn’t actually forbid Addie to mess around a little bit with the subject; he did it all the time. But he couldn’t bear seeing her in someone else’s arms. He loved her too much to let her go.
Right now, the problem is he can’t figure out what kind of love was it that he had for her. As a friend? Or something more?
“Andy, time’s up man. Where have you dozed off to?”
And looked up. Jeremy, his co-agent was waving in front of his face. He glanced to his right – the humanly shaped cardboard now getting nearer until it stopped in front of him. Not a single bullet hole.
“Are you thinking about Sarah again?”
His mind suddenly diverted to Sarah, his girlfriend for two weeks. Yeah he hadn’t seen her in a couple of days now. He started to miss her already. But she wasn’t the one that lingered on his mind right now. His phone suddenly buzzed, there was an incoming text saying that he has a new voicemail. He pressed the dial button and listened to it.
“Hey Andy, I got a call from anonymous just now. Private numbers but I think I got it recorded on my phone. I’ll send it to you for analysis. Bye.”
Addie sounded like she was in a rush. What happened? He rummaged through his email on the phone and saw a new mail. Quickly he put the rifle down and connected his phone to the laptop in his office.
“What’s wrong, man?” Jeremy hailed, followed from behind.“It’s Addie. She got an anon call.”
“Wayne? Shit. Quick, listen to it!”
“I’m trying to, dumbass!”
Andy transferred the recording to the laptop and pressed play when it was done.
“Yellow?.........Yellow?”
“Addison Wayne, is it?”
“Who is this?”
“Hahahaha! You don’t know me, cunt. But I know you. Oh..I know all about you.”
“Shit, who is this?!”
“I’m the ghost you’ll never see, a shadow you’ll never catch.”
“Stop playing motherf-”
“Stay away from Gates. Or I’ll cut your fucking throat. For real.”
Both Andy and Jeremy exchanged quizzical look with each other. They recognized that voice so well. It was the suspect for this Haner case and the one that got away from his grip weeks ago.
“Um, I have to go Jeremy. Just mark this out of my key performance index.” Andy said, while putting on his gun straps over his shoulder and filled two sets of SIG Pro in them.“I’ll notify Chief. You’ve got everything prepared?”
“Yeah. See you in….a couple of days.”
Brian watched her from afar as she picked up another shot of whisky and clinked her glass with the guys. Even with his dad. He was the only one isolated, minding his own business here at the smoking area, sucking his cancer sticks one after another.
He was frustrated yet again, he knew he wanted more but she kept turning him down. That fucking boyfriend thing was always in his way. And this Michelle thing. He sighed, blowing out smoke from his nostrils as he did.
After Addie left him hanging high and dry, like she always did, he felt so tired of making his point in wanting her too damn much so he just told her to stay the fuck away from him. Angrily he paced towards Michelle’s room and banged on the door a little loudly.
Michelle opened it, her eyes red bloodshot from crying. Brian felt guilty at once.
“Brian..”
He turned his gaze away. “Chelle, I’m sorry.”
Immediately Michelle gave him a tight hug and buried her face in his broad chest. His hand still hanging stiff, but she didn’t seem to care.
“I forgive you. I’m glad you came to me.”
He smiled bitterly as she pulled his hand inside and slammed the door shut.
Brian took another straw of cigarette from his red Marlboro pack eventhough the one that hanging from his mouth still blazing and burning, not even halfway. He tried to focus on making love to Michelle but he just couldn’t do it. With Michelle, he will always see Jimmy. How heartbroken he was when the first time he knew about the two of them hooked up. Though Jimmy never said it out loud, Brian knew. Hell they knew each other like Disney knew Mickey Mouse. Like Heineken knew their beers.
Brian wanted to see him happy first and foremost, so he kept his promise to be by Michelle’s side and take care of her but now – he just couldn’t. Brian didn’t want to admit this, but he had fallen in love. Fuck, he really has. And the woman that got a hold of his heart was being nothing but a frustration and tease.
Brian ran a hand through his slicked hair and watched her again. She laughed at what Johnny said, together with Lacey slapping on his arm. He wondered whether his friends knew that Addie had captured his heart away. She seemed to blend well with their girlfriends but Michelle. Even Valary didn’t mind to befriend with her.
“Mind if I join you?”
Brian swept back home and looked up. Michelle was standing beside him, leaning over with both hands in her back, smiling sweetly. He raised his eyebrows once and she took the unlit cigarette from his hand.
“Since when do you smoke?” he asked with utmost curiosity. He had never seen her smoking before.
“Since we broke up.”
He stared down at her as she lit the stick and inhaled deeply. The way she did all of this, made him realize how much she had changed, it was like he didn’t know her anymore.
“So I was thinking,” she began, taking a seat opposite him and leaned her body over. “Maybe we could try again tonight? I missed you being inside me so much, Brian. How long will I have to wait?”
Brian closed his eyes and took a long drag. He told her to wait for him as he organized his scattered feeling after his fail attempt on wanting to fuck her earlier.
Damn this woman. Just wait until Jimmy came back from his grave then!
“I have the red lingerie you liked. Do you remember?”
He shot open his eyelids and blinked at her. Yes, he remembered. He used to feel so turned on watching her in that lingerie. He wondered whether that skimpy hot outfit will look good on Addie. Damn, it definitely will. Her smooth legs, bare flat tummy abs that he loved so much but didn’t have the chance to kiss and her teasing cleavage. God, only thinking about her can make him sweating like he was on stage.
But wait, why am I thinking about Addie again? Shit, I’m so fucking screwed.
“Maybe tonight we’ll be open, skin on skin.” Michelle seduced, started to bring herself on his lap. Brian didn’t move a muscle, only shifted a little to support her weight on him. She suggested something tempting. He hated to use condom anyway. Though some of the groupies he had screwed without it but he made sure that they were either on pill or he just spurted his seeds outside.
“Why?” he simply asked.
“I want to feel you inside me, Brian. It’s been so long.”
He calmly reached for his bottle of beer and glanced at Addie. She was caught looking at him, then looked away at once.
“Okay.” He answered, without knowing. His frustrated gaze was set on Addie as Michelle leaned down to kiss him and he kissed her back, passionately.
Notes
A/N: will update another chap in another few hoursss...feedback guysss XD
Oh my god, this is amazing! Loved it:D
8/12/16