It’s been pure 45 minutes that Brian had been missing from his own bachelor party. Sure the guys enjoyed the company of those girls, specially ordered by Zacky in this private room but without Brian this will all mean nothing.

“Hey um,” Zacky spoke, breaking the tense between them as they watched the strippers dance their way on the poles with sweats on their foreheads.

“Guys, I’m talking here..?”

All of them turned their heads to Zacky reluctantly. Boy, they hadn’t been in a stripper’s bar for a long time that they couldn’t take their eyes off them. The only member that regularly visited stripper’s lair was Brian. While all of them can’t because of their wives and girlfriend. And to Arin it was just, not his kind of thing.

“I’m gonna go look for Brian outside. You guys wait here, don’t go anywhere alright?”

“Agreed,” Both Matt and Johnny said and they immediately diverted their attention to the girls.
Zacky shook his head and went out of the room with difficulty because a couple of strippers in there stopped his tracks and grinded their body on him. After a few of ass slaps and groping here and there, he can finally let himself free.

Meanwhile, Arin covered his eyes with a RayBan and drew his body back a little when a stripper came on to him to sit on his lap.

“Why Arin? You don’t like watching strippers?” Johnny asked while his eyes still blazing through the dancing bunnies in front of him.

“Uh, I have a girlfriend.”

“And we’re married. So? This is Brian’s bachelor party, man. Enjoy it while it lasts.”

Arin rubbed his face and tried to resist the touch from the girl.

“Mac’s gonna be so fucking pissed if she knows.”

~*.*~

If only Zacky could tell them that Brian didn’t really want to go along with this marriage, they would get out of that room in the speed of light. He chuckled a little and went to the back area of the premise, the spot where he left Brian earlier to have his little talk with Addie. But no matter how hard he looked around and how fast his body spun, he couldn’t find even a glimpse of that guy.

“Shit where the fuck did he go?”

Zacky pulled out his phone and rang Brian. It went straight to his voicemail. Then he recalled that Addie was there too, so he gave her a call. It was also being diverted to the voicemail.

“Wow, those two! So fucking fast that they didn’t want anyone to disturb them right now?”

He shook his head and lured out a cigarette, soon patted his own pocket, searching for a lighter as he tucked the cig in between his lips.

“Fuck, Brian took my light!” he was ready to go back into the private room, asking for a light when his eyes caught a glimpse of something shiny on the ground. His eyes narrowed down to that detail as he bent and picked it up.

From between his fingers and through his scoping eyelashes; he saw a silver ring, which he recognized it very clearly because he was the one who bought it together with Brian.

“Shit, this is his wedding ring! What..what..where?” he spun his body around, once again trying to look for his other half of guitar duo but still the result was hopeless. He studied the ring again. Brian was supposed to give this ring to him as the best man, but he can feel it in his guts that something had happened. Something dangerous. Hastily he ran back into the bar and reached for the guys in the private room.

First thing he saw was Johnny dancing against the pole with Matt throwing his money on him and Arin was on the phone in the corner of the room. The other guys apparently had booked another room so it was just the four of them in here.

“Guys!!” Zacky yelled. Matt turned to him, but only to tilt his head upwards a little bit, indicating an ignorant gesture.

“Guys! Brian’s missing!”

“WHAT?!” Both Matt and Johnny yelled. Arin turned around too, looked interested before he hung up from his phone.

“I went outside looking for him, I left him earlier to have a talk with Addie but then when I came back for him, he’s not there and I found his wedding ring.”

“Woah woah woah. What did you say about Addie?”

Zacky pursed his lips before answering. “Addie came by. They talked.”

“And you left him?”

“Well, what was I supposed to do?”

“Stay with him, you idiot! He’s gonna get married to my sister in law and you left him with his old scandal?”

“Matt, you gotta listen to me. He doesn’t want to get married.”

“What do you mean he doesn’t want to? Of course he does! Why else would he buy the ring for Michelle, and announced that they’re engaged?”

Zacky rubbed his face. He thanked God that the music in this room had stopped and those strippers paused their activity too. Zacky leaned in and whispered, careful not to let those strippers heard him.

“Michelle tried to commit suicide. So Brian feels guilty about it.”

“WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?”

“Matt! Just, pipe down will ya? Those strippers know us.”

Matt looked around and waved once. With that order, the girls went out of the room leaving the four of them gathered in the middle.

“What are you talking about, Zacky?”

Zacky inhaled deeply and exhaled after. “Brian told me. He feels guilty for Jimmy. Said he did this out of a promise he made with Jimmy. To take care of Michelle.”

Matt ran his hand through his long hair. “God, I never knew that he’s in such miserable position. All along I thought he only wanted to play with their hearts, you know.”

“Yeah, but that’s not important. What important is right now, Brian is fucking m.i.a!”

---

“Wake up! Hey, cop! Wake up!”

I fluttered open my eyes, a light so bright shone through somewhere. I can’t find the source of it but it sure as hell right above me. The dull ache of the wound in my stomach started to lurch over as I abruptly realized that my hands were tied to my back.

“Mmmmhh!!!” I tried to scream but my mouth was covered tight with a handkerchief. I opened my eyes wide and scanned the view before me. A guy was standing in front of me, quite the same height as mine and he had a beard. His eyes hidden underneath the low-key lighting in this strange room full of wooden crates and boxes but as soon as he squatted down to my level, I can see his face clearly.

Moriarty! The king’s right hand man…and Brian’s cousin! Oh shit, Brian! Where is he? What happened to him?!

“Not feeling so powerful now are you?”

I glanced around in limited movements, trying to find a glimpse of Brian but there was none. Shit, where has he taken him?!

Moriarty laughed and cupped my face roughly with one hand. “Such a beautiful girl. Why do you waste your time with that no good of a prince?”

I was starting to get a little confused. I thought Moriarty was afraid of Brian, a little timid and jumpy but hell, I was wrong. What is he planning to do with us now?

“Stay here for now, I gotta have a LONG talk with your boyfriend.”

He slapped me a few times before standing up again and left me alone in the darkened room. Where am I? The room looked really cramped with no signs of window, and I can feel that it was moving. Moving?! I saw a few of army codes on the walls and notice that this looked a lot like cargo storage in planes. Fuck, are we really flying??

I tried to stand up and but failed when I noticed that my feet were tied together. Shit, I need to know what is he doing to Brian! With some difficulty I managed to bring myself to the door, even if it means I had to drag my own body. I can’t hear anything from here, and God knows how hard I tried to recall what Andy had taught me in these dire situations.

Search for something sharp, like a corner of a solid objects. I looked around. Crates. Quickly I dragged myself to one of the crates and started to shove the rope on my hand on to its corner.

This is gonna take a while.

---

Brian glared with his cold piercing eyes at him. Right now fury was the perfect word to describe how he felt. His breathing gone heavy as he sat on the cushioned seat, his hands tied to the back and his mouth gagged with handkerchief. The short man in front of him paced back and forth while the two buffed men that captured him earlier watched from afar.

“Prince Haner, it’s so nice to finally have you in my grasp.”

Brian raised his brows, wondering where the hell he met this guy because he sure looked familiar. And how did he know about the royal descendant in his blood?

“You might not know me, but I know you like the back of my palm.”

He stated and landed his rear on the seat opposite Brian. Then he added;

“You’re a stuck up rock star that thinks you can rule the world and have all the things you want. Money, booze and women. You can have all that but not my kingdom. No fucking way, Haner.”

Brian blinked at him. Some of what he said was true but that was his old self. Right now he wanted nothing more than to be free from this rope and find Addie. That was all he ever thought about ever since they brought him here. He didn’t know where have they taken Addie but he could feel that she was near.

“The king wants firstborn son, I don’t know what has gotten into his old mind but I’m a first born too! He can’t just abandon me and let me forever be the right hand man!”

Shit, all of this fuss just for a fucking throne?

“Do you think you can handle being king, Haner? Do you?! No, you don’t! You don’t know a fucking thing about running a kingdom and yet that old bastard insisted on you! Do you know what will happen to my Cericia if someone like you handles it?!”

A lot of curse words would escape Brian’s mouth right now but he couldn’t say them verbally. He can only bash out on this guy in his mind.

“Heh, you must be wondering what happened to your precious little cop huh? Well, take the throne and you’re gonna see her body floats on water.”

Brian snapped open his eyes. He quickly looked up to the guy, worry crept up in his veins.

“Oh..worried now are you?”

Damn you mother fucker. Son of a..

“If you wanna see her safe, don’t take the throne.”

I never wanted it, bastard!

The short guy motioned for his men to do something. Brian struggled but with one swift move, the buffed man grabbed his arm and a small pain bit his skin as a needle went through his veins. After that his view blacked out and he remembered nothing.

Notes

A/N: ahaha..not going to be able to update daily..sorry..but here goes...thank you for reading and commenting guys XD