Every move he made, making me nervous to the core. I was anticipating, and sweating over it, that I could just burst out asking ‘when are you going to propose, damn it?’ But so far he hadn’t shown any sign that he would do that. He brought me out of the concert venue, ignoring my uniform attire and his black tshirt from the concert and just walked hand in hand with me along the streets of Long Beach.

This wasn’t the first time they held a concert here but he never brought me in a night walk like this. I wonder if he will propose me here, in the streets with his fans wandered around.

“Syn! Oh my god! Syn! I love you, man! I love your band!”

I let go of his hand to give him space for him to talk to his fans but he reached my fingers back and linked my arms around his.

“Hey guys. Thank you for coming.”

“Can you sign my shirt, Syn?”

“Yeah of course.”

Only then he let go of me and continued to attend to his fans’ need. I watched from quite afar, smiling as he happily took pictures with them. I saw glares from his fan girls towards me and I knew exactly what was going on in their head. But too bad, I don’t give a fuck.

“Thanks again guys, for coming.” He waved goodbye finally and latched his fingers with mine. We continued to walk on and on until we ended up in a restaurant down the street. Nothing fancy, and only few people were there. It was quite understandable since it was almost to 12 am.

“I’m hungry can we stop to eat?” he said and I kind of flinched. Is this where he would propose?

“Yeah sure.”

We settled in a table and he ordered a rather simple meal for us. Burgers and fries. So much for proposing, hmm.. or maybe not here. Maybe he would take me to the beach or something later?

“God, you know what I’ve been thinking about when I was on the stage tonight?”

I sipped on my soda and chuckled at him. Proposing to me?

“What?”

“These fucking burgers. They’re my favorite!”

I almost choked on my drink but I quickly covered it with a laugh.

“What? What’s so funny?”

“You were on the stage with fire and everything and all you could think about was these burgers?”

He chewed and swallowed before he nodded his head. “Of course. You have no idea how hungry we’d get after all those energy spent on stage.”

“Yeah okay, I get it. You guys were working out.”

He chuckled darkly. “Well, yeah. I’m working out on stage and also…when we have sex..”

“Oh my God, you’re right! These fucking burgers are the kill!” I teased him by avoiding that topic and chewed on my burgers. But they were awesome to be honest.

He bit his lip and started to kick my shoe lightly for teasing him. I kicked him back, he kicked back harder until it became a kicking game in the middle of an almost closed restaurant. I ran out of breath because we were laughing so hard and I was screaming a little bit when he purposely reached both of his legs and caught mine, wrapping them tight under the table.

“You’re mine Addie. Mine alone.” He claimed, his face drew nearer as his legs started to rub against my thigh. Oh my God, is this it? But why didn’t he get down on one knee?

He kissed the tip of my nose and let his lips hung there for a moment. My heart pumped hard like a drum beat.

But instead of popping the question, he got up, left a few dollars on the table and offered his hand to me. I took it with a frown. When will he propose, damn it?!


We walked on and talked about almost everything. Val and Matt having their second child, about Arin and Mac where he said that he’s totally alright with it. Yeah, of course. That kid was bullied like hell ever since Brian knew that he was dating his sister. I was slapping his shoulder for making a dirty joke about me when we arrived in front of a closed cinema.

“Damn it, they usually don’t close this early.” He cursed and put a hand on his hip.

“Why? Do you want to watch a movie? This late? Aren’t you tired?”

“Yeah well, I thought about checking out that new movie.”

A romantic movie? Where he would propose to me? Aww..Brian!

“The Avengers of something. Cool blow up shit going on. And Scarlett Johansson is in it. Can’t miss seeing her in tights.”

“What?!”

I was reaching my boiling point, and he had to rub salt on it with that ignorant remark, huh! Go to hell, Brian. Maybe Lacey was fucking lying to me. Maybe this was all a setup to get me or something.

I stomped away but Brian suddenly pulled me back, spun me around until I landed back in his arms. A song appeared out of nowhere, a light piano at first, then came drum thumping emerged before a guitar riff followed, I know this song.

“Dance with me?” he requested, knitted my fingers with him as his other palm rested on the small of my back. I put my hand on his shoulder and bit my lip.

“Acid Rain?” I smirked and he chuckled, swaying my body slowly as the sound of Matt’s voice echoed through the empty street. I wonder who else was behind all these tricks.

“I wrote this song for you. For us.”

Children still play in the garden
Dance as the sun slips away

We stand on the edge now
We’ve come so far
Through all the dust it becomes clear
You will always be my heart

There’s no death, no end of time when I’m facing it with you

We waltzed as if the world was ours, with literally nobody around and only a few street lights were lit.

“Who is your accomplice?”

“What accomplice? This is all pure coincidence.”

I rolled my eyes, and he laughed before spinning me around once again, only to let me buried in his arms again. Oh my god, my heart was practically going to burst out of my chest.

“Stand near to me, don’t look, be brave.” He started to sing. I swear to God I loved his singing more than Matt.

“But these lyrics..Brian, it’s like you’re saying goodbye.”

“Hm? Goodbye? No no. It sums up all that we’ve been through all this while. If it wasn’t for you, I’d be dead by now.”

“And if it wasn’t for you..”

“I didn’t do anything, Addie.”

“Oh Brian. You don’t know what you did to me.”

Yeah, making me nervous, my heart exploding, making me cry, laugh, almost died, flamed of jealousy – everything.

“I don’t ever want to lose you, Addie. You are my life.”

Oh dear God, is this it? The song had ended and so did we, stopped dancing. He looked into my eyes deeply before he leaned down, dropping himself on one knee. I gasped and clamped my mouth with one hand. Shit, I can’t control my tears either. I know Lacey already gave me the insights and all that but seeing him like this - I can’t even..

“Addison Wayne,” he called my full name.

“Ye..yeah?”

“Will you..be my..hey, what’s that on your chest?” he frowned and pointed ahead. I gazed down and saw a red dot was moving on my chest, like sort of laser….

BAMMM!!

“ADDIE!!”

A force hit through me, and I can’t control my balance. I glanced slowly at Brian, he was rushing forward…panicking…what the hell happened..?

I can’t breathe.

I can’t hear anything.

My vision…grew blurry..

“Brian..” I croaked but I heard nothing.

“ADDIE!!!” I heard him screamed but his voice was drowning. Then I felt it. The pain started to roam inside me, through my veins, hitting my brain and struck directly to my heart.

“ADDIE!!! NOOO!! NOO NO NOOO DON’T FUCKING LEAVE MEE!!”

“Brian..yes, I’ll marry you.”

That was all that I can say, I don’t even know if he heard me. But everything went pitch black after that.

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Brian paced around in such urgent manner, his eyes puffed and bloodshot red with tears. He didn’t even care if he looked like shit right now. It had been 4 hours since Addie was admitted to the ER after the shot incident. His heart can’t even contain of how much he wanted to kill everybody, so his friends and family can only watch him from the waiting bench and a little afraid to approach him.

Police were drifting by and asking them questions about the shooting scene and Andy arrived with a great angry mark plastered on his face. He didn’t care if Brian was disturbed, he went straight to him and grabbed his shoulders.

“Brian! What happened?! TELL ME!”

Brian slowly looked up to Andy, only to realize that his body was extremely exhausted.

“There was..a laser..on her chest..then she..”

“Shit, a sniper? Who the fuck would do something like this?!”

“I was…” Brian trailed his voice before continuing after a long pause. “…proposing.”

Andy closed his eyes tightly. He’d thought that they were finally left alone, being happy. Now there’s another shooter on the loose?

Fuck just what have these guys done to be treated like this?

Brian slowly went towards his band mates and stood there wearily, not a single word came out from him. Matt got up first, patted him on the back.

“She said yes.” he smiled at Matt, tears running down his cheek like a waterfall.

All of the guys rose up to hug him, and he pursed his lips trying to hold back his tears.

“She said yes…and now she’s..”

“Shh, Brian. Everything’s gonna be okay.”

He lingered in the group hug for a while before Andy rushed suddenly when a doctor in green scrub suddenly came out from the ER, pulling his mask down. Brian quickly ran up to him and shot questions like crazy.

“Doctor! How is she?!”

“Relax, young man. Um, I have both good news and bad news.”

Brian exchanged glances with Andy.

“The good news is, the patient is pregnant for 4 months.”

“What..?” Brian stunned with his mouth ajar. He can’t believe his ears. He’s going to be a dad!

“What’s the bad news?” Andy hurled, ignoring the look on Brian’s face.

“Um, the bad news is, you get to save only one of them.”

“WHAT?! WHY…WHY IS THAT?” Brian roared, he had grown really impatient on the doctor, and on himself.

“If you want to save the baby, we had to let the mother go, because the baby can’t survive if the mother is unconscious. We can put the baby in a tube, there’s a study in it, which lets the baby grow outside the womb for a moment and put them in a surrogate mother to be born after.”

Brian and Andy didn’t say a thing. They stared at the floor and trying to digest everything at once.

“If you want to save the mother, we will cleanse the pregnancy off her and induce her into a comatose. Her heart was badly hurt, she couldn’t survive to breathe on her own.”

Andy leapt to Brian. He grabbed his shoulder again, gently this time.

“Brian, make a wise choice.”

Brian didn’t have to think. He knew what he wanted. With tears conjured down his cheek, he answered;

“Save the mother. Get rid of the baby.”

Notes

A/N: sooo...i need some votes from you guys...do you want this story to end in a SAD ENDING or HAPPY ENDING????

i need votes guyss come on!! XD