Me and Jimmy were about to head off to my band’s rehearsal when we heard a noise on the front door. We both look at it and found a hasty Jess coming towards it.

“Hey, there! I’m only here to pick up some stuff, I’m staying on Zacky’s while my friends are there, and then I’m out of here for you guys to do whatever you were planning to do…” she came inside and without even looking at the two people staring at her, she was heading to her room.

“Forgetting about your other friends’ existence already?” I said it calmly, just following her with my eyes.

“Oh! No, Ems, come on, I gotta be a good hostess to them, don’t be jealous now. I wish they could stay here but we don’t have enough space.” She entered her room while still talking and let me and Jimmy hanging in there. Nice way of treating her best friend and her boyfriend.

“It’s just I couldn’t even talk to you last night, you were so busy entertaining everyone that I didn’t have the chance to say how you played beautifully and…”

“Aw, thank you Ems, I love you!” her voice sounded muffled from her bedroom.

“By the way, congrats for your performance last night, Jess. You were terrific!” Jimmy made up a weird accent just to appear to be fancy. I gave a slight punch on his abs while entangling my arms around him.

“Thanks Jim! I really appreciate your and the guys’ presence there last night. And by the way…how’s Lacey? I was hoping I would see Johnny and her there too.” Jess appeared suddenly from her room with a big bag full of clothes and stuff.

“Johnny doesn’t want to get out of her side one minute now. She’s delivering in a few days.” Jimmy smiled directly at me. I noticed a special glare in his eyes after saying that. Wait…
I never stopped to think about having kids before but… apparently he had. It scared me a little bit.

“Oh yeah, she must be huge now! We should pay her a visit later. Let’s hope it’s a girl!” Jess replied and closed her bag finally.

“First let’s hope the kid will grow a few centimeters more than short shit, at least.” Jimmy said it in a jokingly tone, which made my fist reach his abs again, a little stronger than last time. “What? I need someone that can actually reach the bass pedal to teach how to play!”

“Yeah, Jim, keep dreaming that Johnny will ever let you teach his kid anything.” I had to provoke.

“Ouch, now you hurt me!” he placed a kiss on my forehead and suddenly I felt his teeth touching my skin. He was about to…bite me?

I got away from his embrace laughing, quickly before he could vampirise me and I noticed Jess was about to open the door to go.

“Hey, J, aren’t you forgetting something?” I kept running around the kitchen table while Jimmy was following me with his long arms set on his front like a zombie.

“No, what?”

“Your pills!” I nearly screamed those words when Jimmy finally reached me and gave me one of his super tight hugs that could break my ribs in seconds if he wanted to. But soon after he weakened his arms around me and robbed a few sweet kisses from my neck from behind. I could only close my eyes and let him do what he wanted to me, I would never resist his moves.

“Oh yeah, thanks!! I definitely shouldn’t forget those!!” she came back inside and picked her chart of birth control pills. “Ok, now I’m gone! Bye! Behave yourselves here! Just…stay away from the couch, it’s brand new!!” she opened the door again and got out.

“Okay, we’ll try! Go!” Jimmy kept pushing me in the couch direction while kissing me unstoppably.
“What are you doing?”

“We have to debut the new couch.” He murmured on my ear before biting it softly.
“No, you heard the woman! Jimmy, I’m already late for the rehearsal. I really gotta talk to them, they have to know I’m back.” I escaped from his cozy embrace with a grin, took his hand and pulled us both out of the house too before I would never get out of there again. "We can debut it later"

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“So you guys wanted to meet Huntington Beach… Pretty much THIS!” Jess pointed at the landscape in front of them: the sun was burning bright on top of the vivid blue ocean like it was painted by the gods and the yellow sand was just a nice detail to contrast with it.

“Glad I brought sun blocker!” Meike said setting her big beach hat correctly on her head. She knew she would look like a walking tomato if she didn’t protect herself from that sun.

“Hey, there’s a good place in here girls, come over!” Zacky screamed from a kind of hidden place on the sand, a bit away from the crowd that could form around him if someone discovered Avenged Sevenfold was in town having their days off.

The girls followed him, spread the towels on the sand and sat there after placing the beach umbrella.

“Hey, I’m gonna go for a swim, I miss those waves. Be right back, baby.” Z took off his shirt and bent over to Jess to rob a quick kiss before heading to the ocean.

“Be careful with the sharks, they can grab your cute ass anytime in there!” Jess winked and let him go. He wiggled his butt teasingly to her and sent a kiss through the air. She wore that smirk the entire time since they had woken up and Kim noticed immediately.

“Looks like your night didn’t end exactly after the concert, huh? Something you wanna share?” Kim asked with her eyebrows raised above her sunglasses.

“Hey, what do you mean? Did you…hear anything last night?” Jess was worried now.

“Well, in fact…” Kim was about to tell a lie when Rye interrupted her.

“Of course not, J, we didn’t hear a single thing, we slept like babies last night. Don’t mind Kim, she starts inventing stuff out of the blue…”

“Hey, Rye, stop sabotaging me! I was just trying to pluck some important info around here, damn it. I gotta teach this girl a few things, you know…” Rye, Mei and Jess chuckled loud.

“Well, Kim, let’s say last night ended when the sun was rising today. Literally and figuratively speaking…” the girls bursted with ‘hmmm’ sounds at her statement. Her smirk only got bigger.

“So…you know me, I like to go straight to the point… You always made pretty clear to us on our long lasting virtual conversations what you wanted Zacky to be doing to you on your sheets so… Your dreams finally came true or…he’s not that big of a deal, if you know what I mean?” Kim asked.

Rye felt her cheeks burning, she sensed she would feel a lot of it for the next few days. Mei laughed loud again at Kim’s complete lack of discretion.

“Oh my god, you want the dirty details, don’t ya?” Jess asked strictly to Kim, but Mei and Rye joined her on the agreement nod. They all wanted.

“I can say he was…very hungry when he came back from their tour the night before the concert.” The girls let the ‘hmmm’ out again, a bit more loudly and excited.

“You mean he…” Meike even took off her sunglasses to look well to her friend’s grin.

“Yeah, he definitely went down on her.” Kim completed before Jess could agree. She knew that smile too well. Jess was completed now.

“And guess where we did it…”

They all stop to think for a moment and realized practically at the same minute with a big O formed on their mouths.

“On the freaking stage you performed!” Rye answered it.

“To be more precisely… on top of that grand piano, baby…” Jess was talking in a bragging tone already.

“Way to go girl! You have my respect!” Kim combined a smirk with a big grin, bowing at her after.

The girls shouted and set her palms up to Jess, that hi-fived all of them. They were happy to witness Jess’ joy. You don’t always get to see that glow in someone's eyes she was wearing then.

“Oh…hey girls, look ahead…” Jess pointed at the two shirtless and soaked guys coming at their direction and kept analyzing her friends’ expressions.

There it was, simply Brian and Matt coming out of the ocean.

Rye had her mouth wide open at that sight and Meike tried to help her close it with her index finger, with a big laugh coming out of them both. Kim was too flabbergasted with the vision that kept getting better and better on that nice state of US to notice the two girls laughing at her side. Maybe she would just move over there. She liked hot places like Huntington.

Slow motion sight was playing again on their heads and Jess had owned her day by watching that scene.

The guys came closer and stopped in front of them, saying a discreet hi. They all had been introduced the night before so there was no need of more presentations now.

“Hey girls, enjoying the sun?” Brian took a peek at the four girls wearing just her bikinis and asked them while brushing his wet hair back with a lazy grin. All the girls wore silly smiles at that simple move of his hand towards his head and nodded at him. “I thought Emily was coming to the beach with you!”

Why the hell they were acting so quiet and shy around them now? Where were all their dirty thoughts hidden now? – Jess had a quick mean thought.

“No, she was going to her band rehearsal with Jimmy. Why, you need something?”

“Oh no, nothing, I just…wanted to know where she was…” Jess was aware about everything that happened on the tour and she noticed the glare on Brian’s eyes had disappeared when she said she was with Jimmy.

“Oh, I see… So, Matt, everything settled for tonight?” Jess looked at Matt now and the girls were observing those tattooed chests more than they were listening to their talk.

“Hm, yeah… Tonight? Okay, it’s settled, can I choose the place?” he asked a bit hesitant and glanced at the three girls instead of Jess now.

What? Is he talking to us now? – they all had the same shouting thought on their minds.

“Yes, of course you can. My girls here will be ready by seven.” Jess answered for them and smirked wisely. Everyone could see the frowning looks Mei, Rye and Kim were wearing right now, even through their sunglasses.

“Ok, seven it is.” He showed his adorable dimpled grin at them all and turned his head to face Brian.

“Well, anyway, nice to see you all again, we’re gonna grab a beer somewhere. See you around.” Brian smiled at them too and they both waved goodbye before going away.

The three girls waved shyly and followed them with their heads even when they disappeared on their backs. They just turned around and stared at them walking, their asses moving gracefully to their sights and their back tattoos and muscles being lightened by the sunlight.

“Are you girls thinking what I’m thinking?” Kim asked without taking her eyes out of those men.

“What…” Rye and Mei tried to say just one word without stumbling into their thoughts.

“Threesome.” They diverted their gazes to Kim when the guys were finally out of the picture and gave her a slap on her head simultaneously. Jess laughed.

“Oh, c’mon, don’t tell me you never thought about it before.” Kim was just too certain she wasn’t the only dirty mind between them there.

“Shut up, Kim. Jess, what was that all about? Why were you planning a date with Matt? And why you said we will be ready by seven?” Meike took her sunglasses off again, suspicious.

“Oh yeah, I was about to tell you about that lil surprise. I told Zack to ask Matt if he had some available time for three journalist friends of mine. Oh and don’t worry, Zack’s already received his payment last night.” Jess let her naughty smile burst in her lips.

“Oh my god, you did what? We are not even close of journalist, you lied to him?” Rye gulped hard.

“Of course I lied. You know I would do anything for you girls. So now you guys have a few hours to prepare your questions. He’s all yours tonight.” She winked. “Oh and please…record it!”

They traded startled glances. Mei and Kim couldn’t be happier. Rye only wished she could’ve brought her little notepad with all the wise questions she had for Matt.

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“That asshole can actually play…” Jimmy grumbled at me while we were watching The Darkest Hour playing In My Time Of Dying at our usual tiny and old studio room. “I thought he could only use his mind to talk shit.”

“Please, Jimmy, don’t start now. I really gotta get my place back on the band while we are here in town. I miss playing with those guys… Just try to hold your hate for the guy by now, ok?”

“Ok, I can try but I swear to god if he says something about you again I…” the song ended and all the guys got out of their instruments to greet me and Jimmy with nice smiles. Scott was the last one to say hi from afar.



He didn’t even get near me or Jimmy, just waved at me from his chair. Probably better…

“Heeeey fire-head! Long time no see, huh?!” Brad hugged me strongly like he usually do and I almost got out of breath on his huge chest. “Hey Jimmy, how are you, man? And the tour, how did it go?”

“Oh it was…good. Tough but good.” I answered for him and Jimmy agreed, aware of what I was talking about. “So… I see you guys hit it off with Scott! He’s really skillful!”

“Yeah…” Brad placed his hands on his pockets.

“So…when can I come back with my skills?”

“Oh…about that… We need to talk.” He looked down to the ground, avoiding my eyes. Talk? “Ems, come on, I’m gonna go out for smoke, are you coming?”

“Ok, sure…” I glanced at Jimmy and he held my hand ready to follow me whenever I was going now. But Brad intervened.

“Jimmy, don’t get me wrong but… I gotta talk to her in private, ok?” Brad sounded serious at Jimmy and they practically had the same height staring face to face. But he asked nicely and Jim just nodded calmly. No problem in there.

I went out of the studio with Brad and the first thing he did was lit up his cigarette. Fucking bad habit I’m so glad I didn’t develop.

“So… what’s up?” I had to ask or he would never start. I was getting nervous already at each of his blows.

“I know we started this band together long time ago and it was all we had for years. But now that you are with the big guys on the business, I didn’t think you would want to continue with us. So…”

“So…?” I knew where this was going already but couldn’t believe unless it would come out of his mouth.

“So I asked Scott to be permanently with us.” I could only show an ironic grin followed by a chuckle. That was what I feared.

“Really? You just thought I wouldn’t come back, just like this, without further notice?”

“I’m really sorry, Em. I shouldn’t have offered him the job but… it’s too late now, he accepted it a few weeks ago and… I can’t just fire him now, he did an incredible job with us. It would be unfair…”

“Unfair is what you doing to me! I thought we were friends and music was our biggest glue. We started this together! But I guess I was wrong…” I looked deep inside his eyes, showing the betrayal feeling I had. He diverted. “All I asked was three months, three months I never had before in six years we’ve been fighting hard to keep this band alive. This is my project too, you know. Why did you blow me off?”

“Ems, please, it’s nothing personal, you know you’re one of the few true friends I have. I just thought you wouldn’t come back! I thought you had simply moved on.” He shrugged.

“What is it, is he better than me?”

“Come on, stop it.” He threw his cigar away on the street still not facing me.

“Is he?” I stood in front of him, forcing him to look at me.

“No! And you know that! I’m sorry, this is all my fault…” he had sad eyes.

“Sorry is not enough, Brad.” I said it close to his face and turned away to get back inside. I was incredibly pissed off.

Jimmy saw me coming back in and walked in my direction, but I had to stop him with my palm raised. A tear escaped from my eyes with all the anger that was overflowing from my insides, Jimmy noticed and came towards me anyway with a worried glance.

“What happened? Why are you crying?” he tried to hold my face to look at him but I just couldn’t. If I looked at his blue eyes I would just fall apart right there in front of everybody.

“Nothing, Jim, he just fired me. Let’s get out of here, please…”

“What? He fired you? I thought this was YOUR band!” Jimmy stopped looking at me to see Brad coming back inside. “Hey Brad, come on, are you keeping THIS guy instead of her? You gotta be kidding me!” he asked loud and clear for everyone to hear. They all stopped what they were doing to hear it, especially Scott. Tension was completely built on that room.

“Jim, just leave it…let’s go, I don’t need this…” I tried to pull his hand to leave but he wasn’t moving towards the door, he was going closer to Brad now. Oh shit…

“Jimmy, this is something between me, my band and her, don’t stick your nose on it, please.” Brad quickly replied, stepping out of Jimmy’s direction.

“As far as I’m concerned, this is your band, together with Emily. Don’t you think you owe her some respect?”

As I was just trying to move Jimmy out of that room, I heard a quiet laugh coming from the place I used to play with them. Apparently, Scott was having a blast with that scene.
That was enough for me to let go of James’ hand and rush with wrath after the guy.

“Is that what you do, right. You live up by people’s misery around you.”

“I don’t know what you talking about. I’m just… the new lead guitarist here, sweetheart. And I earned my place on this band. Did you?” he raised his eyebrows waiting for my answer. “That’s what I thought…”

“Leave this scumbag, is not worth it, Emily!” Jimmy tried still talking with Brad on the other side of the room.

“Yeah, I’m not worth it, listen to him. And look at the bright side, now you can use your free time to be his and all his band mates’ bitch. Isn’t that much funnier for you?” I just chuckled sarcastically. If he thought he could affect me by that cliché, he was definitely wrong. But I couldn’t say the same about Jimmy that was coming to us with strong steps.

“You know what? I think you need a few lessons about how to talk to a girl. I have time now, let’s go out and I can teach you some things, you dick.” The only thing that was separating enraged Jimmy from Scott was me. And I wasn’t that big of an obstacle for them, let’s say.

The guy stood up from his chair finally and gulped his stupid smile, narrowing his eyes at Jimmy. Damn, this is not gonna end up well…

I started to push him to the door. We were really leaving now.

“What can I possibly be learning from you? Huh? How to get a whore as your girlfriend?” the guy stood closer to me now and I was in between them. I pushed Jimmy back harder.

“Try me. I wouldn’t let one bone of yours to tell the story.” Joe, Tony and Brad came closer to us, trying to make Scott back out while I was still trying to push Jimmy away.

“Let’s go, please, Jim, like you said, he’s not worth it.” I begged as more tears were coming out of me. My legs trembled just as that night on the bar.

“No, I wanna smash his head into the ground, ok? Finish what I started!” Jimmy was almost knocking me on the ground when we reached the door.

“I’m waiting, anytime you want, man!” Scott said in a fair distance from us now.

“OUT. NOW!” I screamed one last time and he obeyed, finally. I just breathed in relief.

We both got out of the studio and Jimmy kicked a trash can to release his fury. I kept crying and trembling, walking fast in front of him with no particular direction. I didn’t know where I was going or what I was doing.

Soon after I felt a warm arm reaching my waist from behind me. He kissed my forehead for the second time today and made me rest my head on his chest while we walked close to the beach. I believe I soaked his shirt with my tears.

“I need a fix, Jim…”

“Then let’s go to my place.” He pressed me more intensely against his body and we just walked to his house by the crimson sunset light of Huntington Beach.

Yeah, that's what I needed. A night full of sex and heroine just to forget.

Notes

heeey girlss!!
Sorry to make Johnny smoking-hot Depp as the asshole here ok? But I just couldn't resist that picture <3 hahaha I was going for Jensen Ackles but...well, tough choice! xD

weeeelll, next chapter is the so-called interview!! hahaha stay tuned
but in the meantime, tell me what u think about this chapter ;D

love uu <3