“I HATE THIS GAME!” Diana flung the controller on the ground as once again she was shot and killed.
“You only hate it because you can’t play it.” Matt joked back.

“I hate Call of Duty. I don’t know why I agreed to play with you.”

“Because Val and Michelle aren’t here and you have nothing better to do?”

Diana punched him in the arm and sat back down grabbing the controller again.

“I have plenty to do! I’m just in a writer’s block right now.”

Matt clicked the start again option and within five minutes Diana slammed the controller back down as Matt rolled around in a fit of laughter.

“I can’t decide if I hate you or this game more.”

“Don’t worry Diana I can’t play very well either.” Jimmy said as he walked into the room with Johnny and Zacky behind him.

“You’re better than any of us. Well except for Matt because no one is better than him.” Johnny sat down and grabbed the controller as Matt restarted the game. They were in the hotel waiting to head down to the venue for the first show of the East Coast tour but were reluctant to go without Valarie and Michelle.

“Speak of the devil.” Diana whispered to herself as her phone went off with Valarie’s name across the screen.

“Hello?”

“Hey gather the guys and head to the concert hall. We decided to go ahead and come straight here.”

“Sure give us a few minutes.”

A few minutes turned into an hour and a half. Trying to get five men ready and to head somewhere was an unnecessarily hard task to do. Once down at the venue Diana, Valarie, and Michelle sat in the Avenged backstage room while the guys got ready and did their warm ups. The first show was set in New Jersey and was completely sold out and the smallest venue on this leg of the tour. The last show would be in Florida and it was already sold out with over four thousand tickets sold.

The show went as good as any other with the exception of Matt getting too excited and crowd surfing. The guys showered after then went outside to meet with fans that decided to stay and wait for the busses to leave. That had to be one of their favorite things to do on tour was see the small crowd that stayed with hopes of meeting the band and their faces when they came out and signed their stuff and took pictures with them.

That night they were going to stay in a hotel since they didn’t have a show until the day after and it was only a ten hour drive so the plan was to leave tomorrow afternoon. So after the signing and pictures everyone loaded back onto the buses and headed to the hotel. For the first few hours everyone hung out in one room and drank. After a few drinks and the weariness of the show and the road kicked in everyone headed to their rooms. Matt and Valarie, Jimmy and Syn, Johnny and Zacky, then Diana and Michelle would share a room.

Michelle however was quick to fall asleep and a light sleeper so Diana couldn’t keep a light on which ruled out reading, couldn’t work on music, and couldn’t fall asleep even after taking two of her pills so she slipped some shoes on and left the room. She quietly shut the door and started walking down the hall towards the elevator to go check out the game room.

“Diana?” A soft whisper startled her until she turned around and saw Zacky.

“Am I busted?”

“Yeah I’m going to tell Jimmy right now.” He chuckled. “Where are you headed to?”

“I was going to check out the game room since I couldn’t sleep and I got stuck with anti-sleeping beauty.”

“Did you not take your meds?”

“I did they just haven’t kicked in. You know the longer we stand here the less time I have to play Pac-Man.”

“Well then lead the way.”

Diana and Zacky walked to the elevator and took it down the bottom floor. At the end of the hall Diana could see the workout room and next to it the mini arcade. When they entered the small room it had an air hockey table, a couple of pinball machines, and a hunting game with a sign that said it was currently out of order.

“You have got to be kidding me. I have to be stuck on a bus with five smelly dudes and two divas and God can’t even grant me this one blessing of Pac-Man?”

“You sure that it’s just two divas and not three?”

“Well I didn’t think you wanted to be counted as a girl.”

“Ha ha very funny.” Zacky threw Diana an air hockey puck and put some quarters in the machine.

“Care to make a wager?”

“Name it.” Diana said with a smirk.

“For every point I get you have to tell me a secret that no one else knows and if you get a point I tell you a secret and for each time you have to tell a secret it has to be deeper than the last.”

“That’s kind of lame. I was hoping for money because I saw this pair of shoes the other day that would match this dress I just bought.”

“So that’s game?”

“You get first puck.”

Zacky picked up the puck and set it on the table and hit it hard. Diana watched it as it flew around bouncing off the walls until she saw the perfect moment to strike. With one hit the puck flew right into Zacky’s slot awarding her the first point.

“That wasn’t fair.”

“Tough now where’s my secret.”

“I know what you did last summer.”

They both laughed as Zacky placed the puck on the table.

“Yeah and for the past how many summers since we were kids? Not going to cut it today buddy.”

“Okay remember the first car you had? And those giant scratches down the side? When Matt let Johnny drive Jimmy’s car he was pulling out of the driveway and cut to close and scratched your car.”

“What! That little bastard! You guys know I loved that car!”

“That’s why we kept it a secret for so long.”

Zacky looked down at the puck and hit it making it slowly head in Diana’s direction. They hit it back and forth a few times before Diana got another point. Zacky chuckled and ran his hand through his hair.

“In senior year when your parents sent you to New York for boarding school after you and Jimmy caught the basement on fire the guys and I got wasted and went through your clothes and tried them on.”

Diana turned around in shock. When she turned to face Zacky again they were both red faced and laughing.

“You’re lying. Who was the cutest?”

“Johnny for sure since he’s the only one that could actually fit your clothes properly.”

“I can’t believe you guys! Hand me the puck.”

Zacky handed her the puck and she sat it down to hit it off. It only took Zacky two hits to get it into Diana’s slot.

“The basement we were supposed to set on fire was yours but your parents had just found out you gotten a tattoo and didn’t want to get you killed.”

“My dad probably would have given you each a hundred bucks for burning down mom’s porcelain doll collection.”

Zacky shot the puck off again and with one good hit by Diana it went right into his slot. The scoreboard started glowing and lighting up showing that the winning point had been made meaning Diana won 1-3 and Zacky owed her one more secret.

“Diana I want to tell you this last one but I don’t know if I should.”

“I’ll be fine just tell me.”

“Syn is in love with you.”

“Don’t lie to me Zacky.”

“I’m not. And he told me what happened in your closet too.”

Diana looked at him wide eyed.

“Why are you telling me this?”

“Because he needs to know if you love him back or not.”

“Zacky I don’t love him any more than a brother and that’s all I see him as.” Diana took a deep breath and exhaled. “And besides, I think I like someone else.”

“Who?”

“You.”

Notes

I've had such bad writers block this week so I'm sorry this story came out a week late and sometimes it's hard to write since English isn't my normal language to write in so it takes a little more time. As always tell me what you think :)