Not a bad thing

Elisabeth’s POV
I stormed back into the private room, grabbing a beer on my way in. Matt was following me, after I told him I wanted to do shots. Johnny would join too, I’m sure. Maybe I could even get Arin and Zacky in. I would have everybody do shots, completely shutting Brian out. Not that he would notice, he was long gone. He told me that girl was Izzie. The Izzie he told me about. The one that had broke his heart like no one else. The Izzie that didn’t even come back home for the funeral of her old friend. How could she have stayed away from Jimmy’s funeral? Even if she didn’t want to be there for Jimmy, why not come back for Brian? He was a mess. I cleaned him up, I got him out of the house again, playing again, writing again. And now she is parading around as if those years didn’t happen. I downed another shot and my beer was empty too. I grabbed another. If that bitch was going to hurt Brian again, and I’m certain she will, I will hunt her down and kick her ass.

“Lizzy, slow down. What’s wrong with you?” I heard Zacky say as he came up to me and put his hand on my hand, preventing me from downing another shot. “Brian is what’s going on! He’s just so... so... so...” I couldn’t even find the words. That’s how angry I was with him. “Matt told me you know who that girl is, he was hanging out with, care to tell me?” I looked at him. His green eyes, piercing at mine. The look in his eyes calmed me down a little. I couldn’t tell them. They didn’t know about Izzie. Maybe they heard her name once or twice, but Brian never let anyone know how hurt he was. Except me and Jimmy. “I’m not sure Z, you just have to ask Brian. I just want to have another drink”. Zacky looked at me “Okay, but let’s sit down then. I will get you another drink”. Zacky sat me down at the table and walked over to our waitress to order me another beer. Damn, he had a fine ass. I was crushing hard on Zacky, have been for a while now, but Brian always told me Zacky had all these girls around and that he didn’t want me to get hurt by him. Brian and I had an agreement and if he would know Zacky was interested in me, he would set something up for us. So I guess that’s not going to happen.

Zacky sat down next to me, not saying a word. We just sat there in comfortable silence, while the other guys were on the other side of the room, glancing over to us, once in a while. They probably knew better than to start with me now, remembering the few times I was in this kind of mood earlier. I finished my beer. I kind of had enough. I started to get up, wanting to go home. I stood up and almost lost my balance. Zacky grabbed me and I fell into his arms. “Do you want me to get you home Liz? I will call a cab. Let’s go” Zacky held on to me, telling Johnny he would take me home. Johnny slapped his shoulder, laughing. What the hell was that about?! Zacky got me into a cab and within no time I was back at my apartment. “Z, please come up, I don’t trust my legs”. He put his arm around me and got me up to my place.

I kicked of my shoes as soon as I got into my house. I started pulling of my pants, they just didn’t feel right anymore. They were too tight. Zacky looked at me with big eyes “Ah, don’t be a baby, you’ve seen me in my underwear many times before.” I walked through my living room, into my bedroom taking of clothes with every step. First my pants, than my jacket, my sweater, my shirt, my camisole.... I only had my bra and panties on. Being around the guys all the time, made me unstrained enough to take of my clothes in front of Zacky. Part of me maybe even hoped he liked what he saw. I got into my room, taking my sleeping shirt and pyjama pants out of the closet and putting them on. After I got dressed, I unclasped my bra and got the bra out of the sleeve of my sleeping shirt. I laughed at the look on Zacky’s face. “What?!” “Uhm, well, uh...” Zacky looked really uncomfortable. He must think I’m that repulsive huh?! “You can go if you want to. I can take care of myself. I will go to bed soon anyway”

He started to walk for the door. I walked with him, I wanted to lock the door behind him. We were almost at the door, when he suddenly turned around. I crashed into him. “Ow Z, Sorry! I didn’t...” I couldn’t finish my sentence, because I felt Zacky’s lips on me. He kissed me hard. Wow, where did this come from? I felt his tongue begging for entrance. As soon as his tongue entered my mouth I felt him pushing me against the door. I felt his body against mine. I moaned when he bit my lip. His hands caressing my body, moving from the sides of my body up to my breasts. His soft lips were on mine, and then at once, they weren’t. I felt a sigh escape his mouth. “I have to go” He looked down, trying his best to avoid my eyes “Talk to you later Lizzy”. He opened the door and walked out. Leaving me all cold and confused. I walked over to my balcony, looking down. I saw Zacky get in a cab and drive away. I stood there watching my view of the beach and sea a few blocks from my house. At least that view was great. I stomped back into my apartment. Arghhh I hate the men in my life!

Brian’s POV
I could hardly believe that I’m in a cab with Izzie. After 12 years I just walked into her again? My heart had skipped a beat when she had turned around at the club. She looked different, but at the same time she was still the Izzie I knew so well. I had to just look at her for a while, make sure it was her, see if my friend from back then was still there. She was, but I just didn’t really know what to say to her. We were just looking at each other. Her friend gracefully bowed out to let us talk. So we did. I had been so mad at her for not being there when Jimmy died, but then she claimed she didn’t know. I believed her, she looked heartbroken when I told her about his death. I knew she had a hard relationship with her dad, so I could totally imagine her not talking to her mom again after she got back with him. And then she blurred out she was left at the altar at the time of Jimmy’s death..., she was what?! When the night seemed to have come to an end, I just couldn’t let her go like that. I had to talk to her more, I wanted to know what she had done for the past 10 years and which asshole had left her at the altar. I actually felt relieved when she agreed to continue the night a little more.

Now we were on our way to her house. I realized we have been really close geographically for a while now. I paid the cab driver and walked with her to her house. While we were walking to her house, Izzie told me she bought this house almost a year ago, after she got a job here. She always wanted to live at the beach and she had been really happy to find her dream house here. “Did you ever think to find me? Just look at my old house?” I asked her. “Brian, I thought you made a well thought decision. It had been years, I never thought I could just walk back into your life” I looked at her. Of course she wouldn’t have done that. It’s not her. And I didn’t look for her either. “Could we just leave the fact that we were both stupid to never have looked for each other? I’m really sorry I never tried to contact you when Jimmy died” I looked at her for forgiveness. She smiled at me “Okay”. She opened the door “Come in”.

I walked in after her. Her house was fitting her. It was light, there were big couches, a big chair in a corner full of books and a lot of pictures. Pictures she made probably, landscapes, buildings and some of her and her friends. “You still like photography?” She looked at me “Yes, I took a few courses when I was in college. It’s one of the things that calms me down. You want something to drink?” I sat down at the couch, waiting for her to join me. She came back from the kitchen with two beers. She handed me a beer, took her shoes of and made herself comfortable on the couch. “Do you want to start?” She asked me. “Sure, nothing really special though. At least nothing you don’t know about yet. Jimmy invited me to join the band. You were there for that. That band was Avenged. We were starting small, but soon got a pretty great fan base. While recording the 5th album Jimmy died. As I told you, it was hard, but we finished it. Jimmy had written and recorded a lot of stuff for the album already. We couldn’t just let that go to waste. We wanted to quit after that, but the fans begged us to continue. We now have this new album out, it was the first without Jimmy, so we had to re-invent ourselves again, but we managed. We have a new drummer now, nice kid.” Izzie looked at me. I loved that face, I missed that face. We were so close. I could kiss her if I wanted to. I bent over a little, Izzie stayed were she was, so I kissed her. All the emotions from all these years just came back to me. Izzie put her arms around my neck as I pulled her onto my lap. Our kiss was filled with familiarity. She kissed me back softly, before detaching herself from me again “Brian, I don’t think we should do this. We tried, it didn’t work. I just found you again, I don’t want to lose you again in the same breath.” She was right. Kissing her was just easy, and even though I had all these feelings for her again, none of them had anything to do with lust or other love than just friendship. I just wanted her around again. “You are right. I just had to know”. She smiled at me “Me too”. I pulled her close to me and we just stayed like that for a while. The silence was comfortable, we didn’t have to say it, we were both glad to be back in each other’s lives. “Look”, she whispered, “the sun is about to come up”. We got up from her couch and went outside to sit on her porch, watching the sun come up.

“We should go to sleep, Brian, want to stay on my couch?” I nodded. “I don’t really feel like going home now. I feel so tired all of a sudden”. We walked inside and I took of my socks and pants while Izzie grabbed me a pillow and a blanket. I hugged her and kissed her forehead. “Sleep tight Izzie, I’m glad you found me again” “Me too Brian, see you later”. Izzie closed the sunscreens and went to bed herself. I lay on the couch, thinking about Izzie, she looked happy from the outside but something was bothering her. Maybe it had something to do with that jackass that left her at the altar? I will ask her later, but for now, I had to sleep, it had been a long night.

Notes

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