Not a bad thing

Lynn’s POV
Brian had insisted to upgrade us to first class. His women only deserved the best he said. Well, I’m not one for being someone’s property, but allright, I have to give him this one. We were all connected to him, one way or another. This flying first class certainly was amazing. So I didn’t mind him wanting to take care of us. The three of us were trying to catch up, glass champagne in hand.

“Liz, did I hear you talking to Zack before we boarded?” I asked Lizzy. She blushed “Yeah, Brian set up a meeting. We decided to try and be friends again. You know, before the whole kissing thing, Zacky was always there for me. Besides Brian. It was really weird to not have him around. I rather have him around as a friend then nothing at all” I saw Izzie look at her with this “I don’t believe it”- face and to be honest, I didn’t buy it either. “Are you sure this is what you want?” Izzie asked her. Lizzy looked determined “Yes. This is what I want” I looked at her, my brow cocked “Oh come on Liz, I know we don’t know each other for a long time yet, but do you really think we are stupid?” She sighed and slumped in her chair “Allright, Allright, it’s hard. It’s really hard. Every time I see him I think about those kisses. But even though this is hard, not being around him is harder. I’m just hoping he’ll open up to me, tell me what’s wrong, tell me why he walked away two times” Liz put her head in her hands “I just can’t believe he doesn’t feel anything for me, it’s weird.” Izzie put her hand on her leg “Okay, I understand. But now you are going to forget Zack and enjoy your days with us. We are going to have fun!” Lizzy looked up “You guys keep telling me I would love the other girls, but tell me something about them?” Izzie looked at me “Lynn, would you do the honours?”

I laughed “Where should I start? Okay, we have known Leyla and Rye since college, the four of us were unbeatable. We were always together. Those girls have amazing talents and that is why they have been travelling all around the world. Now they touched base in New York and I think they will stay there for a while. Rye makes these amazing drawings and she has opened her own gallery now. Exposing her own work of course, but giving new amazing artists the chance to do expositions too. She is a hot asian and she will love you, she is just the best when it comes to meeting new people. She makes everyone feel welcome.”

Izzie smiled. Yeah, we got us the best of friends. Izzie continued “Leyla is our Brazilian beauty, with the most amazing musical talent. I haven’t seen one instrument she couldn’t play or which she wasn’t able to learn to play. She has been a session artist for many artists all over the world and now she is just conquering New York. She’s always working, her connections took care of our Saturday night this weekend. She knows the best places with the best music and knows how to get in. You will love her, because she is just too damn cool, but is being completely modest about it” Izzie closed “And I’m particularly looking forward to see her again.” I chuckled. Izzie looked at me with question marks in her eyes. “Iz, Rye and Leyla are Avenged fans too. Leyla is a big Brian fan, she says it’s about his techniques, but she doesn’t fool me. Image their reaction when I tell them the story of the past weeks.” I had a big smile on my face and Izzie just shook her head. I laughed. These girls will be happy for me, we have always had each other’s backs.

“Soooooo” I said looking at Izzie, Lizzy got my cue and looked at Izzie too “Yeah... soooooo” she said. Izzie looked at us all innocently, but couldn’t keep it up. This goofy happy smile broke through on her face. Wow. I haven’t seen her happy like this in a long time. She never was like this with Eric. “Oh wow Izzie, is Matt doing this to you?” She nodded and blushed heavily. “Come on, spill the dirt!” She laughed “A lady doesn’t kiss and tell” “Ow fuck you, you are no lady” I pushed her against her shoulder laughing. “Oh well, I can’t keep it from you. He stayed over last night. And this morning... well... he asked me if I could please not hook up with anyone else while I was in New York” She blushed again. “Oh wow Izzie, he asked you to be exclusive? So you are going to be a couple from now on?” Izzie shook her head “I’m not ready to go public already” She looked at me with purpose, apparently she hadn’t forgotten what I told her the morning Brian and I got together “Izzie, you know what I told you. You need to tell Brian.” Izzie looked at me “Lynn, please give me a little bit more time. I will tell him, I will, I promise.” The stewardess came by and told us to get seated because we were almost there. I will give her a little more time, but she can’t keep this up for too long. I hate keeping things from Brian.

We barely got through the gate when we heard some screaming. It didn’t take long before we found ourselves in this big group hug. “I missed you guys soooo much” I heard Rye say. We hugged each other extensively and then we decided to introduce them to Lizzy. “Hey” Leyla said “I know your face, let me think” I smiled, she would come to it, just give her a second. Leyla’s eyes widened. Ah see, there it was “You are Elisabeth! You always hang around Avenged Sevenfold! You always hang around Brian!” She looked from one to the other and I could see her brains working like crazy. I knew she was just wondering which question she should ask first. “I don’t even know where to start! How is he? In real life? Is he as cocky as he comes across on stage? Or as hold back as he seems in interviews?” Leyla played 20-questions-in-one-breath. Lizzy laughed. “Well, he can be cocky, but he mostly is very nice. Especially to his friends and loved ones. He is a kind hearted person” I smiled “And he is very good in bed too” Rye and Leyla snapped their heads at me “What?!” Rye said “Leave it up to you to make a sexual joke about him again” she chuckled. “She’s not joking” Izzie said. “He is good in bed” The confusion was complete now. Rye and Leyla didn’t know what to say and Izzie and I were just laughing our ass off. We got some explaining to do.

Zacky’s POV
We were hanging out at the rehearsal space. I would love to say we were practising for the concert on Saturday, but truth was, we weren’t. In the past few days we have done almost anything except for the thing we were here for. We had less than a week before the concert.

I looked at my bandmates. Brian was sitting in the corner of the room, messing around on his guitar. He was being a jackass to all of us. He missed Lynn and we all had to face the consequences for that. He picked a fight with every single one of us and he hadn’t played one riff like he should. Johnny was sitting on the couch, next to Arin. I heard Johnny chuckle every once in a while. Mostly the laugh came after he received a message from Vanessa. Sometimes he showed one to Arin and he would smile, just before he looked at his own phone again. Arin was doing some texting of his own and just looked happy. Matt was slumping in a chair and had his eyes closed.

Looking at them made me think, what the hell were we doing here!? No one felt like getting any work done, but we couldn’t do a benefit concert and suck. “Guys, come on! We should rehearse! It’s Sunday already, we have to make a setlist, decide what we are going to do for the concert. Come on!”

Brian shot me an annoying look “I don’t feel like it. I want Lynn to come home, show her every corner of my house. Twice. And THEN, I will play again” I sighed. Damn, Brian sleeping around was certainly better for the productivity of the band. When he didn’t feel like playing, he would just find a girl, get rid of his frustration and then he was his annoying great playing self again. But now, there was no doing anything with him. “Matt? You wanna start the setlist?” I looked over at Matt. “Nah, don’t feel like it” Brian got up and walked passed Matt to the fridge. “What are you moping around for? You don’t have a girlfriend you have to miss” Brian got a beer and handed one to the rest of us too. “Well?” Matt opened his mouth to say something and then changed his mind. Matt shot me a look. “What the hell is up? What is up with you two?” He looked from me to Matt and back. “Z, you better tell me you don’t think about anything else but being friends with Lizzy. I already told you, I’ll kick your ass if you hurt her!” From the corner of my eye I saw Matt let go a sigh of relief. I got up “Don’t be an ass Brian! We have to work, every one put away your phones and get back to business. Get your head in the game”. I was glad he thought our look was about Lizzy, I couldn´t use a fight between them, that would slow the rehearsal process down for sure.

“Are we doing a full set?” Arin asked while he was taking place behind his drums. Johnny shook his head. “We have an hour, but we are closing, so we can stretch the end time if we want to. But we should choose which songs we are going to play. I suggest doing a mix of old and new songs” Matt got up out of his chair. Finally, we are getting to our instruments. “I agree” Matt said. “Starting with Sheperd of Fire?” We all nodded in confirmation, except for Brian. “Brian get your ass over here!” Johnny called him. “No, you guys play, I don’t have to practice, I know my parts” I grabbed my guitar and started to play the intro to Sheperd of Fire. Not playing my own part, but Brian’s. Brian’s head shot up. “Z! Quit fucking my part up and keep up with your own” He got his guitar and started playing. I got exactly what I wanted. We did Sheperd of Fire, Doing time, Bat Country and A Little Piece of Heaven. We had to determine a few other songs, but we were getting somewhere finally. We got through the songs without too many mistakes and Matt even remembered the lyrics. The songs would need some fine tuning, but I was really looking forward to performing again.

My phone buzzed in my pocket. I checked it. A text from Lizzy “New York is amazing! VU stuff everywhere! Do you want me to bring you something? ;-) – xo L” I smiled and wrote her back “No thanks, I know the owner, he can hook me up :D – xo Z” I couldn’t wait to see her again, as a friend, of course as my friend. I was happy with how this was going, we were slowly getting back to our old selves. And I was completely happy with it. Did I already mention that I was happy with it? So happy, really really really happy.

Fuck...Yeah… I still wanted her.

Notes

Allright, Allright, everybody calm down! Timezones! It´s 7 am over here :P That's an early monring enough for me ;)

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