Not a bad thing

Brian’s POV
Izzie and I were taking a cab back to her house, when we arrived there she frantically started throwing things in a suitcase she got out of the closet. She ran through the house, crying, gathering stuff like a crazy person. She took some pictures of the wall and also took the drawing Rye made “Izzie, please sit down for a minute. This isn’t a good idea, maybe you should sleep on it for one night. I will stay with you” She didn’t even slow down.

She had been making some phone calls in the cab and apparently called a friend of hers, asked her if she could stay over and if she could book her a ticket. All answers had been confirmative. As she flew by me for the umpteenth time, I got a hold of her arm, forcing her to look at me and stand still “Iz, stop! You can’t just leave! I will take care of Matt, you love this house, your friends are here, why are you running?”

Izzie pulled herself out of my grip “Because it hurts Brian! Because it fucking hurts! It hurts even more than the times with Chris! I can’t be around here, where everything reminds me of him and the wonderful times we had. I just can’t. Being in this house even makes me sick to my stomach. I need to leave. I need to get as far away from him as I possibly can” I followed her into her bedroom. She tried closing up her suitcase, but is was bulging. I gently pushed her to the side and helped her. What could I do? I didn’t want her to leave, but she was determined and I didn’t want her to feel hurt. I loved her too much for this. Oh when I get a hold of Matt!

The suitcase was the heaviest ever, but I dragged it with me outside “Let me take you to the airport. I want to be with you just a little longer” I sighed. She handed the suitcase over to the cab driver, who was doing his best to get it in the cab, eventually even succeeding in it. Izzie turned towards me “Brian, I don’t want you to go with me to the airport. I’m not telling you where I’m going. When Matt comes and ask for me, you can be honest with him that you don’t know. Please promise me you’ll be his friend. You have been friends for a very long time and I don’t want to cause any problems. I don’t want to be the reason M. Shadows and Synyster Gates can’t be on one stage together, ever again” she added with a little smile. She hugged me and kissed my cheek “Bye Brian, I love you” I didn’t let go, I didn’t want to “I love you too, I don’t want you to go. We can work this out, I promise” She looked at me with those grey blue eyes, tears streaming down her face, she gave me her keys to the house and the car and then turned around to get into the cab. She stared at me with a sad face while the cab was driving off.

I watched the cab drive away as far as I could see it and I felt tears in my eyes. I will fucking kill Matt! He told me he loved her, he even took her to meet his parents! How the fuck could he cheat on her! She made me promise I would be his friend, but I don’t think I can. I walked into the house, letting myself fall on the couch, getting my phone out. I got 4 missed calls from Lynn, 6 from Matt and a bunch of texts from everyone. They obviously found out we were missing. I texted Lynn “I’m at Izzie’s house, she is gone.” I immediately got a call, but I ignored it and turned my phone off. At this moment I couldn’t stand to talk to anyone. I leaned back and let my tears run free. I promised her that I wouldn’t let her get hurt again and look where we are. I failed her, big time.

Matt’s POV
She was moving so damn sexy to that Bruno Mars song, I was already half hard, and grinding her like this didn’t help either. I wanted her, bad. My face was buried in her neck, kissing her, nibbling her ear. I needed her now. “I don’t want to wait until we got home. Meet me at the end of the corridor at the toilets, okay?” I kissed her neck once more and moved away from her, going ahead to the place I told her to meet me.

It was dark in the corridor, but I knew exactly where I was going. This was our favourite club, we have been here before and even though I can’t imagine being with someone else anymore, I had some sexy times with other girls here. This was different though, this wasn’t a quick fix before getting rid of the girl again. This was a quick fix as foreplay to everything that was going to come later tonight, I just couldn’t tame my urges and I was excited taking Izzie on public places.

I waited for her to come to me, when I felt hands snake around my waist. I pulled her around my body and kissed her hungrily.

This didn’t feel right.

She didn’t taste like herself.

She didn’t even kiss like herself.

I moved away a little.

This wasn’t Izzie!

“Tess! What the fuck are you doing?” I pushed her off my body. She instantly got a hold of me again. “Matt, it was fate we ran into each other, and again tonight. We are meant to be together. I mean that little girl of yours is cute and all, but you are a rock star now, you need someone like me on your arm. I look good on you.” I looked at her disgusted, what the hell was this?! She only wanted to be with me because she would look good on me? I shook my head. Why was I even thinking about this?! “Tess, I don’t want to be with you anymore. I love Izzie, I want her, I don’t want you. Get it into your fucking head! Go out of my life, and stay out of it! We are over and this...” I motioned from her to me “...will never ever happen again. Now leave before Izzie sees you and gets the wrong idea” I put my arms across my chest and stared her down “But Mattybear.... We were good together” I flinched. I hated that nickname “No we weren’t. We were poisonous, and by the way. I hate that fucking nickname!” She started to cry, oh great. I needed her to leave, I was so annoyed with her. Now I had to kill the mood with Izzie again, because I had to tell her about Tess. “Go the fuck away Tess, now!” I seethed at her.

She finally seemed to get the clue, turned around and walked away from me. I couldn’t believe it. My relationship with Izzie consisted of a few crazy exes, that’s for sure. I started pacing back and forth, Izzie should have been here a long time ago. How long has it been? I was with Tess for 10 minutes I think. Maybe she got caught up by someone on the dance floor... I waited some more, but this nagging feeling was creeping up on me. After a few minutes I couldn’t take it anymore, I went back in and scanned the dance floor. She was nowhere to be seen, none of my friends were, maybe they were at our table. I walked over to our room and looked around. The whole gang was here, except for Brian and Izzie.

“Lynn, where is Izzie?” I asked Lynn who was laughing with Arin. She turned around and smiled at me “I don’t know Matt, she was with you and Brian, I thought you were doing shots or something”. Then she got a good look at my worried face. “Matt, what’s wrong? Why isn’t Izzie with you?” I quickly told her the story, not leaving the Tess part out. “I’m... I’m... just scared she saw us and jumped to conclusions. Nothing happened besides that kiss, and I thought it was her, I immediately noticed it wasn’t. You have to believe me Lynn, please, it’s important.” I was panicking now. Lynn put one hand on my arm, getting her phone out with the other. “I believe you, I do, maybe Brian is somewhere talking sense into her. Let me call him”. Brian didn’t pick up. “It’s noisy in here, let’s walk around and try to find them, okay? Calm down, we will find her” She looked at me, trying to reassure me, but I was having a very bad feeling about this and it was getting worse. Lynn walked over to Liz, telling her the story, getting her to go looking for Izzie and Brian too.

We moved around the club, I tried to call Izzie and Brian, but neither of them answered. I texted them too. I was slowly but certainly getting sick to my stomach. I couldn’t lose her. Not over this. I needed to see her, explain, I needed her to understand. I was going crazy. When I walked back to our table I saw Lynn getting a message, her face clouding when she read it, she tried to make a call, but apparently she couldn’t make contact. I rushed over, grabbing the phone from her hands.

Brian - “I’m at Izzie’s house, she is gone.”

“No. No, she can’t be gone” I rushed towards the exit, Lynn in my track. I heard her yell at Lizzy “We are going over to Izzie’s house, please tell the rest”. I called a cab, getting in. “Matt, I’m coming with you” Lynn got in the cab with me and I told the driver to hurry. He pulled up in front of Izzie’s house “Please wait here” I heard Lynn say as I rushed towards the house, I used my key to get in and saw Brian get up from the couch as he heard me.

“Where is she, Brian?!” I’ve never seen him that angry. He walked over to me and punched my face the second he was next to me. Lynn got a hold of him and pulled him off me “Brian! Stop!” She stood between Brian and me “Lynn, I love you, but you need to get the fuck out of my way now. He fucking cheated on Izzie. She saw it herself! She was so hurt, she left. She left, Lynn! He took my friend away from me. Now she’s gone! Again! I’m killing him, you are not going to stop me!”

I froze and looked directly at Brian “If she’s really gone, you can punch me as much as you like. I don’t care” I let myself fall down on the couch. Lynn took Brian outside and I saw her talking fast, gesticulating. Brian rushed in

“We need to get to the airport. Maybe we’re not too late!” We rushed outside where the cab was still waiting for us. The three of us got in “Where is she going?” I asked Brian. Brian shrugged “I don’t know, she wouldn’t tell me, so I didn’t have to lie to you. She called a friend and told me her flight would be in 2 hours” I saw Lyn hold Brian’s hand and I was so jealous. I couldn’t even look at them. “Baby, which friend did she call? Did you hear a name?” I heard Lynn ask Brian. Brian thought about it “I don’t know... I can’t remember.... It was something with a T.... Let me think... Tammy! I think it was Tammy! Do you know if she has any friends by that name?” Brian looked at Lynn hopefully. Lynn nodded “Yes. Tammy is a former co-worker of hers, she was transferred to the companies office in Iowa and after a year there she quit her job and started writing professionally. She writes those great gang stories that are always in the top 10.” I didn’t know what the hell she was talking about, the only thing I heard was Iowa. She’s heading to Iowa. That is making things a lot easier.

Notes

Dun Dun Dun.... will they catch her in time?!

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