Most people would question my sanity right now. Sure there’s plenty of big time Avenged Sevenfold fans who wouldn’t blame me. Others who would say I was the luckiest girl in the world. Hell! There were probably a few who would kick my teeth in for the chance to be in my place right now.

Matt had led me very far backstage- I’m not sure this lament pass around my neck was meant for quite this far back. Either way, I followed him- not that I had much choice otherwise. He still had a hold of my wrist, hell he was practically dragging me.

“After you,” he said as he unlocked and opened the door to a bus.

“Are we running away?”

“No I just figured I would let you chill in here while we packed. I wanted to show you were it was, case you wanted to leave, do some photos. Then if you finish before we get done, you can come back here.” I walked past him and up the stairs of the bus.

“Ignore the clothes everywhere.” He laughed as he followed up behind me. “Jimmy turns into a bit of a princess the night of shows. He throws the clothes he doesn’t want to wear everywhere while he looks for what he wants.”

“So do all of you travel on the same bus?”

“Yeah when we aren’t taking an airplane. So! If you want, you are welcome to use the shower. Even if I did shower you earlier, you might want another.” I laughed at him and watch him as he pointed behind me in the direction of the bathroom.

“Thanks, Matt. I think I might actually. I even have a clean change of clothes so that would be great actually.”

“Alright, well enjoy your shower. We’ll be packing for a while; you have our numbers if you need anything. We all have our phones on us.”

“Thanks. Ah, Towels?”

“Right!” He walked around me and to a cabinet just before the door to the shower. “All you should need you can find in here.”

“Okay, thank you, Matt.”

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After Matt left I took my shower and got dressed in my clean clothes. (Link at bottom) I pulled my hair back while it was still wet, and fished my makeup out of my bag and redid that as well. I surely wasn’t ready for any of these guys to see me without a little effort put into my looks.

I plopped down on the sofa and tugged my phone out of my back pocket and hunted through my contacts for Josh’s number. I stared at it for a while before calling. I wasn’t completely sure what I want to say, but I knew I wanted to talk to him. So I pressed called.

“Hello there, Carsea. You on your way home to me.” He laughed a little at his own joke.

“I’m not quite yet. I missed the bus by a few minutes.” Another lie, I was going to have to start writing all these down. But I didn’t want him to know- I knew they were coming to have the interview just yet. “I’ll probably be back pretty late.”

“I’ll probably be at work late tonight. When do you think you’ll have that interview typed up and ready for me?”

“Hmm, probably tomorrow, two o’clock-ish.” I felt like maybe that was necessary.

“Oh… Sounds good. So did you need anything else?”

“I was thinking about making my bus trip short actually. Stopping off at the office and tagging along with you home. You know how I hate public trans.”

“Well just call me when you are getting close to see if I’m still at work. I’ll call it quits when you get here, if I found enough to do to wait up for you.”

“You not find work?” The man was working constantly. One night when we were hanging out he fell asleep on the sofa while we were watching a movie and I heard him in his sleep talking to his assistant, June. I eventually pulled my phone out and recorded the whole thing. I picked on him about it for weeks.

“Let’s not go there, shall we?” He knew exactly what I was referring to, and wasn’t ready to be teased about it.

“I’m going to let you get back to your work now Josh.”

“Be Safe.”

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Next thing I know I’m waking up to a loud noise of beating, banging, and yelling. I sit up a little from the sofa just in time to see the door open and all of the guys walk into the bus. Apparently Matt hadn’t mentioned to them that I was on the bus, because the other four of them stood just at the stairs and stared at me with a little befuddled look on their faces.

“Uhh, Carsea! It’s nice to see you!” Zacky yelled, with a slight sound of confusion to his voice. None the less he came and collapsed on top of me on the sofa. I squealed and laid there, unsure what exactly to do. Thankfully it didn’t take long for Matt to come over and grab Zacky by the leg and drag him off of me and to the floor.

“Hello to you too, Zacky.” I said as I looked down from the sofa to him. He looked rather tired, possibly like he would sleep right there on the floor. “Are you guys done packing?”

“We are.” Matt said, so I looked up at him. “Zacky and the rest of the guys said they were going to go ahead and crash in their bunks.” As he said it, Johnny walked off to the back of the bus.

“If you are tired you are welcome to take my bunk. I’m going to stay up for a little while. If I do want to sleep I can just take the sofa.”

Zacky picked himself up off the floor and stumbled his way to the back and I saw him tuck himself away into one of the bunks.

“Good night Carsea.” Jimmy and Synyster both said as they walked to the back as well.

“Don’t take it to heart. They wore themselves out tonight.” Matt turned to watch them all walk off then sat down in the seat across from me.

“So I was hoping you wouldn’t mind dropping me off at the office of where I work?” He raised and eye brow to me and tilted his head a little.

“You mean you didn’t already call and talk to your boss about it? Hell is he going to be there that late?” He defiantly sounded confused.

“Well he is also my landlord. I live in a studio apartment above his garage. So I called him to see if I can catch a ride from work to where we live. I figured I would talk to him about the other part when I am with him. He has a hard time lying to me in person.” Matt nodded and leaned back in the chair and let out a deep sigh.

“There’s a hotel close to the office. That’s where we will be staying. So it won’t be a problem.”

“Are you okay?” He seemed more than just sleepy, not that I know the man well enough to say at all.

“Yeah, I’m just tired. These next few days I’ll get better. We haven’t had a break on shows in the past five days. Not that I don’t love doing the shows…”

“It just becomes a lot. It’s exhausting. I understand.” I cut him off, but he didn’t seem to mind. He even let a small smile show through.

“Yeah, it is. So you want to catch some sleep? I think I am too. I’ll wake you up when we arrive okay?”

“Sure.” He stood up and held out his hand to help me off the sofa. I took his hand and pulled myself up; I stumbled a little on the way up and crashed into his chest. He held his arms around me till he was sure I had my bearings then pulled me away from his chest just a little and looked down at me.

“You okay down there?” I nodded at him and stared into his eyes, they were a light hazel, just like mine. From his eyes I moved to his lips, I couldn’t help but look at his lips, his lip ring practically enticed me to kiss him. “Excuse me but…”

Next thing I know he’s kissing me. He leaned down from his tall height of 6’1”. Down to my meesly height of 5’4” and kissed me. His lips were warm against mine, and the coolness of the lip ring sent shivers down my spine. He put his hand against my cheek and brushed back a few stray stands of hair that were in my face. His hand rest on my jaw, and with that he pulled away.

“I have been dying to do that all day.” He half laughed and looked down at me. Me who I don’t think could now piece together a proper, understandable sentence if life as I knew it depended upon it. As he watched me I could feel my cheeks begin to burn with the blood that was now rushing to my face, surely I was crimson.

All I could manage was a smile, a small, soft smile. He smiled back as well, and put his arm around my shoulder and started ushering me to the bunks.

“Since you didn’t hit me I’ll take it you’re not mad about that.” He pulled back the curtain that revealed his bunk to me. “Enjoy your nap, Carsea.”

Notes

Carsea's Outfit
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Hey lookie,finally some good stuff. Haha! Hope you guys enjoy. I'm going to go crash and I'll be writing some more tomorrow.

I also used Polyvore to work out just what the stuff in Carsea's Studio Apartment looks like. Once I actually have a scene in it I'll like you guys to it. I haven't even published it yet.

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