Roadtrip

Izzie’s POV
We were all hanging out in the boys apartment, it was bigger than ours. We were waiting for Matt, who would be here in a minute with our food. Of course Mia and I won this afternoon. We collected over 2000 dollar and I think the guys had a little over 1000. People were giving a lot and the owner of the carwash paid us each a 100 dollars for the job.

It had been a really good day, moneywise, but Matt was unrelenting, the money we made today would be for the charity completely and he had put it away for no one else to find it. We heard the door open and Matt came in with the food. His face was clouded. “I have some bad news guys.” We all looked at him “We have to go tomorrow. Gary needs the apartment again.” The guys all slumped down.
“Why the sad faces?” I asked them “You are competing in a race aren’t you? Don’t you think it’s time to move along, anyway? What is the next city on the map?”
Matt put down the food and got the map from his bag. While Zack was getting plates, we all looked at the map to see where the next checkpoint would be, which we could make.
“Denver” Matt sighed “But that’s like a 16 hour drive, at least!”
“When do you guys have to be there?” Mia asked.
“The day after tomorrow, before midnight”
“Let’s do it” Zack said when he entered the room again “Izzie is right, we need to get a checkpoint again, we’ve been too far astray already. We can do it.”

Everyone nodded and got a plate full of food. We were eating in silence when Matt spoke up “I had this idea, maybe we can get to some bar where we can do a few songs tonight. We could practice the new one and maybe make some money too. Mia and Izzie can film us for a bit during the gig and we can add the wanted information and be done with the weekly video message too? It’s kinda overdue”
“I know a guy! Wait, let me call him” Johnny got up and pulled his phone out.
“How does that guy know so many people in Reno?” Zacky muttered.
Johnny hung up and smiled “It’s settled. A buddy of mine owns a bar here, we can take the 10 pm slot if we want to, we can play for half an hour. He will pay us a 100 dollars and we can go around, collecting tips”

Mia shot me a look and I got up “Matt, can I talk to you for a minute?” Brian looked at me “Are you fucking kidding me?”
“Don’t be jealous, it doesn’t suit you” I kissed his forehead and got out in the hallway, Matt following me.
Matt leaned against the wall, looking at me questionably “What’s on your mind, Izzie?”
“Well, Mia and I talked about it, and we still feel kinda bad over getting that money over contributing to making Jimmy loose in the casino.”
Matt interrupted me “Don’t worry, it’s all okay, no hard feelings”
I blushed “I know, but we like you guys and we still feel bad. Since we are going with you, we thought we could spend the casino money together” I got the envelope out of my backpocket.
“Here. I trust you will spend it wisely for all of us, maybe it can contribute in food and beds? It’s not that much for the seven of us, but it might help?”
He put the envelope in the pocket of his pants and hugged me “Jeez, thanks Iz. I will make sure it’s well spend.” He let go of me and opened the door of the apartment. Two steps in, Brian was waiting for us, arms folded over his chest. I huffed “Ugh, get over yourself!” and pushed passed him.

Mia’s POV
Izzie and I were in our own apartment to get ready. We both wanted to look nice for tonight and going through our clothes for the perfect outfit gave us a good chance to pack up. We had called Tim to tell him we would be moving on and thanked him for the job and for the apartment. He said we were always welcome to call him when we needed anything.

Our stuff was almost packed and we made the last adjustments to our hair and make-up. Izzie looked at me through the mirror
“Mia, are you and Jimmy dating now?”
I shrugged and smiled
“I guess”
She looked a little uneasy
“What is it, Iz?
“Uh... I know you would probably want to sleep with him tonight”
I looked at her big eyed “We’re not only about sex you know!”
“No! I meant sleep sleep, but I was wondering since we probably will be together with all of us the next days or maybe weeks... I .... “
“Izzie, fucking hell, spill it out, you are my best friend, what the hell is going on?”
She sighed “I thought we could maybe end this part of our trip together tonight, just the two of us?”
My stare caught hers in the mirror and I put my arm around her shoulder “Sure! I know how you need that, no problem at all. It is the end of this part isn’t it? It was our part, we need to close it that way!”
Izzie seemed relieved. I knew she needed to touch base sometimes and since we were away from home, I was the only base she had.
“Now let’s go and see if they are any good”

We made our way over to the bar just as the guys finished setting up the instruments. Apparently Jimmy could borrow a drumkit of one of the other bands, as I saw him moving things around. When he saw me, he came running over, pulling me to his body, kissing me hard.
“I missed you” I giggled “We’ve only been apart for 2 hours!”
“I still missed you” I looked into his bright blue eyes. He looked excited.
“Are you all set?” He sighed.
“It’s not my own drumkit, but it will have to do!”
I saw Matt motioning Jimmy over. “You need to go Jimmy, we’ll be here” I smiled, giving him one last kiss before he went on stage.
Matt told us to film the second song for 30 seconds or so with the camera phone he gave us.

The lights faded and I saw Jimmy crawling behind the drums. Johnny, Brian and Zack took their places too and started playing. Hell yeah, this was totally my kind of music! I got goosebumps all over my arms when I saw Jimmy enjoying himself, that was until my sight from Jimmy was blocked by Matt who came jumping on the stage.
“Dear god” I heard Izzie sigh, next to me.
“You can say that again” I sighed with her.
Matt looked damn hot. He always had this posture, of control, of power, but with a mic in hand it was even more present.
We were both staring at the stage, taking in every single one of Matt’s movements.
“You know he made a pass at me?” Izzie said, not taking her eyes of the stage for one second
“Hmmm”
“But he couldn’t do that to Brian he said”
“Hmmm, maybe we could keep Jimmy and Brian and take a little bit of Matt on the side, share him?” I grinned.

Brian’s POV
It felt so good to be back on stage, when we began to play it was an old song. In old I meant ‘Bat country’ from our last album. We had played this a lot before, and we started with this just to get used to the feeling again.
Normally we needed at least two songs to warm up but tonight we didn’t have that much time.
I looked over at Izzie and Mia sitting near the stage both smiling and enjoying the music. My eyes locked with Izzie’s and she smiled, then Matt began to sing and her gaze shifted over to him… fucking hell, not again.
I saw Izzie and Mia both drooling at Matt again, come on.. what is going on with these girls and Matt.. I saw them talking quietly to each other and laughing.
I waited for my solo part and like always I walked to the centre of the stage and played the solo perfectly, Izzie eyes wandered back to me and her mouth was a little open when she watched me play and my fingers quickly move over the fret board.
I waited until her eyes wandered back to my face again and I winked at her, from then on her eyes never left me again.
Suck it, Matt!

The song ended and we began to play the new song Jimmy and I had written the night before.
Jimmy made this incredible drum beat and I played the notes from memory and Johnny and Zack joined in.
I saw Izzie pull the camera-phone out and recorded us for a good minute, later on we had to make this video message for the charity race.
After the half hour of our time to play was up we cleared the stage and put all our equipment to the side of the stage.

Izzie came running towards me and I saw that Jimmy had pulled Mia to his side already.
“You were amazing, all of you were. I knew since our fist night together that you should use your hands and fingers in a professional way… and look at you… wow.” Izzie said and I smiled at her.
“Yeah… these fingers are magic. I think I can put them to good use in a couple of hours, don’t you think so, too?” I asked Izzie and she lost her smile.
What did I do wrong now?!
“Sorry, but-” Izzie started when Jimmy and Mia walked over to us.
“We gonna see us tomorrow, Jimmy… Stop the pouting, this evening is for Izzie and me alone.”
“Come on Izzie, share your girl with me.” Jimmy begged Izzie but she shook her head with a smile.
“Awwn Jimmy, just one evening for me… after that she is all yours, deal?” Izzie asked and I saw Jimmy slowly nod.
“Fine. One night and we gonna pick you up tomorrow 9 and she is mine.”
“Fine.” Izzie nodded.
After that she stole a kiss from my lips and I looked after the girls stunned, they walked towards Matt, clapped him on the butt and the girls began to giggle and ran out.
Matt looked after them and laughed loudly while Jimmy and I both sighed.

“Boys, don’t look so sad. I got a mission that will keep you occupied for a little. Here is the camera, do the video message for the charity race website and also load the video Izzie made onto the site. You two will figure it out in the next… 2 hours?” Matt shoved the camera into my hands and walked away laughing.
“Perfect… you and me and this camera thing.” I looked at Jimmy who still stared to the exit where Mia and Izzie had left.
“Come on Jimmy, let’s do this and then we gonna find some sleep… when the girls are with us these next days we won’t get that much, right?”
“Yeah.. you are right.” Jimmy finally snapped out of it and I handed him the camera.

“What are we gonna say?” I asked him.
“Don’t know, where we are, how much money we got and where we are headed to?” Jimmy asked.
“Sounds good. Yo, Johnny, will you hold the camera so we can make the video message?”
Johnny walked over to us and held the camera and pushed record.
“Hey Guys, I’m Syn Gates and this is my boy The Rev, we are from Avenged Sevenfold and wanted to give you a small update on our tour of the charity race.”
“Yes, so we are here in Reno and just played a small gig. We will upload a small teaser for you guys from a new song that we wrote during this race.” Jimmy took over and I looked at him and nodded.
“So, we will head over to Denver in the next days. And our money account says about 4000$, hard earned money…” I smirked at the camera.
“We gonna come back to you guys with the upload of the Video and gonna give you a update within the next week, take care and watch out, maybe we will cross paths.” I waved in the camera and Johnny stopped the recording.
“Was that good?” Jimmy asked.
“Perfect. Now let’s find a way and upload this shit, have a beer and get some sleep before our trip continues tomorrow.” I told Jimmy and clapped him on the shoulder and walked over to the bar.

Notes

Hello lovely readers!

Another chapter for you all
It´s the closure of the 4 chapter weekend!


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