Secret Surprise

Brian’s POV
After a lot of tossing and turning I had finally fell asleep. I send Leyla a text at midnight to wish her a nice birthday, claiming it was the middle of the night where she was and that I would call her later. She had just replied with a little heart and I wanted to go over to her so bad. She was so close and I couldn’t even be with her. This had seem to be such a good plan, but the execution was just nerve wrecking. I shouldn’t have argued with her, I should have just made something else up, I shouldn’t have hurt her.

I woke up after a couple of hours of sleep and immediately smelled the fresh coffee. I put on some sweatpants and headed down, still rubbing my eyes. Matt and Zack were already there
“You’re up early” Zack welcomed me.
“Can say the same for you” I grunted back.
“I have a baby in the house, my biological clock is set to early” Zack replied
“And I’m practising” Matt smiled widely.
Two dads in our group within a few months and I didn’t even know if I would have a wife by then.
Johnny and Arin finally decided to join us and we were all just hanging out, staring at our coffee.

“So today is about fixing things with Leyla” Johnny said. “I mean, it will be okay, you behaved around her, right?” He joked.
My thoughts ran to another fight we had, damn we did that a lot.... If she only wasn’t that stubborn... Or if maybe I just wasn’t. I sighed.
“What’s up?” Zack asked.

“I remember something else, you remember that night, right before everyone went home? When we were all hanging out at Arin and Rye’s house. When we had this party? Leyla and I had been late, you know why?”
“Damn, Gates, spare us the details, better get the alcohol out of your system, I think you want to give us too much information...” Matt shook his head at me.
“No, not that. That was the other day…” I grinned.
“I mean, we had a discussion, there was this girl asking for an autograph, which I gave her off course.
Leyla was pissed at me after that.”
“Why that? That was nice…” Johnny shrugged.
“Yeah, I am asking you?! I was just nice, put a smile on my face signed her shirt and did some small talk, Leyla stood beside me. Nothing happened.”
“Sometimes girls are just weird and only see things they wanna see…” Johnny stated.
“Did you flirt with that girl?” Zack asked eyebrows raised.
“No, I was just nice of course.” I replied remembering Leyla’s angry glare when we walked to the party.

“I asked her what was up and she said ‘Nothing’” I frowned.
“Oh-Oh… that meant you did something terrible wrong.” Matt crossed his arms over his chest.
“Yeah, he is right. You must have fucked up.” Arin normally the quieter one nodded.
“But I didn’t do anything, I am telling you.”
“Like I said, sometimes, girls are seeing things that are not there and only hearing things they wanna hear.” Johnny said and earned a nod from all of us.
“Right, they sometimes want you to answer questions you know you can only answer the wrong way. Which dress do you prefer? Whatever you answer it is wrong. If I say the right or the left, she will ask why not the other? And if I say she should be wearing nothing, because that way I liked her the most I earn a slap on the back of my head…” I complained.
“Right, I think they are doing that on purpose.” Matt nodded.
Everybody added a story of their wife to our conversation and we all agreed on the opinion of the one telling the story, but I knew when they were together with their wives again, they would never say that this conversation ever took place.

“But anyway, let us stop the complaining. It’s going to be beautiful day. Let’s raise a cup to our wives… oh and girlfriend. We love them to death and you know it.. May our love and friendship never end...” Matt grinned at me with the added statement and raised his cup of coffee.
“Cheers.”

Leyla’s POV
I was pulled out of my sleep because of a loud knock on the door.
“Leyla! Sleepy head! Get up! We’re having breakfast and we will go shopping after. We are even doing a special Amsterdam attraction for you!”
Nessa was way too cheerful in the morning, but I decided to get up anyway, I was hungry and I couldn’t sleep anymore, I was actually happy she woke me. The dream I was having didn’t need to be continued. I shook my head and put on some comfy clothes and headed for the hotel restaurant to find the others already there.
“Happy birthday, girl!” I kissed 4 sets of cheeks and got a few more little presents from them.

“You guys are spoiling me”
“You deserve it” Rye hugged me again.
“I know I shouldn’t say it, but you look really tired” Meike said carefully
I sighed “Yeah, had this annoying dream about Brian, just before I woke up.“
“Wanna tell us about it?” Kim rubbed my arm a little, smiling at me comforting.

“Brian is always so flirty with fans, even when I’m out with him! Do the others do that too?” I asked a rhetorical question. I kind knew the answers, but the others started talking anyway.
Kim shook her head “Matt isn’t, but I think he had always been kind of the responsible one and we have been together for a long time. I mean, he is nice and spends time with the fans, but flirty Matt is only for me”
“Zack is, but I trust him” Meike added “You know him and Brian have always been like this. I mean, they will never do anything with it, it’s just giving the fans what they want... The Synacky dream. Letting the girls think they stand a chance for something with both ofthem” she chuckled
Nessa added “Yeah, those fans are crazy sometimes, they only want one thing and if they as much smile at them, they go crazy”
I huffed “We walked into a fan when we came over to the party at Arin and Rye’s a few months ago. The girl pulled Brian into a hug, stroking his back, holding on to him and he didn’t even tried to get out of it! And then she asked him to singn her t-shirt... do you know where he signed her?! At her boob! Come on! I was right there!”

Kim looked at me, trying to calm me with her eyes “Leyla, sweetie, you really need to trust Brian in this, rely on your relationship, because if you can’t, you’ll go crazy. They will walk into these kind of situations all the time, they have a lot of female fans and they have their fans on top of their lists, that’s just how they are. But you know... You aren’t even on that list, you come BEFORE the list, and you need to believe that”
“But you are all married, you have proof that you belong to them. You are mrs. Sanders, you are mrs. Baker and you are mrs. Seward” I looked around and then at Rye pointedly “and you... you and Arin aren’t together for only half of how long Brian and I have been together and even you got the label “Avenged Sevenfold wife” Mrs. Ilejay to be” I let my head fall into my hands
“I just get so frustrated! He tells me he loves me, but he does everything to get back at that statement. I don’t even need to get married, but I just wished he wasn’t so much Synyster Gates, with all his flirty and cocky ways when they are out playing.”

I looked at my friends, getting compassionate looks from them.
“That is still no sign of him cheating on you. Arin says he’s never going out anymore when they are on tour, he just told me they are all pretty boring now, seeing none of them is single anymore and all” Rye tried to reassure me.
I sighed “You are probably right.. But I just miss him, you know? It’s my birthday and he is not even here. I only got a few word text”
“We know sweetie, we know”

After we finished our breakfast we all got dressed and went shopping. The girls had arranged drinks on a canal cruise and I absolutely loved it. I mean it was kinda cheesy, but we had the boat to ourselves and I love this city. Amsterdam was absolutely amazing! I couldn’t believe I was really here. I know the guys loved it here, probably for totally different reasons, but it was truly amazing. Maybe Brian and I could visit Kim and Matt more often, I would love to get to know this city.

When we got back in the hotel Meike got into organiser mode. “Everyone dress up! And then we will have to leave for the restaurant, we have reservations at 6.30. Leyla, you wearing your new outfit, right?” We all went back to our rooms and I checked my phone, nothing, I didn’t miss any calls. I let myself fall on the bed, hesitating if I should maybe call him. But it was my birthday, wasn’t it his job as a good boyfriend to call me?
I sighed, getting up again, heading for the shower. I was dressing up, making myself pretty and if Brian wasn’t here to see it, it didn’t matter, this was for me!

The restaurant Kim picked was amazing. It had high ceilings, open kitchens and a sophisticated look. It was Matt and Kim’s favourite place and she was greeted by the waitress
“Kim! Waar is Matt?” her Dutch was sounding like jibberish to me, but I assumed she was asking about Matt. Kim hugged the waitress and started talking to her in her own language, leaving us all in question what she was talking about
“Matt is thuis, de jongens zijn ook hier, maar dat mag die prachtige rooie niet weten” Kim smiled at the girl “Ze is jarig vandaag, en raad eens wat ze van haar vriend krijgt, een aanzoek, we moeten om half 10 in Hard Rock zijn”
The girl nodded with a big smile on her face, looking at me, I had no idea what they talked about, but I assumed Kim had told her it was my birthday today, so I smiled back at her.

“Leyla, please tell us about how you met Brian again, I love that story!” Rye asked as soon as we got our first drinks and waited for the first course.
I smiled at my best friend, the story of me and Brian had started almost 5 years ago and it was an amazing story, seeing Brian was only whoring around before he met me.
“You all know it! I’m not telling again!”
“Ah come on, I can hear it a thousand more times” Kim said, looking at me expectantly.
“Okay, Okay, so Brian came to give a workshop at my college and I wasn’t allowed to attend because of other classes. I managed to leave of my class early and sneaked into the auditorium, just at the moment Brian was ending a shredding solo. I stood there, in the middle of the stairs down, staring at him, I was so amazed by him. As soon as he looked up for a second to look at his audience, he saw me standing there and I saw his eyes grow big and his fingers just failed. Totally screwing up the end of it.” Nessa started laughing “Even the great Synyster Gates makes mistakes, that’s why this is so funny!”
“After the workshop he asked me for coffee, but I refused, I knew the stories about him and I wasn’t that kind of girl. Then he started sending me stuff during my classes, it was so embarrassing!”
“Oh I remember that time” Meike said “He was out of his mind, he only knew your name, he didn’t know how to reach you and that’s why he started doing it like this.”
Kim chuckled “The guys gave him such a hard time, Brian falling in love wasn’t something they had seen much before”
“Finish the story, please” Rye said
“After two weeks of embarrassment, he was waiting for me, begging me to go out with him, at least to have coffee with him”
Nessa clapped in her hands “Oh! Oh! I love this part best”
“So I replied...”
“.. If you can’t afford me dinner, I’m totally out of your league” The other girls said, together with me. I smiled widely, the girls loved this story and so was I, I had fallen for him the minute I saw him play that solo and our fights set aside, I was loving him still.

At 9.15 the waitress came to tell us our drive was here. A large white limousine was waiting outside on the Rembrandtplein, ready to take us to the next location. This day was getting better and better.

Notes

Still your Birthday, sugar pie :)

So here is the promised update :D

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