(Love) Contract

Brian’s POV

I shouldn’t have talked to Tara about the past… about Michelle… I knew it was a mistake, but somehow I felt like we had a connection and we could talk about it.
Normally whenever I could, I tried to avoid the topic and since Jimmy was the only one who knew what happened I even blocked the topic with him completely, so why did I talk to Tara about it… I didn’t know.
Maybe because I was curious about her past as well, she didn’t give me much information about herself and the whole thing with the phone calls made some sense now.
I saw that she had muted her phone from now on, so I guessed the calls gotten more and more urgent.
Maybe I should ask her about it again, without the whole you give me something then I reply with something part.

Maybe I could convince her that I could help her?!
“Tara?” I asked when I heard that the shower wasn’t running anymore.
“Yeah?” She replied and I walked towards the closed bathroom door.
“Will you allow me to help you?” I asked and it was silent from the other side of the door.
“With what? I can close my bra by myself, but nice try, Brian.” I chuckled at that.
“I meant something different.” I told her and she opened the door, her hair was draped in a towel and she wore a dark jeans and a black top, fitting for our concert.
“What do you mean?” She asked me with a frown.

“I meant the calls, do you want me to call him and have a quick talk? You said he was an ass, right? He cheated on you? Let me tell him to fuck off.” I asked her and she looked at me a little confused.
“I don’t want you to talk to him. He will tell you lies.. He will… forget about it alright.” She shrank a little away from me which made me frown at her. Why wouldn’t she want to get rid of that guy?
“You got messages from him on your phone, right?” I asked and she nodded.
“Did you listen to them?” I asked and she shook her head.
“I know what he is saying and what he wants, that’s why I am not replying and not listening to it, Brian. He is a selfish son of a bitch. He will make you believe that I am the bad one, but I am not, alright? He always does that. He…” She held her hand to her mouth as if she had said too much.
“I don’t wanna talk about this again. Forget it!” She turned away and closed the bathroom door, when I grabbed the handle I heard the lock close.
“Tara… come out.” I tried but she didn’t reply.
My phone rang and I saw it was Matt “What?”
“Meeting in 15 minutes, are you ready?”
“Yes, we will be done, thanks.” I hung up.
“Tara, we are meeting downstairs in 15. Come out, I promise I won’t talk about it if you don’t want me to, I just wanted to make sure, that you know I am here for you. I care, alright.”
The door unlocked and opened. “No, I am sorry, you caught me off guard. He is a red rag for me.”
“No problem. Let’s just agree that we won’t talk about it, but if you want to… I will end this.” She nodded at me “Thank you, Brian. Maybe I will come back to that someday.”
“Are you ready to leave?” I asked and grabbed the bag from the bed to take along.
“Yes, let’s go.” She nodded, pulled her hair into a ponytail and we made our way downstairs.

Matt’s POV
I informed everybody to be ready, I couldn’t wait to be at the show again. I always loved the adrenaline rush that I got from hearing the fans outside, seeing the crowd and even listening to some other bands, while they were still on stage.
Jason walked towards me and I haven’t seen him long after the sound-check and had no chance to ask him about his talk with Tara.
“Hey man.” I greeted him and he stopped beside me.
“Everybody informed?” He asked and looked around.
“Yes, bus is waiting to bring us to the venue. We are on at 7:45, it’s a pretty damn good time.”
I waited for him to begin but he didn’t. “Did you have anything else to say?”
He looked away not meeting my eyes.
“Jason? Talk to me.”
“Yes, I talked to her, but I can’t tell you what we talked about, alright. I don’t wanna betray her trust.”
“What do you mean? Is it true? She and Brian… are they…” I let the sentence trail off and he met my eyes.
“Fuck, I just told you I cannot say anything, she made me promise.” Jason said and I rolled my eyes.
“For how long are we friends now? 15 freaking years?” I asked and he looked a little to the side.
“I know… let me tell you. She and Brian are close, yes… but they are not a “real” couple. Even though I think they would fit pretty good. I also could see that she liked you, more then she wanted to admit. But she also doesn’t want to risk the whole masquerade going on so… Matt, listen and back off. She and Brian need to be in the game and don’t need and interruptions from your side. I know and realize since you are after this fucking topic so damn much, that this means more to you then you want to admit, right?”
“I don’t know… honestly.” I told Jason and sighed. “But thanks, I know this was much to ask from you.”
I turned away and saw Zack, Jimmy and the rest walking towards us.
“You guys ready for the show?” I asked and met Brian’s eyes, he acted strange. I had to do something about that.
“Fuck yeah, I texted with one of the guys from another band and they said the crowd is awesome.” Johnny grinned and I nodded.
“Alright, let’s do this.”

Tara’s POV

We arrived at the venue and everything was crowded, the parking lot, the backstage area and the waiting area for me beside the stage.
Avenged was on in about 5 minutes, but still the other band didn’t leave the stage, so a lot of things were happening at once.
Brian told me I should try to stay with Jason or Matt, or he said one of the Berry’s but I know what he meant.
“Jason? Where should I stay? I don’t want to be in the way?” I asked him when he stopped beside me.
He looked a little confused to the sides and when a guy nearly ran me over, he pulled me to his side.
“Come on, I will find a better place, maybe the other side will be less crowded.” Jason grabbed my hand and dragged me along behind him.
I tried to hold on to him without getting lost in the mass of people.
“AVENGED SEVENFOLD!” Somebody yelled I knew they had to get on stage now.
Jason finally stopped and he was right, on the left side of the stage it was not so crowded, only a few people stood there.
“You can stay here, you don’t have the best look on Brian but I think it’s safer here.” He winked at me and went away.
“Wait, Jason…” He looked back at me and I bit my lip, wagering if I should ask him or not.
“What we talked about… you kept that, right? You didn’t talk to Matt about it?” I asked him finally.
“No, I didn’t…” He looked at his feet and I wasn’t completely convinced that he was saying the truth.
Maybe I should talk to Matt and Brian… have them in the same room and talk… it would be embarrassing as hell but…
No, I shook my head, maybe I should try and get a chance to talk to Matt… I was so curious what he would say about all this… did he really have more feelings for me?
“Tara? Are you okay here for a second on your own? I need to talk to the technicians.” I nodded.
“Sure, I will stay here, nothing should happen, right?”
“Yeah, right.”

They finally began to play, Matt did a small introduction and I saw Brian gazing at me. He winked and started to play. His fingers moved so quickly over the guitar that I swallowed thickly, he was sexy, there was no doubt about it, but it was also wrong to think about him in any other way then him as my friend.
We shouldn’t be getting into more than the weird thing we were already in, which made my eyes move over to Matt… he stole my attention away most of the time. But I had to control myself…
I saw a camera flash before my eyes and looked down, all the photographer standing there were taking pictures from the Avenged show, except from one… He was taking pictures of me. I tried to walk back a little and as if Brian noticed my distress he walked over the whole stage, still while playing, Zacky did the same, they exchanged places but Brian didn’t stop at Zacky’s position, he walked towards me with a smirk and stood directly in front of me.
He’s fingers never stopped on his guitar and my heart skipped a beat looking at him like that.
“What are you doing?” I whispered but he just kept on smirking, leaned forward and kissed me.
I was caught off guard and saw more cameras flash and when Brian pulled away I stood there stunned, did he just really do that?!
“Concentrate, Gates.” I heard Zacky on his mic and Matt was still singing but also looked a little confused at Brian’s show. When even more cameras flashed, not only from the photographers but from the crowd as well, I had enough and tried to hide behind the stage, bumping into someone I had seen before and I was glad to meet another familiar face.

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