(Love) Contract

Brian’s POV

Today was the day of our concert… it would all come down today. I know it might have been a mistake letting Jimmy have his free rein about everything that was going on, but I really couldn’t find the strength in dealing with everything on my own, and now that might bite me in the ass.

“Brian? Are you ready? We need to leave.” Tara yelled from downstairs and I grabbed my guitar case and headed down.
“Yeah, I’m done.” I kissed her before leaving and thought of any way to make her feel better, but I just couldn’t.
I know it must be hard for her, seeing that bastard again tonight, and I wished I could convince her in staying behind, but I knew better then that as well.
She wouldn’t stay behind, she would want to know what happened and I couldn’t really blame her.

We sat in my car and I made my way to the venue where the concert would take place. I saw already that Matt, Jimmy and Zack’s car was here.
I frowned, alright it wasn’t that weird that I was the last, but we weren’t that late and all of them here, strange.
Before getting out, I looked at Tara, she stared out off one of the windows and didn’t seem to notice me looking at her.
“Babe, are you alright?” I asked finally, not able to stand her silence anymore.
“Yeah.. they…I saw them… they are here already.” She said quietly and I sighed.
“Don’t let him get to you, babe. Don’t forget he just wants to anger us, he wants to piss us off. Just ignore him, I will try to do the same.” I told her and grabbed her hand in mine.
“Yeah, I know.. it’s just.. damn I wish we didn’t have to do all this… it’s all mine fault. You shouldn’t be doing this…” Tara said and I leaned over to her, grabbing her cheeks in my hand.
“I am happy all this happened.” I told her and made her frown.
“What?”
“Because if this wouldn’t be happening, I wouldn’t have you. We wouldn’t be here… and I rather do this three times, then being without you.”
“Brian…” Tara sighed and I leaned in to capture her lips with mine when a loud knock on my window made us rush apart.
“What the fuck-” I looked around seeing Matt at my window. I flipped him off and took my time to kiss Tara anyway.

She pulled away with a smile and Matt opened my door. “Get out Gates, we need your help setting everything up. We don’t have that many people here. And you might want to talk to Jimmy, about some details for this evening.” Matt smiled and I frowned.
Did he know more than I already?!

Matt’s POV

The sound-check was a routine for us not taking too long and we had everything prepared together with Jason and Matt and some other friends in no time.
After us there was the time for John’s band to get moving, they had a simple set and doesn’t need much.
They didn’t even have a real brand or logo for their band and I had no idea how any fans could remember them like this.
Wasn’t my thing to worry about, if there were even fans that would want to see them again?
“Guys, let’s get something to eat, before the concert.” Zack announced and I nodded.
“Good idea.”

John and his band mates came walking towards us. We haven’t really met them before, so he started with the introduction, while we weren’t really paying attention, but I had reminded everyone beforehand not to let something slip anything, since we were still playing our roles here.

“Guys, I wanted to introduce you to my band. This is Barry our Drummer, Dustin playing the Bass and Jerry playing lead guitar.” He motioned from one to the other and I nodded at each of them.
“Hey, Shadows, Gates, Zacky Vengeance, Johnny Christ and The Rev.” I did the same motioning from one to the other but left out Tara not to get too much attention to her.
“We know… damn this is a dream coming true. I can’t believe that you let us play with you.” Barry the drummer said and I nodded with a smile.
“Yeah, sure... Anyway, you can do your sound check now. We will get something to eat, we will see us before the show, so we can do some talking, if you want. Sharing some experience…”Jimmy said and I smiled, already knowing what his plan was for today.
“Wow, that would be awesome.. we could really need some of your thoughts and ideas.” Dustin said excited and I felt a little bad already for them.

I had to admit that at first I wasn’t really happy and convinced about what Jimmy was planning, but on the other hand… it couldn’t really get worse anyway.
I just hoped Brian was fine with showing the video either ways, but I told Jimmy beforehand that I wouldn’t be the one telling him anything about that, so either Brian would know from Jimmy… or he wouldn’t know at all - until it was too late.

“Are you not staying for our sound-check?” John asked frowning and Zacky laughed.
“No? Since when is the main act staying for the opening band? We already told you we will be back before your show starts, we will have a look at that, promise.” Zacky grinned and I saw John narrow his eyes on him and I tried to not show my smirk.
“Hey Tara, it’s good to see you again, can I talk to you for a second… alone” John asked smiling friendly and my smirk fell away and I saw Brian stiffen.
“No, she is coming with us. We need to leave.” I said before any of the other could interrupt.
“Come on, Tara… Old time sake… just give me a minute.” John insisted and you could grab the tension coming from us, while John smiled, knowing we couldn’t really act on it, his band mates being clueless.

Tara’s POV

I know this was a dumb idea, but this situation wasn’t being solved without me talking to him.
I looked at Brian and he shook his head but I nodded and he grabbed my wrist hard.
I narrowed my eyes and Brian let go “No, babe…”
“Yes, give me a second, will you? We will just be down the hall, alright?” I asked a little louder and John nodded satisfied.
“Sure, as you wish. Guys, will you give me a moment. I will come to you shortly.” John’s band mates went towards the stage area and I saw Zacky, Johnny and Matt reluctantly leaving, or rather Jimmy shooing them away through the back entrance.

John was about to take my elbow, but I shrugged his hand off, not wanting him to touch me.
“Oh since when are you so sensitive? But fine…” John walked close next to me until the end of the corridor.
I stopped, not wanting to get away any further and I felt Jimmy and Brian’s eyes on my back.
I sighed heavily and met finally John’s eyes “What do you want, John?”
“How are you Tara? Are you feeling good?” John asked with a smirk and I frowned at him.
“What do you want? What do you really want?” I asked and he chuckled lightly.
“Come on, are old friends talking like that?” John asked and I shook my head.
“We are no friends. Will you tell me now what you want? My boyfriend and his band are waiting for me.” I said and saw John getting a serious face.
“Fine, if you want to come down to business just like that…” He made a step towards me, getting nearly in my face and I saw in the corner of my eye’s how Brian was also stepping a bit forward, being held by Jimmy.
“Tell me, Tara… will your boyfriend back down? Will they still play the show when… something like this is already spread all over the internet?”John asked and I frowned.
“What are you talking about, John?” I stared at him and he chuckled, he pulled his phone out of his pocket and showed me a picture of me and Matt in the park, I blinked at it… what was he talking about?
“I know from your fuck buddy Matt, that they wouldn’t cancel a show, even if they were confronted with something like this spreading the news.” He clicked on his phone and a mail opened up.

I saw the pictures in the mail and the address of a lot of different magazines and newspapers in the address line, making me frown even more.
“You will send it to them? Even thought they will play this concert with your band?” I asked surprised, even though I should have known that John never could get enough… so why now?
“Wrong, sweetie.” He touched my face and I made a step away. “Look again… and look closely.”
I looked at his phone again and then saw that it was already a sent message… so every magazine had the pictures of me and Matt… we wouldn’t get around showing that video now anyway… they couldn’t and wouldn’t back out of playing the show… Everything was set up, and the fans soon were waiting… and seeing that picture… even more would be coming.
Damn, what have we gotten ourselves into now?!

Notes

Uhh--ohhh...
What will they do?!

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