Caleb's POV

Adrenaline coursed through my body and my vision was stained red as I stormed down the hallway. I couldn't believe I let that asshole, Zachary Baker, get the better of me! That guy made my blood boil and all because they had lied to me over and over! I knew better than to start trusting them again! Those dirty rotten bastards screwed me over once so why the hell wouldn't they do it again!? And it was all because of some huge misunderstanding, at least the way I saw it.

"Alright, Cal, now this is your hands!" Matt slurred, handing me a the demo with one hand while he juggled shots in the other. We had just finished recording the sickest song I'd ever heard and I couldn't believe I had helped write it. I was on cloud nine and I wasn't sure if it was from the line I took a few minutes ago or the mass amounts of alcohol we were consuming.

"Listen, Parker," Zacky V cut in, putting his arm around me. "Now if we get this single picked up..." He slurred.

"But they would fucking idiots not to!" Matt joyfully interrupted after slamming two shots.

"You," Zacky slurred, poking me in the chest as my head spun from my high. "Are going to get a cut of this shit, and I don't mean the drugs!" We all laughed and then downed another shot of absinth. "We are all going to be rich bastards!"

"Maybe we can make you a full time writing partner!" Matt agreed. Man this was the best fucking night of my life!

I shook my head as I walked past Marley, recalling all of their lies. How could they say those things to me and not follow through? We were fucking friends and they screwed me over. I turned and punched the wall at the thought, knowing that my sister was keeping a bottle of Jameson in her room. Fuck, that would be the only thing besides a line of coke that would calm the monster raging inside of me.

"Keep walking Fitz or else it will be your head instead of the wall next!" I raged, realizing he was watching me. And to top it all off, that idiot wanted to bone my sister after everything we've been through together! I couldn't fucking believe it! When we first started the band the first rule was keep your dirty mitts off my little sister and he was treading on thin ice.

I sighed and hit the wall again before I continued down the hall. Where did Matt and Zack get off saying that I sold their demo? To be honesty, I didn't know where the damn thing went after I left Zacky's house that night because I never saw it again. The next thing I remembered after that night was waking up in the hospital to Kady's terrified eyes staring back at me. She was only sixteen at the time and I had never seen such a look of pure terror.

"Cal? Are you awake?" She whispered in her soft melodic voice as my eyes fluttered between lightness and darkness. As soon as I could find the strength to open them I was blinded by fluorescent lights and my sisters bright blue eyes. "Oh thank god your okay!" She cried, throwing her arms around me as I winced in pain.

"W-what happened?" I chocked out with a very dry and scratchy voice. I felt like I had been hit by a bus and everything seemed all too blurry.

"Y-you got beat up..." Kady cried. It hurt to see her like this.

"Do you know who did it?" I asked, feeling my anger rising in my chest. The biggest frown I had ever seen appeared on my sisters face before she nodded and broke down into tears.

"Please don't hate me for what I did..." She cried as I wrapped what appeared to be a bandaged arm around her. "He-he was going-going to h-hurt me too...he needed his fix..."

I growled with anger as my heart monitors started to beep madly from my increasing pulse and blood pressure. "I'm going to fucking kill him. Did he hurt you Kady?" Kadence looked away from me and I grabbed her by the arms, forcing her to look at me. "Answer me Kadence!"

"No! But he wanted to..." she cried. "He-he started ripping off all-all my c-clothes...and-and I threw the demo at him! I told him to find some dr-drugs and a cheap whore with the money!" She sobbed into my chest as I put my arms protectively around her. "I-I know you worked so hard on that and-and I'm sorry!"

"Shh...it will be okay." I cooed, though I wanted to kill our father. How could he possibly think it was okay to lay a hand in his own daughter, let alone want to rape her? "I will get it back and make him pay for this!"

It was then that I saw that slimy bastard stagger his way through the door, his eyes all over my poor sister. "Get the fuck out of here! I am going to turn you in for this, you sick bastard! GET OUT!!!" I bellowed just as the nursing staff came rushing in and I blacked out again.

Six weeks later I was released from the hospital after the traumatic beating I received from my father. I took my sister and we moved into low income housing and that's were it all began. I picked up my bass again and taught Kady how to play the guitar. The next thing I knew we had started a band with out best friends and were making music, using drugs, and getting wasted so we wouldn't have to deal with any of the daily shit. We worked our asses off until we were finally discovered at a music festival in LA.

I let out a scream as paced the hallway in front of my sisters door that had a 'do not disturb' sign out. It was her fault that the demo got sold to the highest bidder and Avenged Sevenfold lost their single, but I was taking that secret to the grave. I would protect my sister in any way possible and if that meant giving the demo to my burn out of a dad so that he wouldn't rape her, so be it.

I just couldn't believe that the guys I considered to be my friends wouldn't believe me about the demo. I did stretch the story a little bit to protect Kady, but I did get the shit beat out of me, I did spend multiples weeks in the hospital, and months trying to get mine and my sisters life back on track. They still called me a liar and took away everything they promised. And fuck, I had even brought them a new demo which turned out to be our hit single 'Monster'. I couldn't believe that after all that we had done together that the guys of Avenged wouldn't take my word and threw me out like old leftovers.

Stopping in the middle of the hallway, I sunk down against the wall and curled into a ball. How had my life gotten so out of control that I didn't know who I was anymore? Why was I trying to control my friends and my sister? I never used to be like this and I hated the monster I had become. I put my head in my hands and let out a long shaky breath.

"I've turned into that asshole that they believed me to be..." I sighed. It was true. From the moment we got a record deal, I made it my duty to get back at Avenged Sevenfold and for what? For Introducing me to the business? Giving me drive? Showing me how to write a decent song? I just realized that I had been living my entire life wrong and I owed some people an apology, starting with my own band members. I was throwing away a once in a lifetime opportunity because I was a jealous bastard. When in reality, I had Avenged Sevenfold to thank for my success and my sisters safety.

Slowly I took in a deep breath and stood back up. As long as I was here, I might as well start with Kady. Just as I reached up to knock on the door, it opened and I found myself face-to-face with a shirtless Synyster Gates.

"What the fuck are you doing here?" I growled with narrow eyes.

Rule number one: No One Puts Their Mitts On My Sister.

Notes

Sorry for any major typos or grammatical errors, I'm writing half a sleep! I will fix them later.

So now we know Caleb's side and whose fault it really was. What do you think the Avenged guys would ever do if they found out about the Parker's past?

Next chapter we will visit Brian and Kady and find out why Brian is leaving so soon. Any ideas why that might be?