Deathbat

October 31, 2007
9:30pm Zack's POV
I sat in the back room witht the rest of the guys waiting for the girls to finish up getting ready for the club. I looked around to see how ridiculous we all looked in our costumes. I was suppose to be a 'Gynecologist Specialtist', Jimmy just had on all black clothes and a creepy mask, Matt was being the Mad Hatter from Alice in wonderland, Brian was suppose to be The Joker and Johnny just had Candy's cat ears on from earlier. I chuckled at the view of my best friends.
"We're ready!" Leana yelled as I heard the girls emerging from the other room. First out was Val, which Matt just smirked at her costume. Than Leana, who's butterfly costume was a bit more reveiling, not that Jimmy minded, and than Michelle came out in her tiger costume and lastly out came Candy. I watched as she walked in fixing the bow in her hair. She looked around at everyone before making eye contatct with me and she smiled softly. I had to hold my mouth from letting it drop open from the sight of her. (polyvore.com/cgi/set?id=143008494) She looked amazing.
"We ready to go?" Val asked as all of us guys stood up. Everyone started to make their way out of the bus as I fell in sync with Candy. As we stepped onto the hard concrete Candy stopped me.
"Hey, can you hold my cellphone, camera and cigarettes? I have no pockets." She asked gesturing to her costume. I nodded taking them from her hands and setting them in my coat pocket.
"Are we walking?" she asked
"Yeah, the clubs not far from here." I said answering her question. Within ten minutes we had made it to the club. The line was huge, but we were lucky that we were Avenged Sevenfold and the owner of the club liked our band so we were able to cut up front. As we walked in we were immediatley submerged with the crazy amount of people in there. As we made our way to a booth I grabbed Candy's hand so she woundn't get stuck with some drunk asshole. She is awfully small and the thought of that scared the shit out of me.
"I'm going to go grab a round!" Matt yelled to us as we made our way to an open booth and he turned around to go to the bar.
"This is insane!" A smiling Leana yelled over the mass of people.
"I swear to god I almost died." Candy said sitting down next me as we all sat in the booth. "Hey, can I have my camera?" She asked/yelled me. I nodded handing it to her as she turned it on. Immediatley she took a picture of me and I was momentarily blinded from the flash. I watched as her toothy smile appeared looking at the picture.
"That's a good one." She said laughing and showing me it. I was making a really stupid face.
I just laughed at her. "Here, let me see it." I said taking a hold of her camera. I turned it to face us and Candy leaned in closer so I could take the picture. I snapped it and turned it over to look at it. Surprisingly, the picture was a good one. We were both smiling and Candy had the biggest smile ever.
"Oh geez, I hate my smile." She said pointing at the camera.
"What?! It's beautiful!." I said assuring her. She just smiled and accepted the shot from Matt. He stood at the end of our table with a shot held in the air.
"Let's have tonight be fucking amazing!" He yelled as we all cheered our glasses and took the shot. There were various 'Whoos' from the guys after the shot was taken.
"Where you going?" I asked Candy as she moved her way out of the booth along with the other girls.
"We're going to dance!" she yelled over to me as she tied the strap off her camera to her wrist. I nodded as she walked towards the dance floor.
"Here man" Brian said handing me a beer.
"Thanks" I said sipping it setting it down in front of me. I looked over to the dance floor to see all the girls dancing to some pop song that was currently playing. I searched for Shrimp to see that she was with Michelle and they were taking a picture together.
"You like her, don't you." Brian said drinking his beer and looking over towards the two girls.
"What?" I asked grabbing my beer and sipping it once more.
"Don't 'what' me, man. Candy!" he said pointing in their direction.
"Well yeah." I said shrugging my shoulders.
"Dude, why the fuck don't you do something about it?" He asked looking over at me.
"Because it's Candy, man. What are the odds she even thinking about me like that?" I asked taking my attention off of her on the dance floor to look at Brian. "and she just broke it off with Chris." I added.
"Look, Michelle fucking talked about it to me last nght. She likes you, it's just she's confused or some shit like that." he said pausing to take a sip of his drink. "She just doesn't wanna screw things up. She's not exactly in the best place at the moment."
"Yeah, I know. So, what do you think I should do?" I asked
"Take her on a date, kiss her, I don't fucking know!" he yelled. "Just let her know you care." He finished his beer and got up before I could answer.
I do care about Candy. I always have cared about Candy, maybe at first when we were younger it was just to protect her from the assholes in school, but now it's much more. Every time I look at her I could melt from her beauty. She is honestly the prettiest women I have ever known, even when she doesn't try. Her smile is the one thing that can make any one truly happy. She has the loudest laugh, next to her brother's, and when she laughs her nose scrunches a bit and you can see the twinkle in her beautiful chocolate brown eyes. Her eyes. Her eyes are by far my favorite feature of her. Her beautiful doe eyes, even without makeup, are always so perfect. They are this hazelnut brown with just a speck of green in them making them even more unique.
I shook myself from my thoughts as the girls returned. Candy plopped next to me and was laughing hysterically.
"What's so funny?" I asked her as she was holding her stomach laughing.
"Look, look at this picture I took." She said inbetween laughs. It was a picture of Jimmy and Johnny and it literally looked like Johnny was giving Jimmy a lap dance.
"What the fuck?" I laughed showing Matt next to me and causing him to laugh.
"I want that picture fucking blown up and put on my wall!" Jimmy said
"Oh geez" Leana said with a smile drinking her drink.
"I know what I'm getting you for christmas!" Candy said as I handed her back her camera.
Johnny came back to the table already with another round of shots.
"I'm going to be so drunk by the end of the night." Candy said grabbing a shot off the table causing eveyone to laugh.
12:30 am.
"I'm going to take Candy back to the bus." I said to Val as we walked down the street. The others were planning on heading to the liquor store down the street, but just like Candy said earlier, she was wasted. She was a lightweight, even though she wouldn't admit it. I held her sturdy as we walked. The night wasn't too cold or too hot. It was perfect.
"ya know you're always the one to get stuck with drunk Candy." She slurred walking next to me.
"I don't mind." I said truthfully.
"Can I have a cigarette?" She asked stopping and waiting for me to grab one from my pocket. I handed it to her and lit it while it hung from her lips. I watched as she took a drag from it blowing the smoke from her mouth. We arrived at the bus and I helped her walk up the steps. She put her cigarette out in the ash tray and stumbled her way through the bus.
"This costume is so fucking itchy." She said trying to reach the zipper in the back. I sighed grabbing a pair of her pajamas from her bunk and walked up behind here.
"Here" I said moving her hair to the front of her and unzipping the costume. It fell to the floor leaving her in just her lacy, black bra and underwear. I quickly turned around as she laughed.
"Come on, Zacky. It's not like you can see anything." She said as she grabbed her pajamas off the floor.
"I know." I mumbled not turning around to look at her.
"I need heeeelp." She whined/giggled. I turned around to see her struggling to put her top on. She stood there with the shirt covering her head fully. I laughed helping her move her arms through the correct holes and sliding the shirt down her smooth, flat stomach. I grabbed her plaid pajama pants helping her step into them and pulling them up her legs.
"Thanks, Zacky" she slurred plopping down on the couch. I took my coat off throwing it on the couch next to her and I went to go change out of my costume. I was gone for only 2 minutes and she was passed out on the couch.
"I'm starting to think you just like when I carry you to bed." I said softly as I picked her up to move her to her bunk.
"I do" She said nuzzling her head into my chest as I carried her to her bunk.
"I like a lot of things about you." She mumbled
I smiled "Like what?" I asked laying her down in her bunk and tucking her in.
"Everything" She said opening her eyes. We were silent for a minute.
"Will you lay down with me?" She asked moving hair out of her face.
I nodded hopping myself up into her bunk pulling the curtain so it was competley dark. She immediatly rested her head on my chest just like she did at Matt's house.
"I like when you lay with me." She admitted softly playing with the hem of my shirt. "I feel safe." I ran my fingers through her hair as she spoke. "and i also like when you do that to my hair." she said.
I wanted to tell her just to go to sleep so she didn't admit anything to me in her drunken state, but I didn't.
"and I also like kicking your ass at Call of Duty." she said giggling to herself. I laughed as well as she turned her head to look up at me. She rested her chin on my chest as she spoke.
"I don't know Zack, I just like you. Like, a lot but I don't wanna tell you because im scared." She whispered.
"Of what?" I asked scruntching my eyebrows at the small red head as she layed her head on my chest again.
"That you won't like me back." She said softly. So soft I could barely here her, but I did.

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