Banned in a book

Matt’s POV

We arrived at Big Bear early, the short stop at the gas station didn’t take too much of our time so we could still enjoy the rest of the day and we did that while sitting outside our cabin.
The weather was nice and we all had a beer in hand relaxing in the sun.
But two things were bugging me… two things that wouldn’t leave my mind.

“So that chick, huh..” Zack started and I grin, yeah she was one of the things.
“You got her number?” Zack asks again and I nod, holding up the card she gave me with a satisfied smile.
“Damn, Sanders… She will be thankful… that might be the best sex you ever get.” Zack continues with a chuckle.
“If I ever see her again…” I tell him, putting the card back into my pocket.
“How come?” Jimmy asks, sitting back in the chair next to me.
“She was not from there.. well and I am not from there… So why would we meet again…” I shrug.
“Well, but we are driving back Sunday, how about you call her, we make a stop at Santa Ana, maybe she is still there?” Johnny asks.
“You want me to get laid so bad or what?” I ask offended but on the other hand, I do want to get laid bad… and with her… even more.
“Well, you were kinda grumpy these last weeks.” Zack shrugs and I throw my empty beer bottle at him.
“Fuck off, Vengeance”
“I get enough sexy time… I got a girl waiting for me at home… no problem for me to fuck apparently.” He replies catching the bottle setting it down on the ground.
I roll my eyes and think back to this morning.
We are all quiet for a moment and I knew we were here for a reason…
We wanted to find back to our old self’s, but we didn’t know how…

I get up from my chair in the sun and walk inside, the cabin belongs to my parents, they weren’t here often, mostly the guys and I were occupying this one.
There were pictures hanging on the wall, my family and I and next to it my friends and I but on one of the pictures was this guy…
He still looks so familiar… wait a second… is that the guy from the gas station?
I look more closely, he looks younger here, but so do we… I take the picture of the wall, getting it out of the frame turning around.

2003 -M. Shadows, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance, Johnny Christ and The Rev

Was written on the backside of the picture and I looked at the guy again, he must be Synyster Gates.
“YO MATT! BEEEEERRRR!” Jimmy yells and I still stare at the picture.
He was the guy from the gas station, but why was he on the picture with us… and why couldn’t I remember that he was there.
I knew exactly when we made the pic but my memories didn’t include him.

“MATT! You fell asleep? Get us some beer!” Zacky yells again and I walk outside, picture in hand.
“Oh there he is- without beer!” Jimmy says disappointed.
“Guys-” I start and couldn’t take my eyes of the picture.
“What you got nostalgic?” Zacky asks and Johnny laughs loudly.
“Don’t tell us the beer is empty already!” Jimmy complains but I shake my head.

“I think we need to talk about something important, we all tried to avoid for a long time!” I say holding the picture up from us and saw my friends lean forward looking at the picture closely.
Jimmy snatched it from my hands and turns it around “Gates… I… found a note from him in my house, hanging on the fridge…” He says absently.
“Isn’t that the guy from the gas station… looks a little younger here, but he looks like him… kind of.. the hair is longer, but the tats look the same.” Johnny points at his arms and I nod.
“I haven’t seen the guy, where was he?” Jimmy asks.
“He was a friend of the woman I helped. I think you were already in the car and couldn’t see them, but
guys think about it can anyone remember when we took this picture? Can anyone of you remember that this guy was there?” I ask them and saw them all thinking.
“NO… I remember us… I might have been a little drunk… but I can’t remember him. Syn Gates… Synyster Gates, sounds kinda cool, though.” Zacky says “Something like a rockstar”
“Wait a second” His eyes widen “Was he in our band?”

Sam’s POV

We were driving to the wedding shop in Santa Ana, we were in time and I couldn’t wait to see my best friend in her dress.
But Selena didn’t look that excited anymore.
“Hun, did you talk to Trevor lately?” I ask her and she shakes her head.
“Is everything alright with you?” I continue but she shrugs not replying.
I look at Brian and he shrugs and looks a little helpless himself.

“If you don’t want to do the fitting today, we can do something else, I mean… we will just call and tell them we will come next week?” I ask and Selena shakes her head again.
“No, it’s okay. I was just a little shaken from the… robbery attempt. But I’m okay.”
“Don’t you think we should go to the police or something?” I ask her and again she shakes her head.
“No, nothing happened, thanks to the other guy. I need to do the fitting now… the wedding is in about 2 weeks. I cannot wait any longer…” Selena says sounding determined a few minutes pass by in silence.

“Hey Sam, another questions… you remember that Carol will organize my bachelorette party, right?” Selena says switching the topic.
“I know, yes. I helped her organizing it.” I reply but didn’t really know what she meant to say. I wasn’t too happy about all she planned but, Selena will like it.
“How will you and Brian handle that?” She asks looking at Brian from the side.

Oh, shit… Now I knew what she was getting to.
“I have no idea.” I look over at Brian who looks even more helpless then before.
“You should think about that… I mean it’s in a few days, right?” Selena says and I knew why she was doing this, she tries to direct the conversation to something else, but she was right.
The party would be Friday… that means not even a week and we had a bachelorette party and I had to take Brian along.
He would suffer, I look at him apologizing and he frowns.

“Please don’t tell me it’s what I think it is… Don’t tell me I have to be there when a strippers rubs himself on the women there.” I shrug not wanting to admit or dismiss anything.
Selena grins, she must know already what Carol had planned, and what I gotten myself into.
“This will be so much fun. But we need to find a way to explain why Brian will be there. Maybe we can say that he is also a friend from Trevor, wanting to control the situation a little or something?” Selena looks at me in the review mirror and I think about that.
“Yeah, maybe…” I nod but would that really be convincing?
We didn’t have much of a choice anyway.

“We are here.” Selena says and parked the car outside the parking lot.
A woman just opens up and holds the door open for us when she saw us approach.
We walk inside and I look around the huge store seeing hundredths of white wedding dresses.
I have been here before with Selena, but every time I get to see this it’s amazing.

You should think it would rouse bad memories within me, but it doesn’t. Tom and I never married in the church or with a white wedding dress, so I was theoretically still open for that, but I don’t think I ever would… That ship had sailed.
My Mr. Right wouldn’t show up here anymore…
I felt a hand sneaking into mine, a thumb stroking over my palm and I looked up finding Brian standing next to me.
“Have you ever been to a wedding dress shop?” I ask him and he shakes his head.
“Not that I could remember.” He says looking around. “Please tell me Selena already found her dress and we don’t have to try all these things on.” He whispers when a sales woman walks towards Selena.
I chuckle “She has hers already. It’s just a fitting.”
“Oh thank god.” He says on a sigh looking up in the ceiling as if his prayers would have been heard making me laugh out loud and him smirk at me.

“Sam? Are you coming, we need to go to the back for the fitting” Selena yells and motion us towards the dressing room.
“Should I wait here?” Brian asks softly but Selena must have heard him.
“Are you kidding me? You gotta come along, of course” She yells and I take his hand back in mine, dragging him towards the back room.

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