Hush, be careful of what you say

Arin POV

“Arin, Arin wake up sweetie…”
As I slowly open one eye to look at the person, I feel my body drenched in water, and fucking hell it’s freezing cold!
“Wakey wakey bitch!” as someone else throws more freezing water at me.
I quickly get out of bed, shivering, standing in just my boxers.
That’s when I realise that Zacky and Johnny are laughing hard at me. Zacky drops the bucket on the floor as he lays on the ground, laughing his ass off.
“That’s not funny!” I yell at them. “It’s freezing cold!”
“Yeah we know. We put ice in it to make it extra cold” Johnny tries to explain, while still laughing.
“Well, two can play the game, bitch!” I yell as I jump on him, squeezing him hard to my chest. “How’s that?!”
“Get off of me!!! You’re cold!” Johnny yells, as Zacky is crying with laughter.
“What the fuck are you guys doing?” I look at the doorway and see Matt with a glass of water in his hands, looking surprised at us. “Well, you know what, I don’t want to know. Sometimes I feel like I have three children”
“Why don’t you admit that since your last girlfriend, you have turned into an old, grumpy man?” Zacky responds.
“I’d watch your mouth if I were you, Baker!” Matt tells him with a low voice. “Come on, we gotta go, it’s almost noon!”
“Well, thank to these two I have to shower first and get new clothes from my house. So you guys leave and I’ll meet you at the studio” I tell them.
“Ok buddy, try not to take long!” Johnny tells me as I flip him off.

Within minutes I arrive at my house and get ready to go to the studio. As I’m still here, I decide to nibble some food, damn I’m fucking hungry this morning! That’s what happens to me after a good night out. Last night was great, we had a great time and the strippers gave us a good show. The stripper that came with me, Emily, was fun as well. She was hinting she wanted to get a bit intimate with me, but I turned her down. I was cool with a couple of lap dances and maybe some grinding, but that’s it.

Anyways, enough of yesterday. I need to head to the studio as the guys are already there. I’m stoked! Super excited! Today our manager and my personal manager are going to be at the studio and we’re going to discuss the new album and the touring. I can’t wait to get on the road and meet our fans! Especially since the last show that we did was a huge success!
I close the door behind me and as I am walking out, I notice that there is something in the mailbox. I open it up and see that there is a brown, small envelope.
I get it out and notice that there is no address written. Nothing. Nothing written down. That’s weird. Someone came earlier and posted this envelope himself.
I open it and see that there is a picture inside.
I get it out.
What the…..fuck?!

I need to show this to the others, as quickly as possible.
I head to my car, turned the vehicle on and storm off to the studio. I arrive within minutes, as I get out of the car and hurry up to the studio.

“I’m telling you Gates, thank you for leaving! Because of you, I ended the night having a threesome. Obviously it couldn’t have gone better!” I heard Zacky from a distance.
“Whoa, Arin finally decided to show up! Welcome to our second home buddy!” Johnny greets me in the studio. I look around and notice that everyone is here.
“Who was chasing you? Marissa?” Brian jokes, as the others burst out laughing.
“I found this in my mailbox” I tell them as I throw the envelope in the middle of the table, the same one which they are surrounding around.
Matt grabs the envelope himself, looks at me with a quizzed look and opens it. As he brings out the photo, I see him putting his hands in fists.
“Who mailed you this?!” he tells me with a low voice.
“I don’t know. It was in my mailbox like that. I don’t have a security camera in my house, so obviously I can’t tell who took the photo or who mailed it” I admit as I sit down, trying to relax a bit to catch my breath.
“What are you talking about?” Johnny asks us. I lift my head and notice that everyone is staring at me, waiting for my explanation.
“Show them the photo Matt” I tell him.

“What the fuck?! Is that me in the photo?!” Brian exclaims as he takes the photo for himself to observe better. “When was this taken?”
“The night we went to Rock Ambition. You remember you were angry at me because of Brenda? I think it was at that moment”
“Why were you fighting?” Larry, our manager, asks us.
“It wasn’t a fight. Just a little misunderstanding that’s all” Brian explains as he passes the photo around.
“Well, it sure looks like you two were fighting. Look at the both of you: you seem like you were yelling, and Brian is with his hands in fists” Toby points out.
“This has to be the hacker!” Zacky says.
“You think?!” Johnny asks him.
“It gotta be. Lately we only received shit from this hacker. The person hasn’t posted anything as of lately, in fact we haven’t mentioned it once. But apparently, the person is going to up the game!” Zacky continues.

We pause for a second, until Matt’s phone starts ringing, almost giving me a fright.
“Hey Dan, what’s up? Yeah we’re here at the studio. Why, what’s wrong?! Uhm, okay fine!” and he hangs up.
“Dan is coming?” Brian asks Matt.
“Yeah and he needs to show us something, that’s what he told me anyway!” Matt explains.
“Hell, for sure I need to show you something!” Dan says as he enters the room.
“Where you at the parking lot when you phoned me?” Matt chuckles. “Didn’t you see our cars?”
“Yeah but I wanted to be sure that you guys are here. Anyways, I need a laptop! Quick!” Dan orders, as Johnny gets up and gives him his laptop.
He types something in the search engine and then turns the laptop at us.
“I bet you’re not going to like this!”

We all gather around the laptop, and I notice that there is an article written, with the same photo that I had in my mailbox this morning!
“You gotta be kidding me right now!” I say pissed off.
“What the flying fuck is this?!” Brian says angrily.
“I can’t read from here!” Johnny yells from behind us.
“Let me read it” Matt says as he grabs the laptop himself and gets up.
“Hail Avenged Sevenfold. Everyone agrees that right now, this band is one of the hottest and greatest bands. They are making a huge success, always putting a great show for their fans. They always say that they live their lives with the motto: ‘Family first’, as they are like brothers. Recently, they have introduced their new drummer, Arin Ilejay, during a charity event where they had played in front of thousands of people. Fans seem to adore him already, as he is filling the big shoes of the late Jimmy Sullivan. But today, a person under the heading ‘Hacker/Targeter’ posted us this photo, exclusively. The photo was taken at night, just a couple of nights ago. The question that this person has questioned was, is there already trouble in the band? Is there trouble between the newest member and the veteran member, Brian Haner Junior?! It is evident that the both of them are in a heated argument, look at the fists and the deadly expressions on their faces! Is the newest member a diva? How come there is already trouble in paradise? Any more updates on this story? Stay tuned as we will be the first to report about it!”

“I am actually speechless right now” Brian says as he puts his face in his hands.
“This is getting out of hand! It’s absurd!!” I yell a little bit too much. Fuck, it is irritating me so much! This person has so much hatred towards me, all for nothing! I did absolutely nothing!
“This is all bullshit! I’d say we take this to the police and see whether there are any finger prints and move from there” Zacky says in a serious tone.
“Don’t you think that is a bit extreme?” Johnny questions Zacky.
“Extreme?! Have you seen this? From just a little post on facebook, from a little hack on the stupid webpage, it got to stalking us, taking pictures of us and creating false stories about us! This is getting worse by the second!” Matt says in the leadership tone.
“I agree with Zacky, we should do something about it!” Dan says.
“Guys, I agree with you on this one. But listen to me carefully! Usually, you do not post anything on social media, you stay quiet during interviews….continue doing so! If you say something, you will worsen the situation! Obviously this person is trying to get to us, and targeting the person will simply let him or her win! Be cautious about it, think before you act!” Larry explains.

“We will Larry! Don’t worry”, Brian tells him.
“Where are you going Matt?” Johnny asks. We all look around and see Matt going out of the studio.
“To the fucking police! I’m going with the photo right now!” he says in an angry tone as he storms out of the room within a second.
“Wait for me” Brian says as he catches up with Matt and leaves the studio as well.

“So much for work today huh?” Larry jokes a bit to lighten up the mood.

Notes

Oh damn....The hacker posted the photo and the guys are super pissed! :/ What do you think will happen next? Will the hacker be caught by the police?

The next chapter will be a couple of days in (fast-forward), and prepare for some fun, and maybe later for a bumpy ride?! :O Who knows :P You'll get to know by time :P

Hope you'll liking the story so far! :) Comments please <3