Everyone were there. Val, Zacky, Jimmy, Matt and her. Just like the old times. Other people were there too, people I didn't know. I stood there, on my corner, drink in hand looking at her. She was talking to a guy, taller than me, blond hair, blue eyes... The dude every girl would like to be fucked by. I couldn't here what they were saying but I could see that she wasn't really paying attention to him, once in a while she would look into my direction, but I would just look away. The guy kissed her cheek and took her in his arms, she instantly looked at me. That time I didn't look away. My heart was aching. I took the last sip of my beer and placed it onto the table next to me. I passed through the crowd and headed outside. My hands were really shaking as I tried to reached the little bag of cocaine from my pocket. But before I could even poured that heaven snow onto my finger, I heard someone behind me. I looked behind me. That blond guy. I sighed and took a cigarette out of my pack.

"Hey!" He said too nicely for me..

"Hey." I just answered trying to look away, he also lit up a cigarette. Oh well nice, I had to be near him for at least a good 5 minutes.. Fuck my life, really.

"Crazy to see that Synyster Gates is Hayley's brother, I would never have expected this!" He said way too excited for me. I sighed and rolled my eyes up in the air, again with that brother explanation. I didn't say anything else, I just inhaled my smoke and looked away. He placed himself in front of me and gave me his hand. I shook it in obligation.

"I'm Paul, Hayley's collegue."
"Brian." I just answered, so they were collegue? Where was she working at? I cleared my throat and asked awkwardly. "What's your job?"

"Hayley and I are social workers, you know.. with people in need. On the moment, we have a contract around here, that's why she moved near by."

Oh that's the reason... I nodded and smoked the last bit of my cigarette.

"How comes that you didn't know that?!" He laughed, as he found me stupid to know nothing. I couldn't say the truth.

"Just like that, been a while I didn't see her." I said rudly as I just went back inside without even saying goodbye.

I hurried up going upstairs into "my room" to take my cocaine. I needed it. I laid onto the bed and looked at the ceiling once again. Thinking about what was going on in my life, so quickly. I closed my eyes for a few seconds before going downstairs again. Few people were already gone. All the band mates, my parents and Hayley were sitting at the table. Instantly they all stopped talking and looked at me.

"Brian! Come here, we kept you a place!" My dad said way too happy. He stood and helped me get to the table like if I was a child. I sat at the end of the table, Hayley was just in front of me. I didn't say a single word, just drank silently the beer that my dad gave me, listening to all the bullshit that was saying at the table.

"And that's how we met, we've been helping this homeless girl who was a drug addict, she almost died from an overdose.."

At this point I stopped listening, she is doing that as a job, she came back just for that, because all the guys, my dad, everyone told her I was addicted.. She didn't come back for me, she came back for my dad, for the band. I started feeling really bad, cold sweats rolling onto my forehead, I started bouncing my feet onto the floor. I couldn't stand straight onto my chair after a moment, they started to notice.

"Brian, you alright?" Val said as she placed a hand onto my shoulder.

"I.. I just need a break.." I said as I stood up.

I felt dizzy. Maybe, I took too much that night. I turned myself and went back upstairs, into my room. As soon as I sat onto the bed. I started sobbing like a baby. Again, with all that drug, I couldn't control myself anymore. After a few minutes, I heard the door open downstairs, everyone was saying goodbye. Before I could even know, someone was sitting next to me onto the bed, I stepped, looking at her. She didn't say anything, just stayed close to me as I cried like a child. She placed a hand onto my lap, I looked at it and instantly calmed myself. She was still wearing that bracelet I gave her before. It was roughly used, you could see the leather was old, she must have wore it a lot. I look into her eyes, my vision was blury but I could see she had been crying too.

"I'm so sorry..." She said before she started sobbing. Without thinking about it, I just kissed her forehead and took her into my arms. We stayed all night laying onto the bed without saying anything.

Notes

Sorry for the waiting again, but just letting you know, I'm done with school but I have a CRAZYYYY summer waiting for me, I'm going to live in Europe with my long distance boyfriend for two months! I hope i'll have time to update too then! I hope you enjoyed anyway :)