Brian’s POV
“So…” I averted my eyes from the pile of arms and mouths that used to be Matt and Sara and turned to Amy.
“So…” she repeated me, fidgeting with her hands. Then she finally looked me in the eyes for the first time since we had left the hotel “I guess this is it, huh?”
“Yeah, finally ending this holiday, finally going back to our own lives” I muttered, looking at her through my lashes. I knew the goodbye was going to be weird, but was this really how I wanted to spend my last moments with her?

Amy took a deep sigh. She seemed to have taken a decision and grabbed my hands.
“Brian… thank you so much for this holiday, I really enjoyed myself” our eyes met and I felt a jolt of electricity going through my body. “I will never forget this” she hesitated before she continued “I will never forget you”

Suddenly it felt ridiculous to not hold her. I put my hands on her hips and pulled her to me, my lips finally finding hers. The touch of her lips was soft, but soon her body pressed harder to mine. I felt her tongue go over my lips and soon we were caught up in some sensual dance, our mouths moving completely in sync, just like they had been all holiday long. This dance was nothing at all like the one Ron had tried to teach us.

After a few minutes we broke apart, both breathless, both heated up.
“That was…” Amy sighed as I let my forehead rest against hers. I didn’t know what to say to her anymore, there were so many words, but right now. Now, I had nothing.

I backed away a little and looked at the woman in front of me. She was beautiful, and she had been mine for these full two weeks.
“So, you got my address right?” Amy’s voice broke my train of thoughts and for a moment I was confused. Was she asking me to come over now? Come over to her ‘real life’? I was opening my mouth to tell her that I would think about it. I didn’t know if it would be a good idea to see each other again after this, but part of me really wanted to. But then she spoke again, crushing every thought I was having “….For the divorce papers?”

And there it was again, that anger. During that kiss it had faded completely, but it was creeping up on me once more.
“I mean, I know we haven’t discussed that yet or anything, but if you have your lawyer draw up the papers there is no need for us to get together for it, right?”

“No need… got it…” I removed myself from her completely and moved a step back. “You sure you want me to draw up the papers?”
She looked at me confused, was she really playing stupid with me now? After all that I heard this morning?
“That’s what we agreed on, right? That I would go silently” She let the end of that sentence linger and looked at me expectantly…
“Yeah, that is what we agreed on, but I thought you might have forgotten that” I heard the venom in my voice, and the frown on Amy’s forehead got deeper and deeper. We got caught up in a staring contest, my anger flaring up inside of me, and confusion swirling in her eyes. I had to give it to her, she was definitely good in playing her part.

“…. To Los Angeles, please board at gate 6”

I turned to Matt and Sara, wrapped up in each other.
“I think that was our plane” I couldn’t let my annoyance out of my voice. Why did he get the kissing goodbye and I only got the woman who just wanted to get rid of me as soon as possible now? “Sanders, you heard me?” That asshole didn’t even look at me, waved me off, while he mumbled something and continued sucking face with Sara.

There was nothing left for me to really say goodbye to Amy now. That was what she wanted, that was what I wanted. No harm done, everyone happy.

I extended my hand to Amy and she took it hesitantly “Nice to meet you, I had fun, I will send you everything, you will never have to see me again”
For a moment Amy was just silent and I saw her swallow a few times. She was blinking her eyes rapidly, was she about to cry now? Seriously? After everything that she has put in to motion already, she was the one pretending to have a hard time on all of this?
“Eh… yeah.. okay… I guess we’ll leave then” She turned to Matt and Sara and grabbed Sara’s hand, dragging her away from Matt. She started to walk away, but stopped and looked over her shoulder, her voice soft “Bye Brian”

“Holy fuck, this sucks ass!” Matt cursed next to me “I don’t think I was done with her”
“I was… done… with this whole shit!” I grabbed my bag and walked towards our gate, so conveniently opposite of where the girls needed to go. Even better, wouldn’t want to run into Amy again. I was so finished with all of this.

“Hey Gates! Wait up! What went up your ass and died?!” Matt hurried himself next to me and grabbed my shoulder, stopping me. He stared at me in confusion.
“What is going on?”
“Nothing, just leave me alone. We got a plane to catch”

For a moment I thought he would leave me alone, but there he was again. Lucky for him he was keeping his mouth shut. I was so ready to punch someone and by now I didn’t really care if it was a punching bag or my best friend. Either would do.

We stood in line to board the plane, the stewardess doing her job thoughtlessly. She checked my boarding pass and did a double take on the name before she snapped her head up.
“Oh! I’m… Oh! I’m so sorry… But I’m a big fan!” She finally managed to get out. I forced a smile and took a better look, she was definitely nice to look at, her dark hair flowing around her face, her smile wide and her eyes full of expectation. A blush came over her face when she noticed me taking her in.

That’s right… Let me take you right into the Gates charm... Maybe you can show me all your service skills up in the air. I held my hand out to her and immediately started caressing the girls as soon as she put it in mine “Synyster Gates, nice to meet you” I smirked.
“Nice to meet you too. Didn’t you bring your wife? You were on your honeymoon here, right?”
I immediately pulled my hand back and shot her an angry look “I’m not fucking married!” I hissed.

“I’m sorry… He is bummed holiday is over…” Matt interrupted me and lead me past the girl. “Look us up when we are in the air, we will sign something for you”
Matt forced me towards the plane and to my seat.
“What the fuck is wrong with you! You still have your wife’s lipgloss on your lips and you are already hitting on the first woman you come across? Who I might say was a tidbit young for you?! Tell me what the hell is going on Brian?!”
“Nothing. Is. Going. On.” I replied curtly, turning to gaze out of the window.

“Fine. If you want to be an ass and lie, be my guest. I will give you some time to change your mind, because I do need to talk to someone and I was hoping you could be a fucking good best friend and listen to me”
I didn’t look, I still pretended not to hear him. Sue me if that makes me a bad friend, there was no room in my head to be a good friend right now. I was too. Fucking. Angry.
“I didn’t want to end things with Sara. I wish I broke the rules and told her I would come and visit her in fucking Phoenix next week. I wish I hadn’t fallen asleep last night. I wish so much, but most of all I wish I hadn’t just said goodbye to her…. I wasn’t done”

Was he talking bullshit now? I turned to look at him, but he didn’t even seem to notice me shifting my attention, he just stared in front of him, before he continued, his low voice barely audible now. “I liked her way more than I should Brian, I haven’t felt like this with Val for a very long time and now I let it slip through my fingers. What if this was something good and this was my last chance?”

I looked at him in disbelief “Are you fucking kidding me?! She was just a fling. A very long one night stand and now you claiming she might be it. What the hell is wrong with you?” I shook my head, amazed by the stupidity of my best friend.

“Don’t pretend you won’t miss Amy, don’t pretend she wasn’t more to you than just a stupid drunk marriage?”
“Nope” I let the end plop “She was nothing more than a good lay”
“Seriously, Gates… What the hell?!” Matt stared at me as if he couldn’t believe what I just said… well… he better believe it, because it was true.

Matt seemed to think for a second “Would things changed if you knew she wanted more?”
I snapped my head at him, a little bit of hope sparking up inside of me, but quickly pushing it down. “Someone might have told me Amy was falling for you” He continued and I felt my insides fall down before they took their places again. But then I thought about this morning again, and everything froze.

“Well I guess that ‘someone’ couldn’t have been more wrong. Because believe me, she wanted to get rid of me that fast…The divorce papers are probably already in the mail”

Sara’s POV
“Amy! Amy! STOP! You are hurting me!” Amy was pulling my arm so hard, she was almost pulling it out of its socket. But she didn’t stop, she kept storming away from where I had been with Matt just seconds ago. I shot a quick look over my shoulder, hoping to catch just another glimpse of him, but Amy had dragged me away so fast that neither Matt nor Brian were anywhere in sight.

The sting in my eyes began to subside and I was sure I didn’t feel the lump in my throat anymore either. I think I was ready to face Amy and whatever that was following her that made her run this fast. Adding to that… I was out of breath and my arm seriously started to hurt right now. “AMY!” Still no reaction, so I decided to brace myself and just stop. There was a strong last tug on my arm and then Amy came to a sudden halt too, almost falling back into me.

I caught her and put her back on her feet again, immediately taking the chance to grab her shoulders and turn her around to face me.
“Breath for a second” I said, studying her face. Amy took a deep breath and looked me straight in the eyes. There was something in there that I couldn’t really decipher and then her lip started to tremble. I quickly pulled her into a tight hug, not letting her go for at least a few minutes.

She backed out of my arms when I loosened up a little “He shook my hand Sara, my fucking hand!”
“Oh Ames”
“After two weeks of God knows what, after two weeks of pretending to be the happy newlyweds, he shook my hand to say goodbye. Not a kiss, not even one on the cheek, not a ‘Hope you have a nice life, Amy’, not a ‘Thank you for these weeks, Amy’, NOTHING! He shook my goddamn hand!”

I put my arm around her and we walked to the gate and took a seat while we waited. I had no words for her, nothing that I would say right now would calm down the turmoil inside of her. I guess she needed to get it all out first.

“Am I that stupid that I thought we had something real these two weeks? Am I really that stupid that I thought that he would maybe propose to at least meet up to sign the papers? I mean, I said he could send it to me, but I thought he would just… you know… not go with it so easily” She sighed and leaned forward, her lower arms leaning on her legs.

“You and Matt seemed to have a great goodbye” she let out a careful smile as she changed the subject, not very subtle. I noticed she tried to be there for me too, but I felt she needed me harder than I did her at this moment, so I put on my brave face. “It was…. A great goodbye. We agreed to these two weeks, they have been amazing, but it is over now. It’s okay like this, we have been exactly right for each other for these two weeks” I forced a smile and stood up, time for us to enter the plane.

Amy took the seat next to the window but as soon as I sat down she turned her face to me again.
“I might have liked him more than I should, Sara…. Was I that dumb to believe…” she let the sentence trail and I didn’t know what to say. It was hard to decide what Amy needed right now. “Zack said I shouldn’t make it too easy on Brian, that there was more than meets the eye, but I’m seriously starting to believe he doesn’t know his best friend as well as he thought he did” she sighed and leaned back in the chair.

The plane was taking off and I was still debating on what to do. I had no obligations towards Brian whatsoever, but I had the obligation to take care of my friend. He was lucky he wasn’t anywhere near, because damn, I wanted to turn those brown eyes blue.

When the seatbelt sign turned dark again I turned to my best friend.
“You know. You are not stupid, not at all. Brian behaved like he had the best time ever, he behaved like you were the best thing that happened to him….”
Amy looked at me curiously “… But…”
“Who says there is a but” I stared at my nails, knowing I would give myself away as soon as I would look into her eyes.
“I know you, Sara, there is definitely a but”

I took Amy’s hand in mine and finally faced her “Brian is an asshole, Amy” she wanted to pull her hand out of mine and shot me an angry look, but I held on. “…Sara…” she said in a warning tone.
“I’m not doing this because I want to hurt you, Amy. I will stick to the facts, you can draw your own conclusions.” She motioned for me to continue, but her face said she wasn’t at all ready to hear what I was going to say.

“Last night when I went to get the last round of shots, I overheard Brian and Arin talking. Brian was pissed at Arin for saying what he said. He was scolding Arin, pretending he was all high and mighty”
“I thought you were going to stick to the facts” Amy replied smartly.
“Fine! Well, Arin gave him a run for his money and told Brian that he was making stupid decisions and that if he liked you he should have just said so. Brian denied everything and said there was nothing to lie about. That this was just two weeks of fun. After that Brian ruined my dress”

Amy let her shoulders hang down and her eyes were sad and I instantly felt guilty for telling her. Did I make the wrong decision? I thought it might help her getting over him, but I wasn’t so sure anymore.
“You know…I do believe he got caught up in everything, I mean, why else would he mark you like that?” Amy raised her brown at me in question, but immediately let her hand go to her neck where the love bite was still very visible and let out a deep sigh.

“Yeah well… now it is all over” she let out and fell back into her chair.
“Yeah, it is all over” I repeated and followed her example. For a moment I allowed myself to think back to those honey eyes, that soft touch, those lips kissing me sweetly, those dimples and I felt my stomach drop. I would never see him again, but at least we had the memories, they should last me a while. I grabbed my phone out of my bag and stared at the picture that Matt made my wallpaper. It was the one we took the first night, the one we had send to Marc. Matt had been right, that was one hell of a hot picture.

“Oh. I completely forgot to tell you” Amy suddenly let out, a smile on her lips “James called this morning. He is giving me my first case as soon as I come home. He says I’m ready and that I’m too good for the job I’m doing now. He is giving me a shot.” Her face was radiant now.
“AMY! I’m so happy for you!” I let out excitedly, trying to give her a hug, but being obstructed by the chairs we were in “What kind of case is it? Or don’t you know yet?”
Her face immediately fell and I was wondering what I said wrong now.

“Well, that’s the funny thing” she said with a sarcastic tone in her voice “it’s a divorce”

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