Jo’s POV

After Matt and my fight I had left him alone in the kitchen and went back to his room. I tried to shut all thoughts out, the problem was, I couldn’t…

I felt too much for Matt and I didn’t like the thought of us fighting, but I also couldn’t just let him win. I mean, he would just try and handle me like my father did and I didn’t want that and I couldn’t allow that to happen.

Matt and I were supposed to be partners and on the same level and not him over me, I didn’t want a relationship like that, I wanted to be his equal, not his little secret toy he could use and take away when I wasn’t convenient to him.

I sighed heavily, I guess I was just mad… and was maybe even overreacting, but I didn’t get why Matt would be treating me this way. He must know how much Em was meaning to me, god damn, she was my sister.

We spent all our life together, I couldn’t just send her away and not see her again and make sure she was safe, while Matt and I were living our happy life here, that would be fucked up and Matt knew it.

I heard the door open and the bed shift, I tried to ignore him and the warmth I felt. When all I really wanted was to cuddle into him, but I didn’t give in! We had to fight this fight so we would know for the future that we both had opinions and we both had to give in.

I wouldn’t accept any less, I couldn’t. Or Matt and I weren’t as close and as perfect together as I thought we would be. “Come here” Matt’s deep voice sounded but I shook my head “I want to sleep Matthew” I told him and heard a small groan from him.

I heard him breathing but he didn’t say anything anymore and he didn’t try to pull me into him, so we lay beside each other for quite a while, probably both thinking of a way of talking to each other and solving the dilemma, but we both were silent, until he got up again and left.

My heart was beating faster, hoping he would say something, a small apology, a sign that he understood me, but nothing. He just left… like that.

I buried myself deeper into the blanket and lay in the silence for a while, at some time I lifted my head to get a peek at the clock, realizing it wasn’t even nine yet… no wonder I couldn’t sleep.

I threw the blanket away and put the small bedside light on, I looked around the room. My things were accompanying Matt’s everywhere, he made some space in his wardrobe, on his desk were my make-up and all those little things from me and that made me smile.

Why couldn’t we talk normal about all this? I don’t get why he had to let his temper get the better of the situation and not accept my opinion, too. Was he so worried? Or was he just used to getting his way?!

The door unlocked and I stood frozen for a second, seeing if Matt decided to come back and talk to me. But instead of Matt I saw Zack’s frame in the door. He leaned against it a smirk on his full lips.

“Pacing? Really?!” He chuckled and I rolled my eyes at him “What do you want Zack?” I asked a little defeated, I really wasn’t feeling like company much.
“I wanted to see what you were up to… maybe watch a movie, what you say?” Zack walked closer and took my hand to drag me towards the door.

“Thanks for offering Zack, but I don’t really feel like watching a movie. I just want to stay in bed,” I said but he had me pulled through the door already, laying his arm around my shoulder and pulling me into his side.

“Oh just come have dinner and if you still don’t feel like it after then I’ll take you back,” Zack replied just as we rounded the corner.

“Fine, but I’m not very hungry—” I started to say when suddenly the whole group of people we were living with yelled “SURPRISE!!”

I looked around shocked and saw decorations everywhere and everyone was looking at me, even Matt stood opposite of the room staring at me and Zack pulled me even closer “We heard it’s your birthday soon, and we always celebrate those important days, so how about a party into your birthday?” He winked at me and pulled in for a hug.

“I-I… I don’t even know what to say…” I looked around my mouth hanging open “Who did all this?” I walked further and my sister hugged me to her “You always take care of me and we always have a little something for each other, even if it’s just handmade, so… I prepared something for you, but you will only get it at midnight.” She laughed lightly and I pulled away shortly just to hug her even tighter again “You shouldn’t have done any of that, Em… This is not the situation where you should have outdid yourself so much…” I said and she waved me off.

“I had some help to be honest” Emery looked into the direction of the kitchen where Jimmy was standing, and then her eyes went to Brian and just really shortly to Matt but then back.
“Come here” Jimmy came running and pulled me into his arms, next were Johnny who presented us with a big selection of all kinds of different drinks.

The doorbell rang and Matt went to get it “Jason? MB? What the hell-”
“Hey, man thanks for the invite, about damn time… We wouldn’t miss the birthday party for anything.. oh and here is the food you ordered” Someone said and I frowned, I might have heard those voices over Matt’s phone before, but I couldn’t really think of a face fitting to it.

“I-I have… oh.. yeah.. sure. Come on in, I’ll introduce you” Matt said a little uncertain and then he came walking in with two pretty similar looking guys, if those two weren’t related I had no idea.

“Jason, Matt… this is Emery… Emery, the Berry brothers, our loyal friends and great co-workers. You guys probably heard all about the situation, and this is-” He was just about to introduce me when the brothers stepped forward on their own.
“We heard so many good things about you two…” MB if I wasn’t mistaken pulled Emery in a hug and twirled her around and Jason walked up to me “You must be Jo, right?! Even more beautiful then I heard” He took my hand and kissed it and I blushed, what the hell was this all about.. and who were these guys?

“Matt invited us to your birthday party, we brought you a small present and got the food he ordered, your favorite as I heard” Jason held up the bags with food that smelled damn good and I gaped “He did? I mean… wow.. that’s amazing” I turned around and quickly made eye contact to Matt, he gave me a small smile and I returned it, maybe we would find a moment to talk later and it would go back to normal? Maybe he did understand me?!

“Jo! It’s so good to finally meet you… We indeed heard a lot about you and your sister…” Jason and his brother exchanged places and he pulled me into a bone crushing hug and whispered his best wishes in my ear while suddenly he was pulled away and Matt stood beside me glaring down on his friend.

“Careful with your hands, Berry. They are off limits” Matt announced and his arm landed around my waist, I lifted my eyebrow and looked up at him, I knew what he was silently telling everyone and he didn’t want me to argue, but honestly… I thought it was kinda cute, even though I was still mad at him.

Johnny, Zack and Jimmy took the food and set the table. Matt pulled me aside and looked deeply into my eyes “Babe, can we-” He started but someone else called for me again and I turned around “Come on, almost birthday girl.” Zacky stood beside us suddenly “All ready to eat, you can talk and make up later” He winked at me and Matt who glared at Zack but followed us nonetheless to the table.

We sat all down, Matt on my one side and my sister on the other. The guys told us about how they all got to know each other, and how the Berry’s became part of the team. I almost spit my wine over the table hearing all those funny stories. Now those stories our father hasn’t told us about, only the ones about the scary Avenged Sevenfold Gang, and realizing now he probably made up most of those gruesome stories… I shook my head at the thought of my father, this would be the first time to celebrate my birthday without him.
I bet he was getting insane at the moment, not knowing where we were and both our birthdays coming up… He was always doing big events with it, but mostly for himself and not for us. We weren’t supposed to invite any friends, but he did… and then we had to dress up and show ourselves to them. I almost got sick of the thought, knowing now, what this all was about.

Em leaned over to me and whispered in my ear “Are you having fun? This is your favorite Italian food. And its freaking delicious… Your boss man did a good job on that.” She stuck her tongue out at me and I saw how Brian was watching her from the side, I almost rolled my eyes, they were so bad, had he still not said anything to her… were they not any further?!

“Yes, the food was amazing, I loved it really” I nodded and held my glass up to the Berry brother’s because they got the great food for us. Then my eyes wandered over to the man beside me, we still weren’t able to talk, so I looked at him from the side and grabbed his hand underneath the table “Thank you for this” I mouthed not to interrupt the other conversations going on.

“I didn’t really-” Matt started sounding guilty but he squeezed my hand a little more “Why didn’t you tell me, babe?” He interrupted himself and I sighed “I didn’t think it was important at the moment, and it wasn’t like we really had time to talk about it, did we?” I asked and Matt rubbed his hand in his neck, always indicating he didn’t really know how to answer.

“I want you to tell me those things, Jo. I would have gotten you a real present… And you can always talk to me about everything… Only because we weren’t having the same opinion-” I took my hand from his grip and held it up “No, no no no. We weren’t having not the same opinion, Matt. We were having a fight, say it as it is” I narrowed my eyes and he frowned, I saw how he was biting on his cheek trying to calm himself. “Let’s not talk about this now”

“Yeah, lets clear the table for some drinking fun!” Zacky announced and we all took our dishes towards the kitchen while the Berry’s were bringing the drinks over.
“Jo, do you have a moment, so we can talk?” Matt put his hand on my hip and pulled me closer to him, he leaned down his lips almost brushing against my ear, and damn he was making it hard to think.

“Please, babe. Let’s talk, I promise you no more fighting.” His tongue brushed my ear shell and I almost groaned. “Matt, it’s not that easy… I don’t think that-”

“JO! Come here…” Emery pulled me from Matt’s arms and I sighed half in relief and half in sadness because I didn’t want to be away from him, I wanted to make up but we kept getting interrupted.

I needed a quiet moment to tell him why I really was upset with him, that I didn’t need another man to push me around and tell me what’s best for me, because my father was already doing that all my life. And he had to understand that sometimes I had to be myself, that I needed to be myself and he had to trust me and my decision, and that if he really wanted to make this work, he needed to talk to me about decision, not just take everything into his own hands, than there was no place for me in this house.

“Here a drink” She handed me a glass and I smelled on it, “Is it a Cosmo?” I asked almost not believing it, damn I hadn’t had it in quite a while “Yup, we have all the good stuff” Jimmy announced and I lifted my drink well than “Cheers! And thank you all so much” Everyone lifted the drink and I almost drank it all at once, oh this felt even better…

We sat around the table again and I felt Matt’s eyes on me non-stop, probably waiting for a chance to get to talk to me again, and I kinda liked it. I wanted him to suffer a little, but make an effort for me.

I just hoped when we had the time to talk, he really had the right words in mind and understood me as well, but a little more suffering never hurt any men.

“Alright, let’s start this off with ‘Never have I ever’” Johnny announced and placed a tablet with shots in front of us. “Everyone take 5 Shots and place them before you. We go in a circle around the table… and our almost birthday girls starts”

“Oh okay… Never have I ever…” I took my shot and looked around the group, my eyes landing on Zacky who gave me a wink. It had to be something fun and good and all the wine and Cosmo from earlier was playing with my head.

“Never have I ever went outside without having underwear on” I drank, so did Emery and all the guys stared at us, but then Johnny, Jimmy and Brian followed with drinking.

“Can we have a more specific description? When that was and what you were- Ouch… come on as if you guys haven’t been thinking about it” Johnny said but Brian hit him in the side.

“You gonna torture me all night?” Matt groaned beside me and I threw him a smirk “Maybe”
“Matt, your turn” Johnny announced and he looked around smirking “Fine, Never have I ever had sex in my office” He took his first shot and drank, I followed, because, well… of course we had. But Matt almost spit his drink out when Brian lifted his drink as well “What the fuck, Gates?!” Matt yelled and making the rest of the group chuckle.

“Another rule, no one gets into my office, ever again when I am not around! If you haven’t cleaned up I’m gonna beat your ass into tomorrow” Matt hissed at him and Brian shrugged “Don’t worry, it’s ages ago.” Brian grinned and I saw my sister glaring at him from the side.

Brian’s POV

The night was going good, and the girls looked so happy, I haven’t seen them laugh this much since we kidnapped them. I mean… that felt ages ago anyway, when its been just a year or something. I couldn’t imagine them not around out table, sharing stories and drinking with us. And wasn’t that a weird thing for me to think about?!

I knew I couldn’t let Emery go that easily, but why?! And what were all those emotions?!
Matt’s words from earlier still hung in my head, I couldn’t tell him my real intentions behind setting up the birthday present trip for the girls.

Of course, I didn’t do it just for him or the girls. I did it because I wanted Emery to have a great time, she was special. I knew that from the start, but the new feeling was that I always wanted her to be happy, and I wanted to be the reason for her happiness.

“So this doesn’t have anything to do with Emery?” Matt’s words rang in my ears. I was sure I was being careful and no one was seeing that somehow that feisty little princess had weaseled her way into my heart. Matt looked at me with a frown and I tried to play it cool and brushed him off. Still he wasn’t completely buying it.

“I don’t want you to get attached when she will be going to live with Dan in a few weeks…” Fuck, over my dead fucking body I would let Dan take Emery from me. NO fucking way! And Shads would get that soon enough.

“Gates, your turn” I looked up when I heard Johnny’s voice, damn my head was already beginning to spin, we had put a good pace on the drinking this evening. It was almost midnight and we were playing stupid games all night long.

It was kinda funny to see the girls giggling and laughing at our stupid stories, or that every now and then I felt Emery’s hand on my thigh, playing with me when no one looked, that felt damn fucking good to be honest. I made up a Never have I ever quote and all the guys had their drinks down.

So while my last shot was empty form my last challenge Emery and Jo still had one in front of them “Okay, girls… your turn.” I saw how Matt slowly leaned over to Jo and laid his arm around her, all evening he was trying to get closer but every now and then she pulled away, and he looked like he was about ready to murder someone.

Damn, I never thought to see our boss wrapped around a woman’s little finger. “Okay, fine.” Emery brought me from my thoughts “Never have I ever kissed a woman” She said and took her drink swallowing it down. I saw that Jo was doing the same and my mind blanked for a second.

“What?! Wait, we need a story…Like for real…” Johnny sat up straight excitedly and I almost swallowed my tongue “I agree… never thought I would say that to Johnny, but we definitely need more information” I said.

“Babe?” Matt licked his lips looking at Jo but the girls rolled their eyes

“What happens at the club stays at the club.” We all groaned in unison because, how mean was that?! “Princess, you do know that you will have to tell me about that later, right? When we are back… in our room” I whispered in Em’s ear and felt her shiver beside me.

I didn’t care who saw me talking to her like that, I could be saying anything, they were too drunk to notice anyway. Next I felt Em’s lips at my ear “Oh you wished, Brian…” Her tongue met my ear shell and hearing her say my name so huskily, did strange things to me. I gripped the table hard. Fuck, I liked when she wanted to play… I couldn’t wait to have her to myself.

“Excuse us” Matt said and pulled Jo to her feet “No, no! You won’t take the birthday girl away now. It’s almost midnight” Jimmy pointed to the clock and we all saw it was just two minutes to midnight.

“Rev, I am not asking for your fucking permission, Jo and I-” Matt started but Jo interrupted him “…will of course stay, don’t worry” She pulled Matt back down who growled and I knew that wasn’t a good sign, Matt’s temper was rising, but somehow he accepted his fate for now.

“I’ll be right back” Emery whispered and got up. I frowned and looked after her, damn her ass looked fine in those skin tight jeans, no outline of a panties must mean she was either going commando or she was wearing one of these sexy thongs. I licked my lips, couldn’t wait to rip those clothes from her and licking every inch of skin that I revealed.

I shook my head, seeing how Zack was looking at me with a lifted eyebrow, but I just shrugged, what? She was hot, he couldn’t blame me for looking at her. As if I didn’t see he was checking her out too, or that he was still hanging on Jo, whenever Shads wasn’t looking, he was fucking playing with fire, if Shads saw that. And wait, where was Em going anyway, and why was Jimmy walking away, too?!

I was almost pushing myself up when they came back singing “Happy Birthday to you! Happy birthday to you… Happy birthday dear Johoooo Happy Birthday to youuuuu” We all sang along with Jimmy and Emery because, Jimmy would murder us if not and they placed the cake in the middle of the table.

Emery walked around the huge table towards her sister and pulled her in a big hug. If I wasn’t mistaken I saw that Jo had tears in her eyes, I didn’t know if it was for happiness or maybe sadness because they were here and not at home or somewhere else.

“You made this?” Jo’s voice sounded and Emery nodded “Jimmy helped me. I’m sorry we didn’t have more… but… Jimmy made sure it’s eatable.” Em chuckled and the girls hugged again.

When the girls were done, we all walked over to Jo and hugged her, I gave her a quick half hug, but she pulled me closer “You better put a spin on telling my sister what you feel, or she is gone” I pulled away from her and looked into her eyes, those eyes were so similar to Emery’s it was almost scary.

“Get away from my woman, Gates” Matt pushed me roughly aside “I waited too long anyway” He pulled Jo into his arms and I heard him whisper at her, the big three words were in the mix and I stared at them for a moment, love… yeah you could see it in those eyes…

I turned my head to Emery who stared at her sister and Matt as well, was she seeing the same thing that I saw? Was she thinking the same thing?

“You can prepare the cake, I need a moment with my woman” Matt announced and without waiting for any answer, he grabbed Jo into his arms and carried her away from all of us.
“They gonna have sex now, will they?! Lucky bastard” Johnny exclaimed and I chuckled “I don’t think-”

“Don’t talk like that about my sister, god you guys are the worst” Emery said and leaned over the table to cut the cake and set out plates with Jimmy’s help. I watched her ass, and couldn’t stop myself before standing right behind her and putting my hands on her hips. Matt wasn’t around and the alcohol in my system was making my judgment sloppier than usual.

But I just couldn’t not touch her, was behaving for way too long. When Emery felt my hands on her she looked around shocked to see me so close, feel me so close.

“Let me help you” I took the knife from her and let it glide through the cake while my body was pressed to hers and damn, she felt so good. I could already picture her naked leaning over the table and me plunging into her from behind while screaming my name, moaning for me, just for me.

“Gates? Yo Gates?!” I shook my head and leaned back looking at Jimmy who openly stared at us “The cake is fine… why don’t you get us something to drink?!” He said just when Matt and Jo emerged back from wherever they had vanished too.

Jo looked up at him and he smiled, their lips were swollen and Matt had this little smirk on his face, showing those dimples that made most women crazy, but hey… every one of us had something, he had the dimples and I had the perfect face.

It was hard but I managed to get myself away from Emery and moved to the kitchen, my steps were a little unsteady and damn those shots had really did a number on me. I grabbed a few bottles of wine and beer and brought them to the table, went back and saw that Em followed me.

I stopped abruptly and she ran into me, I turned around and pinned her between the kitchen island and me. “You like to play today, huh?” I demanded, and grabbed her hands and pinned them behind her body. I let my tongue glide over the jaw and felt Em’s heavy breathing “I like to play, too.” I growled into her ear, when footsteps neared I let go. But man I used to be quicker, I really did.

“You guys coming? Or do you have other plans?” Zack stood in the doorway looking at us. I frowned “What you mean?” I busied myself with grabbing a bunch of glasses from the cabinet and Em grabbed plates for the cake.

“Well… The way you were just-” Zack started but then chuckled and shook his head “Nevermind… You coming? We want to ravish the delicious looking cake and I think Shads wants to ravish the birthday girl, but we could convince them to watch a movie with us and play another drinking game.”

“Damn it” I cursed as soon as Zack was out of sight, I wanted to skip the fucking movie too, Em was driving me insane, all her little touches, the outfit, her voice… I wanted her right fucking now. No pun intended.

“Oh a movie! Yeay” Em clapped and looked excited, she really wanted to torture me even more “Come on” She grabbed my collar and pulled me behind her, and damn, sometimes I liked it if a girl took charge, and especially when my little princess found the courage.

Three wine bottles, and one drinking game later, my dick was pressed hard against the zipper of my pants. We all lay scattered around the huge couch, Em was before me, she had thrown her shirt away, just wearing a crop top, showing her perfect belly, her tits were bouncing every time she laughed or giggled and the shorts she had changed into were showing the underside of her ass.

I bit my cheek not to grab her and fuck her right here in front of everyone, but I couldn’t help it that I had to touch her. I let my fingers run over her back when I thought no one was watching, I played with the top and let my finger run underneath it.

I let my fingers dip low and into her shorts, then move around her and press her to me, her breathing hitched when my hard cock pressed into her ass, yeah she could definitely feel the want I felt for how.

What she was fucking doing to me… I pulled my hand away and pushed a strand of her hair away, the others were busy with the movie, or watching how Matt was trying to have the same self control that I tried to maintain.

“Oh! We need to drink, the hat is fitting” Jo slurred and damn those girls were getting even cuter with a little alcohol in their system. The new game we played was easy, we watched a movie and every time the hat we hung over the side of the TV screen fit to a person’s head we had to drink. Matt grabbed a glass for Jo and let her drink from it before taking a gulp of his own and everyone followed. The Berry brothers had left during the night at some point and I think the sun was slowly going up.

I watched how Emery drank, a small drop of wine ran beside her mouth and I couldn’t help it but catch it with my finger and lick it up. Em’s mouth opened a small moan escaped her, making my dick jump in my pants, wanting to break free.

“I think it’s time that we-” Matt started but Jo shook her head “No, no! Babe, the movie is only 30 more minutes… we need to watch it to the end” She looked at him pleading and again, she had Shads around her little finger, her blue eyes begging and I knew that feeling exactly, if Em would want something for me, I knew at this point I probably couldn’t say no.

I was just glad the Berry’s had gotten the message that no flirting was allowed, after the first introduction was over, because they always were that way, but Matt settled it straight that the girls were off limits, I think he spoke more for himself and Jo, but Matt and Jason took the message to heart, so beside being nice and having fun nothing happened, I wouldn’t have liked to break a nose of those guys because they weren’t able to keep their hands to themselves, but that didn’t mean I wouldn’t have done it.

“Why are you staring at me like that?” Em whispered leaning her head back at me and I pushed my hips forward, making her suck in air “Guess why… because I already imagine you naked bending over my bed, so I can fuck-” I saw how Zack’s eyes wandered to me and I coughed a little “I know that movie already, what?” I said and he rolled his eyes then looked at Emery and I cracked my knuckles, he better not be looking at her like that, but soon his eyes went back to the screen and I sighed.

I looked up from Emery to see how Matt was kissing Jo’s shoulder and moving to her throat, I heard a small moan from her and couldn’t see where his hands were, well seemed like it was about time for us to get lost, I didn’t need to see Matt in action.

“Come on princess, that’s our cue to leave” I pulled Emery up and she frowned “What? Why? Oh” She looked at her sister and frowned “Oh god.. Iihhuu..yeah” She shuddered and I chuckled, I would get her to new thoughts and that pretty soon, I just hoped none of the others noticed our quick departure or wanted to get us back.

While I walked quietly with Em back to our room a thought stuck me, I could play a little with the plan for Em’s birthday, she would love the idea of going to the beach, but I wouldn’t ruin the surprise for her, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t give her some hints and let her try and figure out what we planned for her and her sister.

Notes

If that wasn't a quick update, I don't know what :P

How did you like this one?!
Matt and Jo still a little bumpy, are they trying to fix it ?!
And Mr. Gates couldnt wait to leave and have a little fun as well, right?

So you guys saw the pics of The Stage set up, that Avenged has posted?!
U guys seeing Avenged this year?