Brian’s POV

I walked through the house and couldn’t find my fiancé anywhere!
Where had Ave wandered off too? Did she leave without telling me?
But I told her with all the press fuzz she shouldn’t be going somewhere all alone, so where did she run off too?! She must be here somewhere!

“Ave? Ave? Where are you?”

Ah there she was. I smiled and leaned down to Ave, she was trying to hide I guess, all the noise and calls was making both of us restless.
“What are you doing down there, love?”

“Trying to escape the madness,” Ave grumbled back and I held my hands out to help her to her feet and then moved over to the side and pulled the phone out. No more calls from there! “When is it going to stop?”

“It should calm down in a few days, babe,” I promised and pulled her into his arms while kissing her forehead. “It’s always like this when something new or big happens with us but don’t worry. The people get bored easy,” I chuckled but Ave didn’t look to convinced “Besides when your dad gets back he will clear all this up.” I added to make her feel better at least.

“And he’ll be pissed…” Ave muttered into my chest, and I sighed “We should have stuck with the plan.”

“You and I both know we didn’t have that option, Ave,” I said and thought back to the conference, it would have made it just worse if we would have started to lie and everything came out afterwards. It wasn’t the perfect timing, still we didn’t have much of a choice anyway and now had to deal with it, that was the price we had to pay with being in the public, being famous for what we do.

“But the good news is that you get me home to do some wedding planning today…” I growled in her ear, pulling her even closer to me while I let my lips move to her neck. I would never get tired of her, and if we would be honest, wasn’t it nice to have some time alone home just for us, we could be doing some adult stuff then get to the planning, and while planning we could move over to some more sexy time, in my book that sounded fucking fantastic.

“It doesn’t seem like you want to plan to me…” Ave teased, pulling away with a mischievous smirk. She playfully bit her bottom lip and kept just a step away from him, taunting me “Seems like you want to—”

“Brian! Avery! Where are you two?!” a voice thundered and the back door slammed shut. “We’ve got a problem and a lot of explaining to do!” Oh shit, I knew I wished for Ave’s dad to show up and solve our problems but couldn’t he wait until we-

But before I could finish my thought Larry stood already before us waving with a magazine while in the other hand he held his phone to his ear.
“Yes, inform them… Brian, write Matt… they will be picked up… Yeah, I know… Tell him, too” Larry was talking to the phone and me at the same time so I pulled my phone out, hit Matt with a short message, while I saw Ave already pulling her phone out talking probably to Maya.

“Okay, attention to me!” Larry demanded, putting his phone away, then throwing the magazine on the table and leaning in to kiss Ave’s cheek.
“Hey baby” He smiled at his daughter and then turned his eyes over to me.
“I don’t know if you have seen this before but let me quote something I just read this morning:” He took the magazine opened a page and scrapped his voice then started to read.

“Looks like Synyster Gates is getting ready to tie the knot. We will keep you updated as we find out more information. Is M. Shadows Next?” He read aloud then turned the page to show us pictures from our engagement party and Ave’s hand with her engagement ring on full display even enlarged.

He looked at me and Ave and I saw the vein in his neck pulsating, fucking hell… how did the press get all these information, how did they get pictures from the engagement, what the hell were they doing with all these?! And why the fuck couldn’t they just leave us alone!
FUCK!

Before we could continue to look at the pictures I heard my front door open and commotion coming from my entrance way. So I guess the cavalry were here.

Matt together with Maya, Zack, Johnny and Jimmy with Jess as well as the Berry’s were entering the living room all looking not too happy to be here at such a short notice but they must know something was up so here they were.

Larry turned and nodded at everyone while placing a kiss on Maya’s cheek just as he had done with Avery. Then he turned away, paced, looked at his phone, shut it off and turned back to meet everyone’s eyes.

“So, who of you will tell me now, why my precious girls were exposed to the press?” Larry announced finally and I cringed, uh-oh… sure he would know, I mean… whose fault was it? Was it really someone’s fault? Could we blame-

“I guess Matt and Brian were a little too concentrated on the side of the stage-” Johnny, dumb as a bread started to say and I saw Jimmy elbowing him in the side, and immediately Larry turned to Matt with a lifted eyebrow, and damn was I glad that normally Matt was Larry’s go to man in this.

“What was that?” Larry asked his voice sounding low and menacing and I cringed a little, this wouldn’t be going well, I know that-
“Larry, listen… the thing is that-” Matt started but Larry held up his hand, oh oh, silencing us was always worse than screaming.

“What done is done… The question is now, how are we supposed to deal with this? Someone have an idea?” Larry asked not really looking at someone particular.
“We should be honest, I mean… the information leaked already, if we start lying now, I don’t think the fans and press will appreciate us back paddling later…” Zack spoke up and I nodded.

“But I don’t want even more press all over” Ave spoke up and she looked freaked out at the thought alone.
“I didn’t mean to say that we should invite them to your wedding, Ave…” Zack shook his head and Ave sighed.

“What if Brian and I will make a short interview via call with Kerrang, I mean, we always had a good connection with them, we will let them in on some information but will end with, none further personal detail will be shared and that we will keep everything else private and what should matter to them is our music…” Matt asked and Larry seemed to think about that for a moment.

“You mean something like an exclusive interview? Without the girls being present…” Larry repeated and Matt nodded “I think that would take some pressure of the situation, while giving us a chance to guide the talk back to the main topic, the music, the new album… I could call Sophia, she did the last interview when City of Evil came out, Brian and I could discuss before in which direction we want to go and give her the confirmation of some exclusive information, but only if she represents everything in the way we want it, what you say?” Matt asked and I nodded.

“I agree with Matt, I think that’s a good plan.” I spoke up and gave Ave a reassuring smile “I won’t say anything about the wedding, just that we are happy together, we will give tidbits of information, but no way in hell anything as private as the shit they already found out through the leak we had” I told her and Ave seemed to relax a little.

“Matt, send me those contact details. I will call her right away, set something up and will talk to her first about some main rules, that I want to have, later on I will let you know, what my directions were and you will have that interview, IF I am satisfied with the outcome.” Larry said and then pulled his phone from his pants already dialing some number and leaving the rest of us alone.

After Larry left we all settled to have a small group discussion on how to go on, we even got everyone to work on some wedding plans and had the girls in a heated discussion about the wedding dress or something, which I wasn’t supposed to see, so Matt and I were the ones to be send out and grabbed a beer from the fridge and then heading to the pool.

I sat down and looked at him from the side “And? An idea for the question of questions?” I asked with a smirk and saw Matt just scowl at me.
“You think I have any nerve to think about that, while our phones blow up with calls and newspapers are full of pictures with us, and I am only waiting for them to dig out pictures of Maya and that piece of shit Ben… I will fucking go on murder mode, if they start putting shitty stories together about those!”

I frowned, I haven’t even thought about that, the press is now concentrated on the present, what if they moved to that past, showing Ben and Maya, Ave and James… they will fucking dig up dirt on every one of us… holy hell, we created a fucking mess!

“Fuck” I let out after a while and saw Matt nod then downing his beer in one go as if he couldn’t think about that any further without being drunk, and I agreed so I followed his lead.

“You know what I found out as well?” Matt asked and I frowned “About?”
“The girls plans” Matt said then looked around and set up straight, then got up went inside came back with more beers and made sure the terrace door was closed and the girls weren’t around.
“What plans, asshat, spill” I said not getting what he was talking about.

Matt looked around again, as if paranoid then leaned over to me “Ave’s party, her bachelorette party” He whispered then drinking again and I frowned.

“What? You know what they do?” I widened my eyes, well… what will they do, I know my Ave, she wasn’t one from the wild side in the normal-
Oh holy fuck
“What is Maya planning?” I forgot who was the best friend, and who was planning that party… Maya, and she would fucking… oh fuck!

“Yeah, exactly” Matt nodded reading my thoughts “What is she planning and how do you know?”
I asked and Matt sighed heavily.
“I walked in on her talking to a guy…or better two guys… strippers, Haner… She invited fucking strippers to my home, male strippers… ‘There will be tips, don’t worry’” Matt mimicked a high pitched voice and I shook my head.

“NO way, I won’t allow Ave to-” But how am I supposed to do anything against it… “Ave doesn’t know does she?” I asked suspiciously and Matt shook his head, “Nope, dude… We gotta figure something out… I mean… I don’t fucking like the idea of Maya being near any male almost naked guy… near any guy, and especially not butt ass naked!” Matt’s voice sounded more like a growl and I agreed, I didn’t like that either, not at all and since Ave was the special guest on this day… holy fuck!

“But how are we supposed to do that? Maybe you heard wrong and it was just a fake… I mean… maybe she wanted to get a raise out of you… would be possible right?” I asked and Matt shrugged but didn’t look to convinced and I wasn’t either, we had to find out more, the party was just a few days away, and I didn’t want Ave near any guy, stripper or not, party or not- she was mine!

Trevor’s POV

I drank coffee in the little diner near Huntington Beach. My fingers dancing over the table, my cup was nearly empty and I haven’t really slept this night. My head was spinning with thoughts.

The past haunting my mind, I felt lonely… Most of the time I was lonely.
Not because I chose that way, I was throwing into it.
My parents, dead… my sister, felt like dead to me. What was my baby sister doing, should I contact her? Was she still together with the timid little brunette Avery? Or what was her name again?!

I signaled the waitress to refill and she walked over to me, her hips swaying, she pulled her uniform down to give me a good look at her cleavage and I smiled. I had the good looks from the mix of my parents, dark brown hair, brown eyes, getting girls never was a problem with me… Keeping them was harder… but which girl was worth keeping anyway?

I haven’t found a woman I would think would be worth to keep the effort going… I once had thought that I would put an effort in it, problem was… she was too young and the death of my parents was dragging me away, bad things had happened in that time.

I lost myself, lost my parents, sister… my hope in life and fairness itself. Why would god take everything from me?
I took me a while to figure this out, it took me years. I tried everything to numb myself, weirdly I succeeded for a time span as well… who would have thought drugs could keep you going even when your mind was blank.

I just couldn’t stand my surroundings anymore, couldn’t stand the sight of my sister… the little girl, looking as beautiful as our mom did, she reminded me of them, whenever I saw her… and then again, she was the reason everything broke apart.

It was her fault our parents died… they had to come pick her up from her appointment at the school, both of them she had demanded, because she would get an award, for something she did in school, I still hear her voice in my head.

“Please mommy, daddy, you gotta come. I want you both to be there… PLEASE…” She had begged and my parents made time for her, they wanted to be there for their little girl.
They waved goodbye told me I should behave, and out of the door they went, never to be seen alive again.

Because my sister, she had insisted of them coming, so they rushed out of the door later that day, from one appointment to the other, just to pick up the little princess and see her getting her award, but they never made it…

And what else?! I was the one with the responsibility suddenly, I was the one telling the crying girl that our parents had died, that they were dead, because they hurried to pick her up, because she had begged them to-

“Can I get you something, handsome?” The waitress roused me out of my red vision, out of the past that could never be changed anymore. I thought I had overcome this part, but sometimes it dragged me deep and it needed someone else to pull me out.

I lifted my head and gave the little blonde my fakest smile, still melting her panties right off her body. I could bet if I asked her to meet me in the restroom in 5, she would be there willingly waiting for me, dress hiked up, ready for me… but that was none of my intentions today.

I had to clear my head and think about my next move, I had to get rid of the old burdens, had to find a way to get back on track, I had been running for too long, I needed some way to get back on my feet, why I came back to California, I didn’t know… I just thought maybe the time was right to get back here, to see if I could find some old connection, some old friends… I needed my freedom back, but it was still a long way to go, and for that I needed money, more money that I could legally gain in such a short time…

“Yes, sweetie… I would need a refill, sadly I’m out of money… is there any way I could make us even else way?” I asked my voice smooth and deep. I saw her shiver and how her eyes wandered over me, I was in good shape, my muscles shirt revealing tanned and trained arms, and she let her eyes wander all over me.

“It’s on the house… If you need anything else, let me know, okay?” She filled my cup winked at me and put a little extra swing into her moves before leaving and I gave her a little whistle before she disappearing from my view.

I took my cup and drank a long sip of the black gold, I closed my eyes, thankful the dark memories had disappeared from my mind.
I should have come to term with the thought of how my life went, but I couldn’t, it wasn’t planned to be this way, it wasn’t meant to be this way, everything was ripped from me.

I shook my head, looking around the diner, not many customers were here, on the desk beside me lay a magazine and in my boredom and lack of ideas I grabbed it and read over the headlines

Metal Heart Throbs off the Market

I grimaced, who would want to read anything about those guys from-
I frowned looking at the pictures confused “Avenged Sevenfold” I read aloud frowning, they were from Huntington, right? Didn’t I know them from school… I wasn’t befriended, but I do remember some of their faces, even though they had changed a lot since I last remember them.

Some of the names were sure familiar, not their silly stage names but, Sanders and Haner, Baker… there sure rang some bells… I shook my head, no wonder someone had left the magazine lying here, who was interested in those guys getting laid I mean-

“Fuck me” Left my lips before I could stop it, I had turned the page and found pictures of the two girls I had been thinking about earlier, thing was they weren’t those girls anymore, they were full grown woman… but… what did they have to do with the headline of the page?!

I read a little more, studied the pictures more clearly, that sure was Avery and Maya, my sister looked so… so grown up, as did little Avery… hot if I may add as well. I smirked to myself thinking about a few little incidents where I got Avery blushing real bad when we were younger, she was so naïve and innocent back then, it was fun to play with her.

Now interested in what all this was about, I read more of the information, letting everything sink in “Synyster Gates is getting ready to tie the knot. Is M. Shadows Next?” I couldn’t believe what was written there, my sister and Sanders? Ave and that Haner guy?! This must be some fake, but then again… what if that was true… couldn’t I use some of that information?

“Hot Fashion store in Huntington beach with great success” I read about Maya and Ave’s store, not far from here, she had a freaking store? No wonder while having a guy with money by her side, I hadn’t known my sister would have the balls for this, but apparently I judged her wrong.

Well, what a turn of events in such a short time… Now Maya, dear sister, I think I should have a closer look on you and your surroundings, maybe changes were coming up my way, and hers as well…

Maya’s POV

Who would have thought that the press would finally start to back down… a little. But a little was better than nothing, I would say.
I mean sure, the constant ringing of the phone sucked, and press people waiting for us to get out of the house, wasn’t much fun either, but I think I could deal with all this better then Ave could, while Ave also had way more thing to handle at once.

At least, we could get some wedding planning for Ave done in the time being, and whenever we were alone I also talked with Ave about our secret mission.
Problem was, that neither Brian nor Matt were supposed to know anything about it, which in return with them being around as much as it was now, it was a pretty tough thing to do.

The secret mission of me making a plan to ask Matt the big question, sometimes I was shoving it away from me, but then again at other times, when I was with Matt it was nearly on my lips, to just ask him, because he was just that wonderful, so perfect for me, but I wanted to do it the right way, surprise him and make it the nicest day for both of us.

Now was a whole different day, thank god the press attention was a little less, especially after Matt and Brian had given that exclusive interview with Kerrang.
Larry had been with him and had instructed everything, so we were now a little out of the lime light, probably until the small festival promo tour of the guys would start in a few days.

I put the finishing touch to the very girly and very overflowing decoration in Matt and my living room and grinned at what I made.
If this didn’t look amazing, I had no idea what?!

I walked over to the kitchen, set the shot glasses on a tray and put the different kind of liquors next to it, for everyone to choose off.
Beside it I placed the cooler for the ice and even more liquors to mix cocktails, I went back to shopping different kind of fruits and saw that it was time for Matt to leave.

He was being cranky all day, and I think I knew what he was doing, trying to avoid the in avoidable and be around the party, for the case I forgot to send him out, but NO WAY. He was going to leave and we were going to have a blast.

A bachelorette party for Ave, with everything she ever wanted, or well… we wanted. I invited our friends, I ordered two strippers, friends of mine, don’t ask from where I still knew them, that was better left unsaid, but they were the perfect guys for this, trained, good looking, flirty, just a perfect fit for the party.

Alcohol of course, snacks, music, games… what more could you want?!

“BABE?!” I yelled loud and heard a door fall shut upstairs. I rolled my eyes and wiped my hands on the towel next to me.
I put the cut fruits in the bowl and back to the fridge, I looked at me phone and saw that the food from the catering service would arrive soon, and I still had to get Matt out of here.

“BABE! Where are you?” I yelled again and again no reply. I walked up the stairs and into our bedroom, maybe Matt collecting new clothes to finally get ready and leave the hours, I even told him to get an overnight back, because our party would last the entire night, but he said I should call him as soon as we were done, he wouldn’t waste a night away from me, when he would be so soon leaving for tour, and even though I wanted to be mad, and knew he was manipulating me, I melted at his words, because the thoughts of him leaving me, weren’t anything I wanted to think about yet.

He wasn’t in the bedroom, not in the bathroom either, so where was he?!
“BIG GUY! WHERE ARE YOU!?” I yelled and head a loud groan from down the hall, his studio. Sure, he would be there.
I opened the door and he looked at me with puppy eyes “Babe, I’m not feeling to well, I should better stay in bed… I won’t be interrupting your party, really…” I stared at him, placing my hands on my hips and shook my head.

“You sir, will now get you shit, and leave the house. We have gone through the discussion every day, since you ear dropped. Nothing bad is going to happen, babe. We are perfectly fine one night alone, it’s Ave bachelorette party, I bet we won’t do anything you guys wouldn’t do either” Matt’s eyes nearly popped out of his head “I will not-” He started about to get up but I just lifted my eyebrow, “Babe, please… It’s gonna be fine, I promise… We will have some drinks, some snacks, talk, you know how women are, and when it ends sometime in the morning, everything will be back to normal, no harm done, nothing bad is going to happen, right?” I patted his cheeks and let my hand wander up to his forehead.

“You have no fever, you are not ill, and if you don’t leave out that door in the next 5 minutes, I’m gonna order the first lap dance just for me” I teased him and Matt narrowed his eyes, “You will not, get near any of those men, M. I swear if-” I put my finger in front of his mouth.

“Times running, I would hurry” I watched my watch and Matt narrowed his eyes “M, I am serious, I don’t want any of that guys near you-” I tapped my foot.
“Where do you know these guys from anyway? Is there male stripper service or-”
“2 minutes” I said and Matt got up apparently giving up and I smiled in triumph.

“Wise decision, the food will be hear any second, I need to redress and make my make-up and hair, oh what you think about the dress I chose?” I asked and walked out leading Matt on his hand to the bedroom and he started to shake his head right away “No, no no no… NO!” He stared at the little black dress leaving my shoulders free and hugging my body like a second skin, I hadn’t worn it often, but all the guests agreed to wear black, beside Ave… I left her with a package Brian should hand her before the party and she would be the center of attention, so she would get an attention wanted colored dress!

“Maya, really…” Matt sounded pained and I just chuckled “How about I promise to leave it on, so you can pull it off my body as soon as you arrive home?! Then you get all the attention you want from me, I promise… I’ll make up for your bro evening” I pecked his lips but Matt immediately intensified the kiss and just when the doorbell rang we finally pulled apart.

“Cant we postpone this-” Matt started but I already raced downstairs and let the people from the catering come inside.
“Please set everything down here…” I instructed and watched how they set everything up. I really had to hurry now only 30 minutes until the first guests arrived.

I was really curious how Ave would react to all this, some surprises were still up for her, she had no idea what would happen tonight and I could wait to see the big blue eyes of my best friend shine with joy.

Matt stood at the door looking not happy at all. I joined his side and pulled him down for another long kiss.
“I’m gonna leave now, but for the protocol I am not happy about it, not at fucking all!” Matt grumbled and I touched his cheek again, and then guided his lips to mine. “I love you, babe. Have fun with the boys, and don’t do anything stupid” I told him and a small smile appeared on his lips but vanished right away.

“I love you too, but I should be the one telling you to do nothing stupid, M. I mean it” Matt looked at me intensely and I rolled my eyes “Don’t worry too much, big guy. Now go have fun, I see you tomorrow” With that he finally left and I could set up the remaining things, just when I put the finishing touch to my make up the doorbell rang again announcing the first guest and I was all giddy and excited, this was gonna be a hell of a party and I couldn’t wait to get it really started!

Notes

Sooooo... what are the guys planning?!
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