Carpe Noctem

*~*Harper Iris Wesson*~*

I had been working my little tail off for the Avenged Sevenfold guys. I had a custom pyramid built for them in Santa Monica thanks to some friends in the parks department as well as other government connections. I had giant ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses custom built and everything. I basically built Hamunaptra and Thebes from the Mummy on the beach for these guys. I went to the ends of the Earth for my favorite band and this is probably gonna be the most impressive party I have done up to date.

Today we we're having a weekly meeting about the album and I was very excited to tell them all the progress I had made the past couple months. So much catching up to do.

I decided to have the guys meet me in Santa Monica so they could see the Great Pyramid of Avenged Sevenfold with the giant fucking deathbat carved in each side. I couldn't help but toot my own horn but this is going to be the shit.

I was wearing a red pencil skirt with black roses all over it, a white tank top and a black cardigan with the top button done up. I did my hair in classic pin up fashion with victory rolls and curls. My make up was matte nude tones with thick winged eyeliner and deep red lips. My shoes were black four inch pumps.

I was waiting at the Santa Monica pier, at a little coffee shop, sipping at an iced mocha when Matt was the first one to show this time. These dudes never ride together and it's super fucking weird.

"Hey Harper!" He grinned as he approached me. Goddamn did he look good. He was wearing a VU shirt that had the cut sleeves exposing his sexy, tattooed arms and a pair of black board shorts with flip flops. He cut his mohawk down and had it spiked up and sunglasses covering his eyes. Goddamn Shadows.

"Heya Matt!" I beamed and brought him into a tight hug.

"The rest of the band should be here within moments. I couldn't help but notice," He pointed to the pyramid, "the Deathbat Giza out there."

"Yep, that's where the album drop is gonna be." I smiled brightly.

"You basically built us an Egyptian city?" Matt asked, crossing his arms over his chest then bringing his sunglasses down enough to make eye contact with me.

"Um, that's why you hired me and gave me such a huge advance." I pursed my lips to the side and couldn't help but bat my eyelashes at the singer.

"Harper, hear me out for a second," Matt took his sunglasses completely off but then turned his attention to whatever was behind me. I turned to see what took his eyes away from me and saw that the rest of the band had showed.

Johnny, Zacky and Brooks had their normal style going on but when my eyes met Brian...I felt myself growing a little wet. As if Matt didn't do it for me already....Gates sealed the deal. He had on a white t-shirt that fit a little tighter so the sleeves hugged tighter to his now bulkier biceps. He had a pair of grey washed skinny jeans that were bulging at his thighs, probably from the squats. His shoes were a normal black pair of lace up Vans, his hair was tucked under a black beanie and mirrored aviators covered his eyes.

"Looks like you gentlemen know how to follow directions." I smirked but couldn't tear my eyes from the lead guitarist. He looked like he did back when he was cut in the City of Evil days. Fucking hot....

"Well, we really only had one job." Zacky laughed and I smiled as I saw the size of his shoulders.

"I really only toned up, didn't build too much cause I didn't wanna look like a tiny Dorito." Johnny chuckled.

"Brooks, welcome. I see the guys filled you in." I grinned wildly as I saw he packed on some muscle too.

"Thanks girly." The newest drummer smiled.

Matt was pretty much the same just even more toned. All in all, the guys looked like the Egyptian gods I was going to dress them as.

"Would you like to see your Great Pyramid up close?" I asked, sucking my lips into my teeth, getting more excited by the second.

"Of course we wanna see the hard work you've been doing." Brian grinned and held his elbow out for me to take. Matt stood on my other side also beckoning me to take his elbow.

I lead both men to the beach, the rest of Avenge talking amongst themselves while I continued to chat with the lead and singer.

"So I'm hoping even though you're a big introvert Gates, that you will be willing to do a big entry. I want all of you doing a biiiiig entrance."

"I'll just do whatever you tell me beautiful lady." Brian smiled down at me and my timing couldn't have been worse. As I stared up at the guitarist and my heel got caught in one of the wood plank steps. I tripped but both men were on guard enough to catch me.

"Whoa there, who knew you were such a clutz." Brian chuckled.

"Damn heels." I snorted feeling my face grow hot from embarrassment.

"If it's any consolation Harper, they make your ass look amazing." I heard Zack from behind me and I couldn't help but giggle.

"Gee, thanks Vengeance." I shot out and we continued our trek.

Matt eventually tore away from me and Brian to chat with the rest of the guys about something so that left me to only make a fool of myself in front of the lead guitarist.

"Harper, we seriously couldn't than you enough. We are all so fucking excited about this shin dig." Brian began.

"Well, it really isn't like you guys didn't know what you were paying for, you saw my portfolio." I smiled and in zero time we were walking what felt like the sands of ancient Egpyt. The statues of Anubis, Sekhmet, Bastet, Sobek, Khnum, Osiris, Isis and Horus lined the teal painted walk way that had gold railing. Of course it wasn't completely done so we were walking under the gold canopies that were being built that eventually would have white see through fabric draping down. We walked through the doors of the pyramid and there were linens, couches, bars, a jacuzzi in the middle and a pool at the opposite end of the pyramid. The same Egyptian gods represented outside were also on the inside. Artists were working on hieroglyphs and their were giant gold bird cages hanging down that I was going to have "slaves" dancing in. There were a ton more details I would have to finish up in the next few weeks but all in all, we were almost ready.

"Holy fucking hell." Matt seethed from behind me as I led them to the designated smoking area which was a room that teed off to outside that had couches, gold painted standing ash trays and it was covered by gold sheer fabric.

"So you guys like so far? It's not close to being done but I figured you would want to see the progress." I beamed.

"Harp, this is absolutely amazing. I feel like I'm in ancient Egypt, or a Katy Perry music video." Johnny grinned.

"Thank you! I was shooting for more manly than Katy Perry though." I gave him a wink and waved a one of the bar tenders over that was stocking the outdoor portion.

"Yes Ms. Wesson?" He questioned.

"Would you mind bringing me a bottle of champagne and six glasses?" I smiled at the grey eyed, strawberry blonde. He nodded and hustled back to the bar.

"You really did go all out, thanks again." Zacky beamed as the bar tender came back with what I requested.

"Again, my pleasure guys. You only have a few weeks until the album release, are you getting more excited the closer you get?" I questioned, popping open the bottle of champagne. The cork flying off to God knows where.

"WE only have a few weeks and yes, WE are excited because you're apart of this." Brian smirked and gave a head nod to the rest of the guys as I finished pouring all of us a glass of champagne.

"To Harper and the album." Matt raised his glass for a toast and I couldn't help but blush. They are including me as a part of this, I wasn't really expecting that.

"To Avenged Sevenfold." I grinned and we clinked our glasses together then took our first drink.

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