Enough

The next few weeks were terrifying but I tried not to dwell on it too much. Zack and Matt insisted on waiting to move me into Zack's house but I refused to wait.

"Beks, I would just feel a lot better if he didn't know where you were. He could come back to my house looking for you any moment he wanted." Zack argued.

"Exactly. If you got hurt because of me, I would never forgive myself." I told him. "Plus, I'm tired of hiding from him. I just want to be with you, Zack. I feel protected when I'm around you."

Zack rolled his eyes. "You say that like you don't feel protected around Matt."

"No, of course I do." I told him shaking my head. "But they're expecting a child, Zack. Matt has his hands full even if he won't admit it. Not to mention, I don't want Jake to find me there. I don't know what he would do. He could hurt Val, he could hurt the baby!"

Zack sighed and stared at me. He knew I was right. "Okay, fine."

"Great. Now you can come back me up while I talk to Matt about it," I smiled and kissed him gently.

"Oh, no," Zack shook his head. “You get to argue with him by yourself.”

I rolled my eyes and grabbed my keys. "At least come with me?" I asked him. Zack nodded before following me out of his house.

We arrived to Matts shortly. I got out of the car and Zack followed me into the house. Matt was sitting on the couch with a beer in his hand. He glanced over at me when we walked in but didn't say anything.

"Matt, can I talk to you?" I asked him.

"You're not leaving," he mumbled. I could tell he was in a grumpy mood and wondered if he and Val got into a fight. I considered waiting to argue with him but I wanted to get it over with.

"I'm a grown woman," I started. Zack walked into the kitchen and I ignored him, watching Matt.
Matt sighed. "That has nothing to do with it, Bekah. I just think moving into a house that Jake already thinks you live in would be a mistake."

"Why?" I asked him, although I already knew his reasoning. Zack returned to the living room with a beer in his hand. He sat down in a chair opposite of Matt and brought the beer to his lips.

"Because he could come back at any moment because this dipshit let him get away." Matt motioned to Zack.

"Hey!" Zack warned, "Leave me out of this."

"He shouldn't be alive, Zack!" Matt raised his voice.

"You think I don't know that, Matt?" Zack shot. "I know I fucked up. I know what I should have done. If I could go back and do it differently I would!"

Matt rolled his eyes and opened his mouth to speak but I interjected. "Stop, you two! Zack did the right thing, Matt! Both of you need to realize that."

"But..."

"No! No buts!" I didn't realize I was yelling until this moment. I lowered my voice, trying to remain calm. "Matt, if I stay here there's a huge possibility that Jake will find this house."

"Let him!" Matt said, bringing the beer to his mouth. "I'll kill him."

I rolled my eyes. "And what if he gets to Val or the baby before you can? Have you thought about that? Because I don't know how far he would go, Matt!"

Matt was silent for a moment. He looked at Zack and said, "Has she talked to you about this?"
Zack nodded. "She brought up some good points. Val and the baby being one of them, dude."

"Matt, this is for the best. I know you want to protect me but really, what's meant to be will happen. Plus it's not like I'll be living by myself."

Matt shook his head. "I'm not happy about this, Bekah."

I nodded. "I know, but you're about to have a child in this house. You'll be too exhausted to worry about me in a few months anyways."

He gave a weak smile and stood up. "Okay, but if he talks to you or anything you let me know, I'll hunt his ass down."

"Okay, I will." I nodded and he pulled me into a hug.

“I love you, Beks.” Matt told me, “I don’t want to see you hurt.”

“I know,” I told him. “It’s all going to be okay.”

*

Zack helped me pack up my stuff that day and I moved out. Weeks passed and I never did hear from Jake like everyone else thought but you didn't hear any complaints. I figured Zack beat some sense into him and finally he was going to leave me alone.

After a while I stopped constantly checking over my shoulder and began to love my life again. I was beginning to get recognized more and more when I went out in public. Most of the fans I met were happy to meet me but there were some that were hateful. Zack says they're just jealous because I had him and they didn't. I wasn't sure if that was entirely the truth or if that was his ego talking; probably both.

"Your relationship seems so perfect!" One fan told me.

"Are you guys going to get married?" Another one asked.

I always tried to give them vague, but honest answers. I knew how well people could spin the truth so I tried not to give them too much detail.

I admired how nice Zack was with his fans. He was such a great guy to every fan, even the ones ugly-crying. He always signed something for them and took a picture of they wanted it. Sometimes he would carry some Vengeance University guitar picks or stickers and hand them out.

All I could think in those moments was how much I loved him and how lucky I was. Like right now, he was taking pictures with a couple of fans outside the diner we were meeting at. Some people would be upset since he was already fifteen minutes late, but in these moments I fell more in love with him.

Zack walked into the diner and gave an apologetic grin. He walked over to me and sat down. "Sorry I'm late, love."

"It's okay," I smiled and leaned over the table for a kiss.

"What can I get you to drink?" Our server asked Zack when she walked up after him.

"Water, please," he replied and the server walked off. "What are you getting?"

"I don't know," I replied. "Probably an omelet and hash browns."

Zack studied the menu for a few seconds and then laid it down. "Same."

"What have you got planned today?" I asked.

The server dropped off Zack's coffee and asked us if we were ready to order. I ordered the ham and cheese omelet with hash browns and Zack ordered the same thing.

"Nothing really," Zack shrugged after the server walked off. "I had that meeting with Warner
Brothers this morning and now I'm free for the day."

"Want to help me clean your house?" I asked smiling.

"Oh, so now it's my house? Any other time it's our house." Zack laughed.

I shrugged and took a sip of my coffee. "Your point?"

"Let's do something today," Zack suggested. "We can go watch a movie, or have sex, or go shopping or have sex."

I laughed. "I'm always down for shopping."

Zack laughed too. "I was hoping you'd say sex."

"Well we can do that later too," I winked.
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**

"I really have to get a job," I groaned as we walked through a shopping strip.

"Do you want to go back to the hospital?" He asked me.

I sighed. "I don't know. I've been thinking about it. I don't know if I want to do that anymore."

"Any reason why?" He asked as he pulled me inside a store.

I shrugged. I really didn't have a reason. It was just a feeling. "Not anything I can put into words."

"Well, that's alright."

"How do you feel about having a girlfriend that works in a restaurant?" I laughed. "I don't have very many skills."

Zack laughed too. "If that's what you want to do darling, I'll support you." He squeezed my hand. "But you have many skills. And you're fucking beautiful so there's th- oh my God; I have the perfect job for you."

I raised my eyebrows at his excitement as a laugh escaped my lips. "What's that?"

"You could model for VU." He said.

"Babe, I'm not a model." I told him. "Plus, I don't think that would be fair since I'm sleeping with the founder of it."

Zack shrugged. "So you have the hots for your boss, whatever. He's a good looking man." I rolled my eyes, smiling. "Seriously though, Beks. I would love to have you, and if you remember correctly this isn't the first time I offered you a job with VU, so..."

"That's true," I nodded.

Zack put a belt up on the counter and the lady behind it rang him up. He handed her some cash and while he was waiting for change he said, "Let's go to the warehouse and try it out. No one’s there today so it'll just be us, no pressure. If you like it, cool. If not that's fine too."

The lady handed him his change back and he thanked her as she told him to have a good day.
"Okay, let's go."

Zack drove us to his warehouse for Vengeance University. He got out of the car and I followed him. He pushed his key into the keyhole, entered his security code into the door and opened it. We walked in and headed past the merchandise room and into the room with background drops, lights and cameras.

"Do you even know how to work all this stuff?" I joked with him.

"Shut up," he laughed and grabbed me a t-shirt off the rack in his room.

He handed to me and I looked at it. It was a design that I hadn't seen before. "Oh, I get to keep this afterwards right?"

He laughed. "It hasn't been released to the public yet but since you're sleeping with the boss I'm sure you can get away with anything you want."

I shoved him but he grabbed me and kissed me. When we broke apart I pulled my shirt off and pulled on the one he handed me.

"See, I knew you'd be perfect for the job. You look good!"

I laughed and blushed. Zack directed me towards the white backdrop and told me where to stand. He walked behind the camera, hooked a few things up and then turned on the lamps to help with the lighting.

"How am I supposed to stand?" I asked him.

He shrugged. "However you want."

I did a couple of poses as Zack snapped the camera. I stopped and covered my face after the first couple of shots. "I feel ridiculous."

"You're doing great." Zack reassured me. "You're beautiful, you're rocking some beautiful clothing, and the lighting is beautiful."

I laughed. "Okay, you can stop sweet talking me."

Zack smiled. "I'm telling the truth though." I shook my head as he took a few more photos of me.

"Hey, come here." I told him. Zack lowered the camera and walked up to me. I snatched the camera from him and backed away. "Show me what you've got, good lookin'."

Zack laughed. "I don't model, I hire people for that."

I snapped photos of him while he talked. "Oh, you've modeled some of your own clothes before on the website so shut up and pose."

Zack groaned and then continued to do some generic poses in which some included finger pistols and him sticking his butt out. I was laughing so hard my sides hurt before I lowered the camera and walked back up to him.

"You can never do anything serious!" I told him while hitting his arm.

Zack laughed and shrugged. "I told you I'm not a model!" He grabbed the camera from me pulled me into a kiss. I saw the camera flash on the other side of my eyelids. I laughed against his mouth and he pulled me into a deeper kiss.

We continued to make out and before either one of us could stop, we began to make love on the floor of the studio. Afterwards, Zack stood up and before I knew what he was doing he snapped another photo of me, nude.

"Zack!" I exclaimed, grabbing his jacket and covering myself up with it.

He laughed. "Hey, I want a keepsake."

"You better delete that before we leave!" I told him.

"No way! I’m taking this camera home with us so I can print it off and keep it for any time we're apart."

I laughed and shook my head as I pulled my shirt over my head. I threw Zack his boxers and pulled my panties on. After we got dressed, we decided to leave.

"Camera!" I told him as he began to walk out without it.

"Oh, yeah!" He winked at me and grabbed it from the table. "And I have to go delete the security footage before we go."

"Zack!" I exclaimed again.

"At least I remembered it," he laughed. He smacked me on my butt before heading off in another direction, and I followed closely behind him.

"I can't stand you," I told him.

"I love you, too." He turned, winking before grabbing my hand.

Notes

Another chapter!
I had picked out which old story of mine I was going to re-write after I completed this one, just to realize I deleted it off mibba before saving it to my computer so it's completely gone and I'm so upset because it was so good. So, I'm unsure if I'm going to try and rewrite that one from memory or do something else.
Anyone have any story ideas they'd like to read? Shoot me some suggestions! Also, don't forget to go check out my side story to this story! Tonight the World Dies is this story in Zack's point of view! So go check it out!

Thank you guys for all the love and support! Yesterday, this story was number two on the Popular List, which I think is pretty fucking great! Keep it up, you guys are amazing!

Title credit: Hellogoodbye "Figures A and B (Means You and Me)