Forever is Right Now

What seemed like on a mere few moments later there was a pounding in my head. At that moment I was thankful as fuck that Zacky had black out curtains hanging on his windows. There was only a streak of light that lit the room dimly. I sat up slowly trying to get my bearings, Zacky was still asleep and the pounding got louder. That’s when I realized that it wasn’t in my head, someone was pounding on the front door. “Zacky…” I murmured gently pushing on his shoulder. He groaned somewhat and buried his head under the pillow.

I laid back down stroking the tattoo on his back before kissing his shoulder blade where I’d left marks the night before. “Zacky, someone’s at the door,” I said softly imagining that his hangover mirrored or rivaled my own.

Zacky sat up on his knees slowly as he gained his balance, “The fuck would be banging on my door at this hour?” He asked as he pulled on basketball shorts, free-balling it then walked out of the room, leaving me to dress myself incase It was someone who wanted to talk to us together.

“Dude, I don’t think she’s ready to see you,” I heard Zacky say to whomever was at the door. I quickly dressed in a pair of Zacky’s skinny jeans and a Pantera shirt. Not bothering with a bra, because well…it was on the staircase still.

I walked down the stairs slowly, seeing Brian standing in his foyer, and he met my gaze as I descended the stairs.

**Brian’s POV**

I tried to stay away from Zacky’s house knowing that more than likely Ember stayed at his house. I waited until about 3 in the afternoon and couldn’t wait any longer. Since neither of them had replied to my texts and her phone either had died or was turned off my calls went straight to voicemail; I decided that I needed to just show up. I had forgotten Zacky’s house key at home on my other key ring so I resorted to pounding on the door.

“Come on Vengeance, answer your door,” I said to myself as I pounded the door harder. I stood there slowly losing my patience, but kept banging on the door.

Finally after what seemed like 10 minutes of knocking Zacky finally opened the door. He was shirtless, his shorts hanging low on his hips and he looked like he’d just woken up. “Fuck man, I didn’t mean to wake you up. I just wanted to talk to Ember,” I explained, trying to keep my voice somewhat low as I could tell he was hungover.

“Its fine that you woke me up, but I don’t think she wants to talk to you right now man,” Zacky told me as he rubbed the back of his neck. He turned and lead me into the foyer so we weren’t talking on his front porch, and I swore I saw scratch marks on his shoulders coming out of his tattoo.

As soon as we shut the door I heard a noise coming from the stairs and I looked up meeting Ember’s gaze. My heart fell to my stomach as I noticed her hair messed up and slight hickeys protruding from the shirt collar. She looked like shit too and I realized what had happened after I left yesterday, atleast part of what happened. “Wow,” I stated hiding the emotion that was kicking my ass.

“What do you want?” Ember asked me not moving from her place on the stairs and that’s when I saw something laying at her feet. Was that her bra? I asked myself silently.

“I wanted to see you, to apologize, but it seems as though it’s unnecessary as you’re fucking my best friend,” I said coldly.

“Atleast I didn’t do it while I was dating you Brian,” she sighed stating a fact with me.

I shook my head, “I love you Ember, don’t you get that?” I asked feeling my temper rising. I’m not going to fight Vengeance, I’m not going to fight Vengeance. I told myself over and over.

“If you loved me you wouldn’t have done what you did,” she stated softly avoiding my eyes.

I shook my head, “I’ll see you guys at the funeral.” I was too angry to talk to her right now. I felt betrayed and I had no right to feel that way. She was single, she could fuck whomever the fuck she wanted and I wasn’t about to stoop to Scott’s level and call her names.

I climbed into my car and drove to Matt’s, I knew he was pissed at me because of what happened to Ember, but he was still my brother right?

**Ember’s POV**

“Fuck,” I breathed out slowly as Brian left, Zacky relocked the door.

“That wasn’t awkward at all,” Zacky commented sarcastically. I sat down on the stairs, half because I felt my heart breaking at the site of Brian fighting back his tears whether they were of anger or despair and half from the hangover. Zacky hurried up to me, “You alright babe?”

I nodded not looking in his eyes, “Yeah..”

He lifted my chin, making me look in his eyes, “Em…seriously. You okay?”

I shook my head, refusing to cry anymore than what I had that week, “Wasn’t expecting him first thing today. When we’re still smelling of each other, our hair still sex-crazed, and me wearing your clothes.”

“We haven’t gotten your clothes yet though babe,” he told me gently rubbing my knees. “I wasn’t expecting him either, I wouldn’t have let him come upstairs.”

I nodded, “I know, but it wasn’t worth you getting yelled at when I’m the one who should be.”

“Hey,” he said shaking his head, “you never deserved to be yelled at. Don’t think that you should.”

I nodded, “We need to talk about last night Zack, we need to figure this out.”

He nodded and kissed my forehead, “I know, and we will. But first, you need to get some food into your system, maybe some water and then maybe some more sleep. We can talk about it a bit later maybe in the hot tub.”

“Yeah, that sounds fine,” I hugged him tightly. “Thank-you Zacky.”

“For what?” He murmured into my ear as he hugged me back, stroking my hair.

“Being you, making me fall asleep with a smile on my face for the first time since Jimmy…” I trailed off and looked down at my hands.

He nodded, “I need to thank-you for the same thing. It’s been a rough week.”

“Yeah it has,” I sighed and rubbed my forehead. “By the way, do you know where my phone is?”

He nodded, “I put it on the charger last night while we were playing Mario Kart, but I turned it off first.”

I smiled and kissed his cheek, “I need to text Matt. I imagine that’s where Brian’s headed next.”

Notes

Sorry for the short chapter tonight guys, I'll write a longer one tomorrow, just exhausted and have to be up early tomorrow. I love all of you awesome nerds, keep being awesome and keep being you.