Unmask Your Desire

Ashlyn-Mae
Today was the day of the audition. The week went really fast, all I did was practice and study. I was really hoping to get this job, while it’s not the most ideal job in the world; it’s definitely a job that I wanted. Even if I don’t get the job, I do get to meet Avenged Sevenfold and dance for them, so I guess I just have to look at the bright side.
I’m just hoping that Brian’s girlfriend is not there because she’s definitely not a great person; from what I’ve read and saw. She is a super skinny, brown-haired dyed wanna-be blonde trophy wife that’s only with Brian for his money, I swear.

I was currently driving in the car to the audition. I had one of Avenged Sevenfold’s most popular album playing: Self-Titled. I had it on full volume and I was singing along at the top of my lungs. I was dressed for the audition already. It did take me awhile to pick the right outfit, something that was suitable but confident. I was wearing black skin-tight pleather leggings that sat at my hips with a studded pleather bralette and a short black pleather vest. I wore a classic pair of Christian Louboutin Bianca. They’re my favourite pair of shoes, and my luckiest.
I kept going over the routine in my head, over and over again. There was no way I was going to make a fool of myself today, not in front of the boys. Not in front of Brian.

To keep my nerves calm, I turned my thoughts to the very first time I saw Avenged Sevenfold live. It was a few years ago now, but I can still remember it like it was yesterday. I was in the standing area, right in front of the stage and staring at Brian. I as dancing and singing along to every song like the lyrics is imprinted in my DNA. Brian and Zacky started playing their guitar solo… or I guess duo… but I was just stunned. Purely stunned by the way Brian was playing the guitar. All I could manage to do was watch Brian’s hand run up and down the neck of the guitar, hitting every single note perfectly. Right after the solo, Brian stared straight at me, smiled and winked! I know a lot of girls say this about their favourite singers and bands, but it truly happened. I laughed to myself, I sound crazy.

I got so lost in my thoughts, I nearly missed the turn off for the studio. If it wasn’t for the huge line of girls, I totally would have. I couldn’t believe my eyes, but then I remembered that we are in their hometown.
I pulled up and got out of my car. A lot of the girls stared my way. I just simply shrugged them off. I noticed a girl from my classes at university. Though, I hardly recognised her underneath all the makeup and lack of clothing. I walked over to the line and lined up, waiting for the doors to open.

Thankfully, it was only a short time before they opened the doors. I could barely handle the conversations I was hearing from some of the girls. Some security guards stood in front of the opened doors in everyone’s way.
“Listen up ladies! It’s time for you all to go inside, be seated and wait for your name to be called!” One of them yelled out before they all stepped out of the way of the stampeding girls.
All the girls squealed, cheered and screamed at the same time while running inside. I just stood by, walking slowly behind the stampede; flinching at their high-pitched voices.
As I walked, I swung my hips a little more than the average person, it was a prerequisite for becoming a cheerleader, so now it’s a habit. Certain things were expected for being a cheerleader, and more so for the head cheerleader.

I sat down at a random table and started scrolling mindlessly on my phone. Not even a minute later, I was joined by a random group of girls. It gave me instant flashbacks from high school- except I was the girl in the middle. I smiled to myself. She was blonde, skinny and all boobs and makeup. Not that it was a problem. The problem was that her friends looked the same, so it was slightly more difficult to figure out which one was the Queen.
“Who are you?” The girl in the middle asked. I will call her Queen.
“Who are you?” I repeated back to her. The Queen glared at me. Her clones soon followed.
“I asked you first,” she stated.
“I asked you second,” I stated back, shrugging my shoulders.
“If you’re going to be a bitch I’m just going to leave,” she stated.
“Awesome, don’t trip over your own feet,” I said, shrugging her off and going back to my mindless scrolling.
“Was that a threat?!” She exclaimed. I sighed and looked up at her.
“No that wasn’t a threat. But this is a warning. Don’t trip over my feet when you walk by,” I said, smiling sweetly.
“Honey,” she said, leaning in close. I leaned in closer, pretending to be interested in what she was saying.
“I will end you,” she continued. I leant back and laughed loudly. I looked back at her and stared coldly.
“No sweetie, I will end you. Don’t think for one minute that I am threatened by you. If I was, then I would have introduced myself, which is exactly what you did. So, this tells me that you are indeed threatened by me. I was you once, then I grew up a little. I’m not afraid of you or your little posy so you need to stand up and walk away from this table.” I stated, coldly and calmly.
The whole group was dumbfounded. Clearly no one has stood up to the Queen. The Queen got up abruptly. She soon as she took a step, one of her heels broke and she fell to the ground. Right onto her face. I laughed loudly. All her clones got up, thinking I had some mystical powers and attended to their Queen.
“Bye!” I said, raising my voice with a sickly-sweet tone so she heard me and knew that I was not being sincere.

xXxXxXx

It’s been about 2 hours since they started calling out names. One by one, the girls went in and came back out. There was a lot of mixed emotions when they were coming out. Some were in tears, for whatever reason, some love stricken for the boys, and some bragging about how they bagged the boys- in front of each other, in a short amount of time AND despite the fact that a majority of them are in relationships. I couldn’t help but roll my eyes at every single one, even though I knew I would come out lovestruck as well.

One particular girl came out, looking quite similar to The Queen, and discussed very loudly with her group of friends that ‘came for support’ how she just totally fucked all of the members in that room. I laughed and shook my head.
“Do you have something to say?” I heard a high-pitched shrill directed at me. I looked up and raised an eyebrow.
“I do actually,”
“Well- “she said, trying to cut me off.
“I think you’re full of shit. For one, they wouldn’t fuck you, you know most of them are in relationships; you’re not really attractive because of the way you parade yourself and, secondly, you were in there for 30 seconds. That’s not even enough time to take someone’s clothes off if you’re doing it right,” I said, cutting her off, just so I didn’t have to listen to another shrill that came from her mouth.
She didn’t even know what to say in response. This Queen just lunged right at me. My self-defense kicked in and I dodged right out of her way. Her clones soon followed, but thankfully I was able to gracefully dodge them as well.
However, I was not ready for this Queen to attack from behind and pull my hair. As soon as I felt her hand touch my hair, I grabbed a hold of it with both hands and swung my body around until her arm was twisted, which is when she let go and fell to the floor.
“Ashlyn Skye!” I heard someone yell above all the commotion. I looked up in the direction of the doors to the audition room and saw a personal assistant- I assume, standing there with a standard clipboard.
“Yes?” I asked.
“You’re up!” They replied, staring at the scene in front them before shaking their head and walking back into the room.
I looked back at the girls that were now sprawled over the floor, and smiled.
“Bye girls,” I said before crouching down to this Queen and whispering calmly in her ear.
“Looks like you’re saved by the bell. But be warned, if I see you on the streets of California, I will teach you a damn good lesson for even laying on your skinny manicured hands on me and all the plastic surgery in the world won’t fix your face,” I promised before getting up and walking to the audition room.

I was stopped by a security guard at the door, I thought for a moment it was about the scene that just unfolded and I was not going to be able to audition.
“I need to see your I.D,” He said. I nodded and pulled out my I.D. It made sense, I suppose.
He looked at my I.D. and nodded before giving back my I.D and allowing me inside. I smiled sweetly at him.
“Thank you,” I said, walking inside.

I looked around the room and saw that it was perfect for my routine. I saw some piles of clothing on the floor around the room. It did make me giggle to myself, obviously some thought stripping would be the way to go. I looked directly at the boys where they were seated at the front of the room. My eyes drew themselves to Brian. I had to remind myself to breathe again. He looked absolutely stunning, however not interested in anything at all. I nodded to myself, reminding myself that I need to keep calm and be confident.

Brian Haner Jr.
Us boys were seated along the panel-like table in very uncomfortable chairs. We’ve been here for hours trying to find just one new scream girl. I couldn’t believe how long it has been taking just to go through only a tenth of the girls, we could hardly believe that there’s so many girls that want to audition, let alone whether they can actually dance. I guess we just had low expectations.
I can tell you, we have seen some characters today. A lot of girls wore barely any clothing and still managed to take them off like they were auditioning for a stripper position. I looked down at the next name on the list- Ashlyn-Mae. Sounds like a pretty hot name. I looked up at the boys, they all knew what I was thinking.
“I hope she’s hot as well, Syn, it definitely makes the day go faster,” Matt said, agreeing with my facial expression.
The doors opened where the girls walk through, and the security guard entered with a girl following behind him. My jaw dropped. She was absolutely gorgeous. I couldn’t believe my eyes, she had stunning long blonde hair and bright blue eyes. She was about average height with killer curves complimented by her outfit, which was leather pants, studded bra and vest. I had to look away before I started drooling since how wide my mouth dropped open. She honestly looked better than any of the other girls that have been and probably will ever come in, I just have a feeling.

“Ashlyn-Mae?” Matt said. She nodded.
“Please just call me Ashlyn,” she said, smiling. She didn’t have an annoying high-pitched voice that make you cringe, kind of like my current girlfriend’s voice.
“Fair enough, okay. So, Ashlyn, why do you want to be a scream girl?” Zacky asked. I still couldn’t look at her, not without feeling the urge of saying something really stupid.
“Well, to be honest, I have wanted to be a scream girl for a long time, and now I’m here to make that dream come true,” She replied. I managed to sneak a look at her while she was talking to see that she had her tongue pierced, that was really hot.
“What do you do for a living?” Johnny asked.
“Well at the moment, I work part time as a bartender and I’m attending university fulltime to become a primary school teacher,” Every nodded at her reply. Smart, attractive and ambitious.
“And have you danced before?” Matt asked. She nodded.
“I have experience in dancing, gymnastics and I was the star cheerleader of my high school so I do have a lot of experience with performing and being on stage in general,” she replied.
“I’m sorry but how did you manage being the star cheerleader and listening to our music?” Jimmy asked, clearly shocked about this information.
“Well there’s no denying that I am a huge fan of heavy metal and just metal music in general. But when throwing parties, I just got my squad to choose music, I don’t mind the popular pop, party and dance music it’s just not my style to listen to in my spare time,” she explained.
“Well, we’ve definitely taken up a lot of your dancing time, so now we will put the music on and let you show us exactly how much you want the job,” Matt said. I looked up, figured I needed to see how good she dances, I caught her smiling as she nodded and turned around, getting ready for her routine.

As the song played on and she danced, I was completely mesmerized by her body and how well she moved. As she twirled, swirled and swayed I could feel my jaw dropping and my pants becoming tighter. I couldn’t take my eyes off her, her dancing was infectious. The music died down and she stopped dancing. I had to blink a couple of times trying to come back down to Earth.
I snuck a look at the boys and saw them all looking at me, smirking. They obviously thought she was the one, but they were more interested in my reaction. She definitely stood out more than any of the other girls we have seen today.
“Well I definitely think you have won us over,” Johnny said.
“Thank you” she responded, smiling at us.
“Yeah you definitely have shown us what you can do, you seem really ambitious, really nice, laidback and have a great personality,” Matt said, agreeing with Johnny. Ashlyn threw her head back, laughing. It was infectious, just like anything else she does it seems.
“Did I say something funny?” Matt said, confused.
“Just the fact you think I’m nice and laidback, I had a few fun run-ins while waiting to audition unfortunately,” she explained.
“Please go on,” Jimmy said, suddenly very interested. Ashlyn started to rehash what happened before her name was called. We were all in shock but we found it so hilarious; we couldn’t help but laugh.
“Well that’s definitely funny, but I’m sorry you had to go through that,” Matt said, once everything calmed down. Ashlyn shrugged.
“It’s fine, honestly,” she said, shrugging it off with a ‘what’s past is past’ type of attitude.
“Fair enough, oh and Ashlyn?” Matt replied.
“Yes?”
“Welcome to the family,”

Notes

I am trying to write a few chapters ahead before I post so I don't fall behind, but I just got too excited. And it's also been a hot minute since I did update.

Please let me know what you think!
What do you think is going to happen on the tour?
Do you think saucy things are gonna happen or is Brian too much of a gentlemen?
If you've read the original, no spoilers ;) BUT do you think I'm going to change things up?!

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