Three weeks later...

"Briiiiaaaaaan? Are you coming? We are going to be late!!!" I yelled to Brian

"I'm coming, chill out Amy, we have half an hour before the party starts!" 

"Well, I don't want to be late, again!" I said to Brian when he finally came downstairs.

"We won't be late beautiful, let's leave!" He said and gave me a kiss.

Matt was throwing a party tonight, as usual, but today was different. Jimmy, the drummer in Avenged Sevenfold had arrived to Huntington Beach after four months in Thailand. He had been on a big adventure and wrote some new songs there. According to him it was hard without inspiration, but he just sat there on the beach looking at some ducks or monkeys and got inspiration directly. But I knew that Brian had missed him a lot, they were like brothers and I've been looking forward to meet him after I met the other guys from the band. I've been told that he's a very funny person, the best according to the rest of the band. But I think that I will be the one to decide that. But still, I really like the others in the band, so it won’t be a problem to bind with Jimmy.

We drove to Matt's place a couple of minutes later. Today we decided to let Rocky stay at home, the last time he was at a party he nearly fell asleep on the driveway. We parked at the same spot the as last time; everyone was here before us as usual so we had to walk the longest bit. But I didn’t bother that much, I could hold Brian’s hand the whole way. Brian knocked at the door with his free hand, it was Jimmy who opened the door and greeted Brian with a big bear hug.

"And who is this Brian?" Jimmy asked with some tease in his voice after he was done hugging Brian. And I got a Déjà vu, because that was the things that Matt said when I met him the first time. It felt like these guys had known each other’s for their whole lives.

"This is Amy, my girlfriend; we have been dating for about a month or so." Brian said with a big smile on his face.

"It's nice to meet you Amy, I'm Jimmy!" Jimmy said to me.

"It's nice to meet you too Jimmy, so are we partying or what?" I asked.

"Looks like you have found a very awesome girl Gates, let's party!!" Jimmy yelled.

We were a few beers deep and had a great time. It turned out that Jimmy is a really nice person that really loves to party. He's kind of crazy too, he ran around the house screaming "Oh shit! What's in the bucket? What's in the bucket? Not a bucket of shit but a bucket of grapes, and the grapes in the mouth. Grapes in the mouth make ya happy down south. Make ya get a big boner whatcha gonna do?" and he also asked me if I wanted to join he’s secret club, called: “Stallion Duck Chasing Ninjas”. I had no idea of what that meant but of course I said yes to him.

“So Amy, why do you like Brian?” Jimmy asked me when we sat outside and smoked.

“He is so perfect, everything about him makes me go crazy when I see him. I think the most people thinks that I am with him for the looks, but that is not the case. My love for Brian grows stronger for every day and he is the most caring and thoughtful person I know.” I said, “And that is why I love him.”

“And that was exactly what he said to me an hour ago. I’m glad that you two found each other’s, and I am glad that I finally have another little sister.”

“Aw thanks Jimmy, that means a lot.” I said and gave Jimmy a hug.

Around 3 in the morning both Brian and I decided that it was time for us to call a cab and go home. We both were a bit drunk and really tired after a crazy day with Jimmy and the others.

The next morning I got a very unpleasant call from work...

Brian's POV
I woke up alone this morning, Amy wasn't next to me like she used to so I decided to wake up and look for her. I looked around in the house but no sign of her, but then of course, I remembered where I always find her when she’s not next to me. I found her out on the beach sobbing..

"What's wrong sweetheart?" I asked her.

"I got fired from my fucking job, that fucking asshole fired me!!" She yelled and started to cry.

“Why the heck did he fire you? You are the best employee he have ever had!”

“He said something about me having a big mouth and that I don’t do what he says.” She said,
”Well of course I don’t do what he says, he traits me like a maid even if I was the waitress. And he always thinks that he can say horrible things to me without me bitching back.”

Her boss really didn't treat her well, so I didn't know how she handled him. I thought she would leave the shitty restaurant to do something she loved a long time ago... She don’t want to talk about her work a lot, but when we do she gets really upset and changes the subject. I have stopped to talk about that, and I guess that I don’t have to talk about it anymore…

"Don't worry baby, everything will be fine, you'll find a job that you actually will like."

"You think so? I was thinking about taking up my old hobby, photographing. I have my old camera at my place but I haven’t touched it for ages." She said, “And that is because of my old boss, you can’t do anything you like when you got the shittiest work hours.”

“I think that's a lovely idea! Then you will finally do something that you love. And we can fire our old photographer who is shit and hire you instead. Then you can follow us on tour and stuff like that. And the best part is that you’ll get rid of your old boss and be your own boss.”

"Oh that would be awesome, I haven’t seen you guys in action for ages, the last time was in 2009 I think! And you, thanks for supporting me Brian; you don't know how much it means to me." She said and looked a little happier.

Now it was time to do something I have wanted to do for a long time... I had thought about it for ages, I’ve gone through it in my head a thousand of times. A was a bit nervous but if I was going to ask her, I was going to do it now...

“Speaking of which, I was wondering if you'd like to move in with me?” I asked and my heart was pounding hard in my chest.

“I'm barely in my house anyway and both Rocky and I love it here, and how would I be able to say no to you Brian? And it would be nice to sell the house now when I don’t have a job and can afford it.” She said and smiled.

"You are making me the happiest man alive, you know that?" I said and couldn't hide my delight.

"Stop that Brian, you'll make me blush." She said and gave me a big kiss.

The same day we started to move some of the furniture from Amy's old place to her new home. It wasn’t a lot that she was going to bring, just some few ones. The rest was just crap. We also brought all her camera equipment so she could start her own photographing business. And everything went smoothly thanks to Matt and Zacky who were helping us so it went fast. All of the guys were happy with us moving together even if we hadn't been a couple for that long. They all loved Amy, and so did I. She was the perfect girl for me and I was so in love with her. 

We offered some food to Matt and Zacky and they couldn’t say no.

“So, what do you want to eat?” Amy asked Zacky.

“I don’t know, maybe pizza and beer?” He said to her.

“So you don’t want me to cook anything?” She asked.
“Nah it is fine.”

“Good, because I suck at cooking.” She said and giggled. She ordered some pizza and then ate with the guys.

“So how does it feel to live together?” Matt asked us.

“It feels normal, Amy has been here the last couple of weeks anyway, it is just nice that she won’t have to care about her house anymore since this is her house now.” I told him.

“Yeah it feels great, and I think that Rocky is really happy about it.” Amy said to him.

“That is great, I am really glad that you are so happy together, it feels good to see my brother happy.”

“I’m just wondering when it is my time.” Zacky said.

“Your time will come, I promise you.” Amy said.

Zacky and Matt stayed for a while until it was time to go; they had some things to do at their places and later that night we sat in front of the TV watching Legend of the Seeker, one of Amy's favorite shows. She cuddled up on my chest and I held her in my arms, just like I wanted it.

"I'm so glad that we live together now Brian, I love you." She said and it shocked me. That was the first time she said that she loves me. Did I say that this was the best day of my life?

"I love you too sweetheart; you're the best thing that ever happened to me." I said, "And I really mean that."

"You're too sweet for your own good, you know that?" 

"I'm not always sweet you know, I can be a bad guy when I want to." I said just to get her excited.

"That side is a side that I really would like to see." Amy said and jumped right at me.

She was rubbing her ass against my crotch and I started to moan. Just to tease her I grabbed her hands, turned her around and now, I was on top.

"Oh so you like it rough, Gates..?" She said.

"I don't think you know what effect you have on me." I said, and I knew where this was going.

She started to unbutton my shirt and I tore off her t-shirt. When I got hers and my pants off I heard a knock on the door…

“You’ve got to be kidding me!!” I said angry nearly screaming.

“If it’s Matt he’s going to smash down the door.” Amy said and giggled.

“But what am I supposed to do with this?” I said and pointed on my crotch.

“Ha-ha just put your pants on and wrap yourself in a blanket.”

To my disappointment the person on the other side of the door knocked again. So I had to put on my jeans and wrapped myself in a blanket. I went to the door and opened. Jimmy stood there with a big grin on his face.

“Just a spoon full of Jimmy comes to save the world.” Jimmy said when I opened the door and we both started to laugh.

“So what brings you here Rev?” I asked Jimmy.

“The other guys are really boooring, so I thought I could come here and hang out with you guys. So what do you say? Would you like to have some fun?”

“Hmpf, yeah sure, come in.” I said with a little disappointment in my voice.

This was not how I thought my day would turn up to end. I was so close to show Amy my bad side when the fool showed up. Thought of the circumstances we had a really good evening. We looked at Zombieland, played some Xbox and were just having a good time.

“Why couldn’t I find you Amy? You’re like the perfect girl.” Jimmy said to me.

“Watch your mouth Jimmy!” I said to him and was shocked about the thing he just said.

“I am just kidding Brian, I would never take Amy from you, and she is just so great. She is already one of us and everyone loves her. She is a copy of you but in a girl’s body, not visually but the personality is the same.” He told me.

“Aw that is cute Jimmy; maybe that is why we connected so fast.” Amy said to me and gave me a kiss.

Jimmy said goodbye at midnight, and I looked at Amy with a big smirk on my face.

“So what do you say about start up where we left of?” I said and lifted Amy bridal style.

“Yes Mr. Gates. It sounds like a very lovely idea.” She said and giggled as I carried her to our room.

Amy's POV
Our lives floated on pink clouds now. I had started a photographing business called “Snap click”. It was Brian and Jimmy who came up with the name and it was going really well with it now. I’ve photographed the guys a couple of times with some great results. Me and Brian bought a photographing studio and remade a room in the house just for my business. And the boys were the first ones to be my victims. I also bought a new camera, or well, Brian bought one to me. And I didn’t even ask for it. I got a Nikon D4, the most badass camera I’ve ever seen in my life. So now I had my Nikon D800 as a reserve camera, it was an excellent camera, but the D4 is much better. It took about two weeks to get used to the new camera. It was a lot of new buttons and knobs. But it went well. Me and Brian took some pictures together and enlarged them plus made them on canvas so we could put one in our hallway. I had also photographed other famous persons. Brian and the band were really fast with recommending me, so I had photographed Bullet for My Valentine, Atreyu, Paramore, Muse and even Metallica. I could say that the money was floating now and I loved my new job. It felt so bad when Brian was the one to buy everything. But now, I earned a lot. I was always out and worked nowadays, and in the evening me and Brian cuddled up in front of the TV. He was really happy for me, but I wouldn’t have made it without his help.

“So how much do you like your job now Amy?” Brian asked me.

“Oh I totally love it Brian, not as much as I love you, but it’s awesome to do something that you love.”

“That’s good to hear Amy, and can I ask you a favor?”

“Yeah of course honey, you can ask me anything!”

“I need some new pictures of me and my guitars, because the last time I took that kind of pictures I had a quite bad photographer!” He said, “ And I didn’t really got satisfied with them.”

“Ooh sounds awesome; do you want to do it right away or later?”

“Well I don’t have anything better to do, so if you’re not busy we can do it now.”

“Brian, even if I was busy I would have canceled anything just to be with you.” I told him.

Brian went down to the basement to bring his guitars and the other things he needed for the photo shoot. Me on the other hand went to our studio and started to fix with the camera and the flashes that we needed. These photos were going to be the best photos I would ever take so I had to prepare everything. Brian was going to be so satisfied with them. While I was waiting for Brian I spent a little time on my computer. I went online on Facebook for the first time in long time. I saw that Brian had sent me a relationship request, and yes, he use Facebook. What was I going to do? Of course I wanted to just click yes! But what would all my old friends say? I had a lot of Avenged Sevenfold fans on my Facebook, because me and my friends was crazy A7X fans when I lived in London. But what the heck, I accepted the request, when it said “You are in a relationship with Brian Haner JR” I couldn’t resist to smile. And if people didn’t trust me I used one of your photos we took together as a profile picture, a kiss picture to top it all. I didn’t want to tease everyone on my Facebook, but everyone else puts up kissing pictures of them and their boyfriends, so why wouldn’t I do the same?

Two seconds later I got an event on Facebook. It was from my old friend Carly. She had commented my profile picture: “What the HECK? That picture must be fake!” I answered her: “Nope it is as real as it can be.” “Prove it!” I got back from her. “Can you log on to Skype then? I’ll just have to get Brian, he’s downstairs.” “I’m online now!”

“Brian can you come here? I need your help with a thing!” I yelled.

“Yes sure, I’ll be right there!”

I logged on to Skype and started a video chat with Carly.

“Hey Carly, how is things back home? I’ve missed you!”

“It’s been okay here, everyone wondered where you took off, and now the first time in ages you logged on to Facebook and changed your relationship to “In a relationship with Brian Haner JR”. She said.

“Ha-ha, well yes. I should have done that for a little while now but I haven’t had any time for my computer except when I have edited all the photos I’ve taken. I’ve been really busy with my new company and everything between.”

“What are you photographing?”

“Mostly bands, A7X is the ones I’ve got the most pictures of but that isn’t so weird because I’m with one of them all the time. As a matter of fact we’re going to take some pictures right now. I’m just waiting for Brian to come here with all his equipment.

“I’m here honey, what was it you wanted help with?” Brian came into the room and gave me a kiss.

“Well, this is Carly.” I said and pointed on my computer screen, ”She doesn’t believe that we are in a relationship, I accepted your relationship request on Facebook plus changed my profile picture to one of the ones we took a few days ago.”

“Hey Carly, as you can see I’m Brian, and this is my beautiful girlfriend. You don’t have to doubt her, we have been dating for about two or three months now.” Brian told Carly.

“Oh.. my.. fucking.. god! I have to go, talk to you later!” Carly said and the conversation was broken.

“That was weird.” Brian said.

“Not really, Carly is one of my nearest friends and she is a big Avenged Sevenfold fan.” I told him and giggled.

I checked Facebook again, I had fifty new events. Every event regarded the relationship thingy and the profile picture. My brother who also is an Avenged Sevenfold fan commented that he would visit me soon, and a lot of my old friends and people that I hadn’t heard from in ages commented my picture. No one believed that I was with Brian, was it that hard to believe? Sure I was a maverick back there, but did that mean that I wouldn’t find a boyfriend, which in this case happened to be a rock star I dreamed of dating when I was younger.

“Brian, all these people are mean to me and don’t believe that we are in a relationship!” I said and pouted.

“And what do you think we should do about that sweetheart?” He asked.

“I don’t know, maybe like we did with Carly, not Skype but making a video where we tell everyone that it’s true?”

“I can’t wait for the world to know that I have the best girlfriend in the world.” He told me and gave me a kiss.

We didn’t make the video immediately; I wanted to take the photos of Brian and his guitar first. And that went smoother that I thought it would do, maybe because I have the most beautiful boyfriend in the world. He collaborated with me even if we laughed a lot. Brian was doing faces and I couldn’t stop laughing at some points. The pictures turned out to be really good even if we joked around a lot, and that made me really happy.

“The pictures are awesome Brian!” I said when I transferred them to my computer; “They don’t need any editing!”

“That’s awesome! I’ve been dying for some new pictures, Schecter will be glad as well for some new ones. I’m going there tomorrow; do you think that you can print the best ones so I can give it to them tomorrow?” He asked me.

“Yes of course darling, I will do that right away.” I chose five pictures that were outstanding and printed them. The best thing about being a photographer is that you are in charge of everything. I even have a printer that can make pictures in A3 format.
“Thanks for the pictures honey!” Brian said, “Shall we do the video now?”

“Yes that sounds nice, I’m tired of all the ‘fake’ accusations on Facebook, it’s about a hundred now, ha-ha!”

“Is it really so bad?” He asked me and embraced me from behind.

“Unfortunally yes, they still thinks that I am the shy girl that didn’t dare to talk to any boys.” I told him.

“That is not true; you talked to me directly when we met.” He said.

“Yeah, that is because it feels safe around you.”

“You are too cute to be true Amy; I hope that you know that.” He said and kissed me.

We sat in the studio, I recorded with my camera and we just told everyone about our relationship. Brian also showed his tattoos, guitars and kissed med so people didn’t think that we were making this thing up. It felt so wonderful to make it completely public. Or at least I thought that it would be awesome.

“So now the video is up on Facebook, now we just have to wait and see what people says.” I said to Brian, and honestly, I was really nervous.

We got a lot of ‘Congratulations’ from Brian and my friends. Even the rest of the band saw the video and congratulated us even if they already knew about us being together. But then, I saw a comment that I wasn’t prepared of. It was from Cynthia and she said “Oh another white trash bitch for girlfriend, wait and see, he will soon throw you out like he did with everyone else.” How could she even comment it? I didn’t have her on Facebook, and it would shock me if Brian had her as a friend after all she has done.

“BRIAN! YOUR FUCKING EX-GIRLFRIEND ARE BEING AN IDIOT!” I yelled at Brian and he came running to me.

“What the fuck does she want?” Brian said and I could hear that he was annoyed.

“She is telling me that you are going to throw me out with the garbage.” I said and pouted.

“Like if that would happen, Amy, I love you with all of my heart. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me. Please don’t listen to her. I couldn’t manage to lose you!”

“Brian, did you honestly think that I would listen to her?” I told him.

“I don’t know Amy; I’ve never been so in love with someone like I am right now.”

“I love you Brian” I said and kissed him.

I told Cynthia to shut her mouth and let me and Brian be happy together. We had a little fight about it but I didn’t bother about the things she said. She could call me or Brian anything, it wouldn’t change the way I feel for him! I love him too much for that! And now we had gone out with our relationship. I just hoped that nothing would change now…

Brian’s POV
One day later…

“Where are you going Brian?” Amy asked me when I took my car keys from the bench in the hall.

“I’m going to Schecter with Zacky to pick up some of our new guitars that just arrived, I just got a text from Zacky that they’re ready. And I’m going to give them the pictures you took of me yesterday.” I told her.

“Well drive safely and I’ll see you in a couple of hours then. I hope they like the pictures!”

“I always do, and you know that.” I said and gave her a goodbye kiss.

I jumped into my car and drove to Zacky’s house. It took about fifteen minutes before I was outside his house. He jumped in to the car and said hey.

“Aren’t you going to buckle up?” He told me.

“No, it’s not long to Schecter so I’ll be fine.” I said and smiled.

We sat and talked about our new guitars and what we had ordered. I ordered a navy blue guitar with white stripes. It was a surprise to Amy, I know how much she love navy blue and a couple of weeks ago we talked about guitars. She said that it would be cool with a navy blue and white one. So I decided to order one and give it to her like an “I’m glad that you said yes to move in with me” present. I hope that she would like it, because I love it. And I also told him about the pictures we took yesterday, the ‘making our relationship public and the shit Cynthia gave Amy when we uploaded the video. Apparently Zacky had forgotten to unfriend her, and she must have seen it when Zacky liked the video.

We were nearly at Schecter when I stopped at a red-light, after a couple of minutes it went green. Just a second after I started to drive I heard a big horn on my left side. I felt a huge smash and then I felt a big pain in my head. Nothing was clear but I could hear people scream around me. I could hear Zacky trying to talk to me but I couldn’t answer. I tried to but it didn’t work. The last thing I felt was Zacky shaking me before everything went black...

Amy’s POV
Two days later the hospital finally let Brian go home. He was really tired of this shit; they had him under observation for three days in case something was wrong that they couldn’t find in the surgery or x-ray. If something was wrong they should see it, it felt so wrong that he had to stay there for so long.

“Are go going already Brian?” A nurse asked him. She had been all over him since she first saw him.

“Yes I am.” He said a bit annoyed.

“That is too bad; I would have liked to get to know you better.” She said to him.

“You know that he has a girlfriend, right?” I said to her.

“Oh I didn’t see you.” She said.

“That doesn’t mean that you should stand there and flirt with my boyfriend.”

“I wasn’t flirting with him.” She said and looked ashamed.

“Yes, you were flirting with me.” Brian said.

“I was not!” She said and walked out from the room.

“That was fun.” Brian said and walked to me and gave me a kiss.

“I don’t know why every girl has to flirt with you.” I said, “Or wait, you are the most handsome man in the world.”

“I am not, but thank you.” He said and gave me another kiss.

We hired a cab because I came to the hospital with Matt and he and the rest of the guys went home yesterday. They had plenty of stuff to do with the canceled tour. We went inside the cab and it took us home, Rocky was very glad to see Brian again; he jumped and barked when we entered the house. I was glad to see Rocky too; I didn’t saw him yesterday because I stayed the whole day in the hospital with Brian. Jimmy was a sweetheart and went by the house to let Rocky out and to feed him for us. I don’t know what I would have done without the guys; they are always there for you. And I didn’t want to leave Brian’s side when he was this injured. I know that he was sad about this shit, and I was going to help him out.

“So how does it feel to be home again?” I asked Brian.

“It’s wonderful Amy; I just want to sit on the beach for a while. Will you join me?”

“Of course I’ll join you honey.” I said.

We sat on a blanket on the beach like we did all the time before the accident. It was evening, but still hot outside. We had some fruits and soda because Brian can’t drink alcohol when he is on his painkillers, it was a really nice evening and we sat there for a couple of hours. We chatted and just sat next to each other, sometimes I got a kiss and Brian told me how much he loves me, and I did the same to him. I told him how grateful I am that he’s still alive and that I never ever want him to drive again, not even look at the car keys. We laughed at that and knew that he would drive again, but not yet. We sat there in the darkness and just enjoyed each other’s company. As we sat there I glanced at my phone, it stood 04.00, how could we have missed that the clock is that much?

“Oh shit Brian, it’s 4 in the morning, we better get some sleep!” I yelled.

“Can’t we just sit here for a while? I don’t want to sleep yet; my arm really hurts right now.”

“Oh sweetheart, don’t you have any painkillers left?” I asked him

“Yes, but I can’t take any for another hour.”

“Then why don’t we stay outside for another hour.” I said.

“Thanks Amy, I really appreciate that you do this for me.”

“I can’t say no to you, and you know it.” I said and gave him a kiss.

We sat outside for an hour and after that Brian went to get his medicine for the pain. He fell asleep just a few minutes after that. I couldn’t sleep, even if I really wanted to and I was really tired. But I couldn’t stop looking at him, and I didn’t understand how he could be in the accident. He’s a really good driver; he always looks around before driving. According to Zacky, Brian didn’t use his seatbelt. And that’s not usual for him, he always says “Safety first!” And apparently the truck driver drove when he had a red-light. I was so mad at Cynthia for trying to kill Brian, but it was nothing I could do. We didn’t have enough evidence. That was the last thing I had on my mind when I fell asleep.

“Amy? Sweetheart, wake up!” I heard Brian say.

“Ooh, what time is it?”

“It’s eleven, and I have a surprise for you, so I really need you to wake up.”

“Oh well, just let me take a shower first.” I said.

“Hurry then, we need to be in that place in two hours and it’s half an hour drive there.”

“I don’t want to drive Brian, please don’t make me!”

“Trust me Sweetheart; it’s worth it in the end.” He said and I hurried to the shower I didn’t take long in the shower because of my curiosity, I really wanted to know what Brian is up to.

We both were ready an hour later and decided that it would be better if we were there early. Whatever there stood for, Brian refused to tell me. We drove in silence, both tired after a night at the beach. And if I could guess Brian was in pain again, he could just take painkillers every forth hour. And they went out after three hours. That means that Brian would be in huge pain an hour. I just hope that he has his tablets with him. I can’t stand to see him in this much pain. Half an hour later we turned into a house, just an ordinary house.

“What is this Brian?” I asked him.

“We are going to get another dog; this is a Siberian Husky kennel honey. I have thought about this for a long time now, and I think that we are ready.”

“I hope that you’re not kidding me! Are we getting another dog??”

“Yes I swear baby, we’re getting a second dog!”

“Oooh I want to meet the puppies nooow Brian, I really want to!” I yelled like a little child.

“Don’t worry sweetheart, you will meet them soon enough!”

We stepped out of the car; Brian came to my side and took my hand. We walked together through the front yard, to the main entrance.

Brian’s POV
Amy wasn’t still for a second. She love puppies and played with them all. I really enjoyed looking at her when she was like this. It was really entertaining. I don’t know who got tired first but after an hour she sat with a cute little guy in her lap, she just pet him while he just laid there.

“Isn’t he beautiful Brian?” She said, “Can we have him? I think Rocky would love him.”

“Of course honey, do you have any good names in store?” I asked her.

“I don’t know, I was thinking about Keno, Rex, Whoopsie and Damon.”

“I think we shall call him Damon!” I said and Amy smiled at me. I gave her a big kiss and was happy that I brought her here to get another dog, a dog we got together, as a family. Even if Rocky is as much as family he was with Amy before we met each other.

I paid the kennel lady for the puppy and we started to walk to the car. Damon slept in Amy’s arms and looked really happy. When we got to the car I jumped in and Amy put Damon in my lap, she can’t drive with a little puppy in her arms. He slept through the entire ride home, and woke up just a few minutes before we arrived at his new home. He looked really excited about his new home, and he didn’t know what waited for him inside.

“Do you think that Rocky and Damon will get along?” Amy asked me when she turned the engine off.

“Honestly? Yes, I think they will love each other.” I said.

“Oh, good, let’s get inside then.”

The meeting went better than any of us expected. Rocky loved the little doggie, he looked a bit confused at first but then he got attacked by Damon and they started to run around in the house. They ran for about half an hour until it was time for food. Both ate fast and then we went outside so they could do their business and play.

Two hours later Amy had to go to the water to pick Damon up; he was so tired that he fell asleep on the beach, just by the water. It was really cute and I was so glad that Rocky and Damon get along as good as they do. But we had to understand that Damon is a little puppy, he’s just two months old. So at the time he’s full off energy, but it can switch off all of a sudden and he needs to sleep. Like now, he just falls asleep at the beach, not caring for anything else than sleep.

We walked inside, just like the happy family we are.

Two weeks later…
We sat in one of Zacky’s couches. We were planning a Halloween party that we were throwing tomorrow. We all had forgotten about Halloween, Damon was taking up most of our time. And Amy was really busy with her photographing. She had photographed Rocky and Damon for some Christmas cards, it wasn’t long until Christmas now and she wanted to be prepared. Also we had to train him, he was almost housetrained and he could do some small tricks like sit, lay and paw. But now we had some time over, Damon was running around playing with everyone and everything. All the guys including Amy and Val planned on tomorrow’s party.

“So who’s up for some Halloween shopping?” Jimmy asked me and Amy.

“Well I don’t have any costume for the party yet, so I’m in.” Amy answered Jimmy and he jumped up and down of happiness.

“Me neither, so I’m in too.” I said to Jimmy who was running around in the house by now with Damon after him.

We went for some shopping, it was me, Amy, Jimmy and Matt. The other guys didn’t bother. So we got in charge of some costumes for them as well. I didn’t know yet what I wanted to be on the Halloween party. But I know that Amy loves vampires, so it would be fun if we went as Dracula and Dracula’s wife. Or as Amy would see it, Edward and Bella Cullen from Twilight or something like that.

“Bri-bear, what would you like to be on the party?” Amy asked me.

“Well, I was thinking about vampire, since I know that you’re totally in love with vampires.”

“Oh great, then we can be like Dracula or something!”

“Ha-ha, yes or like Edward and Bella Cullen.” I said to her with a big smirk on my face.

“Nah, that’s so gay Brian, we can’t go like that, unless you drown yourself in sparkle.”

“Oh my god, I would love to see that, cooooomeee oooon Briiiian, let us buy you some sparkle!!” Jimmy yelled as he ran around in the store and jumped up and down, all the other persons in the building just sighed or walked away. I was afraid that the guards would come and take him; it wouldn’t be the first time.

“Forget that! I will never, did you hear? Never, drown myself in sparkle, that’s too gay!! And the last time I checked I am not gay!” I said as I laughed my ass of.

“Come on Brian, don’t be so boring, let’s throw some sparkle on you and you’re done. Oh wait, sparkle and some vampire teeth.” He said and laughed in my face.

We continued to walk around and look for some costumes. Matt bought a zombie costume because he loves zombies, you learn something new every single day and a mummy costume to Zacky. Jimmy bought a stallion duck chasing ninja costume, as he called it. It was just an ordinary ninja costume, but as long as he’s happy. Then we bought a midget costume for Johnny the short shit, just for fun. He wouldn’t like that at all! But it was so funny that we couldn’t resist buying it. Then at last I and Amy found a costume; we went for the vampire theme. She bought an old fashion dress, some blood and vampire teeth. And for myself I got an old fashion suit, blood and teeth. I told you that I and Amy would match. It would look very cute when we walked next to each other. And that’s exactly what I wanted.

“Well, it looks like everyone is done with the costume picks.” Matt said, “What do you say about buying the last things for the party and then head home?”

“Sounds good, I’m tired of all the shopping.” I said as we walked to our final shopping destination.

“So Matt, when are you going to propose to Val?” Amy asked him.

“What?” He said a bit shocked.

“Yeah, you have been together for a long while now.” She said.

“Well I don’t know if I am ready, sure I love Val, but I don’t know if she loves me as much as I love her.” He said to her.

“Why do you ever worry? You two have been together for a couple of years now.” She said, “If she wouldn’t love you, she wouldn’t be with you.”

“That is true.” He said, “But we’ll have to see, when it happens it happens.”

“I am going to marry a girl that likes ducks.” Jimmy said as he jumped around.

“Ha-ha, why does she have to love ducks?” I said and laughed at Jimmy.

“Because I love ducks, we have to have ducks in common.” He said and smiled.

“You will find your dream duck someday Jimmy.” Amy said to him and he smiled at her.

“Let’s hope for that!” He said and started to run around again.

Amy’s POV
The week after the Halloween party everything went back to normal. I went back to photographing and Brian went back to doing nothing because the doctors said that he couldn’t do anything to overstrain his arm. I tried as much as possible to be with him. But it was hard when I always had to do photographing jobs. Today I was going to do a private model job with some girls I didn’t know the name of. They were coming home to mine and Brian’s house because it was here my studio was. I was thinking about buying a local later, I didn’t like to have strangers in our house. I sat with my computer in the kitchen waiting for the models to come. Brian had just woken up and was walking into the kitchen.

“Good morning sunshine.” I said to him.

“Good morning to you too, busy day?” He asked me.

“Well yeah, I’m looking for a studio to my photographing; I don’t like sexy models to be in our house.”

“Are you worried honey? You know that I wouldn’t leave you for anyone else.” He told me.

“Yeah I know, but I don’t like to have strangers here. But the problem is if I buy a studio I won’t be home as much as I am now. And that means less time with you.” I said with a little sadness in my voice.

“I can be with you in the studio, no worry honey. I don’t like the strangers in here either.” He said, “Have you found anything yet?”

“Yes I’ve found one that I liked, and it’s with ocean view, and that’s good for my inspiration.”

“What does it cost?”

“It’s not that bad, I will afford it, don’t worry”

The doorbell rang, it must be the models.

“I’ll have to go now honey. See you in a little bit; I’m in the studio if you want something.” I told him and gave him a fast kiss.

I ran to the door an opened. It stood five models there. I didn’t recognize four of them, but one I did recognize… It was Cynthia, Brian’s ex-girlfriend. She is about 5' 7, have long blond hair, beautiful, although I really don’t want to say that about my boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend, but if you look at her thoroughly you can see that she’s really tanned and it just looked horrible and wore too much make-up, it was surely just to look “good” in front of Brian. She was the last person I wanted in our house. Especially after the accident, we didn’t know if it was her or not, but I felt it deep inside that it was her. What the fuck was she doing here? In mine and Brian’s house! She knows that I own “Snap click”, she is just here to mess with me.

“Cynthia, what the fuck are you doing here?” It was Brian, he stood behind me.

“I’m going to be photographed. You know, I’m a model, unlike your girlfriend.” She hissed.

“Well I may not be a model but I have a permanent job that I earn a lot from and I have loving boyfriend, unlike you.” I hissed back.

“That guy isn’t anything to have anyway, he’s just trash.”

“Watch your mouth Cynthia, you were the one who cheated on me and used me for the money, not vice versa. And you tried to kill me just some few weeks ago.” Brian said irritated.

“Yeah, because you are trash, like your girlfriend. And I haven’t tried to kill you.” She said with amuse in her voice.
I couldn’t take it more; I slapped her in the face, hard as hell.

“Cynthia, you’re not welcome in mine and Brian’s house. You’re a fucking idiot who can’t accept that your ex-boyfriend has a long lasting relationship and someone who loves him for who he is and not his money.” I said to her.

“That’s bullshit, you’re only with him for the money and fame, everyone knows that.” She spitted back and held her hand to her face.

“Sweetheart, I’m not with Brian for his money or fame, I’m with Brian because I love him. He is the only one who makes me smile.” I said and Brian embraced me from behind, “So please get lost, neither me nor Brian want you in our life. You’re only trying to separate us. But let me tell you, it won’t work. We are in love and are starting a family, and we prefer it that way. So get lost and never come back. Not to me and especially not to Brian.”

“You’re not the one who decides that, what if Brian wants me here, what are you going to do about it then?”

“Ha-ha! I hope that is a joke Cynthia, you are the last person I want in mine and Amy’s house, I feel so much better without you. So please, leave so I can continue having a wonderful day with my beautiful girlfriend.” Brian said and smirked. He held me closer to him; we are together, no matter what.

“So, bye bye, the rest of you girls who have heard this hilarious conversation are welcome in to do the photographing if you still want to. If you don’t, I understand.” I said to the other girls.

“Come on girls, we are leaving.” Cynthia said.

“No way Cynthia, Amy is the best photographer around here; I’ll never miss an opportunity like this.” One of the girls said.

“Me neither!” Another said.

The girls started to get into the house, including Cynthia.

“And what do you think that you are doing? You’re not welcome here!” I said and pushed her out of our house and slammed the door in her face.

I kissed Brian before me and the girls went to the studio. He went to our living room and looked at some TV show, meanwhile, I photographed. The photo shoot went better than I would ever have dreamed of. The girls were really good in front of the camera and you could see that they love what they are doing. Like I do with photographing. It took about three hours until we were finished with the photographing. The girls gave me their addresses so I can send them theirs pictures when I’m done and then said goodbye. Now it was the tricky part, I was going to check through all the pictures and edit them if it was needed. Brian came upstairs after a couple of hours and embraced me.

“Aren’t you done yet honey, it’s getting late and you haven’t done anything else than been stuck in this room for the entire day.” He said to me.

“Yes, soon I just have about a thousand of pictures left until I’m done. And I have looked through about a thousand already.”

“You’re looking really worn out Amy, and when was the last time you ate something?” Brian asked me.

“Well, I don’t know, I ate breakfast I think.” I admitted.

“Amy, it’s time that you put down your computer and eat something, then maybe go to bed.”

“Gosh” I said and smashed down the cap on my laptop. I was getting really frustrated about everything. And I didn’t even know why, I love being a photographer and everything about it, including editing pictures. But something was wrong; I’ve never liked to burry myself in work. I’ve spent way too little time with my wonderful boyfriend and our dogs. I just needed a break away from everything. Just for a week or so.

“Brian, I was thinking about a something.” I said to him.

“Yes?”

“I’m getting really tired of all my work and could need a break! What do you say about going on a trip for a week?” I asked him.

“Got anything in mind?”

“Well yeah, you know that I moved from London right?” He nodded, “I thought it would be fun to go there, so you could meet my parents and stuff like that!”

“Sounds great, I haven’t been in London for ages.” He said, “But what are we going to do with the dogs while we’re in London?”

“I don’t know, what about your parents and sister? Do you think that they can watch them for a week?” I asked.

“I can call and ask, but it shouldn’t be a problem. When do you want to leave?”

“Monday? Then we have two days to fix everything, I can fix last second tickets.” I said.

“Just call them and tell them who I am and they will fix us in” He told me, “It wouldn’t be the first time that will happen.”

“Well then I’ll call my parents and tell them that we’re visiting soon.” I said, “But we’re staying at a hotel, I won’t live in the same house with them and my Avenged Sevenfold crazy brother.”

“Ha-ha sure, then I’ll take the opportunity to call my parents and see if they can take the dogs for a week.”

I called my parents and told them about mine and Brian’s little trip to London next week. They were really happy that I was coming home and with a boyfriend. My brother was extremely happy about it; he couldn’t wait to meet Brian. I also booked a hotel in London. I took the most expensive I could find of course, if I was going to stay in the country I fled from I needed some luxury. Well, I didn’t flee from London, I love London. I fled from the people there, who I called my friends and family. They didn’t get me, but of course I didn’t want to cancel our contact or stuffs like that, I just wanted to start a new life, on my own. And that was exactly what I did when I moved here, met Brian and started my own little family. But it would be nice to go for a trip there and meet my family again, and maybe do some shopping and football watching. I booked a hotel in Piccadilly, I chose Hotel Hilton on Parke Lane, it looked nice and it’s very central.

“So I’ve talked to mom and dad and they said that they can take the dogs for a week.” Brian said.

“That’s awesome honey; I’ve booked a hotel now. It’s nice as hell and you will love it!” I told him.

“Sure I will, but now I just want to spend some time with my wonderful girlfriend and our dogs before we say goodbye to them for a week. What do you say about picnic on the beach?”

“That would really settle my stress. So it sounds awesome!” I said.

Brian’s POV
I don’t know what have gotten in to Amy, but I know that she’s stressed as hell. I did a lovely picnic for her and we just sat on the beach for the entire evening. When the clock approached midnight we decided that it was time to go to bed. We had sat on the beach for about four hours and just enjoyed each other’s company and our dogs’ happiness. It would be sad to not be with Rocky and Damon for a week, but I know that they would have it well at my parents, especially now when Damon was a bit older. Right now I just had to focus about the things I had to pack for our trip, and I had to go to the hospital tomorrow to remove my plaster. It was finally going to be removed. Perfect now when we were going on a trip, and I don’t need to be worried about it getting wet or damaged. After I stuffed all the things in my suitcase I was ready for bed. Amy wasn’t going to pack until tomorrow, she and the boys had already fallen asleep in bed. Less room for me but a lot cozier. I fell asleep fast, and slept through the whole night without any problems.
Next morning I got awakened by Amy’s wonderful voice. She was playing with the boys in bed; Damon was jumping up, down and sideway.

“Oh sorry sweetheart, did we wake you up?” Amy asked.

“To be honest, yes, but I guess that it is time to get up anyway.”

“Yeah, it’s eleven and you have to be at the hospital by two. Do you want me to come with you?”

“Nah, that’s fine, Matt is driving me there and he will go with me.” I told her, “I also have to tell him about our little trip to London for a few days, just so he knows, he is like my brother.”

“Yeah I know honey, just tell him to drive carefully, I don’t want any other accident!” She said.

We decided that it was time to wake up properly and go downstairs for some breakfast. After that Amy had some photographing work to do and she had to pack all the things she was going to bring to our London trip. And for me, it was a trip to the hospital planned so I could kick my plaster to hell before we left for Big Ben and London Eye. I was actually really excited about the trip, last time I was in London was 2010, that is two years ago, and then we just did our gig and then left for another place. So it would be nice with some sightseeing with Amy who had lived there for about 18 years.

“I’m going now Amy, Matt is outside.” I yelled at Amy who was in her studio.

“Yeah, yeah, just hurry up so we can fix the rest and then go to your parents’ house and drop of Rocky and Damon.” She said, “The plane is going around midnight.”

“I know honey, it won’t take long.” I said and petted our dogs who sat right beside me.

“Good, I’ll pack now so I’m ready when you are back, I need to make a call later. I have announced a service, I really need an assistant, and a girl named Sandra have left a message about it. So I will give her a call later.” She told me.

“Sounds great, I’ll call you when I’m done at the hospital.”

I rushed out of the house and into Matt’s car. I didn’t want to be late for my appointment, especially when it was about getting rid of my plaster. He said a fast hello and we just talked about some small shit while he drove; I didn’t want to tell him about the trip yet. But I was going to do that when we arrived at the hospital. Matt found a parking spot just when we arrived, it wasn’t that many people there today, and that is good of course. We started to walk to the main entrance and I lit a cigarette.

“Matt, it is one thing I want to tell you.” I said to Matt.

“Just spit it out Brian, you know that you can tell me anything.”

“Me and Amy are going to London tomorrow, and I know that it’s coming all of a sudden but we booked the trip yesterday.”

“That’s nice; Amy seems a little off now. She has been working a lot lately.”

“But that’s not really what I was going to tell you, it is one more important thing.” I said.

“Just spit it out already.”

“I’m going to propose to Amy.”

It was an awkward silence for about five minutes. Matt just stared at me and it looked like he didn’t know what to say. I stubbed out what was left of my cigarette and nearly dragged Matt into the hospital. I went to the reception and told the nurse that I have an appointment at two by Dr. Song. We sat down in the waiting room, and I tried to get some answer from Matt.

“Hello? Earth to Matt! Are you going to talk to me?” I asked him.

“Oh, yeah, well you got me off guard. I didn’t think that you would propose to Amy so soon.”

“I have never, ever loved a girl like I love her. She’s so right and I just want to tell the whole world that she is mine and that I’m hers.” I told him.

“When are you going to do that?”

“I was thinking about proposing when we are in London or wait until Christmas. It’s less than two weeks until that.” I said.

“I think that it is better if you propose to her when you are in London, because then it will be just you two. It will be all the guys at Christmas, including your parents.” He told me.

“Yeah that’s true, so what do you say about getting to the mall and buy a ring, we are going at midnight and I don’t want to propose to her without a ring.”

“Sure, I don’t have anything else to do today anyway.”

After that my name was called and I went in to Dr. Song’s room to get off my plaster. It wasn’t that painful that I thought it would be. And then he gave me some instructions about the rehabilitation, I was going to do some exercises at home and then come back for a revisiting in three weeks. After that, my hand and arm would be as good as new, if it went as planned that is.

After I lost my plaster we went for an adventure to find the perfect ring to the perfect girlfriend. But first I had to call my perfect girlfriend so that she wouldn’t be suspicious. I called while Matt drove to the mall.

“Ooh hey Brian! How did it go at the hospital?” Amy asked as fast as she picked up the phone.

“It went well, now I just have to do the rehabilitation exercises for a couple of weeks and then my arm will be as good as new.” I told her.

“That’s really good news honey! Are you on your way home?” She asked me.

“Soon, Matt just has to buy a thing when we are on the road.”

“So when are you home?”

“I don’t know, maybe an hour or so.” I said.

“Okay, see you in an hour or so then, love you!”

“I love you too.” I said and we hung up.

After we hung up me and Matt arrived at the mall. We went to a jeweler and looked for a ring. It took about half an hour before I found the nicest ring I had ever seen in my life. It was a golden ring; of course, Amy told me a while ago that she loves gold. I don’t know the whole conversation, but I do remember her telling me about the gold. And then it is a diamond on it, not too big and not too little. And that’s it, yeah it’s simple but that’s what she likes. So I don’t want to buy anything else than that. Even if I wanted to give her the most expensive ring in the whole universe I wanted to give her what she wanted, not what I wanted her to weir. She was getting the one that said “I love you” and “I may be expensive but I am simple”. And I really hoped that she would like it. I said to the jeweler to put mine and her name in it, and the day I am going to propose to her. Amy & Brian 12/12-2012