I'll Never Let Them Hurt You (I Promise)

It's been a couple months since my mom's incident with Nick and I've been staying with my dad for the most part (aside from when I do stay at Zacky's house) and I haven't seen much of Nick at all. For the most part I've been avoiding going home, and usually when I do go home for something, he's either not there, or he's passed out. Syn, Zacky, and basically everyone else wouldn't let me go alone because they were scared something would happen to me. I barely ever went back home anyway so they had nothing to worry about.

"Mel, you okay?" Syn asked snapping me out of my thoughts.

"What? Oh um, yeah I'm fine. Why?"

"You've been sitting there and not answering me for the past five minutes."

"I'm fine, I was just thinking..."

"Is something wrong? Did Zacky do something to you? I swear if he did-"

"Bri, relax. You don't have to kill him, he hasn't done anything wrong. I'm fine." I gave him a reassuring smile as I looked at him. He smiled back and pulled me into a hug.

"What were you thinking about?"

"I was just thinking about how fast this year has gone by and that our birthday is coming up soon." I replied. He nodded.

"I know Zacky said he had something special for you. But, I can't tell you what it is."

"But Brian, that's not fair," I pouted. "You can't just start to say something like that and not expect me to be disappointed when you say you can't tell me." He chuckled and started walking away.

"I know, and now you're just going to have to wait to figure out what it is." he said as he left the room. I got up off of my bed and followed him out to walk downstairs.

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"Zacky, I'm bored." I pouted as I looked up at him. He chuckled and kissed my forehead.

"Well what do you wanna do then?" he asked as he looked at me. I looked at him and shrugged as I sat up.

"Kitty's probably with Jimmy, Amber and Ali are probably with my brother and Johnny, Val and Matt are obviously together and I'm not entirely sure what Lynda is up t-" I stopped myself and looked at him.

"You wanna go see Lynda don't you?" he asked as he laughed a little. I smiled and nodded my head.

"Well let's go then." he said as he got up and helped me up off the couch and we walked outside to his car. We got in and he started driving.
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A few minutes we had gotten to Lynda's and noticed a couple different guys we'd never seen before. One of them had black hair and hazel brown eyes. The other one had hazel green eyes, dark brown hair, and a lip ring. Lynda looked over at us and smiled.

"Hey Lynda,"

"Hi, what's up?"

"Nothing, I just wanted to hang out with you." I said and smiled back at her.

"I did too, but I didn't want to interrupt anything." she replied looking at Zacky.

"Why does everyone always think we're having sex?" I laughed as Zacky wrapped his arms around me from behind.

"Maybe it's because you're almost always with him?" she said like it was obvious and giggled.

"Okay, I know you two are having some strange moment, but who are they Lynda?" the guy with hazel brown eyes asked and walked over to us.

"Oh I'm sorry. Gerard, this is Melissa and Zacky." she turned to look at him.

"You can call me Mel though," I smiled at him.

"And the short guy over on the couch is Frank." she said and looked over at him. Frank pouted and got up from the couch.

"I'm not that short. Besides, you're not that much taller than me." he said. I couldn't help but giggle. Frank was kinda cute when he pouted.

"Don't worry, she does that to me too." I smiled at him. Just then we heard a noise coming from the kitchen.

"Dammit Mikey, you didn't put another fork in the toaster did you?" Gerard yelled out before going into the kitchen. We all followed him to find a toaster on the floor by a piece of burnt toast, and a guy with glasses looking over at us.

"No," he said and looked around. "Don't look at me like that. Besides, I really didn't this time. I tried dumping the toast out to try and get it but I burned myself and dropped it." he explained. There was a silence followed by laughter. I couldn't help but laugh at how ridiculous the story sounded. I think I'm going to like hanging out with them....

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A couple weeks had gone by and we had gotten to know Gerard, Frank, and Mikey. I had also learned that Lynda had a crush on Gerard. Today, was mine and Brian's birthday and of course we invited our friends over. We were all having fun just hanging out and being crazy, when Zacky walked over to me.

"Babe, can I talk to you for a minute?" he asked.

"Of course, is something wrong?" I asked as I turned to walk upstairs with him. We heard a few whistles followed by a few slaps. I couldn't help but giggle a little as we walked into my room.

"I-I wanted to give you something, but I'm not really sure if you'll like it..." he said and bit his lip as he shut the door. I looked at him confused.

"But you already gave me something," I said as I moved a hand to the necklace around my neck.

"That's not what I wanted to give you, I-I mean it is, I just-"

"Zacky, what is it?"

"I wanted to give you this..." he said as he pulled something out of his pocket.