In My Dreams It's Me And You

“Erm... I...”

My words stumbled over each other as I tried vainly to form a sentence, my head sinking lower and lower in an attempt to hide my burning cheeks. Luckily for me Brian stuck true to his word, jumping in to save me from my own idiocy.

“I said she could,” Brian said calmly, not even appearing to flinch as the remaining members of Avenged Sevenfold (bar their lead guitarist) gathered round to see what the commotion was about.

Even though I knew he was just trying to help out he couldn’t stop me from jumping up and handing Zacky back his guitar, murmuring a quick apology before sinking back onto Brian’s lap in embarrassment. I heard one of them ask one of the others what I was doing as my head fell close to my lap, only for the distance to close even more when I saw Zacky crouching in front of me. He pushed aside some of the hair that had fallen across my face and peered at me oddly, almost as if I were some sort of animal in a zoo.

“Are you the hot chick everyone’s been going on about?” He asked, the pure sincerity of his tone making me laugh.

“I guess you can say that,” I replied, propping up my head with my hands in order to look at him. “Why, are you disappointed?”

The horrified expression that suddenly took over him became one of the memories I was sure never to forget. “What? NO! If I had the chance... wait, that’s wrong. Not that I don’t think you’re pretty but-”

“Give it up Zack,” Matt laughed before introducing himself to Chloe and me, dragging Zacky with him to the side so that we could meet the others, along with Matt’s fiancée, Val.

--

It was awkward for the first ten minutes but the guys made us feel so welcome it went away quickly enough. Soon we were talking as if we had known each other for years, instead of just minutes.

“I love your corset, Nat,” Val gushed as she leant over Matt to get a better look, having sat on him after he took the empty seat next to Brian.

“Thanks,” I replied, toying with the silver ties. “Chloe customised it for me. Thought it would be an appropriate choice for an Avenged Sevenfold concert,” I added with a grin, looking over to the mini bar to see the designer in question happily chatting away with Zacky. Val must have seen my surprised expression since she soon followed my gaze to see them, mimicking my reaction perfectly.

“Is there something going on between those two?” Val whispered, causing Matt and Brian to look up at the pair as well before all three of them turning to look at me as if I had the divine answer to the question. For all I knew Chloe hadn’t even heard of Avenged Sevenfold until she moved in with me, and even then I don’t think she had ever come across a picture of the band.

I shrugged in reply, not really able to say much else. “Where did Jimmy and Johnny go?”

“Gone to see if the stage was ready,” Brian answered, pulling me backwards onto him so that I laid against his chest, my head nestled against his shoulder. He raised his hand and began to randomly curl some of my hair around his finger, oblivious to the raised eyebrows of Matt and Val next to him. “Later, if you want, I can give you an actual guitar lesson...”

As a smile touched against my lips I opened my mouth to reply only to be beaten by Matt; his remarks far from what was wanted to be heard.

“Why would she want a lesson off some fucker like you? We should think about replacing our lead guitarist for her,” Matt teased, his laughs becoming louder as Brian tried to punch him in the arm. I’m pretty sure that if I wasn’t sitting on him at the time that he would have succeeded, but at least before he could consider the idea Jimmy and Johnny burst back in through the door.

“Alright fuckers, the stage is up!”Jimmy yelled loudly, snapping both Zacky and Chloe out of whatever world they had lost themselves within.

Even with my protests and locking my arms and legs around him as he stood up he managed to peel me off of him to fall back onto the couch, flashing me an apologetic grin as Val suddenly grabbed my hand and began to pull me to the door. She gave me only just enough time to grab Chloe along the way, managing to drag us both to the side of the stage despite her deceiving size. I was somewhat glad I was allowed to be in the safety of off-stage rather than the vicious pits below, especially when I could easily point out a large number of people that were worse off by the crowds rather than me and a car.

While I couldn’t seem to stand still from excitement Val and Chloe had made themselves seats out of the various boxes lying around, filled with what I guessed was the band’s merchandise to sell. Time seemed to pass slowly as I eagerly awaited the on-stage appearance of Avenged Sevenfold; regardless of the fact I had basically only left them ten minutes ago. Of course I was disappointed that I didn’t get to meet with Synyster Gates, but perhaps I could tackle him as he was walking off. I made a mental note to thank Brian for the next century for the passes.

“So...” Val began, her voice hinting that she was after something. “How did you meet Brian?”

It took a while for the question to sink in, since I was lost in anticipation as much as the crowd was. “How did we meet?” I frowned at the unfortunate memory. “We just ran into each other some day.”

She seemed satisfied with that answer but obviously didn’t catch the second meaning behind my words. Not that Chloe was going to leave her in the dark.

“More like he ran over you,” Chloe muttered, the frown on her face obviously alerting Val’s attention that things weren’t quite right. “He could have killed you.”

I turned round sharply at that, speaking in a harsher tone then I perhaps should have. “Well he didn’t, so drop it.”

When Avenged Sevenfold took to the stage I completely forgot about my momentary anger and screamed madly along with the crowds, jumping up and down on my feet as the opening to Unholy Confessions blared out of the speakers. Of course like many fan girls I couldn’t help but be attracted to Synyster Gates as he played through his solos easily, his fingers slipping over the strings with expertise.

Val chuckled at how I was acting. “Dating a rock star never takes away the fun of watching them, now does it?”

What?

Forcing my gaze from the stage I looked back at her clearly confused. “Dating a rock star? Brian?”

“Don’t you mean Synyster Gates?”

My eyes instantly locked onto the lead guitarist as he stepped up to the microphone to sing the backing vocals, shooting me a smile from underneath his signature fedora. My body completely froze as it suddenly dawned on me, the realisation that the one guitarist I had fantasised over for ages had been staying in my house.

Staying with me.

--

When their set finally ended I didn’t even seem to realise that they had come over to greet us, my eyes not even taking in the fact that Brian- well, Synyster Gates- was standing right in front of me.

“Like the show?”

I didn’t reply. More like I couldn’t find the words to.

“Nat?” Brian glanced over at Val, who merely shrugged. “Are you okay?” His face soon came into focus as my eyes flickered upwards at him, looking upon the person whom I could once only dream of meeting.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” I whispered, my hollow tones obviously alerting him that something was wrong. I merely watched as he looked briefly at the others to see if they knew, obviously gaining nothing as he turned back to me with a mixture of concern and confusion.

“Tell you what?”

“Only that you were the best fucking lead guitarist for the best fucking band in the WHOLE FUCKING WORLD,” I replied, grinning widely. He almost dropped me as I suddenly jumped up into his arms, wrapping my own around his neck. I reached up with one hand to grab his fedora and placed it on myself. “Or did you just forget?”

He laughed as he set me gently back on the floor, pulling me back into his arms
with a smile. “You never asked. Besides, you never told me a lot of things about you.”

I cross my arms and pouted. “It’s not the same,” I argued before punching him playfully on the chest.

The others must have seen this as amusing as they all cracked up laughing, turning around to face them only to see Zacky’s arm draped around Chloe’s shoulders.

“Aww, how sweet,” Jimmy said, mimicking a childish tone.

Both of us replied by simply flipping him off, watching him as he laughed and rested his arm against Johnny’s shoulder with a fresh beer swinging merrily in his hand.

“So how about it, Johnny? Since all these bitches have girls I say we go and get some of our own! I refuse to be the only person not getting laid tonight!”

All of us shot Johnny sympathetic looks as he was unwillingly dragged off, obviously having no chance against the strong-minded drummer at the time.

“What are you planning to do tonight then, Mr. Gates?” I asked, strangely liking the way his state name rolled off my tongue.

“Well Miss. Nathalie, I do believe I have been asked to attend a lovely club. Are you going to make me a worthy man and allow me to escort you there?” Brian replied in a mock posh accent, even stepping into character enough that he held out his forearm for me to take.

Val and Chloe laughed as I nodded perhaps a little too enthusiastically and grabbed onto his arm, pulling him off balance and sending the pair of us crashing to the floor. We couldn’t help but join in the laughter as I tried to get up off Brian only to be pulled back down again and have a kiss planted on my lips. I probably should have been surprised at the sudden act but instead I just wrapped my arms around his neck burying my fingers into his hair and deepened the kiss, my lips parting to allow his tongue to meet mine.

We pulled apart some time later to the sound of someone clearing their throat, our eyes moving reluctantly from each other to see a grinning Zacky, with the others having obviously left to give us some space. Knowing them they probably thought we were going to have sex right there and then. Not that I would have protested.

“If you lovebirds are all done, I thought I should tell you that we’re all going back to Matt’s instead. However I wouldn’t recommend doing it there- I say that from personal experience,” Zacky chuckled as Brian helped me to my feet.

He curled his arm around my hip to draw me closer to him and smiled down at me, a mischievous glint in his eyes. “You want to stay here?” His lips brushed against my forehead as he murmured seductively. “We’ll have the place all to ourselves...”

As appealing as that sounded and despite the fact Zacky seemed to approve I shook my head. After all, if I was going to get Synyster Gates to myself it was not going to be backstage of a venue- at least not before I could find everybody to apologise for nearly making it so in front of their eyes.

“It wouldn’t be nice to decline someone’s invitation, now would it?” I said in a mock-disapproving tone, reaching up to rest my finger upon his pouting lips. My hand was clasped in his as I pulled him over to where Zacky waited; the smile on my face making up for the scowl on Brian’s. “Show us the way, Zacky.”

We followed him to where we first came in through the side door, stopping just to ask one thing. “Out of curiosity, what did Matt do to you?”

His hand faltered on the handle of the door as he turned back to look at us with a sheepish grin, running his hand through his hair. “Well...”

“Matt got his naked ass and chucked him out the house,” Brian interrupted. I couldn’t help but let some giggles through as Zacky scowled, just imagining him being locked out of the house with nothing but a pillow to conceal himself. “Kept the girl though.”

“But don’t tell Val that,” Zacky quickly added, having shot a glare at Brian for stealing his story.

They stood silently trying to stare each other down until I grabbed Zacky’s other free hand and pushed open the door, dragging the two bickering friends behind me.

It was weird to think that before today I had only dreamed of meeting Avenged Sevenfold, but here I was, mixing with them as if we had been friends for years. However when we reached the others waiting outside and Zacky sidled up to Chloe I realised that the best had not yet happened yet; especially not when the arms of my own rock star were wrapped around me in a big bear hug.