Dark Passion Play

“We just got to stop by the Home Depot, so we can get paint and stuff.” Johnny replied.

“Ugh I hate the home depot.” I grumbled.

“Why?” Brian laughed.

“Because when we were younger, my dad would always drag us there and she thought it was boring. After constant trips to the Home Depot, she began to hate it since she didn’t see the point in her going in there.” Zacky replied and I nodded.

“Well man up, cause you need to pick out the baby paint.” Matt laughed.

"I am not a man. So therefore i dont need to man up." I smirked and he rolled his eyes.

“I don’t want any dainty ass colors. I want something awesome; my kid is gonna be the shit, and so its room should be too.” Brian said as if taking the words out of my head. It was the first time I’d really seen him show interest in the baby and I squeezed his hand.

“Thank you.”

“Your welcome babies.” He laughed and Johnny face palmed.

“It’s just so weird! Syn hates kids!” Johnny laughed.

“Well obviously not my kid, I just hate you.” He laughed and Johnny narrowed his eyes.

“Let’s not fight children.” I interjected and they scoffed.

“I am no child. I’m a fucking man and you know it.” Brian growled huskily in my ear, and I shifted trying to avoid the further pressing of my ‘on’ button.

“Yeah okay Synnie boo.” I said, staring into his eyes that were pooling with lust. He slid his hand over my thigh and dipped between them. He inched closer and closer to my nether regions and my heartbeat was quickening. He squeezed down on my thigh and it hurt and felt good at the same time. I was moaning and groaning in pain at the same time.

“I said you are a man Syn. So manly and s-such.” I said gasping from the pain and slight pleasure.

“NOT IN THE FUCKING CAR YOU HORNY BASTARDS!” Matty screamed and broke me out of my Syn spell. I laughed out loud, because Matty looked so aggravated.

“It’s his fault Matt! I’m just trying to enjoy this car ride to the wonderful Home Depot, and this guy comes around and growls in my ear! What am I supposed to do?!” I said exasperatedly.

“Keep it in the pants, that’s what. And that goes for you too Mr. Man.” Rev scolded pointing at us, with a womanly voice at the end.

We finally arrived at Home Depot. We parked and then walked into the accursed establishment. The floors were grey and dusty, and it smelled like sawdust, the outdoors, and wood glue.

“Ahh my favorite place to be!” Zacky said letting out a deep breath and holding up his arms while looking to gauge my reaction.

“Oh fuck you.” I said waving my hand as we turned down the paint isle. I looked at the color charts with Brian, and of course he looked into the various shades of purple.

“I like this one. Midnight Sky.” He said smirking.

“Not for a baby room smart one. It think it should be purple and a grey.” I voiced.

“I like that. Purple walls and a grey ceiling or alternating walls and a grey ceiling?”

“I was thinking more, alternating walls, and a ceiling that looks almost like a sunset. Like a grayish purple sky with clouds and it fades into night and on the nighttime side, there are stars and a moon.” I said holding up my hands and making all these hand motions. I looked back at Brian who had his eyebrows raised.

“Wow. We are going to need so much more shit.” He just said. We picked out a semi-dark purple almost plum, Brian’s midnight sky blue, and light grey. Then we got paintbrushes and rollers. We paid for all of it, and further packed up the car for our drive home. Matt took a deserted road which looked like it was taking us out of the state. It was just a straight road, in an expanse of desert that ran right into the horizon. He floored the gas pedal and sent us roaring down that road. The scenery began to change, as if we were pushing against it. The only thing I could compare it to, is pushing your finger against plastic wrap until you finally poke a hole through it. Suddenly we entered a twilight sky as we approached a city teeming with lights.

“This is City of Evil, where we live. And if you look all the way to the east, far on the horizon that is Bat Country.” Matt pointed as we took the road to our house. The twilight setting didn’t appear to loom over the house. The sun shone brightly, causing me to squint. I watched as the boys brought everything inside, and into the guest room, that was right across from Syn’s room.

We brought the paint in, and we all grabbed a brush.

“Whoa what are you doing? You aren’t doing work.” Zacky said taking the roller from me. I reached up and around him trying to get him to give it back.

“Yes I am! Now give it!”

“Syn will be so pissed if he sees you working. And we don’t want you working yourself or causing yourself stress in anyway.”

“You think that I care if Syn gets pissed? I didn’t before and I don’t now! And right now you are stressing me out by not letting me help.” I replied and Zack looked defeated.

“Fine.” He gave in and handed me the roller back.

“Yes!” I cheered. We poured the paint into the paint holder and started painting the walls. Zacky got the purple and I got the grey, the others were still bringing crap in.

“What are you doing?” I heard Syn’s voice yell from the doorway.

“I told you.” Zacky snickered. I rolled my eyes and kept painting.

“What does it look like I’m doing?” I snapped.

“You really shouldn’t be working; I don’t want you to get hurt at all.”

“How am I going to get hurt by painting a wall?!” I yelled back laughing.

“Would you rather I not care at all then?!” He was being so unreasonable. It was a fucking wall!

“Right now you’re crawling up my ass for no reason so yes!” I yelled ending the argument. Zacky already finished painting the purple and was doing the next wall in grey. Stupid fucking werewolves getting shit done…

Brian and I didn’t say anything to each other the whole time we worked. I was standing on a chair getting the parts that I couldn’t reach before. I was almost done with my first wall while the others were finished and they started on the ceiling graphics. Zacky was off on the grey wall with some black paint they already had, and was painting something
crazy. I could tell it was a skull from what he already had done.

The ceiling that they had so far was amazing. They started from the doorway, and that part was grey, and it started to fade into the night. The part of the ceiling in the middle to the end was a night sky, and they were starting the clouds on the grey, and the dotting of the stars on the navy.

I went to step down off of the chair, but the baby suddenly just kicked and my hands flew to my stomach causing me to lose balance and I started to fall backwards.

“NO!” I heard everyone yell before something fell on the floor, and Brian was suddenly there and I was in his arms. He stared down at me with a hard expression and I felt really bad. He just looked at me, with dull gold eyes.

“I told you.” Was all he said before he put me down and walked away. Picking up what he dropped, and resuming what he was doing. I looked at everyone else and Zacky had his eyes wide open, Rev looked like his jaw was about to break off its hinge, Johnny looked scared and Matt looked aggravated. I expected them to yell, but Rev just came over and took me in his arms.

“Shh it’s okay.” He said and I didn’t even realize I had started to cry. I could have hurt the baby because I was being a selfish, unreasonable bitch. Tears flowed freely at their own accord. Syn didn’t make an attempt to console me, and all I heard was the sound of paint being rolled onto the ceiling.

“I’m such an idiot!” I cried into his chest.

“No you aren’t. You just wanted to help. Nobody knew that you would fall, so don’t cry okay?” I nodded and hiccupped into his chest. He rubbed by back soothingly and I eventually stopped crying. He dried my tears and kissed my cheek and I cracked a smile.

“Thank you Rev.”

“You can call me Jimmy.” He smiled and I hugged him again. I knew all of their names now.

“You can stay, but this time you have to sit on that chair until we bring in the rocking chair for you.” He laughed and I smacked his arm. I parked my ass into the chair and watched as they completed my vision. I really wanted to go over and weasel that paintbrush out of Zacky’s hands. I went to get up and just when I was about to waddle over to Zacky, Syn whipped around and looked at me with the same hard expression.

“Zena sit down.” He said and I gave him a face.

“No.” I said it with attitude. I was about to take one step.

“You really should listen to me after you nearly hurt yourself and the baby, so why don’t you sit the fuck down.” He said with a fake tiny smile, and he shot me a look that literally forced me to sit back down.

“Dude…” Johnny said and Syn glared at him.

“What?” He asked with the same attitude.

“You didn’t have to use that on her…” Johnny said going back to painting.

“I can do whatever I want with her.” Syn grumbled. I rolled my eyes

“No you cant you asshole. I’m already having one child; I don’t feel like dealing with another.” I spat

“Ooh, they’re going at it again!” Matt whispered to the Rev.

“Well I don’t feel like dealing with a disobedient bitch so I guess we both lose.”

“Syn…” Zacky growled, his green eyes flashing.

“Oh wow Syn you should be the last one calling someone a bitch.” I spat. By the fire in his eyes I could tell it was on.

“Oooh…” Rev instigated.

“I swear if you weren’t pregnant.” He growled.

“If I weren’t pregnant you would what?! Tell me what you would fucking do!” He flashed over to me and stood in front of me

“You would kill me again? Come on Brian don’t just go around standing here! If your gonna do something do it you-" He silenced me by crushing his lips onto mine. I could feel all of the anger, frustration, pent up tension and lust radiating from him, as he brought me close to him almost lovingly and slipped his tongue into my mouth. Our tongues fought for dominance, and of course being the man he is, he won. I pulled away from him and held his face.

“I’m sorry for being so bitchy and inconsiderate. I should have known that I could have hurt the baby or myself and I’m sorry for not listening to you when all you had in mind were our best interests. And I’m sorry I called you a bitch, I do love you Bri.”

I said rambling quickly as tears fell onto my cheeks. I let go of his face and wrapped them around his torso. He brought his hands up to cup my face, and he wiped my tears with his thumbs.

“I’m sorry for making you cry, and I’m sorry for forcing you to sit down, and I’m sorry for yelling and being possessive. I love you too Zena.” He said turning his lips up into a half smile. I grinned and pressed a simple kiss to his full lips before I hugged him tightly.

“The baby doesn’t like it when we fight.” I said, my speech being muffled by his shirt.

“I know that momma doesn’t like it either. I’m sorry babe.” He said sincerely holding me tight, and for that moment I forgot that the guys were here.

“You called me momma.” I said tearing up, and he laughed.

“AHEM!” Someone cleared their throat loudly. I pulled away from him and peeked around him. The guys were just staring open mouthed.

“Wow, talk about an emotional rollercoaster.” Jimmy mumbled.

“You guys are something else.” Matt said smirking. And I could hear as they cleaned up and threw tape and stuff in the trash and they packed up, leaving a badass nursery.

“Hey why is there a giant flying skull on the wall?” I pointed over at it.

“It’s the death bat. It’s the symbol of Avenged Sevenfold. Which is us by the way.” Zacky said proudly because he painted it.

“The ceiling is fully finished, check it out.” Johnny said pointing up.

The ceiling looked like an epic painting. They created a full moon behind mountains and trees with a wolf sitting on top of the highest peak and creating a dark shadow onto the moon. They definitely went above and beyond. My eyes roved over the entire room. They had everything in place including my neat new rocking chair, a changing station, a crib, an area rug, skull stickers courtesy of Matt, and a dresser.

“This is awesome. I love you guys.” I cooed hugging my brother, and Jimmy joined in followed by Matt, Johnny and Brian even though he was angry with me.

“We love you and the little bugger too.” Matt replied. The baby started to kick and Zacky made a face, because it was kicking him in the stomach.

“Whoa, id rather not get kicked in the balls by my nephew who isn’t even born.” He said pulling away. I laughed as I looked down at my stomach. I was seven going on eight months pregnant and I looked like a weather balloon.

“I’m so big…” I pointed out, roving my hands over my belly. It was fun to go over the curvature of it.

“It’s definitely gonna be a boy.” I said.

“Girl.” Syn coughed and I looked at him

“Either way it’s going to be cute.” Rev joined in and everyone agreed on that one.

“I really love this nursery you guys.” I said and they all smiled.

“It was no problem really. We were happy to do it.” Matt said and I laughed at his typical Matthew behavior.

“I really love you. I’ll show you how much later.” Brian said wrapping his arms around me from behind. I loved that. Zacky mumbled an ‘ew’ as they all obviously heard that.

“Now that this nursery is finished, can we go outside?” I asked and the guys unanimously agreed. We all eagerly went downstairs and out into the back. As soon as I opened the sliding door, two dogs known as Zack and Brian went shooting past me, Shadows flew past me in a blur of silver, and Rev looked like fire as he chased after the rest. Johnny was an all black wolf, and he looked like a moving shadow.

The five wolves were all rambunctiously running around and jumping on each other. It was so weird, seeing my brother, my friends and my boyfriend fighting over which squirrel to chase. They all looked up at me and I smiled and waved, I take it they heard that. They all came barreling towards me and I screamed, but I didn’t run away. They all started licking at my hands and arms.

“Hey guys!” I laughed as Syn reached up and swiped his tongue across my cheek. I crouched down to pet Syn. He licked my lips and all over my face and I was covered in wolf spit.

“Okay okay! I get it! I’m loved!” I laughed and he stopped. I heard Shadows bark and I turned to see him and Zacky chasing each other in circles.

I love you more than you even know. I heard in my head and I turned to face Syn expecting the wolf. But I felt soft lips against mine instead, and I melted inside with the words he told me and how he proved it.