The Year That Past

1 year later.

It’s been one year since I broke up with Zak. In that time I have talked to Grant and together we decided it would be best if we forgot that we had ever met. I moved back to Las Vegas where I now rent a small apartment and work as a waitress in Luxor. I occastional see Zak but I never serve him I have to beg my friend Cara (who got me the job) to serve him.

“Connie table 12” Cara said to me
“On it” I walk off

I pulled out my note book and pencil as I walked over. As I reached the table I looked up.

“Oh” I said
“Hay Connie” Aaron beamed
“Hay Aaron” I gave him a smile “So what can I get you three”
“I’ll take the special” Nick smiled
“I’ll have steak with chips instead of vegetables” Aaron said
“Vegetables for Aaron” I wrote Zak smiled to him self
“I’ll have the special as well” Zak said
“Okay 2 specials and steak with a big bowl of vege’s coming up” I walked off

I could hear Nick and Zak laughing at Aaron who was shrinking into his chair. I gave the order to the chief who place it on the wall. When I turned around I seen Zak get up to fetch drinks I guess. I picked up 3 plates and carried them to table 9 before heading back to the kitchen. I was about to enter the kitchen when someone called my name.

“Excuse me are you Connie Marie Ambers” A man asked
“Yes that is me” I said “Who are you?”
“I’m your landlords lawyer I have a notice of eviction” He said
“But I have nowhere to go please give me some more time I can come up with the money” I begged
“Sorry but he gave you three months” The man handed me a piece of paper and left

I walked back to the kitchen where they gave me Zak, Nick and Aaron’s food. I walked out and gave their food to them.

“Who was that guy?” Aaron asked
“My landlords lawyer his evicting me from my apartment” I said
“Have you got a place to stay?” Nick asked
“No but I guess I could always crash in a cheap motel” I said
“No way you’re moving in with me” Aaron said
“Is that alright?” I asked
“Hell yeah I’ll help you get your stuff tomorrow” Aaron smiled
“What about my furniture?” I asked
“I know a guy who owns a storage place I’ll see what I can do for you” Nick smiled
“Hay I got an idea how about we all met at your apartment tomorrow and have a move out day it would be great” Aaron said “We can blast some music and there is nothing the landlord can do about it because you don’t live there anymore”
“Sounds good to me what about you Zak?” Nick asked

Zak looked at me then at the guys.

“Nah I think I’ll pass besides I think it’s about time I hit the gym” Zak said
“Fine it can be the three amigos” Aaron grinned

I finished shift and drove home. I began to pull out cardboard boxes and began packing. I must have fallen asleep at some point because when I woke up I had a cardboard box on my head and Aaron was trying to knock my door down.

“Hay don’t break that or I’ll have to pay for it” I growled opening the door
“Sorry I’m just hyped about spending the day with you” Aaron smiled
“Well Aaron if you want to continue packing boxes starting in the lounge room” I smiled
“On it” Aaron said running off
“Nick can I talk to you” I said
“Sure” We walked out of my apartment
“Does Zak hate me” I asked
“I don’t think he hates you as much as he misses you” Nick said “Look I didn’t tell him this but on one of our cases Zak got possessed he would start off crying Connie why did you leave me for him then he would start going on about how he was going to find you and kill you but after about 30 minutes he snapped out of it he doesn’t remember any of it”
“Zak seems pretty cold to me” I said
“I could organise to get you and Zak alone” Nick said
“But how” I asked
“You my friend can be my honoured guest on a lockdown” Nick smiled
“And how will that get Zak and me alone?” I asked confused
“Zak get’s very protective of girls on lockdowns and when we split off his going to want you to go with him” Nick said
“And when will this lockdown be” I asked
“In 3 weeks we are going to Polveglia” Nick said
“Cool I’ll let my boss know” I smiled

I hugged Nick and returned to my apartment. Aaron was placing my DVD’s and CD’s into a box making comments to him about the movies and music. I told Nick to head into the kitchen and pack up my stuff there. I went to my bedroom and finished of packing my stuff up there. When all of my stuffed was packed in boxes the boys and I set about removing my furniture. We started by pulling my bed apart and loading it on the back of Zak’s truck which Nick had borrowed. Then we set about loading my lounges and TV cupboard. The truck was full so Nick and Aaron drove to the storage place to empty the truck while I stayed behind to stack the boxes in the now mostly empty lounge room. I moved the lamp and coffee table out of the way as I stacked the boxes. By the time I was done Nick and Aaron had come back.

Next we moved my bed side tables, dressing table, dining table and chairs. Followed by the coffee table, lamp and any other items of furniture. Then we set about moving the boxes the boxes of items that I need had been separated and would be the last to go. Aaron told us all about how he had set up his spare room all by himself and how he had even made the bed. This was a surprise for Nick and I as Aaron was like a 12 year old. We stacked the boxes in the storage shed and locked the door. Nick gave me the keys and we headed for Aarons. Nick dropped us off and headed for Zak’s.

Aaron showed me to my room and left me to unpack. Once I was done I walked out into the lounge room where Aaron was watching Tron no big surprise there.

“So Aaron what is there to do in this place” I asked
“Let’s rock” Aaron grinned
“What in the world do you mean?” I asked
“Guitar Hero” Aaron said
“Oh you’re in for it now” I grinned evilly

...

3 weeks later

“We are now on our way across to the island for our lockdown” Zak said into Nick’s camera
“To the creepy island” Aaron said
“Yes indeed” Zak smiled

We arrived on the island and the boat left. I was allowed to this lockdown on one condition I was the 3rd camera man or women in my case. We walked into the building and began walking through the halls that nature was taking over. I had a very bad feeling about this place there was a sort of evil hanging around. I knew the night was going to end badly it only could in a place like this. I looked over to Nick who was looking through his camera then to Aaron who was doing the same thing. We were all following Zak to god knows where. Zak finally stops in a room with 2 rooms on each side and the hall.

“Okay we’re going to split up, Aaron you go into that room, Nick that room there, Connie you take the hall I’m staying in here” Zak commanded

I walked back into the hall where the evil feeling was all of a sudden gone. I’m sure it was following Zak but I wasn’t going to say anything. I panned down the hallway, then into Nick’s room and finally into Zak’s. At that point Aaron yelled.

“Dude a rock was just thrown at me it hit me in the back of the leg” Aaron yelled
“Are you sure?” Zak asked walking towards him
“100 percent” Aaron said
“Here swap rooms” Zak said

The moment Zak and Aaron swapped rooms we got an EVP. His the one I want was heard from the voice of something dark, evil if you will. If only we heard it we would have stopped Zak from going into the room. About 20 minutes after Zak had entered the room nothing had happened and Zak wanted to provoke. He started yelling out things like what do you want and why are you hurting people. His question were answer, Aaron saw Zak change and alerted us to what was going on. We ran into his room where Nick and Aaron tried to hold me back and get Zak’s machete away from him. Zak brought a machete to cut through the jungle that had grown in the building. Zak dropped the machete and pushed his way to me. He grabbed me and pushed me against the wall. I dropped the camera as Zak pushed me. His lips crashed into mine I could tell he was fighting with whatever was using him. He finally won and the thing left. Zak scared of what had happened asked Nick to go off with me and Aaron to go with him. We would conduct two different investigations to be safe.

Later on after the investigation we went to our hotel to crash for a few hours before leaving to head home. I had a shower, before climbing under my covers I rolled on my side and closed my eyes as a tear trickled down my cheek. I felt a finger whip the tear away; I opened my eyes to see Zak crouched next to me. He smiled before rising. The bed behind my sank as he climbed in next to me. I felt his naked chest press up against me as his arm wrapped around me to pull him into him. I closed my eyes and drifted to sleep. We got a grand total of 4 hours sleep and a picture of Zak and I asleep on Twitter before we headed for the air port. By the time we had gotten to our terminal Zak had almost gone loopy with the amount of comment’s he was getting that were making his phone go off. You know how girls get when the guy they are so madly in love with gets snatched up by another girl. They are all OMG you guys make such a cute couple or aw how cute whose your girlfriend Zak, when really there all oh my god what a bitch how could he go out with that slut he should be with me. Then you have the guys who are all woo you go man way to get the girls and well that’s really how they are.

Zak only replied to those he know or who he thought deserved a reply or sometimes it was just to yell at someone. As we got on the plane Zak turned off his phone, placing it in his pocket. Nick and Aaron sat down chatting being idiots while I sat with Zak.

“What made you change your mind?” I asked
“Well when that thing possessed me I realized how much I love you and no matter what you were always going to be in my life wether I want you to be or not” Zak said
“Hold on are you telling me I’m annoying” I turned to face Zak
“Am I” Zak said
“Well you’re not being sweet” I said
“OH MY GOD IT’S ZAK BAGANS” a girl yelled
“Always Zak” Nick and Aaron said at the same time
“Zak can I get a picture and an autograph” She asked
“Sure” Zak smiled

Zak pulled out a picture of him and the guys and signed it before passing it over to Nick and Aaron. The girl had pulled out her phone and squealed. She looked at her phone then at Zak and I then back to her phone.

“You’re Zak’s girlfriend” She said
“Yes I am” I said
“What’s your name?” she asked I looked at Zak who only nodded
“Connie” I said
“Well Connie can you be in the picture and you two as well don’t think you’re getting out of it” She smirked

We all stood up and got the picture taken she walked off saying something about this is going on twitter or something. I sat back down and poked Zak.

“What was that for?” Zak asked
“I just wanted to know how many of the GH people and their friends do you hate” I asked
“Just GH and GHI why” Zak asked
“Ah because the GHI team just entered the airplane” I shrank in my seat
“Shit” Zak said
“Are you going to be able to sit with them around” I asked taking his hand in mine
“As long as there not to close that Irish one has this smell about him it makes me sick” Zak screwed up his nose
“Why don’t you get along with them?” I asked
“Do you know how many times we’ve gone to investigate somewhere and they have beaten us to it” Zak said “They have this we’re not for profit organisation who only wants to help what about all that money they are getting from their merchandise”
“So in other words competition” I said
“Sort of” Zak said

The GHI team looked at Zak, Nick and Aaron then continued to the back of the plane. Zak sighed and took my hand in his. I smiled and closed my eyes as the plane finished boarding and taxed down the runway. I fell asleep and woke up 6 hours later, Zak was asleep and so Aaron, Nick on the other hand was taken pictures.

“Let me guess twitter” I smiled
“Oh you bet I got a good one of you” Nick grinned
“How long have we got left on this thing?” I asked
“About 3 hours” Nick said
“Good god” I said
“I have an idea on how to keep us occupied” Nick said
“How” I asked
“Well you tweet me then I’ll tweet you then we can like no stop twitter and see how many people join us” Nick said
“Um no how about I tweet you then we can have like a twitter argument or even better a random conversation where I could say something like how’s life and you could be like baloney sandwich” I said
“I like it let’s do that” Nick said

I took out my phone and found Nick on Twitter I tweet him with I’m stuck on a plane next to a snoring man to which he sent back Here have a bag of nuts. And so it started soon we had a bunch of people who were somewhat confused they were asking who I was and how I got Nick Groff to reply to me I ended up telling someone I was God and Nick Groff was my bitch. This went on until the sign lit up for us to turn off our phones and do up our seat belts. The plane began its descent landing us with a bump on the runway. Zak and Aaron woke up and the three guys slide there sunnies on before exiting the plane. We collected our bags and headed off. First stop was Aaron’s to drop him off. Next Zak and I dropped Nick off then we headed for Zak’s. Zak went off for a shower and I wondered the house.

The house while big wasn’t in your face. It had 3 rooms all set up and clean. A large kitchen with dining room and a large but crowded living room. The whole house while it said guy it also said gothic guy. There were skulls on every wall the walls were dark but not black. When Zak got out of the shower I would have to talk to him about it. Zak soon exited the shower and wandered into the kitchen with the towel around his waist.

“Do you often do this when you have guests?” I smirked
“Only the cute ones” Zak smirked back
“So what’s with your house?” I asked
“What’s wrong with it” Zak asked
“It’s sort of gothic” I said “It’s not what I expected your house to be”
“I like it” Zak shrugged
“I’m not saying I don’t like it I’m just saying that it’s more something that some gothic vampire person would prefer to well you” I said
“So you wouldn’t want to move in here” Zak said
“You want me to move in with you” I blinked
“Only if you want to” Zak smiled
“I would love to” I smiled back

I ran off and called Aaron to tell him what was going on. The next day I went back to work or so I thought I was going back to work. I walked into the Luxor, heading straight for my employee locker. I unlocked it and threw my stuff in. I tied my apron around my waist and walked towards the kitchen.

“Morning guys” I walked in
“Ambers my office now” Boss man called
“Yes sir” I walked into his office
“Please sit” He smiled
“What’s going on?” I asked
“You’re fired” He said plainly
“What? Why?” I asked
“I found out you were acting inappropriately with the customers” He said
“Sir I can explain the 3 guys were my boyfriend and his friends” I said
“No excuses you’re fired” He yelled
“No you know what you can’t fire me because I quit” I yelled “I have a new job anyway next time you see me it will be on TV”
“Wait no comes back your re-hired” He chased after me

I walked out smiling knowing that I was heading for a good life with a loving boyfriend, awesome job and great friends. Life was pretty sweet at that moment.