Legends

Right after that night, Romane told Daniel she didn't want to be with him, but they could stay friends. He had agreed and they were still seeing each other from time to time.

The album was released some days after the prom, and they were so happy the whole day that their friends joked, saying they were high.

During the month and half that followed, the album was sell, and they were still making as much dates as they could.

Until one day, when Matt invited them into his house.

Romane, Ted and Kaleb had barely knocked when Matt opened the door. His smile was from ear to ear. He was grinning like a crazy.

Confused, the three friends followed him inside.

Once in the living room, they saw the other Avenged's guys with the same smile.
The three shared a look, not knowing what was happening.

"How was last night's concert?" Matt asked.

"Great I guess" Ted said, unsure.

"You don't want bigger places?"

"Like what?" They were confused by Matt's actions.

"Like our places."

Their eyes went wide. "W-what?" Ted whispered.

"What Matt is saying" Brian cut "is that we talked to our manager. You're our opening band." He smiled.

Romane's hands went to her mouth. Ted and Kaleb's jaws were on the the floor.

"R-really?" Kaleb whispered.

The guys nodded.

"OH MY GOOOOOOD!" He screamed, taking Romane into a huge hug. He was almost jumping because of excitement. Ted joined them once the shock of the news was over.

Jimmy joined the without a real reason, and soon all the guys from avenged were also in the big group hug.

And so, at the end of the week following the end of high school, they were going on tour.

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"I want it on the side of my arm" Ted said, to Kaleb and Romane.

Two days after, they would start the tour. They were actually waiting before the door of the tattoo artist.

Romane wanted to go to the same she usually went, and the guys agreed. At the moment the Osmose's guys had told the Avenged's ones they were getting inked, Jimmy, Zacky and Brian had decided to come and get inked too.

"Is she late?" Zacky asked, looking at his watch. They should meet at noon, it was now, and she was still not here

"I'm never late!" The voice of a girl shouted behind them. They turned around. The girl was short, with short light green hair. Her ears had at least six or seven rings. Her noise was also pierced, as was her two eyebrow, and her lips. Her neck, arms, hands were covered by tattoos.

"Hey Ro, how are you?" She asked with a smile, as she unlocked the door. "Come in"

"I'm great, thank you, and you?" Romane answered politely.

"Great I guess. Your tattoo don't hurt so much, now?"

"No, it's okay. We can finish it next time."

"Great!"

"You're already getting inked?" Jimmy asked, his eyebrow high on his forehead.

Romane blushed, making everyone looking confused at her. Why would she blush that much for a tattoo?

"You see, our cute Ro over there, is getting a beautiful tattoo. I'm gonna show you." She searched for the drawing on the table, then showed them.

It was a spiral, made with several line winding. The drawing was made tribal way. The middle of the spiral was empty.

"Wow, it's really beautiful." Ted said. "Where it is?"

Romane stared at her feet, her whole face bright red.

"You see the middle of the spiral?" Everyone nodded."it's her nipple."

Everyone's head turned to Romane, eyes wide.

"You're getting your breast inked?" Jimmy asked.

She nodded, blushing.

Brian was wondering how her naked body would look like, with that tattoo. Fucking hot. That was the only way to describe it. He could see himself following the lines with his tongue... he closed his eyes. Calm down, Bri.

"I want my name on the boob of a girl." Jimmy randomly said. All the heads turned to him. "What?" He said, his hands risen in defense. "Imagine a girl naked with your name on her boobs. Should be fucking awesome."

Brian imagined it. Wait, he didn't said Romane naked, he said a girl. A random girl.

You really need to take her out of your mind.

"Hell yeah." Zacky said, his mind into his daydream.

"Anyway. Who wants what?" The tattoo artist asked.

"I just want the word 'Osmose' on the back of my right thigh." Romane said.

"Look here at what kind of letters you want." The green haired girl said, holding a pile of paper in her hands. Romane nodded, then took the papers.

Ted and Kaleb went with her, they also wanted to same.

Brian wanted to add detail at the monster he had on his arm. Jimmy and Zacky just needed to recolor some old ones.

Ash, the tattoo artist, started with them two, then Brian and ended with the three.

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Romane's dad had agreed for the tour, but asked to have his number into each guy's phone.

They still had never seen him. They were curious, but each time someone threw the subject, she closed herself, and stopped talking. So, nobody knew who her father was. Just that he was a guitarist. And his friends too. He was in a band, it was sure.

They all wandered who it could be, and why she didn't want them to meet.

But Brian seemed to be the only one to have notice that she never talked about her mom. When she had something to do, it always was her Dad or 'Fran' his wife. He didn't think he had ever heard her saying 'mom'. Even through he really wanted to know, he wasn't stupid enough to actually ask.
Now that he had his phone number, all Brian wanted to do was call her dad and ask. But he knew it would upset her. So he didn't do it.

That day was the first of the tour. Brian had talked with Romane, because she didn't know what she needed to take. He told her to take, if it was possible, two guitar to perform, because of different tuning. And one for her if she wanted to play, since the guitar tech had to keep the guitar perfect, he didn't want them to play on it. She could also bring an acoustic one, if she wanted. Since Osmose wasn't really big, they had to share the guitar techs. They were two guy, Brent and Oliver. They were really great guys, in Brian's mind. They had toured together many times before.

They had all to come to the venue where the buses were. They had two buses: one with the two bands, the other where the tech slept, and where the instrument stayed.

Samantha drove Brian and Ted, so they wouldn't leave the car there.

Ted had came the day before to put his drums in the bus. Brian had four guitars: three for the shows, one to play on days, one in case one of the other had a problem, and two acoustic with different strings.

As Samantha parked, they saw that Romane was already there, talking with Zacky and Matt. The three of them walked to the Haner's car, as the two brother were taking their stuff from the trunk.
"Ready?" Matt asked. Brian nodded, as Ted smiled brightly.

"And you?" Brian asked to the three.

He saw the sparkle into Romane's eyes, which was a proof of her excitement. Matt and Zacky nodded.

They were pulling their stuffs into the bus, when Brent came. He gave Matt, Zacky and Brian man hugs, and shook hands with Ted. As he walked to Romane, he extended his hand, saying "I'm gonna be the one taking care of your guitar."

She nodded and shook his hand.

"Care to show me?"

She nodded, and she walked to the bus, followed by everyone. Matt took Ted with him to show him round the whole bus.

She had four cases for her electric, and one for her acoustic one. She took two of the three cases as the others sat on the couches.

She took out her usual guitar, and handed it to Brent. He took it, then observed every details of it. He played on the chord to heard the sound of the guitar.

"It's a good guitar. You're gonna play with it on stage?" He asked. She nodded. He frowned.
"What?" She whispered.

"No, it's just..." he looked embarrassed. "It's just not a professional guitar, even if its a good one."
She blushed a deep red as she looked at her hands.

"I'm sorry" Bret apologized quickly. "It's your first tour, it's okay! You can still be great on it." She smiled at him. "The other?" He asked.

She took out the one her dad had buy her, with the hands on it. Bret took it, and once more detailed it. Brian smiled as he saw her tensed. It was her baby, she didn't like people touching it. "This one is a pro. A great one."

"My dad bought it to me, three years ago."

"You already were on the band?" He asked, his eyes still on the guitar.

"No" she whispered.

"He bought it through you weren't even in a band?" He rose an eyebrow.

She blushed a deep red, and stared at her shoes.

After the house, the guitar... does she have as much money as it seems? When you look at her, or even stay with her, she doesn't seem to be the kind of person with so much money, but her house is near the most expensive, and her guitar is expensive, if Bret is right. Brian was once more wondering who her dad really was.

"You only have two guitar?" He asked.

"Those are for shows." She whispered.

"You're not gonna play on days, or you want to play on those?"

"I have another to play" she whispered.

"Can I see it?" Bret asked.

"Me too" Brian smiled. He didn't knew she had another one. Maybe from her mysterious dad.

She blushed a deep red.

"Shoooww uus!" Zacky was looking at her with puppy dog eyes.

She blushed and went to take the third case. She was bright red as she sat down and opened it. It was a black guitar, with many white rectangular stickers with black sign on them.

Brent pulled out his hand to reach the guitar, but her hand clenched on the guitar and she pulled it against her chest.

Brian smiled. "I'm not gonna ruin it." Brent said, with a smile.

She looked at her guitar. "Even" she whispered. He chuckled.

"Isn't that my signature?" Zacky asked, incredulous.

She blushed a deep red.

"Hey, there's mine too!" Brian exclaimed.

"What the fuck?" Zacky asked with a laugh.

Her face was becoming redder and redder. She looked at her guitar. "My dad offered me this, as his first present ever..." she whispered." And every time I went to a concert, I made the guitarist sign on a sticker then I glued it on my guitar..."

They smiled. She really is a fan. A fan of us, but of many others too. Brian thought.

"Can I ask who is there?" Brent smiled.

She blushed. Then she pointed some signs, listing:"Well, you two, then here is James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Frank Iero, Ray Toro, Gerard Way..."

"Gerard? He isn't guitarist" Zacky rose an eyebrow.

She blushed "I know, it's just that, at the signing, he pouted saying he wanted to sign on a sticker like his friends."

They laughed. "Purely Gee."

She nodded.

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They left the venue around noon, and started the tour.

The first show was the day after, do for the first night, it was just them staying in the bus.

The three guitarist kept playing for the whole afternoon. The three of them, on their electrics. The other stayed talking and having fun.

Since Osmose wanted to be at the top the day after, they wanted to go to bed early, so they went to sleep around eleven. Romane's bunk was just underneath Brian's. Across the corridor from them was Kaleb, Johnny and Matt. Against the 'living room' of the bus, were Jimmy and Zacky on Romane's side, and Ted on the other.

The first concert had been hard, but after a week, they were more used to play, and knew what to do. Romane stayed behind Ted and Kaleb. Yeah, she was on stage, but she didn't move much, she never talked in the mics. But even with that they were loved by Avenged's family, and they loved being on stage.

Everything was perfect, until that day.

They were waiting in the bus, they had been early at the venue they were playing. Everything was like it had always been, since they started the tour.

It was until someone knocked at the door.