Legends

"It... Maybe it's photoshoped?..." Jimmy said after long minutes of silence.

"Why would someone put effort into doing this? They don't even know we're together" Brian whispered. the three picture were printed on his mind, and he couldn't erase them. It was like they had become the background picture of his mind.

"I'm gonna call her." Jimmy stated, as he walked to the bunk area to pick up his phone.

He walked back in the living room, but Brian stood up, and walked to the bunk. He didn't wanted to hear her right now. He didn't want her explanation. What could she say? 'I'm sorry.' He clenched his jaw. He couldn't understand what she had done. She was so... uncomfortable with people she didn't know. She didn't like being close to people, and she was with a guy she met a month ago? What was wrong with her? It wasn't her. Not at all. He laid down on his bunk. He heard Jimmy greeting her over the phone. He signed and took his phone and earplugs from next to his pillow, and turned some music on, full volume, to be sure to not ear a word. He closed his eyes. He wasn't crying, or curling himself into a ball, but just laying there, on his back, staring at the ceiling. How could she ... cheat on him? Hell, when That fucker of Daniel had kissed her, she had felt guilty. And now she was fucking someone else? It wasn't possible! He saw the pictures again. It wasn't possible, but it was true. it was happening.

She was cheating on him.

"Hey" she said to Jimmy with a smile.

"How are you?" He asked, he had something weird in his voice. She was breathing slowly. Remember, you have to act like everything is normal. She told herself.

"Great! And you?"

"I know you're lying, Ro." He said, his voice dark.

Her heart started running. Do he knows? Nonono... He can't be aware...

"N-No, everything's good. The tour's great." She was trying her best to lie, but she knew he was at all believing it.

"Why are you doing this, Ro?" That's when she noticed that he called her 'Ro', not 'Baby'. It felt like a stab in her chest. She was not longer his 'Baby'.

"Do-Doing what?" She muttered.

"You know what I'm talking about." His voice was cold and accusative. Jimmy's no longer your friend...

"N-no I..."

"He's fucking gonna hate you, Romane!" Jimmy almost yelled at her.

She froze. Did something happened? Did he... She could barely breath.

"We've seen the pictures, Ro." He almost whispered. How?... She closed her eyes. No...

"Is he hurt?" She whispered.

"Hell yeah he is! Were you thinking he would NOT be?" He asked like she was dumb.

No. No. It wasn't... No. The huge bruise on her side started to hurt her even more. No. No. She fell on her knees, and started crying. It was all her fault.

"Ro? Ro?" She heard Jimmy ask, but she couldn't speak. "I dunno, she isn't answering me, anymore." He said to someone else. She hung up, and managed to go to her bunk, and curled herself to a ball, as she let out her cries, her head against the pillow to not be loud. It's all my fault.

*****

Right after she hung up, Jimmy tried to call Ted or Kaleb, but Ted wasn't answering and Kaleb was obviously drunk.

Nobody on the avenged bus had some rest that night. None of them slept.

Around nine, they tried to call Ted and Kaleb again, but they didn't answered.

It was around five that Ted finally called Jimmy back. Jimmy pulled it immediately on speaker. Brian was next to them, in his own world.

"Jim?" Ted asked.

"We're all there."

"Did you called her today? Or yesterday?" Ted asked. His voice was shaking. The guy frowned. Something was wrong.

"Yeah we had her last night bu-"

"What did she told you? Did she talked about somewhere she could go?"

"What?!" Matt asked.

"She isn't there. The bus was supposed to go an hour ago. We're searching her for four hours. We have searched the whole venue, and everywhere we could think of. Please, tell me you have an idea."

They were all shocked. And stayed silent.

"Go on Skype." Kaleb said, right before ted hung up.

They took Brian's computer which was next to them, and called Ted.

Ted and Kaleb were sitting on the couch of their bus. Jimmy put thee computer so Ted and Kaleb could see them all.

"What did she told you, yesterday?" Kaleb asked.

The while avenged pulled their head low.

"She cheated on Bri." Matt finally said.

The two younger stared at them. "What? You can't be serious." Kaleb said. Is it some kind of weird joke?

"I wish we weren't."

"Do you know Ro? She would never do that!"

"I thought so too, but..." Matt said. "Look." He said, sending them the link to the pictures.

Their two eyes went wide.

"Alan?" Ted said. "What? That's not... What?!"

He stood up, and went to the door. "ALAN" he screamed. "Come right now!"

He waited less than ten second before the whole band came. Ted sat back on the couch.

"Do you have something to tell us, Alan?" He asked.

Alan frowned. "What?"

"Don't fucking hide it."

"Hiding what? Aw you okay?" He asked.

"No, I'm not fucking okay! Did you really fucked Romane?!" Ted shouted.

All the guys' eyes went wide. "What the fuck are you saying?"

"You fucking heard me!"

"Yeah, but I still don't understand. It's Romane were talking about, she blushed a while week every time she saw me because I kissed her cheek. Why are you even asking that?!"

Ted turned the computer around, showing them the three pictures. Their eyes went wide, and they fixed Alan.

Brian was now fixing Alan through the computer screen. What does she find in him that I don't have? Is he more gentle? Maybe he knows how to treat a girl better than I.

"What? But... I've never..." Alan was staring at the screen. Then he noticed something. "That shirt she's wearing." He frowned and looked closer.

"What are you talking about? Just admit it!"

"No, I've already seen that shirt..." He was searching in his memory.

"It's on Romane, you obviously already seen it!" Ted almost screamed.

"I have seen those pictures before." Alan finally said, confident.

Brian, from the other side of the screen was trying to not punch the screen. He wanted to punch that guy. He hated him. He had steal Romane. Brian tried to breath, but he couldn't.

Alan was searching through his phone, frowning.

"What the fuck are you doing?!" Ted asked. He was about to loose his calm, when Alan shouted. "Found it!" He showed ted the screen of his phone.

"I knew I had already seen those pics, they aren't true, I took those pictures with my ex girlfriend. Ted took a look closer at the phone. It was the exact same picture, bit the girl wasn't Romane. He showed Kaleb, then he reopened Skype, as Alan's eyes went wide. "Oh... Hi, Avenged Sevenfold."

None of them answered. He saw the look of pure hate on Brian's feature, and wondered why he was like this.

Ted showed them the picture.

Brian felt like the stupidest and biggest shit on the whole planet. He hadn't even trust her. What a douche. He closed his eyes.

"It still don't explain where she is." Austin said.

"Or how she acted last night." Jimmy added. Everyone looked at him. "She was shocked, but she knew that Brian was hurt. she never did anything with Alan, okay, but then, what happened, that could hurt Bri? And I told her we had seen the pictures, and she wasn't surprised or anything... I don't understand."

They stayed silent. "I shouldn't have called her." Jimmy said. He was the reason she was gone, now.

"Ted, go check her luggage." Brian said, staring at the floor.

"What? why?"

"To know if she's really gone. She isn't stupid, if she wanted to go, she would have took some stuff from the bus. If there is still everything, then it means that she isn't gone for a long time. Or..." He couldn't continue. Or she didn't want to go. He remembered her mom. He shook his head. No. Don't think about that. She's okay, and she's going to come back soon.

Ted stood up, and walked to her luggage. He didn't know what to search. "Do you have an idea of what she could take with her?"

Brian thought about it.

"Her Ipod." Jimmy said.

"But she always has it with her, so it won't means that she's gone. The charger. Or..."

"Shit" Ted cursed.

"what?!" the other called.

"Your sweat, bro. The one you gave her before going on tour, Remember?" They all nodded. "She sleep in it every night. It's gone."

They all fell silent. No one dared to talk.

"Her charger isn't there, too." He continued to search. "Her backpack is gone."

He stopped searching. She was gone. Why? Why did she pack her stuff then walked away, without talking to them?

Suddenly, Kaleb's phone started to ring. he jumped and then took it. his eyes grew wide. "i'm pulling you on speaker." He said, as he put the phone next to the computer so everyone would hear.

"Why the fuck do you want me on speaker? I just need to talk to my fucking baby!" The other person screamed through the phone.

"Because the whole avenged and Of mice and Men bands are listening. Why are you calling, James?"

The eyes of those who knew who James was became wide.

"Gimme Romane, I want to talk to her. It's been a fucking week since I've talked to her."

None of them dared say a word. The guys for Of mice & Men were wondering what was happening, but never spoke a word.

"She... Isn't there." Ted finally said, and closed his eyes, knowing what was coming.

"What?"

"She... Is gone, James. She has took the most important stuff from the bus, and she's gone."

The other side was completely silent. They heard a thud, looking at each other, worried. Then some yelling. And finally, they heard a feminine voice talking.

"Hey" The girl said. "I'm Fran, Romane's mother in law. Tell me chat happened."

Ted explained everything. He heard her starting to cry, but she was trying her best not to.

"Two hours ago..." She started, sniffing, "She used her credit card, and took in cash most of the money that was on her account. 500 dollars."

They stayed silent.

Brian suddenly took out his phone.

"What are you doing, Bri?" Kaleb asked.

"Calling her."

"She won't answer! We tried to call her a hundred times!"

"Maybe she'll answer me."

He pulled the phone against his head.

She answered. "Romane? wher-" He tried to talk, but she cut him.

"I'm gone. Forget about me." and she hung up. He stared at the phone.

"What did she say?" Jimmy asked. Brian told them, then added: "We need to find her."

"And how? Searching her where?"

"You don't understand, Ted." Fran said. "we need to find her, before she finds her. Can you even imagine what could happen?"

Ted's face fell, as he understood. "Oh my god..." He whispered.

"I'm sorry but... Can someone explain me this?" Aaron asked, unsure.

They stayed silent. "You will know if she told you. That's her choice who she wants to know her life. All you need to know, is that we need to find Ro before another person find her. If that other person finds her, she's going to be..." she couldn't continue.

"Dead." Brian said. "We need to find her. There's no other choice. I will never let her be taken by that whore."

"I know Brian. Me and James are coming. Aaron too. We are going to find her."

"I'm going too." Brian said.

"But the tour..." Zacky said.

"I don't give a shit. Ted, in which city are you?"

"Phoenix."

"Guys?" Fran asked. "Can you all put something on the internet telling to people to tell you if anyone sees her?"

Ted took out his phone. "You'll all retweet me okay?" He posted the latest picture of her he had found, with a small message. "Please, if anyone see Romane Vincent, tell me, Ted Haner, Kaleb Denver, or anyone in Avenged Sevenfold. Please, we need your help."

*****

The two tour were canceled, And the three bands stayed in Phoenix for two weeks. Brian's and Ted's parents went searching with them, as well as Romane's family. After the first shock of Of mice discovering who was her dad, they were all good friends. But even after two weeks, help of fans and police, they hadn't find her. Nothing. Finally they decided to go back home.

Brian was barely talking to people, when he came back. He was living in his home, and not at his parent's one. He hated to see their pitiful faces. He was alone most of the time. He was making research on internet, since they had dragged him home, and all he wanted was to go back there. He couldn't give up. He needed to find her. He needed it.

Two weeks late, they had surely the worst Christmas ever. None of them wanted to celebrate when Romane was missing. But the day after, Matt ran to his house, calling all their friend and family to come. And he showed them a video.

It was filmed in the streets, somewhere. A guy was playing a guitar, and then a girl who had her back to the camera came talking to him. They recognized her at the second she appeared on the screen. Romane was wearing some jeans, and brian's sweater. Only, it seemed dirty and worn. Half of the left sleeve was missing. She was skinnier than when she was still with them, even if she already was really thin. The guy laughed at her, and seemed to look at her like she was a piece of shit. She took the guitar, and sat on the floor. A smile went on her lips as she started to play. The laugh fell from the guy's face as he heard how great she was. At the end of the song, she smiled, and waved at the camera. She seemed tired, and hungry. she handed the guitar back to the guy, who asked: "Who are you?"

She smiled to him. "Just a random homeless who used to be on the top." With that she walked away, and the video ended.

They were all staring at the black screen, after the video. No one dared to talk. Brian's heart was running. It hurt him to see her like that, but at the same time, it makes him glad to know that she's alive.

"Where and when was it?" James asked breathlessly.

"I still don't know, but, hey, she's alive!" Matt smiled wide.

*****

After some research, they found that the video was filmed in Los Angeles, some days before Christmas. At the moment Brian learned that, he started going to LA everyday, to drive, or walk everywhere he could, just in hopes to see her.

But then, everything stopped again. Then, it was the 28th. Then, Jimmy did his last party, and partied too much.