Legends

They finally slept in one of the guest room. Romane, Johnny's and Jimmy's girlfriends on the bed, Ted, Kaleb, Johnny, Jimmy and a guy Romane didn't know on the floor.

She stood up. Her head hurt. Bad. Slowly she walked to the living room. There, she found Brian talking to two men she didn't know. She walked to the kitchen, hoping nobody would notice her. Brian had his back to her, so he would not see her. And since the two other didn't know her, she hoped they would not make her presence be noticed by the guitarist.

She walked without a sound to the kitchen. The three men were talking about some tour.

"The cute girl from yesterday!" One of the two men said. She sighed internally.

The two other head turned to her.

"Hi" she whispered.

"Come sit with us!" The second men proposed. She nodded and looked for a place to sat. Brian was on a couch. She could sat next to him. Bad idea . She sat on a chair next to them.

Brian gave her a disappointed look. Then looked away. The message is clear. She doesn't want me next to her. In any sense.

"You're the girlfriend of Ted?" The first asked.

Her eyes went wide. She shook her head. "Just one of his friends." She whispered.

"Gee, she's afraid of you." The second men said.

'Gee' rolled his eyes. "I'm not that scary!"

"You are."

"No, guys, she isn't afraid, just shy" Brian rolled his eyes at the two. He loved them, but hell, sometime they ready were stupid.

"Oh. Sorry" 'Gee' apologized.

She nodded, in a 'it's okay' move.

"you're cute" he smiled. Romane blushed.

"And what's your name, cute-girl?" The second asked.

"Romane" she whispered.

"Frank. The dumb guy here, it's Gerard."

She nodded. They seemed familiar. But her head hurt to much to be able to concentrate. She tried to. But all she do was frowning.

"From My Chemical Romance" Brian explained.

Her eyes went wide. And she covered her mouth with her hand.

"You know us?" Frank asked.

She nodded, blushing.

"Come on, don't be shy!" Gerard whined. " it's not because we're the best band on earth that you can't talk with us!" He laughed.

She smiled.

"Keep it in your pants, we're her favorite band" Brian said with a cocky smile.

"Really?" Frank asked, looking at her, but pointing at Brian. "You like that?"

She nodded.

"See?" Brian was smiling. He liked the idea of being her favorite band.

"But I love MCR." She whispered.

"Favorite song?"

She thought for a second.

" Romance (the first music of the video is Romance) , or I'm not Okay "

" Romance ? You don't like my voice?" Gerard faked being hurt.

She chucked. "No, I just love guitar"

"Then, I really don't know why you like Avenged. The guitarists suck. Mostly the lead guitar. He really realty sucks." Frank grinned.

Brian rolled his eyes. "One day, I'll kill you, fucker"

Romane laughed.

"But yet you love me!" Frank winked.

Gerard had a shocked face. "Frank?" Frank turned his head, confused. "Y-your cheating on ME! YOU PIECE OF SHIT!"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP OR YOUR FACE IS GOING TO MEET MY FIST" they heard Matt shouting from his bed room.

They all laughed.

"You've talked to Zacky, last night?" Brian asked to her, in a calm voice.

She smiled widely. "Yeah! He's okay. We're going as soon as possible."

"It's great! Need some help?" He asked sweetly. He had a strange voice. He was looking straight into her eyes. For a second, nothing else existed. Just Brian and Romane. Looking in each other's eyes. They had something in their look, that neither of them could understood. But Frank and Gerard understood it without a doubt. And shared a look and a smile.

Frank cleared his throat, making the two looking away from each others.

"What were you talking about?" Gerard asked, without being able to erase the smile from his lips as he saw their reactions.

"Ted didn't told you he and his band were going to record at Zacky's home?" Gerard and Frank nodded. "And I'm sure he talked about his band mates."

"Well, all I can remember is a wasted Ted explaining they had a baby who played guitar like a god in their band. And I've met the bassist, singer." Gerard explained.

"The baby guitarist, it's her."

She blushed.

"Why a baby?"

The three of them turned to her. She blushed and looked at her feet. She seemed so helpless. Brian remembered how she was, naked. She was beautiful. She was skinny. Some of her bones were visible. But it wasn't too much. It just made her look like doll. A fragile doll. A doll you needed to protect. At least, a doll Brian wanted to protect.

"Yeah, I see why the baby."

She blushed even more.

"So you play guitar like a god?" Frank asked. She blushed.

"She know almost every Avenged's songs. My part."

Frank's eyes went wide. "Wow"

"It's not much." She blushed. " you just have to learn the chord, then the rhythm. And practice." She shrugged.

"She's lying, she learned Chapter Four in like, three days. And she was spending her whole time in those three days working with the band." Brian said. He was kind of proud of her. She was a great guitar player. Honestly. And he liked telling to people how good she was.

It was strange how she changed him. He didn't act with her like he acted with anyone else. It kind of scared him. He didn't feel like himself when she was around. For girls, he just wanted sex, or friends. But with her, he didn't know what he wanted. He wanted to be close, to be friend. Although having sex with her sounded really good.

Maybe just the 'friends with benefits' thing, then. Why not?

The vision of her naked body came back to his mind. How she would feel underneath him... he could almost hear her moans. His heart was running at the idea. And his jeans became thigh. He sighed and took a deep breath to put away all those thought.

He had lost the discussion. And all he could see was her bright smile. A huge smile. The smile was directed to Frank. And it pissed Brian off. He wanted those beautiful smiles directed to him, and just to him. He concentrate himself on the conversation.

"I'd love!" Romane smiled.

"How about in, like... two or three days?" Frank asked.

Are they planning a fucking DATE?!

"Maybe not that soon, we're recording. But as soon as we stop!" She smiled widely.

"OK. Want my phone number?"

She nodded, blushing.

What?! It took me more than three month to have her number, and they had met like, two fucking minutes ago, and she gave it to him? What the fuck?!

Holy shit, Bri, you need to calm down.

He handed her his phone, to put in her number.

"Can't wait to play with you" Frank said, as he took back his phone.

They want to play together? No... what if she rather play with him than with me? Would she stop playing with me? I don't want that. I wanna play with her. I love playing with her. It's the only moment where we can be close. I don't want her to be close with someone else...

He shook his head. You're despairing Bri.

He stood up and went outside.

Romane gave him a sad look. He doesn't want to see me... the three men were talking, then she had came, and Brian had gone away. He didn't want her close.

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Ted knocked at the door. Romane and Kaleb waited, behind him.

Zacky opened the door. He led them to the basement, where everything was. Matt was already there.
"For first," Zacky explained, "you're gonna record together, with different mics. Then we'll redo what has to be. Just for saying, I'm sure you're gonna record at least three or four times. Don't worry, we're all doing the same." He was smiling to them.

They nodded. They were really really exited.

Ted sat behind the drums, as Romane took her own guitar out of its case. It was a black one, with two hands print in white. Like the person had put his hand into white paint and put it on the guitar. One big, and one really short. Her favorite guitar. Usually she took another, a simple one. Because she was afraid she could damage it.

"A new guitar?" Matt asked her.

"No, I just usually take another."

He rose an eyebrow.

"This one is my favorite" she explained. "I take care of it. I don't like taking it here and there. But I want it to record."

"What are those hands?" Ted asked, curious.

"The big one is my dads, and the little one, is mine, when I was six." She smiled. "My dad has the same guitar."

They nodded. Kaleb put the strap of his guitar around his head. His bass had the same shape as Johnny's one. But black, with a smile and two eyes draw as if it was with blood, with a 'why so serious?' written the same way underneath. He loved the Joker.

Romane sat on a stool. They plugged all the mics and the amps.

Romane was shaking. They were about to record. About to make an EP, and about to be on Internet.
Se felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned her head to Zacky. "Don't worry, it's gonna be okay. If you make any mistake, it's completely okay. Just play the whole song. We'll make everything perfect after." He smiled. She took a deep breath and nodded. He gave her the thumbs up. She smiled.

They started Reckless Stupidity . It was one of those they knew the best.

Once they had finished playing, they listened to it, closely.

They all had to do it a second time. But, not the same time. Ted was the first. He had headphones on his ear, and he heard the song they had just recorded, but without the record of the drums. And they were gonna record just the drums.

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At the middle of the day, they had finish the first song. Johnny and Jimmy had arrived. They were talking about food, when Matt's, Zacky's and Johnny's girlfriends opened the door, with pizza. The three guys jumped in their arms saying how perfect they were. Jimmy and Romane jumped on the pizza. The other laughed at them.

"Baby and me are in love with pizza, that's all!" Jimmy explained.

"And Leana?" Kaleb asked.

"She's a wonderful magic pizza" Jimmy said, trying to put the more food he could in his mouth.

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Around 8, they had almost finished the second song. Romane was kind of sad that Brian didn't come. Maybe, after all, he really didn't want to see her. Even if it meant don't be there for his brother's recording. it seemed that he really hated her.

Matt's phone ringed. He answered.

"Bri! Finally! Where the fuck are you?" There was a silence as Brian answered. "We're fucking recording!" Romane was next to Matt, and heard the 'Oh fucking shit!' Brian shouted. "Yeah, now it's too late. See you tomorrow." Matt threw his phone on the desk, sighing.

"What was his excuse to not come today?" Zacky asked.

"He forget. He believed it was tomorrow."

Ted rolled his eyes. "He pisses me off, sometimes."

"Sometimes?" Johnny snorted."all the god damn time, you mean!"

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The next morning, Brian was the first at Zacky's. He waited for everyone to come, then apologized for the day before. They had decided they would work on Rocket Rose And The Smashed Potato.
The guys couldn't help but smile, when they noticed that Romane was more stressed now Brian was there. And their smile grew when they saw how Brian just cared about the guitar. He was a great help for Romane, but it seemed he could only hear her play. Not the others.

Matt was really glad for Brian. He never fell for girl, but this time he was falling, it was obvious. I hope he's not gonna do something stupid... because Brian was capable of stupid things. He didn't like being close to people. And he could be egoist.

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"You know, in that part, you should made one or two dead notes" Brian proposed to Romane.

He was sitting next to her, as she was trying to readjust her melody.

"On which one?" She asked, concentrated.

He tried to show her on her guitar, then sighed, as she handed him her guitar, smiling.
"Yeah sorry" he muttered.

He tried the melody he had in his head. With two dead notes.

He frowned. "It don't sound like in my head."

"And if you mute the second chord, instead of the first? And not the fourth." He tried. "No, not like that" she said. She took back her guitar. She did it her way. "It's great", he smiled, "but its the third one."

"It's not!" She defended herself. And play it again. "Okay it is." She blushed. He laughed.

At this second, he didn't gave a shit about the whole world. It could have fell apart, he wouldn't have made a move. He loved writing songs with her too much. He loved doing everything with her too much. But he couldn't care less.

He didn't even know if the guys were still there. He was playing with her, and nothing else mattered.