Second HeartBeat (A7X - Synyster Gates & Zacky Vengeance)

07 Thinking Time

“so what are you saying Rox?” I threw the ps3 controller on the sofa next to me. The boys had gone to see there record label for the day, so me and Roxy decided to spend some time together.

“Jeeze Emz, am I going to have to spell it out to you! I want to stay here with our friends. Matts already asked me to move in with him at his house” Roxy paused “I mean come on what did we have back in our boring UK life. It sucked, we did the same things day in day out no excitement what so ever”

At that point I got off of the couch and stared at her. ‘oh well thanks a million hun, you know how to make some on feel appreciated!’ I turned my back and headed towards the door.

‘Emz you knew what I meant!’ I didn’t reply instead slammed the door behind me and headed down towards the beach.

Hard to believe we had been staying with the guys for two weeks now, time fly’s when your having fun I suppose. Today was the first real day that me and Roxy had spent together since getting here. She was spending all of her time with Matt, they had both gone and stayed at his house the past week. They hadn’t announced that they were together, but it was blatantly obvious to anyone that knew them, hence the reason she so badly wanted to stay and not go home. I mean she is my best friend and I should be happy for her, I am in a way.

Me on the other hand well I’ve spent most of my time with Johnny, mainly trying to get to know him a bit better, sharing stories of our parents and our childhood. 80% of the time I was with Johnny, Jimmy liked to tag along, he saw himself as my adopted big brother and my personal body guard. I wouldn’t normally mind but because I was with them most of my free time, I hardly got to see Brian or Zacky. Since the kiss incident with Zacky I have managed to sneak a few hours away from Jimmys protective eye to spend some alone time with him. Nothing was really mentioned about the kiss, but he did keep trying to persuade me to stay along with everyone else for that matter. Every time he asked me, my stomach fluttered as I stared into his deep green eyes. He wanted me to stay.

As I reached the beach I kicked off my pumps, picked them up and headed towards the sea. It was such a beautiful evening, it must be about 8pm as the sun was low in the sky casting its orange glow over the rippling sea and the golden beach. Then it finally dawned on me. I could be going home alone. I pulled my knees up and held my head in my hands. I felt numb.

I must have been sat there for a good few hours as the sun was no longer showering me in its warmth, I looked up to see it had long since disappeared beyond the line of the sea. I let out a sigh.

“Can I join you?” I jumped slightly hearing Zackys voice. I turned to look at him, smiling in agreement. “Roxy told me where I might find you. You shouldn’t be out hear alone at this time babe” he said sitting down on the sand next to me, pulling his cap off of his head running his fingers through his hair in an attempt to unflatten it.

“What time is it?”

“11:45pm”

“Jeesh it was only 8 what seems like 5 minutes ago.” I laughed.

“Exactly. You cold?” I shook my head. “I’m sorry I haven’t spent much time with you the past week. I’ve just wanted you to spend time with Johnny, the reason you came out here in the first place.”

“Hey, don’t worry about that.”

“Roxy told me that she’s planning to stay here with Matt, so I figured you’d need someone about now.” That was all I needed to hear, the tears that had been burning the back of my eyes were now uncontrollably rolling down my face, I even began to shake slightly. Zacky placed his firm arm around my waist pulling me close to his side.

“I don’t want to be alone Zacky” I sniffed before more tears left my eyes, I turned to Zacky and flung my arms over his shoulders. He held me back, gently stroking my back. I needed to feel him close to me right now. To know that someone cared.

“Shhhhh” he whispered “you’re not alone”

“I will be when I get back to England though. Now that Rox has decided she’s definitely staying here with you all”

“Emz look at me for a second” He gently pushed me away from him, his hands still on my shoulders as he gazed into my tear filled eyes. I couldn’t help but feel warm inside. “There’s something I’ve been thinking about and wanting to ask you about the past week.” he paused “You know I told you that I didn’t want you to go home and that I like you” I nodded in response “well both are true. And I was thinking that since Roxy is staying” he paused again, looking away briefly before looking back at me “how would you like to stay? With me I mean” he moved one of his hands off of my shoulder and gently brushed some hair off my face that the wind had blown “as friends of course. Unless you’d like to be my girlfriend?”

I think my jaw hit the sand, did he really just ask me to stay with him as his girlfriend. I was shocked.

“I understand if you don’t want to,” he sighed slowly removing his hand from my cheek.

I didn’t answer him straight away, I couldn’t I was too tongue tied. Instead I did the only thing I could think of doing, I lent towards him and kissed his lips tenderly. It took him a second to realise what I was doing but he soon gladly kissed me back.

“Yes Zacky” I kissed him again “yes to both” His hands wrapped around me again as he deepened the kiss, I could feel the corners of his lips curling up into a smile. I had to break the kiss to get some air back into my lungs. We both smiled at each other, before Zacky jumped up, offering his hands out to me he pulled me up with him.

“Come on lets get you HOME” He grinned at me, I couldn’t help but laugh. I felt so unbelievably happy as he took my hand in his own and walked me back towards the house.