Arcane Guardian ↣ Avenged Sevenfold

18 ☼ sorry

I've gotten over my writers block! yay.
October 2007

"Blood me," Mandy said, outstretching her arms as Noelle carefully sprayed the fake blood all over her friend's chest. The guys just had to have the release party for their album on hallo-fucking-ween, so instead of staying in and binge watching Friday The 13th movies, the two girls were going all in as slutty vampires. It took a lot of convincing on Amanda's part to get Noelle into leather shorts and a black-and-red corset over a black tube top, but here she was with all the garb on except for her big strappy boots.

Mandy was in a skintight black dress with fake blood all over her boobs and trickling down from her mouth, in red heels with a pallets worth of black eyeshadow on. They were having an amazing time looking as tacky as humanly possible. "Who are you trying to impress?" Noelle said as Mandy meticulously adjusted her hair.

Mandy immediately jumped to the defense. "Nobody," She said really quickly.

"Amanda," Noelle grabbed her hands. "Do you and James have something going on I don't know about?"

Mandy looked away before smiling. "Okay so we're official now! SHUT THE FUCK UP!" She laugh shouted as soon as the smile crossed her friends face. "I wasn't sure about it because I hate commitment but things are just so easy around him. He makes me laugh. And also he's phenomenal in b—"

"In a place I don't need to know about!" Noelle laughed, reading Mandy's mind. "I'm really, really happy that you're happy. Always."

"Good. Let's get out of here. OH, bring your leather jacket, I know your dad is gonna try and make it, and he doesn't need to see how good your tits look right now."

The release party was kind of a professional people in an unprofessional environment kind of thing. Everyone was encouraged to wear costumes but not discouraged from inviting people. She figured David should come to the release of her biggest project yet.

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"David can't make it," she said as the car pulled up. She had received his test a half hour ago but had no connection when they first got in the truck. She sighed. "I wanted him here, you know?"

"We can just mail him the signed copy. That okay?" Mandy grabbed her hand, taking the keys out of the ignition with the other.

"I should visit him for thanksgiving. I miss him so much." She nodded. "Let's go."

The party was at the bar because where else would it be, and Noelle breathed a sigh of relief to see almost everyone there dressed up too.

Jim ran up to them, Brian hot on his tail. "And what are you?" Mandy laughed, looking her boyfriend up and down.

"A disappointment." Jim nodded, grabbing her and pulling her into a hug. "Just kidding, I'm a zombie."

Brian and Noelle gave each other a nod of recognition, Noelle crossing her arms and suddenly feeling extremely insecure and wondering how the fuck Amanda convinced her into a slutty vampire. "Mr. Hyde?" She asked curiously.

"On the nose." Brian smiled and nodded at her. "Matt is around here somewhere as Dr. Jekyll." Brian looked around.

"Where's Andrea?" Noelle asked, looking over at Jim and Mandy talking a mile a minute and blocking out the rest of the world. "God, they really are perfect for each other."

"It's been kind of nice having my sister back," Brian said first. To fill you in, Brian did take that DNA test--when he told Mandy he was her long lost brother, she cried and hugged him for about 20 minutes straight. It made her so happy to finally have family. "Even if she's not totally in the loop about the specifics."