I walked into my first class and sat in my seat beside my best friend Holly.
"You are almost late," she says looking at me. "You don't look so good"
"I feel like crap but I can't miss any more days or I won't get to graduate," I say grabbing my notebook and pens out of my bag. Our other friend Asher walked in and sat in front of me.
"Damn Sistina, you look like you've been up all night," Asher says.
"I've been up all night," I say opening my notebook. "I worked a late shift at the dinner and then had to do some stuff for the shop," I say looking at Holly. "This is senior year and it is the most stressful year ever!"I say a little too loud. I said and got a couple of looks from a few other students.
"Why are you complaining," Nick Johnson says looking back at us. "you went and saw Avenged Sevenfold last month" he narrowed his eyes at me. "Lucky bitch"
Nick is a jock with a really big head. He tries to sleep with everyone and treats you like shit when you don't. Last month he had asked me out and I declined and went to an Avenged Sevenfold concert on my 19th birthday. I even got to go to the meet and greet with them and also stay the night in Zacky's Vengeance hotel room bc my car broke down and I couldn't get a hold of anyone and Zacky had seen me waiting outside.
"Hey, there's no need for name calling," Holly says moving her long black hair out of her face. "that was for her birthday" she pointed her finger at him.
" It doesn't matter," Nick says "It's unfair that she went when she could have hung out with me"
"You're just jelly that she got to hang out with them," Asher says.
" She probably slept with them," he said with a smirk "fucking whore"
"Nicholas Johnson's go to the office right now," our teacher Mrs Miller says. "That is uncalled for and inappropriate"
"Damn it," he says getting up. "What do they have that I don't" he says quietly in my direction. He got up and walked out of the room. I kinda seek down in my seat.
"I wish he would get over himself," Asher says. "He's lucky Aaron or Aussy wasn't here"
"I know," I say.The school day kinda flew by. At least it felt like it. Asher's brother Graham took me home.
"You know everyone is still kinda asking about what happened," Graham says.
"What do you mean," I asked "What happened"
"The concert, I mean come on you spent the night in their hotel with them" I looked at him. "They are a rock band everyone's gonna assume and wonder, not everyone's gonna ask they're just gonna talk"
"My car broke down. It was raining" I say. "Zacky and Jimmy came out to make sure I was okay and then they offered to come in out of the rain. Nothing more and nothing less" I say as he turns down my road. "Zacky gave me his bed and he slept on the couch," I say. He nodded. "I believe that but not everyone else will," he says.
"I know trust me," I say.
"Well is your car gonna get fixed what was wrong with it" he asked.
Aussy and Aaron towed it home. It took some time to free up their busy schedule to go get it. Since the concert was an hour away. But it has been sitting in the driveway of the shop since then. They've been swamped with vehicles and deadlines. My dad owns an auto shop called Wise Men's Autoshop, but it's run by Aussy and Aaron. Graham and Tyler work there as well as I. I've known Aussy and Aaron since I can remember. My dad isn't always around so they raised me."Aussy said he should have time to look at it today, I have to go work in the office here in a bit so I'll find out today," I say.
"I'm heading there now do you want me to just drop you off" he asked.
"No, I got to change out of my school clothes, I got to do a couple of things in the office before my shift with the dinner," I say
"Alright, he says as he turns down the road we live on passing by the shop. We don't live very far from the house maybe a ten-minute walk give or take a few minutes. He pulled up to my house.
"I'll see you down there in a few, hopefully, we can fix it," Graham says with a smile. Graham has always been nice to me. He's like the older brother I never had.
"Oh me too," I say shooting the door. "Thank you"
"You welcome sis," he said and started backing up.
I watched as he backed out of the driveway and then walked into the house. I hurried upstairs and changed out of my school clothes into some old jeans and an old T-shirt.
I then rushed downstairs and outside.
I walked into the shop. My car was on the ramps with Aaron and Aussy underneath it. Aaron rolled out of underneath and looked at me. "Hey sis," He says looking at me which causes Aussy to roll out too. Graham was standing up and looking into the hood. The car wasn't up very high just enough for them to get underneath it. Graham is 6'2 so he's tall enough that we could look into the hood.
"How was school," Aussy asked.
"It was okay, "I say..he nodded.
"Well, your car won't start bc the starter has been messed with, your brakes are stripped and your Cadillac converter is gone," he says.
"What," I say.
"What happened" Aussy asked. Aaron and Graham looked at me.
I take a deep breath. I didn't want to go into details but I know I could trust all three of them.
"When I came out to my car someone was messing with it. I don't know what they wore. I didn't even realize someone was in it until I opened the door and they started hitting me" I say pulling back my hair. "they hit me with something hard" Aussy moved closer to me to look at my hair.
"Sistina," he says.
"Zacky and Jimmy saw what happened and came out, I remember passing out from the hit, but I woke up in Zacky's hotel room, but nothing happened," I say looking at Graham.
"Why didn't you call" Aaron asked.
"She did, " Aussy said. "we wore at that party with no cell phone service "
"Yeah," I say. "I don't know what would have happened if Zacky and Jimmy didn't come out when they did"
"We're thankful they did," Graham says still standing by the hood. "so have you been telling everyone the story you told me in the truck " he asked
"Yeah," I say " I didn't know how bad the car was so I honestly don't know if someone was just looking for spare parts or if someone had it out for me" I chuckled.
"Well looks like they're looking for spare parts," Aaron says.
"So who all have you told" he asked.
"No one really," I say. "I told Holly and Asher the story I told Graham" Aussy and Aaron looked at Graham.
"She just told me her car broke down and couldn't get a hold of anyone," Graham says. Aussy and Aaron both nodded.
"And those who are not asking are just making up their own stories. Nicks's story is getting pretty wild" I say looking down.
"Well he's just a little puke ass kid," Aussy says. " You don't have to tell anyone anything and if u need to take a break from school then do so," he says. "You should have a few days left"
"I don't," I say. "I used them up when I was sick last month and also at the concert". I missed almost a week when I had the flu and then two almost three days for the concert.
"Well shit" he looked at Aaron.
"What if u told the school what's going on," Aaron says.
"That school ain't gonna do shit," Aussy says. "If they was going to they would have by now". He says looking around. "We're figuring it out sissy," he says coming up and hugging me. I hugged him back and signed with relief.
I don't know what to do at this point. I hate lying to people but I'm just unsure what to say or do. I don't want to make the band mad at me by saying they saved my life and helped me out. Witched I know they wouldn't. I'm more worried about all the other people in this small town. I don't know this is such a small town I don't think it would matter honestly but then again I don't know.
"When do you gotta be at the dinner tonight" he asked.
"6 I work closing," I say and he nods.
"I'll take you and pick you up" I nodded. "We got a few things for you to do in the office. It should take u long thou" I nodded and headed into the office. I did what I needed to do and then headed back to the house.
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The Secret's Kept Well
FanfictionSistina Wise is a small-town 19-year-old who goes to see her favorite band in concert for the First. Something happened after the concert and Sistina ended up staying the night in the hotel room with zacky vengeance. What happens when rumors start...