Protection, Zack Merrick, All Time Low

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Kimberly

"Zack?" I call.

"Yes?" He asks.

"What should we make for dinner?"

"I'm not sure, but Cass and Rian are coming for dinner, so make enough for four."

"Alright, I suppose we will have steaks and baked potato?"

"That sounds great, baby." He kisses my cheek and I drive to the local butcher shop to buy four steaks.

I decide to call Zack, "Can you meet me at the local dog shelter?" I ask him, "I just want to look." I lie.

"I guess so." He sighs, "I'll meet you there in ten."

I squeal and head to the shelter, excitedly wanting a German Shepherd.

I sit in the pin, and pet this cute little male puppy.

I hear Zack come in with the lady, and I look up at him with puppy dog eyes. "Zacky look! He's so cute!" I giggle as the pupper licks my face.

Zacks face scrunches up in a smile and calls the pup to him, the pup kisses me again and runs to try and get to Zack, who comes in and pets him.

"He's very cute." He comments. "I'm attached already. We will take him."

"Zack are you sure?" I ask, serious

"Definitely, we can put him through training."

"Alright."

We buy the dog, and we decide to name him Bo.

"Zack, thank you so, so much!" I giggle as he puts Bo in his truck, and we head to the petstore to get him a collar and leash.

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"You're not Rian or Cass." I said, skeptically, to Lisa, Alex behind her as I walk into the living room after grilling out back.

"I, may have told a little white lie, but we are having guests over for dinner." Zack says.

I glare at him and have no choice but to let them in, "Whos this little guy?" Lisa chidds, immediately petting Bo.

"This is our pup, Bo." Zack grins.

"Listen, can we talk?" Alex asks.

I sigh, and lead him to room. "What Alex?" I demand.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you! It just came out. And I'm sorry I got mad at you for not telling me about Lisa."

"You have every right to be mad at me for not telling you about Lisa and your baby." I counteract.

"I apologize Alex. I should have called you." I hang my head in shame. "I appreciate your apology."

"You know I didn't mean it when i said that about Denny right?" He asks.

"I honestly believed you thought that for a while."

"I'd never think you'd lie to me." He responds, and pulls me into a hug. "I'm very rueful for what I said."

"It's alright Alex, just, don't ever say anything like that again."

"I promise I won't."

"So tell me about your puppy. How did you convince Zack to get him?"

"I asked him to meet me at the shelter, I needed a friend outside of the band, and I couldn't go see your dogs, and I also figured Zack needed positivity too." I start explaining, "And then he got there, and I was playing with him, and then Zack called him, and he came running." We start walking down to the kitchen, where Lisa and Zack are talking. "So Zack decided we were going to adopt the baby."

Bo walks up to me when I come into the room, "Hey buddy." I coo, petting the cute lil boy.

"Did you two make up?" Lisa asks, puffing out her pregnant belly as she stands up.

"Yeah, we're good now." Alex answers, and I smile and nod.

"Good," Zack replies. "We were going to lock you in the room."

"I made steaks, so, let's eat." I chuckle, and pull them with me to the kitchen, where I start making their plates as best as I could.

"I'm sorry, I made them the way Rian and Cass like them, so I'm sorry if they aren't to your prefrence." I frown.

"How do you know how they like them?"

"Now you see- I listen at resturaunts."