Protection, Zack Merrick, All Time Low

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Zack takes Kim to a western bar for kicks, and they ride mechanical bulls and eat chicken fried steak and get a night off from everything.
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December 10th
Kimberly

"Kim, get ready. I'm taking you on a date." Zack says, "Wear the warm flannel I bought you and jeans."

I get up from my spot on the couch on my laptop happily, kissing his cheek and going to get dressed. He was already wearing a dark red flannel, and I was curious why we were matching, but I put on my red one and leave my hair down straight, it had grown a little past my shoulders now. Since my brown roots were showing, I dyed it all a lavender color when Lisa got her rose gold hair renewed.

"Why are we going out so late?" I ask, looking up at him once I come out of the bathroom.

"I'm taking you on a date." He replies.

"Now, come with me." He smirks. "I'm taking you to a new place, just c'mon. Jack recommended it."

"Oh no." I giggle.

He pulls me to the truck and opens the door for me, smacking my butt as I'm getting in. I stick my tounge out at him. "That's not ladylike." He teases.

"Suit yourself." I laugh. He gets into thedrivers seat and lets me control the music, I pick out Neck Deep and hold his hand over the console.

We show up at this country bar, I wait for Zack to come around and open my door, which doesn't take long, and he leads me with his hand on the small of my back inside.

"I feel like a Woman" by Martina McBride was playing, and Zack took my hand and led me to the bar, he ordered us what he calls a real southern drink: Dr. Pepper.

He leads me to the back of the bar, and there's two mechanical bulls. "First one to fall off gets one wish to hopefully come true." He tells me.

"You're on!" I want your beard back.

We wait in line for a few minutes, and then as I try and get onto the bull, my short legs get the best of me, and I can't get on.

Since Zack is on the other bull, the lady running them comes to help me. I chuckle at her in embarassment. "No worries, honey." She says, "Now hold the harness underneath, you got your glove on?" I nod, "Alrught, hold it tightly and try not to fall off, alright?"

"Yes ma'am." I respond. She makes sure I'm on all the way and then hops off of the aired up thing, and then starts it up. It's slow at first, but of course, I fall off first, causing Zack to chuckle as he's still on it, I was a little bummed when he made it to seven seconds.

We gather back, and I pout. "What do you wanna wish for?" I ask.

"For you to spend a day with your mom so that I can plan the honey moon."

"Okay." I slightly smile.
"What would you havewished for?"

"I would've tied it between you growing your beard out for a week or doing something physical sometime this week." I wink.

"Well, how about both?" He grins.

"Mm, okay." I stick my tounge out.

"Dance with me." He says as Crash My Party by Luke Bryan comes on.

He sings in my ear as we dance,

It don’t matter what plans I got, I can break ‘em.
Yeah, I can turn this thing around at the next red light
And I don’t mind telling all the guys “I can’t meet ‘em”.
Hell, we can all go raise some hell on any other night

Girl, I don’t care, oh I just gotta see what you’re wearing.
Your hair, is I put up or falling down?
Oh I just have to see it now.

If you wanna call me, call me, call me you don’t have to worry ‘bout it baby.
You can wake me up in the dead of the night; wreck my plans, baby that’s alright.
This is a drop everything kind of thing.
Swing on by I will pour you a drink.
The door’s unlocked, I’ll leave on the lights
Baby you can crash my party anytime.

It don’t matter what plans I got, I can break ‘em.
Yeah, I can turn this thing around at the next red light
And I don’t mind telling all the guys “I can’t meet ‘em”.
Hell, we can all go raise some hell on any other night

Girl, I don’t care, oh I just gotta see what you’re wearing.
Your hair, is I put up or falling down?
Oh I just have to see it now.

If you wanna call me, call me, call me you don’t have to worry ‘bout it baby.
You can wake me up in the dead of the night; wreck my plans, baby that’s alright.
This is a drop everything kind of thing.
Swing on by I will pour you a drink.
The door’s unlocked, I’ll leave on the lights
Baby you can crash my party anytime.

Ain’t a spot downtown that’s rockin’ the way that you rock me.
Ain’t a bar that can make me buzz the way that you do.
I could be on the front row of the best show.
And look down and see your face on my phone.
And I’m gone so long, hang on. I’ll meet you in a minute or two.

If you wanna call me, call me, call me you don’t have to worry ‘bout it baby.
You can wake me up in the dead of the night; wreck my plans, baby that’s alright.
This is a drop everything kind of thing.
Swing on by I will pour you a drink.
The door’s unlocked. I’ll leave on the lights
Baby you can crash my party anytime.

If it’s 2 in the morning and you’re feeling lonely and wondering what I’m doing.

Go ahead and call me, call me, call me you don’t have to worry ‘bout it baby.
You can wake me up in the dead of the night; wreck my plans, baby that’s alright.
This is a drop everything kind of thing.
Swing on by I will pour you a drink.
The door’s unlocked. I’ll leave on the lights
Baby you can crash my party anytime.

Baby you can crash my party anytime.

The song slowly changes, and Zack leans in to whisper in my ear, "I remember one of the first nights of the first tour, you went to take a shower, and you started singing that song. That's when Alex decided you were going to sing with him."

"You guys were listening?" I blush.

"Yeah." I answer nervously.

We decide to head home after we eat a burger, we were exhausted and probably wouldn't be able to do something physical for very long, so we decided to do it some other time.