Ghouls (Avenged Sevenfold / Synyster Gates)

Chapter 6

“To save face, how low can you go?

Talk a lot of game and yet you don’t know,

Static on the way, make ‘em all say ‘whoa’,

The people up top push the people down low,

Get down, and obey every word,

Steady, get in line, if you haven’t yet heard,

Wanna take what I got? Don’t be absurd,

Don’t fight the power, nobody gets hurt,

If you haven’t heard yet, then I’m letting’ you know

There ain’t shit; we don’t run when the guns unload,

No one make a move, ‘less my people say so,

Get everything out of control, everybody go –

(Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!)

Steel unload,

Fire blow,

We, the animals, take control,

Here us now,

Clear and true,

Wretches and Kings; we come for you!”

It had been two days since I’d first met some of the guys from Avenged Sevenfold, and tonight, I was going to meet them again. Linkin Park, Wretches and Kings, powered through the entire house (I concluded that Cameron must have been up; we both loved Linkin Park he was just a much bigger fan of this album than I was) It woke me up, as I looked over out of the floor-to-ceiling windows on the far side of my room that showed the tall, granite cliffs of the end of Huntington Beach, I picked up my phone, hoping to check emails, Facebook and Twitter, when I found it was already 1 in the afternoon. I hauled myself off of my bed, lazily pulling my feet downstairs, not caring how I looked.

“Gooood, morning,” Cameron chirped.

“How are you so cheery?” I asked him, my face scrunched up from the large hangover I was nursing.

“Well, I didn’t have all that much to drink last night, unlike you and Jade! Up drinking, singing along to Aerosmith until dawn! And to be fair, Lauren, it’s almost half past 1,” Cameron quite rightly pointed out.

“Yeah, well, just be a good brother and be nice and get me some cereal,” I told him, my head falling to the counter, “wait, hey! Aerosmith are the shit, I don’t even give a fuck what you think!” I shouted at him, lifting my head back up and pointing at him, acting angry.

“Oooooo, alright Miss Pissy,” he said, raising his hands in surrender, “don’t take your hangover-fuelled anger out on me!” Cameron said, acting hurt, as he bent down and got out a bowl and a box of Froot Loops.

I smiled as he came back up with the box, “good choice?” he smiled back, walking over to their classic American, double sided fridge.

“Excellent.. I love you a lot,” I told him, pretending to hold back tears and putting my hand across my heart.”

“Naaw, Lau, I love you to,” he said, pouring the cereal and milk into the bowl and sliding it over to me.

As I began eating, Jade entered the room, “hey, guys, you okay?” she asked, leaning over the end of the island.

“Yeah, great!” I answered her, a mouth full of Froot Loops.

Jade nodded a ‘good’ just as Cam slammed his hands down on the counter, “well, Lau, me and Jade are off to finally pick up little Maxi,” they both smiled wildly, “you’re welcome to do as you please etc etc we’ll be back in a little while; we’re going to take her for a little walk after we pick her up before we got to the Berrys’ so-“