Thick and Thin (Avenged Sevenfold FanFic)

Chapter 12

Zack's POV

Kate feels something for me? I felt like shit now because I made out with Jamie in front of her. Then

I realized that's why she felt so bad after what happened with Jamie, although it didn't make that much sense. Wouldn't she be happy that I broke up with Jamie?

I looked up at Kate in Brian's lap and realized the answer to my question. She's got Brain, that's why.

Brian was the one who got her to open up, Brian was the one who comforted her, and Brian was the one who kissed her. Of course she'd choose Brian and even if all those things hadn't happened, she still would have picked him, girls have always and will always choose him over me. Iit's just a fact of life, and I need to realize this.

Matt's POV

I wasn't too sure what was gonna happen next time Kate and Zack were alone or in class together.

Hell, I don't even know if Zack thinks anything of her besides her being "the new girl" and that's saying something since he's my best friend and he's the only one I actually talk about anything with. Maybe I'll ask him later...

Jimmy's POV

Bri's my best friend, but what he did to Kate was just really fucked up and I think she forgave him a

little too quickly. Yeah, I know I sound way over protective, but I feel like I need to be, I can't really explain it...

Sarah's POV

I shouldn't have let her get up. If I knew she was gonna go sit on him, I definitely wouldn't have let

her get off this couch. I would have glued her to my hip before I let her get up.

She was curled up on his lap with her eyes closed, she looked happy. I looked at Brian's face and he

looked confused, but yet grateful, but then again he still looked guilty, which he should be.

I looked over at Zack. He looked like he was beating himself up on the inside. Maybe I should talk to

him about what Brian let slip. Oh look, another reason to be pissed. Kate would probably be so nervous about what I'm saying to him that she'd piss herself. Ooo her pissing herself in Brian's lap, there's something he'd deserve.

"Zack." He looked up at me, afraid of what I'd say. I nodded for him to follow me as I got up and he

followed. I didn't know what room was a room and what room was a bathroom so I headed up stairs guessing a room would be up there.

"Here, we can go in Brian's room." He opened a door and waited for me to walk in before closing the

door. I stood against the wall by the bed as he sat down on the edge of the bed. I was about to say something when the door opened. It was Matt. I looked at him confused. "I wanna know what's going on. One of us can fill Jim and Kate in later." He closed the door and leaned against it with his foot propped up on it and his arms crossed over his chest.

I turned my attention back to Zack. "What's going on inside your head right now?"

He looked up at me and rubbed his hands together. "Confusion, regret guilt-"

"Guilt?' Matt looked confused.

"I wanna know more about the regret?" Matt nodded in agreement then we both looked at Zack

again.

"Uh, guilt because I… I didn't notice that she felt something and I just waved Jamie in front of her.

And uh, regret for waving her in front of Kate. I understand why she was kinda attached to you when I came back to your table in Bio, Matt." Matt kind of smirked.

"Wait, what happened in Bio?"

Zack looked down at the floor while Matt explain. "Bio was our first class. Zack and Kate sat at a

table together, then Kate had gone up to Ms. V's desk. When I came in Kate was standing at the table Zack and Jamie were sitting at… making out at. I walked up to her and motioned for her to follow me to a table in the back with me. I talked to her about, well the topic of boyfriends and kissing and what not. I gave her a peck on the cheek and she looked at me, when she looked back in front of her Zack was standing there and she jumped so bad she fell over."

"I knelt down next to her to make sure she was okay," Zack had continued the story, "Once she told

me she was okay I helped her up and back to her stool and she tried to shove Matt off his stool."

"She failed." I looked at Matt and he smirked. I looked back over at Zack, he was still looking down

at the floor.

"Okay. So what are you feeling right now?" He looked at me like I asked the same question twice.

"There's a difference of what's going through your head and what you're feeling Zack."

"Can you explain the difference? 'Cause I'm just as lost as he is." I looked over at Matt, he did look

confused.

"What's going through my head: Why the hell did she forgive him so fast? Why the hell did I let her

get up? She should have sat and thought about everything before getting up to sit with him. Etcetera, etcetera. Now, what I'm feeling is different. I'm pissed, I'm confused, I feel like just bashing my head against the wall because I know she's gonna get hurt again because she was stupid enough to forgive him that quickly…" I stopped, I was working myself up and I didn't want to be pissed while finding out what's going on with everyone else.

"What am I feeling… " Zack started rubbing his hands together again. "I feel… well, guilt, and

regret, I'm confused because I don't know what it is I'm feeling about her and Brian… I feel like I…" He trailed off. It had to have been about three minutes before Matt and I exchanged a glance.

"You feel like what?" Matt spoke up for the both of us.

"I feel like… I want to be the one holding her. The one she opened up to, the one who comforted

her…"

"The one who kissed her?" Matt took a step closer to the bed when he asked this. Zack nodded, it

was barely a nod, but we both saw it and exchanged a glance. Then I spoke up again.

"I want you to be the one holding her Zack. I don't like that she forgave him that quickly. I've never

seen a guy show or expose as much as you have just now. Brian… when he walked over, I don't know, the conceded smirk he gave her when she blushed… I didn't like it…"

"I haven't know Brian for that long but he's never acted like this with a girl…" Matt told me.

"Kate tends to have that affect on people…" I trailed off, thinking back to Freshman year.

"Were you one of those people Sarah?" I looked up at Matt. I had completely exposed myself, and I

knew he could tell just by the look in my eyes. I nodded and looked at the floor.

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Feeling kinda of poopy lately, so stories might come in a little slower than usual :(