The Only Half I Need - {Synyster Gates - Book 3} -

Chapter 11

My dear fans,

Thank you for sticking with me so long. So, here is the new chapter - a day later as originally promised.
However, I did an important change in here. As I'm editing the first two books I changed a few characters. Instead of Lindsay we have Allie now as Zacky's girlfriend in this story. And yes, it's because of personal reasons. 

But I hope you enjoy this chapter the ones to follow. I try to update once a week.

Thank you for reading!

xoxo,

Katie, the autor xD

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Brian’s POV

It was a beautiful day outside and I was just getting ready for beach day with the guys and girls and of course our babies. I couldn’t wait to show of my son again. Jamie was so clever and so incredibly funny. Together with River, he was such a delight to have around. However, Michelle had taken him on a short trip to see some of her relatives, which means that I haven’t seen him in over three days now. It was weird but I had to admit to myself that I missed having this little guy around.

Michelle and Jamie were still living with me. We were getting along very well and it helped me a lot, knowing that someone was home and actually waiting for me. It’s been so long now that I have heard from Katie, that my hopes of seeing her again and making amends were slowly decreasing with every morning I woke up to her empty bedside. It seemed like she didn’t want to be with me anymore; that she had given up. Not one of us has heard from her. Not Val and not Zacky, who Katie used to be so close with. I had even called Elly to ask her if she had any news from her best friend but instead she was very surprised about Katie being back in Germany. Apparently the girls hadn’t had contact in a long time. With all the shit happening between us Katie had completely isolated herself from her friends. That wasn’t like her at all.

Maybe she has gone home, now that she was back in her home country. Maybe she and Jordan hit it off in the end and she was just too much of a coward to actually break up with me. As far as I remembered we were only on a break … which was just as good as a break up …

I splashed cold water in my face and looked at my reflection in the mirror in the bathroom. I had to snap out of this. Those depressing thoughts weren’t helping anyone. I had to be strong for my son. And for myself. I was sick of being seen as the weak cry baby. They didn’t say it out loud but I saw it in my friends’ eyes; whenever we hung out and Val kissed Matt or Kim cuddled to Arin. They pitied me. But not anymore.

With a determination of being a real man and role model again I did my hair and buttoned up the white shirt I was wearing along with cut jean shorts. I went downstairs, grabbed my sunglasses and rucksack with my beach stuff in it and with Pinkly on my heels I left my house.

I parked my car in safe distance to the pier; it was nearly impossible to get a parking spot close to it anyways. We were all meeting at our favorite ice cream parlor and I couldn’t wait to introduce River to the best chocolate ice cream with chocolate bits in it ever. Jamie was too small to eat ice cream yet but it would be fun nevertheless.

With my sunglasses on I smiled up to the blue sky, enjoying the warm sun on my face. I loved Huntington Beach so much. This town was heaven on earth. I would never leave it. It was my home.

Soon I reached the ice cream parlor and spotted Matt, Val, River and Zacky and Allie standing in line. But where was Michelle and my baby boy?

“Hey guys, I hope you left some ice cream for me.” I said with a smile and they all turned around.