Let The Sky Fall (Synyster Gates Series: Book 3)

Things Get Old

I forgot I had a chapter written lol. 

Jackie's POV

"Morning, beautiful." My brother's voice rang through the dining room. I removed my eyes from the magazine I was reading and shot him a smile. He had never been more kind and it brought a joyful smile to my face. "What you thought I was calling you beautiful? No. Pinkly's sitting on the floor under the doorway and I saw her and I was like, I have to say hi to this cute bitch."  

"Thank you Randy. You're utmost kind. I'll remember that when you want something from me."

He grabbed his plate and took two pancakes from the tray at the center of the table, "Eh, shut up... So how are you? You know after the whole... Brian and Jason thing." 

I scoffed, scanning the magazine that was place in front of me. "Don't remind me... I don't even want to think about that. I'm still so mad at him."

"I know, but maybe that's his way of grieving... Don't be so hard on the guy." 

"Randy, he embarrassed me, you and dad. I have every right to be hard on him."

My mind slowly drifted into the previous evenings events. 

The image of a very happy Brian waltzing into Zacky's backyard slipped into my mind. 

At that moment I thought, hey finally he's happy and maybe all he needed was to visit Jimmy. 

I was wrong. 

As Brian emptied the beer cases into the cooler, he seemed so carefree and far from worry. 

From the outside, there seemed like there was nothing wrong with him. He looked fine. 

Randy, Brennen, Gena and I continued to speak about Bren's restaurant expanding into the Inland Empire. 

I'd occasionally look at Brian who was hugging Matt from behind. I assumed there was nothing wrong simply because Matt wasn't fighting him off nor was Zacky. 

Minutes later, he brought his happy self over to the patio table along with a drunk Zacky and a pretty buzzed Matt. 

It wasn't until Brian came up from behind me that I smelled the alcohol on his breath. I couldn't put two and two together due to the lack of drunken vibes I got from him. I brushed it off and left it as; he's just a little buzzed. 

I didn't mind since Sophia was fast asleep upstairs with River and Valary. I, myself, was having a Long Island Iced Tea to celebrate my mom's legacy. 

The evening was going good for the most part but things started getting a bit crazy when Jason brought Absinthe to the table. 

Long story short, Brian was drunk off the very powerful liquor and the men of Avenged Sevenfold gave my mother's side of the family a personal performance of Walk by Pantera.  They also managed to fall into Zacky's pool and nearly drown themselves to death. Thank God Mr. Haner dove in after the boys because with out his help, poor Matt wouldn't have been alive today. 

I was truly embarrassed and I sent Brian to exile from our bed, forcing him to sleep on the couch. 

Of course, I woke up with him curled up at the foot of the bed. 

When I woke up though, I didn't bother asking what he was doing there. I simply left him there and decided to ignore him for the rest of the day til I felt like he deserved to be spoken to. Or at least until I got a decent apology from him.

"Well, well, if it isn't Mr. Dimebag Gates!" My brother said, pulling me out of my daze. "Let me me clear the table. I want an encore. I'm thinking about This Love instead of Walk."