-Fast Forward: 1 Year.-
*March 1999*

Everybody stood around, mourning and weeping. Everybody eventually broke down as tears cascaded down their cheeks.

Matt Sanders announced for everybody to gather near the podium so that he could make a speech for his deceased father.

Matt cleared his throat and began his speech, sniffling and pushing away the tears from his cheeks with his palm.

"Gary Sanders, my father, my hero and shelter was a good man. He looked after not only my family, but my best friends, Valary and Michelle DiBenedetto, James and Estelle Sullivan, Johnathan and Jareb Seward, Zachery Baker and Brian Elwin. Gary provided food and shelter for us. He was there when I had my first-"

With that, Matt broke down crying, covering his face with his right palm while he took sharp intakes of breaths.

Matt finally calmed down and continued,"Fight, my father protected my sister and I when I experienced my first fight. Things might have seemed unfair at first, finding out that my pop died in a car accident but life moves on. Hence, even though Gary Sanders has passed on, our fond memories with this wonderful man remain vivid and clear." Matt ended off with a prayer and the Sign of the Cross.

He stumbled off the podium and immediately, Val enveloped him in a tight hug, caressing his head as he wept into her neck.

"Hmm. My name is Jareb and I have a few things to say about Mr Gary Sanders." She looked over to Matt and he gave her an approving nod.

Jareb continued with her speech and she ended off with saying, "Rest in Peace, I love you Papa Sanders." Jareb stepped off the podium and sat back down in between Estelle and Malachi.

Gary Sanders had passed on when a car came crashing right into him, the driver was drunk at that point of time.

Before everybody left, everybody kissed the casket before letting lower 6 feet below.

The impact that Gary had on each individuals lives will always be remembered.

He taught Matt how to fight properly, how to defend and how to go offensive.

He taught Malachi how to colour, draw and play the violin.

He looked after Michelle and Valary like his own daughters.

He taught Jimmy how to drink the proper way, teaching him how to sober up too.

Gary taught Estelle how to fight as well and also, she picked up some art tips from him.

He always talked and counseled Brian and Zacky when they had problems.

For the Seward twins, Gary talked to their parents, a heart-to-heart talk, making them understand their own children.

Johnny learnt his guitar tricks from Gary.

Jareb, well, was the only one interested in learning how to cook and was extremely drawn by the idea of fixing vehicles.

But most importantly, Gary introduced God to Jareb's Aethist lifestyle, teaching not only Jareb but the rest of the teenagers who were close to him about God.

Everybody could always find Zacky and Gary in the backyard, playing some baseball.

Now, it was so unbelievable that Gary Sanders was long gone.

It's been two weeks and everybody seemed more accepting... Yet there were some effects.

Matt became more angsty, he was always frustrated because teachers kept giving sympathetic looks and kept questioning Matt about whether he was all right.

Malachi just drifted deeper into her own world.

The rest seemed to have lost intrest in studying, except for Estelle, Jareb and Malachi, meaning, the rest dropped out of the school.

Matt started a band with Zacky, Jimmy, Johnny and Brian by the name of Avenged Sevenfold.

Each one of them had their own stage names:-
Matt became Matt Shadows due to his dark personalty,
Zachary became Zacky Vengeance due to him wanting revenge against those people who has hurt him.
James or Jimmy became Jimmy The Reverand Tholomew Plague,
Jonathan became Johnny Christ and
Brian became Synyster Gaytes.

They were into Heavy Metal and Screamo scene, using Matt's strong vocals to scream to the world about their feelings.

Estelle was a part time artist and sold some of her work for cash to pay her tuition fees.

Jareb did baby sitting as her part time job, to pay off her tuition fees.

Estelle wanted to be an artist and go to NUOA, the National University Of Arts but Jareb had no idea what to do do but she studied hard and eventually, both entered University, majoring what they wanted to since High School.

-2001-

"Rebo! We are going to be late! Faster your ass up!" Estelle's voice chimed from the other side of the door.

Slow footsteps thumped on the stairs as an extremely sleepy Jareb emerged, dressed in a hoodie and a pair of skinnies with a beanie pulled over her blow dried hair.

"Finally! Let's go!" Estelle thundered as she dragged Jareb out of the door.

"What's your 1st lesson again?" Estelle questioned with a confused expression when Jareb finally removed her key from her bike's ignition.

"English Literature then Pure Mathematics." Estelle cringed when she heard Jareb's reply.

Don't get Estelle wrong, Estelle loves Literature but their teacher is some asshole who does not teach one bit and as for Mathematics, she even tried to convince the principal into not letting her take Mathematics up.

When Estelle heard that Jareb wanted to take up Pure Mathematics, she burst out laughing thinking Jareb was pulling a fast one.

When Jareb said that she was serious about Pure Mathematics, Estelle just gaped at her with awe and Estelle still remembers that moment even though it was last year, December, and it is now September as it was back to school since Summer vacation just ended.

Estelle and Jareb were learning about Julius Caesar and his greatness for Literature and to the whole class of 12 students who took this subject up, they did not understand a word Mr Sham says.

"Please copy this entire sheet of paper and you guys can go off." Mr Sham announced to the entire congregation huddled in the first 2 rows of the Auditorium.

Jareb was out of the door once Mr Sham was done with his instructions and she did not even bother copying what was instructed to be done so.

"Estelle Young?" Mr Sham called out.

"Yes Sir?" Estelle answered.

"Keep up the good work because you are doing excellent in your essays. Top in class, even higher standards than the 3rd yearers in this school." Mr Sham smiled. Estelle just beamed and walked out of the Auditorium.

-End of Chapter Three-

"Faster Jimbo! Jar and Shortshit are already waiting on our porch!" Estelle called from the front door.

"Geez, Stelle, don't get yer panties in a bunch yo." Jimmy muttered as he got to the front door.

"Morning Shortshit, morning Reb." Jimmy and Estelle chimed in unison as they walked towards the Seward twins.

"How are the parents?" Estelle questioned the Seward twins from Jareb's side.

"Fan-fucking-tastic." Jareb spat sarcastically.

Jareb asked the same question to the Sullivan siblings with a raised eyebrows.

"Same shit, different day." Estelle said and sighed, rubbing the probable bruises under her Metallica hoodie.

"But Jimmy got it worse " Estelle continues after walking through the gates of Hell (A.K.A School).

Johnny and Jareb gave the two Sullivan's an empathetic look and nodded, indicating that they should not discuss about this anymore.

The four of them gained stares and glares from people hanging around the school courtyard.

Jimmy and Estelle just flipped everybody off by giving them the finger and walked through the school doors and were greeted by screaming and chattering, also, they were greeted by a sea of lockers.

"It actually feels good to be back from Juvi Hall." Jimmy said with a playful smirk which faded when Estelle smacked him in the back of his head.

"Ouch!" Jimmy whined and massaged the throbbing part of his head.

"Rebby! Stelly! Jimmy! Shorty!" Val's cheerful voice called from her locker and was now frantically waving them to come over with Matt laughing at his overexcited girlfriend.

They walked over to the couple and enveloped each other in hugs and greetings. The six of them had small talk until somebody interrupted them.

"Aye, Matt, after school 3pm. Courtyard. Don't be late, you pussy." A boy, around 5'6" had pushed Jareb and Johnny onto the ground and approached Matt. Val pulled the twins up and glared at the boy.

"Whatever, Fredrus. That excited to get walloped, huh?" Matt said with a chuckle and grinned.

Right after Matt said that, a fist came smashing onto the locker door closest to Matt's face.

Matt grabbed Fred's wrist and twisted it into an extremely awkward angle causing Fredrus to grimace and yelp in pain.

"Don't make me bring forward your appointment to the surgeon's operating table." Matt growled with an evil look lingering in his eyes.

"Fred, you need help, bro?" One of the jocks called out from somewhere. Matt let go of Fred's wrist and walked away from his locker.

"Wait up, Matt!" A voice called out and the six of them spun around.

Estelle clenched her fist and gritted her teeth, Jareb noticed this and grabbed Estelle's fist and tried to make her loosen up.

"Yo, Brian. What's up? Late again?" Matt gave a quizzical look as he questioned Brian.

"Yeah, was waiting for Michelle." Brian replied in a chirpy voice and grinned when he said Michelle's name.

Everybody just rolled their eyes and walked off to their classrooms.

-In the Classroom-
"Estelle Young Sullivan?"

"Here."

After calling out a few more other names. the teacher called out,

"Jareb Lysanias Seward?"

"Mmm."

"Jonathan Lewis Seward?"

"Yo."

Once the teacher went through the entire register, she begin her class proper.

"Jonathan Seward! Detention for sleeping in class." Jareb shook him awake.

"Whatever, woman. I probably learn more in detention then in this shit class." Johnny announced as her stood up and strode off to the detention classroom.

-Fast Forward, after class-
"Final-fucking-ly! I hate Literature! Especially first thing in the fucking morning!" Jareb grumbled to Estelle as they exited their classroom and walked to their lockers.

The two girls spotted Johnny and Zacky walking out of the discipline office laughing and high-fiving each other.

"Boys... Getting into trouble first thing in the morning." Estelle muttered and glared at the two goof-offs for friends.

"Detentions in the first period is like the most fucking epic thing ever!" Zacky yelled with fist pumped into the air and grinned, gaining stares from passing school mates.

"Lysanias Seward, Jareb?" A deep voice announced from behind the four of them.

"What did I do?" Jareb stared at her Calculus teacher and gritted her teeth.

"It is what you didn't do, Miss Seward. Come with me. Thank you." Mr Caleb, the Calculus teacher commanded.

"Whatever dickface." Jareb mumbled under her breath and followed him, glancing back to her friends who exchanged confused looks.

"Sit." Mr Caleb demanded and glared at Jareb.

'What the fucking outerspace did I do now?!' Jareb yelled in her head and furrowed her eyebrows.

"Well clearly you show no interest in Calculus. So I suggest that you just flunk it and let me kick you out of it." Mr Caleb instructed snidely.

Jareb just groaned her reply and rolled her hazel orbs.

"Don't give me that kind of attitude, young lady!" Mr Caleb barked, causing Jareb to wince at the volume of his voice.

"Haven't I showed you a certain amount of interest to meet your expectations? I have passed majority of your mindless and bird-brained tests and examinations. What else do you want me to fucking do?!"

Jareb's anger rose and so did her voice, standing up and jabbered Mr Caleb's chest with her middle finger.

"Sit down Miss Seward!" Mr Caleb yelled into her face and glared down at her.

"Screw yourself, Mr Caleb" With that, Jareb walked out of the room with a slam of the door

"Watch where you are going, Midget." Michelle snapped as Jareb bumped into her

"Bite me." Jareb muttered under her breath and walked away.

Jareb missed 10 minutes of German and she felt like kicking herself as German was the only subject she enjoyed .

"You really love pissing me off, don't ya. Little Punk!" Matt's voice thundered through the entire hallway.

"I already said! Lay off my Valary! Motherfucker!" Matt yelled again into Fred's face while straddling him and throwing punches into Fred's fear-stricken face.

"Matt! Matt! Yo!" Jareb jogged over to the two who were rolling around on the hallway floors.

Heads poked out of classrooms, teachers rushed out and murmuring erupted from the students.

"Matthew! Don't! He ain't worth getting suspended or getting into deeper trouble!" Jareb hushed as she pulled Matt off Fred.

"The bastard deserved it, Jar." Matt sneered and was lead off by his two friends, Jimmy and Zacky but glanced back ever so often.

Valary was sobbing and leaning against one of the lockers with Estelle and Lacey comforting her.

Johnny was holding Fred up against one of the lockers and whispering into Fred's ear, and by the way Fred was nodding so frantically. Everybody could tell that the pain-stricken Fred was frighten and pretty shaken up by Matt's actions and Johnny's words.

"Leave these people be, big bro. No point in wasting time on assholes as such." Jareb whispered over to Johnny, tugging him away from Fred.

Johnny went back to his Spanish class and sat down with a huff, disappointed that his sister was in the German class instead of Spanish.

"Ouch! What the fuck?!" Johnny yelped out in pain when a spit ball came crashing into his left temple. Johnny wiped the piece of muck from his head and continue sleeping in class.

-End of Chapter One-

Name: Estelle Young Sullivan
A.K.A: Ecstasy, EstelleYS Stelle, Stelly, Telly, Telle. Art Name: Van’ Youth.
Age: 25
Height: 170cm
D.O.B: 30th March 1984

*Jimmy’s younger sister. Graduated from the National University of Arts (NUOA) and currently working as a free lance artist. Her best friend is Jareb and they were room mates in University but now living in Avenged Sevenfold’s mansion. She plays the electric guitar and is currently getting schooled by Zacky Vengeance and Synyster Gates. She speaks with a unique American accent.

Final Academic Results:
English: A
Japanese: A
Combined Mathematics: B+
English Literature: A with Distinction
Japanese Literature: A with Distinction
Biology: B
Physics: B
Pure History: A with Distinction
Civics and Moral: A
Art: A with Distinction

Attitude wise:
She is calm, cool, and collected. She calms Jareb down a lot and always prevents Jareb from killing Raphael dues to his cockiness. She is extremely easy-going yet she can be straightforward and blunt causing people to get pissed off with her when they first meet her. She is extremely mysterious and aloof, like doing drugs the first time, you want to find out more. She is sarcastic in a subtle way, witty in a subtle way, assholic in a subtle way, which to Jareb is considered extremely lovable. Though she seems this way, she cares a lot for the people around her though she does not show it.

Looks:
Slightly shorter than Zacky Vengeance. Has short black Eygptian Cleopatra hair cut with 2 dark, blood red streaks in it. Pale alabaster skin. Is slim and weak in physical actitivies. She always have her red contact lenses on. She has a red star of David on the right side of her forehead hidden by her fringe. Wears an ear cuff chained to a stud, which was a gift from Vee.

Name: Jareb Lysanias Seward
A.K.A: Jar, Lasagna, Ly, Midget, Cookie Jar, Rebby, Reb, JarebSaurus.
Age: 25
Height: 158cm
D.O.B: 18th November 1984

*Johnny’s twin sister and best friend of Estelle and also used to be her room mate, now living in Avenged Sevenfold’s mansion. A University graduate of the National University of Accounts and currently she is working in a garage called GAS as a car mechanic due to the unavailability of positions for Mathematicians and this mechanic job pays well due to GAS being well known to celebrities. She plays the drums and is getting schooled by The Rev. She speaks with a hint of German accent.

Final Academic Results:
English: B
German: A with Distinction
Pure Mathematics: A with Distinction
English Literature: C
German Literature: A with Distinction
Pure Chemistry: A with Distinction
Pure Physics: C
Pure History: C
Pure Geography: B
Art: F

Attitude wise:
She is angered easily yet forgiving. She is a total worry-wart and is extremely dense but often acts dumb to let some people who piss her off slide. She is extremely sarcastic to the point that annoys Estelle, who mind you, has a high tolerance level. A total glutton and also a pervert. Even though she might be mature, she is still naïve when it comes to love therefore falling in love easily. She intimidates everybody including Raphael, Estelle and Matt when she is really angry. Malachi gets along with her and also has a strong relationship with her.

Looks:
She is shorter than Johnny even though they are twins. She has hazel eyes, shoulder-length black hair with light brown, almost sandy highlights. Has hazel eyes which sparkles every time she is happy. Has baby fat but is fit enough due to her job. Has a small frame but is extremely strong. Has a coloured tattoo which looks like it has been sewn onto the left side of her chest which represents her own heart and this was designed by Estelle. She also has a fully coloured, full head-to-toe of The Holy Family tattooed onto her left side of her abdomen. Has tragus piercings on both ears, a right gauged ear and an industrial bar piercing on her left cartillage. She used to have an industrial bar piercing on her shoulder blade, but later removed due to the pain when she is drumming or repairing cars when she stretches.

Name: Malachi Carlie Sanders (Mala-kai)
A.K.A: Chi, Carl, Mal.
Age: 18
Height: 165cm
D.O.B: 31st December 1988

*Matt’s little sister and currently studying in National University of Sciences (NUOS). She lives with her brother and his band. Is the youngest among the whole group. She plays the electric violin and classical piano. She loves sports a lot and she has an American-French accent.

Academic Results so far:
English: A
French: B
English Literature: A
French Literature: B
Combined Mathematics: C
Pure Chemistry: B
Pure Biology: A with Distinction
Pure Physics: A with Distinction
Pure History: A
Medical Science: A with Distinction

Attitude wise:
She is quiet, shy but gets high very easily. She likes Raphael from PsychoSomatic. She is very kind and sweet yet she can get sarcastic at times but she is just too nice. She always listens to her older brother, Matt and also to Estelle since she looks up to Estelle a lot. More of an introvert and observer, when she's upset, she sleeps or keep to herself. She is also calm and collected but hyperventilates when she sees Raphael. She enjoys sitting on Raphael's lap, though it is forbidden.

Looks: Blondish brown curly hair which is straight at the top. Soft features with calming chocolate brown eyes who often wears grey contacts over it. She has no tattoos as she isn’t allowed by Matt to have one ironically. She has one piercing on each ear lobe and nothing else, also because of her brother.