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Post by <* Sweet Melody Way *> on Aug 20, 2005 15:16:20 GMT -5
Chapter 16 [/u][/b] ‘Ms. Harmony, can you please pay attention, anymore horse playing and it will land you right in detention,’ Mr. Longworth, your math teacher, said. ‘Yes Mr. Longworth,’ you said politely and then made a face at Frankie. Frankie burst out laughing, just as the teacher was going to yell at him a person came in with a pass and handed it to the teacher, ‘ah Mr. Iero, the Principle wishes to meet with you,’ he said and handed it to Frankie. Frankie nodded and left the room. You glanced at Ray and shrugged. The rest of math you goofed off with Ray, making funny faces at one another and you ended up with detention that afternoon. Ray got lucky with a warning. You were reported down to the office to pick up your detention slip, when you got to the office you saw Frankie coming out of it. ‘What happened?’ He held up a pink slip with a goofy smile. ‘Detention, from that day early in the summer, when we ere on school grounds and weren’t supposed to be,’ he said. ‘Oh yeah, wait so that means Gerard and Mikey are down here too right?’ ‘Yeah, Mikey went in before me and Gerard is waiting in there to be called in,’ he explained. ‘Alright, later Frankie,’ you said and walked into the office and sat down next to Gerard. He looked at you with a raised eyebrow. ‘What the hell are you doing here,’ he asked. You smiled, ‘take a guess where I’m gonna be joining ya!’ He looked at you stunned, ‘no way?! What’d you do?’ ‘Goofing off in class, first with Frankie and then with Ray. That lucky bastard got off with a warning,’ you laughed. He put his arm around you, ‘we can be cell mates, well detention mates!’ ‘Frankie and Mikey got it too,’ you told him. ‘Yeah I know, ah well, it’ll be one big party,’ Gerard said. ‘Looks like it!’ The day quickly passed by and soon it was time for detention. Since you all had your last period together, except for Mikey, you all walked together to room 205, the detention room. You only had to stay there until 5, it was 3 when the last bell rang so 2 hours wasn’t so bad. You all were sent to different parts of the room, and were told that you had to be silent and to be working on something. You and Gerard pulled out your sketch books and began drawing. Mikey started working on some homework and Frankie just started reading a comic book or something, he was far on the other side of the room so you couldn’t exactly tell. By the last half hour of detention, you all started giving each other looks of boredom. You raised your hand and asked if you could go to the bathroom. You were surprised the teacher who was in the room let you leave, at your old school it was no talking, no sleeping, no eating, and no bathroom trips during detention. You never had detention before so this was all new to you anyways. You got up and looked over at Gerard and gave him a wink, he smiled and looked back down at his drawing. You waited out in the hall for a few moments and saw Gerard ask to leave too. The teacher nodded and he came out and joined you in the hallway. He closed the door and you both walked down the hall quietly. Once you turned the corner you said, ‘ah so you did get the hint when I walked past you.’ He smiled, ‘yea, kinda hard to miss that hint, besides, I was done with my homework and shit so I figured ah what the hell, mind as well get out of that stuffy room anyways.’ You laughed, ‘true, so where shall we escape to for a little bit?’ ‘Hmm we could actually go to the bathroom, that way our excuse wouldn’t be completely false,’ he suggested. ‘True, but which bathroom?’ He shrugged, ‘alright the girls bathroom it is,’ you said and had him wait outside the door while you checked to make sure it was all clear. It was and you pulled him inside. ‘Damn, you girls get everything,’ he said and looked over and saw the couch. He looked at you and then back at the couch and smiled. ‘What are you thinking Mr. Way?’ ‘Hmmm, I think you know what I’m thinking.’ ‘Well then that means you know that I like the way you are thinking.’ He smiled and you both sat down on the couch. He sat down first and you straddled on top of him, you inched closer together and soon your lips were pressed against his. You moved your hands from his cheek to his shoulders and down his arms. He moved his hands to your lower back and pulled you closer to him. After a few moments you heard voices coming from outside. ‘Shit,’ you mumbled. The voices were coming closer to the bathroom, ‘oh shit, they are coming in here,’ you whispered. You and Gerard look at each other, there wasn’t a way out, you had no choice but to hide. ‘quick, stall,’ you said quickly and ran into the stall. You closed the door and locked it, Gerard sat up on the toilet so his feet were off the ground, you stood in front of him, so if someone looked down they would just see your feet and not suspect anything. You could feel Gerard’s hands snake around your hips and slightly tickle you. You glanced back at him to stop, if he kept going you were gonna burst out laughing and then you would get caught together. Oh how great that would look, exactly, it wouldn’t look good. After a few moments the two girls that walked into the bathroom were soon gone. You waited until the door closed and their voices faded down the hallway, ‘that was close,’ you let out a deep breath. ‘Yeah it was, plus we have to get back, the teacher is gonna suspect something if we don’t get back,’ he said. ‘Yeah, but we can’t go back at the same exact time, that would look suspicious and really obvious,’ you pointed out. ‘True, so who will go back first,’ he asked. ‘Um since you’re a guy, and guys tend to be a lot quicker than girls, I say you go first,’ you said. ‘Alright, I will go first,’ he agreed. ‘Good, now go, I’ll be back in a few minutes,’ you said and opened up the stall door and he walked out of the bathroom. You heard him quickly make his way back to the classroom. You looked yourself over in the mirror for the heck of it and then headed back a few minutes later. You walked in quietly, the teacher looked at you and then went back to what she was doing. Frankie and Mikey looked at you and then at Gerard, Frankie just gave a sly smile and a small thumbs up. Mikey just shook his head and went back to his homework. You glanced at the clock, you only had another 5 minutes left of detention. ‘Yes,’ you thought. The last 5 minutes dragged on forever, but soon the clock clicked to 5 o’clock and you all sprinted out of that class room faster than ever. You all walked back to Gerard’s house and hung out for the night. Donna wasn’t too pleased when you all returned home. ‘The school called,’ she said tapping her foot when you all walked in the door laughing. You all dropped silent when you saw how pissed she was. ‘Sorry,’ you all mumbled. You glanced at Frankie and whispered, ‘you don’t need to tell her sorry, you don’t live here.’ ‘True, but she is like my second mom, I see her just as much as I see my own, so yeah I do have to say sorry to her,’ Frankie whispered. You nodded in understanding. ‘Just go up to your rooms, and as for you Mr. Iero, I’m sure your parents are gonna want you home,’ she said. You all looked at each other and said bye to Frankie. Once Frankie was out the door, you all headed up to your rooms. ‘I take it she’s not to happy about the whole detention thing,’ you said to Mikey. ‘Nah, she’s just disappointed I guess, oh well, she’ll be fine by dinner, don’t worry about it,’ he said. ‘Gotcha,’ you said and headed into your room. Mikey went off to his room and same with Gerard. You turned on your stereo on low and listened to the soft sounds come from the speakers. After an hour or so, it was time for dinner. Dinner was very quite, no one wanted to say anything, so you all ate in silence. You all quickly high tailed it out of the kitchen as soon as you were all done eating. Mikey went down to the basement to play some video games and you and Gerard headed outside. It was still warm out, the sky was clear, you could see the moon and stars shining brightly. ‘Where do you want to go?’ You thought for a second, ‘the park.’ He nodded and you headed towards the park. You walked down the street, only lit by street lights on the corners. Gerard slipped his hand around your waist pulling you close to his side. You reached the park, you glanced at Gerard and then looked at the swings and ran. He stood there and watched you run, ‘oh come on slow poke!’ He laughed and walked up after you, you sat on the swing, he stood behind you and began pushing you. After a few minutes of pushing you his cell phone rang. He looked at it and saw it was his home phone. ‘I’ll be right back, it’s probably Mikey or Mom wondering where we are,’ he said and walked over to the bench and sat down. You watched him as he talked on the phone, his happy expression soon went cold, you couldn’t exactly tell what it was but he was pissed. He nodded and hung up the phone and walked over to you, ‘sorry babe but we gotta go.’ ‘Why? Who was that?’ ‘It was Mikey, I’ll explain later, well actually you’ll find out when we get back home, come on.’ ‘Oh, okay,’ you said and got off the swing and walked back home. When you reached the front door Gerard took in a deep breath and opened the door. You walked in behind him and saw a girl sitting on the couch. She was your typical prep, blond hair, big boobs, insanely skinny, a girl every guy drools over and wants to get with. You looked at Gerard and you could tell he wasn’t very happy to see who ever she was. ‘Gerard baby,’ the girl said as she got up from the couch. She looked at you and you stood closer to Gerard, you looked up at him and he just kept glaring at the girl. The girl didn’t care she pushed you out of the way and gave Gerard a hug and a kiss on the cheek. ‘What do you want Alexia? Is there a reason you’re here,’ Gerard asked coldly. She gave him a pouting face, ‘actually there’s something I need to tell you baby.’ ‘What?’ ‘I’m pregnant and you’re the father,’ she said. ‘Don’t’ give me this shit! You very well know I’m not the fucking father!’ Her jaw slightly dropped. ‘Yeah, you know that’s the truth, the whole time we were together you cheated on me with a number of guys, Alexia! And you very well know that we never did anything of that sort! You can’t just walk back into my life and expect me to believe this shit,’ Gerard yelled. Alexia looked down at the ground, ‘Gerard I love you.’ ‘Well, too bad, I don’t love you! Face reality Alexia, we’re over, you got yourself in this mess, now go find the real father of this so called baby, because it isn’t me, now leave!’ She looked down at the ground and stormed out of the house while glaring at you. The whole time you stood back and watched Gerard act like you have never seen him before. Sure you’ve seen him mad but only at Mikey, which was their typical brother fights. ‘Gerard?’ He took a deep breath and closed his eyes and then looked at you, ‘that would be Alexia.’ ‘An old girlfriend?’ ‘Yeah, we went out last year and broke up right before summer, I caught her cheating on me with one of the guys from the basketball team. Turned out it wasn’t the first time either, I was too blind to see it until the very end. She’s a fucking whore and why she pulled this shit on me, I don’t know, maybe because I was the only one that actually treated her like a person rather than a toy, I don’t know, but we don’t have to worry about her,’ Gerard explained and assured you. You pulled him into a hug, ‘it appears we have the same past too.’ ‘And what about the future, is that going to be same too?’ ‘Hmm, the way things are going with us, I would say so.’ He put his forehead to yours and looked into your eyes. ‘I never want to lose you, I love you too much to let you get away from me,’ he said. Mikey ran downstairs, ‘so what’d you say to her? ![???](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png) ’ Gerard rolled his eyes, ‘what you couldn’t hear from up there?’ ‘Well yeah I did, I just wanted to come down and see if she was crying her eyes out still or if she already left.’ ‘She’s gone,’ you told him. ‘Damn, alright, I knew she was lying when she came over. I figured you hadn’t done anything with her, never really liked that bitch all that much to be honest with ya man,’ Mikey said. Gerard nodded, ‘to be honest, now that I think about it, neither did I. I forced myself to like her. But we won’t have to worry about that anymore,’ he said and pulled you close to him. ‘You two aren’t going to like start going at it while I’m standing here are ya?’ Gerard just smiled and kissed you full on the lips, ‘Ahhhh! I’m outta here!’ Once Mikey was locked away in his room you broke apart laughing. ‘Well, we should get to sleep, school in the morning,’ you said. He sighed, ‘yeah alright.’ You both headed upstairs, Gerard gave you a kiss good night before he headed off to his room. You changed and went to bed.
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Post by <* Sweet Melody Way *> on Aug 27, 2005 15:59:01 GMT -5
Chapter 17[/u][/b]
~* Art Class *~[/i]
‘Bree,’ the teacher, Ms. Charles called you up to her desk. You got up and looked at Gerard and then walked up towards her desk. ‘Yes Ms. Charles?’ ‘How is your portfolio coming?’ ‘Pretty good, I have a decent number of drawing already,’ you told her. ‘What of,’ she asked. ‘A couple of cemetery scenes, a drawing of my old house, and a picture of a rose,’ you told her. ‘Do you have any of people yet?’ ‘Well, no not yet,’ you said and looked down. ‘According to the scholarship you have to have a few of people, you have the other requirements set, you just need pictures of human life,’ she explained. ‘I understand, I had a few people in mind,’ you said and glanced slightly at Gerard. ‘Good, I’m glad to hear it,’ she said and let you return to your seat. As you walked back to your seat next to Gerard you got a few looks but you ignored them. You sat down and Gerard leaned in by you, ‘what’d she want?’ ‘She just asked about my portfolio, and that I need pictures of actual people now. I forgot about that requirement,’ you said and shrugged. ‘How’s your portfolio coming along,’ you asked him. ‘I just have to do one more drawing and I’m set,’ he said proudly. ‘That’s good,’ you smiled and looked at the blank sheet of paper in front of you. You wanted to draw Gerard but you didn’t want to do it of him in class, or actually with him around. You had a picture of the two of you at home that you kept tucked away in your desk drawer. It’s a picture of you two at the park, facing each other smiling with your noses touching. It was your favorite one, Courtney took the picture for you. It reminded you of how happy you have been since you’ve moved here and met him and the rest of your new friends.
The rest of the day went by quickly as usual, you all managed to stay out of detention today and as for the rest of the week. Which turned out to be a very good thing. Friday came pretty quickly and that day of school seemed to drag on a bit longer than you would have liked but you were thankful it was done and over with. You and Gerard had planned on painting your bedroom this weekend, little did you know he had other plans for this weekend instead. When you got home from school you dropped your bag off in your room. Gerard had left school early, why, you had no clue, he just said he had an appointment and had to leave right after lunch. You didn’t really think much of it, but when you came home the house seemed practically dead. No one was around, neither of Gerard’s parents or Mikey even, which was weird. You walked into the kitchen and saw a note on the table.
Bree, I’m sending you on a small treasure hunt, each note will send you to another clue. Your next clue is on something you listen to nonstop when alone. It keeps you company when no one is around, can you figure it out? I hope so, your next clue is waiting for you there! Gerard
You stood there for a second and thought for a moment, trying to figure it out. ‘The stereo,’ you yelled and ran up to your room. Sure enough there was a note and a rose next to it.
Well it looks like you found the second clue, this one wasn’t so hard to find now was it? I didn’t think so, but this next one will have to make you think. You’ve learned a lot from them and are one of the best people to know, if you know who I am talking about, then you know where to find the next clue. Good luck!
‘Damn it! I’ve learned a lot from all of my friends,’ you said. You first called up Ivy and asked if Gerard was there, she said no. Same with Vanessa and Courtney. But each of them gave a small laugh when you asked, they knew what was up, they just wouldn’t tell you. You put down the phone on the crook and grabbed your jacket and headed out of the house. You tried Mikey’s cell, he had it off. ‘Typical,’ you muttered and tried the rest of the guys cells. ‘What is this turn off your cell day or something,’ you groaned and shoved the cell in your pocket. You just gave up and went to Frankie’s house, when you got there he opened the door. ‘Hah I was waiting for you!’ You looked at him confused. ‘You got the note right?’ ‘Yeah, oh , duh! God I’m fucking stupid,’ you said and shook your head. He laughed and let you in and gave you another note with a rose with it. ‘When is this game gonna end,’ you asked. ‘I donno, but just trust him on this, he wouldn’t go through all of this trouble if he didn’t think you would like,’ Frankie said. You opened the note after taking a small smell from the rose.
Congrats, you’ve made it this far. Now go back home, clean up and you will find an outfit waiting for you on your bed with your next clue. You have exactly 45 minutes from now to get ready, hurry or you’ll be late!
You looked up at Frankie, ‘well?’ ‘I gotta go!’ He waved good bye as you ran out of the house and back home. You threw your jacket off and ran upstairs and jumped into the shower and got ready as fast as you could. Once out of the shower you wrapped a towel around yourself and ran into your room where you saw a black knee length, sleeveless, dress waiting for you, along with a pair of black heals. You ran back to the bathroom and did your hair and make up really quickly and slipped the dress and shoes on. You opened up the envelope and read what it said.
Well, I’m sure you look beautiful, you always do. I hope you like the dress and shoes, I had a little bit of help from Mom and Ivy. But I made the final decision. You’re probably wondering what the hell I’m doing here, but you’ll see soon enough. Ray will be picking you up at 7, so I hope you are ready. Don’t ask him what is going on, he is instructed not to tell you anything. If he does say something, he’s dead. Don’t pressure him into telling you. I love you and we will see each other shortly, I promise.
You smiled and looked over at the clock, it was already 6:55. Only 5 more minutes to go, you grabbed your nicer black jacket and your purse after looking yourself over in the mirror. You must have been doing that for a while, because you heard someone clear their throat at your door. You looked over and saw Ray, ‘oh sorry, must have lost track of time.’ He rolled his eyes and motioned for you to follow him. He was all dressed up in a tux, he actually gelled his afro, he looked very nice in your opinion. ‘I know I’m not supposed to ask, but can you please tell me where we are going?’ He glanced behind him and shook his head. He lead you out to a limo, ‘since when can you drive a limo?’ He shrugged and opened up the door for you to get in. He closed it once you got in and slid across the seat, when you noticed another note waiting for you.
I take it you tried to get Ray to tell you, I told you he was instructed not to tell you. Good try though. If you turn on the CD player in here, you will find that there’s a CD of a bunch of songs we both love. You should be arriving to your destination shortly, you may keep the CD, I made it for you. I love you and see you in a matter of minutes! Love , Gerard
You turned on the CD player and heard a song that you and Gerard both loved to sing together even though you hated your singing voice, no matter how much Gerard insisted that it was beautiful. After a few minutes the limo stopped, you looked out of the window and saw Mikey waiting on the curb in front of a beautiful mansion. Ray got out and opened the door for you and helped you out. Mikey was all dressed up too, you noticed it was already dark out and the stars were shinning and there was a warm fall breeze. Ray closed the door and drove the limo around to the side of the restaurant. ‘Alright, can you tell me what’s going on?’ ‘Sorry babe, instructed not to, but you’ll find out in a few minutes, I promise, just follow me,’ he said and led you inside the building. You walked inside and saw a large grand stair case, a large chandelier hanging above. ‘Where are we exactly?’ ‘The Belleville mansion,’ he said and led you upstairs. The mansion looked very gothic like, you loved it, and you definitely knew Gerard did too, he was into all the gothic style things. You both had an interest in death and things along those lines, and this place definitely showed it. Mikey led you to the top floor of the mansion and came to a door. He opened it and left you there. You looked back at him and walked outside onto the roof. You looked around and saw black, red, and white candles lit everywhere. Rose petals scattered on the ground with a black velvet rug leading to a table for two. You saw Gerard standing there in all black with a white and black tie, holding a dozen roses. You smiled and walked towards him. He handed you the roses and you kissed him full on the lips. You pulled back and smiled. ‘What is all of this for,’ you asked. ‘Simply because I love you and wanted to make you feel special,’ he said and kissed you again. ‘So this is why you left school early today,’ you asked. He smiled, ‘yeah. Do you like it?’ ‘Like it? I love it!’ He smiled, ‘good, I’m glad to hear you do!’ He helped you take your jacket off and pulled out for a chair for you to sit down. He bent down, ‘you look absolutely stunning love.’ You smiled, ‘thank you.’ He pulled out a bottle of champagne, ‘where did you manage to get that? We’re under age.’ ‘Shhh, my mom got it for us, she said she didn’t mind if we had this for tonight.’ He poured the champagne into two glasses and brought the food out, it was all of your favorite foods and it was delicious. Once you finished dinner you went on for desert, which was ice cream and cake. ‘This isn’t the only surprise for tonight babe,’ he said when he was done with desert. You looked at him with a raised eyebrow, ‘what else do you have planned?’ ‘Well, I rented out the mansion for the weekend,’ he said. ‘Gerard,’ you said a little uneasy. ‘I know, don’t worry, we won’t do anything like that, I promise,’ he said and assured you. You sighed, ‘thank you.’ He smiled, ‘but oh that’s not all, there’s something waiting for you in the master bedroom,’ he said like a little kid. ‘Oh really? What is it?’ ‘I can’t say, you have to see for yourself,’ he said. ‘Well then,’ you said and got up and ran towards the door. He ran after you and ahead of you and led you to the master bedroom. When you got there he stood in front of the door and told you to close your eyes. ‘Keep ‘em closed, don’t wanna ruin the surprise for you,’ he said and opened the door. He took your other hand and led you into the room, the aroma of roses touched your nose. You smiled, ‘can I open them now?’ ‘Hold on,’ he said and let go of your hand and walked away for a moment and came back. ‘Alright, now you can,’ he said. You looked around and saw a large canopy bed, candles everywhere, large windows open with the fall breeze coming in slightly, ‘Gerard it’s beautiful!’ You smiled and kissed him. You pulled away from each other, Gerard held two things in his hand. An envelope and a velvet black box. ‘Envelope first,’ he said and handed it to you. You opened it up and saw two concert tickets to your favorite band! You squealed and hugged him, the tickets had been sold out for weeks, ‘how did you get these?’ ‘I have my connections,’ he said slyly. He got down on one knee, you looked at him confused. ‘Gerard, we’re only 17 you realize that right?’ ‘Oh don’t worry, I know that,’ he said with a smile and opened the box. It showed a 3 diamond ring with a white gold band. ‘It’s a promise ring,’ he said and stood up. You looked at it, holding back tears, he took it out of the box and slipped it on your ring finger. ‘I promise that I won’t pressure you into anything you don’t want to do and I promise I will stand by your side through thick and thin, Bree. I love you,’ he said and kissed you passionately on the lips. You wrapped your arms around his neck and pulled him in closer, he placed his hands on your hips, his grip tightening. A little while later you found yourselves on the bed in a hot make out session. You felt his hands travel and you pulled away and sat down next to him. ‘So did you like all your surprises?’ ‘Correction, I loved them all, and most of all I love you,’ you said and kissed him on the cheek. He smiled and kissed you back on the cheek.
(( odd place to leave off but I’m stopping this chapter here.))
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Post by <* Sweet Melody Way *> on Aug 31, 2005 20:14:21 GMT -5
Chapter 18[/u][/b]
You woke up the next morning slightly dazed. You rolled over to a sleeping Gerard. You looked around and couldn’t quite place where you were. You sat up and tried to remember, you looked around and the events from last night replayed in your head, you smiled and laid back down next to Gerard. Little did you know he was awake, he put an arm around your waist and pulled you close to him. You thought he was asleep so you just cuddled into his bare chest. He gave a small smile that you didn’t notice. You felt his hand travel down and start tickling you at your waist. You squirmed in his arms but he wasn’t going to let you go. He tightened his grip as he tickled you, ‘Gerard!’ He laughed and opened his eyes, you gave him a playful shove. ‘Were you awake this whole time?’ He looked away and gave a goofy smile, ‘maybe.’ ‘You’re a dork,’ you laughed. He looked at you and put his hand on his chest, ‘me? A dork? I think not Miss Harmony.’ You laughed, ‘eh a sexy dork then.’ He smiled, ‘alright, I can live with that. So what do you want to do today?’ ‘Well, there’s plenty of options, we could just stay right here, but then again, I want to see the rest of this beautiful place you rented out for the weekend, or heck we could call everyone over and have them hang out.’ ‘Hmm I like the first two options,’ he said. ‘You don’t want to see everyone else?’ ‘Well to be honest, no. I rented out this place for US and I wanna spend the time with you, besides they made sure they had plans this weekend.’ ‘You’ve thought of everything haven’t you?’ ‘Hmm yea, okay maybe not all on my own but most of it,’ he laughed. ‘Come on, lets look around this place,’ you said and jumped out of bed. ‘Aw we’re not gonna go with option number 1?’ You laughed, ‘sorry babe, but I wanna explore, we can do that later option another time,’ you said with a wink at the end. He jumped out of bed, you laughed when you saw him standing up in just his boxers and messy hair. You walked over and kissed him on the cheek, ‘I’m gonna take a quick shower, I’ll be right out.’ ‘Alright, I’ll get your clothes out then, hurry up though, I have to get in there too,’ he said and kissed you on the forehead. You smiled and walked into the bathroom. It was huge and very elegant with a gothic touch. ‘Where the hell did Gerard come up with the money for all of this,’ you thought. You didn’t even want to know, you took a quick shower and jumped out and dried off. You fixed up your hair and make up and wrapped the towel around you. You opened the door and Gerard rushed past you and you walked out. You heard the bathroom door close and click, locked. ‘What’s he in a hurry for?’ You walked back to the bedroom and saw a few things laying on the bed, a swim suit, a beach towel, a pair of jeans, a tank top, a pair of black and white sunglasses, and a pair of black flip flops. On top of the swimsuit was an envelope. ‘You and your notes Gerard,’ you said and opened it up.
I know you’re probably sick of the whole notes thing. This is the last one, I swear, maybe. Well, I know you wanted to explore, but there is a big indoor pool here, and I figured you would want to go swimming, so there is a brand new swimsuit for you and clothes set off to the side for you to change into. I didn’t dare go in the underwear, so I had my mom go instead. Hah, yea, all your clothes are set out for you. I hope you like the swimsuit! I will be out of the shower, in oh, just turn around, I’m standing right behind you. Boo!
You glanced behind you and there was Gerard, standing there with his swim trunks on already to go swimming. ‘Go on get changed, we don’t have all day, well we do but yeah go,’ he said and handed you the swimsuit and pushed you towards the bathroom. ‘Alright alright, I’m going,’ you said and changed into the black bikini he got for you. You walked back out and his jaw just dropped. You laughed, ‘what?’ ‘Umm, err, uh, wow,’ he finally said. You picked up the towel and sun glasses then slipped on the pair of flip flops. ‘Come on! Lets go swimming like you said,’ and pulled him by the arm downstairs. You dragged him downstairs and realized you had no clue where the pool even was. He looked at you and smiled, ‘lost?’ ‘Ha ha, very funny. You get to be the Butler and show me the way to the pool!’ He laughed, ‘So if I’m the Butler, what are you?’ You rubbed your chin between your thumb and index finger, and gave him a devilish smile, ‘I’ll be the Maid.’ ‘Ooo does that mean we get to role play,’ he asked in a little kid voice. ‘Mmm to an extent,’ you said with a smile. He giggled and lead the way to the pool. When you finally found it, it was massive with a Jacuzzi! You walked in and threw your stuff onto a chair and ran towards the Jacuzzi. You stopped at the top step and stuck a toe into the water, it wasn’t as hot as you thought, which was good. Gerard came up behind you and picked you up and walked down the steps with you in his arms, bridal style. ‘You know I could have gotten in here myself,’ you said. ‘I know, but I like having you in my arms instead,’ he said and found a place to sit down in the water and let you sit on his lap. Okay so the water was a bit warmer than you thought, but soon you got used to it and it was fine. ‘Gerard, how did you manage to pay for all of this?’ ‘I work remember, the comic book store,’ he said. ‘Yeah, but you only get paid like 7 bucks and hour, and you don’t even work that much, how long have you been saving?’ ‘Since the day I met you, 2 and a half months ago, I worked some extra shifts for a couple of the guys when they went on vacation a few times, so that helped too. Don’t worry about it,’ he said and kissed you on the cheek. You snuggled into the crook of his neck. ‘I don’t deserve all of this,’ you said. ‘Why don’t you?’ ‘Because I’ve done so many stupid things in my life, something like this makes me ask myself what the heck it was that I did to deserve this.’ ‘Aw sugar, I love you and always will love you no matter what! I wanted to do this for you because I love you,’ he said while tucking a strand of hair that fell in front of your eyes to behind you ear. ‘I love you too baby,’ you said softly. He kissed you on the top of the head. After a couple of hours of relaxing in the Jacuzzi you looked at your hands, they were all pruned. ‘Ewwww,’ you said and held your hand up to Gerard’s face. He laughed and shoved his at yours which looked the same way. ‘We should probably get out,’ you said. Gerard nodded and followed you out of the Jacuzzi. You wrapped a towel around yourself and sat down. Gerard grabbed his towel and patted himself down with it and sat down next to you. Once you were both dried off you decided to change and wander around the mansion. You explored the large rooms, one after another, first the living room, which had a large fireplace and large bay windows. All the rooms had dark colors, red, black, gray, very gothic looking. You wandered off to the dining room that had a large cherry wood dinner table with a large crystal chandelier hanging above it. The windows had long red velvet drapes on the windows, blocking out the sun. It looked like something out of your traditional vampire movie, the whole mansion did.
A little later in the day, right around sunset, you both showered and dressed. You put on a black skirt that reached down to your ankles, a red tank top, along with black flip flops. Gerard threw on a pair of nice jeans, a black nicer t-shirt and a pair of black dressier shoes. ‘So what are we gonna do tonight,’ you asked him as you walked over and sat on the bed. He stood in front of you and took your hands in his. ‘Even though night is falling, I thought maybe you would like to see the garden,’ he suggested. You smiled, ‘that’d be great!’ He smiled and pulled you up and led you downstairs and out the doors to the garden. A scent of fresh roses circled around you, there was a large fountain in the middle of the courtyard area you were in. Just the way the sun was hitting everything, it looked like everything had diamonds cast over them. ‘Gerard this is beautiful,’ you said as you looked around. He put his hands on your waist and looked into your eyes, ‘you’re beautiful,’ he whispered and kissed you softly on the lips. You blushed and smiled at each other when you broke away. ‘Come on, there’s more to see,’ he whispered and led you deeper into the garden. You passed thousands of different kinds of flowers, some of which you had never seen before. As the sun set, Gerard led you back towards the courtyard you first walked into. He sat down at the edge of the fountain and pulled you onto his lap as you watched the sun completely set. ‘You know, there’s a story behind this mansion, a dark one,’ Gerard said softly. ‘Really? What is it,’ you asked. ‘Well this place was built in the 1800’s and the man who owned it lived by himself. Or so he did later on in his life,’ he started. ‘Wait, later on?’ ‘Yeah, apparently the man killed his family in this mansion, they say on some nights that you can see a body tied upside down from a rope in the living room, hanging from the chandelier. And occasionally at night you can hear the screams from the mans kids,’ he said. ‘Are you just trying to scare me,’ you asked. ‘No why? Am I scaring you?’ ‘No, but come on, next you’re gonna tell me the man was actually a vampire,’ you said sarcastically. ‘He could have been, he lived a hell of a lot longer than anyone else around here during those times,’ he said. ‘Come on Gerard, vampires aren’t real,’ you said and gave him a small shove. ‘Oh really, well then, don’t come crying to me when you hear things tonight or if some creepy guy is trying to suck your blood,’ he said. ‘Please, I doubt some 200 year old guy is gonna wanna suck my blood besides, you probably taste better than me,’ you said and poked him. ‘With my bad habits, I doubt that! You know how many guys I had to fight off at school to keep their hands off of you, and we haven’t even gone a whole week yet,’ Gerard said. ‘Oh is that so? How many guys then?’ ‘Enough, trust me there were plenty, ask Frankie and Mikey, they’ll tell ya! You are one sexy lady Miss Bree, I don’t know how I’ve been able to keep myself contained when I’m with you,’ he says honestly. ‘Because we love each other and you know if you pass certain boundary’s you’ll lose me,’ you said in a matter- of- fact tone. ‘Very true, but hell, you gotta stop teasing me, you get me all excited and then I get shot down, you’re killing me here,’ he said and kissed you on the cheek. ‘I know, and it’s fun. Don’t worry, one day you’ll have me completely, I promise,’ you said and smiled. ‘When you’re ready babe,’ he whispered. A cool fall breeze blew by, goose bumps traveled up your arms and legs. ‘Come on, lets get inside, we can check out that fireplace,’ Gerard winked. You giggled and hopped down off his lap and headed into the living room with the fireplace. You snuggled up on the big couch as Gerard fiddled with the fireplace, soon he got the flames going and sat down next to you. You curled up next to him and laid your head on his chest. He ran his fingers through your hair and slowly you started to drift off to sleep. ‘Gerard?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘I love you.’ ‘I love you too sugar.’
A boy walked down the hallway, running off into his room. You followed him in and saw a little girl already covered in blood, dead. The boy looked around scared half to death, he ran back down the hall and into the living room. You followed him, he kept glancing behind him as he ran around, searching for a way out. You glanced behind you when the boy screamed in terror, it was a man, a tall, pale man. Dressed in all black, with a rope in his hands. He cornered the boy and knocked him to the ground, the boy fell and hit his head hard on the floor. A small pool of blood began to form on the floor, the man took the rope and tied it around the boys feet and pulled him up so he was hanging upside down in the air. You backed up and tried to scream but nothing came out of your mouth. The man turned around and smiled at you, he gave a smile with two fangs poking over his bottom lip. He came closer and closer to you, you had no exit as you looked around. No one was there to save you, none of your friends or family, no one. The man crept closer and closer, he wrapped his cold clammy hand around your delicate neck and leaned in towards it. Just as you felt him pierce your skin you finally let out a scream.
‘Bree! Bree! Wake up, Bree!’ You jumped up covered in cold sweat and looked around. ‘Bree, what’s wrong, you were screaming,’ Gerard said and looked at you with confusion. ‘I saw it, I saw the dead children, the boy hanging, the girl dead in her bed, oh Gerard it was awful,’ you explained. ‘Oh Bree, I shouldn’t have told you that story. Babe that’s just a story they like to tell about this house because of it’s style, that never really happened, I promise you that. Come here,’ he said and held out his arms. You moved closer to him and he wrapped his arms around you. He rocked you back and forth in his arms to calm you down. ‘It was just a nightmare sugar, you’re all right,’ he cooed. ‘I know but it was so real, at first I couldn’t scream, but then when the guy came after me and bit me I finally was able to scream,’ you said. ‘Don’t’ worry, I won’t let big old scary vampires hurt you,’ he said. You nodded and cuddled into his chest and fell back asleep. You woke up the next morning feeling better, but in your dreams the vampire kept showing up. ‘Have anymore nightmares?’ You shook your head, ‘no, I’m fine now.’ ‘Good.’ The rest of the day you two lounged around the mansion, looking at all the old art work and such. You loved every bit of it, even after your nightmares.
Eventually it was time to pack up and leave. Gerard had his car already there so you didn’t have to get a ride or anything. You packed the few things each of you hand and loaded it all into his car and headed back to his house, where you were greeted by just Mikey. ‘Hey guys!’ ‘Hey,’ you both said as you walked through the front door. ‘Did you loooooovveee you’re surprise, Bree?’ ‘Yes I did, Mikey,’ you said and kissed Gerard on the cheek. Gerard gave a goofy smile. ‘You know, the girls the whole time while we hung out at Great America wouldn’t shut up about how sweet that surprise was,’ Mikey said, kind of annoyed. ‘What can I say? I just thought of it first,’ Gerard said proudly. ‘Don’t worry Mikey, you guys will find good ways to surprise your girlfriends, it’s the thought that counts, not how much you spend on them,’ you said trying to cheer him up. Mikey just looked at Gerard and laughed. ‘What? Oh baby, I loved your surprise, don’t take that the wrong way.’ Gerard gave a sad face and then you kissed him on the cheek and his lips turned up into a smile. You picked up your bag and headed upstairs. Gerard picked up his and patted Mikey on the shoulder, ‘don’t worry man, I’m sure you’ll come up with something good for Vanessa.’ Mikey just grumbled and headed downstairs into the basement to play his video games. You unpacked the few clothes you had and threw them into the hamper to be washed. You sat down on your bed and decided that you were tired, you had school tomorrow so you figured it would be best to just go to sleep. You were gonna need your strength, you were gonna have to relive the whole weekend many more times tomorrow. You crawled into your bed and fell asleep very quickly.
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Post by <* Sweet Melody Way *> on Aug 31, 2005 20:22:52 GMT -5
Chapter 19[/u][/b]
‘For the god damn thousandth time, NO!’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Because it’s none of your business Frank!’ ‘Ooo, she just called you Frank!’ ‘Shut up Mikey!’ ‘Both of you shut up! I’m trying to drive, do you wanna fucking die before you graduate?!’ ‘Sorry, Gee,’ Mikey apologized. ‘Thank you,’ Gerard said and drove into the school parking lot. ‘But anyways, come on Bree, tell!’ You shook your head, ‘sorry but I’m not gonna share my intimate moments with Gerard, with you Frankie.’ ‘Fine, have it your way, see if I care,’ he said and crossed his arms and turned his back to you. You rolled your eyes and walked up to the school with Gerard. You passed by Ivy, ‘hey guys! Have a nice weekend? Have you seen my Frankie?’ You pointed back towards the car where he was still pouting. She laughed, ‘thanks!’ You watched her walk over to him, he jumped on her and she just burst out laughing trying to hold herself up. Gerard and you both stopped and turned around to watch, ‘how is it that she is still alive after all of his antics?’ ‘I donno, guess love is holding them together. Then again it’s Frankie, he wouldn’t do anything as stupid as Mikey would.’ ‘That is true,’ you nodded. You headed off to your first class together and sat through the many hours of boring lectures. At lunch you must have retold the whole weekend to everyone at least 5 times and answering a bunch of questions. Ignoring Frankie’s question that he repeated over and over again. The rest of the day went by smoothly and it was finally time to go home. ‘Yes,’ you thought.
For pretty much the rest of the month you all hung out after school, doing homework when you found the spare time to do it. Partying on the weekends and just having a good time. This was how you always hopped to enjoy your senior year. The weather grew colder as the months changed, it was October now. Your favorite month, Halloween! One day while sitting in your boring math class the student president came on over the intercom. As usual you ignored them, until you heard them make an announcement that made you excited for a change. You weren’t sure if Gerard would be up for a school function, he never was in the past. He never once wanted to go to a foot ball game or anything that came up school related. Granted neither did you, bunch of prep filled events anyways, but since it was senior year you were more than willing to ignore the preps and jocks and go to this event. You met up with Ivy and Courtney in the hallway. ‘Did you hear the announcement,’ Ivy asked, clearly excited. Courtney shrugged, ‘yeah what about it?’ You just nodded. ‘Oh come on guys, it’ll be fun!’ ‘Hah yeah right, a prep filled event, oh joy,’ Courtney said sarcastically. ‘You think the guys will even be up for going? You know how they hate school events,’ you pointed out. Ivy thought for a second, ‘true, but if we convince them enough that we want to go, then they will surely be up for it!’ You just laughed as you headed out to Gerard’s car. Courtney and Ivy went off to meet Vanessa and left school. You met up with Frankie and Gerard in the parking lot. ‘Hey guys,’ you said with a small wave. ‘Hey babe,’ Gerard greeted with a kiss. Frankie just rolled his eyes, ‘how come you never greet me like that man?’ ‘You want me to kiss you Frankie?’ ‘Yeah you know what, it’d be a nice change,’ he said and crossed his arms. You just looked and Gerard and he shrugged and walked over to Frankie. You couldn’t tell what they were saying but the next thing you saw was Frankie in Gerard’s arms with his lips pressed against his cheek. ‘Whoa man, get off!’ Frankie got down and just looked away. ‘Aw man, don’t get all pissy about it, alright I’ll make you a deal, if we ever become famous one day for some reason or another, then you can kiss me as acting, but man, you’ve got a girlfriend and so do I, I don’t think we need to be kissing each other,’ Gerard laughed. Frankie laughed, ‘better keep to that promise.’ Little did Gerard know that one day Frankie was gonna remember that deal and make sure it was held out. You just rolled your eyes and got in the car.
Gerard dropped Frankie off at home and pretty much the ride back to Gerard’s house was pretty quiet. You got kinda sick of it so you threw in an Iron Maiden CD. You had it on low at first as you looked out the window, but you slowly heard it getting louder and louder, you looked over and saw Gerard turning up the volume while mouthing the words to the songs. Well you thought he was mouthing it, you could faintly hear him singing along. He had a good voice from what you could hear. He pulled into the driveway and you hopped out and ran inside first. Gerard slowly made his way inside after you. You ran up to your room and locked the door. You threw your messenger bag on your bed and reached for you journal. It looked just like your sketch book, but well hidden and locked away. Mainly to keep the guys from finding it and snooping in it. You started writing in it after your mom and brother died. It was a way to release your feelings, same with your sketch book. You grabbed the nearest pen and started writing out a new journal entry on a fresh page.
Hey, it’s me again. I’ve been feeling a bit better. Ever since the accident Gerard has been by my side all the time. I’m surprised I even get chances to write in here anymore. He tends to stay glued to my side, but I like it. Alex was never like that, the only thing he saw me as was a toy. It’s been exactly 4 months to the day since we broke up. And almost 3 months with Gerard. I love Gerard, he’s the best person that has walked into my life, I don’t know what I’d do if I lost him. Thankfully Alexia hasn’t shown up since that night a month ago, saying Gerard was the father of her ‘baby’. Hah that reminds me about Stella and Alex, she should be a good 5 months or so along, sucks to be her! He chose to be with the town whore and he’s paying for it in a big way. But that’s my old life, I don’t care if I never go back there. I caught Gerard singing today, I don’t think he knows that I heard him singing along to the CD in the car. He has a great voice, I don’t know why him and the guys don’t start a band. Frankie and Ray are amazing guitarists, Mikey will eventually get to play bass, well actually he already has started. Donna let him take lessons the same days as me, Gerard doesn’t know. Mikey quit for a little while but decided to take it up again, he wanted to prove Gerard wrong this time. Good for Mikey, he needed a good hobby other than video games. And I know Matt plays drums, we don’t see him too often because he’s with Cori a lot. But none the less, he still is a part of the group. There ya go, and Gerard can sing, I’ve gotten a few sneak peaks into his sketch book that has all his poems and stuff, he puts so much into them. It’s amazing! Oh great, I can hear someone coming up the stairs, I guess I should go. I think Matt is having another party tonight, yes! I still have to ask Gerard about the Halloween dance coming up next month. I don’t know if he’ll be up for it, but I’ll ask him about it later when we’re alone. Well, guess I should end this, later!
You shut the book and put it back in its hidden place and locked it away. You heard a knock at the door, ‘Bree?’ You heard the door knob jiggle. You laughed and unlocked the door and came face to face with Mikey. ‘Hello,’ you said leaning against the door frame. ‘Hey, um we’re leaving in an hour for Matt’s, just letting you know,’ he said. ‘Okay, thanks,’ you said. ‘Um Bree, why do you lock yourself up in your room sometime?’ ‘A girl has to have some time for herself, doesn’t she Mikey?’ ‘Okay, just checking. I don’t wanna come up here and find you like dead or something, you’re like a sister to me, it’d kill me to see you gone Bree. And it’d kill Gerard even more, he loves you.’ ‘I know Mikey, don’t worry, those days are long gone, I promise. I love you guys, I wouldn’t do that to you. It wouldn‘t be fair,’ you assured him. ‘Good,’ he said and gave you a hug. Even though he was younger than you, he still towered over you. ‘Alright, I gotta get ready, so shoo!’ ‘Okay, I’m gone!’ You closed the door and walked to your closet and pulled out a long sleeved black and white striped shirt and a pair of black pants that were torn at the knees. You kicked off your chucks and grabbed a bra and panties and ran off to get the bathroom before the guys. Coast was clear and you grabbed a towel and shot straight for the bathroom. You stripped down and jumped into the hot shower and cleaned up and then got out and fixed up your hair and make up. You wrapped the towel around you after putting on your bra and panties. Luckily your room was really close to the bathroom. You looked down the hall both ways before making it to your room. You knew you’d get tormented if one of the guys caught you in the hall in just a towel and undergarments. You ran into your room and closed the door and got dressed. You left your black hair down and straight. You put on your chucks and headed downstairs once you felt you were ready. ‘Ooo, you look hott babe,’ Gerard said when he saw you coming down the stairs. You smiled and kissed him on the cheek, ‘thank you!’ ‘So what are we waiting for?’ ‘Mikey,’ Gerard said and rolled his eyes. ‘Mikey! Come on!’ ‘Yeah yeah I’m coming,’ he yelled down the stairs. ‘Good, lets go,’ Gerard said. You guys stopped and picked up Vanessa on your way there.
‘Hey guys,’ Matt said when he found you and Gerard at the beer keg. ‘Hey Matt! Where’s Cori?’ ‘Ah yeah, she’s with a couple friends in the back yard, I think playing quarters or something, I donno. I was gonna head out there in a minute to go join her. You guys wanna come?’ You look at Gerard, ’yeah sure.’ You fill up your cups and head out to the backyard with Matt. You see Cori, you spotted her black hair with blue and silver streaks first. She had lighter skin with gray eyes, she was cool to hang out with from time to time. Your group for friends got along with her group of friends so it was all good when you went out there to join in on their game of quarters. Granted they were all pretty wasted by the time you all got out there, they still agreed to play for a little while longer. Gerard only played a few rounds and same with you. Matt sat in the whole time and got wasted with them. It was rather amusing watching them attempt to get the quarter in the shot glass, most were really off aim. You had to duck a couple times so you wouldn’t get hit. After an hour or so you and Gerard headed inside and danced with the rest of the guys in the living room. One guy attempted body surfing which landed him right on the ground 5 seconds later passed out. Someone managed to move him to the couch. You all burst out laughing at the pathetic attempt. ‘You look hot,’ Ivy yelled over the music. ‘Thanks, so do you!’ She smiled and nodded and started to crazy dance with Frankie. You saw Gerard stumble his way out to the front porch. You thought about joining him but wanted to stay a bit longer with Ivy and Courtney and the rest of the guys. Mikey and Vanessa disappeared from the party, you assumed they went off to the park for a while. Vanessa wasn’t as big of a party girl as the rest of you all were, considering she was a couple years younger, she was still new to a lot of this stuff. It was already dark outside when you stumbled over to the window to see if you could see Gerard, you saw a orange glow from a cigarette light up, yep, he was out there. You opened the door but got pulled back into the living room when you tried to leave. ‘Hey sexy, wanna dance,’ a guy asked. He had brown hair, bright blue eyes, tanned skin and was a bit bigger than you and much stronger, you could tell by the tight grip he had on your arm. ‘Um, no thanks, I was actually just leaving,’ you said trying to get away. He didn’t agree. He pulled you out to the crowd dancing , he put his hands on your hips and started getting you to dance, you could feel his hands starting to travel and he made a few attempts to kiss you. You managed to get him to let you go when you said you had to go to the bathroom, you didn’t want to see this guy ever again, he reminded you of Alex when you’d go to parties together. You shivered to get rid of the awkward feeling on you and went outside to find Gerard. He wasn’t around, ‘odd,’ you thought. You searched outside in the front and in the back, you know he never came in, or so you thought. You went inside and found Ray and asked him where Gerard went. He told you Gerard saw you dancing with that other guy and left. Where he went, he had no idea, just that he looked hurt and left. ‘Great,’ you muttered but you knew where to find him, either at the park or the cemetery, those were the two places that he hung out at if he wasn’t feeling too well.
You walked down the street, most of the alcohol was gone from your system, you didn’t drink that much anyways. You had a clear enough head to know where you were going, you ran to the park and couldn’t find him there. You saw Mikey there with Vanessa and asked them if they saw him, they hadn’t. You ran off to the cemetery only a few blocks away, you wandered around in the dark eerie cemetery for 20 minutes trying to find him. You couldn’t, you started losing hope and planned on going back to the party. But if you went back to the party you would probably get caught by that guy again and you didn’t want that. That ass already got you into enough problems already. You decided to just give up and go home, you walked home and saw Gerard’s car in the drive way. ‘So he came home,’ you thought. ‘Figures.’ You quietly went inside, the Way’s were already asleep, you crept upstairs and threw your purse, jacket and shoes in your room and crept down to Gerard’s room, nothing. Well, there was one other place in the house that he could be, his drawing room, the one he hadn’t touched since you two got together. You remember him saying that the only went down there when he was upset and wanted to be alone for a little while. You walked down into the basement and noticed the light coming from under the door to his drawing room. You leaned up to the door to try to hear something from inside. You could hear a tiny bit of sniffling and pencil scratching on paper. You tried to turn the handle but it was locked. You softly knocked on the door. You heard him drop his pencil and walk to the door, he unlocked it and slowly opened it. You saw a tear stained, bloodshot eyed Gerard. He closed the door on you. ‘Gerard-’ You knew he was upset with you. ‘Gerard,’ you asked through the door. You heard him unlock the door and walk away. You slowly opened the door and found him with his back to you leaning over a table top with a pencil in his hand.
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Post by <* Sweet Melody Way *> on Sept 4, 2005 13:07:20 GMT -5
Chapter 20[/u][/b]
You walked up behind him and put a hand on his shoulder. He let it sit there, he was ignoring you. ‘Gerard,’ you said again. He put his pencil down but didn’t look at you. ‘Why?’ ‘Gerard, I didn’t cheat on you if that’s what you are thinking,’ you said. ‘Then what was it that I saw?’ ‘The guy forced me to dance with him, he wouldn’t take no for an answer, I was heading outside to sit with you but he pulled me back inside, I swear I would never cheat on you baby,’ you explained. He let out a heavy sigh. He turned and looked at you, ‘really? That’s the truth?’ You nodded, ‘yes. Gerard I would never cheat on you, I love you.’ ‘I love you too,’ he said, ‘I guess I should have trusted you, I guess after being hurt so many times you learn not to trust people.’ You hugged him and kissed him on the cheek, ‘I love you forever and ever. I won’t be leaving you, you changed my life,’ you whispered. ‘I know, I love you too and I will trust you for now on, you turned everything around for me too, I don’t know what I’d do if I lost you.’ He kissed you full on the lips and pulling you closer and deeper into the kiss. You moved onto his lap and rested there. You pulled away and looked into each others eyes. ‘Come on, lets get some sleep, I’m exhausted and my head kinda hurts,’ you offer. ‘Alright, sleep it is,’ he agrees. When you head upstairs Mikey comes through the front door, ‘hey!’ ‘Quiet! Mom and Dad are asleep moron,’ Gerard hisses. ‘Oh, sorry,’ he mumbles and heads upstairs and as he passes you by he gives you a small wink. You just let out a soft sigh and head upstairs to your room. Gerard leaves you at your room and kisses you on the cheek good night and walks down to his room. You walked into your room and changed into your p.j.’s and went right to sleep, to sleep of the tiny head ache you had from the alcohol you drank. You thankfully slept a dreamless sleep, you’ve had some trouble since that night at the Belleville mansion. You never dared to mention it to Gerard, they were just stupid nightmares, usually all the same or slight modifications of each one. You rarely got them anymore. But there was still something about that mansion that appealed to you still.
You looked over at your calendar for a second and saw the note you had on there, ‘Interview 8AM with Jake.’ ‘Fuck,’ you muttered. You forgot you had a job interview at Starbucks this morning (I know you have to be 18 to work there but in this one it doesn’t matter the age, okay?). You fell back onto your bed and crawled under the covers. Someone set your alarm because it went off at 6:30 AM. ‘Mikey,’ you grumbled. ‘Good morning sunshine,’ Mikey’s voice rang in your ear. You threw out a fist at him, he backed up so you missed him, but just barely. ‘Come on, get up! You have a job interview this morning! You promised Gerard that you’d get a job soon!’ ‘Fuck that promise, I wanna sleep!’ ‘Aww come on Bree, you haven’t stopped talking about the interview since you were given it, come on, it will most likely be short and I’ve brought peace offerings!’ You peaked your head out from under the blankets, ‘what?’ He held out his hand that had two white pills sitting in his palm and in his other hand was a glass of water. You snatched them from his hand and threw the pills in your mouth and took a big gulp from the water. ‘Now get out so I can get ready,’ you muttered and glared at him. He skipped out of your room, you quickly ran to the door and closed it and then ran and jumped back on your bed and hid under the covers. After 5 minutes Mikey came back in, he sighed and left your room and got Gerard. ‘Ow man! Get up would ya, I need your help with something,’ Mikey said after Gerard hit him in the stomach for waking him up. ‘This better be good,’ he said and rubbed his eye. ‘Yeah, you gotta get Bree up, she has that interview today and she doesn’t wanna go now, get her up!’ Gerard got up and saw your door still closed, he motioned for Mikey to go to the bathroom and then walked into your room and attempted to get you up. After a few minutes of convincing you still refused. ‘Fine babe, looks like we’re gonna have to do this the hard way,’ he said and picked you up out of the bed, you kicked in his arms but he held his grip tight on you. ‘Hate to do this love, but you left us no choice,’ he said and kissed you on the cheek as he brought you into the bathroom. You saw the shower running with a big grin across Mikey’s face, Gerard put you in the tub with the cold water running all over you. You sat there and pouted, Mikey and Gerard just burst out laughing. ‘Now get ready, we’ll be back in 10 minutes to make sure your clean, if not desperate measures will be taken,’ Gerard warned. ‘Fine,’ you snapped and shooed them out of the bathroom. You showered and got dressed and stuff. You put on something a little bit nicer than usual and wore a little less eye make up, you wanted the job right? Yeah. You got ready and saw that Gerard went back to bed but Mikey was already zoned out in front of the T.V. watching early Saturday morning cartoons. You rolled your eyes at him and grabbed something to eat and went back upstairs to get your purse and stuff.
You put on your jacket and went to Starbucks for your interview. After 45 minutes of a nightmare interview. You actually landed the job. Jake was really cool and he was close to your age so he understood about school and stuff like that. The only part of it you weren’t to keen on was working at the register, it scared the shit out of you and you hated dealing with people. Especially crabby people who needed their caffeine, but whatever, you didn’t care, it was money. And considering the dance was coming up and you get paid every week, you’ll have money for your costume. You already knew what you wanted to go as and the exact costume you wanted, all you needed was Gerard and the money to pay for it all. You got home before Gerard woke up. You ran upstairs and jumped on him. ‘Guess what?’ He groaned, ‘babe,’ he moaned. ‘Come on, it’s not fun if you don’t guess!’ ‘Alright, let me guess, you got it?’ You smiled, ‘yep!’ ‘Awesome, can I got back to sleep now?’ ‘Nope.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Because I brought you something that will make you as wired as me,’ you said and handed him his coffee. ‘You rock babe,’ he said and took a sip of it. He smiled and kissed you on the cheek. ‘When do you start?’ ‘Well, Jake, my boss, said that I can start tomorrow if I wanted to!’ ‘Awesome, congrats.’ You smiled and got off of him and headed downstairs to the basement where Mikey was still zoned out in front of the T.V. ‘Hey Mikey,’ you taunted. ‘Yeah,’ he said and looked over at you, still tried as can be. You held up a coffee in the air, ‘you want it?’ His eyes lit up, ‘do I?! Damn bitch give it to me!’ You laughed and ran, he got up and sprinted after you, since he was taller he had longer legs to she caught up with you and managed to get the coffee out of your hands without spilling it. ‘Don’t ever taunt me with coffee,’ he said and shook his head at you. He took a sip and made the same face Gerard made after his first sip. ‘You make it?’ ‘No, my boss Jake did.’ ‘Ah cool, so I take it you got the job then?’ ‘Yep! Start tomorrow!’ ‘Awesome, so does that mean I get free coffee all the time now?’ ‘Nope sorry, I can give you a discount but not for free, unless I close up then I can bring home free coffee. Jake said if there was extra left over and it was still good, that it would be fine if I brought it home. They can’t do anything with it once they close up.’ ‘Awesome! So how many times will you be working nights?’ You laughed and walked upstairs and changed into something more comfortable. Your cell phone rang, Ivy. ‘Hey.’ ‘So?’ ‘I got it, and no I didn’t ask Gerard yet about the dance.’ ‘Congrats and you need to talk to him soon, we have to go costume shopping!’ ‘I know I will, I’ll ask him later on today, he wanted to hang out today anyways, so I’ll bug him then, okay?’ ‘Okay, but you better, otherwise I will nag you to death Bree Harmony.’ You knew how she could get when it came to nagging, it was bad. ‘Alright, I’ll do it today!’ ‘Good, now I’m gonna go back to sleep, but I know Frankie is gonna end up coming over soon and ruin that for me, so yeah sooner I get off the phone the better, later babe!’ ‘Have a nice sleep,’ you laughed and hung up your phone.
You changed into a black band t-shirt and some jeans with torn up knees. You walked down stairs and saw Mikey jumping off the walls. ‘Maybe I shouldn’t have given him coffee,’ you thought. ‘Hey Bree,’ he yelled as he jumped in front of you. ‘Hi Mikey,’ you laughed. You shook your head and went into the kitchen where you found Gerard actually reading the newspaper at the table. He had before but usually it was just the comics. ‘I’m I seeing things or are you actually reading an actual article out of the newspaper?’ He looked up, ‘huh? Oh uh yeah.’ You nodded, ‘never thought I’d ever see that.’ He shrugged and kept reading whatever it was he was reading. You sat down and grabbed the comics section, searching for the word search they usually put in that section. You were addicted to those things and it annoyed you when you didn’t finish them. This weeks was easy, you found all the stupid words in 20 minutes, sometimes it would take you hours. By the time you were done Gerard had gotten up and changed into actual clothes. A few minutes later he came downstairs and walked back into the kitchen, ‘wanna go somewhere?’ ‘Sure where?’ ‘Ummm the park?’ ‘Yeah, I’ll go grab my coat.’ He nodded and you ran upstairs to get your jacket. It was a sunny fall day but it was still chilly. You and Gerard walked to the park, all the leaves were changing colors from green to shades of orange and red. You loved the fall, it was your favorite season. You raced up to the swings when you got to the park, ‘you know you don’t have to let me win every time.’ He shrugged, ‘I’m lazy.’ You laughed and sat down and he sat in the swing next to you. ‘Hey Gerard?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘I was wondering,’ you started. He looked at you waiting for you to continue, ‘yeah?’ ‘You know that school dance coming up at the end of next month, the Halloween one?’ ‘Yeah, I know of it. I wanted to talk to you about that.’ ‘Really? Do you wanna go?’ He laughed, ‘I’m supposed to ask you, but yeah I wanna go.’ ‘Yay! So what do you wanna go as?’ ‘Hmmm, I was thinking vampire, you?’ You laughed, ‘the same.’ You both laughed, ‘it’s like we have the same brain but not.’ ‘Yeah you could say that,’ you said and grabbed his hand and led him over to the play ground monkey bars. You jumped up and sat on top of them, he had a little trouble but managed to get up a few minutes later. He was out of breath, ‘aww too much work for you?’ ‘Ha ha ha, no.’ you sat up there for a little while looking around at the park, taking in the scenery. ‘It’s so beautiful,’ you said looking around. Gerard leaned in and whispered, ‘you’re beautiful,’ and kissed you on the cheek. You lightly blushed and hugged him. You felt your cell phone vibrate, you pulled it out and looked at the name, Ray. You answered it, ‘hey Ray.’ ‘Hey, you with Gerard?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘Cool, is it alright if I talk to him?’ You threw the phone at Gerard, ‘who is it?’ ‘Ray,’ you said, he nodded and started talking to Ray. ‘Yeah.’ ‘We are.’ ‘At the park.’ ‘Sure, 5:30, we’ll be there.’ ‘Later man.’ He hung up the phone and gave it to you. ‘So, what’d he want?’ ‘The guys all decided to hit a movie later and dinner, you up for it?’ ‘Yeah sure,’ you glanced down at your watch it was already 3. ‘Wanna get lunch?’ ‘Sure.’
You got yourselves back in a food fight at the same place that you went on your first date. Where Gerard hit Ivy with a fry. You and Gerard started going there regularly and always sat at the same table. You managed to finish you food once you stopped your food fight and hitting a few random people with fries and getting some dirty looks. You and Gerard just laughed it off and headed back home to get the car to go to the movies with everyone. Once at the theater you spotted Frankie hugging random people, Ray following just behind him. Mikey was at the counter getting popcorn and a bunch of candy, you figured the coffee wore off. Ivy and Courtney were wrapped up in a conversation when you and Gerard walked over. ‘Hey guys,’ you said with a small wave. ‘Hey, great you made it! Here’s your tickets, they are having a special old movie night, playing a bunch of old horror movies, figured you two would want to catch this!’ Gerard gave a big toothy grin. ‘Yea we knew you two would love it, though you’ve probably already seen all these movies,’ Courtney added. You shrugged, ‘there’s no problem seeing them again, what are most of the movies based on?’ ‘Vampires,’ Frankie chimed in as him and Ray came over. ‘Awesome!’ ‘Figured you two would love that, since you both are pretty much vampires yourselves,’ Ray added in. ‘Wait vampires? No one told me this was all vampire movies,’ Mikey asked. ‘Oh come on, you’re almost 16 suck it up man, the last time you saw a vampire movie was when you were 5,’ Gerard said. ‘If you didn’t have the TV up so loud when watching it, I wouldn’t have come down to see what it was. And you haunting me in the middle of the night dressed as one didn’t help much either, Gerard!’ You all laughed except for Mikey. You all went into the theater to watch the 4 movies they were gonna be playing. Half way through the 3rd one you fell asleep on Gerard’s shoulder. Once the movies were over you all headed out after Gerard woke you up. ‘Dinner,’ Frankie asked. ‘Yes,’ Ivy said. Your stomach slightly growled. You all headed over to Pizza Hut and got 4 large pizzas and managed to finish them all off, along with the 6 baskets of bread sticks. After wreaking enough havoc there and getting kicked out once you were all done eating you headed back home. Ivy asked you if you asked him yet. You told her you did and that you were going. She was excited and so was Courtney and Vanessa, they all managed to get the guys to go too.
You changed into your p.j’s and threw out some clothes for tomorrow, it was your first day of work and were actually looking forward to it. You had to come in a bit earlier to learn how everything worked and stuff. You glanced at the clock it was already mid night, you had to be up early again, you groaned and fell right to sleep.
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Post by <* Sweet Melody Way *> on Sept 4, 2005 13:08:41 GMT -5
Chapter 21[/u][/b]
‘Jake, I swear I didn’t mean to get here this late. My friend turned off my alarm, I swear,’ you explained out of breath to your boss. ‘Calm down Bree, I know how that is, you’re here now, that’s what counts, right?’ You nodded as he led you to the back room. He taught you how the register computer programmed worked, it was really simple. You hated things that were complicated, the most simple the better. You weren’t the one actually making the drinks so you were fine. After a good amount of time practicing on the practice computer, you were given your apron and put at the counter. The other girl, Molly, was already out there working. She was a bit shorter than you, she had the same color skin as you, with black hair with red streaks added into it. She looked like someone you could really get along with and she was your age too. When you had down time you got to know each other. You found out you went to the same school, she wanted to go into acting/performing and was into a lot of the same music as you were. While on break Gerard came in and spotted you, he walked over and kissed you on the cheek. ‘Hey sugar, how’s work going?’ ‘Pretty good,’ you smiled. Molly slightly cleared her throat. ‘Ah yeah, this is Molly, she works here too. She goes to our school. And Molly this is Gerard, my boyfriend,’ you introduced them to each other. ‘Didn’t we have sophomore math together?’ She laughed, ‘yeah, you used to throw spit balls at me.’ ‘Oh yeah, sorry about that,’ he apologized. She shrugged, ‘it’s alright. That was two years ago, I’m not big on holding grudges for very long anyways.’ He smiled, ‘cool.’ ‘So would you two ladies like to joy us for a trip to the mall,’ Gerard asked. You looked at Molly and she nodded, ‘yeah sure babe. What time?’ ‘Um how bout when you guys get off work, everyone wants to get their costumes for the dance tonight. Are you going to the dance Molly?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘Oh with who,’ you asked. ‘Bert McCracken,’ she said. ‘I know him, he’s awesome! We used to get sent down the office everyday in junior high together. Damn Bert is awesome, too bad once high school started we got separated and joined new groups of friends, I’ve missed him,’ chimed in Gerard. ‘Hey you think Bert would wanna come to the mall with us too,’ you asked. ‘I can call him and see if he’s up for it,’ she said. ‘Awesome, oh don’t tell him I’ll be there, I wanna surprise him,’ Gerard said with a big grin. You and Molly laughed, ‘alright, I’ll just tell him that I‘m picking him up after work to go to the mall with me.’ ‘Awesome, well I better go, you probably have to get back to work anyways, I’ll be back to pick you up after work, do you need a ride Molly?’ ‘Nah I drove here, I’ll pick up Bert and meet you guys there, where do you wanna meet?’ ‘Hot Topic,’ you suggested. ‘Great!’ ‘Awesome, I’ll see you ladies later, have a good rest of your first day babe, I’ll be back in a couple hours,’ he said and kissed you on the cheek. You watched him leave and you and Molly got back to work once your break was over with.
You were so happy once the clock hit 5pm, it was time to go, your shift was done. Molly already called Bert to tell him she was picking him up to go to the mall. ‘Um we may have a couple more guests, is that alright?’ ‘Yeah sure, who?’ ‘Umm Quinn, Branden and Jeph. They are friends of Bert’s and mine.’ ‘Yeah that’s cool, we’ll see ya there then!’ You said as you saw Gerard pull up and wave to you. You waved back at Molly as she got in her car. You were off to the mall, ‘hey babe. We have a few more people coming.’ ‘Who? Some of Bert’s group of friends, Quinn, Branden and Jeph.’ ‘Ah them, that’s awesome! I’ve missed those guys. It sucked once high school started, we were all really close, like before we had girlfriends and other things to keep us busy, usually it was me and Bert though that got in the most trouble, I miss those days! It’s gonna be great seeing them again!’ ‘You never had any classes together?’ ‘Nope, we got screwed over and had nothing together the past 3 years, then we drifted apart and I think they started a band, not completely sure though. Bert had been talking about making a band way back in junior high, but yea it never went through then, but from a few things I’ve heard they did make one finally.’ ‘Awesome, you should ask him about it.’ ‘Yeah probably will,’ he said as he pulled into a parking spot. You got out of the car and he held your hand as you walked into the mall together. You saw, Mikey, Vanessa, Ivy, Frankie, Ray, Courtney, and even Matt and Cori there. ‘Hey guys, guess what, we’re meeting some more people here!’ ‘Who,’ Frankie asked. ‘Remember, Bert, Quinn, Branden, and Jeph,’ Gerard said. ‘Yeah.’ ‘Them and Bert’s girlfriend, Molly,’ you said. ‘Awesome!’ You heard your name called and saw Molly as you turned around. You saw her with 4 guys, one with long black hair and paler skin, one with blond hair, another one with short black hair and a guy with brown hair, all about the same height and style. ‘Gee!!! Is that you man?!’ ‘Berty!!!’ The one you assumed was Bert ran and jumped on Gerard giving him a hug. ‘Man how long has it been?’ ‘Three years man,’ Gerard said. All the guys started saying hi and stuff, it was like a big reunion. You introduced Molly to Ivy, Courtney, and Vanessa. They all clicked right away. You had a good feeling about this, the group of friends just got bigger. Awesome!
You all looked around Hot Topic for costumes, you and Gerard managed to fid a set of vampire costumes that you absolutely loved. You each tried them on, but wouldn’t show each other, you were making each other wait until the day of to see each other in them. Yours was black and maroon. It was a long black dress that had a maroon velvet corset on the top with elegant embroidery on it. You fell in love with it. You bought it along with a bunch of new make up, most of yours was fine but you wanted to get new stuff anyways. Gerard and everyone else bought theirs too. You all hung out at the mall for a couple of hours, the guys mostly catching up with each other. You wreaked havoc in every store you went into, which eventually led to you all getting kicked out of the mall completely. You all agreed to get together again. You all went your separate ways after that. You, Gerard, and Mikey headed home after dropping Vanessa off. When you got home Gerard went upstairs and pulled out his old year books and started showing you all the pictures they managed to get in. They had the goal of getting in all the sports and clubs pictures when they were being taken. They weren’t in any clubs or sports but they still managed to get into the pictures right before the light bulb would flash. In all of the pictures there was the coach or teacher glaring at them for the idiocy. Gerard told stories for hours about all the pranks they pulled and how they set the record for going down to the office so many times in a day. You could tell that Gerard really missed hanging out with Bert and how ecstatic he was now that they are hanging out again. You kissed Gerard good night and headed into your room, hanging up your dress and putting it away. You looked down the hallway and saw Gerard’s light turn off so you headed downstairs to the basement where Mikey was. He had his back turned towards you, playing his bass softly. ‘How are things going on that thing,’ you asked quietly. ‘Pretty good,’ he said and turned towards you. He stopped and shifted his eyes around, ‘don’t worry Gerard is asleep,’ you said and he relaxed. ‘You haven’t told him have you?’ ‘Nope, don’t worry.’ ‘Thanks.’ ‘Why do you want to keep it a secret from him?’ ‘I donno, I guess to prove him wrong for a change and show him I can do something and stick to it, he can do so much, while I’ve got so little.’ ‘He doesn’t have that much over you.’ ‘Yeah he does, he’s a great artist, he can play guitar, a job, and he has an amazing girlfriend, he’s got a lot going for him right now.’ ‘Aw Mikey, you have a lot going for you too.’ ‘Really? What?’ ‘You’ve got a great girlfriend who loves you, you’re dedicating yourself to an instrument and sticking to it, you’ve got a great family and friends who all love you. Come on Mikey, your life doesn’t suck.’ ‘Guess you’re right Bree, I don’t know why I put myself down so much. Thanks Bree.’ ‘No problem Mikey, I’m here for ya.’ ‘Like wise, remember if Gerard give you any problems or if you wanna talk, I’m here for ya too.’ ‘Thanks,’ you said and yawned. I’m gonna head up to bed, you gonna stay up for a bit?’ ‘Yeah maybe another half hour or so,’ he said. ‘Alright, see ya in the morning, remember we’ve got school tomorrow.’ ‘Yeah, I know, night Bree.’ ‘Night Mikey.’
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Post by <* Sweet Melody Way *> on Sept 4, 2005 14:03:58 GMT -5
Chapter 22[/b][/u]
‘Miss Harmony can you please pay attention for just 5 minutes,’ Ms. Read said. ‘Oh, sorry,’ you said snapping your head forward. You had been looking out the window the whole time. Frankie poked you in the back a couple times to get you to pay attention but you never moved. You paid attention for a little bit until she took her gaze off of you. You looked back up at the clock waiting for the first period bell to rang, it finally did and you jumped up and sprinted out. Gerard and Frankie met you outside in the hallway, ‘having a hard time paying attention babe?’ ‘Just a little.’ ‘Come on, lets go to art, surely you’ll stay awake in there,’ Gerard said. You went to art and turned in the last bit of your portfolio, Gerard never saw the drawing, you wanted to wait to show him. It was the drawing that you did from the picture of you and Gerard from over the summer. You kept it inside it’s folder and gave it to Ms. Charles during class. She glanced inside of it and gave a small smile, you slightly blushed. ‘I’ll add it to the file and have it ready to send out to the colleges you want to send it to,’ she said. You nodded, ‘thank you.’ You headed back to your seat and sat down and worked on a painting you were assigned to do. Once the period was about to end you moved your half finished painting to the other side of the room to let it dry, Gerard stayed back at his seat. The bell rang and Gerard dropped some of his stuff before leaving the class room, ‘go ahead, I’ll meet you before lunch babe.’ You nodded and went off to math, the dreaded class. You waited a couple minutes to see when Gerard would come out of the art classroom but he never did so you ran to math and joined up with Ray and Ivy.
Gerard’s Point of View
I saw Bree walk up to Ms. Charles and giving her a folder, I could slightly see Bree blush. What was the teacher looking at, was it Bree’s last picture for her portfolio for her college scholarships? I remember going over a couple of places with Bree for school next year, she had a whole bunch of them but didn’t think she would get into the same one I was trying for. She told me she didn’t want to even try there, she knew she would get declined entrance. So in the beginning of the school year I asked Ms. Charles if it would be alright if I got copies of Bree’s work, I explained to her about how Bree had not bothered to try to enter into one of the best schools of the country, Ms. Charles was actually surprised. She had faith in her and so did I, so she agreed to give me copies of her work to send in to the school when I was going to send in my own. You see the college wanted you to send in your own work, they felt that if the student really wanted to go there, then they will do it themselves instead of having their teacher do it for them. As the period got closer to an end, I did everything I could to stall, even dropping my stuff in the middle of the classroom so Bree would leave. She left and I picked up the last of my things and walked over to Ms. Charles. She handed me a copy of Bree’s last piece of work with a small smile across her face. She left the room as I looked down at the drawing. It was us, when she drew it I have no idea, but it was amazing. How could she think she couldn’t get into the same school as me, she was a thousand times better than me. We all knew she could get into any art school she wanted, just she didn’t want to believe it herself. She always doubted herself. I sighed and ran off to my gym class after putting the drawings in my locker.
Your Point of View
You sat through boring math with Ray, Ivy, and Frankie. Ivy and Frankie were passing notes back and forth to each other the whole time. You sat there with my head resting on my hand. Trying to pay attention, but how much algebra can a person retain? Not much. You wondered if Gerard actually made it to gym class on time, he didn’t leave the classroom until a while after you. You shook the thought off as the bell rang. You all quickly ran off to lunch, you met up with everyone in the courtyard outside. Gerard was already out there waiting, saving a table under the big oak tree. You all savored the last few weeks that you were going to be able to sit outside, away from the jocks and cheerleaders. Once the first snowfall hits, they push you all to sit inside and lock off the courtyards, which really sucked. You sat down next to Gerard, who had a small smile on his face when he saw you. Matt and Cori actually sat with you guys today, they did a couple times a week and today was one of those times. ‘Alright so does everyone have their costumes now for the dance,’ Ivy asked, taking charge. You all rolled your eyes, ‘yes Ivy, for the thousandth time,’ Ray said. ‘I’m just making sure.’ Ray and Courtney were going as hippy’s, it was the easiest thing for them since Ray’s hair was perfect for it. Ivy and Frankie were going as King Tut and Cleopatra. You and Gerard were going as vampires. Mikey and Courtney were going as Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. Then there was Matt and Cori who were going as corpses. You all had your costumes already and wouldn’t let anyone see each other in them until the night of the dance. You all went over the plans for like the tenth time, granted the dance was 2 weeks away you still had time, but Ivy wanted to make sure everything was in place. The rest of the day flew by along with the rest of the week.
Fast Forward Two Weeks: Halloween Dance
You ran around the house gathering up all your make up, you had your black eyeliner and shadow, your fake blood and the white face make up. You were surprised that your skin color wasn’t that much darker than the rest of you. You straightened out your hair and added in the silver clip in hair extensions. All you needed now was to get dressed into your costume, Mikey and Gerard were banging on the door of the bathroom because they needed to put on their make up. You opened the door and Mikey jumped back about 5 ft. You laughed and tan off to your room, before they got a good enough look at you. You heard them fighting in the bathroom for a good half hour, most of it coming from Mikey. ‘He just had to pick the costume that required the most make up,’ you rolled your eyes. Finally 6:30 rolled around and you were all finally ready. The dance started at 7. Frankie finally arrived and you all piled into his car. Trying your best not to squish anyone and ruin their costumes. ‘Hey Bree, awesome make up job on Gerard, he actually looks like a vampire,’ Frankie said. ‘Hey, don’t thank me. He did it all himself,’ you said. ‘Really? Gerard is there something you want to tell us?’ ‘Umm no, why?’ ‘How the hell did you learn to put on make up?! I had to have Ivy do mine, where the hell did you learn how to do it?!’ ‘I donno, it isn’t that hard. I guess when I was little I used to watch my mom put hers on in the morning before she would head out to work, and I’ve seen Bree do hers enough times to figure it out, it’s just like drawing but on skin,’ he explained. ‘Man, thank god that’s how you knew how to do it. For a second there I thought you went all girly on us. Hey Bree, that means you’d lose your boyfriend to a guy!’ ‘Nah, he loves me too much to turn on me now,’ you said and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Frankie rolled his eyes and held Ivy’s hand that was resting on the arm rest. Frankie pulled into the school parking lot where you saw Bert and Molly walking in as skeletons. You met up with everyone in the dark, actually good, decorated gym. It was obviously created to look like a haunted house. For the next 3 hours you all chatted and danced around in the gym like everyone else. ‘So why do you guys always refuse to come to any school events?’ ‘Well, you see, Gerard here, myself, and Ray,’ Frankie began explained. Gerard and Ray started to burst out laughing and Frankie was on the brink of laughing too. ‘What did you three do,’ you asked with a raised eyebrow. ‘They decided to be dumb and throw a couple stink bombs in the school bathrooms during our freshman year Homecoming dance and us all kicked out,’ Ivy said. ‘But babe, it was hilarious! Come on the whole football team was in the guys bathroom, so were the cheerleaders, well they were sporadically intermixed between the two,’ Frankie explained. You all burst out laughing. ‘What’s up guys,’ Molly said as she walked over. ‘Hey,’ you managed to get out while in the middle of laughing. ‘What’s so funny,’ Bert asked. ‘Dude remember freshman year when someone threw stink bombs in the bathrooms,’ Gerard asked him. ‘Yeah, oh wait that was you! Awesome! Classic touch, they had it coming!’ Every one managed to calm their laughing and danced for the last couple of songs. You had to pull Gerard out onto the floor for the last slow song of the evening, he gave you puppy dog eyes, ‘oh no, we’re dancing.’ He pouted and placed his hands on your waist and you wrapped your arms around his neck. He pulled you close to him and you rested your head on his chest. ‘I love you,’ he whispered and kissed your temple. You smiled and snuggled deeper into his chest. The song slowly ended but Gerard didn’t let go of you right away. You could hear the people shuffling off the floor and out the gym. ‘Come on you two undead love birds, lets go, we still have after parties to catch,’ you heard Ray yell across the gym. Gerard gave a slight groan and shifted his weight, you opened your eyes and took Gerard’s hand in yours as you headed out of the gym and out to the car. You all loaded up in the same cars you were in when you arrived.
Gerard pulled you close to him in the car and wrapped his arm around you. ‘You know what Frankie, just drop me and Bree off at home, we’re not really up for partying,’ he said. ‘Whoa! Since when are you two not willing to party?’ ‘Tonight,’ you said. ‘Alright, if you wish,’ Frankie said and was soon driving up into the drive way. Mr. And Mrs. Way were out for the night, so it was no surprise that the lights were all off when you got home. Gerard took out his house key and opened up the door and flicked on the lights. You two stumbled your way upstairs and changed out of your costumes and into some p.j.‘s and headed back down to the basement. ‘So what movie you wanna watch sugar?’ ‘I donno, pick one out, doesn’t matter to me,’ you said as Gerard searched for a movie to watch. He pulled out a classic vampire movie, you rolled your eyes when you saw the cover. He laughed and put it in. You snuggled up next to him on the couch with the blanket over the two of you. You fell asleep half way through the movie when Gerard was running his fingers through your hair. When the movie ended, he was asleep too. You both were curled up on the couch, sleeping through the night.
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Post by <* Sweet Melody Way *> on Sept 5, 2005 21:10:01 GMT -5
Chapter 23[/u][/b]
You woke up the next morning to the phone ringing, at first you could faintly hear it but soon it became loud and clear. You felt Gerard shift under you, you both woke up and groaned at the phone. He glanced at the clock, ‘who the fuck in their right fucking minds would call this fucking early!’ ‘What time is it?’ ‘6AM!’ You groaned and fell back down on him, laying your head on his chest. You let the phone ring a couple more times before the machine got it. You listened, it was Mikey’s voice coming from it. ‘Hey guys, Gerard? Bree? Ya there! Really guys we need you to come pick us up-’ Gerard got up quickly and picked up the phone. ‘Where are you?’ ‘What the fuck are you doing there?!’ ‘Mikey! God fine, I’ll come get you in a few minutes, you’re in so much fucking trouble when I get you home!’ He ended and threw down the phone. ‘What happened?’ ‘Little too much partying and they ended up at the police station,’ he explained. You shook your head in disbelief. ‘I thought Mikey hated drinking and stuff?’ ‘He does, he usually is just guilty by association, but yeah he’s off the hook because he didn’t have any alcohol in his system, as for the rest of the guys, well, yeah they are in deep shit,’ Gerard said. ‘You gonna go and get him?’ ‘Yeah, I’ll go change and get him.’ Gerard trudged his way upstairs, you laid back down on the couch and fell back asleep. You felt Gerard give you a kiss on the forehead before he left to go pick up Mikey and Vanessa. (She was there too). You woke up hearing Gerard yelling at Mikey. ‘I swear man, I wasn’t drinking! It was all Frankie, I swear!’ ‘Whatever, but you’ve got 6 hours to think of a fairly good excuse to tell Mom and Dad!’ You heard Mikey run upstairs to his room and slam his door shut. Gerard must have took a lot out on him in the car. You got up and walked upstairs and saw Gerard putting his jacket in the closet. ‘How’d it go?’ ‘Oh sorry babe, didn’t mean to wake you. I don’t think Mikey will be partying for a while.’ ‘I woke up a few minutes before you got home, don’t worry about it.’ He walked over and kissed you softly on the lips and then headed into the kitchen, you followed behind him.
You pushed a few of black strands of hair away from your face as you sat down at the table. You let out a small yawn as Gerard set down a cup of coffee in front of you. ‘You gotta work today?’ You shook your head, ‘nope, asked for the weekend off, due to the dance.’ Gerard smiled, ‘great!’ ‘What got a hot date or something?’ ‘Maybe,’ he said with a smirk. ‘Oh really, with who?’ ‘Ray,’ he said. ‘Oh that hurts, I’ve been dumped for Ray!’ ‘Yep.’ You placed your hand over your heart and slightly laughed. Gerard laughed and pulled you up to him and smothered you in kisses. You giggled as he tickled you at the same time. ‘Aw baby you know I would never leave you, especially not for Ray!’ You laughed, ‘ I know…now…stop…tickle...ing…me! I…can’t…breathe!’ Gerard laughed and let you go. You caught your breath and ran upstairs. Gerard shifted his eyes back and forth in confusion. ‘Where are you going?’ ‘Muahahaha! Wouldn’t you like to know Batboy!’ ‘Aww come on!’ ‘Nope,’ you yelled down the stairs. Gerard came running up and pushed on your already locked door. ‘Ow! What’d you have to go and lock it for?’ You opened it just a crack and saw him rubbing his shoulder, ‘aww poor little Batboy get hurt?’ He gave a sad face, ‘yes.’ ‘Hah to bad!’ You slammed the door back shut but left it unlocked. Gerard opened the door and calmly walked in and sat down next to you on your bed. He wrapped his arm around your waist and you rested your head on his shoulder. ‘So yeah, do you want to do anything today?’ ‘Mmm, not really. It’s my only day off of work this week. Just wanna rest for the day,’ you told him. He rubbed your back, ‘yeah that’s fine. I think Mikey is going out later with the rest of the guys, and my parents are working, so we’ll have the house to ourselves.’ You gave him a small push, ‘and what does that mean Mr. Way?’ He shrugged, ‘I donno, just that we have the house to ourselves for a little while.’ ‘Oh okay,’ you said and closed your eyes. Gerard got up for a second and closed your door, ‘privacy,’ he shrugged. You nodded your head and laid down on the bed, he crawled in next to you and pulled a blanket over to the two of you. You felt him pull you close to him and you drifted off to sleep.
You woke up to find your room completely dark, you glanced over at your clock as saw it was already 7pm. ‘Gerard,’ you groaned. He shifted a little bit behind you, you rolled over so you were facing him. He looked so peaceful when he was asleep, you didn’t want to wake him. But if you didn’t you wouldn’t get any sleep tonight, which would most likely land you in detention for sleeping in class tomorrow. You poked him in the shoulder, ‘Gerard,’ you repeated. ‘Aw come on sugar just 5 more minutes,’ he said softly. ‘What if I told you it was 7,’ you said. He groaned. ‘7 at NIGHT!’ His opened up, ‘really?’ ‘We slept all day,’ you said. ‘Cool, that means we can stay up all night,’ he said with a smile. ‘Don’t even think about it,’ you said and gave him a small shove. The room fell quiet when you heard shuffling coming from your closet. You and Gerard just stared at the closet doors, then you heard it again, you ended up jumping on top of Gerard. ‘What the hell,’ he said looking at the closet. He looked at you and then back at the door, he put you back down on the bed and got up. He walked over to the closet door and quickly opened it. ‘FRANKIE! MIKEY! What the fuck are you doing!?’ They both looked at him terrified and ran out of your room faster than light. You heard the front door slam shut and the car start up outside. ‘Well, I don’t think we’ll be worrying about them for a while,’ he said. You rolled your eyes, ‘boys.’ ‘Uh hey, I’m a guy too ya know.’ ‘I know, but you don’t sit in my closet while I’m sleeping, do you?’ An evil grin came across his face, ‘who says I don’t come in here in the middle of the night and watch you sleep?’ ‘Okay my little vampire, whatever floats your boat,’ you laughed. He laughed and sat down on the bed next to you. ‘So what are we gonna do about those two?’ Another evil grin came across his face, ‘let me take care of that.’ You shake your head, ‘I don’t even want to know, do I?’ ‘You’ll see!’
An hour past and Mikey and Frankie dared to come back to the house for dinner, ‘hey mom is it alright if Frankie stays the night?’ ‘Yeah sure, remember though, it’s a school night, get to bed early!’ ‘Thanks, we will!’ You all stayed up till 10 watching a vampire movie, Mikey actually dared to watch it, he kept his face stuffed into the pillow the whole time but he didn’t cry or anything. Frankie and Mikey headed to bed first and then you and Gerard. He waited for a little while after they left the room until he followed suit. He ran up to his room as quietly as possible before coming back out with his art supplies. He held up two permanent markers and his paint kit. Across his face was a huge grin, you just nodded and took one of the markers and a paint brush. You had to hold in your laughter. ‘I’ll take Frankie, you take Mikey,’ you whispered. He smiled and pushed opened Mikey’s bedroom door slightly and slipped inside. Frankie was sleeping on the floor while Mikey was in his bed. Both of them were sleeping on their backs, ‘perfect,’ you thought. Gerard went right to work on Mikey’s face, you tip toed over to Frankie and started your skills of face painting. After 20 minutes of wreaking havoc in the room on them you guys quietly tip toed back out of the room and into your own. Gerard leaving you with a good night kiss.
Frankie and Mikey made their way downstairs to the kitchen a few minutes after you and Gerard were already eating. You both were silently chewing cereal when you saw Frankie and Mikey walk in. You both ended up spitting out what you had in your mouth and bursting out into laughter. ‘What’s so funny,’ Mikey asked. Gerard had already keeled over onto the ground in a laughing fit. ‘Seriously man, what the fuck is so funny,’ Frankie asked through a yawn. You managed to calm down your laughing, ‘so how did you sleep, Return from the Dead Raggedy Ann and Andy,’ you asked. ‘Huh?’ Frankie and Mikey looked at each other and both grew wide eyed. Their faces where pretty much the same, white with bright red spots on their noses and freckles, they looked just like the dolls, but a bit creepier, with heavy black eyes and black lips. ‘Hey! What’d we do to you?’ Gerard stood up and brushed himself off, still letting out a few giggles. ‘As I recall, you were sitting in Bree’s closet while we were sleeping yesterday,’ Gerard said. ‘Oh shit, this stuff will come off right, we’ve got school!’ You and Gerard looked at each other, ‘guys, it’s water proof, that stuff isn’t gonna come off and we don’t have the solution to get it off.’ They gave both of you death glares. ‘Sorry man, but it was pay back. We’ll bring home the solution from school, we’ll get you cleaned up when we come home,’ Gerard said. ‘I’m not going to school like this!’ ‘Bullshit you are! You two deserve every speck of paint on your faces. Have fun today,’ Gerard said and got ready for school. Mikey and Frankie groaned and got ready for school, they sat in the bathroom for 20 minutes after you got done getting ready. ‘Come on guys, give it up, we gotta leave!’ Gerard grabbed his keys as the slowly made their way downstairs and out to the car. At school, everyone stared at them or burst out laughing. They gave the excuse that it was for a project or speech. For the most part the excuse was believable. Ivy and Vanessa couldn’t stop laughing every time they would see them, ‘aw come on guys, it’s not that funny,’ Mikey wined. ‘Yes it is sweetie. What did you do to get Gerard and Bree pissed enough to do this anyways?’ ‘Umm, we, well, we, you see we were spying on them yesterday and they caught us, so they kinda got back at us,’ Frankie stammered. Even with the face make up on you could see his face turning red. None of the teachers did anything or say anything about it, they just figured it was some joke they were pulling off. Once you got home you helped them get the make up off from the solution you made up in art class with Gerard. Once it was off they were so happy. ‘There, we’re even guys!’ You nodded, ‘alright we’re even, for now,’ you laughed. After dinner Frankie went home and you all went off to do your home work for the night.
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Post by <* Sweet Melody Way *> on Sept 5, 2005 21:14:02 GMT -5
Chapter 24[/b][/u]
~* Halloween: Frankie’s Birthday *~[/b]
Today, is Frankie’s birthday. The first one to be legalized. ( I know Frankie is the youngest, but it just fit better if he was one of the older ones, I didn’t realize how young he was until after I got far into writing this and I didn’t want to go back through it all and fix it, so yeah, it just fits better with him being 18 and having Mikey as the youngest.)You all had gone out over the past week to get things for his party, well surprise party, and his gifts. You, Gerard, and Mikey all pitched in and got him something that you knew he would love forever. (You’ll see later.) Some how your boss agreed to let you and Gerard both have the day off. Everyone pretty much were able to get the day off, most places closed early, due to the fact that it was Halloween and would rather be at home keeping guard of their house. Fending off the mischievous ones who throw eggs and T.P. houses. But anyways, you all had it planned where Ivy was going to have Frankie come along with her when she was going to be taking her little sister around for trick-or-treating. While she was busy with keeping him away from his house, you would all be fast at work getting everything set up. Frankie had no clue. His parents were in on it, so they made sure he was going to be out of the house in time.
‘Mikey, we’re gonna be late, do you have everything?’ ‘Yeah I do,’ he said, checking his bag to make sure. ‘Good, now lets get going, Ivy should have him out of the house by now,’ Gerard said checking his watch. The three of you filed out of the house and into Gerard’s car. ‘Did you call up Bert and the guys,’ you asked getting in the car. ‘Yeah, I did. They are on their way over to his house now too.’ ‘You got Frankie’s gift right,’ you asked him. ‘Ah yeah, we have to go pick that up, I had them keep it locked away until now. You know Frankie would have found it when he would come over, so we have to make a stop before we get over there,’ Gerard explained. ‘No problem,’ Mikey said. You quickly drove over and picked up his gift and headed to his house. When you got there everyone was running around putting things up and getting everything organized. ‘Thank god you guys are here, you have the last of the things we need to put up,’ Courtney said when you all walked in the door. ‘how much longer until they will be here,’ you asked. ‘Half hour, so we gotta hurry,’ Ray answered, while putting the cakes in the refrigerator. A few minutes later the others all showed up. Everything was set, the pizza was ordered, the decorated and gifts were in place, except for yours. Everyone shut the lights off and got into hiding places as Frankie’s mom saw Ivy and Frankie coming up the house.
Frankie and Ivy walked in lip locked. You looked over at Gerard and gave a shocked look, he had the same look on his face. You all stayed quiet and heard them fall onto the couch, then Ivy broke away. ‘Frankie,’ she said softly, signaling all of you to get ready. ‘Yeah?’ The lights all turned on and everyone jumped out and screamed, ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!’ Frankie jumped and fell off the couch, ‘whoa! What the hell?!’ ‘Language,’ Mrs. Iero said. ‘Sorry mom. But still, what the heck is going on?!’ ‘’It’s your birthday silly, you think we forgot or something,’ Ivy said. ‘Well no, but I wasn’t expecting this!’ The door bell rang, Frankie looked at all of you with a raised eyebrow. Mrs. Iero got the door, it was the pizza guy. She paid and came back with the pizza’s, ‘looks like we can start eating!’ Bert ran over to the pizza’s first, ‘FOOD!’ Everyone laughed, ‘what I didn’t eat lunch and the only thing we’ve got in my house right now is candy, you know after the thousandth piece you get kinda bored of the stuff.’ 'That's because you've eaten ten bags of the 3 Musketeer Bars,' Molly said. 'Oh yeah,' Bert said innocently. You all laughed and started eating. ‘You guys seriously rock,’ Frankie said with his mouth full. ‘It was the least we could do, it is your 18th birthday after all,’ Ray said. Once everyone was done with pizza and almost all the pop was gone, it was cake time.
Mrs. Iero brought out a cake with the candles lit and all. It was a smaller cake, for a certain reason. She put it down in front of Frankie and Mr. Iero got a picture of all of you grouped together behind him, his face with a very childish smile across it. Mr. Iero snapped the shot and everyone started to sing. (You all know the words to Happy Birthday I trust.) Once the song was over with Frankie blew out the candles. The lights turned back on and Frankie pulled out all the candles and set them off to the side. He looked around at everyone and gave a playful smile. Ivy rolled her eyes, the next thing everyone saw was Frankie’s face in the cake. Ivy pulled his face out of it and grabbed a chunk of the cake and smeared it on his already frosting covered face. Frankie took a chunk of the cake too and smeared it on her face. ‘Hah, now we’re both covered in cake,’ Frankie laughed. Ivy kissed him and laughed. Mrs. Iero brought out a much larger cake for everyone. ‘How’d you guys know I’d do that?’ ‘Come on Frankie, you’ve done it every year since you were 5, we know these kind of things,’ Gerard said. ‘Good point,’ he laughed. Mr. Iero threw Frankie and Ivy each a towel to get the cake and frosting off of their faces. You all chatted and laughed while having cake. Next was gifts. Yours, Mikey’s, and Gerard’s was gonna be the last gift that was going to be given. There was a reason why too. Everyone else got the other parts for him, the accessories, and your gift was going to be the grand finale. Everyone gathered in the family room, Frankie in the chair and everyone else sporadically sitting in random places. He opened each gift one by one, kind of confused, considering he had a lot of the things already for his guitar. He didn’t really care, he thought he could use some new equipment, his old stuff was getting pretty beat up from being in the band and getting used almost every day. ‘So is that like it,’ he said once he opened the last gift. ‘Nope, you still got one more coming,’ Mikey said. You and Gerard ran upstairs to his parents bedroom and grabbed his gift. You both came back downstairs and walked up behind him. Gerard laid it down in front of him, on his lap. ‘Holy fucking shit!’ Everyone laughed, ‘Franklin, watch the language,’ his mom said. ‘Sorry mom, but come on! How the heck did you guys find one of these! Not only that but where did you find the money, this isn’t the cheapest guitar out there either!’ ‘Lets just say, we’ve been saving up for a while, and it isn’t a used one either, brand spanking new,’ you said. ‘Man you guys seriously rock, thanks guys!’ ‘You’re welcome man, we knew you wanted one of these for the longest time, ever since that day in the guitar shop when you pointed it out and said that you were gonna get it one day, well that day is today buddy,’ Gerard said. ‘Gerard that was like last year!’ ‘Yeah, well hello, I’ve got a job, and yeah, we all put in for part of it.’ ‘Man, I don’t think I can thank you guys enough!’ ‘Did you read what it says on it,’ Ivy said. ‘Hah babe it’s the nickname I gave you when we were little, Pansy.’ She smiled, ‘yep, so when you make it big and famous, you’ll remember me.’ ‘Aw babe, I could never forget about you, besides if we do make it big, you’re coming with me!’ she hugged him around his neck and kissed him on the cheek and whispered, ‘I love you,’ into his ear. He kissed her back, ‘I love you too babe.’ The room filled with ‘Aww’s’ and ‘That’s so sweet.’ The rest of the night was filled with random games and loud music. No drinking considering the parental supervision, but none of you cared. You just all had a great time. Around midnight everyone headed home.
Mikey fell asleep in the 5 minute car ride back home. ‘So you think we should wake him,’ you asked once you were in the drive way and the car was off. ‘Nah, he can sleep out here,’ Gerard said. You rolled your eyes, ‘alright, but we should at least bring a blanket and a pillow out there for him,’ you said. ‘Sounds good,’ Gerard said. You got out the car and Gerard ran inside, before you made it up to the door he was already back outside with a pillow and blanket. You laughed. He opened the opposite side door and draped the blanket over Mikey and moved his head so the pillow was now under it. Mikey moved a little but stayed asleep. Gerard closed the door and locked the car, just in case. It was Halloween after all, who knew what kind of weirdo’s were out tonight. You headed inside and both of you went off to bed. You had a strange feeling that someone was watching you. You walked into your bedroom and closed the door, you glanced over at the mirror and swore you saw someone, but they were gone before you got a good look. You looked around your room and turned on the lights. Nothing, and definitely not another soul in the room. You calmed down, changed and went right to sleep.
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Post by <* Sweet Melody Way *> on Sept 12, 2005 17:49:59 GMT -5
Chapter 25[/u][/b]
~* 2 months later : Winter Break *~
All In Gerard’s Point of View ((even if it isn’t in quotes he’s thinking all of this as it’s happening))
‘Come on, those letters should be in here, where are they,’ I thought while going through the mail box. It was so damn freezing outside, the snow was blowing everywhere. ‘Screw it I’ll just bring it all upstairs and look through it all in my room,’ I mumbled and grabbed everything and ran inside. I saw Bree sitting in the family room watching T.V. ‘Hey, that the mail,’ she asked from the couch. ‘Uh yeah, nothing really in it, just bills and stuff,’ I said quickly and threw my jacket on the coat rack I ran upstairs and locked my door and threw the mail on my bed. It scattered all over the place, I pushed all the letters aside until I found the right ones. The two exact same envelopes, one written in my name and the other in Bree’s name. The logo of the school was up in the corner, my hands were shaking holding the letters in my hand. My future was decided inside the envelope and so was Bree’s. There were a couple other college letters sitting in the pile, most looking the exact same as the others, some to me some to Bree. I grabbed them and put the Visual Arts School envelopes at the bottom of each pile. Mind as well save the best for last. I grabbed the rest of the other mail and headed downstairs. ‘Hey Bree, you did get some mail,’ I said and held up the few envelopes in my hand, which were addressed to her. ‘Oh yay!’ She jumped off the couch and walked over and took them from my hands, she opened the first couple, all put smiles on her face, she must have gotten accepted into the schools. I opened the few and was surprised that I was accepted, guess tutoring did pay off freshman year. She got to the last letter and looked at it funny and held it up, facing the front of it towards me. ‘I didn’t send them anything,’ she said. I bit my bottom lip, ‘I know,’ I said quickly and started fumbling with mine. She took a few steps closer to me, ‘Gerard, did you send them something for me?’ I paused and took a little step back, ‘I might have, just open it!’ She shook her head and sighed and began opening it, she pulled out the letter and I did the same with mine. We looked at each other and she jumped into my arms and gave me the biggest most passionate kiss ever. I had a large smile plastered on my face too. ‘I take it you got in?’ She smiled and kissed me again, ‘thank you so much baby! I’m sorry I told you to never make me bother with that school. You get in too?’ I smiled, ‘yeah, I did!’ ‘Oh congratulations baby! Looks like we’ll end up going to the same college,’ Bree said ecstatically. ‘Come on, lets tell the rest of the guys our good news,’ she suggested. ‘Alright, sounds good! Ooo lets go ice skating or something!’ She laughed and headed upstairs, a few minutes later I could hear the shower running. I ran downstairs where mom and dad were sitting, watching TV, I threw my letter and Bree’s letter at them with a big smile across my face. ‘Congratulations baby,’ my mom said and got up and hugged me. ‘Remember no matter what, we will always support you in your decisions,’ my dad added in. ‘Thanks, yeah I gotta go, me and Bree are going out with everyone else to go celebrate!’ I heard the shower turn off and I waited outside for her to hurry up so I could jump in.
Few minutes later she opened the door all ready to go, well minus the clothes, she had her robe on instead. Make up and hair already done, damn she was beautiful. How the hell did I manage to get a girl like her to like me? I quickly showered up and got dressed, I threw on a pair of jeans, a t-shirt and zip up hoodie along with my black and gray stripped scarf that Bree got me once the cold weather hit. I combed out my hair and let it fall in front of my eyes, making me mess it all up again to push it away from my face. I ran downstairs to find Bree all ready to go, she was tying up her shoe when I came down the stairs. A few strands of hair fell in her eyes when she looked up at me, I smiled and grabbed my jacket and keys. She stood up and brushed the hair away from her face, I gave her a kiss on the cheek as we headed out to the car. ‘Wait! Wait, I’m coming too!’ We both turned around and saw Mikey throwing on his jacket, ‘oh yeah almost forgot him,’ I laughed. ‘Ha ha, very funny, Gerard,’ Mikey scolded as he got into the back seat. Bree climbed into the passenger seat and I got in and turned the car on. We drove off and picked up Vanessa at her house and Bree called Ivy and Frankie, while Mikey called up Courtney and Ray along with Matt and Cori. We all met up at the ice area for the afternoon. Alright, so I’m not the best ice skater in the world, but I got through it, with a few bruises here and there, but it was still fun. We all skated for a couple hours before everyone was groaning for lunch, that’s when we told them we got in to the art school. They were all excited for us, we actually all recently found out where we got accepted. Most of the colleges were near each other in New York, which was awesome. Mikey and Vanessa, well they were only sophomores so they were staying here, but we promise them we’d come visit as often as possible. I promised to Mikey a long time ago that he could call me when ever, middle of the night even, I’d be there for him. Goofy of a brother as he is and all the stuff he does along with the number of hospital visits he’s had, I still love the guy to death. Brotherly love, reminds me of what Bree had with Jeff before he died. I kinda wished I had gotten to know him a bit better, yeah we talked a few times but it was usually while I was waiting for Bree. He was a really cool guy and I could tell he watched out for Bree and loved her. To bad he won’t be there when we get married. Wait, did I just say we’d get married. Whoa stop it Gerard, we’re still in high school, I can’t be thinking of that now! ‘Yo Gerard, you in there,’ Frankie asked, waving a hand in front of my face. I snapped back to attention, ‘yeah sorry, what were we talking about?’ ‘Our wedding,’ Bree said laughing. ‘Huh?!’ ‘I’m kidding, we were talking about college and stuff, and how once we get the chance we’re gonna buy apartments and stuff,’ she said. I calmed down, she really had be going there. Like she was reading my mind or something, creepy. But you know, I could live with her forever and be happy the rest of my life. I don’t know what I’d do if I lost her. She’s my everything. After Alexia I was shattered to pieces, damn bitch had to come and try to claim I was the father to her baby, bitch! We did jack shit together, she was always off with her friends and I was with mine, but she loved saying we did stuff to her friends, usually I’d just go with it to shut them up. Honestly, I’m clean as a board, minus the smoking and drinking, bad habits I know. High school doesn’t help too much either, stress, it sucks like hell. I’m so glad it’s almost over and I’ll get to spend my college years and the years after that with Bree. I hope, well I plan on it being that way. Hmm, New Years is coming up, great! Wait what’s today’s date? The 21st, holy shit, I completely forgot, it’s our 6 month anniversary! Fuck! I wonder if she remembered, most likely, that girl never forgets a date, shit, shit, shit!!! Okay, calm down Gerard, maybe we can all head out to the mall for lunch or something? Yeah, that’s it! ‘Hey, guys wanna go to the mall for lunch?’ They all looked at each other and nodded, ‘yeah sure!’ ‘Great!’
We got to the mall, little did I know, I forgot that there were last minute Christmas shoppers all over the place. How the hell am I going to find her a good anniversary gift with all these fucking people all over the place? Ah I know, there was that jewelry store we passed early. I took another bite from my slice of pizza and said I was gonna go to the bathroom. Frankie looked at me strangely, and got up after me, ‘hey man what’s up, you’ve been acting weird since we left the ice arena?’ ‘It’s our 6 month anniversary, I totally forgot about it, and I need to get Bree something,’ I explained to him. ‘Holy shit! What you gonna get her?’ ‘I donno, I was gonna head over to the jewelry store to see if they had anything, plus I wanted to pick up something else in there too,’ I told him. ‘Sounds cool, mind if I join ya?’ ‘Sure, just don’t tell Bree about anything I bought her, promise me man, no matter what, you can’t say anything,’ I pressed upon. He put his arms up as if surrendering, ‘I promise man, don’t worry my lips are sealed!’ ‘Good, because it’s kinda embarrassing for me to be buying one of these things now, when I know she won’t be getting it for a long time,’ I said all in one breath. ‘What is it?’ ‘You’ll see,’ I said with a big smile across my face. We got to the jewelry store and I bought the two things I wanted to get her and we ran back to the food court, shit where was I gonna put the bag, ah yeah hoodie pocket. Thank god she had her back to me. ‘Sheesh, what took you two forever,’ Ray asked. ‘We were getting it on in the bathroom,’ Frankie said. I rolled my eyes and so did Ivy. Everyone burst out laughing, except me and Bree. ‘Don’t worry Bree, I’m just kidding, he’s all yours, besides, today is your special day anyways,’ Frankie said and pushed me towards her. I gave a half smile and sat down next to her. Everyone went back to their conversations, Bree leaned close to me, ‘you remembered?’ I kissed her on the cheek, ‘how could I forget?’ She smiled with a slight blush, ‘you surprise me every time Mr. Way, I love you,’ she whispered and kissed me softly on the lips. Oh how I love the kisses we shared, it sent me soaring every time, they were so addicting. I wanted her so badly, but I promised her I could wait, yeah, when she’s ready. We finished up lunch and headed back home, I told Bree, we’d be going to dinner and a movie tonight. This time without Mikey following us out to the car. He understood when I told him what today was.
7PM rolled around and it was time for us to go, ‘hey Bree,’ I asked knocking on her door. ‘Yeah, I’m coming,’ she said through the door and opened it up and we headed out for the movie. A vampire movie, of course, but it was her choice so I wasn’t complaining. We got pop corn and headed into the theater and took our seats, the usual, back row center. I wasn’t really surprised that the theater was practically empty, I think there was like maybe 2 or 3 other couples, ,other than us. The movie wasn’t the best, but I don’t think Bree really cared, I think she just wanted to get out of the house. Christmas was in a couple days and it was her first one without her family, I’m sure it’s gotta be tough on her, come on it was her family. I know how much they meant to her, I was the one there to comfort her when she needed it the most, the one she could talk to when she wanted to talk. I was happy to see she started to open up more, rather than solving things the way she used to, cutting. I haven’t seen any new scars or cuts on her anywhere, well no where that she would allow me to see. I trusted her when she said she stopped. Once the movie was over, we headed out to dinner at a nicer restaurant, granted it was nothing like the surprise I threw her back in September after the funeral, but it was still nice. I had the necklace box in my pocket, I couldn’t wait to give it to her. I knew she would love it, I’d seen her looking at it a few times when we’d go to the mall together. She always said that it was too expensive and would walk away from it. Yeah sure it was expensive, but I loved her, so I was more than willing to get it for her, and I could tell she really loved it every time she saw it. Half way through dinner I decided to give it to her. I pulled it out of my pocket, ‘I got you something,’ I said with a smile. She smiled and I pulled out the box and handed it to her, she opened it up and her jaw dropped. Yes! She loved it! ‘Gerard, it’s beautiful,’ she said as she took it out of the box. I got up and took it from her and put it on her and gave her a kiss on the cheek, ‘wonderful, it looks beautiful on you!’ I sat back down and we enjoyed the rest of the evening together. We headed home after dinner, everyone was asleep already, we ended up falling asleep in my room, after our well, long waited make out session. Don’t worry, we didn’t do anything, but you can’t help but try, she stopped me though, I was dumb to even think of pushing it. We ended up falling asleep next to each other, fuck if everyone else saw. I didn’t care, I loved her and if we wanted to sleep in the same bed together then we will, they should trust us to know we wouldn’t try to do anything under this roof anyways. Oh god I could just imagine how that would turn out, looks like it is a good thing to just wait on the whole sex deal until later in the relationship. I glanced over at my dresser drawer knowing what was inside of it, waiting, waiting for the perfect time to give it to her. One day, one day, she’ll get it and we’ll be happily ever after, I know it!
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Post by <* Sweet Melody Way *> on Sept 12, 2005 17:58:14 GMT -5
Chapter 26[/u][/b]
You woke up the next morning and found yourself in Gerard’s room. ‘How did I get in here,’ you thought. Then you remembered last night and smiled, you felt Gerard’s arm slightly pull you closer to him. You glanced over at the clock it was almost noon. You don’t even remember what time you fell asleep last night. You remembered it was 2 days till Christmas Eve, you already had Gerard’s gift all set, wrapped and well hidden. You glanced down at the necklace Gerard gave you the night before, it was a red rose with a diamond in the center on a white gold chain. You stopped for a second, you had to work today! ‘Shit,’ you mumbled and wiggled out of Gerard’s death grip. You slipped out of his room and got ready for work, once you were dressed and ready to go you found a post it note.
Sorry baby, I forgot I had to go to work today. Last night was amazing! Hope you slept well. I love you and I’ll be home around 8, bye baby! Love, Bree XoXoX
You grabbed Gerard’s scarf he had on yesterday, you loved the way it smelled, like him. You wrapped it around your neck and headed out to the car and rove to work. When you got there, Molly was already there. ‘You’re late, Bree,’ you heard Jake say from behind you as you were clocking in. ‘I’m sorry Jake, I was out late last night, I forgot to set my alarm, I’m soo sorry Jake,’ you apologized. ‘Why were you out late?’ ‘Umm well me and my friends were out celebrating, we got into the colleges we wanted to go to so we had a night out to celebrate and it was my 6 month anniversary with my boyfriend so we pulled a late night,’ you told him. He looked at you with a raised eyebrow, ‘well congrats on getting into the college you wanted to go to, just get to work, soon our big rush is gonna be here so get out there.’ You ran out to the front counter next to Molly, ‘hey way to be late! Did Jake lay it on you?’ ‘No, I’m surprised he didn’t. I know he tends to get mad when people get here late, but he’s never done it to me,’ you said. ‘I think he has a thing for you Bree,’ Molly said. You looked at her like she was crazy, yeah sure Jake was hott, but you were in love with Gerard, you could never see Jake in that way, ever! ‘Ew,’ was the only thing you could say. Molly shrugged and took someone’s order. For the next hour or two there really wasn’t that many people. You really didn’t mind, you were getting paid to not do much at all. Around 7:45 walked in someone you didn’t thing you would ever see again, that girl, Alexia. She walked up to you, obviously oblivious to who you were, ‘is Jake here?’ ‘Um yeah, one second. JAKE,’ you yelled to the back. He came walking out and saw Alexia and went to the front of the counter. ‘Hey baby, why are you here. I told you I’d come pick you up after I got off work, which is like 15 minutes from now,’ he told her accompanied with a kiss. You rolled your eyes and wanted to gag so badly, but you held it all in. Damn bitch tried breaking it up with you and Gerard back in September, bitch, was all you could think. ‘I didn’t want to wait for you to get off work, so I decided to come in and keep you company until you got off. Surely you don’t have to close up do you? Can’t one of the others do it?’ You rolled your eyes and looked over at Molly. Jake looked at you and Molly, ‘you guys think you can handle closing up for me?’ He threw the keys at you. ‘Yeah sure Jake, whatever,’ you grumbled, but then things brightened up when you saw Gerard and Bert waltz through the doors. You and Molly looked at each other with big smiles across your faces. Gerard glared at Alexia, she ignored him, and he came up to the counter. Bert to Molly, Gerard to you. ‘So how are you lovely ladies doing tonight,’ Bert asked. Jake glared at them and then at you and Molly. ‘Um Jake, this is Bert and Gerard,’ you said after clearing your throat. Gerard and Bert turned around and said hi. Alexia and Gerard were glaring at each other, ‘what the hell are you doing here,’ Gerard snapped at her. ‘I’m waiting for my boyfriend to get off work, why are you here?’ ‘Same, waiting for the love of my life to get off, which would be right now,’ he said glancing down at his watch. You smiled. Alexia and Alex, those two managed to try to ruin both of your lives. They probably would have been perfect for each other if they didn’t have their significant others already. Both fucked up the relationships, fake, and were looked at as perfect in society, it wanted to make you sick. Jake and Alexia left quickly after that.
You and Molly cleaned up, Gerard and Bert helped a little bit too. You clocked out and locked up the store for the night. You headed out to the parking lot in Gerard’s arms. ‘That’s my scarf,’ he pointed out. ‘Yeah I know, I like it, it smells like you,’ you said. He laughed. ‘It’s kinda like taking you with me, without you actually being there,’ you said. He laughed, ‘wait I drove here and so did you, wait a second where did my car go?’ ‘Um yeah, I brought Mikey along and he took your car home.’ ‘Wait a minute, you let Mikey get behind the wheel of my car? Are you crazy!’ ‘Calm down, he had Frankie with him, our house isn’t that far anyways, we would have gotten a call if something had happened to them,’ Gerard said, trying to calm you down. You got in the car and the ride was rather quiet. ‘Sorry I snapped at you, it’s just it’s the middle of winter and Mikey has only been driving for a little while and knowing Frankie was in the car too, didn’t help that much,’ you said. ‘Nah, I was the dumb one and let him drive home, stupidity on my behalf. I forgot Frankie isn’t the most reliable behind the wheel anyways. I’m sure they made it home though,’ he assured you. ‘So how was work today, minus the part with Alexia and Jake,’ he asked. ‘Pretty dull, Molly has this crazy thought that Jake likes me, but I love you and he’s with Alexia so I don’t think he does. It is odd though that he never gets mad at me when I’m late but gets really pissed when the others are,’ you said. ‘Hmm, maybe he does like you, bastard,’ you heard Gerard mutter the last part. ‘Don’t worry about him baby, I love you, he’s just like Alex I could never like anyone like that again,’ you assured him. He sighed as he pulled into the drive way next to your car. ‘Well looks like they made if home safely.’
Inside you found Mikey and Frankie attempting to put up the tree, with Mr. Way instructing them how to get it up. Mrs. Way was going through the ornament boxes, picking out the ones she liked. After 10 minutes or so, Mikey and Frankie finally got the tree right where it was supposed to be. Mikey ran right to the light box. ‘Oh no you’re not, last time you touched the light box you electrocuted yourself and ended up staying the hospital through Christmas,’ Gerard said and took the box away from him. ‘Aw come on, I won’t do that again, I promise man, please just give me the box!’ Gerard walked away with the box and went downstairs to go test the lights, you followed him down there and sat next to him, taking a strand of the lights and untangling them. You found a long strand of red garland and put it around his neck like a scarf, ‘aw it suits you well, you look so purtyful!’ He laughed, ‘nah it looks better on you,’ he said and put it around your neck. You kissed him on the cheek and helped finish with the lights and brought them back upstairs untangled and stuff. ‘You ready for Christmas, Bree,’ Mrs. Way asked. You thought for a moment, ‘it’s sad this year considering the circumstances, but I think I still enjoy this year.’ ‘That’s good, you’ve had a rough time since you’ve moved here, I think Christmas will be a good way to lift your spirits!’ You smiled, ‘I’m glad I get to spend it with all of you, you guys have been great, I’m very thankful for everything you’ve done for me.’ Once you were all finished decorating the tree, Gerard ran upstairs with Frankie. You looked at Mikey and he shrugged. You ignored it and went downstairs and put in A Nightmare Before Christmas. Mikey joined you a little while later. Half way through the movie Gerard and Frankie came back downstairs and joined you on the couch. ‘Where did you go off to in a hurry?’ ‘Oh it’s nothing, don’t worry about it babe,’ he said and continued to watch the movie. You noticed every once in a while Frankie and Gerard would glance at each other and then at you, you shook it off and finished up the movie and called it a night. Come on, you went to work and then helped with the tree, who wouldn’t be tired? You kissed Gerard and went off to bed for the night, Frankie was still over when you fell asleep, but you made sure you locked your door, Gerard was the only one that had a key that could open it besides you and his parents. So you knew you were safe from any intrusions from either Frankie or Mikey. Frankie left around midnight and Gerard and Mikey went to bed soon after.
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Post by <* Sweet Melody Way *> on Sept 12, 2005 18:05:11 GMT -5
Chapter 27[/u][/b]
Christmas Morning ~ Gerard’s Point of View
I’ve been waiting all night for Frankie to get over here. God where the heck is he! He’s got Bree’s gift, I can’t go downstairs later and have nothing to give her! I sat by my window looking out to watch and wait for Frankie to be out there with her gift. I glanced at the clock, he was supposed to be here over a half hour ago. Okay, maybe he slept in a bit, yeah maybe her gift is giving him trouble or something. I donno, but he better get his ass here soon! Screw this, I’m just gonna call him. I dialed up his number and listened for his phone to ring, finally! ‘Frankie! Where are you?’ I hissed into the phone quietly. ‘I’m coming but the damn thing keeps biting me, I don’t think it likes me all that much Gerard,’ he was giving excuses. ‘Whatever just get over here and drop it off, I’ll be on the front porch waiting!’ ‘Alright, I’m coming,’ he said and clicked off his phone. I quietly crept downstairs and went out onto the cold front porch, a few minutes later I could see Frankie walking down the street with the box. He walked up onto the porch and handed me the box, ‘did it really hurt you?’ He held out his arm, ‘yeah!’ ‘Oh sorry man, but come on you know she’ll love it,’ I said. ‘Yeah I know, anything for Bree,’ he said. ‘Thanks man,’ I said and gave him a manly hug. ‘I’ll see ya tonight man,’ Frankie said and ran back home. He was dumb he was just in his p.j.’s and a scarf, stupid. I ran inside quickly and put the box in my room, in the closet, I set the food and water dish in the box with her and went back to bed. I had the alarm set and ready for early. Which was really only 2 hours from the time it was now. Alright so the 2 hours past quickly, I ended up getting up before the stupid buzzer went off, which was weird, but it was Christmas, and the first one with Bree, so yeah I was excited. I left my hair messy and crept into Bree’s bedroom with her gift. I sat down on the floor and took her gift out and tied a bright red and black stripped ribbon around it’s neck with a little bell attached to the end. ‘You’re lucky mom agreed to this,’ I said and put it on Bree’s bed, letting it crawl next to her and cuddle up by her stomach. I sat down on the floor and waited for her to wake up. Hah she set her alarm too! She woke up a few minutes to see me sitting on the floor with a smile across my face. ‘Merry Christmas babe!’ She smiled and sat up and pulled out her arms and I hugged her and kissed her softly. A soft meow was heard. She glanced down at her bed and got excited. ‘Gerard you got me a kitten!’ ‘Yep!’ ‘Aww thank you baby! I love her, it’s a girl right?’ ‘Yep, I made sure, well I had the girl check, but yeah she said it was a girl,’ I said. ‘Aww thank you, hmm what should I name her?’ ‘What ever you want to name her.’ ‘Hmm, how about Shadow, she’s black so it suits her well,’ she said. Alright so I guess I should tell you what the kitten looked like. It was black like Bree said, along with bright blue eyes and white paws with the tip of its tail white too. Now Bree had mentioned a few times before that she loved kittens but everyone in her family was allergic. Okay so mom wasn’t so thrilled of the idea of having a kitten around but with enough convincing she agreed to it.
Later we had all finished opening our gifts, the art set Bree got me was kick ass. I knew I needed one, just never got the chance to go out and actually go and get a new one. We all pretty much got what we wanted and had our usual family breakfast of pretty much every kind of breakfast food you could imagine. Mom likes to cook and there were definitely zero complaints coming from us.
‘Come on Gerard,’ she said as she pulled me out of the kitchen and up the stairs. I followed her upstairs as she led me to her room. She stopped in the door way, ‘okay,’ I asked, slightly confused. She glanced and pointed upward, I glanced up and then found her lips softly pressed against mine. She pulled away with her arms still wrapped around my neck, ‘Merry Christmas.’ I smiled and she started to push me out of her room and close the door, I stopped the closing door with my hand and gave her another quick kiss. ‘We’re leaving for Rays around two.’ ‘Alright, then that means you’re gonna have to let me get ready, if you want to get there on time.’ I went off to my room and sat down at my desk and looked at the art set Bree got me. It had everything I needed, I closed it up and brought it downstairs to my art room. I set it down on the desk and opened it up again, I heard someone coming downstairs so I closed it back up and put it away quickly and left the room after turning the lights off. It was Bree walking downstairs. ‘Hey sugar,’ I said, coming out of the room. ‘Hey babe! The bathroom is free now, so you mind as well run up there before Mikey does,’ she said. ‘Ah okay, will do,’ I said after giving her a kiss on the cheek and heading upstairs to get ready. After an hour everyone was ready to go and we headed over to Ray’s house for dinner and stuff. Once we were all there we hung out and listened to some old fashioned Christmas music for a while. Mikey insisted. Our parents came later for dinner, along with Grandma and Grandpa. After dinner we went off to the basement and hung out, listening to non Christmas music and playing the new video games and stuff we got. Bree sat down on the couch and had a blank expression on her face before she got up silently and walked upstairs. I watched her leave, Frankie noticed too, the only time he managed to unglue his eyes from the TV. ‘Where’s she going,’ he asked. ‘I donno,’ I said. ‘Want me to go and check on her,’ Ivy asked. I shook my head, ‘no, I think she wants to be alone. It’s her first Christmas without her family, I’ll go in a little bit.’ ‘Yeah, get her soon man, we’re gonna be opening gifts soon,’ Ray said, keeping his eyes on the TV. ‘Alright.’ I heard the front door open and close, she left. I sighed and walked upstairs and asked if anyone knew where she was headed, they didn’t know. Well that left me with 3 options, home, the cemetery, or the park, our three spots. I put on my jacket and followed her foot prints imbedded in the snow. They led me to home. I opened the front door and followed the wet foot prints upstairs to her room where I found her with her back to the door and softly crying. I walked up behind her and put a hand on her shoulder and sat down next to her and pulled her into a hug and let her cry on my chest. Shadow curled up on her lap and lightly purred and rubbed her head on Bree’s hand. ‘Gerard, I hate this! I never thought this would ever happen, having no one on Christmas,’ she mumbled. ‘You’ve got me and the rest of us. I’m sure your family is watching you, it’s Christmas they would want you to have a good one,’ I said. ‘I know, but it’s still painful ya know,’ she said wiping a few tears away from her eyes. Shadow pawed at her, Bree let out a small laugh and stroked her hand over Shadow’s head and down her back . ‘You still up for a party?’ she shook her head. ‘You sure, we’re gonna be doing presents soooon,’ I said giving her a kiss on the cheek . She sighed, ‘I’m not in a very merry mood anymore, you can go ahead, I’ll stay here with Shadow, ‘ she insisted. ‘Are you sure?’ She nodded, ‘yeah, go on. Whatever I get, just bring them home. I’ll be in here when you get back, just promise me you won’t come home drunk?’ ‘Alright, no drinking.’ ‘Promise?’ ‘I promise,’ I said and gave her a kiss on the forehead and went back to Rays.
‘Where’s Bree?’ ‘She went home, can we leave it at that,’ I said. Everyone nodded and we started opening gifts. After that they wanted to party a bit. I decided to just head home and be with Bree for a while. I got home and ran upstairs to find Bree, with her head phones on with the music blasting, reading a magazine. I sat down on the bed and she turned off her music and put the magazine down and greeted me with a small smile. I held up the bag that had her gifts in it. She smiled and sat up and I put the bag on the bed. She opened each of the gifts, this made her smile. She finished opening them and moved them off her bed, came back and sat next to me. ‘You know I was thinking,’ she said. ‘This Christmas was nice for the most part.’ ‘That’s good,’ I said and put, my arm around her and rubbed her opposite upper arm. ‘I’m glad I got to spend it mostly with you,’ she said softly. ‘Me too,’ I said and kissed her temple. ‘What time is everyone coming back?’ ‘Late.’ ‘Oh, okay.’ ‘Hmm, looks like Shadow already found her bed, she’s got a good idea, pretty tired.’ She yawned and repositioned her self so she was laying down on the bed. She patted the bed and I got the hint to lay down next to her. She slowly started to drift off to sleep in my arms, ‘thanks,’ she mumbled. ‘For what?’ ‘Everything,’ she sighed and fell asleep. ‘I’d do anything for you sugar,’ I whispered and kissed her on the forehead and fell asleep.
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Post by <* Sweet Melody Way *> on Sept 20, 2005 20:28:24 GMT -5
Chapter 28 [/u][/b]
New Years Eve [/b]
‘Let’s go , lets go ,lets go!’ ‘Shut up Mikey, we’re leaving in like 5 minutes,’ Gerard snapped at him. ‘Alright, but hurry up, I don’t wanna miss midnight ya know!’ ‘We can go now,’ you said wrapping the scarf around your neck. ‘Fuck yes!’ Mikey ran out to the car. ‘Do you really wan to spend New Years with a whole bunch of people getting drunk,’ Gerard asked. You smiled, ‘yeah, come on.’ ‘Alright,’ he said and you all headed over to Cori’s house. Her parents were gone for the week, celebrating with friends in New York so she decided to have a New Year’s Eve Bash. No harm in that, besides the drinking. Gerard promised you he’d only have a couple drinks at the most, you really didn’t like it when he got drunk. You knew if you got a hold of anything with alcohol in it, you’d find yourself depressed and that was the last thing you wanted to be or feel. So you promised yourself not to drink either. Cori greeted you guys at the door along with Matt, who clearly already had a few drinks. You all walked in and joined the massive group of people that were already there. The music was blasting and the TV was on, showing the celebration on TV, waiting for the count down. Gerard took your hand and led you over to the couch, everyone else went off their own ways through out the house. Around 11:30 or so you and Gerard were laughing and having a good time. You ran into the others randomly through out the night, most of them pretty smashed and acting wild. You looked around the room and then at you and Gerard, you two were the only ones completely sober. After the last fast song you and Gerard wandered back to the couch and sat down. He got up though, ‘I’m going out side really quick, if you want you can go get something to drink, I’ll be on the front porch if you need me.’ You nodded and watched him head outside. He did this sometimes at parties, go outside for a smoke. The habit didn’t bother you too much, you’ve tried getting him to stop before, he attempted a couple times but failed. You got used to the smell and he covered it up rather well, so it never really phased you. You glanced outside and saw the orange glow of the flame touch his cigarette. He turned around and leaned on the railing. You felt someone sit down next to you, ‘hey!’ You turned and saw and exhausted Molly and a jittery Bert. ‘Hey guys! I didn’t know you’d be here!’ ‘Yeah, how long have you been here?’ ‘A while,’ you shrugged. ‘Where’s Gerardy,’ Bert asked. Molly rolled her eyes. ‘He just went outside for a smoke,’ you said. He jumped up and ran outside. You and Molly laughed. ‘Ever since those two found each other, he’s talks non stop about their times in junior high,’ Molly said with a laugh. ‘So how have things between you and Gerard been going? 6 months now right?’ You smiled, ‘yep! It’s been going great, how bout for you and Bert?’ ‘He’s great, even when he gets like this. He definitely makes life interesting,’ she said. ‘Yeah, I can tell. So how long have you two been together?’ ‘Um it will be 1 year tomorrow, he asked me to be his girlfriend after the ball dropped so at exactly mid night it will be 1 year,’ she said with a smile. ‘Awwww, that’s so cute! Congratulations!’ ‘Thanks!’ Gerard and Bert walked back in together, with their arms linked. They looked at you with goofy grins, ‘what are you two up to?’ ‘Sorry ladies, but Gerard and I discovered our undying love for each other,’ Bert said. You and Molly looked at each other and laughed. ‘Well, I hope you two are happy together,’ you both laughed. Gerard and Bert looked at each other and then back at the two of you, slightly hurt. ‘You don’t want us anymore,’ Gerard said with a pout. You held out your arms for a hug, ‘aw baby you know I love you!’ He smiled again and accepted the hug and sat down next to you, Molly got up and hugged Bert. ‘We’ve been together a year, you think I’d let you go that easy, baby?’ He kissed her on the cheek. ‘Hey! Everyone the ball is about to drop!’ Someone yelled and everyone gathered around the TV, minus you and Gerard, you stayed on the couch and just listened to the count down.
‘5...4...3...2...1! Happy New Year!’ Everyone shouted. At ‘1’ Gerard leaned in and kissed a sweet passionate kiss and whispered, ‘Happy New Year. I love you.’ You smiled, ‘I love you too, Gerard Way, this is the best New Years ever.’ He smiled and kissed you again before Frankie ran over and jumped on the twp of you. ‘AHH Frankie what the fuck!’ ‘Sorry,’ he said and got off of both of you, ‘guess what?!’ You both groaned, ‘what?’ ‘I got asked to be in a band! Oh yeah and Happy New Year!’ ‘Happy New Year too! Awesome, I figured one day you’d get asked to be in one!’ ‘Yeah, aww does that mean you won’t be giving lessons anymore?’ He laughed, ‘nah babe I’ll still teach ya! You’re my best student, I don’t know how much more there is left to teach you actually!’ You all laughed and wished him congrats. He ran off to tell the others. ‘It appears everyone is having a great New Years,’ Gerard said. You looked around the room and saw Bert and Molly kissing, everyone else doing something similar or, talking, dancing to the music, or drinking. Around 2AM everyone started to head home. You, Gerard, Vanessa, Mikey, and Ivy piled into one car. You dropped off Ivy then Vanessa before heading home where you were greeted by a dark, empty house. Mikey passed out in the car so Gerard had to carry him in and up to his room. He left him in his clothes and let him sleep.
You let out a small yawn, ‘I think he’s got the right idea,’ you whispered as you both looked at Mikey sleeping. Gerard rubbed the back of his neck, ‘yeah he does.’ You headed out of his bedroom and went off to your rooms. Well you went off to yours, and you thought Gerard went to his. You closed the door and turned your stereo on low and let the rock hard music of Iron Maiden fill your room quietly. A little while later you turned off the music and laid down on your bed, you thought you could faintly hear a guitar playing in the basement. You knew it couldn’t have been Mikey playing his bass, he was passed out cold in his room. Gerard’s parents weren’t home, so all that was left was Gerard. ‘I thought he went to bed already?’ You got up and went downstairs quietly. As you walked down the stairs you heard movement in the kitchen. You stopped frozen in your spot. You slowly crept forward and saw that all the lights were off in the kitchen, you heard a cabinet door open and the spilling of cups onto the counter and floor. You tried to look around for something to defend yourself with, nothing. ‘Great,’ you muttered. You slid down the staircase to the kitchen and quickly turned on the lights. You heard a loud moan. You looked in the kitchen and saw Mikey half asleep, with a scrunched up face from the light. ‘God Mikey, you scared me half to death!’ ‘Ahhh too loud, man Bree, what the fuck!’ ‘I thought I heard a guitar playing and I came down here and heard you fumbling through the cabinets, you scared the living shit outta me!’ ‘I was just getting some Tylenol and a glass of water,’ he said holding onto his head. ‘Oh okay Mikey,’ you apologized. ‘As for the guitar, it’s probably Gerard in the basement playing. He does that sometimes, just randomly in the middle of the night he’ll go down there and play, help him think supposedly,’ Mikey shrugged and took the pills he had in his hand and a gulp of water. ‘Oh, thanks.’ He grumbled and went back up to his room. The guitar playing stopped and you could hear Gerard coming back upstairs, so you went and got a glass of water to not make things look obvious. You picked up a few of the glasses that Mikey dropped and put them in the sink. You took a clean glass and went to the fridge and looked for some juice or something to drink. ‘What are you doing still up?’ You grabbed the orange juice container and looked up at Gerard. ‘I got thirsty so I came down here,’ you told him. ‘Oh okay.’ You set the orange juice container on the table and poured yourself a glass, ‘want some?’ He shook his head, ‘nah, I’m fine. I think I’m gonna head up to bed anyways, night!’ You listened to his footsteps make their way to his room and shut the door.
You gripped the neck and strummed your fingers over the strings. His guitar was similar to yours but a bit older and was black and red. You never heard him play before, he’s heard you plenty of times. Mostly just your practicing, he’d help from time to time but usually you wanted to figure it out on your own. That was one of the other things you liked to keep for your self, your music and your art work. Whether it was playing the guitar, drawing, your journal, or the stories you write, those were the things you liked to keep private and wanted to do all on your own. You fingered through a couple songs lightly so you wouldn’t wake anyone up, mainly Gerard. You figured he was the same way as you were, he kept his art room private and obviously he kept his guitar playing private, he didn’t even mention it when you saw him. You looked at some of the songs he had sitting out already, some of the words were in his hand writing. You picked up a sheet of paper that had scratch marks and had folds and crumpled parts in spots. You put it down when you heard someone coming down the stairs. You put down Gerard’s guitar where you found it and silently ran back upstairs to the kitchen and sat down at the table. Gerard came down the stairs, rubbing his eyes and yawning, ‘you’re still up?’ You nodded and put your glass in the sink. You kissed him on the cheek, ‘see you in the morning sweetie.’ He yawned, nodded and opened the fridge. You walked back up to your room and snuggled under your sheets. You heard Gerard come back up the stairs and go to his room and quietly close his door for the night.
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Post by <* Sweet Melody Way *> on Sept 20, 2005 20:30:00 GMT -5
Chapter 29[/u][/b]
You woke up to two hazel eyes looking down at you. You smiled, ‘hey babe.’ ‘Come on, get up, we’ve got school today!’ ‘Noooooo,’ you groaned. (I am fast forwarding a bit.) ‘Yep, you’re the last one up too, I let you sleep in,’ he said with a smile and patted you through the sheets. ‘fine,’ you muttered and rubbed your eyes then rolled out of bed and gave him a death glare. ‘Aw don’t hate me babe, it’s not my fault. If it were up to me, I’d stay here and have fun with you all day long,’ he said and gave you a kiss on the forehead. You smiled, ‘ahh don’t remind me what I’m missing.’ ‘Sorry, sugar. Hurry up we’re leaving soon!’ You sighed and ran into the bathroom and got cleaned up. Fixing up your hair and make up. You ran downstairs and grabbed a poptart package and ran out to the car where Mikey and Gerard were waiting. ‘Good, you’re ready, lets go!’ Gerard picked up Ivy and Vanessa on the way to school.
‘Hey Bree, you got a pencil?’ Frankie tapped your shoulder in the middle of English. You rolled your eyes and looked through your bag. You found one and tossed it behind you, hitting him in the shoulder. ‘Ouch, why’d you have to throw it at me?’ You turned around and gave him and evil smile and then went back to your homework. You quickly finished up and looked over at Gerard who was contently reading an X-men comic book. The teacher had her back turned to the class, she was working on something at the computer. So you threw an eraser at Gerard when you knew it was safe to throw it. It hit him right square in the face, he jumped and looked around. You quickly looked down at your notebook to make it look like you didn’t do it. You did all you could to hold in your laughter. Out of no where, your eraser was returned, with a spit ball accompanying it. You wiped the spit ball of your face and glared at Gerard and shaking your head slowly. ‘Not cool,’ you mouthed. He just gave a smile and a silent laugh. ‘You’re dead,’ you mouthed. All through that hour and the next, you annoyed Gerard a number of times. Randomly throwing things at him, pencils, wads of paper, a few paper footballs and airplanes, usually with little notes saying you loved him and stuff. He would throw one back saying something similar or something sweet. One of the last few you got from him asked you if you wanted to do something. You threw back your response, giving him a definite yes. He smiled and scribbled down on the piece of paper he was gonna throw back at you. ‘Wanna ditch at lunch?’ You eyed him suspiciously, and scribbled down, ‘and what would we be doing while we are ditching?’ ‘I donno, wanna go somewhere,’ he wrote back. ‘Sure, anywhere is better than this torture chamber, they call school,’ you wrote back. ‘Great! Meet me in the back courtyard, you know the “restricted” one, we can get out of here easily by going that way, plus none of the teachers will see us leave.’ ‘Alright, sounds good, I’ll meet you there,’ you handed it to him with a smile and wink. He blew a kiss at you after he opened it.
The bell to go to lunch finally rang. You met up with Gerard at the closed off courtyard. ‘So how exactly do we get out of here,’ you whispered. He grinned an evil smile, ‘leave that to me, m’lady!’ You followed him down the hall to a closed room, that had a door that led you to your freedom. He put his hand on the door knob, ‘ready?’ ‘Yep!’ ‘Let’s get outta here,’ he took your hand and led you outside and into the parking lot. He looked around and spotted his car. You both jumped in and quickly left school grounds. ‘Who knew it could be that easy?’ ‘I know, they still haven’t caught on,’ he said. You drove around for a little while, ‘so where do you want to go?’ ‘Hmm, I donno, one of our spots?’ He nodded and in a few minutes you found yourselves walking through the white blanketed cemetery. You two wandered about the cemetery grounds hand in hand, trudging through the soft snow. ‘Come on, lets go to our spot,’ you said and pulled Gerard through the snowy graveyard. You pulled him to the large mausoleum you two would sit at when you would come here. Gerard brushed away some of the snow on the footsteps then sat down, with you by his side.
'Why’d you want to ditch,’ you asked rubbing your hands together to keep them warm. ‘Didn’t want the fun of winter break to be over just yet,’ he shrugged. ‘Yeah, I know what you mean. I miss it already, but before you know it it’s gonna be summer and we’re gonna live it up then go our separate ways,’ you sighed. ‘I know, it’s scary to think it’s so close, college I mean. Which I wanted to talk to you about that,’ he said. ‘Okay,’ you said. ‘What do you say about getting an apartment rather than a dorm room?’ ‘I donno, never thought about that option before.’ ‘Well, I was online the other day and I saw some really cheap apartments for rent near campus and I was wondering if,’ he said and looked up at the sky, which started to lightly snow. ‘If we could live together,’ you finished his question. He slightly blushed, ‘yeah.’ ‘Alright,’ you said. ‘Really?!’ ‘Yeah, honestly, I don’t think I could room with a girl, it could get catty, if you know what I mean. Plus I think it would be a big step for us, by that time we’ll have been together for over a year. Wait, did you ask your parents about this yet?’ He bit his bottom lip and looked away, ‘well actually I asked them if it was cool if I rented with Frankie or Ray, and said you’d be with either Ivy or Courtney.’ ‘Gerard!’ ‘What? I knew she’d say no, considering we’re together. She loves the fact we’re together but I don’t think my Mom would be to happy seeing us living together, well not yet anyways.’ You rolled your eyes and laid your head on his shoulder. ‘Gerard Arthur Way, what am I going to do with you?’ ‘I donno, but I think you’ll come up with something good, come on lets go somewhere warm, my ass is frozen to this step,’ he said as he tried to get up. ‘Alright, you can go ahead and warm up the car, I think I’m going to sit here for a few more minutes, I’ll catch up, don’t worry,’ you said. He nodded and you watched him walk towards the car. You slowly got up and grabbed a chunk of snow and rolled it into a ball and threw it right at Gerard, hitting him in the back of the head. ‘Hey! No fair!’ ‘Sorry love,’ you smirked and went down to pick up more snow, which resulted in you actually face first in the snow and Gerard on top of you. ‘Get off me you big oaf!’ ‘Did you just imply that I am fat,’ he asked. ‘Maybe, now come on baby, your squishing me and I’m freezing in this snow,’ you begged. He kissed you on the lips, making you melt inside, ‘warm now?’ you smiled, ‘that was wonderful but you’ll get your chance one day to lay on top of me, now off!’ He sat up a bit, still with his legs straddled over you. ‘Ooo when?’ You sat up on your forearms, ‘one day, okay? Now off!’ ‘Fine, fine, fine,’ he said and got off of you and helped you out of the snow and pulled you into a kiss. It was perfect, besides the fact that you were soaking wet from behind pushed and held in the snow. The snow was perfectly, softly falling, no one was around, well no one living anyways. But you stopped mid kiss, you felt eyes on you and they weren’t friendly eyes. ‘What?’ You shook your head, ‘do you feel like we’re being watched?’ ‘Sorta, but it’s probably just the fact we’re around a whole bunch of dead people, we are in a cemetery after all.’ ‘No seriously,’ you said. ‘Sorta.’ You turned around and thought you saw something, but it was your eyes playing tricks on you, or so you hoped. You walked back towards the car, you passed a mausoleum that caught your eye. Something was strangely familiar about it, ‘Gerard do you know who this is?’ ‘Corpseweb? Yeah, he’s the guy that once owned the Belleville mansion, remember the one I took you to a few months ago,’ Gerard said. ‘Really?’ ‘Yeah, I told you he’s been dead for years, see, he died in the late 1900’s,’ he said and pointed to the date. ‘Hah, guess you’re right, I was freaking out over nothing,’ you said and headed towards the car. Gerard stood in front of the tomb a few moments longer and then caught up with you, by this time everyone was getting out of school and you had to go back and pick up Mikey and Vanessa. No one noticed that you two left, well they noticed you weren’t in class but didn’t ask you two about it. Which was a good thing. The rest of the night went smoothly and soon you found yourself asleep in your bed with Shadow curled up next to you.
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Post by <* Sweet Melody Way *> on Sept 30, 2005 17:27:58 GMT -5
Chapter 30[/u][/b]
The rest if the next month and a half was over the top boredom. Every day would drag on, one after another. History was the one class, your last class that put you to sleep every day. You’d wake up to spit balls being shot at you by Matt.
Frankie had started rehearsals with the band he joined. You rarely saw him anymore, same with Ivy. She was usually at his practices. The only time the whole gang was together was at school and rarely on the weekends for parties and stuff like that. But other than that, the group started to spilt in separate ways.
This weekend was marking Valentines Day, which you all agreed upon to go separate ways. You and Gerard agreed to a traditional dinner at a restaurant and hanging about the house afterwards. You managed to con him into watching a sappy love movie. He moaned and groaned at first but he soon got bored of whining and agreed to it.
‘Just put the movie in already,’ Gerard whined. ‘I am, hold on,’ you said, pulling out the sappiest movie you could find. You popped it in and sat back on the couch next to Gerard, who had already eaten half the popcorn. You stole it from him and set it on the far table. ‘Oh come on, you gotta let me eat the pop corn,’ he said and attempted to reach for it. You pushed him back into the corner of the couch and kissed him passionately. ‘You still want the popcorn?’ ’Fuck no!’ He pulled you back into a kiss and you felt him run his tongue along your bottom lip asking for entrance, which you granted. His hands found their way to your waist. You could hear the movie starting but you both ignored it and continued to make out the rest of the movie. By the end of the movie you two finally broke away from each other. ‘Wow,’ Gerard said, slightly out of breath. You smiled, ‘who knew we could go that long.’ Gerard gave a devilish smile, ‘I think we can go longer.’ You rolled your eyes, ‘maybe another time we’ll test that, but not now, I’m tired.’ He gave a sad face, ‘do you have to leave so soon?’ ‘Nah.’ He smiled, ‘good, I didn’t want to sleep alone tonight.’ ‘Aww afraid of the boogey man? Actually it’s already morning,’ you said as you glanced over at the clock. He sat up and looked too, ‘so it is. Good morning sugar!’ You snuggled into his chest and lightly yawned. ‘Isn’t Mikey supposed to be home by now?’ ‘He is.’ ‘When did he get home?’ ‘In the middle of our movie,’ Gerard smirked. ‘Proves how much I pay attention,’ you laugh. ‘Oh no babe, you were paying attention, trust me,’ Gerard laughed.
The next morning you and Gerard were found sleeping on the couch. ‘BREE!’ You and Gerard both jumped up. ‘What the hell?’ ‘Phone,’ Mikey said, shoving the phone in your face. ‘Who is it?’ ‘Some guy named Jake, I donno,’ he handed you the phone and went upstairs. ‘Hello?’ ‘Bree, do you plan on coming into work today?’ ‘Oh sorry Jake, I can’t, I came down with the flu last night,’ you lied while making yourself sound sick. Gerard let out a soft low laugh. ‘Oh I’m sorry to hear that. I’ll just call someone to fill in your shift. It’s funny ya know, everyone suddenly got sick the day after Valentines Day, bummer. Well feel better, you don’t have to come in again until Wednesday night. Call me if you’re still sick,’ he said. ‘Yeah, I will, thanks!’ You hung up the phone. ‘Aww couldn’t resist me so you lied so you could stay here and be graced by my presence,’ Gerard said. ‘Mm no,’ you said shaking your head. His jaw dropped and a hurt expression came across his face. You slightly laughed, ‘I’m kidding.’ He smiled and relaxed, ‘for a moment you had me scared.’ You kissed him on the cheek, ‘you know how I find you so irresistible. Come on lets get-,’ you look at the clock, ‘lunch.’ You heard Gerard’s stomach grumble, ‘I take that as a yes.’ He nodded and got up, ‘so you wanna go out to eat or see if we can find anything here?’ ‘Mm Mikey has probably eaten everything already, lets go out!’ ‘I did not eat everything,’ Mikey yelled. You both burst out laughing and headed upstairs and got cleaned up to go out.
Once you were ready you headed out to the car and head out for lunch. ‘So our usual routine, diner then Starbucks?’ ‘Yeah sounds good,’ you said. He nodded and you went to the diner first. Getting your usual meals, you swore you’ve been there so many times that they people there knew exactly what you were gonna get. It was kinda creepy but you shrugged it off. You and Gerard sat down and ate lunch and headed out to Starbucks. He pulled into the parking lot, ‘um babe?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘I just realized, I can’t go in there, I’m supposed to be sick, remember?’ ‘Oh shit, yeah that’s right. Ah no worries, I’ll go in and get your drink. If he asks about you I’ll just say you’re at home,’ he said. You nodded, ‘okay.’
Gerard’s Point of View[/b]
I ran inside and saw Molly behind the counter. ‘Hey,’ she said when she realized I was standing there. ‘Hey.’ I saw that guy Jake walking behind the counter, he looked at me with a disgusted look. I looked at him then back at Molly. I ordered my coffee and Bree’s hot chocolate. When Molly went to make the drinks Jake came over and leaned on the counter. ‘So Gerard, Bree’s friend right?’ I nodded, ‘boyfriend actually’ ‘ Oh yeah, boyfriend. How is she? She’s got the flu right?’ ‘Uh yeah, the flu.’ He lowered his voice a bit, ‘so how is she really? You and I both know she isn’t sick, did you two like stay up too late last night?’ I held in my anger the best I could. Who was this guy coming off asking if Bree and I slept together last night! ‘My private life is none of your business,’ I said coldly. ‘Why do you even care anyways, you have Alexia!’ ‘Yeah right, Alexia, she was a good fuck, you missed out on her man,’ he laughed. ‘I doubt that,’ I said and looked out the window for a moment. ‘Better hold on to Bree pretty tight, it seems your ex’s like to come to me,’ Jake said with a disgusting smirk across his face. I leaned down on the counter and glared at him, ‘don’t even think about touching Bree!’ ‘Or you’ll do what?’ Molly put the drinks on the counter, ‘here ya go Gerard!’ I stood up straight and took the drinks, ‘thanks Molly.’ ‘Tell Bree, I hope she feels better!’ ‘Will do!’ I was just about to open the door when I remembered I had to invite Molly and Bert over for dinner tonight, ‘hey Molly!’ ‘Yeah?’ ‘You think you and Bert would be up for coming to my house for dinner around 6 tonight?’ ‘Yeah sure, sounds great, I’ll call Bert up when I go on break, I’m sure he’ll be up for it!’ ‘Great!’ She gave a small wave, while Jake had a devilish grin across his face. I shook my head and walked out to the car. I got in and handed Bree her hot chocolate. ‘Thanks babe!’ ‘No problem, um Bree can I ask you something?’ ‘Yeah sure.’ ‘Has that Jake guy ever hit on you?’ Bree thought for a moment, ‘not really. If he has I never noticed. I always thought it was odd he was super nice to me but I figured it was because I was new.’ ‘Oh okay. Um Bree, would it be a major pain in the ass if I asked you to work somewhere else?’ She looked at me confused, ‘why?’ ‘I just don’t trust that Jake guy.’ ‘Gerard, I can’t just quit my job because you have a grudge against my boss!’ ‘Bree, I’ve just got a bad feeling about him. He has a particular liking for you, and it’s not a friend way of liking,’ I said. ‘Gerard, there’s no one out there that can pull me away form you, especially not him, what you don’t trust me or something?!’ ‘No, no Bree, I trust you, it’s him I don’t trust!’ ‘Whatever Gerard.’ Great, she’s pissed at me, perfect day, gone down the drain. Damn it, this guy just ruins everything for me! I drove us back home, the car ride was pretty silent. Damn I hated this!
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