Sweet Venom

27. Flirting?

Wednesday rolls around and the school week cannot be over fast enough. Mikey is being weird with me, Gerard is kinda distant but also close? Which is confusing as all hell, maybe I'm making something out of nothing and my crush is just getting in the way of things. But let's be real here at this point I feel like Patrick has more feelings for me than Gerard does. After he mentioned Patrick being clingy I thought back and realized he does like to hang on me a lot, but that's just a friend thing. EXCEPT for this week. So far Patrick has been overly touchy this week so much so that I actually noticed, which surprises no one. And it's really sweet if he's trying to hit on my like I think he is but also....no. No baby, no. He's sweet but, sigh, I have to admit my crush on Gerard is more than anticipated because now I'm noticing everything.

Every single brush of the arms, every single glance, every single compliment is like a million times more important now that I have to deal with knowing I like him as more than a friend. I hate and love Kristin, eternally. Has this crush improved my fashion? No. Have I been putting in a bit more effort to makeup? Eh. I look hot for my standards and that's all that really matters.

As school came to an end on Wednesday I found myself at my locker with Gerard talking about records. Walking out of the school I felt our arms brush through the fabric of my sweatshirt and oh boi. I need to get my head down from the clouds.

"Hey Y/n/n." Gerard started as we walk down the steps to the parking lot.

"Yeah?" I grab my backpack straps so I don't look at him with heart eyes.

"You wanna hang out later? I could uh sneak you out again and we could go somewhere."

I press my lips together suppressing my smile. "Yeah, uh that would be fun."

"Cool." He says as we reach his car and watch as our friends show up to hang out for a bit before we leave school.

~That evening~

Gerard had texted me a while ago asking if I wanted to hang out at the Batcave and I of course said yes because.. Uhh alone time with the boy I like and being away from literally everyone in a really cool place. What do I do? Say no? So I grab my sneakers along with putting on some pants in case it gets cold. I open the window to my room hoping Gerard would get the hint and dig through my closet for a sweatshirt that isn't the one Gerard gave me. I settle on a dark blue one with little yellow stars all over it. I tie it around my waist as I check the time seeing that Gerard should be over any minute to grab me.

I take a seat at my desk playing on my phone for a bit until I hear my bed squeak. I look over seeing Gerard sitting on my bed smiling at me.

"Thanks for leaving the window open this time."

"No problem, figured it would be easier that way." I shrug, turning my chair to fully face him.

"So you ready to hang out at the Batcave?" He smirks playfully.

"You know it! So are we taking your car somehow or what?"

"Oh, I'm just gonna run us most of the way there." He said, shrugging.

I looked at him in disbelief. "You can run that far?"

"I've run farther." He smirks at me, shrugging.

"With a person on your back?" I raise an eyebrow crossing my arms with a smirk.

"Nooo," He rolled his eyes. "Which is why I'm going most of the way there and then we will walk the last 15 minutes."

"Oh, alright." I shrug.

"Yup," He looks around for a moment before getting off my bed. "So get on, sugar."