Today feels a lot more normal. After my talk with Gerard yesterday it feels more okay. This week is a short week, no school on friday! That means I get to hang with Mikey and maybe even Kristin too!
The boys picked me up like normal and everything felt good. Even English, Gov and Choir went well. Math was another story. So boring and I want to cry. The bell eventually rang though and I could not wait to leave and go to lunch with Mikey.
"Hey since we don't have school Friday, you want to have a sleepover?" Mikey asked as we left math.
"Sure that sounds like fun. I'll ask my mom when she gets home tonight." I said as we walked to our lockers.
"Cool, cause then we can hang out all day Friday."
"Hell yeah," I went to give Mikey a fist bump as we reached our lockers, but Frank decided to run right towards us and into my fist.
"Fuuuuuuck," Frank groaned clutching his chest.
"Not my fault," I said putting my hands up to show I had nothing to do with that. Mikey on the other hand was laughing hard and clutching his sides.
"The hell happened here?" Ray asked as he and Gerard walked over to us.
"Frank ran into my fist." I deadpanned, trying not to laugh as well. Ray and Gerard looked from Frank in pain to Mikey laughing.
"Sounds reasonable but also sounds like you trying not to get in trouble for punching him, tough girl." Gerard said, chuckling at the end.
"Legit, it was not my fault." I said laughing slightly. Ray just shook his head and checked on Frank, who was actually fine and just being a dramatic dummy. Mikey eventually got his laughing under control and we went off to lunch and waved bye to the other boys. The rest of the day went by pretty easy.
That Night
I sit at my desk trying to get the dumb math homework done quickly so I can go the heck to bed when my phone goes off.
Blood Sucker: You wanna hang out tonight?
Victim #1: Sure. I fucking hate math.
Tap Tap
I look up from my phone and see Gerard smiling at me through my window. I get up from the chair and kneel on my bed to open it up. Good thing I changed out of shorts and put on leggings. Way more comfy than us hanging out with me in my pjs.
"Hey, that was fast."
Gerard laughed, "Yeah well I was bored. So do you want to go get ice cream or something?" He asked, leaning his elbows on my window sill. I couldn't help but laugh at him, he looked so innocent despite him currently standing on a small ledge and leaning against my second story window.
"Sure! Why not?" I adjusted myself to sit on my bed in front of him. "The question is though, how do you plan on getting me out of my house?"
Gerard pulled a face, "Well, you could either ask for permission. Orrrr I could come in and you can climb on my back and I can dash out of your house effectively sneaking you out." He smiled at me. I couldn't stop the smile from spreading on my face as I looked at him.
"Okay well my dad is gonna say no cause it's a school night soooo," I smirked and jumped off my bed to give him room. Gerard chuckled and climbed in letting himself fall onto my bed.
"So not too scared for another piggyback ride after the last one?" He asked as he got up off my bed.
"Haha no, it's kinda like real life Twilight." I said with as straight of a face as I could muster. Gerard just glared back at me.
"You compare me to a sparkling emo boy who doesn't know how to communicate his feelings one more time! And I will never help you sneak out of your house or in English class ever again." He pointed a finger at me as he tried not to crack a smile.
I couldn't stop myself from laughing and tried not to double over with laughter, "I was just joking Gerard, relax."
"Fine but I'm not helping you up for a piggyback ride today." He said crossing his arms. I rolled my eyes and just climbed up on my bed. Reaching out for him, he chuckled and moved so his back was facing me. I wrapped my arms around his neck and got lower on my bed so it was easier to wrap my legs around his waist.
"Alright you ready to go tough girl?" He said grabbing onto my legs.
"Yeah but first two questions," I adjusted my arms so I wasn't strangling him. "How are you getting me out of the house? The window or the back door?"
"Um, the window is a little small for both of us. Also, that's a far drop for you and I don't think you're ready for that." I hummed in agreement. "So I'll head out the back door downstairs. What's your other question?" He adjusted me slightly, making me bounce.
I smirked next to his ear as I whispered, "Do you sparkle in the sun?"
"Oh my god," he groaned. Without warning Gerard started moving, I couldn't close my eyes fast enough before everything became a blur and I was vaguely aware that we were going down. I held onto him tighter as the wind whipped through my hair.
"Good thing you can't choke me cause damn! You are fucking strong Y/n!" Gerard laughed, I could feel him slowing down but no way in hell was I opening my eyes yet.
"You want to get down now? We're like a five minute walk from the ice cream place." Gerard said. I could feel that he had stopped running but man, the adrenaline and fear made my arms and legs so tense again. I let out a shaky breath and opened my eyes. We were around the corner of a shop and I could see one of the main streets of town from where Gerard had stopped. I unhooked my feet from themselves at Gerard's stomach and he slowly bent down to let my feet hit the floor as he let go of my legs. I took my arms off from his neck and shook them out trying to release the tension they held.
"One day, one day I will get used to that." I said, more to myself than to Gerard but he laughed anyway.
"I have no idea what that must feel like for you," He chuckled.
"It's insane."
"Yeah, yeah. Come on," He started towards the dark lamplight street. I walked slowly next to him, my legs feeling a bit like jello.
"Oh are we getting ice cream from Nemo's?" I looked around the semi-empty street noticing the record shop Gerard works at and the comic shop we had gone to last week.
"Uh duh! It's the best ice cream in town!"
"You got that right!" My legs were feeling a bit better the more we walked, it only took like a minute for us to get to Nemo's anyway. Coming to the front of the store, Gerard opened the door for me. Stepping in, the cold air conditioning blew on my face and moved my hair. Wait. My hair must look like shit from Gerard running. I glance into the giant mirror on the sidewall, my hair looks a little messy but not too crazy. Can't believe Gerard was going to let me walk around with hair like this! I ran my fingers through it a few times as we walked up to the counter, just to make it a little less wild.
"Hi welcome to Nemo's, what can I get you two?" The lady behind the counter started.
"Yeah I'll get two scoops of mocha please." Gerard said. The lady nodded and started getting his ice cream ready.
"What about you cutie?" She asked, handing Gerard his ice cream.
"Can I have two scoops of (favorite flavor)." I said stuffing my hands in my pants side pockets.
"Sure thing," she went and grabbed a cup and started getting mine too.
Gerard looked down at me as he started eating his ice cream. "You want to try?" He offered me his spoon. Oh my god. Is this okay? We're friends now yeah? This is fine. This is normal. Mikey and I would do the same thing. This is totally fine.
"Sure," I reach for his spoon and take a small bit of his mocha ice cream. It's sweet but definitely coffee. "Tastes like coffee and not enough chocolate," I chuckle.
"Of course it does. It's mocha flavoured," He laughs taking the spoon back.
"Here you go sweetheart," The lady says handing me my ice cream. "That will be 6 dollars total." She walks over to the register.
"Shit," I whisper. Gerard raises an eyebrow at me. "I didn't bring money."
"I was gonna pay anyway." He smiled down at me.
"Really?"
"Yup." He said brushing past me towards the register. I just trailed behind him and watched as he paid. The lady said have a good night as we walked out and we told her the same.
"Does your ice cream taste good?" Gerard asked as we walked away from the store and towards the record shop he works at.
"Really good. You wanna taste?" I held out my ice cream to him with the spoon stuck in it. He seemed to hesitate but took my spoon and tasted the sweet ice cream.
"Hmm not bad. Not as good as mine though," He laughed.
"Meanie," I said bumping my shoulder into him as I laughed.
"Only to you," He said, sticking his tongue out at me.
I scoffed at him in a scandalized tone as I tried not to laugh. I couldn't stop my smile though from giving me away and we both ended up laughing. We came upon the record store and Gerard opened the door for me. As we walked in we were engulfed in warmth and rock music.
"Welcome to Music Madness."
"Gerard? Y/n?" we turned to the voices and at the counter stood some girl and next to her was Patrick.
"Hey Sage, hey Patrick." Gerard greeted and walked towards them. I waved and joined Gerard.
"What are you two doing here?" Patrick said. He was sitting on a stool in front of the counter. He's either trying to flirt with Sage or they are actually friends.
"Just hanging out," I said. "We got some ice cream at Nemo's too." I took a bite of mine to show off a bit.
"Oh cool!"
"Yeah, what are you doing here Patrick?" Gerard asked, eating some of his ice cream.
"Just hanging with Sage, maybe thinking of getting a job here. I mean Sage said she would put in a good word for me. But apparently your word is better than hers." Patrick said, rolling his eyes and laughing.
'That's true, I've been here longer. I'll see what I can do for you, dude." Gerard smiled at him.
"That would be great Gerard, thanks" Patrick smiled.
"We're gonna walk around and chill, talk to you guys later." I said spotting some limited edition Pink Floyd vinyls that were gorgeous.
"Bye" Gerard waved and followed me away.
"See ya!" Patrick and Sage said.
Gerard and I walked around the store looking at all the records. Gerard may work there but he definitely doesn't get to look through them all leisurely.
"Hmm," Gerard hummed next to me.
"Hmm, what?" I picked up some pretty vinyls of some band I've never heard of, but outside said limited blue sky vinyl and I want to see that color.
"You got out of that conversation pretty quick," Gerard chuckled lightly.
"Uhhh," I looked back at Patrick and Sage who were deep in conversation, " I got distracted by Pink Floyd vinyls."
"So then why aren't we looking at them?" Gerard said leaning against the table of records, the ice cream spoon was in his mouth and his eyes were playful.
"Weeelllll, I don't have money for vinyls right now obviously. Plus I looked at them... briefly." I turned my head away from him and took a bite of my ice cream.
"Ya know, I really wish I had mind reading abilities right now." He took another bite of ice cream.
I raised an eyebrow at him, urging him to go on.
"You're not telling me something," he shrugged, as if everything was as simple as that.
"Well," I paused for a moment, "I did wonder if seeing Patrick here would mess things up." Gerard just furrowed his eyebrows in confusion so I continued. "We kind of snuck out Gee. Well you snuck me out of my house but still. We didn't tell anyone we were hanging out. What if Patrick says something and then Mikey and the boys get suspicious."
"Ohhh. Oh shit." Gerard dropped his spoon into his cup, "I didn't even think about that."
"Yeah, well it was kind of an after thought for me too." I took Gerard's empty cup and stacked it with mine, "After noticing the pretty vinyls." I said turning towards the trash can that was a few feet away.
"Well, if Mikey asks..."
"What are you going to tell him?" I said walking back over. We were at the far end of the shop so neither of us worried about Patrick or Sage hearing.
"Fuck," Gerard crossed his arms and looked down.
"Yeah I know." I leaned back against a table across from Gerard so that we were facing each other.
"I'll lie. I guess," he said dejectedly.
"Well, what if you told him the truth that we were hanging out?"
"He's gonna ask when I left. And considering we are in town and my car is still home..."
"Fuck."
"Yeah," He shook his head. "Lying it is. There's no way to explain the car still being home or why I didn't tell Mikey in the first place we were gonna hang out."
"We could also ask Patrick not to tell?" Gerard looked up at me like I was a genius.
"That would be fucking perfect! Mikey has some test in history tomorrow so he's probably not going to notice the car is missing anyway." Gerard got up from leaning.
"Plus! We could say that we didn't want him to feel left out just because we wanted to hang out and Patrick knows how much we care about Mikey so he probably will believe it too!"
"You are a genius!" Gerard said, pulling me in for a hug.
"Thanks," I hugged him back for a bit. We stayed like that for a moment before we felt a bit awkward and pulled apart. "Uh let's go talk to Patrick, yeah?" I said brushing my hair aside.
"Yeah, let's uh, let's go do that." Gerard shifted and pulled on the bottom of his jacket. He turned and started heading towards the register and I followed behind him.
We talked to Patrick about not telling Mikey, he seemed a bit suspicious but promised he wouldn't tell. It was definitely the 'we care about him studying and don't want him to feel left out' bit that sealed the deal. Once we knew he wasn't gonna spill we said goodbye and walked back the way we came. We passed the ice cream shop and crossed the street to head back down the alley way.
"So, you ready for another ride?" Gerard chuckled and bumped his shoulder against mine.
"Yeah, yeah. Just warn me before you start running this time 'kay?" I bumped my shoulder back into him.
"Of course." We reached the end of the alley and turned slightly so no one from the street would see. He walked over to a small box and I hopped on so that way I could get on his back easier. It was becoming easier and a bit less awkward but still weird. I wonder how often I'm going to be getting piggy back rides from him.
"Hey what's that one line from Twilight that everyone makes fun of from the movie?" He asked, taking a few steps forward adjusting his hands on my thighs.
"I swear to god if you ever call me a spider monkey I will physically harm you." I said tightening my arms slightly around his neck.
"Got it, sugar."
I rolled my eyes and then promptly shut them as Gerard's pace started to quicken.
"I'm going to run now," He said. I just hummed putting my head down against my arm. I could feel the wind rushing past us but since my eyes weren't open it was a lot less dizzying. Before I knew it, we were back in my room. Gerard touched my arm with one of his hands as he let me know that I could open my eyes. I slowly relaxed my limbs and let go of him. Hopefully I'll get used to that rush.
"Thanks for the ride," I said sarcastically as I stretched out my arms.
"Any time," he chuckled.
"What are you going to do now?" I said looking back to where my abandoned homework was.
"Probably play video games. What about you?"
"I have to finish my evil math homework." I groaned.
"Good luck with that, I'm out." Gerard said moving to my open window. I couldn't help but laugh. He climbed out and turned around as I climbed on my bed to shut my window.
"Is your window ever even locked?"
"Hmm not for you." I smiled at him.
"Cool." He smiled back at me. "Good luck with your homework."
"Thanks, have fun playing video games." I said rolling my eyes playfully as I reached up to grab my window.
"Bye Y/n." He said climbing down the trellis slowly.
"Bye Gee," I said waving at him before I closed my window. I turned around and leaned my back against my wall. If life is going to be like this, I don't mind keeping the vampire thing a secret.