drugstore perfume || gerard way

chapter v. good times

- Gerard's POV -

After Frank hung up, I decided that last, but not least, I was going to call Ray.

"Hey Ray! What's up my man?!"

"..."

"Ray? Man? You there?"

"COME OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW GERARD!!!" I practically jump at the sudden response and hang up the phone. I guess I need to go outside for some reason, so I grab my leather jacket again and go down the elevator. I walk out of the elevator and adjust the cuffs on my jacket to hear screams in the distance. I shrug my shoulders and walk outside.

"SURPRISE!!!" I look up and run in for a giant group hug.

"C'mon guys lets go inside. It's fucking freezing out here." I blow hot air into my cupped hands and rub them back and forth trying to create warmth.

"I'M FREEZING MY BALLS OFF!" Frank screams.

"Just like good old times..." I mumble to myself and motion for the guys to come inside. As we walk inside, we're all talking very loudly and I get some 'evil eyes' from a bunch of the old people staying at the hotel.

"Let's go up into my room before we have any old farts yelling at us." I suggest.

"Awwww... but I wanted to annoy the shit out of them."

"I know you do buddy, I know you do, but you got me kicked out of our last hotel, soooo... NO. Teehee!" We all get in the elevator and I press the '14' button.

"So Gee, you want to tell me about this 'mystery woman' now?" He says looking real pissed and Ray and Frank gasp in shock.

"He has a mystery woman?!?!" Ray and Frank practically shriek and I begin to tell them about her when the elevator rings, signifying that we arrived to my floor.

We walk to the door to my room and I fumble around my jacket pocket for the key and unlock the door. I give the guys a quick 'tour' of the room basically showing where the bathroom and snacks are. I quickly glance at my watch and see that it's around quarter-after-eleven, so I figure we can talk about shit before we all have to get some sleep.

"So can you tell us about 'mystery woman' now?" Mikey is basically on his knees pleading.

"Fine. Fine. Whadd'ya want to know?" I ask as a group question.

"So I need to know... is she a fan? Either you or My Chem in general. But you need to make sure you aren't dating one of those crazy-assed fangirls that'll sell your vomit online for millions." Mikey says making me laugh a bit.

"Well, she's told me that she was a fan of My Chem and now all of our solo stuff and she didn't act crazy when she realized who I was." I shrugged my shoulders and leaned back in the chair I was sitting in.

"Well, I would hope you know her name..." Mikey trailed off, "We can't be calling her 'mystery woman' forever!"

"I actually do know her name and it's Danielle." I see Mikey start to speak, but then stopped from saying whatever he was going to say. I shrug it off and get ready to answer the next question.

"Where'd you meet her?" Ray asks.

"Well, it's kind of a long story, but I'll shorten it up so I can tell you. So, I had just gotten to my hotel and decided to go and get coffee and I saw that there was a Starbucks nearby so I decided to walk over there and grab something quick. I had finally gotten there and walked up to the counter to order my coffee when I saw two girls working the counter. One was Danielle and the other one... well, I didn't catch her name but we'll call her 'bitchy' because she was being really bitchy." All of us chuckled a bit. "So bitchy was being, well, bitchy towards me and then Danielle was really nice and took my order and we made a little conversation and I found out that she's going to my concert tomorrow." I ended my story with a big smile plastered on my face, "And, I'd like to add that she did realize who I was and when she did, she didn't scream her head off or go bat-shit-crazy or anything like I mentioned earlier."

I looked at my watch to see it had been around fifteen minutes and I figured I could take one more question.

"Did you sleep with her yet?!" Frank shouted.

"Uh... No," I laugh, "I just met her today! Calm your tits Frankie." Everyone started to laugh.

"Okay... well, I don't have any other questions, so... yeah. Oh wait! I remember! Can we pretty please stay the night in your hotel room?"

"Yeah, Frank fucked up the hotel reservations again." Ray said rubbing his temples.

I snicker and give them the 'ok' and head into my room, grabbing my sketchpad and rough sketching a few ideas I had for future comic books.

* knock knock *

I glare over at my door to see Mikey in the doorway.

"Hey man what's up?" I take off my glasses and rub my eyes with the back of my hands.

"Gee, y'know this is great that you like this girl and all, but I'm just scared for you. I know I'm really overprotective and stuff over you, but I just hate to see you get hurt over a silly girl." He tries to smile a bit and I can tell he is truly concerned.

"Mikey, don't worry," I rub his upper arm hoping to comfort and reassure him, "Danielle is an amazing girl and I promise that I'll get you to meet her as soon as I can to reassure you. Like I said earlier, when she did realize that I was who I am, she didn't scream or ask for an autograph. She was completely different than all the other crazy fangirls and I love that about her okay? So there's absolutely no need for you to worry." I hug my brother and it's one of those really good and comforting family hugs that you constantly get from annoying family members.

"I love you Mikey."

"I love you too Gee," We both broke the hug, "Now go get some sleep... you have to impress a girl tomorrow." He said winking at me.

"Thanks Mikes." I said giving him a soft smirk.

I closed the door and took my beanie off and threw it on the floor along with the rest of my clothes and slipped on a pair of sweatpants and my Fudge Lord t-shirt before getting into my bed.

* bzzt *

l sat up and looked at my phone that I had placed on my bedside table to see a text from someone.

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224-323-2385: Hi, it's Danielle from Starbucks :3 Just thought I'd text you goodnight :)

Gerard: Hey Danielle, don't forget about tomorrow at 6 ;) goodnight

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I quickly added her as a contact and saw another text from her.

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Danielle <3: I wouldn't miss it for the world

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I smiled at the florescent light of my phone screen and plugged it into my charger and drifted off to sleep.

Haii! I hope you guys enjoyed that chapter and yes, I did stay up just to get that chapter uploaded because I thought it was really cute and yeah. But anyways, feel free to comment and shit and just to remind you, I will be uploading another chapter of Give 'Em Hell Kid today and possibly another one of these so yeah! :3 Goodnight guys!