Ray Toro x Reader

10

{Time skip: One and a half months on tour. I hate time skips unless they're necessary. Sorry! You and Ray have been dating for almost a month and a half}

Play the video at the * and start at the 58 second mark :)

Your POV:

I wake up and hear some voices from the lounge. Coffee and cigarettes are the main things I smell. I sit up, rubbing the sleep out of my e/c eyes.

When I look over to my left, I see my boyfriend who is sleeping soundly. His brown, curly hair is loosely fallen over one of his eyes and he seems comfortable.

I try and wiggle out from the bunk silently but I end up waking up Ray.

"Where are you going?" he mumbles, holding me closer to him and laying his head on mine.

"Getting up like we should" I say with emphasis on the 'we'

"Why?" Ray whines tiredly

"Because we've already slept in and we have stuff to do today"

"But you're warm and I like you"

"I like you too, Ray" I giggle while looking at the clock "But we need to get up, its already 9:45"

"Fine" He groans

I hop out of my bunk with a sleepy Ray following shortly behind me.

We walk into the lounge where the others are seated. Mikey is playing a game on the system, Gerard is sleepily sipping a cup of coffee and Frank is next to him, lighting a cigarette.

"Morning, lovebirds" Frank grins as he puts his cigarette to his slightly chapped lips "Coffees on the counter, we stopped in Bakersfield about twenty minutes ago so hopefully its still warm"

"Thanks Frank" Ray says as he and I wander over to the counter.

I grab a cup of coffee and he grabs one also before sitting at the table. I put two strawberry toaster strudels in the toaster. One for Ray and one for me.

Two minutes later, the pastries pop out of the toaster. I put one on each paper plate and walk over to the table where Ray is drinking his coffee. He looks up and smiles at me as I put a plate in front of him.

"Why are you smiling so much, Ray Ray?"

"You're just really cute." He grins before taking a bite of his pastry "Thanks for the Toaster Strudel by the way"

"No problem" I say as I kiss his cheek.

I sit across from him and we eat our pastries. The outside world is whizzing past the window as our driver takes us to Los Angeles. I start thinking about my life currently while Ray pulls out his notebook and writes down something.

Ray and I have talked a little bit about how we're going to tell the public about our relationship. All we know is that its most likely going to happen at the next Warped Tour.

Frank's idea was that we just say "Fuck it" and kiss in our Los Angeles show tonight. He's had worse ideas to be fair.

~flashback: November 30, 1995 - sophomore year~

"You should meet my friends!" Mikey says happily as he puts his glasses on.

"How do you have friends already?" I ask, smoothing out my uniform skirt  "You started coming to this high school yesterday"

"Well they're more my brother's friends but it counts"

"Sure it does, Mikes"

"C'mon! They're waiting in the cafeteria" Mikey says, in a lively manner as he pulls me by the wrist through crowds of teenagers.

"You can't be sure they'll like me" I say as he continues to lead the way.

"Oh they'll love you." He responds "I'm just warning you that Gerard can be a bit of an ass if he doesn't like you and Franks usually lighting shit on fire"

"Wait, Gerard Way?"

"Yeah, he's my brother"

"Makes sense"

"Hey! I'm not an ass!"

"I'm just bugging you, Mikey" I laugh.

We reach the cafeteria and he brings me over to a table of three boys. One with jet black hair and a face like Mikey's but a little more pale.

I'm assuming that's Gerard.

To Gerard's left is the shortest one. He had many piercings, black hair and hazel-green eyes.

The final one is who caught my attention.

His chocolate brown eyes pierced my e/c ones as if he could see right through me. He had brown curls that looked like a fro and a cute porcelain face. The boy was the tallest of the group.

"This is Frank, Gerard and Ray" Mikey says pointing them out from left to right.

Ray. That's a nice name

"Guys, this is Y/n." Mikey said "I met her yesterday on my way to Math"

"Hi" Gerard said simply as he raised an eyebrow. I don't think he trusts me.

"Hey!" Frank says in a happier tone as he waves

"Nice to meet you" Ray says with the warmest smile I've ever seen.

I sat with Mikey and we talked to his friends for a while. They're actually really nice but Ray stands out to me the most.

~After school~

I say goodbye to Mikey and pull my walkman out of my backpack. The headphones follow in a tangled mess.

I decide against using my walkman and just go without music for the walk home. As I'm walking home, someone taps on my shoulder.

I turn around and see some familiar brown eyes.

"Oh, Hi Ray" I say with a slight smile

"I noticed you struggling with your walkman and I was wondering if you just wanted to listen to music with me"

"Sure. Why aren't you walking with the others?"

"They all live in northern Belleville and I live on the South end of town"

"Oh cool. That's where I live too"

He just flashed the same warm smile as he brought out a cassette of "Melon Collie and The Infinite Sadness"

"Do you like Smashing Pumpkins?"

"Yeah they're awesome. Melon Collie is my favorite album by them"

"Agreed. Mikey showed me them last year" Ray said as he popped the tape in to his walkman before handing me an earbud. I put it in my ear and he put one in his.

*

We walk down the winding Cemetery drive. Billy closes the song as Ray walks me up to my front porch.

"Don't let your life wrap up around you

Don't forget to call, whenever

I'll be here just waiting for you

I'll be under your stars forever

Neither here nor there just right beside you

I'll be under the stars forever

Neither here nor there just right beside you"

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That was the cutest thing I've ever written 😭

I hope you guys are enjoying the story so far!

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