drugstore perfume || gerard way

chapter xv. waitress

Gerard and I arrive at the restaurant a few minutes after we get in the cab. Gerard momentarily talks to the host, referring to the fact that we have 'special reservations'. The host nods his head and grabs two menus, escorting us to our table. We go up a small flight of stairs and take a few turns before he presents us to our table, which is set before a large panel of large windows that overlook the city.

The host sets down our menus, a waitress following behind him. The waitress takes our drink orders, both of us get virgin cucumber mojitos. She walks off, leaving Gerard and I alone in our secluded area.

"This is amazing Gerard." I look out at the scenery,.

"Well I'm glad you like it." He smiles and a second later the waitress comes in with our drinks.

I take a sip of my drink before looking down at the menu, thanking whoever made it for making it in English. Gerard and I are both relatively quiet while perusing through the menu, looking through the many options available. I decide on borscht since I'm not super hungry and I don't want to have a food baby poke through my dress when we're finished eating.

"So've you decided what you want?" Gerard looks up from his menu.

"Yeah, I was thinking the borscht. How about yourself?"

"Probably just the stroganoff, nothing ultimately fancy." I nod and as if on cue, the waitress walks back over, taking our orders before leaving once again.

"So're you excited for-" I get interrupted by Gerard's text tone.

He sucks in air through his teeth, "Sorry about that... looks like 'she-human' texted me." He chuckles lightly at the name we've given Christy.

"What'd she say?"

"Taking Aleah over by my place to watch some movies."

"So like I was saying, you excited for the tour to start up again?" I ask, taking a drink.

"Definitely. It's strange taking a break to be quite honest." He takes a quick sip of his drink, "How do you feel about the whole 'bus' thing?" He looks up at me from across the table, biting down on his lip a little bit, possibly nervous of my reaction.

"I mean, being on a tour bus is gonna' be weird and all, but I think it'd be kinda' neat. Speaking of, who's going to be on 'our' bus?"

"Just you, Aleah and I. The Hormones and Nuns both have their own buses so they won't be staying on ours, but they might visit time-to-time.

A few minutes pass as Gerard and I talk about a range of random stuff. From Lola to his family and my family. The waitress arrives... again, giving us our meals and then leaving... again.

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"Oh and can we get a vanilla ice cream to share?" Gerard pipes in as the waiter takes our empty dishes and nods.

"Well isn't that somewhat romantic?" I giggle at his efforts as he accidentally knocks over his napkin, before picking it up... with a bouquet of roses.

"I thought this might be a little more romantic than a cup of ice cream." He laughs lightly before handing them over to me.

"Awe, you're actually the sweetest person." I take a small whiff of the flowers before setting them down gently beside me. And I do so just in time because the waitress returns for the fifty-millionth time, giving us our ice cream.

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Gerard finishes up by paying the bill as we grab our jackets and I grab the bouquet of roses.

"So Christy said for us to let her know when she should drop Lea back off at our room." I nod and kiss him on the cheek.

"Thank you for the night out."

"You're very welcome." He pecks me on the lips before we walk down the stairs, leaving the restaurant.

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We get back to the hotel relatively quickly, walking back down the hallway until we reach our room.

"You're so beautiful and don't you ever forget that." He presses his lips against mine before he can even open the door.

"Let's get in the room at least Gerard." I giggle and feel a light crimson sweep over my cheeks.

"Awe, you're so cute when you blush." He chuckles, opening up the hotel room door.

We both walk into the room and I immediately take off my heels, tossing them in my suitcase before heading into the bathroom to take off my jewelry.

"Dani, come here baby." I laugh a little bit at the pet name he gave me, walking over to find him on the couch.

I sit on his lap, quite awkwardly since I'm still wearing my dress. I nuzzle my head into the crook of his neck, smelling his slightly fading cologne.

We sit for a while, conversing here and there while flipping through tv channels to find that nothing's really on.

"Well finding a good movie was a bust, hm?" He looks down at me and I'm captivated by his eyes, unable to respond.

I smile slightly before pressing my lips to his and at this point he doesn't even mind the fact that I have the darkest shade of lipstick I own, on. He smiles against the kiss, pulling me a little bit closer and tucking a few pieces of hair behind my ear. I notice him pick up the pace in the kiss a little bit along with making it slightly rougher and I go along with it... until his cell phone rings... again.

He frowns at the interruption before noticing that it's a call from Christy, "Hey, everything okay?"

I'm unable to really hear the full conversation, so I just listen in on what I can hear.

"Yeah, yeah. We'll be over there soon." He hangs up the phone and looks up at me. "It seems like Aleah's come down with a fever... and a pretty high one at that."

i'm actually really happy with myself and drugstore perfume lately because for the longest time i had no clue what to write about. then one day all of a sudden i get ideas for two chapters. i publish those two chapter and then i got ideas for two more chapters.

which is why i've been updating drugstore perfume a shit ton :'D

now if i could have this kind of 'revelation' on give 'em hell, kid...

that would be fuckin amazing 👌

chapter 16 should be up and published in the next few days ^-^