The Black Parade

I Don't Love You

*suicide mentions*

I looked between the next two men and stared up at Gerard.He gestured to a very emo looking ginger man, whispering something along the lines of,"That's Bob."

I nodded and walked towards him.Bob stopped playing with his lip ring and finally noticed me after five minutes of an awkward silence.

"Oh hey.I'm Bob and before I show you this...thing, just be warned that if you cry it's not my fault, okay?" He said in a monotone voice, running a hand through his hair.

I shrugged."Doesn't matter, does it? What I've seen is more shocking than anything else I've ever seen. A ghost in a beanie, a short dead man, a guy with cool hair who's also dead, what else could be more weird?" I heard Mikey and Gee laugh when Frank shouted an offended "Hey!"

I thought I saw a ghost of a smile on Bob's face but he rolled his eyes at the men who were now arguing about Frank's height. He opened the door and gestured for me to go in.I obeyed and immediately questioned what Bob's past was.

What does he mean by heartbreaking? Maybe he died by some sort of breakup? Is he gonna mention Alice?

Alice.

I wonder how she's doing. Alfie's probably with her at my house.I can picture her at my bed with some sort of memo from me. She's always said that since I've been diagnosed. Alice never wanted to look at the positive sides but wallowed in the negative.

I didn't understand her thoughts but I always somehow knew what he was thinking about whenever I was with her. She was weird but a good kind of weird.

"You should dye your hair," Bob said, breaking my train of thought.

My head snapped up and he smirked. "You need to be more aware. It would help with living with these idiots."

I chuckled and we came to a familiar scene, the set of swings in the park I used to live near.

"What's this-" I was cut off by the sight of me running into the park and sitting on a swing. I was crying for some weird reason but then Alice came running after me in the park.

"Are you okay? I socked him in the nose and left him there but I ran after you," Alice said while patting my back.

Now I remembered exactly where this was and what was happening. This was the aftermath of my first boyfriend cheating on me and he had tried to fight me after I caught him. His family looked down on cheating and he was afraid that I would tell them.

"Hey, you okay?" Alice asked again.

When I didn't reply, she embraced my crying form and let me nuzzle into her shoulder.

"You thought that was your first heartbreak." Bob interrupted the events happening in front of us. "But it was the start of your first love."

"What-" Bob took me to another scene.

"You never considered Alice as your best friend. But when she saved you that day, you fell in love. She had liked you since you became friends so she had to deal with a platonic crush for a while."

"I-I... How do you know all this?"

"We knew you would end up coming here when you died so we kept an eye on you in your important moments. Plus Mikey's got files on people who're gonna come here."

I didn't know what to say so I kept silent. The area in front of us was frozen now, paused on me and Alice. I could feel a sudden comfortable atmosphere blanket us and I slowly understood how he died.

"Did you...commit suicide?" I asked hesitantly and Bob looked at me with a shocked look.

"How did you know..." he trailed off and looked at the ground.

"All the guys so far have showed me scenes where it involves their deaths and lives. You're showing me scenes of love and heartache and the only way you can die from heartbreak is if you.."

"Inflict that break upon yourself," Bob finished my sentence.

"I'm sorry, I know it's hard bu-"

"No, it's fine. I should be used to this. It's been 7 years and I'm still grieving over the girl who caused my death."

I caught his eye when he looked up and I scanned his face for any emotion. There was a strange look on his face that I couldn't interpret yet I knew somewhere I had seen that look before.

"C'mon, let's go before it gets too sappy for me to handle," Bob said, breaking my train of thought.

I nodded vaguely and followed, suddenly noticing the glint of silver on his ring finger.