{Flower Garden}

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Setting
It's a warm spring day. Around 9:00 in the morning and Gerard is sleeping in his room on the second floor. There is a beautiful oak tree with a branch leading right up to his bedroom window.

Gerard wakes up to find Mikey sitting on the tree outside of his window. Looking at something. Gerard opens the door and is immediately hit with the warm spring breeze. He looks in the direction Mikey is looking in and sees something in his rose garden.

It's a boy. Brown hair, covered in tattoos, grey cardigan and a Misfits shirt. Maybe late teens early 20s. Around Gerard and Mikey's age. The boy picks a white rose and gets pricked on a thorn. He lets his blood flow onto the rose and admires it as some of the blood falls off of a petal.

The boy turns around to see Gerard and Mikey sitting on the tree looking at him. Gerard's face turns red just by looking at the boy. They make eye contact and all they can do is just stare at each other. The boy and Gerard finally snap out of it and the boy runs,dropping the rose.

By the time Gerard could blink the mysterious boy was gone. Mikey gets up and climbs down the tree. Gerard asks "where are you going"? Mikey turns and says "to the record shop,I'm a little weirded out by whatever just happened between you and that other guy". Gerard climbs back through his window and starts to get dressed. After he is done he goes downstairs to get some breakfast.

When he gets downstairs the doorbell rings. He figured Mikey had just forgotten something. When he gets to the door no one is outside. He looks around then takes a look down. There on the first step,is a white rose. With some red liquid dripping from a petal. He picks it up and looks around. When he sees no one he closes the door. As the door clicks behind him he remembers what the boy from earlier was doing. He looked down at the rose and blushed.

He grabbed a vase and filled it with water. He puts the rose on the kitchen counter in direct sunlight. He runs upstairs and grabs a few pencils and a notepad. He runs back to the kitchen and starts to draw the rose. Not forgetting a single detail or messing up once. Gerard tends to only like drawing when he is drawing something important. Gerard looks outside the window to see the beautiful day and takes a little break from drawing. He grabs a lighter and some cigarettes and sits on the porch. He lights one and to his surprise he looks up to see the boy.

The boy says "a beauty like you shouldn't be smoking alone".

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