It was a really hot day. The temperature had been climbing the past weeks, and it topped itself on this summer day. The sky was clear, powder blue with no clouds in sight. The sun was shining in all its glory, making the crowd underneath it hot and sweaty.
It was the last day of the Warped Tour 2014, and the show was in Houston, Texas. Stages had been set up hours ago, and the crowd had been standing in a bunch for the longest time. They had danced, jumped and screamed as their favorite bands went on stage, and they had been singing their voices hoarse to every song. The whole crowd was a sweaty, but excited mess.
Behind the scenes stood four very nervous guys. Never in their lives had they been more nervous than in this moment. Though they all knew that they had loads of fans, their own little army of them, they did not know if there were any of them in the crowd. They did not know how they would be received on this day. It made them very nervous.
Most nervous of the four was one of the guitarist. Though the band had planned this for months, he had his own small plans too. You see, he was in love with one others in the band, and he had been that for a long while. He had not dared to tell him though, afraid to be rejected. But on this day, he would declare his love for him in front of thousands of people, hoping that the other wouldn’t reject him in front of so huge masses.
The crowd was now calming down as the last band went off the stage. Some of the people on the edges where already turning on their heel, ready to go home as the lights on the stage was dimmed down. It only took minutes for the whole crowd to turn away from the stage, still chatting cheerfully about the bands they had seen perform.
This was until they heard a familiar voice boom over the speakers. It was a voice they knew all too well, but had never believed to hear in this setting ever again.
“You like DnD, Audrey Hepburn, Fangoria, Harry Houdini and Croquet. You can’t swim, you can’t dance and you don’t know karate. Face it, you are never gonna make it!” Ray’s voice boomed out.
The whole crowd turned quickly back to face the stage again. Most of them had shock written all over their faces, as they could not believe what they just heard. The silence that now had settled was disrupted by a new voice.
“Ray, I don’t wanna make it. I just wanna….” Gerard’s voice boomed over the crowd.
The lights on the stage where turned on in a flash, revealing My Chemical Romance in all their glory. As the light flashed on, the first guitar riff roamed through the air, making the crowd go wild. As Gerard began to sing, the crowd where hyped and ready to sing with him.
Well if you wanted honesty, that's all you had to say/I never want to let you down or have you go, its better off this way/For all the dirty looks, the photographs your boyfriend took/Remember when you broke your foot from jumping out the second floor?
I'm not okay/I'm not okay/I'm not okay/You wear me out
What will it take to show you that it's not the life it seems?/(I'm not okay)/I've told you time and time again you sing the words but don't know what it means/(I'm not okay)/To be a joke and look, another line without a hook/I held you close as we both shook for the last time take a good hard look!
I'm not okay/I'm not okay/I'm not okay/You wear me out
Forget about the dirty looks/The photographs your boyfriend took/You said you read me like a book, but the pages all are torn and frayed
I'm okay/I'm okay!/I'm okay, now/(I'm okay, now)
But you really need to listen to me/Because I'm telling you the truth/I mean this, I'm okay!/(Trust Me)
I'm not okay/I'm not okay/Well, I'm not okay/I'm not o-fucking-kay/I'm not okay/I'm not okay/(Okay)
The crowd where singing at the top of their lungs as Gerard walked across the stage sassily, Ray headbanged with his awesome afro, Mikey just stood still and played his bass and Frank ran everywhere, being his normal self.
To say that the crowd was ecstatic would be an understatement. No crowd in the Warped Tour’s history had been wilder, danced more crazy or screamed harder. It was obvious for anyone that My Chemical Romance’s comeback was successful, even though no one besides the management had known about it.
Frank felt adrenalin run hot through his veins as the crowd took off at the end of the song. He felt good as the crowd chanted ‘MCR! MCR! MCR!’ over and over. He knew that it was now or never.
He walked over to Gerard, slinging his guitar on his back so it would be out of the way and stopped in front of him. The crowd was still chanting, and Gerard looked down at him quizzically. Frank stretched up to him, looking him straight in the eyes before he pressed his lips against his bandmates ones.
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It was under the hot sun on that summer day in Texas that the fans got their wish fulfilled. Their heroes was back, better than before. It was during that day, when nobody had expected it that they came back.
It was also during that hot summer day that Frank finally declared his love. It was that day he kissed his one love and he didn’t get rejected.
It was under the hot Texas sun that Gerard said he loved Frank for the first time.
