Gerandy: My Parents?

Shopping and Sushi

I parked the car and walked over to the office where I would meet with "Mr. Way" and Hadley.

I still haven't processed the fact that I will be in charge of a child, with Gerard of all people. We both live in LA, so she can just stay with him one week, with me and Julies the next. Or something like that.

I walked in a saw Gerard sitting in a waiting room of sorts, he stood up when he saw me. I shook his hand and he patted my back.

"You alright Biersack?" he asked.

""Yep." I nodded.

Before we could speak further, someone called our names and had us follow them back outside. A girl stood with a a backpack and a small suitcase. She looked like she was still in middle school, or maybe early highschool.

This is going to be scary than......

"Hadley, these are the people your mother wanted you to be with." the lady who lead us back said. We had already signed all the papers and everything legal was in order. But can I really take care of a kid?

"Hi Hadley, I'm Gerard, I have a wife and a daughter, Andy here just has a girlfriend." Strange intro...

"Nice to meet you." She said as she shook our hands. She was small, hardly five feet tall, she had long brown hair and big brown eyes. She looked really sweet, she didn't seem to know who Gerard and I were though, that we were in bands. Our music would probably scare her....

"So, I'm Hadley..." she said quietly, "I'm starting eleventh grade this year-" "What?" I asked shocked.

"How old are you?"

"Almost seventeen." Wow. Gerard looked surprised too. I had to look at her again, she wore skinny jeans and a blue tee, she didn't have any make up on. Which is why she looks so young.

"So, almost seventeen? Anything else?" I asked, this is amusing. Gerard asked me a question, but I did't hear. I need to ask him something too anyway...

"So Way, she should stay with you first." I said once we were out of Hadleys earshot.

"Why?" he asked.

"Because, you're already a dad, so you'd be the best one right now, I still need to figure things at my place out..."

"Ok." We walked back towards her, she had a smile on her face. She's been through so much losing her mom, it's nice to see that she smiles still. My eyes wondered back down to her bags. She probably has very little, and probably nothing she really likes.

"So Hadley, we figured it would be best for you to stay at my place first." Gerard told her with a smile.

"But." I butted in, "You and I can get you a few things first if you like." Her eyes brighten.

"I would love to." Gerard took her bags back to his place, and we hopped into my car.

'Have you had lunch?" I asked. 

"Not yet." I started looking for a place to eat.

"Could we, um, get sushi?" she asked quietly, as if I would get mad at her request.

"Sure." We pulled into the lot of a sushi place a few minutes later.

"So, tell me about yourself." I asked while we waited for our food to be served.

"Well, I'm 16, I love music and drawing, and reading, and writing." i smiled at her, it may be rude ask what music she likes, because she may feel bad that I'm a musician and she doens't like me....

We went to the mall after eating, where I got her a laptop, headphones, and a few books she asked for. We walked, looking around, when she stopped dead in her tracks.

"Andy?"

"Yep?"

"Can we go to Hot Topic please please please?" A grin spread over my face.

"I thought you'd never ask." She ran over and started looking. 

"Get whatever you want." I told her as she looked through the shirts.

"Really?" "Yes."

She got band shirts, boots, jeans, a few bracelets and rings, and other things that I lost track of.

Safe to say that she was set on clothes.

"So, you like those bands?" I asked as we put the bags into the back of the car.

"I love them!"

Sleeping with Sirens, Pierce the Veil, Of Mice and Men, Nirvana. All awesome bands.

Oh, and all the My Chemical Romance and Black Veil Brides ones.

"I have no idea why I'm not dying right now." She admitted. So she does know who we are....

"I had fun, thank you for this." she said as we arrived at Gerard's house. It took us a few trips of carrying things to get her stuff inside, once we were done, I gave her a hug and went on my way.

She's a pretty cool kid.

~*~*Gerard's POV*~*~

Andy and Hadley walked in with at least five bags. Most of them were from Hot Topic. Which is promising.

Before Andy left, he told me that Hadley was indeed a fan of our bands.

I helped her get settled into her room, it had light blue walls, with green and blue rugs and bedspreads. 

'This is so cool!" she said as she looked around.

"So, you like bands?"

"Bands are life." I chucked at her response.

"Gerard?"

"Yep?"

"Can I dye my hair? I always ask but people say that no one would adopt me if I did, but it doesn't matter now." She looked so hopeful. There's no reason why she cound't, I'd probably do it for her actually.

"Tomorrow, Lin and Bandit will want to see a before and after." I said with air quotes. She looked so happy as she tossed her things into drawers and set up what looked to be a brand new laptop. Andy Andy Andy, already trying to spoil her.

"Wanna see the music room?" She almost tripped as she turned around and followed after me.

her eyes widened when she reached the room.

"We're gonna have dinner in a bit,wanna hang out here until then?" She didn't speak, just nodded.

I left her to it as I prepared myself for doing something I've never done before.

Live with a teenage girl.