Dare Me

Home Sweet Home

We arrived in San Diego at about 10:00pm.  My dad was picking us up so this was going to be very interesting.  I am the youngest in the family so he still thinks of me as a kid.  Also if he doesn't like Gerard he will show it.  

"He said he's pulling up right now."  I pressed 'end' on my phone.  I heard Gerard take a deep breath.  A big white truck pulled up next to us.  

I opened the back door and we put our luggage into the back quickly.  Gerard And I hopped in the back seat.

"Alex!  Your mother and I missed you."   My dad said with a smile. 

"I missed you to father.  Uhh… this is Gerard, Gerard Way.  He'll be with me for the week if you don't mind."

"Oh yeah I think Jeanine will be alright with that."  He said calmly.  Lets say I wasn't to calm about that response.

"What!?  Jeannine Osborne?  The fuck!"  I was so angry my face was getting all red and Gerard put my arm around me to try and calm me down.   We will be staying at the Osborne's house?  As in Donald Osborne.  I knew dad mom were good friends with is parents when we were dating, but really?

"Yes, they have been good friends to us and they offered their big guest room for you to stay at for the week.  Their house is plenty big enough for the both of you."  

"Alright dad let me fill you in on this… Donald is Jeanine's son, I hate him.  And Gerard's with me."  I didn't knew where me and Gerard stood in this 'relationship' thing, but I knew he wouldn't want my ex around me and him.  

"Alex you'll be fine.  It's not like you're going to be at their house 24/7."  I sighed and put my hands over my face.   Donald surely was going to act like a complete dick to both Gerard and I.  This trip was suppose to be planned out and everything.  On the upside Gerard and I get to share a bed… wait what am I thinking we can't do anything with Donald's parents in the house.  Well who know's if we would've done anything at all.

"Hey dad can you drop us off at Kelly's house first.  I wanna see her first."  Kelly is my aunt and kind of my second mother.  She raised me from birth, but she's like 70 now and for a 70 year old she is still pretty damn cool.

"Sure Maria."  Oh yeah… Sometimes my dad calls me Maria.  Its my middle name.  My whole dad's side calls me this though, I guess it's more mexican and means more than 'Alexandra', but hey I love the name Alex.

We got to Kelly's house.  It looked almost exactly the same.  The red bricks were still there, the garage door was open with my low life cousins in there drinking and whatnot.  And the trees in the front yard were still there.  "I'll drop your bags off at the Osborne's.  Take the Ford to get home, no one uses it anyways."  I nodded and climbed out of the truck followed by Gerard.

"Alex should I be worried?"  I shook my head.

"Oh no..."

I walked in the front door.  The scent of 17 years ago filed my nose.  The place hasn't changed.  The TV is still in the same place, and so are the couches, but thats only the front room.  I stopped suddenly.  I heard yelling coming from my aunts room.  Then I heard broken glass shatter. 

"Gerard stay here!"  I ran to the room.  I saw a shattered glass onfloor.  I looked up and saw my cousin, Ricky.  His eye's were blood shot and face was as red as a tomato.  He's drunk.  As always.  

"Get away!  Get away!"  He yelled.  His hand was bloodly from the glass.  I looked over to Kelly.  She was alright, but she looked terrified.  Ricky, picked glass off the floor and held it to Kelly's neck.  

"I'm tired of this!  I'm tired of being pushed around and yelled at.  I'm a grown man!  I call my own shots."  He was shaking. 

"Stop.  Put the fucking glass down."  I slowly inched my way over to them.

"No!  Don't tell me what to do!"  He rushed over to me.  I tried to defend myself and put my fists up.  He was much stronger and taller than me so I didn't have a chance.  He then took the sharp glass and slid it across my knuckles.  I let out a scream.  Ricky had  me in a head lock.  Then I felt him being tugged away.  I got out of Ricky's grip and saw Gerard give a mean punch to his face, then a kick to the stomach.  Ricky dropped the glass.  I ran over to Kelly and made sure she was okay.   She stared at my hand.

"Maria!  La Mano!"  She starts talking in Spanish when she gets angry or something.  Gerard finally pinned Ricky down.  Ricky looked like he gave up.  My hand was loosing blood quickly. 

"Gerard! Your shirt, take it off!"   Gerard looked up at me looking confused.  I then pointed at my hand.  He immediatly took his shirt off and threw it at me.  I wrapped it around my hand. 

"Alright alright I give up."  Ricky surrendered.  Gerard backed off him and stood by me.  The first thing I thought of was to call my big sister, Sarah. Well she would definitely do something.  She's like the protective older brother or sister.  I dialed her up and told her to come over quick.

"Honey, who is this gentleman?"  Kelly asked me.

"This is Gerard."  Gerard shook Kelly's hand.  Kelly was old, she had brown, short curly hair that she dyes, and she is mexican.

"Is he your boyfriend?"

"Uhh oh no we're just dating."  

"Gerard, what's your job?"  I knew she was going to being this up!  I don't even know if he has one.  

"I work at DC comics."  He said.  Oh really?  He never mentioned that to me.  Well we never mentioned out jobs to each other.  All he knew was that I work at a school.  I go to a local school four times a week and teach music and art classes.  It's a pretty fun job, you get to teach kids about something you love and you get to assign homework!  Yay.

"Thats something I've never heard before… Well good for you son."

We sat down and talked for about an hour.  Sarah arrived in the middle of our conversation about New Jersey.  Kelly kept bringing up random questions about marriage and my wedding dress, and even children.  Well I won't be having kids anytime soon.  It was about 5:00pm when we said our goodbye's.  It was nice seeing kelly again and introducing her to Gerard, because I think I might actually like LIKE this guy, but now we were off to the Osborne's.

hahah k.. well you guys think I should post a REAL picture of Donald?? heh heh?? hahah he looks like a jerk.  IS ONE TOO!  I need to get over this obsessive revenge thing on Donald.  WELL its Gerard's fault.