"To everyone, you're such a sweet church girl But I know your secret..." Mae is the academic star of Belleville's crumbling catholic school- a 4.0 average, head of the debate team, and a college scholarship to boot. Her peers think that she is the straight-laced bookworm that she had always planned to portray- but she has dark secrets. Mae wanted to take those secrets to her grave, until a notorious punk proposed a single list of things to do that would change the course of the facade that she believed was a perfect life. Bad Catholics© + #1 in #mychemicalromance 12.27.2020 + #2 in #MCR 5.5.2021 + #1 in #frankiero 1.18.2022 |FUTURE TRIGGER WARNINGS| Language, substance abuse, depression/talk of suicide, violence

After a failed suicide attempt, 15 year old Alexa is abandoned by her parents. That is, if you could consider them parents in the first place. She has been living in a psychiatric ward in New Jersey for a little over 3 months. The only escape she has from her past, depression, and suicidal thoughts is the guitar in the art and music therapy room which she loves with her entire heart and soul. Music has always been an escape for Lexa, but here it is her lifeline. When My Chemical Romance do a surprise performance at that very hospital, Frank hears Alexa playing one of their songs. He feels a pull to get to know her, but when he does, he doesn't want to leave her behind. Set in 2008, black parade era OC and Frank's POV (and maybe a few others here and there) TRIGGER WARNINGS: self harm, depression, mentions of suicide, physical and sexual abuse, substance abuse