Falling for Gerard Way I

“So you’ll come then?”
Frank pondered for a moment; he’d never been round Mikey’s house before…
“Yeah, I’ll be round in a few minutes” but he might aswell
“Ok! See you then” Mikey hung up the phone. Frank looked around his desolate room before shrugging casually and heading downstairs. He grabbed his Misfits jumper and threw it on, and went to the door. As usual it took lots of yanks and pulls at the old handle before the rusty catch actually worked and the door swung open, causing Frank to fall over. He quickly regained his dignity and walked out, closing the door behind him. He headed into the dark streets wondering what they were going to do, he knew Mikey wanted to play video games, but that was it. He didn’t even know him that well, but Mikey was his only real friend at school, and he could always trust him.
He reached up and tugged at the giant knocker in the shape of a lion that was hanging loosely on the door, it bashed against the door so hard Frank worried it might burst a hole through it some day it was so big and heavy. A grinning Mikey came to the door, after bumping into things noisily along the way, he’d finally reached the door.
“Come in! I’ve got loads of games” He said excitedly.
Frank stepped into the house of Way, it had a unique smell… but not a bad one, it was decorated with brightly coloured walls, pictures, vases and ornaments everywere.  It was very cluttered…you could just tell from the amount of stuff that somewhere in the loft there would be boxes upon boxes of old things that they just couldn’t throw away.
Mikey closed the door and jumped infront of him.
“Come on lets play games” He started to rummage through a box of Xbox games, mumbling to himself as he went “This one….no…Aha! No…shit… erm…oh wait!....no…”
“Who’s that Mikey?”  Said Frank confused, tilting his head as he looked over to a photograph on top of the mantelpiece. Two young boys were in the photo, both smiling they’re heads off.
“That’s me and Gerard when we were little” he said, not looking up from his search.
“Gerard..?”
He stopped and turned his head to gaze in confusion at Frank “Oh come on… my brother! Gerard? I told you ages ago!”
“…In what lesson?” Frank asked curiously.
“Maths!”
“I was asleep! You know I would have been, it was maths” Replied Frank, shaking his head.
Mikey then returned to his search for the video game he deemed playable.
“Oh well, his four years older than me anyway that’s why you don’t see him, his already out of school and taller than me. Although I’m supposed to get taller than him in my 20’s or something. That growth spurt thing we’re all meant to have.”
“ Oh...ok” Frank wasn’t completely sure who Gerard was still, but it was enough. He glanced around the room and noticed a shadowy area, he went over and traced the dark coloured door’s outline.
“Mikey… what’s in here?” It was the only dark thing in the house almost, everywhere else was colourful, and happy, this place was dark… and sad. It just had a vibe around it of troubled-ness.
He glanced up at Frank before his eyes widened with panic “Don’t go in there! He gets mad sometimes if you do, especially if his in there and you interrupt him.”
Frank drew back quickly looking surprised.
“Unless your me then you learn to not care and interrupt him anyway”
“So... that’s where Gerard is?” he said interested
“Yeah, he likes to be down there in the dark, although he does use his lamp. He has all his art things down there, he loves art. His really good at it too. One day when his in a good mood I’ll ask to show you.”
“Oh…ok” This only made Frank wonder more what this strange older male was like, and what he looked like. Before he had a chance to wonder anymore he heard a large bolt being turned on the other side, in shock he fell back letting out a small shriek as the massive door swung open, it was almost like all the light had been sucked out of the room, everything suddenly got darker.  A tall, dark haired male stepped out, dressed all in black with his sleeves rolled up to his elbows, his bare lower arms covered in paint, holding a paintbrush and a pot of water. He looked down at Frank before stepping over him and disappearing into the kitchen. Frank stared open-mouthed after him.
“Frank, come here” Mikey said, stifling a cry of laughter. Frank quickly moved over next to him by the box of games. “Frank…” He clasped a hand over his mouth but couldn’t help it, and let out a loud “Ha ha haa!!” Throwing his head back. Frank still had a look of disbelief on his face, and he looked over at the kitchen. There was the older male, standing with his fresh pot of water in the hallway outside his basement. Mikey looked over at him too, sucking in his lips trying not to laugh.
Gerard gave a smirk and a little “hm” before returning to a plain, cold face, that almost frightened Frank. It was so cold… it looked so eerie, like the face of a murderer.
He turned and vanished down the steps slamming his door shut behind him, which made a massive bang as the metal crashed together and locked.
Frank turned back to Mikey, who was clearly having some trouble. His lips were almost blue and he couldn’t hold it in, he had a massive laughing fit, a trickle running down his cheek, he closed his eyes and a couple more glided down over his face “Your face Frank!...Your…face!!”
Even Frank could admit, it was pretty funny, but Gerard probably thought him a freak now.
“Oh well, what game you wanna play?” Said Mikey
“I… don’t really wanna play a game…” he said sadly, eyes flickering over to the large metal door that hid Gerard.
“Oh my god I know what’s happened…” A huge grin spread across his face “You Frank Iero have fallen for Gerard Way, and you did fall, literally haha” He held in yet more laughter.
“What!!??” His head spun back round “No I haven’t! His just really mysterious, I wanna know more about him that’s all…”
“Yeah sure Frank” He rolled his eyes “Loads of girls fall for Gerard Way. There’s nothing stopping you doing the same”