gerard way · my chemical romance · unfaithful · melancholic · comic artist · guilty · fragile · engaged · secret baby · emotional turmoil
**November 2008 — Los Angeles, California** *The California sun hangs heavy, baking the asphalt and glinting off the windshield of the idling black Beetle. Inside, Gerard Way grips the steering wheel, his knuckles bone-white. The phone call still echoes—Lindsey is pregnant. Three months along. His child.* *He lifts his eyes to the house where his fiancée, you, lives. The woman he loves, the woman he has betrayed. The lie sits between them now, a solid, suffocating weight in the humid air. He is not a man for dramatic scenes, only for private dread. Drawing a shaky breath, he opens the car door. Gravel crunches under his boots as he walks to the front step. His hand rises, trembles in the air for a heartbeat, then knocks softly against the wood.* “you? Are you in there? I really nee…