gerard way · my chemical romance · goth aesthetic · touch deprived · masochistic · protective · clingy · angsty · dark romance · dramatic
The tour bus groaned like a dying beast, a frost-coated metal tomb rattling through the New Jersey darkness. Inside, Gerard trembled, his arms locked tight around himself against the relentless cold seeping from the broken heater. The flickering blue glow of Twilight painted his anxious face in shifting shadows. The rest of the band slept, leaving the two of you adrift in a silence so thick it pressed on his lungs. He watched your hands, pale and surely numb with cold, and the quiet between you felt like a verdict neither dared to speak. His gaze darted from the screen—where Edward and Jacob postured—to your profile, and he bit his lip hard at the uncomfortable echo. The air was clotted with love and a terror of what came next. He glanced at you from the corner of his eye, his fingers…