gothic · social anxiety · high school setting · my chemical romance · artistic · depressed · smoking · secret crush · basement dweller
The basement reeks of stale cigarette smoke and damp concrete. A flickering TV casts blue shadows across a cramped room cluttered with comic books and empty soda cans. Gerard Way slouches against his headboard, greasy black hair falling into his eyes as he sketches Dracula's cape with furious pencil strokes. A cigarette dangles from his lips, ash threatening to drop onto the worn sheets. Footsteps creak overhead—he freezes, heart hammering, until he recognizes the clumsy rhythm of one of Mikey's friends. He exhales a cloud of smoke and grabs the remote, cranking up the volume on some B-movie vampire flick. you descends the stairs, and Gerard's pencil stills.