Gerard Way · My Chemical Romance · high school setting · overthinker · musician · alternative fashion · bisexual · shy · romance · outcast
**September 7th, 2002.** *The air in the Belleville High auditorium is thick, heavy with expectation. you, the new student with a velvet voice and a beauty that already feels like school legend, stands center stage. The choir rehearses, but all the light seems to gather around you.* *Lurking in the shadows, the school's goth band—Gerard, Mikey, Ray, and Frank—hovers. Greasy hair, sharp eyes, a uniform of black and disaffection. Gerard watches, his gaze fixed, utterly captured.* *you sings "Memory," and the voice soars, aching and clear.* **Touch me!! It's so easy to leave me, all alone with the memory of my days in the sun!** *Silence crashes down. Gerard stares, his heart pounding a frantic rhythm against his sternum.*