This Is My Stop

I was getting changed in the guest room while I heard several voices downstairs just laughing and talking. I felt really nervous, I knew Gerard but didn't have a clue about the rest of them, according to Frank they were nice people and not judgemental at all but all I could think was them feeling awkward around me.
It was still raining outside, I grabbed a black hoodie, jeans and converse; then I put some eyeliner on and made my way downstairs.
The house smelled like peaches, cinnamon and coffee.
"Aubrey! Hey! We were waiting for you, how was your shower?", said Gerard as he padded my shoulder. Frank stood in front of me, he was leaning against the fridge with a cup of coffee in his hands. I looked at him awkwardly and stuttered, "it was... Fine... Very refreshing?"
I guess Frank could tell I was feeling uncomfortable so he grabbed my hand and introduced me to everyone, "Guys, this is Aubrey"' he said, "We me-"
Gerard interrupted him, "Apparently Frank and Aubrey met on the way to Jersey. She lives in NY, she's one of my students", he said as he talked to a tall skinny guy with glasses and thin brown hair. He laughed and waved at me, "I'm Mikey", he said,"I'm Gerard's younger brother."
On the back a guy with puffy brown hair stood up, they were all probably the same size, he walked up to me and gave me his hand, "I'm Ray, I play guitar in Gerard's band". They all seemed pretty nice, I could see why Frank was close to them.
"Are you guys dating or something?", Ray said as Frank and I stood next to each other.
"Yeah, I mean we met recently but stuff has been going on."
Ray laughed while sipping on his coffee, "Well one thing you should know about Frank is that he's the most energetic guy in the world, both onstage and off it."
Frank smirked and winked at him, I had a puzzled look in my face.
"I guess she already knows about his behaviour offstage, am I right?", said Gerard with a rather enticing look on his face, "Have you seen Frank play?"
"Not yet, I was hoping to see him tomorrow, he told me you guys had a gig downtown", I added.
"Yeah, we do. Frank's band isn't playing, we were just talking about that and well... Wanted to give him his birthday present"
"Well, yeah... Pencey Prep broke up yesterday. I was arguing with one of them through the phone yesterday and we decided to break up. It's sad because we were recording our demo..." Frank said as he walked towards Gerard, Ray and Mikey.
"Well, that's were our present comes in. We were recording these past few days and realised we need another guitar player. So... As a birthday present we thought we'd ask you if you would like to be in the band with us"
Frank jumped on top of Gerard and hugged them three, "ARE YOU GUYS SERIOUS? YOU'RE MY FAVOURITE BAND, I'D LOVE TO PLAY WITH YOU! THIS IS THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!"
Mikey walked away as Ray, Gerard and Frank kept hugging. He came towards me, "There's this surprise party we made for him at the recording studio, would you like to come?"
"Sure, I'd love to, I'm actually kinda kidnapped you know..."
"Yeah, he talked to me yesterday morning. He asked me if it would be a good idea to bring you to Jersey, I'm glad you said yes. He's really into you"
"You think?"
Mikey started laughing and looked at me firmly, "Well, he had both Ray and me fed up with your name and stuff you guys did. He didn't tell Gerard a lot of it because he thought he'd be upset that he started dating a student of his but he seems to be the most excited of all"
I laughed and blushed slightly, "I was pretty nervous about meeting you guys, I'm glad I did."
He padded my shoulder and gave me a friendly smile, "Could you help us tonight? We'll pretend to have some kind of family emergency but will head to the studio around 7, you can ask him out or tell him that you want to go out to some costume party or something and you take him there. I'll give you the address. There's this club right next to it, I'll crash into you guys "unexpectedly" at the door. Okay?"
"Sure, I'll take him. Is it okay around 8-9?"
"Yeah, it's a costume party by the way, we like to be original." He said sarcastically.
Gerard broke apart and left Ray an Frank talk about guitar arrangements they would be doing in the band from now on, he walked towards us.
"So, did he tell you about tonight?", he asked me.
"We were just talking about that, I'll have him there around 9"
"Cool, we're pretty psyched, he's such a great player and probably one of the few people who has faith in us. He was the first person to cover our songs. The guys in Pencey Prep weren't ready for the long run, I guess. He told me about it yesterday and seemed pretty bummed", he added, "He's really into you, you know that?"
Frank looked at us for a moment and winked at me as he left the room with Ray.
"I was just telling her that", Mikey added.
"This morning he came down with this smile all over his face and was telling us about you, he didn't want to tell me at first so he only talked to Mikey and Ray. He thought I would get upset or so etching but I was actually going to fix you up with him, I saw him and you had similar interests. That's why I left you guys alone that afternoon, before you came down he asked me if I knew you. That he'd met someone in the train to Newark", he started laughing and staring at his empty coffee mug, "I did but wasn't sure if you'd like him or not, I'm glad you guys hit it off"
We were interrupted by the doorbell, Frank ran to the door.
Everything was silent until a squeaky new voice flooded the room.
"Shit", I heard Gerard mumble, "Mikey, i think it's Lacey..."
"Who's Lacey?" I said in a worried voice tone.
We went to the Living room were Ray and Frank were setting things up to practice.
Suddenly, I saw her, she had long black hair and brown eyes. She had white skin and was way shorter than me.
She was wearing a skirt p, even though it was freezing outside, and a blue shirt.
"FRANKIE! Baby, how you've been?", she screamed as she threw herself on top of him, "I came to wish you a happy birthday and give you your present"
She came closer to him and attempted to kiss him, Framk grabbed her wrists and pulled her away gently. Gerard, Mikey and me just stood there silently.
"Hey Lacey... Thanks for dropping by but I'm having a busy day"he said. You could tell he was uncomfortable by the way he moved around her.
"Sweetie, it'll be just a moment. Let's go to your room, for a minute", she said as she grabbed his wrist and attempted to pull him upstairs, "Guys, I can take him for a while, right?"
She looked towards us, "Who is she? Gerard, is she your girlfriend? Can we double date now?"
Gerard grabbed my shoulder and led me closer to them, "Actually sh-"
I cut him off and walked towards her, "Actually, "sweetie", I'm Frank's girlfriend. Nice meeting you, Lacey right?"
She had a surprising look on her face and walked towards me, "Please, He'd never date someone like you. Look at yourself, you're so common looking. I'm sure you're just one of this groupies that stalk him around Jersey", she said while laughing and looking at me from head to toe.
I gave her a grin and started laughing, "Tell me, if I'm such a groupie, why do I have my shit laying around his house?"
"What?", she exclaimed making her voice sound even squeaker.
Frank walked silently towards us, grabbed my hand and kissed my forehead, "You're amazing", he said.
He was about to say something, until Lacey cut him off, "I might be pregnant with his baby", she said as she gave a piercing look.
Gerard started laughing in the back, "Lacey, baby, that's impossible. You've never been with him, you just slept beside him on that pile of coats, I think I went further with him than you ever did. So... If you really suspect you're pregnant you should start looking for his dad because Frank isn't."
She looked at all five of us with a fierce look on her face, "You can all fuck yourselves, this isn't over", she walked towards me, "Specially for you".
I laughed as she stormed out.
"Aubrey, I'm sorry. That was Lacey, uhh we played in this basement a few weeks ago and she's been stalking me ever since. I never had anything with her but we went to this party, she got really drunk. There were these guys who wanted to take advantage of her state so I carried her to the coat room, I was so tired from playing and carrying her that I fell asleep next to her. Gerard was there to see everything, luckily, otherwise she'd be blaming me for shit I've never done."
"She's crazy, man, told you you should've left that night", Gerard added.
"Yeah, I guess she won't be back for now".
The rest of the day went by pretty fast, after jamming for a while we all went out for lunch. The entire city was full of Halloween decorations. I spent most of the afternoon hearing storied of how the band came together, and how both Frank and Gerard shared a couple kisses in a few studio sessions. By the time we went back to Frank's house, it was almost dark. Both Gerard and Mikey left for their fake family emergency, Ray left us to be alone because he allegedly had to take his younger brother trick-or-treating.
I noticed Frank's house was the only one in the block without any decorations on it so we went to the attic and got a few decorations out. As we went downstairs I felt a spider crawling down my back, "Jesus, Frank I have a spider walking on my back!"
He came up to where I was and looked for the spider, "Aubrey, stay still I won't be able to find it if you keep jumping."
He grabbed it in his hands and ran to the front door to set it free in the lawn. I was sitting in the living room when he came back in.
"It's freezing outside, are you okay?"
"Yeah... I have arachnophobia, that's it. I'm sorry I scared you..."
He sat next to me and hugged me, I laid down in his lap.
"If you must know, I also have... Had arachnophobia", he added, "I don't know how I managed to get the spider outside".
I looked at him and wrapped my arms around him, he got closer to me and we started kissing.
"You're so beautiful", he said while he looked at me in the eyes and kissed my forehead, "I think I-"
We got interrupted by my phone ringing. I stood up and answered in the kitchen.
"Hello?"
"Aubrey, it's Mikey. Are you guys ready?"
"Well.. Yeah, almost. Should we get going?"
"Yeah, I don't really know the address so Gerard will text you. Just tell Frank I called you and that we got tickets for this party but can't make it. Call me when you're near the venue, okay?"
"Sure, see you in a while"
I went to the living room and found Frank laying on the couch, watching a random TV show whilst smoking.
"Everything okay?", he said.
"Yeah, it was just Mikey, he said him and Gerard got these tickets a few weeks for this random Halloween party downtown. They won't be able to make it so he asked if we'd like to go. I think it'd be nice to know more of Jersey, besides we can celebrate your birthday, you know?", I said while walking towards him.
I stood up in front of him, he grabbed my thighs, wrapped his arms around me and pressed his head on my stomach, "It sounds nice, is it a costume party?"
"Yes, sweetie, it is. You know how people are, they want to be original and decide to make costume parties, IN HALLOWEEN. Can you believe it?"
He stood up and hugged me, "I love you".
I looked at him, shocked for what he just said, "I love you too, Frankenstein".
We kissed and walked towards the door.
"Wait, Frankie, we don't have any costumes"
"We'll get some on our way over, come on"
We didn't find any costume stores open but there was a tux store a few blocks away from the party. As Frank got his I went for a walk around the block and found a dress shop, bought a short tight black dress. I felt really uncomfortable, but it was better than no costume at all, while I walked to the tux shop I found a Frankenstein mask and a bottle of fake blood. Frank was just leaving the store.
"Put this mask on, I'll pour the blood around me", I said as I gave him the mask.
"So I'm really Frankenstein now", he said as he looked at my dress and helped me pour the blood on my face and arms, "You look like Carrie or a vampire, it's kinda hot"
I took his mask off and started kissing him, "You look hot, can I pretend to be Frankenstein's bride tonight?", I said as I played with his tie.
He pushed me against his car and pressed his body against mine, "Only if you promise to bite my neck after the party's over"
"Maybe you'll get more than that, I still owe you your birthday present"
Mikey walked towards us, still without a costume, "Hey, guys! I'm so glad you're here, you need to help me out! Something happened to Gerard, come!"
He let Frank run first into the studio and then winked at me and whispered, "Great job, Gerard's inside. Follow Frankie, I'll go get changed"
Mikey went around the corner to get it through the back door, as I made my way in I felt someone behind me.
"Hello you little whore", said Lacey as he stood behind me. She was dressed as a playboy bunny wearing high heels and slutty underwear. I ignored her and kept walking towards the studio, she grabbed me from behind and pushed me to the floor. I felt my head literally bounce against the cold concrete floor, I tried to stand up but out of nowhere she grabbed a metal bar and pressed it against my cheek, "You think you can just come here and make him walk away from me? Who do you think you are with your silly tattoos and brown hair? You're just another of his one night stands".
As soon as she finished saying that I felt her heels against my stomach, as if she stomped on me. She did it so hard I started puking blood all over the place, so much I couldn't tell I'd it was part of my costume or mine. She rose the metal bar, like if she were going to hit me but a pale white girl with pig tails tackled her, behind her ran another girl with heavy eyeliner and tattoos on her collar bone. The grabbed Lacey and got her away from me. I saw Gerard run towards them.
"I'm tired of your shit, get over yourself and leave us alone. You were never his, you should really get professional help", said the girl with the pig tails.
The one with heavy eyeliner started laughing and grabbed the metal bar from the floor, "If I see you around one more fucking time I'll shove this down your throat, get fucking lost"
As that happened Mikey and Frank were with me, and helped me get up. They took me inside the studio, it was packed except for one of the rooms were Gerard's band was recording. Ray brought ice for me to put it against my stomach, they all looked at me.
"Aubrey, babe, are you okay?", Frank said as he helped me lay on the couch.
"I'm fine. It just hurts a bit"
"We should check if there's a wound or something. Guys, would you give us a moment? Could you ask Lynz if she could please bring bandages or something?"
"Ray? Are you... A dinosaur?" I said as I sat up.
He started laughing and looked at me in a sweet way, "Yeah, I'm Torosaurus"
The guys left the room so I could undress and we could check for wounds.
"Okay, stand up and I'll help you get the dress off"
"Frankie, sweetie, I'm fine. We should go celebrate your birthday."
He looked at me with puppy eyes while he checked for wounds in my abs,"I won't do anything if you're not okay, this wouldn't have happened if I hadn't left you behind"
"It's okay, I feel great, I don't want to ruin your evening"
"Aubrey, nothing is ruined if I'm by your side. You don't have any wounds, luckily"
As Frank helped me get dressed again, the girl with the pig tails and a skirt walked in with bandages on her hands.
"Hey, I'm lynz. I'm Gerard's girlfriend, are you feeling alright?", she said in a very calm voice. She was very pretty, her smile was soothing.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm Aubrey, I'm Frank's girlfriend", I still couldn't get over the fact I met him a few days ago and now we were dating.
She laughed and walked towards me, "Yeah, he's been talking non stop about you. He said you're from Chile? Right?"
"Yes, I just moved to NY to get my degree and well.. Met Frank a few days ago. Things have been happening so fast you know"
"I know, same thing happened with Gerard and me, but I've never felt so sure about something in my entire life", we looked at each other and smiled. We clearly knew and understood what we were talking about, there was something about these guys that drove us crazy.
Someone knocked on the door, Frank went to open it. He was smiling while he heard Lynz and me talk about them. It was the girl with heavy eyeliner.
He let her in and made his way out, "I'll let you ladies talk, I'll be outside".
"Do you guys need any help?", she said.
"No, she's just fine. It was only the hit I guess, hope that bitch never comes back" Lynz said while she looked at her and laughed.
"I'm Alicia", she said, "I'm dating Mikey, he told me everything about you. Hope you're feeling better"
"I feel great, in fact, we should get back to the party. After all, it's Frankie's birthday", I said while I smiled at them.
"I can see why Frankie has been talking non stop about you, I like you", said Alicia.
They both wrapped their arms around my waist and we made our way out.

Notes

Hey guys, update is up a little early. I'm really liking how the story's going so far.
Hope you're feeling the same way, cheers.