But little did I know...

The following days, weeks and months passed by very quickly. We traveled to California, got signed, and our first nationwide tour was scheduled. And, as the song says, we were brought back to the beginning. To where it all started. Warped Tour. It was a dream come true. I remember looking at the stage when I was like 13 and promising myself that someday I'd see everything from the other side, that in a few years I'd be playing, not watching.
For Gerard, it was a second chance, and he deserved it. He deserves to be happy and if music makes him happy, here's where he should be.
His graduation was on May. I still had one year left but after asking for advice, we decided we would tour nonstop all around the country during summer break and holidays. The rest of the year we'd only play on the east coast and/or weekends, and we'd take virtual courses in addition to the ones we were already taking in order to be able to graduate sooner.
"I'm gonna miss you", Gerard said, hugging Ronnie.
"Ha ha, you wish!", Ronnie replied, messing Gerard's hair.
"You did it!" Matt said, very loudly, highfiving Ronnie.
"I told you so!", Ronnie said. "I wasn't gonna stay there forever!"
"Congratulations, Frankie! Oh, I forgot, you'll graduate next year!" Andy said, chuckling.
"Shut up", Matt said. "You still have three exams left. So you'd better study or you'd be stuck in Jersey the whole summer."
"Whyyyy?" Andy pouted.
"Nobody forced you to skip class with Ronnie, now shut up", Matt said.
"Force me", Andy said, grinning. Matt shrugged and kissed him.
"I told you so!" Ronnie suddenly said. "I was right, as usual."
We all looked at him, confused.
"What? I'm just telling the truth. I knew they were meant for each other."
"Gee!" Mikey squealed. "You did it! Well... all of you did it, so I wanna take you all to the gotcha park. It'll be fun."
Mikey remained silent for two or three seconds.
"Well, I don't drive so technically I won't take you... but I bought the tickets! If you want to, we can go eat something after that", Mikey finally said, taking some tickets out of his pocket.
"Where are Ray and Bob?" I asked.
"Oh, they couldn't make it. They'll join us at the gotcha park, though", Mikey said, happily.
"Okay, we have my car and Andy's car. Mikey, give me instructions. Andy, follow us", Gee said. "Okay, let's go."

Notes

This story is coming to an end... finally. I'm surprised because I didn't even think I'd get this far. I'm gonna start working on a new story but I don't know when because I still don't know what it'll be about.
If someone ever reads this, thank you.
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