I focused on applying my eyeliner correctly while Hikaru watched cartoons in the living room. Gerard said we'd follow them on an interview with some show then chill out with the band. There was a knock at the door. I could hear Hikaru looking out the window and screaming Gerard was here. I told him to open the door for him.

"If there isn't any coffe, you shall be shunned!" I yelled from my point in the bathroom mirror as I fixed my hair for the eleventeenth time.

"Then I shall not be shunned because I bring forth lattes" I near Gerard's foot steps coming toward the room and I stopped messing with my hair then quickly turned off the light and walked out. Gerard hadn't lied, he had a coffee cup in his hand ready for me to take. Gerard and I awkwardly acknowledge each other before walking back to the living room. Hikaru had just finished a kids sized cup something I don't remember giving him. "Mariko, Gee bought me coffee!" He said as he finished off the last the drink. "Wait wah-"

"It's hot chocolate. Don't worry. I told him it was coffee."

"Oh...good. He doesn't need caffeine."

There was another knock at the door but this time I didn't expect to know who it was. "Oh that's probably Frank" I opened the door and indeed there was probably a 5ft man standing. "Frank, this is Mariko. Mariko, Frank." We exchanged greetings. Frank walked in but stopped. "Please tell me there's no three year old kid waiting to come of the room saying Daddy to Gerard is there!?" I happened to be standing in front of Hikaru; blocking Frank's view of him.I laughed and move to the side to reveal Hikaru who is watching cartoons.

"Actually he's five." Gerard said, as he had to have caught onto my little joke

Frank does this kind of sharp intake of breath before realizing we were joking. Hikaru finally looked away from the television enough to notice there was someone new in the room. Like always ,he ran up to Frank excitedly screaming 'Hi hello who are you?What's you're name. Can I call you Frankie?'

After that we got into Gerard's car, heading for the studio.

Traffic was a bitch as always so we made it there almost late actually.We meet up with the rest of the band too it was Gerard's brother Mikey on Bass, Frank and Ray on Guitar and Bob on drums. They were also confused on why I had a child with me. Me and Hikaru had to wait in the wings as the Host introduced the band and what song they were going to preform. They all walked on stage waving the music started and Gerard; mic in hand, said the song was called Mama.

"Mama, we all go to hell
Mama, we all go to hell
I'm writing this letter and wishing you well
Mama, we all go to hell

Oh, well, now
Mama, we're all gonna die
Mama, we're all gonna die
Stop asking me questions, I'd hate to see you cry
Mama, we're all gonna die"

After they'd finished playing, the four walked to the table on stage and sat. Now they were going to answer questions. Mainly they talked about how they were going on their album 'The Black Parade'. How things are going with recording and when they were going to tour again. Questions on how they came up with the album and it's meaning. They put so much thought into it. People say this band promotes self harm and suicide; they called the, a cult.

This band wants saves lives.

"Is that Miss Mariko James hiding back there?" Someone's voice over the microphone. I stopped playing Fruit Ninja and looked around for where it came from.

A middle aged women with way too much hairspray in her hair and a clip board in her hand came walking toward the couch where me and Hikaru were waiting. "Well isn't this something, we've got MCR and Mariko James in the same building! I've got get an interview, I've been asking for ages!" My manager never told me of anyone wanting an interview I would have gladly agreed. I kind of half wanted to say no to the interview since MCR's was still going.

The women who I learned is named Nancy Baker lead to another studio room where a whole other audience was waiting and chatting patiently. Sometimes I get so nervous I can't function in front of a live audience. When you're in a radio show they only hear your voice and filming there's just as movie crew holding sound mice and lights. There's not group of real people. There was literally a tech guy who nearly shoved me out of the wings and into view of the audience.

"Come one Miss Mariko don't be shy. We don't bite" That's a great thing to say Nancy. I still put on a smile and politely wave before I sit down on one of the two seats. The camera light blinks red meaning we are going live.

"So how are you Mariko?" Nancy says.

"I'm pretty good, just a bit nervous." I notice when I talk to people I don't know I am way too polite. Once I'd answered the phone to a phone who was asking for some other person. I answered her by saying "umm sorry ma'am I think you have a wrong number" but I guess the women didn't know much English so I sat there for maybe 10 minutes trying to tell this lady she had the wrong number when I could have just hung up on her, after that my friend said I was too nice...

"Oh don't worry Hun. Lets get started shall we? I didn't have any questions ready for you so I'm just going to wing it ok?"

I smile and nod.

"What got you into doing movies and hosting your own radio show?" Nancy asked

I didn't really have to think, the words just made them selves."Basically I was like going about YouTube and stuff last summer I found these Youtubers that go by DanIsNotOnFire and AmazingPhil, they work at the BBC Radio1 station in the UK. I thought that was like fucking amazing . So I like made a few calls and practically begged BBC to give me my own show." I scratched my nose awkwardly because its weird for me to say I got my show because I annoyed the producers." I ended up getting it like a month later when one show quit. And as for acting, we do skits on the BBC website that listeners request us to do. I've always been a little drama major since like the fourth grade when I played the Indian Chief's Daughter in a school."

Nancy laughs and thinks of her next question."Did you ever think you would make it this far?"

"Ummm, not really I mean at first with the acting I was just getting roles as like extras or that waitress who gets your order wrong then drops the food on accident. And with the Radio thing I started out with only 3 listeners for like a month but then they slowly started to trickle in and now I'm in the top three radio shows next to Dan& Phil, and Grimmy." This is turning out to be easier than I thought it would be. They aren't like crazy stalker who wants to know what kind of shampoo I use.

"How is it like being recognized as famous?"

"It's still pretty new, I mean I haven't gotten used to going somewhere and some one coming up to me asking for a picture or like an autograph,you know? It's actually quite flattering because sometimes I forget what I do. It's surprising though when people do come up to me because I never had that happen before I've always been ignored. Teachers had to have me stand up in class for roll call because if I didn't speak up enough they would count me absent."

"How far astray is all this from what you wanted to do as a child?"

"It's definitely far from what I wanted, I grew up thinking I wanted to be a cosmetologist, and dabble in Monster Makeup." Once I saw this show called FaceOff and that's when I started getting into 'Monster Makeup'.

"How long have you been acting and what do like about it?"

"I think I'd have to say I've been so and so 'professionally' acting ever since that Indian role I had in fourth grade through probably maybe my sophomore year in high school; that's when I got really into MakeUp and Monster Movies. I mean I really like it because you can get away from your normal life and be someone else for a while."

"Ok,now we're going to talk about some Movies/Shows you're in. I hear you're going to guest star as yourself in an Anime show,how cool is that?"

"I think it's fucking awesome. I love anime and I've always wanted to voice one, so I'm really stoked,yeah.

"What made you want to try out for the role?"

" Actually, when I got the call from the producers of the show. It's a Japanese language based series.I had just finished my show and the producer was like you know 'I really like your voice, your accent is prefect for my show.Would you like to guest star and maybe be on my Anime series? I kind of have to learn a bit of Japanese too. Like I said I've always wanted to do it. So I took that up right away. I ending up sitting in the Animation Dept. for like 3 hours so they could make my character. But it was totally worth it, I mean have you seen my character, it's just so cute!"

"I bet it was, can we find a picture of Mariko's character? Put it up on the screen." She ordered. "Can you say a little something in Japanese for us?"

The screen blinks and surprisingly they were about to find the picture of my character in record time. My character had long black hair and light blue eyes. A School uniform and a cat in he arms.

I search through my mental notes for somethings I can peice together in Japanese. "Watashinonamaeha Mariko kon'nichiwa, koreha nanshī· bēkā to no intabyūdesu." The crowd all say in unison 'huh?'

"Basically I said 'My name is Mariko Hi, this is an interview with Nancy Baker'" I explained.

"How is making a movie effecting your life, and balancing a radio show. Is it hard?"

" I mean I have a pretty flexible schedule for the Radio show, sometimes when I'm not doing the show I just coming in early just to help mix the music. Filming is a bitch though, you get on set at about maybe 3 in the morning till about 10 at night. Not to mention how long you
have to sit in MakeUp for like an Hour. Then there's the freakin Wardrobe, dear lord. All in all, it's been pretty easy doing both at the same time. I'll be taking some time off from the the acting after the anime series is done and just doing the Radio show next month because of personal reasons."

Thank god Nancy didn't press on about why I'm taking a break from a couple of things. Or I'd have to make something up or tell them the whole backstory.

"Oh I'm sorry to hear that, one last question for you ok?"

"Ok"

"Now there's been some things floating around that you've been hanging around with My Chemical Romance's frontman Gerard Way. What's the inside about that? How long have you known each other. Is it more than just friends? How did you meet?"

"Yeah, I have been hanging out with him and I meet the rest of the band today, by far they are the nicest band I've ever met cause we meet some really big Bands on Radio 1 and they are just so , I don't even know. Not to offend them but damn." I say and the crowd laughs i. agreement.

"As for how we met, I was at the mall looking for clothes to wear for an audition. I had my brother Hikaru with me who was begging for ice cream but I didn't have enough. Hikaru ended up bumping into Gerard;making him drop his ice cream. I didn't realize who he was and neither did he of me, so I offered to pay him back. Hikaru literally asked him to buy him ice cream." I half giggled.

"Gerard actually bought it no questions too. Which I thought was cute. Anyway we started talking and he asked me to take a picture with him. As I was going home, I heard one of MCR's songs on the radio. Then I realized, that was Gerard Fucking Way. I do have to say he was very forward which I found a tiny bit annoying but he's really sweet and I'm just going to go ahead and say that I in fact do like him. Just so there's no confusion of my opinion. As for him I don't even know. I guess it's kind of a one sides thing for now as far as I know."

I saw a flash of silver hair around the right wing of the stage. There's no doubt it's Gerard. Their interview must have finished already. I quickly get up, not excusing my self from the audience and Nancy and go for Hikaru in the left wing. I pretty much wanted to get to the car immediately. For one thing I basically said I liked him in just a way. I can here to watch their interview not go for one myself. Opps.

Gerard and Frank come back to the car talking as they walked. I asked Gerard to drop me and Hikaru at BBC.

-BBC station-
I took my scarf off me hung it on the hook. I grabbed my headphone mic and switched on the live feed just as Andrew finished the first song. We answered call requests only today because we weren't scheduled for an interview with anyone till next week. No one was even calling. Today was going by too slow and I couldn't stop thinking about the interview.


"And now we've got a song by Swedish House Mafia called Greyhound." I spoke into my mic as I layer back after pressing the track. I spinned around in my chair. I happen to like this song. The phone rang and I pressed the switch on my headset, it was quiet on the other end of the line. "Hi there, have a request?" I'm supposed to say that every time there as caller.

Let me mention we are live and this troll is making me look like an idiot for making it seem I'd just sad it out of no where during a song. I turned down the music."Hello? You know if you don't talk I kinda got to hang up..."

"Go on a date with me." Was all the voice said.

"Pardon?" I actually laugh at this person while Andrew tries to keep in his laughter.

"Go on a date with me."

"Gerard Fucking Way is that you?!"

"Maybe...."

"Are you really doing this live on the radio?!" I'm holding my headset mic closer to my mouth and speaking in a shushed tone as if it would hide the conversation.

"Indeed I am. And I'll keep calling until you agree to go on a date with me." He says and I can already picture him; phone in hand with a goofy smile on his face. His perfect teeth in my opinion obvious in his smile.

"Are you serious, come on if you really did. Why do it here?"

"Cause it's corny. And you'd have to say yes."

"You sit on a Throne of lies." Sighing I cover the mic and run my hand down my face. "Ummm...I uh, gosh ok. It wouldn't hurt to."

There's a noise at the end of the line. For a second I think he's hung up on me." Friday, 8." and only then does the line to dead.

Andrew removes his headset and stares at me."What?"

"You've got a date with Gerard Way,hun"
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Let's see, a good date would be what? What does the Gerard Way count as a date? Going to some lame scary movie or going to dinner? In my opinion those options are boring. I'd rather go somewhere different. Like go to some bookstore or something and go back home to watch movies( obviously not lame scary movies where the dumb blonde dies)

Friday came quicker than I thought,through the week Hikaru and I got to hang around the band more and I have to say they are something. Hikaru takes a liking to anyone he meets. He even gave them all nicknames; Mikey is The Unicorn Believer(or just Unicorn for short), Frank is Frankie( or as I like to call him The 5ft man because he's adorably short), Ray is Princess FroFro and Gerard is just Gee or The Sassy Diva(I personally like The Sassy Diva). They even offered to watch Hikaru for me. Gerard assured me that with Mikey around they wouldn't let them catch fire or something. Wasn't he the one who once tried to put a fork in the toaster?

Friday came and I had to pry Hikaru off me so I could go with Gerard which left Hikaru crying. I told Frank to call me or Gerard if my brother becomes too much of a hassle.

"So where are we going?" I asked

"Well, you see. It's a surprise. And you'll just have to wait and see" Gerard said as he adjusted the heating system in the car.

Mostly we just drove in silence but it wasn't in any way awkward this time. I like these kinds of silences, where you don't feel you need to blab on about something stupid that both of you aren't interested in; like the weather.

We drove around a shopping plaza of a really highend looking area. With clothing stores with the lowest costing shirt was $55. And expensive looking furniture stores probably imported. We drove to the far end of the plaza and found a parking spot before some jerk could take it.

"We're going shopping or something?" I said as I pulled off my seat belt and got out of the car in which Gerard was holding the door open for me.I walked around the car and looked around at the stores; adjusting my beanie.

'In a way, yes you could say that. Just that this store is more fun." He said. He offered his hand out for me to take and I did. We walked around the corner, going up about a block from where we were. We arrived at a store called 'Rocket Fizz -Soda and Candy shoppe-'

'Here we go.' Gerard opened the door and did the Ladies First Gesture.

Inside the walls were lined with shelve upon shelves crammed with soda bottles. There were old and new looking bottles. Vintage and New age looks. There was every flavor you could possibly think of. There was a massive refrigerator on the right wall. And to top that off, in the back right corner of the store was an arrangement of assorted flavors of taffy and some other brands of candy. But this Taffy was Rocket Fizz's specialty. There was one wall dedicated to each type of candy, like Chocolate, hard candy. gross-out candy, International candy. A section for Novelty Prank Toys. Cardboard cut outs of celebrities every where and for sale; I nearly bumped into Darth Vader on the way into the store.

The cashier owner welcomed us to the store saying the special deals on some items and what not. Gerard was literally 'A kid in a Candy Store'. He was excitedly showing me around the store.

"You have got to try this drink!" He hands me a bottle of some kind of Japanese drink."See you just have to take this top thingy of then put this here and it drops the little ball at the top which falls down then that's what carbonates the drink." We grabbed about 4 of those.

We walked still hand-in-hand to the taffy area. The cashier came to us and told us we could try one of any piece of taffy over here and that the Large bag was $7.99 and small was $5.99. You could fill it all the way to the top because they weigh it at the counter. They had some pretty interesting sounding flavors too like Rum, Huckleberry, Cinnamon Roll and others. I picked up a peppermint flavored taffy but Gerard takes it from my hands, finishes unwrapping it and holds it out for me to eat. I blushed for some reason but ate it anyway. It obviously tasted like I hoped it would but with just a bit more stronger mint.

We continued to fill up the baggie with taffy first then the other candy. I spotted the coffee candy section and practically pulled Gerard by his collar to them."WE ARE SO GETTING LIKE ALL OF THESE!" We both yelled. Eventually we had about half the bag was taffy and the rest of the bag was coffee candy; we added a few cherry,orange and grape Zotz in there too(it's like a hard candy that had this kind of Fizz stuff inside, while you have it in your mouth it breaks and tastes like soda).

Next was soda. Rocket had more soda than I've ever seen; in just one refrigerator. About 12 different brands of root-beer,Jellybean flavored soda,energy soda as well as the Rocket Fizz brand sodas. The thing that got me was the gross-out sodas. THERE WAS BACON SODA. And let me tell you neither me or Gerard wanted to try it. We decided that we'd buy it anyway and make one of the other guy's try it first.

"I'm conflicted!" I didn't know which one to get, marshmallow or cherry cola only because I really wanted to keep the bottle because it had a the original art from The Wizard of Oz but then I really wanted the marshmallow. Gerard grabbed the four sodas of his choice.

We got to the counter and Gerard offered to pay for the candy and the soda."Would you like to get another soda to make that a 4 pack so you can get a discount?"

"Oh..ok" I run back to grab the Oz bottle and bring it back to the counter."I have made a solution to my problem" I dance and through both my hands in the air making Gerard laugh."I may have let you have too much sugar"

We got back to the car and we both tried one of those Zotz. They really did taste like soda. "So this was your idea of a date?"

"Well I just wanted it to be simple you know? Unless you didn't have fun?" Gerard put the key in the ignition and we drove off.

"No no. I did. Rocket Fizz is definitely that shit. I love it" I gave him a piece of Watermelon taffy while he was driving.

-le driving-
"I can't wait for someone to try this bacon soda. It's sick" Gerard said when we reached my apartment door. I unlocked it and was surprised by the sight inside. Frank was sitting on the floor while Hikaru drew on his face with marker. Mikey was sitting watching TV but with a tiny pigtail on the top of his head and one of my purple bows. Ray was, well ray was put asleep on the couch with stickers on his face. Frank got in Hikaru's mid-drawing."Oh, Thank god you guys are back!"

"Why,what happened? Was he too much trouble?" I set the soda bottles on the dining table then went to get a bottle opener from the drawer.

"No, he was pretty good. Just didn't expect him to so hyper all the time." Frank said

"Hey wait Frank when you come back from washing your face, we want you to come try this soda we bought" Gerard calls and Frank raises his hand in response as yes.

I open the bottle and I'm hit with the stench of the drink. Dear god was I disturbed. It made me want to gag. Frank came back and clapped his hands."Alright what am I trying?"

I dramatically handed him the drink, holding my nose."Bacon Soda"

Frank smelled the bottle and instantly made a face. He was about to drink it but stopped."Come on just drink it" He took a sip of it and almost gagged."What the fuck is that?!"

"Like I said BACON SODA.'

"Why would you even buy that it's disgusting!"

"I know!"

"You try it!

"NO!"

"Yeah, come one. I'll try it too. We'll all try it" Gerard took the bottle from Frank and handed it to me."But it stinks. I can't drink it with that smell!" I made up a lame excuse not to drink it."If I drink, everyone drinks it.Deal?"

"Deal"

I bring the bottle to my lips and I couldn't make my self try and drink it. I pinch my nose and take the smallest sip unlike Frank who took a giant gulp.

Ok let me try to describe the way this thing tastes like. So it's like soda soda soda soda soda soda BAM, ROTTEN LIQUID BACON, soda soda puke. Good god who came up with this. Now who told them this was ok?! Cause last time I checked I'm in charge here!

Gerard,Mikey and Ray tried it and basically had the same reaction.

"Let's watch a movie!" Gerard insisted. There we go, my thing for a date. Going to a random store then come back to watch movies. SCORE.

"Nah man, we got to go." Mikey, Ray and Frank had to leave.

Me and Gerard agreed to watch the original Evil Dead.I put the disc in the player then press play as the trailers start to go. I drape my body over the couch and rest my head in Gerard's lap.All I could do was criticize how fake everything looked in my head. They used way too much 'Milk' and I say that because towards the end when the demon lady thing is being destroyed she like spits out a white liquid which Hikaru made the joke as it being milk. But I don't even know what it is.

I ended up falling asleep with my head still on Gerard's lap. Until I woke up when Hikaru came into the living room rubbing his eyes,saying his movie I put on for him in his room had finished as well. I sat up trying not to wake up Gerard.

"Hey Gee wake up or go to sleep in the bed!" Hikaru screams; defeating the whole purpose of me trying to be quiet.

Gerard opens his eyes and looks at me tiredly."You can go lay down in my room if you want or you can sleep on the couch. What am I saying,you probably want to go home now don't you?" I said. I shooed Hikaru into his room after telling him to change into his Pjs. With one eye open Gerard walks to my room.I get Hikaru situated for before turning off this light and saying goodnight.

I come back to my room as Gerard is taking off his jacket half asleep then flops face first onto my bed. I stifle a giggle before going into my closet to change. Once done, Gerard is still face down on my bed and hasn't moved at all.

I pull the covers back off my bed, my bare feet touching the cold floor then I flop down too. Gerard shifts. "Gah it's cold!"

I pull the cover all the way up to my nose and stare as Gerard."Then why won't you turn the heater on?"He asks.

"Cause I've made it your job to keep me warm. Now get over here" I lift the blank. Gerard lays down again under the blanket with me. I scoot closer to him, resting my head against his chest. He hums and I move my head up to where his jaw meets the start of his neck; my nose against his jaw line. I let my eyes close so I slide into peaceful darkness again..

Notes

OK so my parents surprised me last night when we got home from watching the new Super Man and World War Z. So I'm sitting there trying to write this chapter and they are acting all suspicious by not letting me into the kitchen. Turned out they had bought me a cake. But then they were like "You know I think something is missing" then my stepdad was like "Indeed I think something is missing" they moved my stepdads shirt on the counter and I barely even looked at it and I screamed "I AM FIFTY SHADES OF DONE!" then ran to the bathroom. I came back and I opened it again, it was the rest of the MCR cds I was missing.(Revenge, Black Parade+The Black Parade is dead, Life on the Murder Scene) and then they bought me The Umbrella academy. Which was shady because when we went to the comic store that day I found the new Killjoys one that just came out and I wanted to buy Umbrella but my mom said I couldn't so she told me to go wait in the car.That turned our that they have already bought Apocalypse and they had just bought Dallas that day.
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OH MY GOD.I have lost the ability to EVEN.
Anyway there's my little story. And my birthday is tomorrow by the way. c;
Also remember to tell me what you think of the story.
-Pierre