Man, working sucks but hey I gotta help out with the bills. I grab a stack of CDs to put in their racks. I start to go through them when I look over to see Gerard head his way to the service center. What the hell? That’s not where he usually works. I give him a look and he just shrugs and sits down. Hm, maybe John gave him that position today. Awesome now when the guys come I’m not far from him. Totally works out.

Two hours pass which makes it about 12 or 1 I don’t know I suck at keeping up with time. I decide since it’s not that busy I walk over to G and look through some books with him that he brought with him. A lot of history book but whatever I don’t judge.

“So about the band,” I begin to say to break the awkward silence, “what is this really all about? It looked like you were actually panicking about how to answer us when we asked what was going inside your head.”

“No this is going to happen, and I wasn’t panicking!” Gerard yelled back a little surprised.
“Uh huh. So what are we going to call ourselves?” I ask looking at a book staring at these three words that stuck out at me.

“I don’t know. Why? You have a name?”

“I think I do.”

“Let me hear it.”

“Okay so just try this on for size then walk around with it and tell me what you think. Okay?”

“Okay.”

“My Chemical Romance,” I reply as I slowly look up to see his reaction.

“Mikey?”

“Yeah?”

“That is fucking brilliant!” Gerard yells, “We have to tell the guys!”

Speaking of the guys here they come with coffee and bagels. My heroes right now I could really use some.

“Hey guys,” I yawn.

“Sup Mikey,” Frank says with way to much energy.

“Hey G and Mike,” Bob says before sipping his coffee.

“Sup guys,” Gee replies.

“Nothing much, we woke up and saw that you left so we didn’t know what to do. We decided to go upstairs and there was your Grandma making us breakfast. Then once we finished we all left and got some coffee and bagels for guys and well. Here we are!” Ray gave us a run through.

“Well Bob and I knew they left because when Mikey fell on top of Bob. Gerard said they had to go then we both fell back to sleep,” Frank replied matter of factly then pointed at Ray, “you slept through it all.”

Ray shrugs, “Eh… What can I say I’m a heavy sleeper.”

“I’ll say,” Bob mumbles and drinks his coffee.

“Alright, ladies stop bickering. Mikey has something to say about the band. Go ahead Mikey the floor is yours.” Everyone was staring, Gerard was grinning.

“I… I… I think we should name the band My Chemical Romance or MCR for short,” I say. The guys just stared then Frankie grabbed a coffee the tray; handed it to me and put his arm around my shoulders. Even though I’m the tallest and he looks ridiculously stupid trying to put it around me.

“I think that’s a wonderful name. Totally dig it,” Frank spoke up.

“Yeah, I like it.” Ray said.

“Blew my mind, dude,” Bob replied.

“I know right!? I love it!” Gerard replied with so much excitement, which surprised me since he was just down and depressed before. I guess it’s because he finally drank coffee.

“Hm… My Chemical Romance. I can see it now in headlines of magazines just like these,” Ray says and holds up one of the magazines that Gerard brought over. I laugh with the rest of the guys as we just bullshit for what felt like hours on end but I had to get back to work and so did Gerard.

“Alright well why don’t we go back to Gerard’s place to get my guitar and then go to my house and jam out for a while,” Frank suggested.

“And we will meet up with you guys after work,” Gerard added in.

“Sounds good,” Ray and Bob reply at the same time.

“What are you two twins?” Gerard jokes around.

I laugh then I turn around to see Robert walking through the sport section of magazines. I froze, oh no not right now. I really don’t want to start shit right now.

“Oh shit,” Frank whispers.

“Wha-“Gerard begins to ask then he sees him, “Well shit. Here goes my morning.”

Robert turns around to see all of us staring. He has a wide grin and begins to walk over to us. Oh shit.

“What’s wrong?” Ray asked.

“Who is that guy?” Bob asked.

“Robert,” I whisper too afraid to even speak his name.

“Oh,” Ray and Bob both say. Robert finally reached us and I went behind the counter with Gerard as the rest of the guys just stood there.

“How’s it going newbies, Frank, and friends of theirs,” Robert asks in a smartass way.

“Well we were having a nice morning till you came,” Bob mumbled before drinking his coffee. Big mistake next thing you know Robert takes his coffee and pours it over Bobs head. Gerard jumps over the counter and pins down Robert but he just ends up being thrown to the ground. Ray punches him then I look over and I see Robert’s gang come along. Well this just turned into one giant shit fest.

I walk over to Gerard and help him up. Bob looks furious and starts kicking him. One of his men picks up Ray and throws him. I just stand there useless. Next thing I know John comes running over to the scene with a few workers. They ended up breaking the fight and asked them to leave.

Once we told them what happened Ray left with Bob and Frank. Gerard and I had to clean up the mess. This day couldn’t have gotten any worse. Well at least now we know what we are going to call the band. One good thing happened out of all this mess.