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Hold on Till May

Chapter 3: The Music Store & Meet The Hales.

Irmarie P.O.V.
I took Gerard to the music store that was down the street of the diner.

"You don't have to be so close to me. You can walk with me a few feet back if you want," I mumbled and walked quickly to the music store.

Gerard did walk behind me. I think about five feet behind me.

The music store was small. It was painted a light blue. There was a little boutique on the right and on to the left a small coffee shop.

I knew the owners of all three of the place. The Stumps own the coffee shop. The Frays own the music store. Melissa own the little boutique.

I opened the door and was greeted by my brother, Vinny.

"Hey Irmarie! How's school?" He called.

"Okay, I guess," I said.

"You always say that," he said and came to hug me.

"Because the same thing happens everyday. What do you expect?" I asked.

"For a fire to destroy it," he said with a smile.

"But then Amy wouldn't have a job!" I protested.

The door opened to reveal Gerard.

"Welcome to Micky's Music Shop." Vinny called.

"No friends, huh?" Gerard raise his eyebrow which made him look cute...

STOP. Back it up, Irmarie. Did you just think he was cute. Girl you better check your head.


"He's my older brother, Vinny," I said.

"Who is he!? Is he your boyfriend!? Why didn't you tell me!? Why wasn't this approve by me!?" Vinny freaked.

"Whoa!" Both Gerard and I said.
"First thing is we're not dating," Gerard said.

"And second, I would have gotten your approval first, don't worry." I said.

"So. Who are you?" Vinny asked going up to Gerard. Vinny is taller than Gerard.

"I'm Gerard Way," Gerard said looking up at Vinny.

"Oh, you're the other Way. Your brother comes here a lot. I think he's here right now. Nice to meet you," Vinny said.

"Nice to meet you, too," Gerard said trying to be polite to him, since Vinny did tower over Gerard and can probably beat him up.

"Come on, Gerard. Let's go find Mikey," I said and started to walk, hoping he would follow. And he did.

I found Mikey in the rock section of the store, which is pretty big.

"Hey Mikes." I said with a wave.

"Oh, hey Irmarie... Gerard..." Mikey said looking at his brother.

"Hey Mikey," Gerard said.

"Amy paired us up for the art project," I said.

"Oh. So she was serious about it then," Mikey said.

"Turns out she was," I said.

"Am I missing something here?" Gerard asked.

"Yeah. Amy told me she was going to pair me up with you about a week ago." I mumbled.

"And you knew about it but never told me," Gerard claimed.

"Well, I never talk to you. I'm sorry," I mumbled.

"I-it's fine." Gerard said.

"Okay. I'm going to make you understand your brother," I said to Gerard.

"What?" He asked.

I looked at Mikey and Mikey looked at me.

"Come on," I said taking his hand and pulling it to come with me. "Vinny!" I called.

"Yes, Irmarie?" Vinny called.

"Do you have your Cd's here?" I asked.

"Yes."

"Anything to play the Cd's?"

"Yep." Vinny said.

"You got headphones?" I asked.

"Yes, Irmarie. What do you want?" Vinny asked walking to where we were.

"I want to play some good music for Gerard here," I said.

"Oh. Okay. I'll get the things, okay." Vinny said and walked to the back room of the store.

"You're going to play music for me?" Gerard asked.

"Yeah. Music your brother and I like." I said.

"I thought you said you didn't had any friends?"

"I don't. I just know Mikey." I said.

"Yeah. There's a difference between friends and knowing someone," Mikey said.

"Sue me, then," Gerard said.

I gave a small smile as Vinny came in with a box full of Cd's and a small stereo. Vinny set up the stereo.

"What should we start him with?" Vinny asked.

"I think we should start him with Alternative." I said.

"Ah, then we'll escalate to heavy metal," Mikey asked.

"Yep." I said.

"What's Alternative?" Gerard asked.

"You know, rock isn't all just 'screamo'. There's more to rock. There's alternative, glam rock, glam metal, hard rock, and many more. Search it up on Wikipedia." I said.

"So, which Alternative band shall we start Gerard with?" Vinny asked.

"Let's start with Green Day. Play the album American Idiot." I said.

"Will do." Vinny said.

Soon the room filled up with Green Day. There wasn't anybody in the store, just us.

I sang the lyrics to myself. I really love Green Day, so that's why I started Gerard off with Green Day. It's the first band I heard that got me to liking rock music. I was five when it happened. Well, actually, I grew up with rock music playing around the house. Mom and Dad loved Green Day a lot and many more bands.

After the song was over now. "So, how do you like it?" Mikey asked.

"It's good. But why doesn't the guy want to be an 'American idiot'?" Gerard asked.

"The song is about how they oppose the US government." I said simply.

"Oh. Can they do that?" Gerard asked.

"Yeah they can. It's called freedom of speech and it's protected by the first amendment." I said.

"Well, you're smart." Gerard said.

"It's called paying attention in class, Gerard," I said.

Gerard shook his head with a smile.

The American Idiot album played on. I told Vinny to put on Paramore's Riot!. For a Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic came on. Mikey and I love Paramore, so we both started singing. Vinny soon joined us when That's What You Get came on.

"I've heard that song before," Gerard said after That's What You Get finished playing.

"Yeah, it's been on the radio a couple of times when it came out," Mikey said.

We played a couple of more Alternative bands before Vinny said he had to get back to work and so did Mikey.

"So, how'd you like it?" I asked.

"Well, it's was okay. I like that one song that came out the radio when the song came out." Gerard said.

"You mean That's What You Get by Paramore?"

"That one." Gerard said. "So, what's the art project about?"

"We have to do a drawing of what your partners is like or what your partner likes." I said.

"Oh, I guess that's why it takes two months." Gerard said.

"Yeah." I said.

"Do you, um, have anything to do tomorrow around noon?" Gerard asked rubbing the back of his neck.

"I sleep until one. So, no." I said.

"Well, I guess since you showed me a little bit of what you liked, maybe I can show you tomorrow," Gerard said.

"Uh, yeah. So around two?" I said.

"Yeah. Meet me here, okay?" Gerard said.

"Yeah. Okay. Like I said before, let me go out first," I said and started to head out the door.

"Irmarie," Gerard said.

"Yeah?" I stopped my tracks.

"Why do you asked me to stay behind you?" He asked.

"Let me tell you something. You're up here on the popularity chart," I said putting my hand up to about my head. "And I'm down here." I put my hand around where my stomach is. "I'm doing you a favor."

"Well, you don't have to do that. Everybody already knows I'm doing the project with you," Gerard said.

"Fine. But I'm going home anyways," I said.

"What street do you live?" Gerard asked.

"Cinnamon Street." I said.

"I can walk you there." Gerard offered.

"Okay." I said.


"Here we are." I said stopping in front of the porch.

My house is mostly made out of bricks. So yes it's red. There's two little pine trees in the front, two rose bushes on each side. You can hear some music playing.

"You live there?" Gerard asked.

"Yeah." I said.

"I live behind you." Gerard said.

"I know. I've seen you and a whole bunch of other people from school when you throw house parties." I said.

"Oh, you're a stalker," Gerard said with a smirk.

"No, I observe. I notice a lot of things. Like when I went to Mexico to visit my grandma and came back and I noticed Mrs. Smith had new flowers on her lawn." I said.

"Wow, you do observe..." Gerard said.

"WHERE'S IRMARIE!!!" I heard my other older brother, Rocky yell over the music.

I sighed. "Well, that's my cue. Later, Gerard," I said.

"AND WHERE'S VINNY!" Rocky yelled again.

"HE'S STILL WORKING AT THE MUSIC STORE, ROCKY," Mom yelled.

"You're family is loud." Gerard said. "And you're quiet. How does that happen?"

"No, I'm loud at my house. When you're there, you basically have to yell." I said.

"Really? Is that why you're always quiet in school?" He asked.

"That and I hate everyone in school and they hate me back." I said.

"But you're a nice girl." Gerard said.

"I know. When I hate people I don't talk to them at all. My parents taught me if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." I said.

"Smart." Gerard said.

"SHOULD WE GO FIND IRMARIE! SHE'S NEVER OUT ON FRIDAY!" My other brother, Spike yell.

"I should really go, bye. HEY I'M HERE, CALL YOUR TITS!" I yelled as I walked to my house.

I can hear Gerard laugh. "Bye, Irmarie."

I turned around and waved at him. I opened the door and I heard what was playing. Love Bites by Halestorm was playing.

"HEY IRMARIE!" Spike greeted me as he turned down the music just a little bit.

"Hey Spike." I said and gave him a hug. Yeah, three out of four of my brothers live here. Robin is the oldest. Spike, Rocky, and Vinny are triplets, and I'm the youngest and only daughter of the family.

"Where were you?" Rocky asked walking in to the living room.

Rocky and Spike look a like, Vinny is the one that looks different from them. Spike and Rocky have dark brown hair, like Mom, Vinny has the light brown hair, but it's dyed to an electric blue. Spike and Rocky have the same little birthmark on their neck. Vinny has them on his arms, like me.

You can tell Spike and Rocky apart because Rocky is taller than Spike and Spike has a little sassy attitude which questions a lot of people if he's gay or not. It's funny because Rocky is the gay one and Spike just happens to have the sassy attitude.

Vinny has a girlfriend, her name is Star. She has blue hair too like Vinny. She's pretty awesome. Vinny has been dating her since high school. They plan to get married after she finishes collage.

Star is here. She's visiting us right now because she has winter break.

"I was at the music store." I said.

"Oh, was Vinny there?" Spike asked.

"Yes he was. He works there, remember?" I said.

"Ha ha ha, funny." Spike said.

"Mom and Star are preparing dinner. Did you do your homework?" Rocky asked.

"No, not yet. I did some of it during study hall." I said.

"Who was the guy that walked you here? Is he your boyfriend? Why didn't you tell us?" Rocky
complain.

"Call your tits, boy! He's not my boyfriend. He's Gerard, the guy Amy was going to pair me up with," I said putting my coat in the coat closet in the hall.

"Oh. I feel sorry for you. Remember when we were in Senior and you were barley starting." Rocky called.

"Yeah." I said closing the closet door.

"The G boys use to try to beat me up because I was gay. Good thing I had Star, Spike, and Vinny with me every time they tried to beat me up." Rocky said.

"Oh, Rocky, I remember that year was a pain in the ass." I said as the shivers came in.

"It's all in the pass," Rocky said.

My whole family knew how bad Freshman year was to me. I swear it was beyond hell.

I went to my room, which is down the hall, and put my bag down. The album had finish playing.

"Who's next!" Spike called.

"Me!" I said grabbing my Two Doors Cinema Club CD and ran to the living room.

We all love too many bands in this house. (Not a bad thing.) There's a lot of us living here, so we take turns.

I gave Spike the CD and he played it. I sang the lyrics out loud and went to my room.

My room is painted black. (Thank you Mom and Dad.) And is covered by posters of bands. I have this box in my room. It says 'Memories of Warped Tour'. Inside it, there was all of us as a family taking pictures with band members. Yeah, we're cool like that.

"I'M HOME!" Dad yelled.

"HEY DAD!" we all yelled back.

I open up my math textbook and grabbed my pencil and started to do my math problems. I hate math.



After finish what I had left of math, Vinny came home. He knocked on my door. "Irmarie!" He said.

"Come in," I said.

In his hands he had two CD's and handed them to me. "I know how much you like Sleeping With Sirens and Bring Me The Horizon." He said.

"Thank you so much!" I said and hugged Vinny.

"You're welcome." Vinny said.

"DINNER'S READY!!!" Mom yelled.

I quickly set my CD's on my desk and Vinny and I ran to the kitchen. We all usually run to the kitchen 'cause we all love food.

"So, how was school?" Dad asked me.

"Uh, I don't know, okay I guess." I said.

"Amy called me and said you had an anxiety attack. Is that true?" Mom asked me.

"Yeah. I'm not sure why." I said.

"Is it because you're paired with that Gerard kid?" Vinny asked.

"No." I said.

"I think I know why you had your anxiety attack," Star said. "It's because you're not use to talking to people other than your family and Mikey."

"Yeah I guess," I said.

"Don't worry." Star said.

Dinner continued with us talking about our day. Spike said his girlfriend, Coco, was coming to town next week for her spring break. She's graduating from collage this year.

Rocky said he and Wolfgang are now dating. Wolfgang works with Vinny at the music shop. He's a nice guy.

Vinny and Star had their wedding date plan. They're getting married in two years. Star was graduating next year, that's why.

After dinner, I went to my room and finished my homework.

Comments

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Coco Puffs Coco Puffs
2/9/14

Are you alive???

Coco Puffs Coco Puffs
2/9/14

Oh Frank you never cease to amuse :') please update

Frank you genius;)
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11/3/13
"Sorry but Frank promised buttsex. Good day."

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11/3/13