Chapter one
Frank was curled up on the couch, drunk already, when me and Ariana came down the stairs. Gerard and Mikey were having a small house party, when I say small I mean about seven other people, my brothers didn't really have many friends. Mikey was putting more beer in the fridge and Gerard was changing the music from the Sex Pistols to Black Flag. They were accompanied by Ray and Autumn, Bob, Andy, Ashley and Lena. I looked around the kitchen at the group. Then I was drawn back to the pale figure on the couch. I just stared at him, Frank had his long black fringe plashed over his face. "Take a picture it lasts longer" A warm breath played at the hairs on the back of my neck, then a pair of hands slid around my waist and rested on my stomach. Looking behind me, my eyes fell on the blonde hair that belonged to no other than Bob Bryar.
"Shut up Bob, and get off if Mikey sees you he wont be happy, hey he might go drastic and throw you out of this jumping party". Bob removed his arms and just chuckled. "So Hayley do you wanna er...erm" I watched Bob stutter his question, a small smile spread across my face at the blonde boy awkwardness. A black beanie appeared behind him, Mikey stood arms folded looking at the back of Bryars head. "Er maybe wanna go out somewhere tomorrow...w-with me"
I opened my mouth to reply to Bobs question, until Mikey interrupted me by shouting down Bobs ear scaring the shit out of him, which from my point of view was hilarious. "She's grounded" Bob turned around to face the moussy haired boy towering over him. "Yeah... sorry Mikes". I wasn't grounded, what was Mikey doing? "Hey I'm not grounded tomorrow" Mikey looked at me and raised his eyebrows "Yes you are" staring blankly at my older brother I looked to Bob, his bright blue eyes looking straight at me.
"I'd love to go out tomorrow Bob" A small grin appeared on his face. Looking up to Mikey, I met the hazel eyes staring at me.
I broke the eye contact with my sibling and walked to the front door, opening it I stepped out followed by Ariana "Where are you going?" Mikey asked "Shop" I walked into the dark and down the drive before he could protest. Ariana appeared by my side as we turned out of the drive and started walking down the road. "Well that was awkward" she broke the tension as she zipped her jacket up "Mikey needs to realise he doesn't control me" we walked further down the road "Are you really gonna go out with Bob tomorrow?" I thought it over in my head. I knew Bob didn't just want to go out, I knew he was going to want more. "Probably not" Ariana just looked at me and we both burst into laughter. Through all the laughing we heard a shout calling to us. "Hayley, Ariana wait for me" We turned and saw Andy running down the road after us. Ariana looked at me, I turned to face her, she had that smile, the smile said she had the exact same idea, I swear we had a telepathic connection. Both me and Ariana turned and sprinted down the the black road away from the dark haired boy chasing after us. Giggling as we ran, we sped around the corner and jumped behind a wall that belonged to a house opposite the shops. We knelt down and attempted to keep quiet while gasping for air. We peaked over the wall and saw Andy looking around for us. I stood up and jumped over the low wall, landing right behind him and calmly whispered in his ear "Boo". He jumped out of his skin "Holy shit don't do that, I thought I was going to get raped or something" Ariana followed me out and burst into laughter when she heard Andy's comment. "Oh yeah cause we're gonna rape you" I said as I wrapped my arms around his waist rubbing his chest. "Get off weirdo" He smacked my hands off him.
The three of us skipped across the road to the shop, Andy got more ciggies and Ariana got pop and we managed to persuade Andy to buy us a bottle of vodka, as we are still under-age, I got munchies. When we were done, me, Ariana and Andy walked out of the shop, getting the strangest looks on our way, well I was singing the pokemon song to everyone I saw. We walked back up the road talking about things we didn't know a thing about. "Hey put this bottle down your top or something"Andy said handing the bottle of vodka over before we turned into the drive. "If Mikey finds out I bought you it I'll get killed" Ariana shoved it in her top and gasped when the cold glass touched skin. We reached the front door and walked into find everyone talking in the kitchen. Mikey looked at me and stood up, I glanced to where Frank was flat out, just like when we'd left. I started up the stairs behind Ariana when Mikey grabbed my arm, I turned around to face him "What?" Mikey rolled his eyes and took a deep breath. "Hayley I don't want you to go out with Bob tomorrow" I looked at Mikey the worry in his eyes "I'm not going to but stop trying to control me I can make my own choices" He released my arms and I carried on up the stairs. "And stop giving me that look Mikes it's not cool" I could hear him chuckling to himself.
I followed Ariana into my bedroom and dumped the bag of munchies and pop onto the bed next to where my best friend was sprawled out. "So what film we gonna watch?" I looked at the collection of horror movies that were neatly stacked on my shelf. "Erm scream?" "No, have you got dawn of the dead?" "Yeah, I'll go get it from Gee's room". I stood up straight and turned for the door "Hey see if her has any spare pillows" I nodded and walked out and into my oldest brothers bedroom. There were dirty clothes and wet towels all over the floor, Grabbing the DVD case and one of Gerards pillows off the bed and back into my own room. I shoved the DVD in the player and threw the soft pillow at Arianas head. "Ow, bitch that fucking hurt" Once the DVD was playing I shut the door and sat next to the suddenly hypo girl that was leant against the wall singing the teletubies! The two of us watched the film while laughing at the things others would find shit scary and stuffing our faces with crap. When the film ended we were both hyped up. We jumped off the bed and bounced out of the room, Ariana was behind me as we leapt down the stairs and into the kitchen. The "party" was about as exciting as water. I ran to the stereo and turned up the volume that was the sweet sound of Black Flag and turned to join Ariana and Andy head banging while everybody watched and laughed. After the song me and Andy were the only two left in the kitchen, still head banging, everyone was in the back garden cooling down or smoking. "I'm gonna have a smoke" he grabbed his ciggies and stepped out of the back door.
I was left on my own. I sat on the counter and wandered what to do, I didn't want to go outside it was too cold, looking outside at my brothers something caught the corner of my eye. My head snapped to the source of the movement. Frank was waking, I watched while he squirmed in his fading sleep. Franks hair that had covered his face brushed up as he raised his arm, revealing his cheekbones and Franks pale skin. This was the first time I'd noticed, in the whole two years I'd known Frank Iero, but he was beautiful. The way his black hair made his delicate facial features stand out. Concentration was pulled away as everyone walked inside. I jumped off the counter and moved out the way of Ashley and Lena, who nearly fell on me because they were sucking face, and stood by Ray, who was on his phone checking hi twitter (life of the party). "Ariana, please get that off your head" Gerard said to the girl that was stood behind the breakfast counter with a colander on her head. "Everyone looked at her and started wetting themselves. Once we had all calmed down, one by one we all ended up sitting on the floor. We all started talking about random shit. "So what if they're cuter Rhino's can kick Hippo's fat ass' any day". Andy carried on at Autumn from the debate that took place earlier. After a while I stopped listening and lent against Mikey who was sat beside me. I closed my eyes and stayed like that for what seemed like forever, obviously coming off my high, until Mikey shook my shoulder. "Hayley, come on time to go to bed, get up" I scrunched up my eyes and snuggled even further into my brothers arm. "What time is it?" I mumbled into his hoodie "nearly two in the morning, come on get off, go to bed, Ariana's been taken up by Bob it's your turn". I didn't move, just stayed still. "Hayley" "I don't wanna move I'll sleep here tonight Mikes" He just sighed "Come on".
Mikey stood up, I sat up so I wouldn't fall on my face. My eyes still closed. I felt an arm slide under my leg and another on my back. My brother scooped me up into his arms and walked towards the stairs. "Night Hayley" I don't know who said it but I then felt the soft lips of my eldest brother place a kiss on my head. "Night Hayls see you in the morning, love you" "Love you too Gee" I whispered back. I was carried up the stairs and into my bedroom, where Ariana and Bob were talking. Mikey lay on my bed next to my friend. "Come on Bob let them sleep" When they left my room, me and Ariana fell straight asleep. We didn't even talk, we hadn't even opened the vodka Andy bought us earlier.