How She Became His Everything

"Did you see how cute Gerard looks with this new hair cut?" Said Shannon spreading her papers on the desk.

"What?...Oh, yeah," Lynn replied sitting next to her. Thoughts dragged her to her own world again. What just happened between her and Gerard was confusing her.

What could he be mad at her for? She kept wondering. Could it be the no dating people you work with policy? Is she breaking the rules by being with Frank?

"So, you were working here before I did, right?" Shannon asked interrupting her thoughts.

"Yeah..." Lynn simply replied.

"Weren't you away for a while?" Shannon kept questionning.

"Yes, yes...I was," Lynn added holding her pen trying to start with her work.

"Oh, because I was wondering why Gerard was arguing with the manager about who this job should go to when I got there," Shannon explained before she started concentrating on work too.

"Really?" Lynn then interrupted. "What did he say?"

"He was talking about someone called Lynn," Shannon said, still unaware of Lynn's actual name.

"Yeah, and?" Added Lynn smiling excitedly thinking Gerard at least tried to get her back here.

"Nothing, just that he didn't want her to come here I suppose," Shannon added making Lynn's eyes open wide and her smile fade away.

"Oh," Lynn said looking back down at her papers.

"You're Lynn aren't you?" Shannon noticed Lynn's now sad face.

"Enough time wasted, let's go back to work," Lynn pretended to want to concentrate again.

She felt somewhat hurt, he didn't want her back... Does he hate her? What has she ever done to him but help him get out of trouble? Could he have used her to get himself the money?
She felt so down, but looking at Shannon who was so into analyzing and calculating numbers, she finally decided to let go of thinking of Gerard and do the same.

3 hours of non stop work passed as both, Lynn and Shannon, had finished their first set of paper works.

"I haven't worked this hard since... ever!" Lynn declared stretching, feeling good about herself, she finally did something.

"You mean you didn't work as much when you were here before?" Shannon laughed.
Lynn shook her head, "you must be a good influence," she smiled.

"Yeah," Shannon laughed again. "I'm a hard worker!"

"Shouldn't we be giving them to Brian now?" Shannon asked, watching Lynn organize the papers and putting them back in the folders.

"Right," Lynn agreed. "Can you?" She added trying to hand Shannon the folders.

"Oh no, I'm not going in there all alone. First time I met them, I couldn't get the word 'hello' out of me," Shannon said making Lynn laugh.

"Fine, I will," Lynn stood up.

As she got to the hallway, Lynn spotted a man passing by her, trying to cover his face making her suspicious as she watched him go.
She could see he was wearing one of those long gray coats. She knew someone who wore those coats.

"Uncle?" She said thinking her uncle has one just like it.
The man didn't answer yet he kept walking.

"Stan?" She added following him as he speeded towards the elevator. "STANLY!" She yelled making him finally turn.

"Hello pumpkin!" Stan said as he then pushed the 'Down' button.

"What are you doing here uncle?" She asked.

"Oh I was just dropping by to say hi to Brian, he's an old friend you know," Stan added as the elevator was on his way up to their floor.

"You flew all the way here to say hi to Brian?" She added suspiciously.

"I also wanted to see if you were working well," he added as the elevator's door opened.

"You could've called!" She said getting angry at how Stan seemed like he didn't want to tell her what was really going on.
Stan got in, pressing the 'main floor' button to eventually turn to Lynn and say, "go back to work Lynn, make me proud," as the door finally closed.

Was he spying on me? She wondered going back, heading to the studio where the band was recording.
When she got there, she stood by the door and looked in.
To the left was Mikey playing with the camera, trying to take pictures of Bob who was swearing at him and telling him to stop.
Then in the back of the room she could see Gerard, with a cup of coffee in one hand, gesturing each level of the notes with the other, looking at the paper held by Ray standing right next to him with Frank.

"Looks like you guys are on a break," she said walking in.

"Yup!" Mikey took a picture of her." "15 minutes break," he added.

"Hey hun," Frank kissde her. "Want some?" He added with a bag of skittles in his hands.

"Um, no thanks," she said. "I'm looking for Brian. Does anyone know where he is?"

"Uh, I saw him leave like an hour ago," Ray replied.

"What do you want from him?" Said Eliza walking in.

"How the fuck does she do that!" Frank was shocked by the sudden appearences she makes.

"Shut up Frank," Gerard stood up for her.

"I swear man it's like, she disappears and then pops in out of nowhere I don't understand..." Frank then mumbled to Ray making him laugh lightly.

"Look, I'm only here to give these to Brian," Lynn held the papers up.

"I'll give it to him," Eliza added trying to take the papers from Lynn to then fail as Frank beat her to it saying, "you just cut hair, that's all we ask of you."

Eliza glared at Frank but didn't say anything. Instead, she just wrapped her arms around Gerard smirking to Lynn and started smooching him thinking, this way, she can annoy her by making her jealous.
Lynn was actually irritated, somehow, but she just ignored it as she kissed Frank goodbye and head to the door.

"Brian!" Lynn exclaimed bumping into Brian on her way out. "We finished the first set! I left it with Frank for you."

"Good job Shannon," Brian said.

"Lynn," she corrected.

"Right," he added trying to walk in to be then blocked by her, "listen, I'm sorry about Stan wanting to check on my work today."

"Who?" Brian exclaimed.

"Stan," she repeated, paused to see he was still staring at her, then added, "MY UNCLE? Stanly??"

"Oh," Brian remembered him. "He called?"

"He was just with you!" Lynn got annoyed.

"It's been a month I haven't seen him," he said. "Lynn, are you ok?" He then added looking at her closely as she was looking all surprised and confused... Her uncle lied to her?

"Uh, yeah...I guess." She said walking away allowing him to finally get in.

As she got back, she was busy thinking, trying to find an answer to everythng or at least something that's happened lately but somehow, she couldn't. It was so confusing it almost gave her a headache.
She then decided to ignore it and distract herself by starting with the second half of the papers they had to do.
And so it happened, she worked with Shannon for another 3 hours until they were both too exhausted to continue.

"Whose room do you stay in?" Lynn asked as they were getting ready to go back to the hotel.

"Oh, my place is near the hotel so when you guys go back to the hotel I just go home," Shannon explained. "Unless when we're on tour of course," she added.

"Oh, ok," Lynn said as she finished getting everything in place.

"And heeere I come to get my laaady!" Said Frank humorously, speeding in and beaming widely showing his teeth.

"Someone looks happy to have finished work today," Lynn commented smiling, looking at him to then finally realize what he was about to do.

"No! No, I can walk! Seriously!" She screamed laughing.

"Since when did I care?" Frank added grinning as he carried her and head to the door.

"Shannon please get me my bag with you, will you?" Lynn yelled to Shannon as she was being carried away by Frank.
Shannon laughed nodding as she held both of their bags and followed them

"Here are your stuff," Shanno later said handing the bag to Lynn when they got to the parking lot as Frank had finally put her down.

"Oh, thank you," Lynn took it. "Sorry you had to carry it all the way down for me, but Frankie wouldn't listen..." She added.

"It's ok, it was cute," Shannon smiled. "Oh, and before I forget, here." She added handing Lynn a folded paper.

"What's this?" Asked Lynn.

"Oh when I was following you I looked behind me and saw it on the floor so I think it fell off of your bag or something," Shannon explained.

I didn't have any papers in my bag Lynn thought to herself opening it to see it was kind of a bill saying that an amount of money was transfered to Stan's account, with his and someone else's signatures on it. It must have fell from him when he was leaving... Lynn thought.

"Well, I better go home now," Shannon declared.

"What? Aren't you coming with us?" Lynn added.

"I have my own place near the hotel, remember?" Shannon said laughing lightly.

"Oh, right. I'm sorry I'm just a little tired,"Lynn added.

"It's ok, it was really nice meeting you," Shannon smiled politely.

"Yeah, me too." Lynn smiled back, watching her leave.

Back at the hotel, Lynn got in and lay on the bed thinking and staring at her uncle's paper with Frank next to her.

"What's that?" He asked looking at the paper.

"Nothing," she replied smiling.

"Hey! What are you doing with Eliza's stuff!" He added.

"What Eliza's stuff?" She asked frowning.

Frank gazed into the paper more and said, "isn't that Eliza's signature right there?"
"Yes, it is," He then confirmed looking closely at it.

Eliza and Stan signing it? I don't get it! Lynn started wondering.
"I'm so fucking tired," Frank closed his eyes.

"Go to sleep then," she said pecking him. "I'm going to make me some hot cocoa cause I can't sleep right now," she added getting off the bed.

As she did her cocoa and sat in front of the tv, she couldn't get her mind off of all the confusing things that happened with her today. Gerard not wanting her back, her uncle showing up at her work place, Brian denying the fact that he was with Stan, the bill with the signatures, Gerard wanting his letter back...

"Wait," she mumbled to herself
Gerard's letter... It should have some explanation in it... She wondered heading to the bedroom to get it.