How She Became His Everything

"The thing is...I..." Gerard paused "I don't know where to start," he then added.

"How about Eliza, I think she has something to do with it right?" Lynn asked.

"SOMETHING? to do with it? She has EVERYTHING to do with it, but I think it was kind of my fault too,"

"What was?" Lynn tried to get more details.

"You see," Gerard started explaining, "when I first met Eliza, it was right after my grand mother passed away, I was so depressed, more like weak, my grandma was the closest person to me and as she left, I felt this emptiness inside of me, I needed anything to fill it in. Eliza, on the other hand, took this opportunity to make me get attached to her, to make me fall for her, and it worked."

"That's not a really big deal though," Lynn commented.

"Eliza isn't what you think she is," Gerard went on. "You think she makes her living by cutting people's hair?"

"Then?" Lynn as getting confused.

"As I said, I was weak, and she pretended to take care of me... and at that time, I didn't know the real her, I would've done everything for her, and so I have,"

Lynn started to get the picture as she sat there, looking at him, frowning,"she made you do something bad didn't she?" She then asked.

Gerard nodded, "she was in a drug dealing mess, she knew I had a lot of contacts since I was famous, so she used her way through me, I don't know what she did, drugged me, hypnotized me, I don't know, but trust me, I'm not a person to do such a thing! I wouldn't! I just don't know what she did!"

"What did you do Gerard?" Lynn asked softly.

"I helped close a really huge drug deal, she taught me to convince people to start dealing, to make the ones that have stopped and just got out of rehab to start dealing again, she even dealt with kids at the age of 13, yeah, we sold a really big amount of drugs the income was huge itself."

"Oh God," Lynn sounded speechless.

"They trusted me with the money, to keep them in my safe, but I felt really bad as soon as the deal was closed that I took the money and donated it to rehab organizations,"

"Couldn't you have just said no? Even if you were feeling so weak?" Lynn asked still trying to understand Gerard's action.

Gerard nodded, "she was the only important person to me, as if my love to my grandma was suddenly converted to her, I used to think she was this really nice sweet person, I even used to think she was smart! She was good at it Lynn, she knew how to work her way through to my heart... but after what she made me do, I came to know who she really was, but I was already stuck in the mess,"

"Wait," Lynn interrupted. "Didn't you say that you donated their money to charity? What did they do?"

"I couldn't pay it all back, I still owe them...A lot!"

"Ohhh, that explains why she followed you to the shooting scene and looked so angry," Lynn concluded.

"Yeah, she needed her money back, and that guy Mark from yesterday came to reclaim his money back too, and those bruises were just simple reminders, his "people" were waiting for him outside, as soon as you fell asleep and he made sure it was just me and him, they got in and...well...kicked the hell out of me,"Gerard explained.

"I knew something was suspicious about him!"Lynn exclaimed violently at the thought of it. "That stupid big...bag..of...dead...rotten...TURTLES!" She said standing up, getting angrier, looking at Gerard.

"Is that the way you swear?" Gerard then added laughing.

"Only when I'm really... super... mad!" She replied, sitting back down.

"You know what?" Gerard then added leaning forward towards her. "I'm glad I told you, I feel way better, although I'm still in deep shit,"

"Yeah, so we need to do something!" Lynn exclaimed, that excitement to solve problems still in her.

"We can't, well I can't ask the band, we already have a little budget problem, after all, we did hire you!" Gerard added.

"What? I'm not talking about the band! I'm talking about you and me!"

"You and me? What can we do? Face it, I'm a dead man!" Gerard added smiling.

"I'll ignore what you just said, and trust me, I'll figure something out, did you forget what I do for a living? My job is to work with money," Lynn added trying to comfort him.

"Even though I swore never to trust anyone again after what Eliza did to me, but I don't regret telling it to you," Gerard stated.

"Yeah but you did tease the hell out of me before telling me,"

"Don't get me wrong, when I first met you, I thought you were adorable, but I forced myself into ignoring you, I was afraid you'd turn out to be more like her," Gerard explicated his previous situation.

"Oh? And what makes you think I'm NOT!" Lynn teased.

"No, you're too nice, you put up with me ignoring you, you cried for me, you cared about me, didn't sleep yesterday when I was still out, you even acted weird in front of Brian to drive him away..."

"Speaking of Brian," Lynn interrupted. "Dow much time do we still have?"

"Shit!" Gerard exclaimed looking at his watch. "He could be here any minute now,"

"What if he saw you this way?" She added looking worried.

"That would drag me into an endless investigation questions, then he would need to know my every step, and I can't possibly tell him the story!"

"No, no ofcourse you shouldn't, that could cost you your band, and, oh, the rumors, people will think you are some big mafia boss, and your bandmates, they will be driven away, oh no we can't cost the band to seperate!" Lynn statrted making conclusions.

"You seriously aren't making this any better," Gerard answered.

"Yes but, OH MY GOD!" Lynn's eyes were suddenly wide open, she looked like she was having a heart attack.
Gerard, looking behind him where the front door was, to where Lynn was looking, and said: "FUCK! How long have you been here?"