Unitl I Break

“Nah dude don’t worry about it….”Dustin said taking the phone from Gerard so he could give Mikey directions while Gerard jumped in the shower.
Time was slowly ticking away, just as Gerard’s remaining twitches were dwindling, a good thing but he was nervous as all get out. Gerard was nervously pacing the apartment, smoking like a fish swims, “Where’s frank? Christ what am I doing.”
“Dude relax…and catch that ash before it falls, she doesn’t let me smoke in here, she doesn’t let anyone smoke in here…that’s so not cool she let you smoke in here…..but seriously dude you’ll be fine.”
Dave went and answered the door while Dustin watched amused as Gerard continued to pace and question his actions…
From the living room Gerard heard a stunned, “holy hell…” uttered from Frank as he made his way into Seville’s flat.
“Good to see ya Frank,” Dustin said warmly
“and I was worried about her….damn” Frank still stunned
behind you could hear the clumsy jaunt of a running Mikey “hey frank wait….oooooooo, this is nice” he said out of breathe in response to the surroundings. It took all of two seconds for something to break, as was mikey’s talent…..
“MIKEY DON’T TOUCH ….” Dustin yelled, but it was too late as a big expensive looking vase crashed too the ground.
“My bad…” Mikey said grimly scuffled his feet a bit, “you don’t think shell notice do you…now she’s gonna hate ME!” instantly worked up he ran back out the door he’d just come in and down the hall.
“Damn it.” Frank cursed to himself through his head back, “Grab your stuff and well meet you in the care… MIKEY COME BACK HERE!” Frank said taking off behind him.
“Don’t worry about it.” Dustin said as Gerard bent down to pick up the shattered glass that now littered Seville’s front entrance, “She won’t care, I mean its not like she can’t make a new one right? You better go dude you don’t wanna keep those business types waiting, ill clean it up … but hey if I'm not here when you get back, it was good to see ya man.”
“Thanks Dustin.” Gerard said grabbing his messenger bag and heading off.
During the meeting Gerard felt completely distracted, everything was still rushing through his head, so in his opinion it was a good thing brian and ray were there, they were the business minded ones. The guy, Craig Aaronson, was totally bizarre; but in an awesome way, he was just really excited. He seemed nice enough and Seville trusted him, and that itself would have been enough, but they had all liked what he had to say and would probably end up signing with him. They finished the initial meeting quickly and agreed to have a more formal gathering later in the week when the boys could have some paper in front of them.
“So now what?” Gerard asked lighting a cigarette as they left the restaurant.
“Now I go and do a shit ton of work to figure out whats going on, call and arrange a filight to go meet up with Bob, and od all my other shitty work…see ya gusy I gotta bounce.”
“you gotta bounce?”
“Wha the hell is that? Huh? Are youa g-unit now Bri?” Mikey asked with a snicker
“Yeah itll be official as soon as I get my grill from Jeffery the jewler you down with that?”
“Does that mean youre getting spinners and hydrolics for your ca too!?” Mikey asked all excitedly.
Brian rolled his eyes and groaned, “Definitely mikey….”
“SWEET!” Mikey yelped.
“Right ill see you guys, Frank, Toro Ill let you know when we fly out k?”
“Yeah see ya Brian,” Ray said casually, turning to the guys, “well I'm gonna head too I think, I’m supposed to meet up with Claire….oh yeah but I need your opinion first guys”
“yeah hit me toro…” Frank said lighting his own cigarette.
“Well I… I … I think I… well I dunno… I really like Claire,”
“And the shocker is ?” Gerard pried jovially.
“Shut up man,” Ray said a little annoyed,” well I think I …. Shit,” Ray said and reached in his pants pocket to remove a ring box, “well what do you think of it? I mean is it good enough?”
“DUDE!” Mikey screamed.
“Frank coughed a bit, “shit man is that what I think it is? Is that an….”
But Gerard finished for him a bit more excited than the other two, “a mother fucking ENGAGEMENT RING?!”
“yeah,” ray said a little embarrassed, “ Its nice right? I mean do you think she’ll say yes? It only been about a year since we’ve been dating but…. I just I don’t know…. I can’t imagine being with anyone else ever again…..”
“DUDE!” was all that Mikey seemed to be able to say, apparently he’d been watching an overabundance of dude where’s my car again.
Frank hugged Ray, “That’s awesome man, I’m sure she’ll love ti, she loves you and that’s really all that matters.”
“When you gonna ask her?” Gerard asked.
“Well I was gonna wait a while, but this damned thing is burning a hole in my pocket so I went over to her parents today and asked them.”
“you even asked her parents?” Gerard asked amazed and mr. suddenly-detail-oriented-on-something-not-a-guitar-rift
“well yeah…” Ray, again embarrassed.
“That’s slick man,” added a reassuring Frank.
“Well I think I'm gonna just ask her now; we’re supposed to have a picnic in the park and I dunno, it just seemed real nice and simple.”
“It’s classic man, I’m sure she’ll be pleased.” Gerard said, slowly beginning to realize his own jealousy at the matter.
“Thanks guys!” Ray said shoving the ring back into his pants pocket, “well I'm gonna go then, I’ll call you and let you know how it goes then.”
“Definitely. Speaking of girlfriends,” Frank said looking down at his watch,” I know a very hott little number that can’t seem to get enough of me, that just happens to be waiting for me to take her out….you two gonna hang or you want me to take you back to seville’s?”
“Well I'm supposed to go shopping with Willow in like…whoa…like thirty minutes so I guess ill just go too then.” Mikey said
“Wait up now.” Greard said defensively, ” Who is willow?”
“ you remember her Gee, she used to come into Barnes and Nobles al l the time, remember?”
Gerard squinched his nose up real funny, like he was trying to remember then suddenly a look of eureka sprung across his face!
“Oh NOW I ….wait a second….nope not her, nope don’t remember, don’t remember much of the past decade for that matter…”
“sure you remember her! She had that real soft skin, and her flowy dark hair with the red streak,” then, mid description Mikey moaned, “and her cute little cheekbones, and she does that thing with her hand when she’s trying to find the right book…”Mikey continued but was cut of by Frank.
“umm, Miles don’t you have a girlfriend….”
“yeah so?” Mikey said as though nothing were wrong, a smile on his clueless face.
“Mikey, dude, you just moaned at the thought of her,” Gerard said throwing his fag to the ground, “… and I do remember her now though.”
“I did not moan…..” Mikey said half heartedly….knowing exactly that he had moaned.
“yeah whatever Casanova,” Gerard said patting Mikey on the back, “ its okay little bro but you dudes better get going.”
“Well come on ill drop you both off,” Franks said as they all piled into his car, rushing off to their various women, Gerard, to the guilt of his addiction.