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(Gerard's POV)
"Gerard! Gerard! Can you come here, please?" My mother called from the house. I was wrestling a little with my little brother, Mikey, and I was winning. He groaned and said "Oh come on! Mother's calling you to the house! Let go of me!" I smiled and said "Admit defeat and I shall release you, baby brother." He sighed and said "Alright, I surrender! Now let go!" I had him pinned to the ground, with his arms pulled back like a chickens wings. I am ruler. I am the eldest.
I smiled and said "Okay, you're free to go. Carry on." I dropped his arms, and his fave landed on the grass below. I laughed and he said "I hate you...So very much, I hate you." His words muffled slightly by his face in the dirt. I said "I know." And quickly turned and ran towards my mother being sure not to soil my dress. Yes, I am a teenage boy, and I wear dresses. Although this act along could have me executed because of how religious the village I've grown up in is, nobody can touch me. Mainly, because my father is the head of the church here in our village and the preceding judge over the court. Since I was little, I have worn boy clothes, but up until I was 14, I had made and lost a bet with my best friend, Frank, and I had to wear dresses for a week as punishment.
I thought it was gonna be so humiliating, but I had found that I enjoyed wearing the dresses. Not only were they pretty ones, but they made me feel beautiful. And I never believed I was beautiful until then. After the week was up, I just continued to wear them, and now everyone in the village is used to seeing me around wearing pretty dresses my mother makes for me. My father was NOT happy about the thought of his oldest son wearing dresses like a girl, or becoming confused about my sexuality, but eventually he's grown accustomed to my now feminine nature. Another odd trait about me, is that I have Red hair. And not the natural orange hair with freckles, I mean RED hair. Red hair as red as a Cardinal.
The doctors were baffled by the strange hair color, but they came to the conclusion that it was a extremely rare and very bizarre unknown disease. I wasn't born with it, it turned red overnight on my 16th birthday. I think it suits me better than the natural brownish-black color I had.
When I got to my mother, she shook her head and said "Stop torturing your brother, and go fetch fresh water from the stream. Don't be gone too long, lunch is almost ready." I nodded and smiled. "Yes, ma'am." I grabbed an empty bucket from her hands, pecked her on the cheek, and turned and set off to the woods to retrieve the water. I have always enjoyed walks through the forest. Its nice, peaceful, and nature is just so beautiful. There's always something new to love about nature. But after minutes had passed, I walked past a rather large Oak tree, when a hand clampted over my mouth, and an arm wrapped around my waist.
I was pulled and pushed up against the tree, and saw it was Frank, standing before my eyes. He smiled and said "Boo!" I rolled my eyes and playfully smacked his shoulder. He laughed and asked "Awww, did somebody get scared? Did you think I was the Big Bad Wolf coming for ya?" I crossed my arms over my chest and said "That wasn't funny." He smiled and said "Yes it was." I looked away and said "It wasn't. Not at all." He chuckled, then took my chin in his hand and gently turned my head until my eyes met his.
I then realized how close his face was to mine, and I smiled a little. "Okay, maybe it was a little humerous." He smiled and said "I know it is." Then he leaned in and pecked me on my lips with his. He pulled back and looked at my face. His beautiful eyes searching endlesy into mine. He brushed my cheek with his thumb and I nuzzed gently into his touch. He said "I missed you..So much...Every second I'm not with you, feels like damnation.." I smiled and said "Well every second I have you, feels like Heaven." He smiled and kissed me again, and I kissed back this time.
You see, Frank and I have been best friends since birth it seems, and he has ALWAYS been there for me and has been my best friend ever since. But last year after my 16th birthday when my hair turned red, I started having...Feelings for him. More than just a friend. And during a celebration for the Summer Solstice, Frank had professed his love for me, and told me he's been in love with me since childhood. But our love is disgusting and a sin against God. A sin that's punishable by death if anyone found out. So we must hide our love from the world.
We've been together ever since he confessed his feelings to me, but yet we still haven't made love yet. He said he wants to wait until we're married before we give ourselves to each other, but no sane person would marry us, because it's a sin. But he just keeps telling me we will be married and we can be together forever...And I would always love and cherish a forever with him.
We stood and kissed hastily, but also lovingly, before he pulled away and moved his lips down my jaw and to my neck. I let my head fall back and hit the tree with a slight thump, and combed my fingers through his hair. He pushed some of the fabric from my dress, from my shoulder, exposing my pale skin to him. He kissed the curve of my neck down to my shoulder, and rested his hands on my backside before pulling me against him. I gasped a little but a small moan came with it. I think I even felt his teeth sink into my flesh for a brief second, before he pulled back and rested his forehead against mine.
He gently fixed my dress back to its original state and said "I love you...More than anything I have ever loved my whole life." I smiled and said "I love you, too." He kissed me again and said "Gerard, look at me." I looked up into his eyes and saw they were burning into mine. He said "You are my heart...My soul...I am nothing without you...I will always protect you and I would do anything for you.....And I would die for you."
I smiled and said "Well don't die now, cause you're mine." He smiled and said "I'm not going anywhere...And I would never travel away from here unless you were with me." I giggled and asked "More of this running away talk? Frank, we'd never be able to...They'll catch us, and they'll kill us...We will always have to hide our live while we cheat on our future wives.." He kissed my forehead and said "We will be able to leave this place, Gerard...Married to our wives, or each other...Soon, we'll be together forever, I promise."
I snorted a little and asked "How "soon" do you plan on that?" He smiled and said "Your birthday is coming up in two weeks...They always throw a celebration on your birthday every year. And when everyone is drunk off wine and God knows what else they have, I take you to the woods, I make you mine forever, and we go. We can go wherever you want, and I can have my Happily Ever After with the love of my life..." He brushed some of my hair behind my ear, and pulled something from his trouser pocket. I looked down and saw a beautiful looking ring in his hand.
He held it up in between his fingers and said "This was my mothers. It was the ring my father gave her when they got married. Its the only thing she wasn't buried with, my father gave it to me so I could give it to Jamia." Jamia, being the young lady he's promised to in marriage. The ladt I am promised to is a girl named Lindsey. I looked up at him and he said "On your birthday, I'm going to give this to you. If you come with me, you'll never regret it, Gerard. If we stay here, we'll never be happy together...Marry me, Gerard Way. And let your love mold and shape me into a real man."
I stood there speechless. I know what we are doing is wrong and could get us killed, but I love him with all my heart and soul. So I looked back up into his eyes and said "Yes...Yes of course, I'll marry you." I threw my arms around his neck and hugged him. He hugged me back tighter and he said "Now I am a man...I love you so much, Gerard....It's always been you..." I smiled and said "I love you too....We were born to be together...Forever.." Then we broke our embrace, and he wasted no time grabbing my face in his hands and crashing his lips to mine, and I happy kissed him back.
Then I pulled away and made him pout. I smiled and said "I came here to get water from the stream. I can't be gone to long or my mom will ring me put to dry like the laundry. He groaned and said "One more minute...I'll miss your gorgeous face..." I smiled wider and said "I'm not leaving you forever, my love." He smiled and I kissed him. When we pulled away, he smiled and said "I know." He kissed me again and allowed me to move to the flowing stream just a few feet from the tree, and I squated down to retrieve the water. When I was done I stood up straight, and felt him wrap his arm around my waist from behind me. He kissed my neck then my cheek and said "Goodbye my beautiful Cardinal." Referring to the bright red monstrosity sitting on my scalp.
I smiled and said "Goodbye my Playful Pup." Frank has always reminded me of a recently born Pup. Always playful, bubbly, loving, full of never ending energy, and as sweet as Honey.
But then a blood curdling scream made us jump, and we didn't move or talk. Frank and I looked at each other before we started running toward wherever the sound was coming from.