Gracie glanced through her closet, boredly. She had a few nice things. Most of which Gerard had brought her, after sheād calmed down and wasnāt threatening to kill him or herself. She tied her long hair up into a messy bun , before slipping out of her shorts and t-shit, before slipping on a pair of short pajama shorts and a black cut off t-shirt. She clicked her tongue ring against her teeth wanting some kind of sound because for some reason it was more silent than normal. Usually she could hear the soft laughter of other from outside her door, but tonight it was agonizingly silent.
She grabbed the neon pink nail polish Gerard had brought her from her night stand before heading back to the window, letting one leg dangle out the window, while she rested her back against to side of the window and started painting over the chipped polish on her nails. She glanced up when soft music started playing in the distance like clockwork. Sheād been able to keep track of how long she was there by the weekly festival that happened on the pier. It was always beautifully lit up and long after the sun set music started to play and even though it was mostly instrumentals they were always popular slow songs that she recognized and she honestly wondered what went on down there.
Sheād give anything to be walking the pier with Matt and be able to dance with him and for once just be a normal couple. She was so lonely, sheād settle for Frankie or Louie and pretend to be normal with them. She envied the couples that she saw in the distance walking together and looking out over the water together. She moved to grab her pack of cigarettes only she knocked her nail polish down to the back yard below her, where Gerard was smoking and the nail polish shattered splattering neon pink polish all over his black clothes. Gracie bit her lip, laughing.
āGigi, youāre going to be the death of me.ā He smirked up at her. āWhat do you think though, pinkās my color right?ā he teased.
āOh definitely.ā She laughed and for a moment, she was actually genuinely smiling and it felt kind of good. Over the past year and a half sheād almost forgotten what it was like to
actually. Gracie sighed before her eyes flicked back to the pier and her thoughts drifted back to Matt.
āYou should smile more kid.ā Gerard interrupted her thoughts. āYour beautiful Grace, donāt forget that.ā He said putting out his cigarette.
āYeah.ā She breathed glancing back down to him. āMatty thought so to.ā She breathed only she hadnāt realized sheād said it out loud, sheād only thought she was thinking it, she wished she could take it back the second sheād said it, because it was easier lying to herself, telling herself he didnāt love her and that was why he hadnāt come for her yet. Only now sheād said it out loud and she could litteraly feel her heartbreak, it was painful to think that the only person who sheād ever been in love with, she fucked everything up with.
Tyler was irritably anxious to see Kylie. Heād stayed sober for the past week, aside from weed, to make sure that he was completely clean when he saw her. He needed her to know what he really felt about her. He had thought of a million and one things that he wanted to say to her, only he knew that moment he saw her all of the things heād rehearsed would go right out the window. She was the only girl who could make him breathless every single time he kissed her and make him loose his train of thought or make him feel nervous. She could drive him crazy, break him down, build him up, and make him fall in love with her over and over again and that was what he loved most about her. There was no question that if true love was real, heād found it with Kylie.
That much was proof when heād walked away from her when sheād asked or the fact that he was risking his life, his reputation, and his brother to get her away from a drug lords who could easily hunt him down and kill him. It was incredible the way he felt about her, but it scared the shit out of him to.
Despite the short ride to his fatherās old mini mansion, it seemed ridiculously long. Bonnieās voice filled most of the ride, filling both him and Matt in on how Kylie and Gracie had been over the past few months, but he hadnāt listened to her because he really couldnāt give a shit. Once they were at the house, he got out of the car, thanking his brother before slipping inside not bothering to wait for the others, because he really couldnāt wait any longer.
Inside he found Rick with a beer in his hand flipping through a Playboy magazine. āNice Ricky.ā Tyler smirked. āYou take care of my girl?ā he raised a brow. The guy was huge and if you didnāt know him he looked terribly intimidating, despite the fact that both him and his cousin Gerard were huge teddy bears until you pissed them off, then they turned into the Hulk.
Ricky scoffed. āYour girl donāt need anyone to take care of her, Iām glad you back, because sheād a handful. That pretty face is a fucking illusion.ā He smirked.
āYeah, thatās why I love her.ā Tyler smirked before slipping down the hall and into the room Marshall said that Kylie was in. He slipped in quietly. āHey babeā¦miss me?ā he smirked wickedly knowing sheād probably be pissed at how casual he was so he might as well be an ass.
"Thanks, you look good too Marshall, it's been a long time." she said handing him her bag and he sighed hating that heād made an idiot out of himself.
"We should probably get going though, before our brothers explode." She smirked and he nodded as he watched her slip into the car before stuffing the bags in the back of the car.
The ride was slow, despite the short distance. He blamed that mostly on the fact that Bonnie wouldnāt shut up. The girl was like a sister to him but at the moment he just wanted her to shut up. Ever since heād been in charge of Gracie and Kylie heād felt himself become a little colder. He wasnāt exactly sure why. Heād been drinking more and he hated himself for it, because when he drank he was mean and he wasnāt himself at all. He knew it had to do with the fact that now that Tyler was back, no one would need him. Heād go back to being Tylerās kid brother and everyone would be fawning of Tyler for pulling off the kidnapping plan.
He was always in his brotherās shadow, half the time people didnāt even know Marshall existed. It had always been that way between the Decardie brothers. Tyler had always ben his fatherās pride and joy, heād always been the one everyone loved and then there was Marshall. It had never really bothered Marsh till now Rick, Gerard, and Bonnie had started raving that Tyler and Matt were finally coming over the past week or so. Theyād stopped taking orders from him and heād be lying if he said he hadnāt kind of liked the power.
They finally pulled into the drive way and Tyler quickly thanked him before leaving him out there and Bonnie followed behind snapping her fingers at Marshall and he rolled his eyes. Marshall got out of the car and made his way around to the trunk popping it open glancing up to see Matt head inside as well, which only irritated him more.
āYeah fuck you guys too.ā He called after them slightly frustrated, which was particularly unusual for Marshall. Heād assumed Chels had gone in with Matt, so he just continued to mumble under his breath as he unloaded everyoneās shit.