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I was pretty much as messed up as a person could get, and no one could save me. Let me tell you a little about myself;
I don't really know my parents, well I know who they are, but they turned me over to an orphanage when I hit grade 5.
The orphanage became my new family, and hell did I love 'em. Then I changed. To me it was for the better, but the orphanage wouldn't support my new 'interests.' and I wouldn't drop them. I was 'in too deep.' Around then I was in high school, and I decided to leave the orphanage.
Yeah I was into drugs, I didn't have a job, and I had dropped out of school. With no house or any relatives that wanted me I turned to living on the streets.
I had said that I was into drugs, but I had no money to pay for the pot or blow that I wanted, so of course the next best thing was sex.
As you can see I was going down the wrong roads extremely quick, like I was driving a car with no brakes, I kept picking the wrong things.
I found a group of friends exactly like me, and they became my next family. We hung out in the mall mostly, stealing s**t and causing a riot.
Everyone knew us.
With my group of friends and the live I was living, the last thing to cross my mind was love. Back when I was in middle school, and I had just started the change I had vowed to never love someone. Looking in the mirror at my reflection; my straight black and rainbow hair, my spikey collar, fishnet stockings, band Tee's, and signature chains, I had told myself that no one in their right mind would ever be attracted to me. So I wanted to be solo all my life, besides that no one ever attracted me. But right now I needed saving, I needed someone to care, and when that someone came, It took me totally of guard.
Once again I in the mall, with my family. We were getting pretty hungry, living on the street you never got much.
“Think we could snake something from a store?” Jesse asked. I figured not eating was killing him the most. He was way to skinny to live the way we live.
“Thats what we usually do,” Amanda sighed. She scared most people. She took the 'out cast' look a little to far. A girl version of Manson if you will. I wasn't one to speak, we were all weird looking. I had the weirdest hair, hands down. I couldn't even remember the original color.
“Yeah I want to stop at Hot topic fist, I need a new Tee,” I grinned. Hot Topic was our favorite store, and the best thing was it was huge, so if we succeeded in sneaking in, the staff didn't find us for hours. They knew who we were and that we stole but they never called security on us, just threw us out, many of them were in the same boat as us.
Stevo was the last person in out little 'mall family' he was probably the meanest to, in the sense that he loved beating up other kids, and us. His bright pink hair made girls laugh, but on the other hand, his casual spikes and studs warned them not to mess with him. He was a different guy.
He was the one who got us into the stores unnoticed. He would knock a garbage down or break a window, and the staff would coming running out, and we would go running in.
I took all the precautions my style of dress would allow, slinking into the Tee section. I pulled a Nitemare Before Christmas tank off the shelves and stuffed it into my messenger back. I turned to the opposite stand and grabbed three shirts; Manson, My Chem, and Slipknot, shoving all three into my bag with the other one.
Might as well grab shoes too.
I ran two isles down and grabbed a checkered pair of Chucks, size 8.
Perfect.
“Hey! Melanie!” Amanda called, she herself was taking things. “Have some eyeliner.”
She tossed me a stick, smiling I put it in my bag too.
Steven let go of the skate board he was hold. “This is a killer song!” He called.
I stopped and listened. Fagot by MSI. Trust him to notice.
“Lets start a mock mosh!” His smile was to big to resist, so I ditched my bag and ran into the group of four. He immediately starting pushing and shoving, throwing us into nearby displays. We would rebound and continue. As this progressed things got worse, he started throwing punches.
He hit me in the nose causing it to split and bleed. <********! You dumb a**,” I laughed, pulling another shirt of another stand. I held it to my nose catching the blood. I bent down and picked up my bag, trowing it over my shoulder.
“Guys lets go, staff is coming,” Jesse said, motioning for us to follow him. We agreed, hearing distant yells from the other side of the store.
We got out without a hitch and I found a bench to rest one. We were now near the doors of the mall, near a super store.
Mandy ducked in and came out bearing food. They joined me on the bench, all of us enjoying our lunch.
But the fun wasn't over yet.
I looked up hearing the door clink open, as a guy walked in, he looked about my age, or somewhere near it.
“Lookgit that wannabe goth,” Steven muttered.
Everyone laughed.
The guy had shoulder length-ish hair, it wasn't quite there. It looked like he had just cut it, but let it grow.
He had on all black, with a black and white striped tie, and a bat belt buckle. He was pale, with dark make up circles around his eyes. It took me a few minutes to realize who it was.
“Thats Gerard ******** Way!” I whispered, still starring at him. I shrugged and went back to my lunch of bread and cheese.
“Lets follow him,” Jesse suggested, picking up the loaf. Mandy grabbed the cheese and we were on our way. He got looks in the mall, but who wouldn't give him looks, he was lead singer in My Chemical Romance, and they were getting popular, all the posers were flocking to him, leaving no room for Hard core fans, like myself.
He pulled sun glasses out of his pocket and put them on; what a rock star.
I still held the shirt to my still bleeding nose, so needless to say, we weren't that inconspicuous.
After awhile Jesse refused to give me another piece of bread, making me angry.
“Jesse!” I yelled. “Give me some ******** bread!”
I had blown our cover, he turned around to stare at us, Jesse holding the bread above me, and me trying to grab it while I tried to catch the blood from my nose.
He walked over. I would be lying, to say I wasn't excited. He flashed us one of his famous half grins and plucked the bread out of Jesse's hand. He grabbed a piece and tossed it to me, I let go of the shirt trying to catch it. The bloody shirt fell to the ground as I popped the bread into my mouth.
Gerard started wide eyed, at the river of blood spewing from my nose.
I quickly picked up the shirt and put it back up to my nose, hoping he hadn't seen much.
How could he not see it! It was like a bright light cutting through the fog! I shrugged, noteing the akwardness of the situation, no one was talking so it was up to me to break the silence.
“Thanks for the bread?” I murmured. He threw the loaf back at Jesse and walked closer.
“What happened to you?” His voice was somewhat different from what I had heard on TV, that was, when I got to watch it. It was more, real, sweet and caring.
“Erm... nothing.”
He shook his head. “Cant be nothing, your bleeding everywhere.” He put his hand on mine and pulled it away from my face.
I could see out of the corner of my eye Steven was getting angry. I was his property, even if we weren't dating. But you had to understand that this was Gerard being Gerard, he acted like this all the time, he cared.
I didn't blush, like I had said, I refrained from that sort of stuff, it only caused hurt, people in general caused hurt.
“Tell me what happened?” It was a sort of demand question. “Here how about I take you all for coffee?”He suggested.
“Why do you care so much?” Steven sneered, stepping in between ma and Gerard.
Gerard was left at a blank, with nothing to say.
“God, Steven! Leave him alone!” I retorted. “What did he ever do to you?”
Steven was pissed. “He came into my life.”
“Steven! Move, damn it.” He stood there, If he could punch me I could do the same. I dropped my bloody Tee and clenched my fist swinging as hard as I could at the back of his head.
“Mel! What the?” He yelled in pain, grabbing where i had it.
It had hurt me too, he had a hard head.
“Yeah, well you punched me too!” I squealed.
“But we were moshing!” he tried to make up an excuse, we were naturally violent to each other, and he had to face it.
“What ever! There were four of us and it was in Hot Topic and we were stealing clothes!” You know that kind of whiny yelling voice that you get when you fight? That was what we were using, Defiantly not attractive, and it was in the middle of a shopping mall.
“Wait...” Gerard said, grabbing my arms and pulling them behind my back, “He did that too you?”
I nodded.
“Why do you guys beat each other up like this?” He questioned. “Its really stupid. And I bet your nose is broken.”
I struggled to get away from him, how could he just walk into a mall and interrupt four kid s's life's?
“Why not?” Steven continued.
“Its stupid, shes your friend you shouldn't hit her like that.”
Steven shrugged.
By this point I was pretty pissed off too. “Can you let me go?!” I yelled.
We had quite a few people watching us.
“Oh sorry...” I think he was a little put off.
“Okay look, I'll go for friggen coffee with you,” I sighed. “I don't know if they will.”
The whole group shook their heads.
“Not a chance.”
They were all glaring at me. What was I supposed to do, just tell him to ******** off?
I knew that when I went back to them I would get it. It being whatever they wanted.
“Lets go then,” I said turning around, I grabbed Gerard's hand and pulled him away from them. Surprisingly he didn't fight.
“I kind of want to take you to a hospital,” He stammered, following along.
“Gosh, I have no money for that.”
“I don't care, I'll take you there and pay,” Gerard said, pulling me to the door.