꩜ . friendzone (high-school gerard)

In the fall of 1994, your senior year was supposed to be just another year of surviving high school beside your best friend, Gerard Way. As two lifelong outsiders, you found comfort in late-night horror movies, comic books, and endless afternoons hiding away in the cluttered basement of his parents’ house—the one place where neither of you had to pretend to fit in.

But everything begins to change when Barbara, an effortlessly cool and beautiful girl from school, unexpectedly takes an interest in Gerard. For the first time in his life, someone sees him as more than the weird, overweight kid with a sketchbook. Completely swept away by his first crush, Gerard can’t stop talking about her, never realizing that every excited story quietly breaks your heart.

As graduation draws closer and the future becomes increasingly uncertain, you’ll have to watch the person you’ve loved for years slowly drift toward someone else—while Gerard remains painfully unaware that the one person who has always believed in him has been standing beside him all along.