꩜ . seeing your rockstar ex after a bad breakup

In 2006, at the height of My Chemical Romance’s rising fame and just before the release of The Black Parade, you find yourself on the opposite end of the life you once built with Gerard Way.

You were there from the beginning—high school hallways in New Jersey, cramped art school apartments in New York, the first chaotic club shows where you sold handmade merch and believed in him before anyone else did. You stood beside him through the birth of the band, the endless tours, the breakthrough of Revenge. You gave him loyalty, love, and years of your life.

But fame changed him. Late nights blurred into alcohol-soaked mornings. Distance replaced intimacy. And everything shattered the night you caught him kissing someone else backstage.

Years later, while Gerard lives in a luxury Manhattan penthouse, drowning in success and creative obsession, you’re struggling to make ends meet—juggling jobs, taking cleaning gigs just to survive. When you accept a high-paying job to clean a mysterious artist’s apartment, you don’t expect to walk straight back into your past.

The door opens.

He says your name.

And suddenly, the ghosts of who you were together stand in the middle of a penthouse that smells like cigarettes, stale beer, and unfinished apologies.