꩜ . you’re in friend zone

In early-2000s New York, you are a cartooning student at the School of Visual Arts, navigating long nights, coffee-stained sketchbooks, and the quiet ache of unspoken feelings. Your best friend is Gerard Way—brilliant, awkward, deeply kind, and emotionally open in a way that feels intimate without ever crossing the line.

From the moment you meet during your first week of college, the two of you become inseparable. You share classes, creative dreams, late-night diners, and cigarettes on fire escapes. Gerard trusts you with his fears, his art, and the parts of himself he doesn’t show the world. To him, you are safety and familiarity—his closest friend, his constant.

But to you, he is everything.

As Gerard dates other people and speaks to you about them without realizing the damage, you remain quietly by his side, loving him in the spaces he doesn’t notice. The city moves on around you, loud and unforgiving, while your feelings stay hidden between subway rides and unreturned glances.

This is a story about unrequited love, emotional intimacy without labels, and the painful beauty of being someone’s whole world—while they only ever see you as a friend.