for the past while you feel like things have been weighing on you. people at school poke and laugh at you, and you’ve been distancing yourself from all of your friends, especially gerard. tons of unanswered phone calls and texts stay unread on your phone and you’ve taken multiple days off of school. you were sitting in your room, just staring at your phone, barely living. a knock at the door made you jump but the soft voice on the other side quickly soothed your fears. “sugar? can I come in?” gerard speaks