Not!Story
This is...this is like...not!story that I might eventually one day write? Maybe...I don't know. It was done over the course of like...3 IM sessions on AIM and like...a bit of email so basically it's like..IM font and shit like that go figure it's sad and scary. (I was impressed. It's 20 pages and its just like...not!story) lmao.
Anyways! it's totally called 'Love in the Meter of Post it Notes' because I am a freak; and i figure it would be interactive! Like..parts of it would be entirely in post it format? And maybe like on napkins and there'd be like...postcards and stuff and then other sections would be like normal 3rd person POV and then there'd be email sections? Like...like with Nick talking with his mom Allete or Gee talking with his sister Mer and just..yeah...I am a total freak.
me (8:08:07 PM):I want Gerard and Nick's last names to rhyme
jt (8:08:13 PM):Dawww
jt (8:08:20 PM):Bengay?
me (8:08:25 PM):....
jt (8:08:27 PM)::D
me (8:09:30 PM):I was thinking...if I cant rhyme
me (8:09:36 PM):of maybe going with like...Macy?
me (8:09:40 PM):or maybe like a color thing?
me (8:09:49 PM):but Gerard Black is very...severe sounding
me (8:09:59 PM):and I kind of want him to be like...a little eccentric and punkish
me (8:10:05 PM):but also a giant marshmallow?
jt (8:10:09 PM):XD
me (8:10:15 PM):he's an architect
jt (8:10:19 PM):Black is an awesome last name
me (8:10:25 PM):(it is an awesome last name)
me (8:11:54 PM):or maybe Sable
me (8:12:00 PM):*nose wiggle* Gerard Sable?....
me (8:12:19 PM):ick
me (8:13:09 PM):or...,maybe
me (8:13:13 PM):like..Nick Macy
me (8:13:16 PM):and Gerard DeGray?
me (8:13:20 PM):*nose scrunch*
jt (8:13:26 PM):lol
me (8:13:27 PM):like...Nicholas Macy
me (8:13:35 PM):what a horrible name to be saddled with
me (8:13:36 PM):XD
me (8:13:53 PM):his mom could have been a crazy french artiste`
me (8:14:40 PM):and his father like...his father would have totally been an officer in the us air force stationed in paris
me (8:14:57 PM):and totally fallen for this crazy bohemian woman with hip length black hair and crazy blue eyes
jt (8:15:15 PM):XD
me (8:15:28 PM):like...serious epic love affair..the kind people write books about and like...film movies over
jt (8:15:41 PM):Lady Gaga told me to shake my kitty.
jt (8:15:44 PM):Shanti didn't like it.
me (8:15:47 PM):...LMAO
jt (8:15:52 PM)::D
me (8:16:21 PM):Nick has three sisters
me (8:16:22 PM):*nods*
me (8:16:50 PM):his mom always wanted a boy, but (I'm naming his dad Pete) kept getting girls
jt (8:17:04 PM):daw
me (8:17:06 PM):so like..they kept trying and Nick was totally an accident vacation baby like..five years after they stopped trying
me (8:17:43 PM):and his mom (Allete) was super excited
me (8:18:06 PM):and spent the entire pregnancy in like..the french countryside amusing her entire family by wandering through like..the vineyards in cut offs with her belly painted
me (8:18:20 PM):and taking her daughters on pony rides through town in frilly summer dresses and ribbons
me (8:18:47 PM):(and you know...traumatising most of Pete's air force subordinates by being a crazy bohemian french artist etc)
me (8:20:16 PM):(for the record, Nick's dad? has a totally hilariously pretentious name that makes him crazy. it's actually Peter Davis Leonord Macy IV, which amuses the shit out of Allete and basically her entire family)
jt (8:20:31 PM):lol
me (8:20:55 PM):Pete is very down to earth and hard working, (which Allete's mom and dad appreciate because you know..they're distressingly wealthy but still...they want to make sure their only child is taken care of)
me (8:22:06 PM):Nick's three sisters? Julita, Odette and Noemie? all take after there mother in like out going exhuberance like antics
me (8:22:23 PM):but all grow up to be doctors and lawyers (and a wayward politician)
me (8:22:53 PM):everyone but pete are surprised that Nick actually inherited his mothers artisticness
me (8:24:18 PM):(and I should mention here that Allete is totally crazy famous in europe for her paintings and shit...like galleries worldwide basically stalk her and give her heaps of money for stuff she throws out as not being good enough, so she doesnt really need her parents or Pete for financial stuff, but pete's a good saver and totally a frugal, humble guy (Nick's grandparents are super happy that their grandson gets his dad's humble frugality because while Nick's sisters might be all important savvy women...they like their expensive labels))
me (8:25:48 PM):but Nick likes writing. He's good at it, he loves painting pictures with words and leaving people breathless with emotion. (he's very quiet about his love for writing, but when he's fifteen Allete finds one of his journals and immediately signs over her first flat to him so when he decides to try living on his own he can at least be assured of a safe place to live)
me (8:27:07 PM):mostly the Macy's live in the states (because it's easier for pete whose a big to do in the air force ranks) but Allete kind of figures you know...who wouldn't want a slightly crummy ground floor flat in Paris right?
me (8:27:22 PM):and anyways it WAS her first home ever and she wants to share it with her baby
jt (8:27:27 PM):oo
me (8:27:58 PM):Nick doesn't actually decide to leave home until he's seventeen, and only because he gets offered a scholarship to some school in Paris (will look one up later lol)
me (8:28:24 PM):and because he has a place to live he gets to save money he would otherwise spend on housing
me (8:28:43 PM):(he flat out refuses to let his parents or grandparents help him more than they have because its important that he learn to find his own way)
me (8:28:59 PM):so he gets a crappy job working in like...some back ally book shop
jt (8:29:20 PM):lol
me (8:29:25 PM):(maybe like..the sort of place punks and like anarchists would frequent, they have good music and they're all mostly friendly once you get past the spikes and leather and scary boots)
nateneerret (8:30:26 PM):Nick? isn't really much INTO the punk scene. He's the love child of a Parisian bohemian` and career military
me (8:30:47 PM):so he's pretty clean cut, but he loves paint and glitter and he has a pretty smile, so most of the kids who go there leave him be
me (8:30:53 PM):(the pretty goes a long way, and boy is he pretty)
jt (8:31:22 PM):heh
me (8:31:31 PM):I figure Gerard is probably a few years older (I think like...maybe he's twenty three or twenty four when he and Nick first meet)
me (8:32:05 PM):gerard? gerard was born and raised in detroit. Divorced parents. his mom owned and operated like..a hair salon or something?
me (8:32:30 PM):he had two kid brothers and a twin sister. (Elliot, Chris and Meredith respectively)
me (8:33:40 PM):he was in a couple of semi-famous punk bands before he quit so he could focus on school and stuff? (he really liked drawing and he loved angles and shit) and he was always a pretty weird kid anyways and mostly his professors never questioned if sometimes he turned assignment sin with like..werewolves lurking around random angles and shit (because his blueprints? were fucking genius)
me (8:34:07 PM):and they ignored the black clothes and the occasional eyeliner (and the chain smoking) and semi-vampiric tendencies because Gerard was basically going to change the world of architecture
me (8:35:12 PM):so he graduates from school early, and graduates from univeristy early and gets a killer internship turned real job at some architectural firm in New York, and then they send him to Paris, and he's there with his sister (Mer who is like...maybe just vacationing or maybe like..her husband is there on business and she's just along for the ride and wants to show her twin the sights/)
nateneerret (8:35:38 PM):anyway, Gerard and Meredith were totally those twins who had their own language growing up, and still carried on totally silent conversations with jsut like..their facial expressions
me (8:36:14 PM):and maybe Mer is like..bff's with this one shops owner (some amazingly hilarious dude with like..12 inch liberty spikes and gauged ears and fucking scarification?)
me (8:36:35 PM):and wants to introduce Gee to the French punk scene (which is maybe totally different and ttotally identical to the Detroit one)
me (8:36:47 PM):and gerard? gerard grew up on dirty detroit rock so he's all 'hell fuck yeah!'
me (8:37:55 PM):and the night he goes with Mer? he totally runs into the gangly, awkward kid in skinny jeans and like..glitter? and maybe a really kick awesome rainbow scarf
me (8:38:43 PM):and at first he's totally all 'Mer?!? What the french Toast?' and meredith laughs and is all 'Thats Nicky, he totally like...keeps this place from going out of business cause of the federalis' (or whatever the french equivalent is) and gee is all "???"
me (8:40:16 PM):and so Meredith has to explain (over the really, fucking fantastic music and beer) that Nick is like..some sort of writing prodigy and like really fucking good with numbers to boot? And when the owner of the shop (Frederick, lovingly named Freddie) hired him, Nick took one look at all the book keeping and basically told Freddie to gto of the office so Nick could make sure the police didnt show up and like..arrest him
jt (8:40:31 PM):o.o I went to the bathroom, came back, and you had vomited words on my screen.
me (8:41:27 PM):and that was two years ago and basically Nick has been a staple of the shop ever since, and the punk kids totally love him because he's pretty and nice and pretty (and a really good writer and sometimes they make him read his poetry so they can all ooh and awh over it, cause they might be punks, but they love any form of art and whatever...punk music is about embracing the alternative and saying fuck you to like...fucking norms right?) also; he's really obscenely pretty
me (11:36:00 PM):*deeeeep breatj*
iambic (11:37:56 PM):OKAY SO
me (11:38:08 PM):o=========o
me (11:38:09 PM):words?
me (11:38:13 PM):have you finished reading yet?
iambic (11:38:19 PM):wait how does Meredith already know Nick? me (11:38:31 PM):...because Meredith knows Freddie
me (11:38:41 PM):and like..by that point in time she and her hubby have been in Paris a while
me (11:38:52 PM):and she goes to the book shop/cafe/aclub thing pretty frequently iambic (11:39:03 PM):oh okay
iambic (11:39:06 PM):that makes sense
me (11:39:08 PM):yes
me (11:39:10 PM):*nodnod*
me (11:40:24 PM):sooo? anyfink else?
me (11:40:31 PM):or do I need to keep yammering about it? I
iambic (11:41:16 PM):hm
iambic (11:41:19 PM):well
me (11:41:46 PM):go ahead *dramatic Scarlett O'Hara flail* Crush my dreams and hopes <3
iambic (11:41:57 PM):I have to say there is a kneejerk reaction of wait, two American guys just HAPPEN to meet in Paris and fall in love?"
me (11:42:12 PM):well technically Nick isnt actually American
me (11:42:21 PM):he's mostly grown up IN America
me (11:42:26 PM):but he retained is French citizenship
me (11:42:31 PM):^his
iambic (11:42:34 PM):well you did specify that he grew up in the sstates
me (11:42:37 PM):yeah
iambic (11:42:45 PM):I dunno
me (11:42:57 PM):but its totally meant to be all serendipitious
me (11:43:02 PM):and like..coincidental
iambic (11:43:04 PM):my preference would be for his father to have like
iambic (11:43:13 PM):spent a lot of time in Europe as well?
me (11:43:17 PM):oh yeah!
iambic (11:43:20 PM):so they moved around a lot?
me (11:43:23 PM):he definitely did
me (11:43:31 PM):like I said, he was an Officer in an upper chain of command
me (11:43:35 PM):so mostly he got to request his postings
iambic (11:43:39 PM):instead of having him stay in the states all the time
me (11:43:53 PM):and well..his wife was French and all of her family lives in France so he wasnt about to just completely remove her from her entire life and family
iambic (11:44:02 PM):okay then
me (11:44:11 PM):(I mostly figure Nick is a number of years younger than his sisters)
me (11:44:24 PM):like...Julita is the oldest and then there is Noemie and then Odette
iambic (11:44:34 PM):so say they spent a substantial time in France a well, that'd make it work better for me
me (11:44:35 PM):and when Nick is born Odette is like...sixteen or seventeen maybe
iambic (11:44:36 PM):of course
iambic (11:44:45 PM):this is entirely your call
me (11:44:55 PM):and they mostly raised Nick in France
iambickilometer (11:44:55 PM):and doesn't really affect the story overmuch
iambic (11:44:59 PM):okah
iambic (11:45:04 PM):*okay
iambic (11:45:05 PM):that
iambic (11:45:09 PM):yeah
me (11:45:44 PM):(by that time Pete was almsot ready to retire anyways so he just requested a mostly permanent posting there near Allete's family and they spent holidays in the states, or would take Nick out of school if Pete needed to fly back for whatever reason)
iambic (11:46:49 PM):that's cool then
iambic (11:46:52 PM):hm
iambic (11:47:03 PM):so what happens next
nateneerret (11:47:07 PM):(I figure Pete is maybe ten or so years older than Allete when they meet and has been in the Airforce since he was 18 and when they meet Allete is like 23? so he's in his thirties and they have their daughters pretty quickly after they marry)
me (11:47:09 PM):ANYWAYS!!
me (11:47:24 PM):So Gerard is like..completely fascinated by this random hipster kid basically living in the punk scene
me (11:47:56 PM):(something which probably wouldnt have happened back in Detroit because punks there are kind of vicious and unforgiving about some things, he has the scars to prove it)
me (11:48:14 PM):but he cant help like..basically stalking this glittery baby because...well you know...the pretty
me (11:49:05 PM):(and Mer is totally amused by this because hi! the last man her brother was interesteed it? Gee was still in university and the guy ran off with one of his professors and Gee was all heartbroken and kopey and totally 'I WILL NEVER LOVE AGAIN! MEN SUCK! I SHALL LIVE A LIFE OF SEXY BACHELORHOOD!!'
me (11:49:28 PM):(and mostly did because Gerard? = Scores pretty massively on the hotness scale)
me (11:49:57 PM):So you know, Gee basically blackmails his sister into taking him back, and like...the kids who frequent this shop? totaly not stupid okay
me (11:50:21 PM):They are totally down with setting their glitter baby up with some dude who looks to be pretty chill
me (11:50:57 PM):Except for the bit where they're mostly sure he's like a vampire or something 9so there are some reservations, mostly from Freddie who has taken Nick under his wing in a vague attempt tp lure him from the awesomness that is glitter and all things sparkly)
me (11:51:19 PM):So there's two clashing forces...like..Mer and a couple of Nick's punk friends trying to help set Gee up with Nick
me (11:52:22 PM):(because Nick's last relationship? Ended with his boyfriend shagging three girls at one show on the same night Nick was working and then getting caught in a liplock with 0one of Nick's very male classmates, and it was just tragic and scary and the cops really didnt question why they had to show up and arrest five kids from this shop and send one guy to the emergency room)
me (11:53:26 PM):(Nick's pretty mostly consists of a really amazing pair of crazy blue eyes and short curly brown hair he likes to slick into a faux hawk with glittery hair gel...he's sparkly and he smiles really nice and he's always super polite and no one is really capable of staying mad at him like..ever (it helps he's ridiculously shy and tends to stutter when he's nervous or overwhelmed which is basically all the time))
me (11:53:29 PM):aaanyways!
iambic (11:54:11 PM):holy shit
iambic (11:54:17 PM):curly fauxhawk?
me (11:54:21 PM):yes
iambic (11:54:21 PM):SO MUCH HAIRGEL
iambic (11:54:24 PM):LIKE
me (11:54:25 PM):curly faux hawk
iambic (11:54:30 PM):I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE
me (11:54:31 PM):and actually..I'll have to find a picture
iambic (11:54:34 PM):HOW MUCH HAIRGEL
me (11:54:36 PM):i have a friend in the punk scene
me (11:54:37 PM):who does it
me (11:54:38 PM):and it just
iambic (11:54:39 PM):THAT WOULD TAKE
me (11:54:44 PM):its so amazingly ridiculously, adorably hot
iambic (11:54:45 PM):I AM SERIOUSLY IMPRESSED
iambic (11:54:52 PM):Nick is my new hair hero
me (11:54:57 PM):haha! I KNOW RIGHT
me (11:55:01 PM):AND ITS GLITTER HAIR GEL
me (11:55:03 PM):anyway
me (11:55:28 PM):Freddie? Totally doesn't trust this Gerard guy, even IF he's Meredith's brother. (Because Freddie doesn't trust men who are interested in pretty shiny things and totally just wants to make sure that Nick is happy and Gee's hotness basically works against him here because Freddie thinks Gee is TOO attractive and so he must be an asshole..)
me (11:55:54 PM):which for msot guys in Paris, Freddie is ashamed to admit..is basically par for the course and he's pretty used to scaring off hot guys who try getting into Nick's pants
me (11:56:33 PM):(there is a disturbing number and he's mostly taken to dressing his scariest when Nick works, and carrying around like...a baseball bat or something and banging it against things, which, given the normal people who visit his shop..doesnt look too out of place)
me (11:56:46 PM):and so Gee is all ' D8 HE MUST NOT LIKE ME HOW DO I WOO HIM?!?!?'
me (11:57:15 PM):and Meredith? is mostly just finding the entire thing HILARIOUS and sharing Gerard's romance woes with mom and there brothers via skype (much to Gerard's chagrin)
iambic (11:57:40 PM):Meredith is my favourite
me (11:57:57 PM):and Nick? Nick spends a lot of time being REALLY confused ad freaked out, because Gerard is hot..but also kind of freaky ( because yea, he's massively hot but dude dresses in black and looks like a vampire and Nick thinks Gee might be a serial killer)
me (11:58:08 PM):a notion that Mer mostly doesn;t help because she keeps making like...
me (11:58:17 PM):creepy twilight quotres whenever the two are in the same room together
me (11:58:31 PM):(or just making scary ass jokes about Gee being a crazy stalker)
me (11:58:38 PM):and then fleeing so she can laugh her ass off in another room
me (11:59:38 PM):(most of the regular patrons of the book shop, are at this point, totally waging a completely silent war over which side will win in this crazy epic like..courtship and Freddie is REALLY DISTURBED that his bookshop has suddenly become ground zero for like..the weirdest ass wooing thing ever and his kids start quoti9ng fucking Shakespeare and Thoreau and fucking Byron at Nick and Gerard
me (12:00:23 AM):and discusisng some really distressing ass poetry and Freddie feels like he's totally losing control of THE ANARCHIST VIBE OF HIS MOTHERFUCKING BOOKSHOP (meanwhile. Meredith is totally running a betting pool on how long Gerard lasts before he actually grows a pair and manages to string together a sentence long enought o ask nick to coffee)
me (12:00:52 AM):and of course, like some of Gee's coworkers inevitably discover his romance woes and have to come investigate
me (12:01:06 AM):and then there are like. SUITS INVADING FREDDIE'S BOOKSHOP and that...that is JUST NOT ON OKAY
iambic (12:01:24 AM):AHAHAHAHA
me (12:01:36 AM):because, pinstripes may be whole new levels of awesome, but he runs the punk scene in this little slice of Paris and if you want access, you better fucking dress the part
me (12:02:09 AM):(and then Nick discovers that Gee? is totally like the crazy awesome architect making waves in his neighborhood and Nick starts wondering what gee looks like out of skin tight denim and leather and shit)
me (12:02:23 AM):and well..the emergence of pinstripes kind of feeds his hungry artistic soul
me (12:03:50 AM):and he spends some time talking to his own mother (and Allete? Allete SOMEHOW manages to get a hold of Meredith's number (no one is quite sure, but Allete used to joke about how she'd sold some pieces to like..the mafia and apparently she still has those connections? its murky there) all anyone knows is suddenly Mer and Allete are talking on the phone plotting and scheming
me (12:04:43 AM):and in the background both Nick and Gerard have taken to being hilariously awkward around each other (Nick because hew might be nursing a massive crush on a guy who might want to like..duct tape him to a cement brick and kill him) and Gerard because Nick is smart and funny, and an amazing writer and really kind of shiny normal in a way Gee thinks he needs in his life
me (12:04:55 AM):(and whoah is that an understatement, have you MET his family?!?!)
me (12:05:44 AM):one sec, need to take meds real quick
me (12:07:52 AM):ok back
iambic (12:08:02 AM):okay
me (12:08:10 AM):questions/comments so far?
me (12:08:16 AM):or do I just need to keep going?
iambic (12:08:18 AM):hm
iambic (12:08:22 AM):nope, keep going
me (12:08:32 AM):haha ok
me (12:08:34 AM):lesse
me (12:08:38 AM):oh right!
me (12:10:47 AM):so basically Mer and Allete take to plotting how to set the two of them up, and some of Nick's friends get in on this, and mostly it consists of like...getting Gerard to prove he's a total punk kid (and Meredith lets slip that Gee sang in a pretty popular band back in the day and a couple of the kids totally recognize the band name and so they youtube some of his performances and then they enlist Mer to help them blackmail him into singing one night)
me (12:11:52 AM):and Gerard? is totally like 'What? NO! I dont do that anymore! I like being an architect..I like drawing and building pretty things...it was another life' but they prevail and then he's all 'but...well..I do miss singing' and Nick is all 'you used to sing?!? o=o' and is basically jsut really interested (Freddie has been more successful than he thought in luring Nick into the awesomeness that is the punk scene okay)
me (12:12:35 AM):and Gee? Gee totally can't pass up an opportunity to fucking wow Nick with how awesome he was back in the day (and he feels old saying that, but at this point he doesnt know that he's basically like..seven or eight years older than Nick alright, he'll angst about that LATER)
me (12:13:16 AM):because Mer is amazing and basically like a ninja of some kind of epic awesome, she manages to find a couple of kids who play instruments and also apparently like..know some of the music Gee sang back when he was still in a band
me (12:13:32 AM):and they throw together a pretty kick awesome set for like..this big bash that Freddie throws every year
me (12:14:23 AM):(wherein they basically shut down an entire city street, and everyone and their fucking brother shows up because its all live music and art and basically all the things that freedom and the scene stand for and you know a lot of free booze) (because freddie has connections like the sly dog he totally it)
me (12:14:24 AM):^is
me (12:15:06 AM):and Nick is all excited because you know !!! Music!!! Booze!!! Gerard in like..black denim jeans and like...LEATHER FUCKING JACKET and eyeliner
me (12:15:08 AM):and like
me (12:15:13 AM):well..so they get to the show?
wordy-face (12:15:17 AM):ahhhh i caught up
wordy-face (12:15:19 AM):hiii
wordy-face (12:15:20 AM):this is awesome
wordy-face (12:15:21 AM):btw
wordy-face (12:15:22 AM)::D
me (12:15:23 AM):and basically Nick doesnt actually stick out like a sore thumb
me (12:15:24 AM):haha
wordy-face (12:15:36 AM):some of it is kinda just like
me (12:15:36 AM):because somehow he's infected his glitter love into some of the punk kids
wordy-face (12:15:37 AM):like
me (12:15:52 AM):so its like..this crazy glitter punk baby of awesomeness
wordy-face (12:15:55 AM):how do the people know what gee used to sing lol
wordy-face (12:16:07 AM):i mean the people in the band
wordy-face (12:16:25 AM):or is that not a big deal, 'cause it seems kinda like coincidence or sthg
me (12:16:50 AM):(the joys of youtube and because like..some of the kids? maybe like knew of his band/stalked his band/liked his band and well..you can find anything on youtube and also Meredith, who played drums in the band and is evil and amazing helped convert those not hip to the awesomeness that is gerard)
iambic (12:16:56 AM):because he was a cult underground smash
me (12:17:00 AM):basically yes
wordy-face (12:17:09 AM):oh yes trufax
me (12:17:14 AM):and if he hadnt left the punk world, he could have taken over the punk scene entirely
me (12:17:34 AM):but he wanted to be an architect and like..singing was a hobby he didnt want to turn it into a job because then he'd lose his love for it?
me (12:17:43 AM):I dont know...he doesnt go into details right away
me (12:17:44 AM):BUT YES
me (12:17:49 AM):SO NICK FINALLY GETS TO SEE GEE PERFORM
me (12:18:03 AM):and it is..basically boner inducing, orgasm in the pants amazing
me (12:18:29 AM):and Nick? Kind of cant care if Gee really is a pyscho serial killer, because that much amazing in one person who apparently likes him? Cannot be resisted.
me (12:18:46 AM):So you know...Nick mauls him basically the second Gee catapults off the stage
me (12:19:35 AM):(mind you, up to this point.,.they havent actually managed to carry on a real conversation, because it is surprisingly difficult to talk when their is ska punk music playing in the background or you';re working and shit, so they only really know peripheral details about one another)
me (12:20:00 AM):which they can work with, because whatn they know they like right? so Gee, who is totally still high on the adrenaline of basically fucking a mic stand in front of hundreds of people
Me (12:20:23 AM):and rocking it out, finally asks Nick out on a real live date and Nick is all 'YAY HELL YES YOU ARE AWESOME AND SHINY AND ALSO I LIKE YOUR JACKET!!'
me (12:20:39 AM):(Nick likes the metal grommets, he thinks they look like shooting stars the way they're inlaid into the leather)
me (12:21:45 AM):Cue Meredith totally collecting a lot of money from various and sundry people and Freddie being kind of >/ faced because he's still mostly sure Gerard is going to turn into a total asshole (and the whole punk factor? actually more firmly secures this idea in the dudes head cause uhm..hot + punk? = bigger likelihood for assholishness)
me (12:22:12 AM):so Nick and Gee get to go on their date (they have coffee because they're both addicted) and its awesome and they talk about Nick's writing and Gee's like..architecture
me (12:22:57 AM):and Gee, who is already pretty sure Nick is going to be the one is all 'YAYYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!' and Nick? Nick is pretty much 'I have to tell mom about this she will flip her lid!!!! and also run a criminal background check, please dont be a serial killer!')
me (12:23:01 AM):and its awesome and amazing
me (12:23:13 AM):and then gee is all 'wait..how old are you?' and Nick is all 'uhm....nineteen?'
me (12:23:26 AM):and Gee is all D8 OHGOD YOU'RE LIKE JAILBAIT ONLY NOT
me (12:23:43 AM):And nick is pretty confused because uhm..age of consent in France is totally like fucking fourteen okay
me (12:24:29 AM):and he's basically been living on his own since he was sixteen and really on his own, with his own place since he was seventeen and he's mostly a mature, functioning memebr of grown up society and whatever if he likes glitter and shiny things
me (12:24:50 AM):But Gerard? Gerard is like.....26 (I decided they had a bigger age difference okay)
me (12:25:17 AM):and mostly kind of horrified that Nick is so young (he doesnt really look it, he's baby faced and pretty but he doesn't LOOK that young okay)
iambic (12:25:21 AM):oh pfft I've done that age difference
me (12:25:27 AM):and so Gee makes a total ass of himself and basically flees
iambic (12:25:53 AM):oh Gee
me (12:25:58 AM):because well...he thinks he's old ok and Nick is very shiny pretty and gee is really just an insecure asshole like that sometimes
iambic (12:26:05 AM):you idiot
me (12:26:16 AM):and Nick? Is kind of like 'uhm..wait..what just happened? what did I do ;=; '
me (12:26:51 AM):And so is mopey and Gee wont take his calls!!! And wont come around the store and Freddie is very smug about being right that Gee was going to be a jack ass
me (12:27:01 AM):except then he isnt smug because sadface!Nick?
me (12:27:10 AM):Is pretty much the most worst thing in the history of worst things ever
iambic (12:27:12 AM):D:
me (12:27:20 AM):Its worse than like a trainful of strangled kittens and fluffy puppies
me (12:27:36 AM):Nick's sad face? Nick's sad face makes HARDENS FUCKING HARDCORE PUNK ROCKERS WANT TO HUG HIM
me (12:27:45 AM):(something that they have photographic evidence of okay)
me (12:28:11 AM):so Freddie is now on the warpath, because you know, how fucking DARE Gee get Nick all happy shiny sparkly and then fucking BREAK IT!!! THAT IS JUST NOT KOSHER OK
me (12:29:03 AM):so Freddie stalks Mer (and encounters her crazy husband who i think is like..some bizarre ass like...reporter or something, dude is made of cool, slick awesome, but also he's a total wise guy...like his grandfather was totally in the Jersey mob ok)
me (12:29:16 AM):and Freddie is like 'yo! I need your brother in law so I can bust his knee caps ok'
me (12:29:46 AM):(Mer is somewhere in the background totally trying to comfort a mopey Gee. they're twins, she kind of has to take his side in this shit, even when she wants to kick him in the balls)
iambic (12:30:18 AM):I want Mer's husband to be all HE'S IN THERE, YO iambic (12:30:26 AM):BUT JUST HIS KNEECAPS OKAY
iambic (12:30:32 AM):HE NEEDS HIS ARMS
me (12:31:18 AM):And Mer's husband (whose name is Frank okay!)? Is pretty protective of Gee because you know...they're basically best friends and so they're pretty tight, but you know? He really wants Gee to be happy (and he's finally got time off, he wants to play hide the sausage with his wife, who he CANT because shes comforting her dumb ass, insecure brother)
me (12:31:49 AM):so he's all 'he's hiding in the guest room right now' and hands over the key (because he;s renting like..an old villa or something and has like a master key to all the rooms or something)
me (12:32:52 AM):And Freddie is kind of thrown by that and is all 'Why the fuck is he hiding?!? he know Imma kick his ass?' and they have some bizarro bonding moment over you know..the joys of splitting your knuckles against some genuinely good flesh and shit
me (12:33:20 AM):and then Frank basically spills the beans over this fucking glitterbaby that Gee has basically fallen in love with but is worried that glitterbaby wont want him when he finds out that gee is old and has like..issues and shit
me (12:33:47 AM):and Freddie? is like 'WTF NO WAY NICK IS AMAZING' and Frank is like 'Dude...Gee has more issues than fucking Russia okay, trufax'
me (12:34:13 AM):and so they spend a few minutes commiserating on apparently being the only truly sane [people they know and how they end up fixing everything, and they both go to find Mer and Gee
me (12:34:54 AM):(who are curled up on the floor watching some dumb ass romance from the 80s and eating like..icecream or something and Frank doesnt question where it came from) and Freddie is all 'YOU NEED TO FIX NICK HIS SAD FACE IS BAD FOR BUSINESS'
iambic (12:35:13 AM):XD
iambic (12:35:20 AM):I would think it'd be good for business
me (12:35:23 AM):and Gee is all flaily and like ' I CANT I WILL BREAK HIS HEART OR HE WILL BREAK MINE AND IT WILL END MORE TRAGICALY THAN ROMEO AND JUILET;
iambic (12:35:30 AM):people coming in an buying things to cheer him up
me (12:35:59 AM):(Nick's sad face makes people want to beat up the person making Nick make the sad face, or they avoid it because his sad face is truly a thing to avoid at all costs)
me (12:36:00 AM):XD
me (12:37:10 AM):and some hilarious like..comical tete a tete takes place wherein Gee basically spills the beans on his tragic love life and the reason he left the punk scene (he got addicted to like..coke and it was just bad all around so he's a recovering addict and he mostly really likes his job and stuff and Nick is just too amazing to taint with his world weary brand of badness)
me (12:37:33 AM):and Freddie is like 'dude...nick might be like..the shiny happy glitterbaby of doom, but he's not going to bail because you have some baggage'
me (12:37:50 AM):and they all somehow convince gee he's being a giant toolbag so Gee goes off to try and win Nick back
me (12:38:37 AM):(Nick is still mostly pretty confused over why Gee left in the first place, and really sad he left because you know...he really like like likes Gee (triple likes which he's sure means something dramatic)
me (12:39:08 AM):and so he's mostly amenable to being won back over when gee shows up with a ridiculously large bouquet of 'Im sorry Im an asshat but I still like you and want your forgiveness' flowers
me (12:39:54 AM):(the punk kids who were previously on Gee;s side are not so easily won over. They've been trying to cheer nick up for a few days now and his sad face is really fucking depressing, they aren't fucking emo and Nick's face is enough to make them want to be okay and that shit is just NOT ONE)
me (12:40:42 AM):but Nick is all 'ooooh daffodils my favorite' and starts flailing and squeaking out in unintelligible French and flings himself at gerard (he really likes daffodils and he mentioned once waaaaay back when he and Gee had first met he liked them, so he's very impressed Gee remembered and stuff)
me (12:40:44 AM):and you know
me (12:40:49 AM):there is soppy smoochietimes
me (12:41:03 AM):and mostly everything is hunkydory
me (12:41:05 AM):and you know
me (12:41:09 AM):they have hot gay sex
iambic (12:41:32 AM):oh yes
iambic (12:41:35 AM):cannot forget that
me (12:41:39 AM):and Nick takes to writing on Gee at night after they're done with each other and sometimes Gerard doesn't shower before work, so he'll go in to meet clients with bits of love poetry scrawled across visible parts of his body
me (12:41:46 AM):and sometimes they're in English and sometimes in French
me (12:41:59 AM):and it happens once when they're over in America (In like New York or maybe Hollywood or something)
me (12:42:05 AM):and its at some big opening gala thing
me (12:42:17 AM):and Nick is there off in the background being this shiny, woobie thing of adorable sparkliness
me (12:42:32 AM):and someone mentions the blue ink scrawled all over Gee's like...collarbone and bit of his chest
me (12:42:36 AM):and he goes really really red
me (12:43:08 AM):and everyone laughs because you know...writing on yourself is so third grade, but Gee explains about his amazing boyfriend Nick Macy who is like..an amazing writer? and sometimes likes to write on Gee
me (12:43:22 AM):and then he has to excuse himself and find Nick so he can drag him off to do things to him
me (12:44:16 AM):(and s0ometimes Nick will like..play with a pen when they're out in public, just to tease Gee and it becomes like a pavlovian reaction)
and mostly its just hunky dory and adorable, and Nick will sometimes copy down stuff he writes on Gee onto a post it and be all creepy stalker boyfriend and leave them places Gee will find when he goes to work, or like text him pictures of them, and Gee will come home and be all soppy and toppy and fuck Nick over whichever surface is closest.
They become an epic love story themselves (and they go see Gee’s family and well Allete and Pete have to meet the woman who raised Gerard okay? And Allete is basically ridiculously enchanted by Jersey and decides they have to stay a while and Gee’s mom and Allete totally bond and become besties and it’s crazy and Pete spends a lot of time hiding).
And then like…maybe Nick goes on tour eventually, after he and Gee have been together (because Nick likes doing volunteer work and charity and shit and accidentally adopts like…a little Chinese baby girl?
me (1:13:46 AM):8D
me (1:13:51 AM):ACCIDENTAL ADOPTION IS THE BEST
wordy-face (1:14:17 AM):lmao
me (1:14:22 AM):AND THEN THEY NAME HER EVELYN AND LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER
wordy-face (1:14:27 AM):hahaha
wordy-face (1:14:29 AM):epic
me (1:14:33 AM):(and Mer NEVER LETS EITHER OF THEM LIVE DOWN THE ACCIDENTAL ADOPTION)
me (1:14:37 AM):and Evey grows up
me (1:14:50 AM):and when she gets married she has to explain that when she says she was an accident
nateneerret (1:14:53 AM):shes totes not joking ok
wordy-face (1:14:58 AM):xDDD
me (1:15:03 AM):her dad genuinely did not know they were tricking him
me (1:15:37 AM):he thought he was jsut like..taking her to a doctor (and like okay, he might have said she needed a good home, but he hadnt meant his and he doesnt regret it okay, but then before he knew it he was being told he couldnt leave the country for six months because he'd just got himself a baby)
thewordsinhaled (1:15:51 AM):xD
me (1:15:54 AM):and well...Gerard was pretty much amused until he found out Nick was STUCK IN FUCKING CHINA FOR HALF A YEAR
me (1:16:08 AM):and like..they almsot broke up over it 9six years and it takes an accidental adoptiion to do it)
me (1:16:20 AM):but then Gee came to his senses after like..three months of not talking to Nick?
wordy-face (1:16:26 AM):DD:
me (1:16:44 AM):and showed up in Nick's crummy apartment with a ring and a bunch of clothes and was all 'iluforever please forgive me im an ass'
me (1:16:48 AM):and doesnt propose
me (1:16:56 AM):because he doesnt want nick to think its a shot gun wedding
wordy-face (1:17:00 AM):that's adorable haha
me (1:17:03 AM):but Nick gives him ANOTHER chance
me (1:17:06 AM):^shot gun
wordy-face (1:17:44 AM):falkfjgh okay it is like, legit 3am here and omg i did not mean to stay up this laaaate ahlg
me (1:17:46 AM):and they spend another three months in China (and maybe Gee gets like..malaria or something and Nick is frantic worried? because he cant be with gee and take care of the baby (who they dont name until she;s almost 2 and she's 9 months old when nick accidentally adopts her)
and so like..Nick is frantic worried? And is packing all their stuff up because Gee is being moved to a better hospital, and he totally finds the ring and like..basically a shoebox of ALL THE POST IT NOTES THEY ever wrote each other EVER and Nick is all ‘<3 ;=; GEEEEEE’ and puts the ring on because he wants something of Gee’s in case you know…he doesn’t even want to consider it!
So Gee gets move d to a better hospital and Nick and the baby go along, and by this point like..baby is speaking French and English pretty well, and calls Nick dada (he’s teaching her to call gee Papa) and they’re in the hospital for another month before Gee is better and when he is well enough, they go back home to France (where everyone was told to stay because Nick totally couldn’t hand;le all his family and gee’s family in fucking China on top of everything else okay).
And Gee is still weak, but getting better, and the firm he works at is super relieved he came back alive and shit and say he can work from home until he’s 110% (and you know, get to bond with his baby and wtf did that happen yo?!?)
And you know, but that time, they’d been in china another nine months and like..baby is almost two years old and she STILL HAS NO NAME on her birth certificate or documentation, and Gee finally realizes that Nick is totally wearing the ring and he grins and is all ‘ so is that a yes?’
And Nick is like ‘Yes. But we’re hyphenating our name’ and Allete and Gee’s mom (who I want to name Margaret) inform them the baby is to be called Evelyn, and then they decide that her ,middle name will be Lysette (after Margaret’s grandmother).
So baby becomes Evelyn Lysette Macy-DeGray and that’s what Evey tells her husband twenty sum odd years later, much to his amusement (and her fathers’ chagrin because really? Nick totally didn’t KNOW he was adopting a baby okay).
And they all live happily ever after even though their family is completely crazy and stuff...
Anyways! it's totally called 'Love in the Meter of Post it Notes' because I am a freak; and i figure it would be interactive! Like..parts of it would be entirely in post it format? And maybe like on napkins and there'd be like...postcards and stuff and then other sections would be like normal 3rd person POV and then there'd be email sections? Like...like with Nick talking with his mom Allete or Gee talking with his sister Mer and just..yeah...I am a total freak.
me (8:08:07 PM):I want Gerard and Nick's last names to rhyme
jt (8:08:13 PM):Dawww
jt (8:08:20 PM):Bengay?
me (8:08:25 PM):....
jt (8:08:27 PM)::D
me (8:09:30 PM):I was thinking...if I cant rhyme
me (8:09:36 PM):of maybe going with like...Macy?
me (8:09:40 PM):or maybe like a color thing?
me (8:09:49 PM):but Gerard Black is very...severe sounding
me (8:09:59 PM):and I kind of want him to be like...a little eccentric and punkish
me (8:10:05 PM):but also a giant marshmallow?
jt (8:10:09 PM):XD
me (8:10:15 PM):he's an architect
jt (8:10:19 PM):Black is an awesome last name
me (8:10:25 PM):(it is an awesome last name)
me (8:11:54 PM):or maybe Sable
me (8:12:00 PM):*nose wiggle* Gerard Sable?....
me (8:12:19 PM):ick
me (8:13:09 PM):or...,maybe
me (8:13:13 PM):like..Nick Macy
me (8:13:16 PM):and Gerard DeGray?
me (8:13:20 PM):*nose scrunch*
jt (8:13:26 PM):lol
me (8:13:27 PM):like...Nicholas Macy
me (8:13:35 PM):what a horrible name to be saddled with
me (8:13:36 PM):XD
me (8:13:53 PM):his mom could have been a crazy french artiste`
me (8:14:40 PM):and his father like...his father would have totally been an officer in the us air force stationed in paris
me (8:14:57 PM):and totally fallen for this crazy bohemian woman with hip length black hair and crazy blue eyes
jt (8:15:15 PM):XD
me (8:15:28 PM):like...serious epic love affair..the kind people write books about and like...film movies over
jt (8:15:41 PM):Lady Gaga told me to shake my kitty.
jt (8:15:44 PM):Shanti didn't like it.
me (8:15:47 PM):...LMAO
jt (8:15:52 PM)::D
me (8:16:21 PM):Nick has three sisters
me (8:16:22 PM):*nods*
me (8:16:50 PM):his mom always wanted a boy, but (I'm naming his dad Pete) kept getting girls
jt (8:17:04 PM):daw
me (8:17:06 PM):so like..they kept trying and Nick was totally an accident vacation baby like..five years after they stopped trying
me (8:17:43 PM):and his mom (Allete) was super excited
me (8:18:06 PM):and spent the entire pregnancy in like..the french countryside amusing her entire family by wandering through like..the vineyards in cut offs with her belly painted
me (8:18:20 PM):and taking her daughters on pony rides through town in frilly summer dresses and ribbons
me (8:18:47 PM):(and you know...traumatising most of Pete's air force subordinates by being a crazy bohemian french artist etc)
me (8:20:16 PM):(for the record, Nick's dad? has a totally hilariously pretentious name that makes him crazy. it's actually Peter Davis Leonord Macy IV, which amuses the shit out of Allete and basically her entire family)
jt (8:20:31 PM):lol
me (8:20:55 PM):Pete is very down to earth and hard working, (which Allete's mom and dad appreciate because you know..they're distressingly wealthy but still...they want to make sure their only child is taken care of)
me (8:22:06 PM):Nick's three sisters? Julita, Odette and Noemie? all take after there mother in like out going exhuberance like antics
me (8:22:23 PM):but all grow up to be doctors and lawyers (and a wayward politician)
me (8:22:53 PM):everyone but pete are surprised that Nick actually inherited his mothers artisticness
me (8:24:18 PM):(and I should mention here that Allete is totally crazy famous in europe for her paintings and shit...like galleries worldwide basically stalk her and give her heaps of money for stuff she throws out as not being good enough, so she doesnt really need her parents or Pete for financial stuff, but pete's a good saver and totally a frugal, humble guy (Nick's grandparents are super happy that their grandson gets his dad's humble frugality because while Nick's sisters might be all important savvy women...they like their expensive labels))
me (8:25:48 PM):but Nick likes writing. He's good at it, he loves painting pictures with words and leaving people breathless with emotion. (he's very quiet about his love for writing, but when he's fifteen Allete finds one of his journals and immediately signs over her first flat to him so when he decides to try living on his own he can at least be assured of a safe place to live)
me (8:27:07 PM):mostly the Macy's live in the states (because it's easier for pete whose a big to do in the air force ranks) but Allete kind of figures you know...who wouldn't want a slightly crummy ground floor flat in Paris right?
me (8:27:22 PM):and anyways it WAS her first home ever and she wants to share it with her baby
jt (8:27:27 PM):oo
me (8:27:58 PM):Nick doesn't actually decide to leave home until he's seventeen, and only because he gets offered a scholarship to some school in Paris (will look one up later lol)
me (8:28:24 PM):and because he has a place to live he gets to save money he would otherwise spend on housing
me (8:28:43 PM):(he flat out refuses to let his parents or grandparents help him more than they have because its important that he learn to find his own way)
me (8:28:59 PM):so he gets a crappy job working in like...some back ally book shop
jt (8:29:20 PM):lol
me (8:29:25 PM):(maybe like..the sort of place punks and like anarchists would frequent, they have good music and they're all mostly friendly once you get past the spikes and leather and scary boots)
nateneerret (8:30:26 PM):Nick? isn't really much INTO the punk scene. He's the love child of a Parisian bohemian` and career military
me (8:30:47 PM):so he's pretty clean cut, but he loves paint and glitter and he has a pretty smile, so most of the kids who go there leave him be
me (8:30:53 PM):(the pretty goes a long way, and boy is he pretty)
jt (8:31:22 PM):heh
me (8:31:31 PM):I figure Gerard is probably a few years older (I think like...maybe he's twenty three or twenty four when he and Nick first meet)
me (8:32:05 PM):gerard? gerard was born and raised in detroit. Divorced parents. his mom owned and operated like..a hair salon or something?
me (8:32:30 PM):he had two kid brothers and a twin sister. (Elliot, Chris and Meredith respectively)
me (8:33:40 PM):he was in a couple of semi-famous punk bands before he quit so he could focus on school and stuff? (he really liked drawing and he loved angles and shit) and he was always a pretty weird kid anyways and mostly his professors never questioned if sometimes he turned assignment sin with like..werewolves lurking around random angles and shit (because his blueprints? were fucking genius)
me (8:34:07 PM):and they ignored the black clothes and the occasional eyeliner (and the chain smoking) and semi-vampiric tendencies because Gerard was basically going to change the world of architecture
me (8:35:12 PM):so he graduates from school early, and graduates from univeristy early and gets a killer internship turned real job at some architectural firm in New York, and then they send him to Paris, and he's there with his sister (Mer who is like...maybe just vacationing or maybe like..her husband is there on business and she's just along for the ride and wants to show her twin the sights/)
nateneerret (8:35:38 PM):anyway, Gerard and Meredith were totally those twins who had their own language growing up, and still carried on totally silent conversations with jsut like..their facial expressions
me (8:36:14 PM):and maybe Mer is like..bff's with this one shops owner (some amazingly hilarious dude with like..12 inch liberty spikes and gauged ears and fucking scarification?)
me (8:36:35 PM):and wants to introduce Gee to the French punk scene (which is maybe totally different and ttotally identical to the Detroit one)
me (8:36:47 PM):and gerard? gerard grew up on dirty detroit rock so he's all 'hell fuck yeah!'
me (8:37:55 PM):and the night he goes with Mer? he totally runs into the gangly, awkward kid in skinny jeans and like..glitter? and maybe a really kick awesome rainbow scarf
me (8:38:43 PM):and at first he's totally all 'Mer?!? What the french Toast?' and meredith laughs and is all 'Thats Nicky, he totally like...keeps this place from going out of business cause of the federalis' (or whatever the french equivalent is) and gee is all "???"
me (8:40:16 PM):and so Meredith has to explain (over the really, fucking fantastic music and beer) that Nick is like..some sort of writing prodigy and like really fucking good with numbers to boot? And when the owner of the shop (Frederick, lovingly named Freddie) hired him, Nick took one look at all the book keeping and basically told Freddie to gto of the office so Nick could make sure the police didnt show up and like..arrest him
jt (8:40:31 PM):o.o I went to the bathroom, came back, and you had vomited words on my screen.
me (8:41:27 PM):and that was two years ago and basically Nick has been a staple of the shop ever since, and the punk kids totally love him because he's pretty and nice and pretty (and a really good writer and sometimes they make him read his poetry so they can all ooh and awh over it, cause they might be punks, but they love any form of art and whatever...punk music is about embracing the alternative and saying fuck you to like...fucking norms right?) also; he's really obscenely pretty
me (11:36:00 PM):*deeeeep breatj*
iambic (11:37:56 PM):OKAY SO
me (11:38:08 PM):o=========o
me (11:38:09 PM):words?
me (11:38:13 PM):have you finished reading yet?
iambic (11:38:19 PM):wait how does Meredith already know Nick? me (11:38:31 PM):...because Meredith knows Freddie
me (11:38:41 PM):and like..by that point in time she and her hubby have been in Paris a while
me (11:38:52 PM):and she goes to the book shop/cafe/aclub thing pretty frequently iambic (11:39:03 PM):oh okay
iambic (11:39:06 PM):that makes sense
me (11:39:08 PM):yes
me (11:39:10 PM):*nodnod*
me (11:40:24 PM):sooo? anyfink else?
me (11:40:31 PM):or do I need to keep yammering about it? I
iambic (11:41:16 PM):hm
iambic (11:41:19 PM):well
me (11:41:46 PM):go ahead *dramatic Scarlett O'Hara flail* Crush my dreams and hopes <3
iambic (11:41:57 PM):I have to say there is a kneejerk reaction of wait, two American guys just HAPPEN to meet in Paris and fall in love?"
me (11:42:12 PM):well technically Nick isnt actually American
me (11:42:21 PM):he's mostly grown up IN America
me (11:42:26 PM):but he retained is French citizenship
me (11:42:31 PM):^his
iambic (11:42:34 PM):well you did specify that he grew up in the sstates
me (11:42:37 PM):yeah
iambic (11:42:45 PM):I dunno
me (11:42:57 PM):but its totally meant to be all serendipitious
me (11:43:02 PM):and like..coincidental
iambic (11:43:04 PM):my preference would be for his father to have like
iambic (11:43:13 PM):spent a lot of time in Europe as well?
me (11:43:17 PM):oh yeah!
iambic (11:43:20 PM):so they moved around a lot?
me (11:43:23 PM):he definitely did
me (11:43:31 PM):like I said, he was an Officer in an upper chain of command
me (11:43:35 PM):so mostly he got to request his postings
iambic (11:43:39 PM):instead of having him stay in the states all the time
me (11:43:53 PM):and well..his wife was French and all of her family lives in France so he wasnt about to just completely remove her from her entire life and family
iambic (11:44:02 PM):okay then
me (11:44:11 PM):(I mostly figure Nick is a number of years younger than his sisters)
me (11:44:24 PM):like...Julita is the oldest and then there is Noemie and then Odette
iambic (11:44:34 PM):so say they spent a substantial time in France a well, that'd make it work better for me
me (11:44:35 PM):and when Nick is born Odette is like...sixteen or seventeen maybe
iambic (11:44:36 PM):of course
iambic (11:44:45 PM):this is entirely your call
me (11:44:55 PM):and they mostly raised Nick in France
iambickilometer (11:44:55 PM):and doesn't really affect the story overmuch
iambic (11:44:59 PM):okah
iambic (11:45:04 PM):*okay
iambic (11:45:05 PM):that
iambic (11:45:09 PM):yeah
me (11:45:44 PM):(by that time Pete was almsot ready to retire anyways so he just requested a mostly permanent posting there near Allete's family and they spent holidays in the states, or would take Nick out of school if Pete needed to fly back for whatever reason)
iambic (11:46:49 PM):that's cool then
iambic (11:46:52 PM):hm
iambic (11:47:03 PM):so what happens next
nateneerret (11:47:07 PM):(I figure Pete is maybe ten or so years older than Allete when they meet and has been in the Airforce since he was 18 and when they meet Allete is like 23? so he's in his thirties and they have their daughters pretty quickly after they marry)
me (11:47:09 PM):ANYWAYS!!
me (11:47:24 PM):So Gerard is like..completely fascinated by this random hipster kid basically living in the punk scene
me (11:47:56 PM):(something which probably wouldnt have happened back in Detroit because punks there are kind of vicious and unforgiving about some things, he has the scars to prove it)
me (11:48:14 PM):but he cant help like..basically stalking this glittery baby because...well you know...the pretty
me (11:49:05 PM):(and Mer is totally amused by this because hi! the last man her brother was interesteed it? Gee was still in university and the guy ran off with one of his professors and Gee was all heartbroken and kopey and totally 'I WILL NEVER LOVE AGAIN! MEN SUCK! I SHALL LIVE A LIFE OF SEXY BACHELORHOOD!!'
me (11:49:28 PM):(and mostly did because Gerard? = Scores pretty massively on the hotness scale)
me (11:49:57 PM):So you know, Gee basically blackmails his sister into taking him back, and like...the kids who frequent this shop? totaly not stupid okay
me (11:50:21 PM):They are totally down with setting their glitter baby up with some dude who looks to be pretty chill
me (11:50:57 PM):Except for the bit where they're mostly sure he's like a vampire or something 9so there are some reservations, mostly from Freddie who has taken Nick under his wing in a vague attempt tp lure him from the awesomness that is glitter and all things sparkly)
me (11:51:19 PM):So there's two clashing forces...like..Mer and a couple of Nick's punk friends trying to help set Gee up with Nick
me (11:52:22 PM):(because Nick's last relationship? Ended with his boyfriend shagging three girls at one show on the same night Nick was working and then getting caught in a liplock with 0one of Nick's very male classmates, and it was just tragic and scary and the cops really didnt question why they had to show up and arrest five kids from this shop and send one guy to the emergency room)
me (11:53:26 PM):(Nick's pretty mostly consists of a really amazing pair of crazy blue eyes and short curly brown hair he likes to slick into a faux hawk with glittery hair gel...he's sparkly and he smiles really nice and he's always super polite and no one is really capable of staying mad at him like..ever (it helps he's ridiculously shy and tends to stutter when he's nervous or overwhelmed which is basically all the time))
me (11:53:29 PM):aaanyways!
iambic (11:54:11 PM):holy shit
iambic (11:54:17 PM):curly fauxhawk?
me (11:54:21 PM):yes
iambic (11:54:21 PM):SO MUCH HAIRGEL
iambic (11:54:24 PM):LIKE
me (11:54:25 PM):curly faux hawk
iambic (11:54:30 PM):I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE
me (11:54:31 PM):and actually..I'll have to find a picture
iambic (11:54:34 PM):HOW MUCH HAIRGEL
me (11:54:36 PM):i have a friend in the punk scene
me (11:54:37 PM):who does it
me (11:54:38 PM):and it just
iambic (11:54:39 PM):THAT WOULD TAKE
me (11:54:44 PM):its so amazingly ridiculously, adorably hot
iambic (11:54:45 PM):I AM SERIOUSLY IMPRESSED
iambic (11:54:52 PM):Nick is my new hair hero
me (11:54:57 PM):haha! I KNOW RIGHT
me (11:55:01 PM):AND ITS GLITTER HAIR GEL
me (11:55:03 PM):anyway
me (11:55:28 PM):Freddie? Totally doesn't trust this Gerard guy, even IF he's Meredith's brother. (Because Freddie doesn't trust men who are interested in pretty shiny things and totally just wants to make sure that Nick is happy and Gee's hotness basically works against him here because Freddie thinks Gee is TOO attractive and so he must be an asshole..)
me (11:55:54 PM):which for msot guys in Paris, Freddie is ashamed to admit..is basically par for the course and he's pretty used to scaring off hot guys who try getting into Nick's pants
me (11:56:33 PM):(there is a disturbing number and he's mostly taken to dressing his scariest when Nick works, and carrying around like...a baseball bat or something and banging it against things, which, given the normal people who visit his shop..doesnt look too out of place)
me (11:56:46 PM):and so Gee is all ' D8 HE MUST NOT LIKE ME HOW DO I WOO HIM?!?!?'
me (11:57:15 PM):and Meredith? is mostly just finding the entire thing HILARIOUS and sharing Gerard's romance woes with mom and there brothers via skype (much to Gerard's chagrin)
iambic (11:57:40 PM):Meredith is my favourite
me (11:57:57 PM):and Nick? Nick spends a lot of time being REALLY confused ad freaked out, because Gerard is hot..but also kind of freaky ( because yea, he's massively hot but dude dresses in black and looks like a vampire and Nick thinks Gee might be a serial killer)
me (11:58:08 PM):a notion that Mer mostly doesn;t help because she keeps making like...
me (11:58:17 PM):creepy twilight quotres whenever the two are in the same room together
me (11:58:31 PM):(or just making scary ass jokes about Gee being a crazy stalker)
me (11:58:38 PM):and then fleeing so she can laugh her ass off in another room
me (11:59:38 PM):(most of the regular patrons of the book shop, are at this point, totally waging a completely silent war over which side will win in this crazy epic like..courtship and Freddie is REALLY DISTURBED that his bookshop has suddenly become ground zero for like..the weirdest ass wooing thing ever and his kids start quoti9ng fucking Shakespeare and Thoreau and fucking Byron at Nick and Gerard
me (12:00:23 AM):and discusisng some really distressing ass poetry and Freddie feels like he's totally losing control of THE ANARCHIST VIBE OF HIS MOTHERFUCKING BOOKSHOP (meanwhile. Meredith is totally running a betting pool on how long Gerard lasts before he actually grows a pair and manages to string together a sentence long enought o ask nick to coffee)
me (12:00:52 AM):and of course, like some of Gee's coworkers inevitably discover his romance woes and have to come investigate
me (12:01:06 AM):and then there are like. SUITS INVADING FREDDIE'S BOOKSHOP and that...that is JUST NOT ON OKAY
iambic (12:01:24 AM):AHAHAHAHA
me (12:01:36 AM):because, pinstripes may be whole new levels of awesome, but he runs the punk scene in this little slice of Paris and if you want access, you better fucking dress the part
me (12:02:09 AM):(and then Nick discovers that Gee? is totally like the crazy awesome architect making waves in his neighborhood and Nick starts wondering what gee looks like out of skin tight denim and leather and shit)
me (12:02:23 AM):and well..the emergence of pinstripes kind of feeds his hungry artistic soul
me (12:03:50 AM):and he spends some time talking to his own mother (and Allete? Allete SOMEHOW manages to get a hold of Meredith's number (no one is quite sure, but Allete used to joke about how she'd sold some pieces to like..the mafia and apparently she still has those connections? its murky there) all anyone knows is suddenly Mer and Allete are talking on the phone plotting and scheming
me (12:04:43 AM):and in the background both Nick and Gerard have taken to being hilariously awkward around each other (Nick because hew might be nursing a massive crush on a guy who might want to like..duct tape him to a cement brick and kill him) and Gerard because Nick is smart and funny, and an amazing writer and really kind of shiny normal in a way Gee thinks he needs in his life
me (12:04:55 AM):(and whoah is that an understatement, have you MET his family?!?!)
me (12:05:44 AM):one sec, need to take meds real quick
me (12:07:52 AM):ok back
iambic (12:08:02 AM):okay
me (12:08:10 AM):questions/comments so far?
me (12:08:16 AM):or do I just need to keep going?
iambic (12:08:18 AM):hm
iambic (12:08:22 AM):nope, keep going
me (12:08:32 AM):haha ok
me (12:08:34 AM):lesse
me (12:08:38 AM):oh right!
me (12:10:47 AM):so basically Mer and Allete take to plotting how to set the two of them up, and some of Nick's friends get in on this, and mostly it consists of like...getting Gerard to prove he's a total punk kid (and Meredith lets slip that Gee sang in a pretty popular band back in the day and a couple of the kids totally recognize the band name and so they youtube some of his performances and then they enlist Mer to help them blackmail him into singing one night)
me (12:11:52 AM):and Gerard? is totally like 'What? NO! I dont do that anymore! I like being an architect..I like drawing and building pretty things...it was another life' but they prevail and then he's all 'but...well..I do miss singing' and Nick is all 'you used to sing?!? o=o' and is basically jsut really interested (Freddie has been more successful than he thought in luring Nick into the awesomeness that is the punk scene okay)
me (12:12:35 AM):and Gee? Gee totally can't pass up an opportunity to fucking wow Nick with how awesome he was back in the day (and he feels old saying that, but at this point he doesnt know that he's basically like..seven or eight years older than Nick alright, he'll angst about that LATER)
me (12:13:16 AM):because Mer is amazing and basically like a ninja of some kind of epic awesome, she manages to find a couple of kids who play instruments and also apparently like..know some of the music Gee sang back when he was still in a band
me (12:13:32 AM):and they throw together a pretty kick awesome set for like..this big bash that Freddie throws every year
me (12:14:23 AM):(wherein they basically shut down an entire city street, and everyone and their fucking brother shows up because its all live music and art and basically all the things that freedom and the scene stand for and you know a lot of free booze) (because freddie has connections like the sly dog he totally it)
me (12:14:24 AM):^is
me (12:15:06 AM):and Nick is all excited because you know !!! Music!!! Booze!!! Gerard in like..black denim jeans and like...LEATHER FUCKING JACKET and eyeliner
me (12:15:08 AM):and like
me (12:15:13 AM):well..so they get to the show?
wordy-face (12:15:17 AM):ahhhh i caught up
wordy-face (12:15:19 AM):hiii
wordy-face (12:15:20 AM):this is awesome
wordy-face (12:15:21 AM):btw
wordy-face (12:15:22 AM)::D
me (12:15:23 AM):and basically Nick doesnt actually stick out like a sore thumb
me (12:15:24 AM):haha
wordy-face (12:15:36 AM):some of it is kinda just like
me (12:15:36 AM):because somehow he's infected his glitter love into some of the punk kids
wordy-face (12:15:37 AM):like
me (12:15:52 AM):so its like..this crazy glitter punk baby of awesomeness
wordy-face (12:15:55 AM):how do the people know what gee used to sing lol
wordy-face (12:16:07 AM):i mean the people in the band
wordy-face (12:16:25 AM):or is that not a big deal, 'cause it seems kinda like coincidence or sthg
me (12:16:50 AM):(the joys of youtube and because like..some of the kids? maybe like knew of his band/stalked his band/liked his band and well..you can find anything on youtube and also Meredith, who played drums in the band and is evil and amazing helped convert those not hip to the awesomeness that is gerard)
iambic (12:16:56 AM):because he was a cult underground smash
me (12:17:00 AM):basically yes
wordy-face (12:17:09 AM):oh yes trufax
me (12:17:14 AM):and if he hadnt left the punk world, he could have taken over the punk scene entirely
me (12:17:34 AM):but he wanted to be an architect and like..singing was a hobby he didnt want to turn it into a job because then he'd lose his love for it?
me (12:17:43 AM):I dont know...he doesnt go into details right away
me (12:17:44 AM):BUT YES
me (12:17:49 AM):SO NICK FINALLY GETS TO SEE GEE PERFORM
me (12:18:03 AM):and it is..basically boner inducing, orgasm in the pants amazing
me (12:18:29 AM):and Nick? Kind of cant care if Gee really is a pyscho serial killer, because that much amazing in one person who apparently likes him? Cannot be resisted.
me (12:18:46 AM):So you know...Nick mauls him basically the second Gee catapults off the stage
me (12:19:35 AM):(mind you, up to this point.,.they havent actually managed to carry on a real conversation, because it is surprisingly difficult to talk when their is ska punk music playing in the background or you';re working and shit, so they only really know peripheral details about one another)
me (12:20:00 AM):which they can work with, because whatn they know they like right? so Gee, who is totally still high on the adrenaline of basically fucking a mic stand in front of hundreds of people
Me (12:20:23 AM):and rocking it out, finally asks Nick out on a real live date and Nick is all 'YAY HELL YES YOU ARE AWESOME AND SHINY AND ALSO I LIKE YOUR JACKET!!'
me (12:20:39 AM):(Nick likes the metal grommets, he thinks they look like shooting stars the way they're inlaid into the leather)
me (12:21:45 AM):Cue Meredith totally collecting a lot of money from various and sundry people and Freddie being kind of >/ faced because he's still mostly sure Gerard is going to turn into a total asshole (and the whole punk factor? actually more firmly secures this idea in the dudes head cause uhm..hot + punk? = bigger likelihood for assholishness)
me (12:22:12 AM):so Nick and Gee get to go on their date (they have coffee because they're both addicted) and its awesome and they talk about Nick's writing and Gee's like..architecture
me (12:22:57 AM):and Gee, who is already pretty sure Nick is going to be the one is all 'YAYYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!' and Nick? Nick is pretty much 'I have to tell mom about this she will flip her lid!!!! and also run a criminal background check, please dont be a serial killer!')
me (12:23:01 AM):and its awesome and amazing
me (12:23:13 AM):and then gee is all 'wait..how old are you?' and Nick is all 'uhm....nineteen?'
me (12:23:26 AM):and Gee is all D8 OHGOD YOU'RE LIKE JAILBAIT ONLY NOT
me (12:23:43 AM):And nick is pretty confused because uhm..age of consent in France is totally like fucking fourteen okay
me (12:24:29 AM):and he's basically been living on his own since he was sixteen and really on his own, with his own place since he was seventeen and he's mostly a mature, functioning memebr of grown up society and whatever if he likes glitter and shiny things
me (12:24:50 AM):But Gerard? Gerard is like.....26 (I decided they had a bigger age difference okay)
me (12:25:17 AM):and mostly kind of horrified that Nick is so young (he doesnt really look it, he's baby faced and pretty but he doesn't LOOK that young okay)
iambic (12:25:21 AM):oh pfft I've done that age difference
me (12:25:27 AM):and so Gee makes a total ass of himself and basically flees
iambic (12:25:53 AM):oh Gee
me (12:25:58 AM):because well...he thinks he's old ok and Nick is very shiny pretty and gee is really just an insecure asshole like that sometimes
iambic (12:26:05 AM):you idiot
me (12:26:16 AM):and Nick? Is kind of like 'uhm..wait..what just happened? what did I do ;=; '
me (12:26:51 AM):And so is mopey and Gee wont take his calls!!! And wont come around the store and Freddie is very smug about being right that Gee was going to be a jack ass
me (12:27:01 AM):except then he isnt smug because sadface!Nick?
me (12:27:10 AM):Is pretty much the most worst thing in the history of worst things ever
iambic (12:27:12 AM):D:
me (12:27:20 AM):Its worse than like a trainful of strangled kittens and fluffy puppies
me (12:27:36 AM):Nick's sad face? Nick's sad face makes HARDENS FUCKING HARDCORE PUNK ROCKERS WANT TO HUG HIM
me (12:27:45 AM):(something that they have photographic evidence of okay)
me (12:28:11 AM):so Freddie is now on the warpath, because you know, how fucking DARE Gee get Nick all happy shiny sparkly and then fucking BREAK IT!!! THAT IS JUST NOT KOSHER OK
me (12:29:03 AM):so Freddie stalks Mer (and encounters her crazy husband who i think is like..some bizarre ass like...reporter or something, dude is made of cool, slick awesome, but also he's a total wise guy...like his grandfather was totally in the Jersey mob ok)
me (12:29:16 AM):and Freddie is like 'yo! I need your brother in law so I can bust his knee caps ok'
me (12:29:46 AM):(Mer is somewhere in the background totally trying to comfort a mopey Gee. they're twins, she kind of has to take his side in this shit, even when she wants to kick him in the balls)
iambic (12:30:18 AM):I want Mer's husband to be all HE'S IN THERE, YO iambic (12:30:26 AM):BUT JUST HIS KNEECAPS OKAY
iambic (12:30:32 AM):HE NEEDS HIS ARMS
me (12:31:18 AM):And Mer's husband (whose name is Frank okay!)? Is pretty protective of Gee because you know...they're basically best friends and so they're pretty tight, but you know? He really wants Gee to be happy (and he's finally got time off, he wants to play hide the sausage with his wife, who he CANT because shes comforting her dumb ass, insecure brother)
me (12:31:49 AM):so he's all 'he's hiding in the guest room right now' and hands over the key (because he;s renting like..an old villa or something and has like a master key to all the rooms or something)
me (12:32:52 AM):And Freddie is kind of thrown by that and is all 'Why the fuck is he hiding?!? he know Imma kick his ass?' and they have some bizarro bonding moment over you know..the joys of splitting your knuckles against some genuinely good flesh and shit
me (12:33:20 AM):and then Frank basically spills the beans over this fucking glitterbaby that Gee has basically fallen in love with but is worried that glitterbaby wont want him when he finds out that gee is old and has like..issues and shit
me (12:33:47 AM):and Freddie? is like 'WTF NO WAY NICK IS AMAZING' and Frank is like 'Dude...Gee has more issues than fucking Russia okay, trufax'
me (12:34:13 AM):and so they spend a few minutes commiserating on apparently being the only truly sane [people they know and how they end up fixing everything, and they both go to find Mer and Gee
me (12:34:54 AM):(who are curled up on the floor watching some dumb ass romance from the 80s and eating like..icecream or something and Frank doesnt question where it came from) and Freddie is all 'YOU NEED TO FIX NICK HIS SAD FACE IS BAD FOR BUSINESS'
iambic (12:35:13 AM):XD
iambic (12:35:20 AM):I would think it'd be good for business
me (12:35:23 AM):and Gee is all flaily and like ' I CANT I WILL BREAK HIS HEART OR HE WILL BREAK MINE AND IT WILL END MORE TRAGICALY THAN ROMEO AND JUILET;
iambic (12:35:30 AM):people coming in an buying things to cheer him up
me (12:35:59 AM):(Nick's sad face makes people want to beat up the person making Nick make the sad face, or they avoid it because his sad face is truly a thing to avoid at all costs)
me (12:36:00 AM):XD
me (12:37:10 AM):and some hilarious like..comical tete a tete takes place wherein Gee basically spills the beans on his tragic love life and the reason he left the punk scene (he got addicted to like..coke and it was just bad all around so he's a recovering addict and he mostly really likes his job and stuff and Nick is just too amazing to taint with his world weary brand of badness)
me (12:37:33 AM):and Freddie is like 'dude...nick might be like..the shiny happy glitterbaby of doom, but he's not going to bail because you have some baggage'
me (12:37:50 AM):and they all somehow convince gee he's being a giant toolbag so Gee goes off to try and win Nick back
me (12:38:37 AM):(Nick is still mostly pretty confused over why Gee left in the first place, and really sad he left because you know...he really like like likes Gee (triple likes which he's sure means something dramatic)
me (12:39:08 AM):and so he's mostly amenable to being won back over when gee shows up with a ridiculously large bouquet of 'Im sorry Im an asshat but I still like you and want your forgiveness' flowers
me (12:39:54 AM):(the punk kids who were previously on Gee;s side are not so easily won over. They've been trying to cheer nick up for a few days now and his sad face is really fucking depressing, they aren't fucking emo and Nick's face is enough to make them want to be okay and that shit is just NOT ONE)
me (12:40:42 AM):but Nick is all 'ooooh daffodils my favorite' and starts flailing and squeaking out in unintelligible French and flings himself at gerard (he really likes daffodils and he mentioned once waaaaay back when he and Gee had first met he liked them, so he's very impressed Gee remembered and stuff)
me (12:40:44 AM):and you know
me (12:40:49 AM):there is soppy smoochietimes
me (12:41:03 AM):and mostly everything is hunkydory
me (12:41:05 AM):and you know
me (12:41:09 AM):they have hot gay sex
iambic (12:41:32 AM):oh yes
iambic (12:41:35 AM):cannot forget that
me (12:41:39 AM):and Nick takes to writing on Gee at night after they're done with each other and sometimes Gerard doesn't shower before work, so he'll go in to meet clients with bits of love poetry scrawled across visible parts of his body
me (12:41:46 AM):and sometimes they're in English and sometimes in French
me (12:41:59 AM):and it happens once when they're over in America (In like New York or maybe Hollywood or something)
me (12:42:05 AM):and its at some big opening gala thing
me (12:42:17 AM):and Nick is there off in the background being this shiny, woobie thing of adorable sparkliness
me (12:42:32 AM):and someone mentions the blue ink scrawled all over Gee's like...collarbone and bit of his chest
me (12:42:36 AM):and he goes really really red
me (12:43:08 AM):and everyone laughs because you know...writing on yourself is so third grade, but Gee explains about his amazing boyfriend Nick Macy who is like..an amazing writer? and sometimes likes to write on Gee
me (12:43:22 AM):and then he has to excuse himself and find Nick so he can drag him off to do things to him
me (12:44:16 AM):(and s0ometimes Nick will like..play with a pen when they're out in public, just to tease Gee and it becomes like a pavlovian reaction)
and mostly its just hunky dory and adorable, and Nick will sometimes copy down stuff he writes on Gee onto a post it and be all creepy stalker boyfriend and leave them places Gee will find when he goes to work, or like text him pictures of them, and Gee will come home and be all soppy and toppy and fuck Nick over whichever surface is closest.
They become an epic love story themselves (and they go see Gee’s family and well Allete and Pete have to meet the woman who raised Gerard okay? And Allete is basically ridiculously enchanted by Jersey and decides they have to stay a while and Gee’s mom and Allete totally bond and become besties and it’s crazy and Pete spends a lot of time hiding).
And then like…maybe Nick goes on tour eventually, after he and Gee have been together (because Nick likes doing volunteer work and charity and shit and accidentally adopts like…a little Chinese baby girl?
me (1:13:46 AM):8D
me (1:13:51 AM):ACCIDENTAL ADOPTION IS THE BEST
wordy-face (1:14:17 AM):lmao
me (1:14:22 AM):AND THEN THEY NAME HER EVELYN AND LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER
wordy-face (1:14:27 AM):hahaha
wordy-face (1:14:29 AM):epic
me (1:14:33 AM):(and Mer NEVER LETS EITHER OF THEM LIVE DOWN THE ACCIDENTAL ADOPTION)
me (1:14:37 AM):and Evey grows up
me (1:14:50 AM):and when she gets married she has to explain that when she says she was an accident
nateneerret (1:14:53 AM):shes totes not joking ok
wordy-face (1:14:58 AM):xDDD
me (1:15:03 AM):her dad genuinely did not know they were tricking him
me (1:15:37 AM):he thought he was jsut like..taking her to a doctor (and like okay, he might have said she needed a good home, but he hadnt meant his and he doesnt regret it okay, but then before he knew it he was being told he couldnt leave the country for six months because he'd just got himself a baby)
thewordsinhaled (1:15:51 AM):xD
me (1:15:54 AM):and well...Gerard was pretty much amused until he found out Nick was STUCK IN FUCKING CHINA FOR HALF A YEAR
me (1:16:08 AM):and like..they almsot broke up over it 9six years and it takes an accidental adoptiion to do it)
me (1:16:20 AM):but then Gee came to his senses after like..three months of not talking to Nick?
wordy-face (1:16:26 AM):DD:
me (1:16:44 AM):and showed up in Nick's crummy apartment with a ring and a bunch of clothes and was all 'iluforever please forgive me im an ass'
me (1:16:48 AM):and doesnt propose
me (1:16:56 AM):because he doesnt want nick to think its a shot gun wedding
wordy-face (1:17:00 AM):that's adorable haha
me (1:17:03 AM):but Nick gives him ANOTHER chance
me (1:17:06 AM):^shot gun
wordy-face (1:17:44 AM):falkfjgh okay it is like, legit 3am here and omg i did not mean to stay up this laaaate ahlg
me (1:17:46 AM):and they spend another three months in China (and maybe Gee gets like..malaria or something and Nick is frantic worried? because he cant be with gee and take care of the baby (who they dont name until she;s almost 2 and she's 9 months old when nick accidentally adopts her)
and so like..Nick is frantic worried? And is packing all their stuff up because Gee is being moved to a better hospital, and he totally finds the ring and like..basically a shoebox of ALL THE POST IT NOTES THEY ever wrote each other EVER and Nick is all ‘<3 ;=; GEEEEEE’ and puts the ring on because he wants something of Gee’s in case you know…he doesn’t even want to consider it!
So Gee gets move d to a better hospital and Nick and the baby go along, and by this point like..baby is speaking French and English pretty well, and calls Nick dada (he’s teaching her to call gee Papa) and they’re in the hospital for another month before Gee is better and when he is well enough, they go back home to France (where everyone was told to stay because Nick totally couldn’t hand;le all his family and gee’s family in fucking China on top of everything else okay).
And Gee is still weak, but getting better, and the firm he works at is super relieved he came back alive and shit and say he can work from home until he’s 110% (and you know, get to bond with his baby and wtf did that happen yo?!?)
And you know, but that time, they’d been in china another nine months and like..baby is almost two years old and she STILL HAS NO NAME on her birth certificate or documentation, and Gee finally realizes that Nick is totally wearing the ring and he grins and is all ‘ so is that a yes?’
And Nick is like ‘Yes. But we’re hyphenating our name’ and Allete and Gee’s mom (who I want to name Margaret) inform them the baby is to be called Evelyn, and then they decide that her ,middle name will be Lysette (after Margaret’s grandmother).
So baby becomes Evelyn Lysette Macy-DeGray and that’s what Evey tells her husband twenty sum odd years later, much to his amusement (and her fathers’ chagrin because really? Nick totally didn’t KNOW he was adopting a baby okay).
And they all live happily ever after even though their family is completely crazy and stuff...