Chapter 15 - Ray It's Ya Birthday (Gerard's POV)

“So what happened last night?” a voice asks me as I wake.
It’s Matt and he’s got a smirk on his face.
“What?” I ask.
“Look who’s not there?” he says.
I look Jacquie isn’t there.
“Where is she?” I question him.
“I don’t know, I woke up to the sound of a door open and shut with a bang,” he says.
“But I didn’t do anything” I say.
“You didn’t… try anything?” he asks.
“NO well at least I don’t think so,” I say to him.

I get up and run outside and then to Jacquie’s. I knock on the door. Jacquie comes to the door.
“Shh everyone is still sleeping,” she whispers to me.
“Why are you here?” I ask quietly.
''I’m getting my stuff” she replies.
“So I didn’t do anything last night?” I ask.
“Huh?” she says.
“Never mind, need help?” I ask.
“Yeah I guess,” she says opening the door more and letting me in. She closes the door and walks to her room. I follow her.
“Can you carry this?” she said passing me a bag.
“Sure” I say taking it out of her hand.
“Okay lets go,” she says.
“You’re not carrying anything,” I say.
“Yeah you wanted to help,” she said with a laugh.
“Bitch” I say jokingly.
“You know it,” she said joking to.

We walk out of her place to Matt’s.
“So anyone awake?” she asks.
“Yeah just Matt I think” I reply.
“Okay” she replies.
She opens the door of Matt’s place for me as I walk in.
“Thanks” I say to her.
“No problem” she replies with a smile.
“What have you guys got?” Matt asks coming over to us.
“Stuff” she says “Is Ray up?”
“Nah not yet” Matt says.
"I’m gonna go wake him up” she says pulling out a hockey mask and a fake scythe.
She laughs and puts the mask on.
“Look an improvement” Matt says laughing.
Jacquie hits him jokingly.
She walks into Matt’s room.
There is silence and then … “ARHHHHHHH” Ray screams running out of the room.
Matt and I crack up.
Ray stops “Guys there’s something in that room” he says fear stricken.
Out comes Jacquie.“Se… Oh ha ha funny” Ray says pissed off.
Jacquie takes off the mask.
“Happy Birthday” she says with a big smile.
Matt and I laugh “Happy birthday” we both say.
“Matt come with me” Jacquie says.
“Okay” he replies. They both walk out the front door.
“Don’t tell me they're gonna bring snakes or something” Ray says.
“I don’t know,” I said with a laugh “Them two are unpredictable”.
Ray laughs “True”.

5 minutes later…
Jacquie comes back with Matt behind her.
“Presenting your cake” she says walking thought the door. Matt is holding a black cake with a candy spider on it.
“That’s awesome” Ray says looking at it.
“It’s Dark chocolate,” Jacquie says.
Matt puts it on the table.
“Can we eat it now?” Ray asks.
“It’s your cake you can do whatever you want with it… as long as you give us some,” she says with a laugh.
Matt hands Ray a knife. Ray cuts it and Matt makes him touch the bottom.
“What the hell is up with you guys and that?” Jacquie asks.
“I dunno it’s funny,” Matt says “Now Ray since there’s only one girl in the room you have no choice”. Matt laughs.
“But she’s like a friend” Ray says.
“Get over it” Jacquie says.
Ray kisses her quickly on the cheek.
Jacquie wipes her cheek “Ewww” she says joking around “Boy germs”.
“Why the hell do we still do that anyway?” Ray asks.
“Meh cause we can” Jacquie says.
Ray shrugs and cuts up the cake and passes us each a slice.
“Leave a piece for Mikey and Frankie” Jacquie says.
We all look at her.
“What they should get some,” she says.
“Fine” Rays says and then takes a big bite of his piece of cake.
“I swear Jimmy is gay” Jacquie says, “ I mean he like cooks like a girl and cleans like a girl”.
We all laugh. Jacquie finishes off her piece of cake and brings out a present from her bag and passes it to Ray.
“Thanks” he says as he takes it out of her hands. He opens it. His jaw drops.
“The first Spiderman comic ever” he says not believing what he has in his hands.
“Yeah” she says.
“OMG JACQUIE I LOVE YOU” he yells and then hugs her.
“Umm you're welcome” she says. He lets go.
“How did you get it?” he asks.
“My mum’s friend works in a comic book store,” she says.
“Awesome” Ray says looking at the comic book again.

9pm… (Jacquie’s POV)
Ray opened his all of his present’s ages and ages ago. We had to go to his and pick some up and go to Gerard’s to pick up some from his from his brother and Frankie. We were now just sitting watching a movie that Ray had got. The movie finishes.
“That was awesome” Ray says getting up.
“Yeah” Matt says sarcastically “If you don’t like action”.
“There was plenty of action” Ray said defensively “You were to busy looking at the girls boobs”.
“What man wouldn’t they were HUGE, right Gerard?” Matt said nudging him.
Gerard laughs.
“Whatever” Ray says.
“Drink Jacquie?” Gerard asks me.
“Sure” I say.
“Umm alcoholic?” he asks considerately.
“Yeah” I reply.
“Yes! she likes the stuff,” Matt yells.
I laugh.
Gerard smiles“You guys want one?” he asks.
“Yeah” they both say.
Gerard goes to the cupboard and makes up some drinks. He gives us each one.
“Chugging contest?” Ray asks Matt.
“Youre on” Matt says competitively with a smile.
“Countdown Mister Way” Ray says with a laugh.
Gerard and I laugh. “5...4...3...2...1 CHUG” he yells.
The guys start chugging like hell. Matt finishes first.
“Winner… Matt” Gerard says.
“Yeah” Matt brags.
“Ooo Can I try?” I ask.
“Whoa first you don’t want us to drink and now you wanna join us in chugging, what the?” Matt asks.
“Meh I feel like drinking now” I say with a laugh. Gerard fills the drinks again.
“Can we all do it this time?” Ray asks.
“Yeah I guess” Matt says. We all get ready.
“5…4…3…2…1 CHUG” we all yell.
I drink as fast as I can and when I finished placed the cup on the table. I look around no one else has finished yet. Oh god did I just win? Matt puts his cup down.
“What the hell did you finish already” he asks surprised.
“Umm Yeah I guess,” I say kinda freaked out too.
Then Ray and Gerard stopped on put their glasses on the table.
“OMG did she win?” Ray asks.
“Yeah” Matt says still very surprised.
“Whoa someone actually won against Matt” Gerard say.
“Yeah” Matt replies “Lets check REMATCH but you two have to watch”.
“Okay” they reply. Gerard fills the glasses again.
“5…4…3…2…1 CHUG” he yells.
I chug I think even quicker and put the glass down when I finish.
Matt is almost three quarters through his glass by the time I did this.
“Whoa” Ray says surprised. Matt puts his glass down.
“I swear you must have some sort of experience,” he says not believing it was my first chugging contest.
“And I swear I haven't” I say smartly back.
Gerard laughs and refills the glasses again.

11pm…
Matt is drunk after about 6 drinks but Gerard, Ray and I only have 4. Matt had been doing lots of things to get Gerard angry and it was pissing him off but now he was completely drunk and doing weird things.
“What the fuck are you doing?” Gerard asks laughing at Matt.
“I am a dinosaurrrrrr” he slurred walking around more like a zombie.
“You look like a homo” I say to him jokingly. Matt comes over to me.
“Would a gay do this?” he says kissing me right on the lips. I try to pull away.
“Matt let her go” Gerard say jumping up from his seat and trying to pull him away. I decide to pinch him and pinch him on the arm really hard.
“OWWW” he screams and finally lets go of me. I look at him and realize he has my lipstick smeared on his face. I wipe my face. And walk to the bathroom and close and lock the door behind me. I wash off the lipstick that is also smeared on me thanks to someone.


(Rays POV)
“What the fuck man?” I ask Matt.
“What?” he asks probably still totally unaware of what he just did.
“You need to sleep dude,” I say walking him to his room.
He goes and collapses on his bed. I close the door. Gerard walks over to the door.
“What are you doing?” I ask.
“Umm Hello did you just see what he did?” Gerard replies angrily.
“He is drunk and he doesn’t know what he is doing?” I reply defending his action even though I didn’t agree with them.
“So he is just gonna get away with it?” he yells at me.
“Wait till morning he will be back to himself and he can apologize to…” I say.
“Jacquie” he says and runs to the bathroom and knocks on it.
“It’s me please let me in” he yells.
The door opens he walks in and it shuts again.
Whoa what the hell just happened? I check on Matt. He’s asleep.
‘Good no more trouble from him' I think to myself angrily. I start cleaning up.


(Gerard’s POV)
“You okay?” I ask her.
“Not really” she replies.
“I’m so sorry about Matt,” I say.
“It’s okay” she says “That’s what alcohol does to you at least he wasn’t the violent type”.
A small fake smile spreads across her face. I go and hug her and she hugs me back. She lets go and opens the door and walks out I follow her.
“You alright?” Ray asks her.
“I’m fine stop asking me,” she says.
She sits on the couch and I sit next to her. She sits there looking at her shoes. We hear a coughing sound.
“Shit Matt” Ray says running to his room. Jacquie gets up and follows. He just did that but she helps that’s weird. I get up and walk in. Matt is coughing badly. Jacquie walks out the room and I follow her. She walks into he kitchen and looks though the cupboards and then she gets a big plastic bowl out. She walks back to Matt’s room and yet again I follow her. She sits next to Matt and puts the bowl in front of him and starts rubbing his back. He starts coughing until he throws up straight into the bowl. Jacquie gives him a slap on his back and he chucks up again. She sets the bowl on his lap and walks out the room. She comes back with a glass of water. She hands it to Matt and he drinks it. She takes the bowl off of him and walks out.
“What the?” Ray says.
She comes back a couple of minutes later with the bowl now clean and sits it next to the bed. She lies Matt down and takes the glass from him.We walk out of the room and she put the glass in the kitchen and sits down on the couch.
“Whoa are you a doctor or something?” Ray asks amazed about what she had just done.
“No I had practice with my dad when he got drunk” she said with a hint of sadness to her voice.
“Oh” Ray says feeling bad “Umm I’m going to bed but umm where do I sleep now?” Jacquie rolls her eyes. She gets up and walks into Matt’s room. We hear a fumble of random noises. She comes back to the doorway waves for Ray to come over. He goes over to her and they go inside.
“Night Ray” I hear her say.
She walks out and closes the door. She walks over to the light switch and turns it off.
“Jacquie can you see where you’re going?” I say with a laugh as I hear her walking.
“I can see in the dark,” she says with a laugh.
It was great knowing she could change into a happy mood quite easily. I hear the table being kicked.
“Fu…” I hear her yell but stop.
“Yeah see in the dark” I say laughing. She sits next to me.
“Well I wonder how I got here?” she says. She lies on me.
“I wonder,” I say.
“Night Gee” she says.
“Night Jac” I say.
And I fall asleep.