Turn Off The Lights, And Turn Off The Shyness - Chapter 10

4 Days Later.

We were driving Gabe to the airport, it turns out, setting Gabe and Mandi up was a great idea,they had actually spent the last 4 days together. I was driving, Pete was riding shot-gun and Mandi and Gabe were in the back.
It was a quiet, depressing drive, i would miss Gabe, but in the way as if my older brother was going away to college.
Then I cringed at the thought of kissing my brother, and almost puked in my mouth, and tried my hardest to push the thought out of my mind.
Seeing Mandi that said made me depressed, she was usually so happy and upbeat, the only other time I'd seen her like this is when one of our favorite bands Something Corporate announced they were in, "Suspended animation".
In the airport it was a little bit happier, we were all making fun of each other.

"Shut up you tall freak," Pete playfully shoved Gabe into a plant, I laughed at him.

"What are you laughing at you frizzy haired loser," he said.

"Okay, that's it, Im putting your picture up on hipster or gay, and I'm sure gay will have more votes." I said.

"So," he said. "I kissed a boy and I liked it." he sung.

We were all laughing at this point, probably because it was all true.

"Flight 148 boarding now," we heard over the loud speaker.

The mood all turned into sadness.

"See you later asshole," he said to Pete, and they did the hand shake bro hug thing.

"I'll see you at school frizzy," he said giving me a hug.

"Stop feeling up my girlfriend," Pete whispered sarcasticly.

I laughed, then he moved on to Mandi.
I didn't really pay much attention to them.

"I haven't really asked you yet, but how's fall out boy been doing?" I asked, I'd talked to Patrick a couple times on msn but we'd talked about thefunk brothers oddly enough.

"it turned out good, but I'm the kind of person that whenever I make something I always..."

"Feel like it could be better," I finished, we were both like that.

"yeah, but Patrick is a freaking genius, he's like-"

"The second musical coming of Jesus," I joked.

"Yes, and we got a drummer finally too," he said.

"That's great!"

"Yeah, Patrick met him in the music section of barnes and nobles," he laughed.

I hoped things would work out for them, I had just gotten a taste of the last drummer, when Pete and I were in the middle of a phone call and he

straight up took Pete's cell and hung it up, multiple times, and there was no reason for it either, Pete had his parts finished for the day, so he couldn't use that excuse.

"We got signed too!" he said.

"WHAT! And you didn't tell me!?" I said, "That's great, what label are you on!?"

"Fueled By Ramen," he said. I was extremely familiar with it, the label my mom worked at distributed them.

"That's so freaking awesome! I know one day you guys will be HUGE!" I said, confidently said.

"You really think?" he asked.

"Of coarse!" I said enthusiastic.

I looked over, gave and Mandi were still hugging.

"Umm, Gabe, I don't mean to kill the moment, but aren't you gonna miss your plane?" I asked.

"Oh shit! Mandi, I gotta go, but I'll call you as soon as I land," He said.

"Okay," she replied quietly.

He waved goodbye and ran to his plane.
We ended up finding it and watched it depart, now it really felt like I was seeing my brother leave for college or moving away, it was sad.
We started heading back to the car, Mandi had her head down the entire  time.

"It's okay," I said putting my arm around her, almost like a choke hold, "he's coming back again."

"What?!" she said surprised, "When!?"

"In like a month," I told her, "didn't he tell you?"

"No."

"Well,... Maybe he forgot to tell you," i reassured her.

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this will be the last one for a while.... i seriously may have swine flu, i have all the symptoms, im gooing to the doctor tomarrow to find out :(

and i kinda shaped this a little differently so boysdontcry14 wouldn't have an aneurysm reading it.