It's not like Gerard Way ever cared about the content he put into his Instagram account. Fans were delighted with everything from the usual blots or simple sketch to the photo of the new issue of The Umbrella Academy.
And even though hundreds of thousands of likes and millions of comments under each photo were certainly exciting, pleasant and warm to him, it was not what he needed for complete happiness.
Because in order for this happiness to be really complete, he needed one single liking and one single comment from one single user. From Frank Iero's profile. And this man either from the increased employment or because of the lack of interest left Gerard's posts unattended.
It wasn't like Gerard was staring at his phone every five minutes, expecting that he would finally get a notice that Frank liked his photo. No. Nonsense. What are you talking about at all? But Frank is sitting in the installer, posting photos and videos. Doesn't Frank flip through the tape and see what Way is publishing
Gerard is almost desperate. Gerard is saddened. He stopped picking up his phone. And it's also okay to eat and sleep peacefully. In general, he fell into a real moping and despondency.
And then one night, waking up incomprehensibly why he decided to go out into the yard to breathe fresh air. And his eyes fell on the firefly that was simmering among the garden plants. Gerard, inspired by this turn of events, photographed the insect to simply publish it in his signed account:
"Woke up at four in the morning. Nothing like that. I met a friend."
Then he threw the phone in his robe pocket and, having forgotten about the incident, returned to bed.
And woke up in the morning, almost jumped with joy, because Frank Iero liked his photo.
"I'm on the right track", Gerard thought, looking at the wall in front of him with incredible joy (just to look somewhere else).
The wall, on which a moment later crawled a small, very tiny spider.
And it hit Gerard.
His next position in the installations was a photo of a spider against a clear blue sky. Fans rejoiced, filling him up with comments. The activity was unbelievable, and a variety of theories about what the spider could mean were put forward.
"It's a cambecue, I'm telling you exactly."
"Maybe he decided to create a new comic book character, someone with spider powers?"
"Another Spiderman?"
And even though he did not see the same comment among them, but likes to stand, and it was already half the success.
Deciding to alternate his attempts to draw the attention of Frank Iero to himself with the usual posts, Gerard published a couple of more photos, looking for, meanwhile, a new "model" for his future photo. There were a lot of candidates, and Wei's picky glance of the artist evaluated everyone according to his own criteria, known to him one by one, and when he finally found the right one - took a photo from the most successful angle, published and began to wait.
And, I must say, the expectation and all his works have borne fruit! When Gerard saw Frank's comment under his photo, his heart turned over. Just two words: "some pig", and how much joy!
Gerard rejoiced like a schoolgirl, who was noticed by the captain of the football team. Fortunately, there was no limit, as there was no limit and all those comments under the new photo spider. But Way did not pay attention to them, because before his eyes stood the same, the only and long-awaited comment from Frank Iero.
Realizing that it works, Gerard decided not to rest on his laurels. Spider photo shots are now a regular part of his day. And if at first his wife Lindsay looked at all this with bewilderment and slight concern, then she simply began to joke about her husband, offering him to draw scenery or create a photo zone, so that the pictures of his "models" were "even better". Gerard only sighed at it, muttering something about the fact that she does not understand anything, and went to another place to take off another spider.
And one in California on a sunny September day, when he stopped at a hedge, where another worthy representative of the spider weaved a web, hooking it with one end for the plant, and the other - for the wall of a nearby coffee shop, and pulled out the phone to take a picture, the back of a voice was heard:
— Take a different perspective, the photo against the sky has already got everyone.
Way turned around and saw Frank smiling widely in front of him and immediately, without much thought, clenched him in his arms.
— I'm glad to see you too, G," — Frank said, — but let's get away from this crap.