I'll Be Your Gerard If You'll Be My Frank

First Fucking Day

American History first.

Let's hope I could zone out easily.

Sadly, I couldn't.

I kept coming close though.

Mr Finch kept droning on and on about this shit and that shit.

When I was close to dropping off, he called over to me, "Ah Mr Iero! I know it's your first day but that doesn't give you the right to have a snooze in my class."

"Yes sir, sorry sir."

Ugh.

What the hell?

I wasn't the only student dying of boredom.

For some reason he only seemed to notice me though.

What a fucker!

I'm not even going to mention how Spanish went.

Math passed by uneventful.

I'll tell you what though, that teacher is a right old bitch.

When the bell for lunch finally rang, I thanked my lucky stars.

I could not last another second in this class!

I walked out of the classroom and stopped in my tracks.

Where was I going?

I had no idea where I had to go for lunch.

I guess I was just going to wander around the school, looking like a loner.

Wouldn't be the first time.

In the end I decided to follow a group of people.

They headed into a building which I assumed was the Cafeteria.

I was right, it was.

I looked around.

Where would I go?

Most of the tables were already full.

I didn't really want to eat on the bathroom floor.

There was a table across the room though that had only two guys on it.

There was room for me.

Well, I could fit anywhere, I was small enough.

I may as well take my chances.

I cautiously walked across the room, towards this table.

As I got closer, I got a better look of the two guys already sitting there.

One had his back to me.

He had a grey beanie on and from the few scraps of hair I could see, he had mousy-brown hair.

The other guy was sitting across from beanie guy.

He had a mop of black hair.

It was longer than mine but not too long. It stopped just below his ears. He had a fringe and it almost covered his eyes. He had it parted so he could see though.

His hair was dyed like mine.

Same colour; as black as possible.

He was also wearing a black hoodie and had it zipped up.

He noticed me looking at him as I came up to the table.

Our eyes locked for a second before he blushed and looked away.

Beanie guy turned to see what he was looking at.

Beanie guy had glasses.

He also had a look about him that reminded me of the other guy.

Maybe they were related in some way.

At that point, I was standing awkwardly next to the table.

Neither of them said anything.

The other guy was now looking at me again, the pink tint on his cheeks now gone.

I guess I'd have to speak first, "Uh hi, I'm Frank. I was wondering if I could sit with you guys..." I looked at my feet.

Why was I so awkward?

"Yeah, sure thing."

I looked up to see beanie guy had cracked a smile.

"Um thanks," I slowly sat down next to him.

"I'm Mikey," He said, "And this is my brother, Gerard."

He gestured to the other guy.

"Hi..." Gerard half smiled.

I smiled back.

Wow, this was awkward.

Before silence could make things even more awkward, Mikey asked, "So are you new here or...?"

"Yeah, this is my first day."

"Ah, welcome," Mikey smiled.

"Welcome to this shithole..." Gerard mumbled under his breath.

"It's not that bad," Mikey corrected.

Gerard shrugged, looked down and started pulling his sandwich apart instead of eating it.

Mikey sighed and went back to his sandwich, eating it apposed to playing with it.

Since it was lunch time, I decided to eat something.

I reached into my bag and pulled out a bag of chips.

The silence was a bit unnerving but I didn't know what to say.

"Where's Ray?"

I looked up to see Gerard looking at his brother.

"Hm I don't know. What did he just have?"

"How should I know?" Gerard rolled his eyes.

Mikey sighed and went back to his lunch.

I felt like I was missing something but I guess that brothers are supposed to get on each other's nerves occasionally.

"So, Frank, how're you liking it here?" Mikey brought me out of my thoughts.

"Uh it's alright I suppose."

Gerard smirked and looked back down to his food.

I frowned but turned to Mikey.

"Yeah this isn't the best school but it's decent," Mikey said, "Are you a junior?"

"Yeah, I'm in eleventh grade," I smiled.

"I am too. So is Gerard."

I looked over to Gerard.

He seemed to be ignoring his brother.

"Wait, so you guys are in the same grade?" I frowned.

"Yeah. I know, it's weird. He's one of the eldest and I'm one of the youngest. He's seventeen. I'm sixteen," Mikey smiled.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Gerard's lips crack into a smile.

He obviously liked the fact that his brother was in the same year as him.

"Cool. I'm sixteen too. I can't wait for my birthday," I grinned.

"When's your birthday?" Mikey asked.

"October thirty-first," I said proudly.

"Really? That's so cool!" Mikey's mouth grew into a smile.

"Your birthday's on Halloween?"

I looked up to see Gerard glancing at me shyly.

I nodded, "Yeah. I've always liked that fact."

Gerard half smiled before looking at his feet, embarrassed.

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First chapters are always the crappiest. Let's hope it gets better.

-Beth :3