(Gees pov)

just as the bell rang frank walked into class. I almost fell out of my chair when I saw his face. The left side of his face was all black and blue & his lip was all puffy, cut and looked infected. He just looked down at the ground and walked to his seat. I felt like this was all my fault and I felt like shit. I don't know why I did such a stupid thing.

I never wanted to hurt frank. Mikey was already picked on enough and when he told me he was gay and liked frank I freaked out. I didn't want mikey to be made fun of and plus as far i know frank is completely straight. I also had heard rumors that frank kind of got around to a lot of people at parties. I should've known better. I knew he was Completley honest when he said his dad was his first. I basically kicked frank out of our lives. I only wanted to keep mikey safe. I had no idea that franks dad was abusive, but that would probably explain why we never went to his house and he basically lived with us.

I also never really realized that me and mikey truly were his only friends until now. I mean he was never involved in sports and he never ever mentioned any friends when he was with us. I mean how could I have been so blind after I stopped talking to him anytime I saw him in the halls he was alone. Anytime I saw him skateboarding through town he was alone, anytime he was t the park smoking he was alone. I feel like shittiest person in jersey. What hurt the most though was when he told his dad that we weren't even friends.

I know he won't want to talk to me in school so I have to figure out how to get to his house or get him to ours. Luckilly our teacher had just announced that we'd being working a partner on our new project and we could pick. So when he told us to pair up I tapped frank and gave him a look asking him to be my partner. He just rolled his eyes and said "only because I don't want to be paired with a jock again"