The Light Behind Your Eyes

For the rest of the day I didn’t have any classes that I liked other than art. Art is my favourite class in school. We didn’t do much since it was the first day of class, but I was sketching in my notebook anyways.
After school ended I met up with Mikey at our school bus. There was a line which made it take forever for me to get on the bus. When I got on I sat in the seat I was in earlier. Pretty soon Frank came and sat next to me.

“Hi, Gerard” he said smiling
“Hi” I replied. I like to be quiet rather than being loud and drawing attention to myself.
“Okay so I know it’s short notice but do you want to come over after school?”
“Umm..yeah..sure, I don’t think I have anything going on” I replied.

Now Frank just turned and continued to talk to his friends. The friends that didn’t like me. I’m pretty sure Frank is the only one at this school who wants to be my friend, others think I’m weird or whatever, thats what I get for being different from everyone I guess. For the rest of the bus ride I was sketching in my sketchbook. When it was my stop Mikey, Ray and I stood up and got off. I ran home and Mikey followed behind. When I got home I took off my black converse and went to get a snack.

“Hey, how was school?” My mom asked me as I stepped into the kitchen.
“Good,” I replied, turning to her I asked her a question “Hey mom, can I go to a friend’s house later?”
“Umm...Sure, just be back by 9” She replied.
“Thanks mom!” I yelled as I slipped my converse back on and ran out the door.

She didn’t ask for his name or where I was going I think she was happy that I had a friend for the first time in four years.

~Frank’s POV~

I get off the bus before Gerard so I would have some time to sort things out with my dad. I’m not supposed to invite friends over without asking, oops. When I stepped inside my house I looked for my dad but I couldn’t find him.

“Dad?” I called out. No reply.
“DAD” I called out louder.

I stopped looking and yelling when I found a note on the counter.

Frank,
I’ve gone out for awhile I have a meeting to go to.
You can make dinner or order pizza and I should be home by 7:30
Thanks
-Dad

Well he didn’t say anything about no friends. With that I waited by my bus stop which is just on the corner of my street so that Gerard would know where to come over. I made a mistake of not telling him where I lived but I’m sure he will be smart enough to meet me at the bus stop at least. After around fifteen minutes of me standing by the bus stop Gerard showed up.

“Hey!” I called out to him
“Hi, Frank” He said back
“C’mon my house is just this way.” I said turning around and walking towards my house. It took less than a minute to get back to my house.
“So, wanna watch a movie or something?” I asked him
“Okay, whatcha got?” He replied.

I put in the first movie that was on the pile of movies by the TV - Jaws. When it was done it was around 6:30 and we hadn’t had dinner yet and I was hungry.

“Dude, I’m starving” I said
“Yeah, me too” Gerard replied.
“Mind if I order pizza?” I asked.

He didn’t reject so I called the number for pizza and ordered a large vegetarian cheese pizza. It was already seven o’clock by the time the pizza arrived and my dad was going to be home soon. We ate our pizza while watching another movie. We weren’t really interested in it, I guess it was just there for background noise because we were talking through the whole movie.

“So, you like this school?” I asked
“I’m not entirely sure, you’re the only one who seems to be nice to me” he replied.
Surely that couldn’t be true. He was a cool guy, sure he was quiet at times but he was still really awesome, cool and nice. He wasn’t bad looking either. Alright, Frank, you’re getting off topic.

A few minutes later my dad stepped in the door.

“Hi Frank” He said. He turned to look in the living room. “Who is this?” He asked
“Dad, this is my new friend, Gerard. He’s new here so I wanted to make him feel welcome.” I replied.
“You know how I feel about you having friends over. He’s not a trouble maker like your other friends right?” He asked me.

I just laughed and walked away, I don’t know much about Gerard but he doesn’t seem like a trouble maker. I don’t think he likes being around parents though because as soon as my dad stepped in he started acting awkward.

“I’m sorry Frank but my mom wants me home before eight” He said
“Oh, okay. Just, before you go, here” I said as I took his phone and put in my number. “Now we can talk whenever” I said as he waved goodbye and walked out the door.

~Gerard’s POV~

It’s not that I don’t like Frank or his parents its just I always feel out of place around them, so I faked that I had to go home before eight instead of nine. It was already 7:48 so I wanted my lie to seem somewhat real. I grabbed my jacket and put on my converse and was about to leave until Frank stopped me. He grabbed my phone out of my pocket and put his number in it.

“Now we can talk whenever” He said.
“Thank you Frank” I whispered, I’m sure he didn’t hear that though.

I waved goodbye and walked outside into the cold evening air. It took me around ten minutes to get home and when I did it looked like my house was asleep. My parents go to bed early and Mikey is normally doing something in his room. I walked up the stairs to my room and flopped down on my bed. God, school is tiring. I thought to myself. It seemed like I had gone through at least three days of school today not just one. I fell asleep without changing into pyjamas or anything but with my hoodie and clothes that I wore that day.

Notes

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