Memento Mori

"Can I ask what's wrong?" He said. I swallowed hard. Oh dear. He was just staring at me, oh shit. I forgot he wants an answer.

"Uhh.. well.. I was diagnosed with something..." I trailed off. He drank from his cup, his eyes still fixed on me. By the look in his (beautiful) eyes, I could tell that he wanted more detail. I was about to take a sip of coffee myself, until my jaw had another spasm. I grabbed my chin in hopes to somehow stop it, but it didn't work.

He stared at me with wide eyes until the end of my spasm.

"I was diagnosed with Tetanus." I said looking down at my hands in shame, I looked up at him. He had a confused look.

"What's that?" He said

"Apparently my muscles are weird or somthing, causing the to contract and making me have spasms and shit." I explained before taking a sip of coffee. He gave me a sad look and said,
"Man, I'm sorry. That's some pretty heavy shit. I wish I knew what to say."

I gave him a weak smile and he smiled back at me.

"Oh shit! Where are my manners? I'm Gerard." He said extending his hand for a handshake. I shook his hand firmly before saying,

"Nice to meet you, I'm Frank."

"Faggots!" Two people screamed from behind Gerard. He stood up and walked up to the men.
"Can I help you?" He said.
"Why don't you go back to holding hands with your boyfriend, queer?" one of them said. The other one looked confused and asked, "Wait, you're gay?"

"Yeah, I am actually. Are you? Because you sure all hell dress like it." He said, as I detected a bit of sass in his voice. The man murmmered a small 'Well then' and then kept quiet.

"Whatever fag, let's go Ryan." The other man said before giving Gerard a disgusted look.
They left soon enough and Gerard st back down.
"Sorry about that man." He said before looking at me. I was still in shock though. Did he really just confess that he was gay? I guess I had make a strange facee because he looked at me and said something.

"Ummm... If you're not okay with my sexuality I can leave...?" he said, looking sad.

"No! No I'm okay with it. I'm gay too. I've just never seen anyone so upfront about it." I said.

It's true. I'm gay. I actually only have two friends because of it. I'm consitered the ugly, emo, gay kid at school. It's not that bad. Minus the fact that I do sometimes get beat up because of it.

He gave me a smil and I smiled back. My phone buzzed in my pocket and I saw that my mum sent me a message asking me where the fuck I was.

"Shit! I've gotta go. Sorry man." I exclaimed, standing up.

"It's okay. I guess I'll see you around then, yeah?" He smiled.

"Yeah dude." I said with a smile.

With that, I started my way back home with Gerard on my mind the entire time.

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