I See You Lying Next to Me

***Gerard’s POV***
“Gerard, get off the phone and let’s go! You are going to make us all late.” My mother yelled as I frantically put the phone back down onto the receiver. “I’m coming!” I shouted as I grabbed my school bag and ran out of the house to the car. “I’m here, I’m here.” I muttered as I hopped into the backseat. My mother looked back at me with her car mirror and gave me a suspicious look. “Why do you have that stupid smile on your face?” Mikey mocked from the seat next to my mother. I immediately ignored him as he always tried to get on my nerves. “Who were you talking to on the phone back there?” My mother questioned. “I bet it was his stupid teacher, that’s why he’s smiling so much!” Mikey laughed. “Shut up!” I spat. “I’m just happy because I don’t have to worry about turning in my homework today.” I replied annoyed. “Oh ok well never mind that and buckle your seat so we can go.” She ordered as I snapped in my seat belt and drove off.

As we had finally arrived at the school, I was ecstatic to go meet up with Frank. I was so happy spending time with him last night that I couldn’t wait to see him again. Since I had arrived at school a bit early, I decided to head over to his classroom anyways to see if we could hang out for a bit before class. As I happily strolled down the halls to his classroom, I immediately noticed that it was locked. I turned the nob for the second time as I knew that he probably was just not in there yet. I shrugged and began to walk off until I heard loud voices coming from the classroom. I furrowed my eyebrows and decided to peek through the small window of the door. I was completely taken back to see not only him, but some other chick in the room with him. She was far taller compared to him and wore a short red dress with heels. What the hell was she doing in there? She obviously wasn’t a student, she looked too old to be one. I thought. But what if she was just another staff member or teacher? If she was, I had never seen her around campus before. I then looked closer as it seemed as if they were in a heated conversation. What the fuck was going on? My questions were then answered when I saw their lips meet. I stood there completely dumbfounded. Was this really happening? Was he really kissing this girl? I gulped hard as my throat began to sting in pain. I couldn’t believe that he would do this. I knew that I wouldn’t ever had a chance with him, but this…this broke me. I could feel the tears swell up in my eyes as I knew there was no way I could just stand here staring any longer and raced over to the boy’s locker-room. I would have gone over to the bathroom, but I knew that in case if he were to notice I was missing, he would look in the bathroom as that was where I hid last time. I finally made it to the locker-room as I locked myself into one of the closets and began to cry. I knew that crying wasn’t going to fix anything but I didn’t care. I couldn’t help it. Every time I tried to picture him kissing that random girl I began to cry harder and harder. I have to admit that I was so very jealous and it was killing me to see him do that…but what was I even expecting anyway? For him to love me. No, because that would never happen in a million years.

***Frank’s POV***
It was around lunchtime and I was beginning to get extremely worried about Gerard. I knew that I just had to get this cleared up some way or the other so when it came around break I decided to phone his parents to see if he was home sick. I then dialed Donna’s numbers as she quickly picked up. “Hello?” She greeted. “Hello, Mrs. Way?” I frantically responded. “Oh Mr. Iero it’s you. Um I’m sorry this is not a good time for me right now I’m at work and-“” Oh I’m sorry I don’t mean to bother you, but this will only be a second.” She sighed. “Alright, but make it quick I have conference calls to make.” I gulped. “Well it’s about Gerard-“”Oh no, what did he do this time?” I furrowed my eyebrows at her statement. “Oh no Mrs. Way it’s nothing like that, I was just wondering if he stayed home today.” She was silent for a few seconds. “At home? No, I dropped him off at school today. Why? Is he not there?” She asked beginning to sound worried. “No need to fuss Mrs. Way I’m sure I just made a mistake while going over rocall.” I lied. “Ok well I hope you’re right.” I nodded. “Thank you Mrs. Way, I’ll talk to you later. Bye.” I replied as I finally ended the call. I then began to panic. Where the hell could this kid be?! If he wasn’t at home and wasn’t here, where could he have gone? With just 15 minutes till the end of lunch break, I quickly stormed out of my classroom as I decided to go look for him. The first place that came to mind was the Boy’s bathroom. I remember since the last time he was upset he ran there, so there was a possible chance he could be hiding in one of the stalls. Unfortunately, as I searched the bathroom he was not in there but only a few young freshmans. I sighed as I tried to figure out where else he could have been hiding. As I looked back down at my watch to keep track of the time, I raced over to the cafeteria and Gym, as he was not in either one of those. There was only one other place where he could have possible hidden without someone finding him. The locker room. As I went to go check there, I noticed that the whole room was completely empty. I began to look everywhere as I was running out of luck. After 5 minutes of searching the whole locker-room I had decided to finally sit down on one of the benches to rest myself. How else could I find this boy? Fuck, this day was not turning out at all. As I leaned up against one of the lockers I had remembered something. I had Gerard’s phone number! Since he had called me this morning about the homework, I still had his number in my recent phone call logs. I then quickly pulled out my phone as I looked through my calling log and finally found his number. I then dialed it in as I began to call his phone. After a few seconds of waiting for a voicemail, I began to hear a loud ringing coming from one of the closets in the locker room. I slowly got off the bench and began to approach the closet. The ringing got louder and louder until I had finally reached the door of the closet. I then quietly began to open the door to find Gerard crying on the floor of the dark closet. He immediately looked up at me with fear. With only a few seconds I had noticed something in his hand. It was a blade. “I’m sorry. “He cried out as I looked down to see his shirt soaked in blood. He had cut himself again. I quickly rushed to him as he continued to cry. “Please don’t hate me.” He choked out as I threw my arms around him. “Gerard I would never hate you…now calm down and explain to me why you would do something like this.” His cries became quieter as I pulled him in so he would cry onto my shoulder. “B-Because-“He choked. “It’s ok let it out.” I mumbled softly as he continued to cry. “I-I can’t tell you…” He hiccupped. “Gerard what have we talked about?” He shook his head. “No Frank this time it’s different.” I sighed. “Alright then if you are not going to tell me, I want you to hand me over the blade that you’re holding.” He then slowly brought his arm out and dropped it on the ground before me. My heart sank as I saw the broken boy before me. He looked at me teary-eyed as he began to speak again. “I’m so sorry Frankie…” He whispered. “Gerard show me what you did with that bade.” I ordered in a concerned tone. He then began to slowly lift his bloody t-shirt to reveal his fresh cuts. I gasped as these cuts were far deeper than before. As Gerard saw my expression he began to cry even more. “No honey its ok come here.” I muttered as I brought him in to hug me again. My heart felt like it had shattered into a million pieces when I saw his stomach. “Gerard please…please don’t ever do this again!” Tears began to break through my eyes. “Frankie it hurts.” He cried. “I know…I know. Don’t move I need to go find something to clean your cuts.” I whispered as I gave him a quick kiss on the nose and ran out of the closet. I was in pure luck to find gauze in one area of the locker room. I then quickly rushed over to one of the sinks and grabbed several paper towels soaked in water. As I began to hear Gerard’s cries coming from the closet, I darted back over to where he was lying. “What did you get?” He croaked out. “I got some wet paper towels and gauze.” I replied as I lifted his shirt. “Please Frank don’t make it hurt.” He pleaded as I grabbed one of the damp towels and placed it over his abdomen. I then lightly pressed it against him as it began to soak and clean off the blood. He immediately hissed at the cold touch of the paper towel. “Just sit still, I’m almost done.” I muttered. With all the blood finally cleaned off his skin, I quickly wrapped the gauze around his waist until it was all sealed. “Done.” I said as he looked back up at me. “What am I going to do about my shirt?” He asked motioning over to his blood-soaked t-shirt. I sighed. “How bout I get you your PE shirt?” He nodded. “Ok my locker is over there on the left and it’s unlocked.” He spoke in a raspy tone. I then walked over to his locker and opened it up to find all his PE clothes.” Perfect.” I whispered to myself as I grabbed the shirt and ran back over to give it to him. “Thanks.” He mumbled as he slowly began slide off his bloody shirt. Once his whole shirt was finally off, I couldn’t help but gape at his creamy-white chest. “Um Frank could you um please look away, I feel kind of uncomfortable.” I blushed hard. “Oh yeah sorry.” I said as I turned to face the closet wall. After a few minutes of waiting for him to finally get dressed, I had turned back around to face him. “Frank will you please forgive me for all of this…I don’t know what happened to me I-“”its fine…I understand, now let’s get to class shall we?” He nodded. “Ok but remember we still have extra tutoring at my house today after school.” I reminded him. “Are you still up for that?” I asked, helping him off the ground. “Of course. I really like spending time with you Frankie.” I felt my cheeks grow warm. “Me too Gerard…me too.” I mumbled as I put arm around his waist to help him walk all the way to my classroom.

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