Common People

I was late for class. Again. I opened to door slightly and peered through. The teacher gestured for me to come inside but did a double take when she acknowledged who I was.

"Long time no see, Frank. Sit yourself down," She said sarcastically as she raised her eyebrows. She passed me a textbook and focused her attention back on the other students who were all now staring at me. I scanned the classroom and landed my eyes on the only empty seat there was, next to a scraggly boy at the back of the classroom. I walked over and pulled out the chair, but I was interrupted.

"I'm saving that seat for someone." He muttered, but I continued what I was doing and sat down anyway.

"Well there's nowhere else to sit, buddy." I sneered as I dropped my bag down by my feet. I looked over the boy and something about him was familiar. His hair was a mousey brown colour and he was wearing a Joy Divison shirt.

He adjusted his glasses and looked up at me. "Are you new? I don't think I've seen you before." He asked and I laughed.

"Far from it." I replied, smirking to myself. "I just don't turn up often" I explained. I shuffled around in my chair, I was really out of my comfort zone. I looked around awkwardly, trying to see if I could actually recognise anybody in the class."

"What's your name?" The boy said quickly and I struggled to keep up with what he was saying at first until I understood.

"Frank." I said, more towards the table that to him as I hung my head.

"Mikey" He introduced himself and held his hand out for me to shake. There was a knock at the door and the teacher let the student in.

"Gerard!" Mikey waved his hand in the air as he called him over, I can see the resemblance now. They're brothers. Gerard turned around to answer Mikey but noticed me instead, giving me a small smile.

"Oh, you know Gerard?" Mikey turned to me in realisation, glaring at me through his glasses and I jumped, completely forgetting he was there.

"Yeah, I uh, I was assigned to show him around and make sure he doesn't get lost. You're brothers, right?" I hid under my fringe awkwardly, trying to turn the topic away from me.

"How did you know?" He looked at me in curiosity.

"Same eyes, same mouth." I muttered, but then realised what it might sound like. "Not that I've been looking at his eyes a lot, or his mouth I just-" I cursed at myself internally, he probably didn't even think of it that way. Instead of continuing I just turned away and feigned a sudden interest in whatever the teacher was saying.

Mikey didn't turn around for the rest of the lesson, studying me silently.

Notes

wow all of the last few chapters have been a complete mess and i'm going to go back another time and fix them and make them better but right now i'm just trying to progress the story on a bit more and introduce some more characters because its all dragging on too much

i know what i want the ending to be but i have no idea how to get there thats the problem. i have no more advice today sorry, feedback is awesome i'll update tomorrow maybe.