Reality Is A Crutch

Chapter Two

We all sat on the sand, no one really thought we’d be going to the beach today. It was actually getting it a bit chilly. Mikey bought everyone drinks at the corner store. Me, Gerard, and Mikey had more coffee. Frank got a hot chocolate. I got another pack of Marlboro’s. People don’t seem to ask me for ID (even though I have a fake one). I guess I just look aged in a sort of childish, pathetic way.

I learned a bit about the guys. Gerard and Mikey were brothers. Gerard was my age (a sophomore) and Mikey and Frank were a year younger. They all really liked music, a lot of The Misfits and stuff like that. Gerard did a lot of art. The other guys teased him for being a bit of a hermit, mostly staying in his room, just drawing.

Then Mikey and Frank decided to go swimming. I stayed behind, deciding, for now, to not go swimming. I was just too damn cold.

“Not going to go swimming?” Gerard asked, taking a sip of his coffee.

“It’s too fucking cold. You?” I replied.

He didn’t answer me. He just silently took of his massive, black leather jacket and draped it over my shoulders. All he was wearing underneath it was a baggy black tee shirt.

“Aren’t you going to freeze?” I asked him, already starting to see little goosebumps on his arms. I also saw little drawings of characters with masks all over his arm. I knew by seeing that they weren’t tattoos. Those were sharpie art, and they looked really cool.

“I’m fine. It’s called having a layer of fat and muscle over your bones, Ellie.” The words sounded a little insulting and snarky but his tone was mostly joking. He had this little smirk on his face. I don’t know what it was about Gerard but he came off as a little awkward, in sort of a cute way.

“Wow. Really?” I said, smirking back at him. He had this kind of sassy look going on and I just rolled my eyes. “I’m going to lie on your lap now, cause I’m tired.” I muttered, leaning over and, well, lay down on his lap.

“You just had a whole thing of coffee. How are you tired?” Gerard exclaimed. I didn’t answer, just let out a small yawn and closed my eyes. “Wait, I have an idea to wake you up.” He took back his leather jacket which was kind of weird and threw it on the ground. Then he picked me up, bridal style, and started walking towards the water.

“Gerard, if you do this I swear I will kill you.” I exclaimed. He just smirked and kept walking. “Okay at least take off my shoes so I don’t ruin them.” I said nervously. Gerard considered this and took off my small black shoes, tossing them safely on to the sand. Then he took the first step into the water, almost wincing because it was cold.

“You know you can change your mind about this.” I pleaded, teasingly. This, although, gave him more motivation to walk into the freezing cold water. Once he was about waist deep in water, he gave me this evil smirk.

“You ready?” He said, eyes shining.

I wrapped my arms around his neck. “You drop me, I’m dragging you down with me.” I said, trying to be threatening.

“Disadvantages of being bone thin.” He teased and sort of threw me off and I immediately felt myself submerged in ice cold water, pulling myself out as quickly as possible. I heard Mikey and Frank laughing.

“God damnit Gerard, you’re such a dick.” Mikey muttered. I was so in shock from the cold to even reply. My only reaction was to start splashing water at Gerard which ended in a water fight, me and Frank VS the Way brothers, which me and Frank won, since Frank was generally a competitive person and I sort of wanted to murder Gerard.

Once we all got out of the water, we realized we were freezing. Gerard was lucky and had his gym uniform in his bag so he might look like a twat but he was dry. Frank and Mikey had gone swimming in just their underwear so they just put their clothes on top of that. I had no gym uniform and my clothes were soaked.

I saw Gerard’s jacket lying on the ground. “Can I wear that?”

“With wet clothes?” He said, winking.

I just smirked at him before taking my knitted sweater off in front of three guys I’d just met. And I knew they’d all stare, and they did. Then I took off my tights.

“I seriously should get my camera out.” Frank teased and I flipped him off. I slipped Gerard’s leather jacket over my shoulders. I was small enough that if I zipped it up, it covered my butt. Then I slipped on my shoes.

“Really?” I said, rolling my eyes. “Really?”

“You did just strip.” Frank pointed out.

“So did you!” I exclaimed.

“I am never washing my jacket.” Gerard teased.

“Creep.” I muttered, and with that we all walked off towards the bus stop. Luckily, we got a bus quickly. Unluckily, the bus driver was a total perv and definitely whistled at me. Gerard shot him a glance that was so cold it could kill and the driver turned around. What was that all about?

I found a seat beside Gerard. “You protecting me now?” I teased.

“That guy’s a fucking pervert.” Gerard said.

“Someone sounds protective.” Mikey joked. Gerard blushed a bit.

I decided to change the subject. “Okay, where are we headed to since I am not in the mood for any type of school.”

“I don’t know, we could go to our place?” Mikey offered, silently asking Gerard for permission to invite people over. I’m guessing Gerard was pretty protective over his personal space. Gerard nodded in agreement before pressing the button.

“Come on, this is the stop.” Gerard said before walking off the bus, the rest of us trailing behind. I was still wondering why Mikey felt that he had to ask Gerard before inviting everyone over. Probably the personal space thing but, you know, I was about to find out.

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