It’s time to get dinner and Frank is still asleep, so I shake him by his shoulder. He moans in pain. Shit!

“Oh my god, I’m so sorry I completely forgot!” I exclaim.

“Who even are you anyway?” he says, “You just walked in here and acted as if you own me.”

“Oh, yeah I forgot. I’m Gerard, your new dorm-mate. I guess that you’re Frank.”

“Yeah, I’m Frank,” he says and rolls over so he’s facing away from me.

I hear his stomach growl.

“Are you gonna come down to the canteen with me to get food?” I ask him, I was fucking starving and he obviously was too.

“I don’t eat,” I hear a muffled voice say.

“Well if you don’t eat, can you at least show me where the canteen is?”

“Go find someone else to bug,” Frank snarls and leaves the dorm, leaving me in complete shock sat at the end of his bed. I sigh and get up to leave, but something hanging from a hook on the door catches my attention: Frank’s keys. I decide to leave them, it’s his own fault for leaving them.

The canteen was big, like really big. It was bigger than the canteen in any other school I’ve been to, and I’ve been to a hell of a lot of schools, 18 in total. My parents move around a lot, so me and my brother, Mikey, had to come with them. They could only take one of us to their next destination, so they left me here. It kind of sucks knowing that you’re the ‘other kid.’

I just grab a bowl of chips and sit on a table in the far right corner.

“Hey, I haven’t seen you around before,” I hear a voice say behind me, “you must be new.”

I turn around and am faced with three people. The first guy is fairly tall and has a huge afro that’s pretty impressive. The second guy is chubby and has short blonde hair and a lip-piercing. The final person is a girl with black hair tied in bunches and a shit load of makeup on.

“Yeah, I just got here,” I say.

“Oh cool, can we sit with you?” says afro guy.

“Sure.”

They each take a seat around me.

“I’m Ray,” says afro guy, “this is Bob and Lindsey.” He indicates to the other two as he speaks.

We talk for a while about the school, music and anything in general. I find out that Lindsey plays bass in a band called ‘Mindless Self Indulgence’, which is currently lacking a drummer, but Bob has been helping with that for a month or so. Ray says that he’s thinking of starting a band and asks if I play anything.

I sometimes sing, but I’m not very good to be honest. My grandma tried teaching me piano, but I was completely useless, so she moved me onto guitar. She said that she saw talent in me and that I would get better with more practice, but I never found the time to continue with it.

“So who do you share a dorm with?” asks Ray after a while.

“Frank Iero,” I say, slightly shuddering at the events of the day so far.

Everyone went silent.

“You know he’s,” Ray pauses and continues in a whisper, “a bit... messed up in the head.”

“What do you mean?” I ask.

“He’s suicidal and depressed. Apparently he sees and hears things too.”

“Yeah, I heard him shouting at nothing in his dorm the other week,” says Bob, “He’s mad.”
I hear a gasp behind me.

I turn round to see Frank running out of the canteen crying.

I think I’ve seriously fucked up.

Notes

Yay! This is finally done.

I was going to do it in Frank's pov, but I couldn't.

I hope that y'all like it!

~Sovay♥