The High School Experience

Franks POV
I decided I should probably sit down, so I did.
I cleared my throat before I continued to talk
“I’m frank” I said that with barely any air in my lungs and really quick. Looks like when I said it was my time to shine, I really meant it was time to make a complete idiot out of myself and get this guy to never want to talk to me again. Nice going frank.
“Did you say Anne Frank?” he asked, confused. I mentally smacked myself and cringed
“Sorry. I’m making a complete idiot out of myself. What sounded like ‘Anne Frank’ actually was supposed to sound like ‘I’m Frank’” I said a little more confident since I had nothing to lose anymore
“Oh!” he giggled. Giggled. “Okay that makes a lot more sense than ‘Anne Frank’. I’m Gerard, and you’re not making a complete idiot out of yourself. Meeting people is just overwhelming. To be honest, if you hadn’t messed up your words, I’d be dying of how much I’d be embarrassing myself. So thank you.” Gerard. I liked it.
I saw ray and boob giving each other a look of ‘what the hell?’ I can understand why; while crowds can scare the poop out of me, meeting new people is a very casual thing that I never get nervous in or stutter at all for. So this. This is weird thing for me to be doing
I was about to continue to talk but the teacher rudely interrupted me. And I still didn’t even pay attention. We got a sheet handed to us and it said something about the person sitting next to us would be our year-long science partner and I could not be happier. By the end of class I felt a bit sad that I wouldn’t get to sit next to Gerard again until the next day.
“Well frank, until next time.” And with that he walked out and headed in the opposite direction than mine. Boob and ray cornered me before we could go anywhere else.
“Okay. What the fuck was that?” Boob questioned
“I don’t know what you’re talking about” I said trying to sound innocent when I really did know what he was talking about
“The making a fool out of yourself. The loss of breath. The cringing. The over excitement.” Boob stated.
I groaned before I said anything “I don’t know. This is just new, STARTING HIGHSCHOOL! Just you know. Overwhelming! Yeah! That’s it! Yeah! I have to get to class.” I ran away from them, even though I’d have to face ray right now since he was in my class
When I got there, the teacher said I could sit any where I wanted, so of course I sat in the back, ray followed right after and sat next to me. “Talk, Iero. I want answers. What’s with the sudden shyness?”
“I really don’t know, okay. Please drop it, ray. Don’t wanna talk about what happened.” Of course ray would respect that so he made a gesture saying he’d keep his mouth shut. Though I know he was really curious.

Gerard’s POV
I swear that boy was too adorable. I went smiling all the way to theatre.
“Ooooooh is Gerard way smiling! By god, this is a rare day! CALL THE PRESS!” Bert announced to me when he saw me
“Oh fuck off b. it’s not rare for me to smile.” I replied to him while sitting down on the floor since the room was chair less.
“No. but it isn’t too often that you smile that wide unless you saw something weird or something nerdy as fuck or –“and with that he gasped loudly and started to pull me over to an empty corner
“Spill your secrets, gay boy.” He said while rubbing his hands together, creepily.
“What are you talking about?” I said as if I didn’t know what he was talking about
“Don’t bullshit me, gee. I’ve known you almost all my life. Now spill. Who’s the lucky boy?”
“There’s no boy, Bert.” I said seriously but he just continued to stare at me waiting for an answer
“…OK! Stop with the creepy stare. And I don’t like anyone, just find them really attractive and adorable. That’s it. And he sits next to me in science, and so far has stared quite a bit at me.” I replied truthfully
“Hmm….I know it will develop into more and I’m prepared for what is to come. What’s his name?” he sounded happy
“Frank. Now the teachers here so no more talking” I walked back to where we were sitting. I noticed one of the guys frank walked in with before, I’m guessing he recognized me too cos he double glanced at me. The cherry on top was he was in the spot next to me.
“You’re franks science partner huh?” he asked me
“Yeah, you’re his friend I’m assuming?” I asked
“You, sir, are correct. Friends since I moved to jersey in the 6th grade.” He sounded friendly enough
“Wow, not that long ago. Where’d you move from?”
“Chicago. It was nice there but parents decided moving states would be oh so much fun” he said sarcastically, to which of course I laughed because who doesn’t enjoy sarcasm.
“So anyways, seeing as that idiot manages to make friends with people easily and has an obvious liking to you, and we have 2 classes together, how bout we formally introduce ourselves.” Why’d he emphasize ‘obvious liking’? It means nothing, of course. I nodded to his offer
“I’m Gerard, this guy next to me,” I pointed to Bert who was distracted on string coming out of his pants “is Bert, longtime friend, and you are?”
“I’m bob. You’re definitely going to hear frank call me ‘boob’ because that’s frank.” I laughed at the nickname
“Would you mind if I called you that?” I asked because calling someone ‘boob’ seems fun
“I’m used to it and couldn’t really give a shit by the nickname so go ahead.” He said nicely
Once Bert finally realized what was happening, he joined in and for the rest of the class, we just all bonded. Bob was actually a real cool dude, he likes cats just like I do, but isn’t allergic like I am. Lucky bastard.
Next period I was once again by myself. So while bob and Bert headed towards geometry, I headed to algebra 2. When I got there, I recognized a familiar incoming fro and since that was sort of the only person I recognized, I sat next to him.
“Hey you’re that guy!” he exclaimed when he noticed me.
“Yes I’m a guy. You are also a guy.” he seemed like a guy I could annoy that (hopefully) wouldn’t hate me. HE LAUGHED. SUCCESS
“Yeah I am. But your franks science partner, right. I’m ray. And you’re?”
“Yes I am, I’m Gerard. I met your friend bob, he’s real cool.”
“Yeah bob’s a cool guy. Just wait for frank to get over the unusual shyness and he’s a cool guy too. I’m surprised he acted like this. He never does that, but you got a glimpse of him. That’s good enough.” I ignored what he said about frank because I refuse to get ideas. We kept talking through the period and this guy was cool too! Franks got good taste in friends.

Notes

heeeyyyyyy thank you for reading! i hope you enjoyed this chapter and dont worry, the gay shall come soon