{I've got a lot to learn. But I've learned a lot, I'm not concerned. You've got a lot of burns.}


*Mikey's POV*

"Gerard, c'mon mom is waiting in the car. I wanna go to Frankies!" I whined at my brother, to hurry his ass up so we could sleep over at our friend's home with another friend named Ray.

"Okay, okay. Hold on, I gotta get my sketch book! I can't believe I almost forgot it!." He quickly ran inside the house before our mother locked it. My mom assured me,

"How about you wait in the car Mikey? I'm sure your brother will be out in a minute or two." My mother's smile was so sweet-looking, warmly I guess you could say. But I heard her whisper to herself, not expecting her to say it, "That boy has a lot to learn about his brother.." I softly chuckled to myself, while thinking, 'But I've learned a lot, I'm not concerned.' Concerned about Gee that is..

"Sure ma, I will.." I grabbed my small backpack filled with a two pairs of clothes, pjs and clothes for tomorrow. I also brought some movies with me, that I thought Frank might like and hopefully will like to watch them later too. I then opened my mother's car, getting in the backseat. Hopefully Gee will sit back here with me, and not up front.. I mentally thought. I finally heard my panting brother run back out of our family's home with his stuffed bag for the sleepover, he went in the passenger's seat. Not in the back seats with me.. Oh well..

"Hey mom, can we stop at the food store? Frank just texted me and asked if we could buy some snacks." I looked at my mom, watching her shake her head a little while replying to my brother.

"Gerard, you know that I can't. I have to go to work, but you know that I would if I have the time. I barely have time to take both of you to Frank's house, but I'm doing it because I love you guys." My brother decided to keep on pushing our mom, continuing to ask.

"Oh please mom, come on. Mikey and I will rush in and out, we'll only grab a couple of bags of chips and candy." He begged our mom until she finally gave in, somewhat.

"Gerard, I'll drop you two off at the closest market by Frank's and then I got to go. You both can walk to his house alone? You did it before, but not with Mikey. Okay?" My brother finally let this be the answer he'll take. I all of a sudden got bored, so I decided to hum some of my favorite tunes while my brother kept talking to mom. I was still listening, kind of.. But eventually zoning out.

(Five Minutes Later)

"-..Mikey, ello! Earth to Mikey." My brother's hand swirled around in front of me while he was turned around in his seat, facing me.

"Uh huh? Yeah Gee?"

"I was asking you a question, guess you weren't listening were ya? Ha.." He smirked at me, he knows I get very embarrassed when I zone out and people catch me. Especially my family..

"Um, w-what were y-you uh, asking??" Gerard stopped his smirking and got out of our mom's car with his bag, I did the same with mine. We told our mother goodbye and she gave us $10 to spend on snacks.

"What kind of snacks should we get? I know for sure a bag of chips." We searched the isle for a bag or two with our bags on our backs. The workers let us keep our bags as long as we didn't get in them in the store.

"Original Lays? And Doritos?" I picked up two of the first ones I saw, that looked interesting.

"Sure, I'll get some-" My brother got cut off by his cell phone ringing, and he said it's Ray. "Uh yeah, yeah... I got some chips, maybe candy or soda? ..... Oh okay, it's fine. I'll get the soda then... Kk, bye Ray and see you in a bit.."

"What he want?" Curiosity struck me, as soon as Gee stopped he call with Ray.

"Ray was buying some snacks too and wanted to see what kind of snacks we were buying. He said he can get most of the snacks 'cause he got a lot more money on him than we do. So he said that we should just get a liter of soda and some bags of chips. I know Frank likes Coca-Cola, yah?" I agreed with my brother, we soon bought the three items and in a matter of minutes we were walking towards our friend Frank's home. Well, home with his parents.

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(11:17 PM)

"Eh Mikey, have some soda. You need a sugar rush, have more candy.. That's why I bought it, kiddo." Ray told me, he always calls me 'kiddo' even though I'm not the youngest in our group. Frank is! ...Although I will admit that I sometimes act like the youngest..

"F-Fine." I shivered, it's fucking freezing outside, even though we're having a kind-of-small bonfire.. I hugged my waist, to try to keep some heat.

"Frank, you don't treat your guests like this!" Gerard smirked at his friend, although Frank actually couldn't quit see it. He looked away from the bonfire and towards one of his best friends, Gerard.

"What?- Oh, huh... Mikey, you cold?" Frank acted dumb, joking with me. So I decided to joke with him.

"Y-Yes f-fucker, you k-know I get c-cold e-easy.." Gerard and Ray gasped in shock, of course playing along with Frank and I.

"Did Mikey just really curse?" Ray laughed, although he knew I did curse from time-to-time when I'm annoyed.

"Mikey! You're too baby-ish to swear. You're just a kid!" My brother joked. I just shook my head, back and forth. While moving closer to our fire.

"I'll get you a blanket, for the lil' baby." I rolled my eyes, I knew the guys couldn't see. But I still pretended that they did.

"O-Oh, c-come on Franki-ie... J-Just get me a b-blanket, p-please.." I asked Frank, I have to say 'please', it's common manners..

"Okay Mikes, brb guys." Frank left Ray, Gerard, and I. Alone in the backyard of his family's cozy house, but lit up with the bonfire. Taking away some of the stars brightness, not much, but just a little bit to make the stars dim. I tuned out Gerard's and Ray's conversation of their old addictions. I only heard the first addiction statement, which was from my brother.

"Yeah, I actually use to burn myself to be honest.. have the tip of lighters get very hot, then press it on me.. or even spoons, whatever I could get my hands on really... I tried butter knives and forks, to make hot with the lighter and then press it against my skin... I dunno why I did it, it was a few months back actually.. But I, uh, had to quit." Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Gerard glimpse at me. Quickly looking at me to see if I'm listening to them or not. I think he saw something in me, listening to them. He didn't really talk much more of burning himself, after he looked at me. Even though Ray was still asking Gee questions on why he did it, every now and then.

"I'll tell you later or tomorrow, Ray.. N-Not now, I c-can't r-right now....." My brother sounded like he was about to cry in front of all of the guys. I mean, he'd cry in front of me before. But never in front of Ray or Frank.

Speaking of Frank, I never even felt him put a medium-sized blanket on me, by the time I fell asleep. Or even seeing the bonfire die down and having Gee carry me inside Frank's house on one of their couches. They all must've eventually went asleep too, on another couch and floor.

Notes

Hey, Firebreathing Killjoy here again! With yet another story idea. Inspired by lyrics of Problematic by Get Scared.. I dunno, I've been wanting to write MCR using lyrics from one of their songs and I thought about Problematic.
I thought the characters' ages would be; Ray:16 or 17, Gerard:15 (soon 16?), Mikey:13 maybe 14, Frank: 13 maybe 14 as well
I know they don't match in real life, but it's a story.. Not a real story. {*But you can kind of choose the age, choose between the ones I've given. That's why I didn't make characters' bios.*}

-The next thing will be kinda long-
(Don't Have To Read!-*To the readers of my other stories* I have had writers block, I guess... Sometimes I get ideas, and I don't like them.. For It's Time, I had a completely different storyline. It wasn't supposed to be Frerard, but I was up late one night and decided to change the plot. I had a lot of the story planned out and ughh. I love the new plot that I have now, writing it. I just don't know what to do. The people who subscribe, you make me want to update.. And now I don't have anything really planned for the story, I just write whatever pops up in my brain when I update it. >.< To be honest, I have had very low self-esteem lately, lower than usual, I just want to sleep forever and never wake, I've been wanting to turn to self harm lately and I don't want to do that, I'm not going to write everything.. too fxcking long. I feel like I could do so much for my readers, update regularly, etc. etc. I just don't know what to do sometimes, I want to continue all of my stories. Maybe I should ask for a co-author? Maybe it's a lot of stress, I don't know. I will probability be way worse when I enter high school in about a month and a half. I'll have (marching, which I'll have to memorize a lot of music not including drumline music, although drumline is optional) band, drumline (it's optional, but I really want to be apart of the drumline), much more homework,.. I'm done, thanks to anyone who actually read this. {*This kind of goes to F+G as well*}

~Fire xxx (I love you all, Keep Running Kiljoys! Thanks if you rate, subscribe, and comment!) <3