When Gerard and I went home from school yesterday, we did exactly what I demanded which was snuggle. We decided to skip watching a movie and instead talked about different things about ourselves. We are still learning so much about each other and I honestly love it.
Right now it’s lunch time and i’m sitting at my regular table, but Bob isn’t here sadly. I’ve noticed he is hanging out with new people now. People that he wouldn’t usually hang out with. Maybe he is just really mad at me and is trying to prove that he doesn’t need me…oh well, I deserve it. But this also means that I’m sitting all alone so I look even lamer than I already am. These are the times when you wish the only other friend you had didn’t have some sort of rivalry with not only your teacher but also your lover so they could sit next to you.
Gerard is sitting a few tables across from me, sneaking looks at me every now and then. His expressions are either a look of sadness because I’m all alone or just his regular beautiful smile. I grin like an idiot every time and it only makes people like be freaked out looks. Fuck them. I can’t wait till Gerard and I can show off all we want. That will probably be a real shocker to everyone.
I look around to find Bert and see him looking back at me. He gives me a sad smile that makes me blush and I mentally slap myself. No, Frank. I don’t have feelings for him. I then see him get up and walk over to me. What the hell does he think he’s doing?! Gerard is literally twenty feet away, watching me. He sits down across the table and I give him an angry look.
“You fucking idiot.” I snap.
“Shut up, Iero. I don’t give a shit what that fucker has to say about me or anything. With him knowing about our friendship or not, I ain’t just gonna see my closest friend sit by himself all sad and shit. That’s not how friends treat each other. If he has a problem with it, he can come over and fucking talk to me” He says, insightfully.
“I suppose you’re right…” I say after awhile of thinking about what he just said.
I look over at Gerard and he has a look of pure confusion. Not anger or anything of that sort, thankfully. Just absolute confusion. I look back at Bert and sigh.
“I think you would’ve helped more if you just stayed with your other friends. Now I have a lot of complicated explaining to do.” As I say that, I see a look of hurt spread across his face.
“...I was just trying to help. There not even real friends to me anymore… Am I not worth an explanation?” His voice becomes very weak, making me feel really guilty. I’ve never heard or seen him so sad before. I didn’t mean for it come off like that.
“No, Bert. I didn’t mean it like that. Your worth way more than an explanation and I am really thankful that you thought enough about me to come and sit here. Even when Gerard is right over there. And you don’t need those good for nothing friends. You got me, okay?” I say softly, with sincerity in my voice.
He looks up at me, smiling and nodding. I give him a smile back and we just kind of stare at each other for a little while. He breaks the silence by saying: “Frank?”
“Whatsup?” I answer.
“I got into some deep shit with my mom…I don’t know what to do.” He says with worry.
“Well what happened?” I ask.
“Since i’m eighteen my mom told me I have to help pay rent if I still want to live there. And I could’ve sworn I put my money aside for that but when I went to find it, it was all gone. The night before I went out to get some...weed. I guess I accidentally took the wrong money and now I don’t know what to do. You don’t understand how strict my mom is. This has happened before and she said the next time it’s not going to fly. Well… this is the next time.” His voice is full of panic and I can instantly relate to how he is feeling. But this must be worse. I got kicked out just because, and I also was very happy about it. With Bert though, he doesn’t want to leave. He fucked up and now he has to deal with some harsh consequences. I want to help him because I can’t think about the thought of him living on the streets like how I did. There will just be too many bad memories from it.
“You want me to talk to Gee? I’m sure I can convince him somehow to let you stay there for a little while. He has a soft side to things like that.” I ask, feeling like it’s now my job to make sure he doesn’t have nowhere to go.
“No… I can’t ask that of you.” His voice in unsure.
“Well maybe if you guys can make a compromise or something he would. Like you pay for a bill. And you would probably have to sleep on the couch but it’s actually comfortable.” I ramble on a little.
“Okay. But if he says no then don’t push it, alright? I’ll figure something out if it doesn’t work out.” He warns me.
I nod, pulling out my phone and texting Gerard that we have to talk about something important after school. I watch him read it and he looks up at me and nods. He still doesn’t look upset, just still very confused. This makes me think that he’s really trying to control his temper.

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When Gerard and I settled into the house, we laid down on his bed deciding to snuggle and talk again. To be honest, i’m pretty nervous about telling him this. I just don’t want him to get mad at me.
Gerard breaks the long silence by saying “Why was Bert talking to you? Did he hurt you?” His voice was really calm, making me more relaxed.
“No, he wasn’t hurting me at all. But that’s kind of what I have to talk to you about. Please don’t think I was lying to you though. I was just scared of telling you.” I say quickly.
“Don’t worry, Baby. You can tell me anything, you know that.” He reassures me.
“Okay… well… Bert and I are kind of friends. Like close friends. He saw you kissing and hugging me one day and I just ran after him so he wouldn’t tell anyone. We got really close and when I left the other day and told you I was at Bob’s house, it was really Bert’s. I haven’t talked to Bob in over a month because I’ve been with Bert more. He told me he was sorry for everything that he did and the only reason why he did it was because he had his suspicions about us being together. And he kissed me just because he wanted to.” I ramble on, hoping that I am making sense.
Gerard stays silent for a while, making me get even more nervous than before. I move around a little, uncomfortable. “And you’re sure he hasn’t hurt you after that or told anyone?” He asks.
“Positive.” I nod my head.
“Okay… I still don’t like him though.” He shakes his head in disapproval.
“Well fuck me then.” I mumble and he looks at me confused.
“Huh?”
“Bert is about to get kicked out of his house for not helping pay rent and I said I would try to convince you. And I thought I would make you change your mind about him. I can’t let him live on the streets or with one of his ‘friends’.” I put quotations around friends so he can understand what I mean.
“Aw Frankie you can’t put me in situations like this! I would, it’s just that…” He stops talking, looking down at me with a look of guilt.
“Why can’t you? It’s only one more person and he said he would help you pay for shit. Come on Gee, he’s like my only friend. You’ll learn to love him, I promise!” I make a pouty face, knowing that he can’t say no to me when I act like a child.
“Ugh Fine. But if he does one thing to make me mad, I swear--” He begins but I cut him off by giving him a kiss.
“I’ll go text him now.” I get up, going to my room and grabbing my phone.
To: Berty bird
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Notes

Hey guys... So this happened lol. Sorry if u hate me for this oops. I was planning on this to happen for awhile though so I have a lot of ideas for this. Also... I'm making this a two part thing because if I wrote this all in one chapter, it would be way to long.
I'm going to make Bert and Gee's relationship real fucked so don't worry lol.

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