But I Love You

I wake up to the felling of kisses being peppered all over my face, causing me to giggle. I flutter my eyes open and meet eyes with a smiling Gerard. Have I ever said how beautiful he is? His eyes are like two full moons shining everywhere he goes, his little pixie nose is adorable, and his full, pink lips make you always want to kiss them. He is just my definition of perfect.
“Frankie, we gotta get up for school.” His voice is hoarse from sleep.
“No. I wanna stay here and cuddle with you all day.” I cuddle closer to him and he giggles.
“As much as I would love that, I have to teach a bunch of annoying teens and it would be very risky if we are both out.” He has a hint of worriness in his voice.
“Aww please, Gee? They are all stupid, they wouldn’t notice a thing! It’s not like any of them even pay attention anyways. I’ve seen their test grades.” I try to convince him.
“Well I still have to attempt to teach, even if that means one person actually is learning something...That one person being you most likely.” He laughs at his own joke. What a dork.
“I only listen because I like your voice, I already know all the stuff you teach.” I mumble into his chest.
He giggles and attempts to get me off of him so he could get dressed but I wouldn’t budge off of him. I held onto him like my life was on the line. Gerard drags me along with him until he is standing and finally has a better chance of me letting go of him, which he succeeded at, but I quickly sat on his foot and wrapped my arms and legs around his leg, then rested my head on his thigh.
Gerard sighs and starts walking, causing me to go into a fit of giggles. I feel like a little kid on there first day of school and they didn’t want to leave their parents so they went to extreme measures like what i’m doing.
“Frankie! You’re going to make us late! I’ll get fired if I am late again. Do you know how many times I've shown up late to school?” He shouts jokingly.
“In just this month it’s been around four times.” I say with a straight face.
“Yes, exactly. NOW GET THE FUCK OFF MY LEG, YOU ARE NOT A MONKEY!” He tries to act all strict and serious but I just laugh really hard.
“I AM A MONKEY! I CAN BE WHATEVER I WISH TO BE!” I yell back.
“The kid has a point!” Mikey chimes in, coming out of nowhere. I literally didn’t hear footsteps or anything. He must be a ninja.
Gerard rubs his temples, making me laugh once again. I hear him mumble “Why do I have to deal with two shits?”
“Hey, we are two shits that you love!” Mikey says acting offended.
“Okay, Mikey get the fuck outta my room and Frank go be a monkey while you are getting dressed. I will shake you so hard off my leg, I swear you’ll turn into a monkey flavored slushie.” He starts shaking his leg.
I finally obey and get off his leg and Mikey gives Gerard the finger and goes downstairs. I give him a pouty face and stand there acting innocent. I just want to stay home.
“Frank stop making me feel guilty. You’re not injured or sick so there is no reason to stay home. It’s your last year of school kiddo, I know it sucks but you can get through it, I promise.” Gerard says with a genuine tone.
“I have a perfectly good reason to stay home. I want to cuddle with you.” I try to emphasize my point.
He comes over to me with a look of adoration and wraps his arms around my waist, “Oh baby, you’re so innocent. I promise one day we can take a day off, even if it’s risky. But today you just have to make it through okay? It’s too late to call in sick and as it is we’re going to be late.”
“Fine...I’ll go get dressed.” I walk into my room and pull out a new Nirvana shirt along with some new grey skinny jeans. I slip on my sneakers and go brush my teeth and play with my hair till it’s decent enough. I grab my bag and head downstairs but Gerard is not in sight.
“The bitch told me to tell you that he is waiting in the car. Get your ass in the car before he gets fired.” Mikey tells me while staring at the tv.
“Wow Mikey. Your are just the bestest friend I’ve ever had.” I walk over to him and ruffle his hair then head to the front door.
“You motherfucker! Don’t you realize how long it takes me to do my hair?!” Mikey yells.
“Bye Mikey!” I shout and slam the door shut.

It’s now fourth period and english time. Also my favourite part of the day now. I get there earlier than the other students unintentionally, but i’m not complaining. I go sit down and he looks away from his computer, and over to me. A beautiful smile grows on his face.
“Hi Frankie!” I can tell he is excited to see me, and that warms my heart.
“Hey hey hey,” I say in a girly voice, making him giggle, “Gee, did you bring any snacks to school today? I didn’t get to eat breakfast and i’m starving.”
“All I brought were those M&M cookies.” My eyes instantly light up. Those are my favourite!
“May I have them? Please?” I give him big innocent eyes that I am sure he can’t say no to.
“Goddammit how do you think I could say no to that friggin face?” He reaches into his bag and pulls out a plastic bag with six homemade cookies in it. Just looking at them makes my mouth water. He hands them to me and I stare at them like they are my newborn baby, earning a scoff from Gerard. What the fuck ever.
“Don’t eat all of those at once. I don’t want you getting a belly ache.” Gee says in his teacher voice and I nod back. I was planning on only eating three for now anyways.
As soon as I take a bite into the delicious cookie, this girl in my class named Kiera comes in. She’s always flirting with Gerard and I can tell he hates it, but doesn’t want to make her feel bad. Though, he has been a little different lately. I think he’s coming to his breaking point and I think I have a lot to do with it because obviously he hates it when I hang around Bert, so he must understand that I would feel the same way back, which is very sweet of him. Although I don’t know what it is we are doing, are we dating? Friends with benefits in a way? I highly doubt that but you never know coming from Gerard.
“Hi Mr. Way,” She looks over at me, “Hey why does Iero get cookies?” She sits down at her seat.
“I didn’t want them and he was the first one in the class.” I snort at that, every person wants homemade fucking M&M cookies.
She comes over to me in her tight little dress and tries to snatch the cookies out of my hand, but i’m having none of this, “You motherfucker leave me and my cookies alone!” I yell at her like i’m a little kid.
I shoo her away and Gerard is watching me, very amused. I don’t mess around with my cookie eating, he should know this.

A few minutes later, everyone files in and finds there seats, Gee immediately starting the class. “Okay guys, today we have a lot to get done. I need to pass your tests back and start the new unit we are going to learn. It’s really just about psychology to sum it up. It’s pretty interesting.”
He gets out the tests that we are going to get back and then around at all of us, “Can someone help me pass these out?” He asks, and immediately all the girls raise their hand and shout ‘I will!’
He suddenly looks very annoyed, pissed actually. He sets the pile of test on the desk with a loud thud then sits at the edge of his desk, right next to me.
“Okay guys - no wait, girls,- If you think it’s okay to flirt with your teacher, then you’re very wrong. Your behavior is immature and intolerable. At first it was innocent but it’s been going on for too long now and i’m at my breaking point. I’m sure some of you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend so flirt with them, not me. It’s illegal and i’m gay.” He says firmly. You go Geebear!
I look around and all of them look in shock. I’m pretty sure I have a stupid grin on my face saying ‘fuck all of you!’ I’m so proud of Gerard for standing up for himself and laying down the rules confidently. He glances over to me and his face softens.
“Plus, I’ve already found someone. He’s amazing...I love him so much. He’s everything to me and I don’t want to hurt him by accepting all of your flirting.” He says softly. I blush and put my head down smiling, making sure it’s not too obvious.
It’s all awkward silence until Gee calls someone to help give the tests back to us. He’s giving us back the past three tests we had on the other book we read. Only one of them was a little hard but i’m pretty positive I still got a good grade.
Once I got the tests back I look at the grades and stare at the papers in shock. All the tests have 50% or lower. I studied and read so much for these tests! Am I really this stupid?! I’ve never got this low of a grade except in math, for obvious reasons. He must’ve graded them wrong or something, I know for sure I got almost all the answers right.
Gerard sits back in his spinning office chair, which is right in front of me, and I stare at him with an angry look. If he’s doing this just to joke around, I swear I’ll make living with me a living hell. He looks over to me, concerned.
“What’s wrong, Frankie?”
“Are these my actual grades or are you fucking around with me?!” I whisper yell. All the class is chatting so I know they can’t hear us.
“Oh. I forgot! You actually got all hundreds on those tests plus the extra credit questions but I feel like only seeing you once during the school day isn’t enough anymore so I gave you bad grades.” Gee says casually.
“What the hell are bad grades going to change with how many times a day we see each other?” I asked, pissed off.
“Well, I have this other class that I do with students that struggle a little bit in english, so I figured that you could come there too. It’s called English Connections and the class is very small. Maybe ten kids in there at most?” The idea is good, but I don’t want to go there and learn shit I already know.
“I’ll already understand everything you teach.”
“That’s why I’ll secretly just give you other worksheets or the homework for that night so you won’t be bored or whatever. You can’t really do anything about this because I already set it up with the principle and your guidance counselor. It’s going on your schedule next week.” He says with a tone that sounds like ‘haha you bitch no way out of this one, motherfucker.’
I sigh and roll my eyes, “I don’t want to get bad grades just because you miss me during the day. I miss you too but i’m still doing good in classes.”
“I promise your grades will go right back up. Don’t worry.” He says reassuringly.

The class went by pretty quickly after that, and he handed out our new books that we are going to read. It’s about this girl with a personality disorder. She has like 12 different ones. We read the first chapter and it seems really cool. There is also videos on it because it’s based off true events. The thing that I noticed though, was that none of the girls said bye or anything to Gerard. They usually always do. I’m glad they are listening to him too, he deserves respect from us.
I just hope this week goes by fast.

Notes

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