(Love)letters <<<ON HOLD>>>

The next morning, Gerard woke up at 4, both anxious for gym class and excited for English. He knew that Bert was not going to be in his gym class (because he was way too cool do sports) but Quinn and Jeph or 'Bert's little slaves' as Gerard called them, were going to be there. And there was a 90% chance that they would give him a hard time.

Gerard decided to just push trough this day and think about the letters, what was he even going to write to this girl? He seriously hoped that they would at least have the same music taste because he didn't know what else they would be able to talk about.

Eventually he fell asleep again and woke up to his alarm clock beeping at him at 6am. He sighed, grabbed some black skinny jeans and the shirt that he picked out yesterday off the ground and jumped into the shower. He hissed at the hot water when it ran over his bruises, it got worse overnight. Gerard decided not to torture himself for too long and got out after barely 5 minutes. He quickly changed into his clothes, grabbed his bag and ran upstairs where he found Mikey, still half asleep, sipping from his coffee cup.

When Gerard entered the kitchen, Mikey looked up at him "I made coffee" he said, pointing to the half empty coffee pot on the counter. Gerard's eyes widen at that, he NEEDED coffee and especially right now. After drinking two cups he grabbed two apples, one for on the way and one for later and left early.

Before he even left the block, Mikey caught up with him and told him that he didn't want Gerard to walk alone anymore since that would increase the possibility of him getting beaten up again. Gerard went in for a hug because it was a really nice gesture from his brother but when his brother returned the favor, Gerard almost collapsed in pain.

"Gerard, if you're not feeling better by tomorrow, i'm gonna make you go to the doctors" Mikey said while making sure his brother was okay. Gerard bowed his head down because he knew that that was probably the right thing to do.

Gerard's first few classes weren't too hard but then they weren't too entertaining either. He sat by Mikey and a few of Mikey's friends during lunch. He never sat with his brother before but Mikey insisted because he was really worried about Gerard's condition. Mikey's friends were actually really cool, kind of annoying and loud but really cool. Gerard was enjoying the conversation until something hit the back of his head. When he turned around he saw that it was half of a PB&J sandwich and he didn't have to guess who threw it.

"Hey loser, did you make my homework." Gerard didn't even see Bert, he just took the essay out of his bag as quickly as possible and held it up so Bert could grab it.

When Bert left, Mikey's friend Ray took Gerard to the restroom to get the peanut butter out of his hair. Mikey trusted him with this guy so he must be okay, he called Ray the 'hair wizard' since he always knew what to do when any of his friends had a bad hair day. Gerard was actually amused by his hair when he first met the guy, he had a huge fro, but a good one. It looked like he styled every little curl individually before he went to school this morning.

Ray put Gerard in front of the sink and pulled some hair supplies out of his bag. He started of with brushing the stuff out of Gerard's hair and covered the smell up with some dry-shampoo and some perfume. When he was done he asked Gerard if he could style his hair since there was still 15 minutes of their lunchtime left. Gerard pulled up his shoulders and made an
'i don't know, if you want to' face. So Ray smiled and happily started on his hair.

"So what do you think?" he asked Gerard after he was done. Gerard looked in the mirror for a good minute, his hair was really messed up, but not in the 'i just got out of bed way' it was messed up in a movie-star kind of way. And he really liked it. Gerard grabbed his whiteboard and a green marker from his own bag and wrote down; 'love it, you should be a professional hairstylist' to which Ray laughed. "I'll keep dreaming" he said before he walked off right before the bell rang.

While Gerard walked to the Gym he kept thinking about this guy, he was weird but interesting and talented. He would totally ask Mikey if he could ask Ray if he would be interested in doing Gerard's hair like this more often.

Gerard entered the boys' locker room way before anyone else. He opened his locker to get his gym clothes out but only found short-sleeved shirts. He couldn't wear a short-sleeved shirt when his arm looked like this so he quickly decided to just tell the teacher that he forgot his gym clothes. He put everything but his whiteboard and marker in his locker and walked to the gym and wrote down for the coach that he had forgotten his gym clothes.

Luckily the coach said that it was okay since Gerard never forgot anything, ever. So he could get away with it. During gym, not a lot happened, there was just a lot of running involved and Gerard made sure to avoid Quinn and Jeph, even if it meant that he had to run faster. About 30 minutes before gym class ended, Coach decided that they were gonna play dodge-ball. Normally, Gerard would actually be excited about this, he was good at dodge-ball. This was his thing. But right now he would rather just punch himself in the stomach.

Sadly lots of kids knew that Gerard was one of the better dodge-ball players and it didn't surprise him that he was picked second. The teams lined up and when Coach blew his whistle, Gerard did not move, instead he waited for the balls to come his way. When he finally got a hold of one of the balls he just started playing like normal. He hit several people in the first few minutes. But when Jeph purposely hit him in the ribs, Gerard was happy that he could walk off to the sideline. That had hurt him more than it should and he knew that Mikey would make him go to the doctor's tomorrow.

Gerard didn't enter the game again and everyone just let him sit on the floor because it honestly looked like the kid was gonna collapse at any second.

Gerard had already grabbed his stuff before the bell rang so he could get a good seat in his English class.

When he got to English he was the first one and he took the same seat that he took every class. Front row, next to the window. He pulled out a pen and put his whiteboard and marker on his desk.

At the start of the class they handed in their essays, Mrs. Allen would grade them and give them back before Friday. Then she handed out some paper for everyone to write their letters on.

"The only thing you guys have to do in this letter is talk about yourself and what you're expecting from this project. Don't tell them your last name, where you're from, what you look like or the name of our school. We wanna leave social media out of this. Just your name, interests and expectations,
you can start now. ...oh and, before i forget, please don't write anything that you know you'll get expelled over."

Gerard exactly what he was going to write already so he didn't waste any time.


'Dear Someone,

My name is Gerard and i'm 17 years old. I live with both of my parents and my little brother. I love music, drawing, reading, writing and playing video games with my brother.

I really don't know what to expect yet since i don't know you at all.But i am quite excited for this project. The only thing i actually know about you is that you're a girl. I used to have a friend that was a girl but she moved out of state and we lost contact so i guess you're second girl that will be my friend for at least this school year.

I'm looking forward to reading your letter!

- Gerard'


He turned it in to Mrs. Allen and doodled until it was 2:50. He walked straight to Mr. Johnson's physics room where Mikey was already waiting for him. Gerard had promised him during lunch that he would choose for his own safety until the bruises started to fade. Mikey gave him a small "hey" and then they walked straight home.

Mikey followed Gerard into his basement and sat down on his bed next to him. "How are your bruises?" Mikey asked him while handing Gerard his whiteboard and a purple marker. Mikey did this when he wanted a long and clear answer. Gerard just gave him a sigh and started writing, he really wanted his brother to stop worrying about him, Mikey was the little one after all so Gerard should be the one looking after him.

Gerard handed him the whiteboard after he was done writing 'was feeling okay 'til Jeph threw a dodge-ball at me, still hurting now' was what it said.

Mikey made a small nod toward Gerard, telling him to lift his shirt up and Gerard did. The bruise on his stomach was barely there anymore but the one on his ribs had spread and you even see some veins.

"Gee this is not good at all" Mikey told him. Gerard knew and immediately came up with an idea. He grabbed his whiteboard and wrote; 'just tell mom that i fell down the stairs at school and that it really hurts and she will totally believe it'

"That would probably work" Mikey said, impressed by how fast his brother came up with this.

The boys went upstairs for dinner when their mom called them and when they both finished their lasagna, Mikey addressed the subject.

"So mom, you know how much of a klutz Gerard can be right?" He started. Gerard gave him a glare before he even finished the sentence.

"Where is this going?" Their mom asked.

"So Gerard fell down the stairs at school yesterday and hurt himself pretty bad, he didn't want me to know because he didn't want me to worry about him but it doesn't look good at all and i think he should see a doctor."

Both of their parents didn't seem too surprised by the fact that Gerard did something stupid and hurt himself. They had used a lot of excuses to get him through high school.

"Gerard sweetie, let me see." his mom said. Gerard walked over to her side of the table and lifted up his shirt.

Now that DID actually shock her. "i'll make an appointment for as soon as possible" She said, and got up to get her phone.

Mikey and Gerard did the dishes while their dad went to his office to finish some work that he still had to do.

When their mom entered the kitchen they both stopped with what they were doing to give her their full attention.

"Gerard i made you the soonest appointment and that will be tomorrow 8am, i'll call school and tell them you'll be at the hospital. Promise me you'll call me after you're done at the hospital and promise me you'll try to go to school that day if it's possible."

Gerard looked confused, he grabbed a pen and a sticky note that he found on the fridge and wrote; 'do i really have to go alone?'

"yeah Gerard, i have scheduled appointments for tomorrow morning, your dad will be in a meeting and your brother has to go to school"

Gerard gave her a sigh and pointed to his mouth.

"Bring your whiteboard and maybe a notebook, they already know this, Gerard, they're supposed to know"

Gerard just nodded and went to bed, not at all looking forward to tomorrow.

Notes

Yay Chapter 2 is up!!!

I'm gonna start on chapter 3 tomorrow morning so that will be probably be up within 24 hours!

Tell me what you think!

-Nyxx