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

Gerard woke up by someone violently shaking him, he immediately wrapped his arms around his ribs and opened his eyes to find his brother’s face only a few inches from his own. “Gee wake up for God’s sake!” he said loudly. Gerard pushed Mikey off of him and noticed that he had been sleeping on the sofa in the most uncomfortable possible way ever. “Gerard, now is not the time to be slow!” Mikey looked really stressed so Gerard made his ‘confused’ face and tapped his left wrist twice, asking Mikey what time it was. “it’s ten something Gerard! We’re missing school!” Gerard got up, stretched and grabbed his notebook, wrote a message without using full sentences, handed it to Mikey and went to lay back down on the couch. Mikey read the note out loud “missing school anyways, lemme sleep in” he looked at Gerard, who was just staring at him from the couch. “Okay i guess so, but dad will probably be home by 12 so we have to stay quiet” By the time Mikey had finished that sentence, Gerard had fallen asleep already. Mikey just got in his brother’s bed and tried to get some sleep himself.

“WHAT THE HELL TO YOU TWO THINK YOU’RE DOING” both Mikey and Gerard jumped up to the voice of their dad, who looked furious. “Why are you two not at school?” Gerard was waiting for Mikey to answer their dad but his brother was still rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. “nevermind, just grab your stuff, i’ll drive you to school, don’t wanna see this again, we’re leaving in 5.

The brothers rushed to grab their stuff and ran upstairs. Their dad took them to school and not a single word was said on the way there. The boys did the same thing that Gerard had done the day before: they sneaked into the back entrance and waited in the restrooms until the lunch bell rang and then sneaked into the cafeteria, both of them without food. Gerard had to get his brother to stay awake during lunch, and he made Pete promise him that he wouldn’t let Mikey fall asleep during physics.

When the bell rang, Mikey almost jumped out of his chair, and Gerard was already on his way to English class.

When he got his hands on Frank’s new letter to him he ripped the envelope open right away and started reading.


‘Okay Gerard,

Even though i’m not going to apologize for my behavior in my last letter, i am going to change my way of talking/writing to you, don’t feel flattered because i’m not doing this because of you, i’m doing this because i really need to get my grades up.

My teacher told me to tell about ‘my background’ so here we go:

My dad left me at the age of 14 when i came out of the closet and my mom has been an alcoholic ever since, she’s the only family member i have left so i can’t go anywhere and she keeps telling me that “Jesus will heal me”.

So not that you really care but that’s my life!

I mean, you could probably tell me about yours or something, i don’t really care though, i just don’t know what else we could write about in these shitty letters…

-Frank’


Gerard actually felt misunderstood when he read the ‘not that you really care’ line. He DID care and he DID wanna be Frank’s friend, he could make this guy’s life better because the way he described it, it couldn’t get any worse. Gerard got a new piece of paper and wrote his letter.


‘Hey Frank,

You’re completely wrong about me, why wouldn’t i care about you? Because i don’t know you? Because you were mean to me? Believe me, it takes a lot more than that to stop me from caring.

I’m sorry about your parents, i wish i could do something about that, tell me if there’s anything i can do in your next letter and i will!

Now about my family:

My parents are okay i guess, but they just don’t really ‘get’ me if that makes sense. Ever since my Nana died 2 years ago, stuff has been different. I moved schools 3 times in those two years because of bullies and teachers that refused to have me in their classes. The only person who really gets me is my little brother and i’m so thankful for him.

So, now it’s my turn to let you talk about something…
Tell me if you have, or ever had, any pets! And tell me about them!

-Gerard’


During dinner both Mikey and Gerard got some death stares from their parents, who were still mad that they ‘forgot’ to go to school today. Even though they both have good grades, their parents weren’t at all easy on them. They had to do the dishes after dinner and go to their own rooms right after.

Gerard didn’t eat anything, he was just kind of staring at his food, playing around with his fork and thinking about today’s English class. He hadn’t thought about the fact that he got a letter every single day. But this meant that Frank’s letter must’ve been written today as well. And that meant that his school couldn’t be that far from Gerard’s.

Gerard thought about this all night, why did no one else notice this? Probably because no one really cared, he thought.

The next day Gerard couldn’t wait to get his letter so he went to Mrs. Allen’s class when the lunch bell rang and “asked” her if he could read his letter already. Luckily she said yes and handed Gerard the letter with his name on it in the crappy handwriting.

Gerard gave her his ‘thank you’ nod and happily walked off to the cafeteria. He rushed on his so he could read the letter, no one at Mikey’s table really paid attention to him during lunch anyways. Gerard opened the letter and held it under the table while he read it so no one would notice.


'Gerard,

I don’t think you get how wrong you are, you shouldn’t care about me.
Not because you don’t know me, or because i was rude to you, but because no one does. I promise you, pondering over me will not be worth your time.

Go make friends or go hang out with your brother, i don’t care what you do but stop caring about me because there is nothing you can do about it.

And i actually am going to give you a piece of advice: It’s normal that your parents don’t get you, that’s why you move out. If you and your parents would get along perfectly, you’d probably live there for the rest of your lives, right? And i sure as hell wouldn’t want that, what about you?

Okay now time for pet talk: I used to have a husky named snow, i only knew her for two years because when my dad left, he took her with him. I’d love to get snow back someday but for now that would be impossible since i have no idea where she could be.

How about you, any pets? Any new things we can write about?

-Frank'


Gerard knew he’d gotten Frank to open up to him, and it never even took that much. He was way too proud of himself and started reading the letter over again so he could think of a reply when the letter was taken from him. He looked up and saw that Ray and Mikey were now reading it.

He just let them, it was useless to try and get it back anyways. He took his whiteboard and a marker out of his backpack because he knew he had to explain once they were done reading.

“Okay Gee, explain.” Mikey said when he looked up from Frank’s letter. Gerard gave him the whiteboard with the answer already on it. ‘project for English, have to write letters to other school, im writing to this guy called Frank’ Gerard held out his hand and Mikey gave him his whiteboard and the letter back. “And you’re doing English work during lunch? You must be very excited about this.” Gerard rolled his eyes and started to write his answer down. ‘opportunity to finally make a friend after all these years’ was what it said. Ray read it out loud and questioned Gerard. “You don’t even have friends outside of school?” Mikey quietly told Ray to shut up, but of course, he didn’t.

“Okay Gerard, we’ll be your friends!” Ray said while looking at Pete, who quickly nodded. “We’ll hang out together after school if that’s fine with you” Gerard gave the boys a shy smile and nodded, not like he had anything else planned. The bell rang and he almost ran off to English class.


‘Hey Frank!
I actually won’t stop caring and you know why? Because you told me to stop and i’m the most stubborn person you’ll ever meet.

Making friends is harder for me than it seems but i’m hanging out with my brother and his friends today so that could be fun if they don’t ignore me like they always do.

And i really like your ‘piece of advice’ by the way. It makes a lot of sense to me.

And now the pet talk: I’m really sorry about snow. I hope you’ll find a way to get her back someday. I don’t have any pets because for some reason my dad has a strong hate for animals. My brother has always wanted a dog though but i guess that is never gonna happen.

And i don’t know what to write about next so i guess you can figure that out.

-Gerard

ps. turn this over!’


Gerard had finished writing his letter in less than 10 minutes so he spent the rest of the period drawing a husky for Frank on the back of his letter, hoping that he would like it.

When Gerard walked out off English, Mikey, Ray, and Pete were already waiting for him. They had decided to go to this record store downtown and Gerard just kind of agreed to it. He hadn’t been downtown since they moved here two years ago so he had no idea what record store they were talking about but Mikey assured him that he would love it.

And Mikey was right, the place was huge and they had already lost Gerard after a minute. Mikey, Pete, and Ray were done buying stuff after about 20 minutes but Gerard HAD TO roam the whole store and ended up buying over 20 cd’s and vinyl records all together and he even bought a record player since his old one didn’t work properly anymore.
The boys had to help him carry all of his stuff to Ray’s car. And Mikey kept telling Pete to be careful because apparently he’s the biggest klutz ever.

When they all got back in the car, Gerard announced via his whiteboard that he was worn out and that he wanted to go home. He hadn’t been around people for this long in a while and he was so tired that he fell asleep in the car.

He woke up to Mikey shaking him and telling him that they were home. The boys helped them getting Gerard’s stuff in his basement and left soon after. Mikey still wasn’t allowed to stay the night in the basement so he went back upstairs and left his brother who already fell asleep before he left the room.

Notes

Yay another chapter up!!
Please let me know what you guys think so far!
I'll probably start on CH5 when i get back from having lunch with my friends today but i don't know when it will be up.
Thanks for reading!!

-Nyxx