Oh Baby Let Me In

I was sat on my bed looking at what the teacher's said to be my homework. There was no way on earth I was going to do this crap. I didn't understand a word of it. I sighed and pushed the book and worksheets on the floor. I rolled over and looked at the ceiling. I couldn't get that lad's ,who I now knew to be Gerard, face out of my head. He was beautiful but with Brendon not liking him and being homophobic I have to be careful. I can't let it slip that I'm gay.
I heard a knock on the door and then Bob's voice shortly after. "Is it safe to come in or are you sucking dick again?"
I burst out laughing remembering the last time Bob came round he walked in on me and an old friend.
I blushed as a image of Gerard's face flashed across my mind. What the fuck....? I shook my head.
"I'm alone." I shouted in reply after I'd contained my laughter. Bob walked in and took a seat next to me.
"So what do you think of Brendon?" I asked in the silence. Bob just made a sound of disgust.
"He's an asshole who needs to be taught a lesson." He said bitterly.
"Are you going to teach him that lesson?" I asked even though I knew the answer.
"Nope." He said simply. Bob wasn't the one to throw the first punch. He would wait for the other to throw it first.
"Then I guess we have to deal with him." I said. He nodded and sighed.
"I guess so. Oh by the way Ray's downstairs. Your mother is chatting the poor guy up." He said with a laugh. I rolled my eyes and shook my head.
"You left him alone down there? Some friend you are." I said jokingly. I hopped off my bed and went downstairs to save Ray. He was sat on the couch with my mother who was showing him old photos of herself. I took his arm and dragged him away ignoring her shouts. "I'm sorry Bob left you." I said to him as we got to my room. He just shrugged and sat down.
"She was alright. I've had worse." He said as he looked at the floor. Something was wrong.
"What's up dude?" Bob asked as he watched Ray's strange behavior.
"I just hate seeing Pete with Mikey. Mikey's in all my lessons and Pete's in one of them. The lesson they're both in they sit right in front of me." He sighed. "They kissed today and it hurt that much I had to leave." He sat on the floor instead of the bed. Bob slid off his spot on the bed and hugged Ray.
"Tell Mikey how you feel dude." Ray shook his head.
"I can't. He won't feel the same and I can't handle being rejected by him." His mood was starting to bring me down. I had a plan and I was going to talk to Mikey at the end of this week.
"So movies?" I asked and Bob stood up. "What about food?" I rolled my eyes. Trust Bob to think of that.
"I'll go order pizzas." I said before leaving the room and going downstairs to the house phone. I ordered our usual and went to the kitchen for snacks and drinks. "Hey honey." My mother said with a smile. I smiled back and gave her a wave. "How was school?" She asked.
"It was alright I guess." I replied. Was it though? I saw a guy who's supposed to be my friend? I guess he's my friend. Beat someone else up. For no reason other than he was gay. What if he finds out I'm gay? What would he do to me? I couldn't even imagine it. I didn't want to. I felt sorry for that red headed kid. He didn't deserve this. He really didn't. I realized my mother was still talking and looked at her.
"You're not even listening are you?" She asked. I just gave her a grin, in return I got a roll of the eyes and a hand dismissing me. I took the snacks and drinks I'd gathered upstairs ready for the movie night. Bob had disappeared and Ray had hold of his phone. I sat next to him to see him on Facebook. He was staring at a photo of Mikey and Pete kissing. I took his phone from him and pressed Mikey's number. I typed it in my phone and pressed call handing it to Ray.
"What are you doing?" He asked with wide eyes. I just shrugged.
"Tell him how you feel." I kept quiet as I heard Mikey's voice on the other end.
"Hello?" He asked and Ray just froze. I've never seen him like this. I urged him to go on but he didn't say anything.
"Who is it?" A voice asked.
"I don't know. No one's talking and it's an unknown number." I heard fumbling on the other end and then a new voice. "Leave my boyfriend alone you prick!" That was it for Ray he hung up threw my phone at me gently, got up and went to the bathroom. I sighed. I guess that was Pete.
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Bob walked back in with the pizzas in his hand. Ray was laid on my bed his face hidden and me on the bean bag I've had for years. Bob placed the boxes on the table and took a seat next to Ray. "You okay dude?" Bob asked Ray. He just nodded and grunted. Bob looked at me and I just shook my head. I didn't want to mention Mikey again. So I pressed play on the remote and focused my attention on the movie playing. That's what we did for the rest of the night. Watched movies, ate pizza and talked about nothing but everything. Ray seemed to have cheered up by the time we all went to bed which was good. I hated Ray being upset and I had every intention to somehow fix this. I was going to talk to Mikey about it. I had to. Even if Pete got hurt. I fell to sleep that night with the image of Gerard on my mind.

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