The morning passed rather slowly. Gerard sat at the back of the classroom for most of the lessons blanking out with Ray occasionally poking him to tell him that he needed to take notes or something. Mikey did the same, sat lonely in another classroom whilst twirling a pencil through his fingers and occasionally biting its end.

Lunch came around like a bullet, pushing Gerard and Mikey into the ginormous screaming hall in which students criss-crossed in and out of. They stood awkwardly in the corner, eyes flickering as they watched students flood in to collect their lunch.
"Over here guys!" Called Ray waving his arm in the air and smiling. He sat at a small round table in the opposite corner, an outgoing blonde and blue-eyed friend sat next to him.

Gerard and Mikey almost ran over to the safety that they emitted and bundled themselves into the seats.
"Hey. Thanks." Gerard smiled, peering at the new face with the bright blue eyes that glanced at him.
"Hello!" The blue eyed boy smiled, "my name's Bob; Bob Bryar and it's very nice to meet you!"
He took Gerard's hand and shook it and then shook Mikey's hand, his excitement of making new friends almost pulling their arms out of their sockets.
"Hey." Replied Mikey and Gerard in unison, a little taken aback by Bob's enthusiasm.
"So...." Began Bob, "you guys new here?! How's it going?! Tell me something about yourselves!" He stated, resting his head on his hands and smiling while wrapping his fingers around a small piece of blond hair.
"Well. I'm Mikey..." Mikey said pointing to himself, he turned to Gerard, "and this is Gerard."
"Cool!" Replied Bob, a bundle of energy, "I now know your names! How exciting! I am making friends and it feels fabulous!"

Gerard and Mikey giggled to themselves slightly. Bob seemed like a nice guy and Ray had looked after Gerard for the entire day and made sure he was safe: never mind getting him out of a full on fist fight with Cris on his first day. Gerard decided that they could be trusted.

"Is Frank not here today?" Ray asked Bob.
"Nah. He's off again. Which is a shame because I think that he'd have really gotten along with you guys."
"Yeah. Shame." Ray said, taking a huge bite out of his sandwich.
'Who was Frank?' Gerard thought to himself 'well he has a really beautiful name to begin with' he smiled to himself as he imagined having yet another friend to help him in his new life.

"Now then..." Asked Bob, dancing a little in his seat, "what do you guys like to do? Do you play any instruments! I do! I play drums and its awesome! And yeah! I just looooove music! And everything about it! Woo! Lifes great now I have you guys as friends!"
If the two Way brothers hadn't of been sat at the other 'corner' of the rounded table then, in his excitement, Bob would probably have enveloped them all in a hug and would have accidently squeezed them so tight (from fear of losing them) that they wouldn't have been able to breathe.
"Um, yeah." Began Mikey, "I play bass and Gerard plays electric when he's not drawing."
"Ah!" Cried Bob, clapping his hands together, "this is so good! What do you draw Gerard? Pictures of me?" He laughed, slouching in his chair and posing like a drama-queen, his lips puckered and his eyes wide.
"Ew!" Laughed Ray playfully whilst nudging him, "why would he ever want to draw that. But seriously, what do you draw Gerard?"
Once Gerard had composed his laughter he replied: "meh. Just cartoons and that. Nothing special."
"Awesome!"

The contrast between school and 'home' was so difficult for Gerard to grasp. He felt like a different person hanging around with Ray, Bob and Mikey, he felt: happy, he supposed. But still he couldn't hide the fact that the clock ticked down the seconds until school was finished and the ever growing fear that they wouldn't be able to escape their return home couldn't be hidden.

Notes

Hello again, so we now have introduced Bob too who is just constantly happy and loves making friends. I hope that this was okay and that you've had a noice day. Thanks. :) x
-Lou