Irmarie P.O.V.

I was doing my English homework around midnight when I heard my phone beep.

I jumped since I still wasn't use to my phone that Robin had gotten me a while ago. Boy am I lame!

I checked my phone and saw that Mikey was the one who send me the text.

Hey Irmarie, tomorrow Frank will distract Gerard while we decorate his locker. Do you have tape?

I looked through my things for tape. Luckily for us I do.

Yeah I have tape. Are you sure we'll have time to tape things up?

My phone beeped two seconds after I sent it to him.

Plenty. Don't tell Gerard, okay?

I smiled. Like I would tell him.

I then realize that Mikey was awake at midnight. I quickly grab my phone.

Boy what are you doing up this late!?

Two seconds later.

I would ask the same thing, Irmarie.

I smiled.

I'm doing homework.

Two seconds later my phone beeps. Boy this boy can text fast.

This late? Why?

Glad Mikey asked that question, not.

Because school makes me mentally exhausted and I barley got my strength right now.

I then began to finish my English homework when my phone beeped.

I feel you, dude. Well I gotta go sleep because my mom caught me playing my video game. Night!

I rolled my eyes. Only Mikey will be playing video games at this time.

Night.



I woke up the next morning and quickly wrapped Gerard's gift and hid it under my bed. I was planning on giving Gerard his present later after school.

Before I could even leave my room I quickly grabbed the roll of tape and out it in my backpack.

I got ready and ran out the door, skipping breakfast. What? Ain't nobody got time for that shit anymore.

I began to walk to the Way household. I knocked on the door.

"I'll get it!" I heard Gerard's voice. He opened the door and smiled.

"Happy birthday!" I hugged him.

"Thank you so much you are honestly the best girlfriend in the world." Gerard said into my shoulder.

"I just love you, that's all." I smiled.

"Ew couples." Mikey said.

Gerard and I laugh. "You're dating Alicia." We both said.

"What ever." Mikey said before walking out the door. We laughed and we headed down to the bus stop.

When we made it to the bus stop, Gerard received a lot of "happy birthdays."

"Dude, how does it feel to be eighteen." Frank asked as he swung his arm on Gerard's shoulder.

"Nothing..." Gerard said.

"Why'd you ask that, you turned eighteen on Halloween." I told Frank.

"Hey, everyone has different experience when they turn eighteen." Frank said. "Plus, you're now a legal adult."

"I don't know what's so exciting about turning eighteen, you can't even buy alcohol." Venus said.

"No but you can smoke." Gerard pointed out.

"I actually don't want to die of lung cancer." Venus said.

"Venus you don't even turn eighteen until August!" We all said.

"Irmarie isn't eighteen yet!" Venus pointed out.

"Until May!" I said.

By now the bus had come around the curve to pick us up. Practical everyone in the bus gave Gerard a happy birthday. I'm not surprised though, Gerard is pretty popular in school even after he started hanging out with me and then the now us.

"I can't wait to graduate." Mikey said after he had stepped on gum that was stick onto the aisle.

"Just be glad you didn't step on dog crap like Frank did two years ago." I said.

Venus started laughing as we sat down at the empty seats.

"Can you not." Frank said and we all started laughing.

When we were in school, I sort of distance myself from Gerard. Not that I don't like him- because I do a lot, but because I wanted to avoid Sabrina and Giovanni. Gabriel has been pretty nice, hasn't done shit to me like the other two.

I then remembered about our plan as I had walked by Gerard's locker.

Luckily for us, Frank had gotten Gerard to go somewhere with him before Gerard got to his locker. God knows what they're doing.

Mikey, Venus, Alicia, Jamia, and the Of Mice & Men gang (Austin told me they were starting a band and that was their name,) came in running.

"Got the tape?" Mikey said as he set down his backpack.

I got the tape out of a pocket from my bag. "Got it."

We all had made homemade posters, (used loose-leaf paper) and taped them to his locker. Mikey had even brought little banners from the dollar store!

We all quickly ran to our lockers and put the evidence away, although, Gerard is going to know who had done it.

Frank had come back minutes later after we had gone to our lockers.

"And Gerard?" I asked him.

"He said he was going to talk to Mr. Kyle about his English homework." Frank said.

We still had time to kill, so we sat down and made up a game with crumbled-up tape and the one who threw the farthest down the hallway wins. Pretty lame but it kept us entertain.

Frank kept shouting every time he looses, so I ended up taping his mouth with duct tape.

By the time Gerard had come from whatever meeting he had with Mr. Kyle we had already played like fifteen rounds. Maybe, I don't know I lost count.

Since we were basically hanging around Mikey's locker, and they're next to each other, we saw Gerard's reaction.

"Nice to let the whole world know it's my birthday." He smiled and gave a chuckle.

"You're welcome," we all said in unison, except for Frank.

"Why does Frank have his mouth taped up?" Gerard asked.

"He was shouting and he started to annoy me, so I duct taped his pie-hole." I said.

Frank muttered a "fuck you" to me.

"Love you Frankie." I said, he rolled his eyes.

The bell ring and we all groan.

"I don't want to start hell yet!" We all said.

Aaron and I got up and we went to get our books.

"Do you think Mrs. Romero can let us take naps in there?" I asked him.

"I did that once and she poured water on me..." Aaron said.

"I like to keep my hair dry." I said as we walked to science.



"I ain't 'bout to do this I am done!" I said as I looked at my calculus homework and closed my book.

"Mr. Parker, is this going to be on the the test?" A kid named Matthew said. I call him the special kid because even though he was smart, he ask some stupid questions to Mr. Parker, or was he doing it on purpose?

Mr. Parker sighed, "yes Matthew this is going to be on the test that's why I assigned it to you."

By now Mr. Parker had gone to his desk, which was in the back of the room, and updated our grades.

"I'm not even going to try." Alicia said as she closed her book.

Mikey and Phil looked down at their text books, "I'll do this at homeroom tomorrow." They said.

"Whatcha got for Gerard?" I asked them.

"I'm gonna give him twenty bucks." Phil said.

"Mikey told me he likes coffee, so I got him a gift card from Starbucks." Alicia said.

"You already know what I'm going to get him." Mikey said.

"But not us." Alicia and Phil said.

"Got him the second volume of Naruto." Mikey said.

"We only have about ten minutes before this class is over." Phil said.

"So what's the plan for this afternoon?" I asked.

"Well why not we meet up at our house and we'll go car pooling to Applebee's." Mikey said.

"Sounds like a plan." Phil said.

"I just hope Frank doesn't give Gerard cigarettes as his present." I said.

Frank can be a little bit weird when it comes to giving presents to people his age. When I had turned fifteen he had given me a box of condoms and whispered "Get some," in front of the whole family and I nearly killed him for that.

Another thing he did to me was when I was seventeen he gave me a thong and it was just so weird. Auntie Linda and Mama burned it after Frank had given it to me. After that, I threw away every present that Frank ever gave me before opening the present.

"Is that a bad thing?" Alicia asked.

"No, the bad thing is it's Frank giving someone a present that's the bad thing." I said.

"What's so bad about that?" Phil asked.

"Let me say this again: Frank is giving the present." I said.

"So..." They all said.

"Okay gather around children I am going to tell you a story." I said.

They all huddle closer to me.

"Once upon a time when I turned fifteen he have given me a present. I opened the present in
front of all of my family and you know what the present was?" I asked.

"Some game he wanted?" Phil guessed.

"I wish. It was a box of condoms." I said.

They all looked at me like I was crazy. I swear, these guys have been hanging with Frank since eight grade and they never received a present from him or what?

"He gave you a box of condoms?" Mikey asked.

"Yep, and I nearly killed him." I said.

They all began to laugh.

"Only Frank," Alicia said.

"What other presents did he gave you?" Phil asked.

"When I was seventeen he gave me a thong." I said.

We all burst out laughing. The whole class was looking at us. I forgot we were still in class in the first place.

"You four, hush up!" Mr. Parker said.

We all tried to calm ourselves down but we ended up laughing in the end until the bell rang.

"Lesson of the day: Don't open Frank's presents." Mikey said.

Notes

Frank is a little bit of a weirdo to cousin Irmarie.