Raven

God, why does school have to be so boring? It's not like we are going to use the Bing-Bang Theory as a receptionist or something in the real world.

I turned and looked at my friend, Frank, from across the room. I wanted his attention but I wasn't sure how to get it. I looked through my binder and found a eraser that looked like it had bite marks in it. I chunked it at him and it hit him in the head. I went straight back to acting normal. I looked at my hands and laid my head on my desk. I peeked at him and he was glaring at me. I shrugged.

I looked up and went back to being bored. Then out of nowhere, the eraser that I threw at Frank hit me square in the forehead. I busted out laughing and everyone was looking at me.

"Mrs. Croft is there something you would like to share with the class?" The teacher asked me. She was a bitch.

"No." I shook my head.

"How about you Mr. Iero?" He shook his head. "Good, then you two can go tell the principle since you don't want to share with us." The mega-bitch pointed at the door and I grabbed my binder and walked out of there. I waited for Frank.

"Thanks you bitch!" He laughed. "Now you got us both sent to that tub of lard."

"Sorry Frankie. I was bored. I wanted to get your attention." We started walking to the front of the school.

"And a good 'psst!' wouldn't have been good?" He stopped talking when we walked in the office.

We sat in the three chairs provided before going in the official office. I call them the naughty chairs. Don't ask why.

The door opened and Principle Duncan walked out with three boys behind him. I've never seen them before so obviously they're new. I elbowed Frank.

"Look new kids!"

"Ow! Once again a good 'hey' would've been fine." He said holding his arm where I elbowed him.

"Oh c'mon Frank! Don't be such a girl!" I teased.

Duncan looked at us and sighed.

"I'll deal with y'all in a few minutes." He said and walked back in his office.

I laughed and looked at the new guys. One of them was tall and had a piercing on his chin. His hair was black and his bangs went into his eyes.

Another one had long black hair and was a little shorter than the first one. He had his hair spiked in the front so his long bangs stuck up in a cool way.

Then the other had purple and black hair. It was very interesting how he got only his sideburns to be purple and the rest of his hair black. He wasn't as tall as the first one. He had two lip piercing on either side of his bottom lip and he had a nose ring. The one that looks like a bulls nose ring. It suited him.

They all had on black band tees except for the last guy, he had on a Misfits hoodie, and they all had on skinny jeans. They were all kind of attractive in their own way. They would fit in perfectly with me, Frank and the rest of us.

The one with the nose ring looked at me and smiled. I smiled back at him and wondered if there was something on my face. I put my hands on my face and I didn't think there was anything there.

"Barney is looking at you." Frank whispered and looked at me.

"Don't call people Barney! It's an insult!" I elbowed him again but now as hard as before so he wouldn't complain about it hurting.

But for now since I don't know his name, I'll call him Barney secretly in my head. Duncan came back out and looked at us and made an annoyed face.

"Will you two do me a favor?"

"Depends…" I said.

"Don't give me shit. I want you to show these three around and I'll let you off so y'all don't have to come in here…again."

"Whatever you say." I hopped off the naughty chair and took Frank's hand and helped him up. I walked over to Barney and the other dudes and introduced myself. "I'm Raven and this is Frank." Frank took his right hand out of his pocket, waved, and put it back.

"What's up?"

"Hey," The tall one spoke up first. "I'm Jimmy Sullivan." He shook my hand and I smiled at him.

"Your friends too shy or what?" He looked at them and laughed.

"No, you'll see once you meet them."

"I'm Zack Baker." Barney decided to speak up. So his name is Zack. Good because I really didn't want to call him Barney. It's just weird.

"And I'm Brian Haner Jr." I shook their hands.

"Jr.? Nice." Frank laughed. Brian just looked at him. "Oh sorry. I'm not a Jr. but I am Frank the third or whatever!" Then Brian smiled. Frank relaxed.

"Right. So, I'm the Rev, that's Synyster Gates, and Zacky Vengeance." Jimmy said.

"You just told us your names." I said.

"Not what we call each other, though."

"Oh, alright, Rev. Show y'all around huh? C'mon."

We walked out of the office and I headed toward the cafeteria.

"We eat there," I pointed to the caf. "We learn there." I pointed down the hall full of classrooms. "And we also learn upstairs, but as far as I'm concerned. The front doors are the only things I need to know where they are at." I turned to face them.

"You really suck at tours." Zack looked at me.

"Wait, you actually wanted me to show you your classrooms and stuff?" I laughed and Zacky smiled.

"Well it would be helpful, now wouldn't it?" Brian added to Zack's comment.

I rolled my eyes. "Whatever." I took their schedules. "Brian you have Biology with me and Frank right now and Jimmy and Zack both have History right now." I frowned. "That sucks. You have History this early in the morning. I would die." I looked back at the paper. I have at least one of them, if not two, in each class.

I showed them to their classes and Brian followed me and Frank.

"So, what did y'all do that made you get sent to that asshole?" Gates asked as we were walking back to Biology.

"I threw a eraser at Frank the idiot threw it back!" I said and Frank laughed.

"Maybe, you shouldn't have thrown it at me in the first place then."

"Well, I was bored. What else was I suppose to do?"

"Not aim erasers at my head?" I punched his arm and he didn't complain. I could hear Brian laugh beside me.

"Are y'all dating or what?" He asked. I glared at him.

"No, Frank is like my brother! I love him but not like that."

"Mkay." Brian was silent for the rest of the way.

Brian

As I was walking with these two strangers, AKA Raven and Frank, I couldn't help but to think that Raven was cute. She had red hair, obviously dyed that way, and she wore a Metallica shirt and skinny jeans. Frank wore a band shirt too and skinnies. There were basically just like Jimmy, Zack and me. And Frank seemed like a pretty nice guy. His hair was black and fell in his face like Jimmy's and Zack's.

When we got to Biology the teacher welcome me but I didn't feel welcome. The look on her face was like, 'great another goth kid.' Which I really don't get, are teachers suppose to teach, not fucking judge the new kid?

The only open seat was next to Raven, wasn't a bad thing. No wonder she was bored though. She had no one to sit by. Her and Frank probably talked too much and got moved, or they were throwing erasers at each other.

She smiled at me when I sat down. She had a nice smile.

"So when's lunch?" I asked her putting my arm on the table.

"12. Yeah I know." She added when she saw the look on my face. She looked over my should and I was guessing she was looking at Frank. I looked over and I was right. He was looking back at her though, they must be talking or something. I still think either she feels something for him or vice versa. Either way there is some kind of connection.

"I think Frank likes you." She looked at me, clearly shocked.

"No, we've been friends since like third grade!" I shrugged and she playfully hit my arm. I laughed then the bell rang. "I'll meet up with you at lunch, k?" I nodded and I walked out of there.

Raven was only in my first and third period. Which was Biology, of course, and Algebra. Frank was in my fourth period English. Jimmy, Zacky, and Raven were in my PE class and that's the only class Rev and Zack were in with me.

When lunch came around, we all met at the caf doors. Raven and Frank was standing there laughing about something with Rev and Zack. I walked up to them.

"Hey, Syn." Zack greeted me.

"Sup."

"Wanna go get some food and meet the others?" Frank suggested. Jimmy, Zack, and me nodded in agreement.

We walked in and go tin the line. We all got what I think is suppose to be a hamburger except for Frank. We sat down at a table with six other people.

"Hey guys, I want you to meet some cool dudes." Raven said to her friends. They looked up. "This is Zacky Vengeance, The Rev, and Synyster Gates." I was surprised she used our nicknames. "Guys this is Gerard Way, Death, Pete Wentz, Billie Joe, Tre', and Brenden Urie." She pointed to the five guys and the only girl sitting at the table.

"Hey, nice to meet y'all." The girl, Death, said to us waving. The whole table was in black with skinny jeans. I was cool to hang out with people that are like me.

'You guy's names can't seriously be those." The one with long black hair, Gerard, said.

"Cause it's not." Zacky said sitting by Raven. If I didn't know any better, I would say that he likes her. He was also sitting across from Gerard so I guess he could be sitting by her so he could talk to Gerard since Jimmy and that girl Death was sitting by him. I sat by Jimmy across from Frank and Billie Joe sat by Zacky and Tre' next to him with Brenden by Death.

"Ok then what are your real names?" Billie asked looking at Vengeance.

"Ok well my real name is Zack. It's Zack Baker. And Synyster is actually Brian and Rev is Jimmy."

"Ha! Your real names killed the cool nicknames you had!" Gerard laughed and Death elbowed him and snapped his name in a tone saying you should shut up now. I laughed anyways.

I looked at Frank, he was picking at his food. All he got was a salad and a apple.

"Frank, something wrong with your food? Why didn't you get a burger or something?" I asked him. He looked up at me.

"Because I'm a vegetarian. Plus school food is disgusting."

I looked at my plate and I pushed it away. "No kidding."

Lunch was filled with random talk about music and what our favorite bands were. When the bell ran I was relieved that there was only two more periods left.

Zacky

Well, my first day of school turned out to be alright. I got a group of people to hang out with even though I already had Jimmy and Syn.

Raven was in my second period, my PE, and my fifth and sixth period. That Frank guy was in my seventh. And some of the others were in some of my classes too.

Raven is pretty cool and she's really pretty. She has an awesome smiled and her dyed red hair is almost as awesome as my purple side burns. I knew I probably shouldn't have gotten that done, but I think it looks cool now and I'm surprised that douche bag of a principle didn't say anything about it. Same goes for my piercing.

I walked inside my house and put my books on the floor and went straight to my bedroom. I turned on my radio and Three Days Grace started blasting through the speakers from my radio station. I turned it down a little and grabbed my Guitar World magazine. I flopped down on my bed and held the magazine above me flipping the pages, admiring the guitars and reading the articles.

"Zachary are you home?" I heard my mom call from down the hall, sober for once.

"Yes mom!" I called and went back to reading. Obviously she can't hear my radio. It started to get hot in my room, but I refused to take my Misfits jacket off. I turned my fan on high and laid back down. I closed my eyes and started thinking about Raven. I really do like her, she just seems so down to Earth, but her and Frank seem pretty tight. I wouldn't want to get in between them even though I'm not sure if they're going out. But don't want to risk it.

I got up and opened my door and went downstairs. My mom was sitting at the dining room table with vodka in front of her. It was half way gone. No doubt she just drank half of it.

"Hey Zack! Why don't choo siit hewre wiff mee!" Her words were slurred.

"No mom. Just came down to get some tabs off Ultimate Guitar Tabs online." I walked towards the computer on the far left sid eof the living room.

"That's awll yooou eva care aboot now a daiiys. Your stooupid guitaarr! What aboot mee?" My mom rambled on but I tried not to listen to her. I printed out the tabs and walke dupstairs. "Stawp Zick!" What the hell? Did she just call me Zick? "Whiiy don'ttt youu stai downstairs!"

"Mom, I'm going to my room now." I walked up the stairs and shut my door and locked it. I ripped my jacket off and looked at myself in the mirror. The scars ran up and down my arms.

I opened the drawer and got out my littler razor. I started at my elbow and went up. The cut was about five inches long. The deeper it was the better I felt. I pushed it in deeper as I got to my shoulder. I had my sleeve rolled up so I wouldn't get any blood on it. I admired the blood for a few seconds. It was running down my arm and reaching my hand. I grabbed the washrag I kept in one of my drawers and wiped it. I walked to the bathroom and locked the door again.

I looked through the cabinet for bandages. I took the bandage and wrapped it around my arm. Blood was coming through the bandage but it wasn't dripping anymore. It would stain the bandage but at least these are the throw away kind so my mother didn't notice that we were missing anything. Hell, she gets so drunk I'm pretty sure she doesn't even notice that I buy these things.

I walked back to my room deciding the clean the wound in the morning. I put my hoodie back on and sighed in relief. It sucks that I had to resort to physical harm to make myself feel better. Even though there is always a counselor at school, but I don't want to be labeled as the kid who needs therapy. Even though I know damn well I do.

I heard footsteps coming from down the hall and I braced myself for what was about to happen. I didn't bother locking my door, knowing it would only make the whole situation worse. I sat on my bed, holding back tears, and held my head low.

My mother opened the door with my father's belt that he left behind when he abandoned us. She walked over to me and hit me with the belt.