Hello dear readers! Firstly; Yes all your questions will be answered, trust me :) , secondly I won't update much over next week so I made sure to get this second chapter to you but I'm afraid I doubt if I can give you the third until at least a week later, sorry :( Finally only just realised I accidently called Gerard 'Gerald' at some times in the last chapter.. whoops, don't kill me, pwease? I will fix it now
FPOV
Well, yesterday could have gone better... I got a double detention and embarrassed myself in front of a cute guy. God I'm an idiot, I think taking the last drag from my cigarette before walking the rest of the way to school by myself.
I'm there slightly early for once, which of course earned the witty remark from Taela stating it "must be a world record attempt" shaking her blonde pigtails at me before disappearing, I decided I may as well go to the bike shed for another smoke; but who should I see, other than Gerard, and he's a smoker too. (Although knowing my luck he will probably be homophobic)
"Hey!" I announce strolling over to him, he seems to be wearing a red top with black skinnies and jacket, along with some nice black and red high tops.
"Oh hello there Frankie!" He says winking at me, God if only he knew how much I swelled up inside when he called me that then, I could even ignore Taela's retching sounds appearing from my left shoulder.
"So what lessons have you got today?" He asks.
"Hmm" I begin to wonder, when suddenly I hear Taela perk up "For Hell's sake Frank you have maths, then art, finishing with two hours of music! Do you not remember anything?"
I quickly relay everything Taela just told me, and she knows my memory isn't always the greatest, especially when I'm looking at a cute guy, speaking of which he's looking at me strangely, uh oh.
"Uh, sorry what was that, I zoned out there" giving him an awkward smile and shoulder shrug
Causing him to laugh with the reply of "I said I had the same lessons as you then, and honestly Frankie, you always seem to be zoning out around me! I'm not that boring am I?" He adds winking in the process
Oh if only you knew it was quite the opposite, "No! It's just I've not been getting a lot of sleep recently". Which is partially true to be fair. "Now come on, We're gonna be late for the form registers if we keep hanging around here."
We begin walking to forms together as I presume we're in the same one, when we're stopped by some jock: Stan. The prick had always tried to make life hell for me, 'Grrr' I hear Taela growling at him, and from a quick glance, bearing her teeth; In regular circumstances it would be funny. But not with Stan.
"What do you want Stan?" I half-heartedly question already knowing the answer.
"Look at me when I'm speaking to you Frank" He demands knocking my shoulder
"Sorry" I reply looking him back in the face
"So, is this your boyfriend here then, faggot?". Wow. It's pitiful how guys like him think they're soo smart.
"No" both me and Gerard reply, probably a bit too quickly
"Ha! I doubt that, fags. Even if you aren't boyfriends you sure as hell want to be"
I see Gerard about to retaliate, but I knew how it would end so I grabbed his arm to pull him back.
"Haha! See! The fags are already beginning to touch each other!" He punches me in the nose. Hard. Causing a thin trickle of blood to come down. Which I promptly wipe off as soon as he'd gone around the corner when our little audience had realised the show was over.
"What the Hell?" I hear Gerard state, 'Crap! What if he was a homophobe and thought I was into him?' "Why do you let dicks like him shove you around?" He continues still wearing his mildly adorable angered frown.
"Listen Gerard, I understand you've not been here too long, but you just have to ignore them: the more attention they get, the more they hurt you. The more you stand up for yourself , the more they hurt you!" I reply with a tear in my eyes. Yes I had been hurt too many times to care anymore.
I can see the puzzled look in his radiant hazel eyes, and could see the question forming on his lips. "I have to go" I reply turning quickly round and power walking into the form, I couldn't talk about it now. I couldn't.
GPOV
I dumbly walked along following Frank into our form room, still not quite knowing what just happened, what did those jerks do to him? And who would dare hurt my Frankie... Wait.. my? I had to control myself, I couldn't like him in that way. Could I?
I walk into form and sit next to him at the far back, "hey I'm sorry, I was a bit pushy earlier, I had no idea what those jerks had put you through" 'and still don't' I thought.
"No it's ok, it's not like I ever told you" he replies with a sniff, almost as if he read my thoughts
After we we're registered in we made our way towards maths we didn't get a chance to talk there other than pulling awkward expressions across the room as this second teacher wouldn't allow us to sit together.
Then it was art, my favourite subject. Even better me and Frankie, no Frank, were in pairs.
"Any idea what we're doing?" I ask curiously
"Your guess is as good as mine" He replies, 'hm, I never seemed to notice all the tattoos he had before'
"Alright then class, silence for a second please" Mrs. Haverbrook? Hoverbrake? Oh I have no idea what her name is "Today's assignment" she continues "is a paired assignment, I want you both to draw something personal to you and let the Other one guess what it is that you have drawn, please be creative, you don't have to show anyone else in the class, but you do have to show me"
'Ah, this could be interesting' I thought.
We both finally finished drawing, and after we both tweaked our works for the last few minutes we had to show each other our drawings.
Frank went and showed me his first, and wow, it was good in a sinister kinda way: it was this girl, she had her long blonde hair in piss-take pigtails, her eyes were a dark blood red and she was wearing a short Lolita inspired black dress spattered with blood drops.
"Wow, she's pretty sinister isn't she?" I state with a slight laugh.
Causing him to give a giggle 'Wow, a real school girl giggle' along with an amazing smile.
"Is she an ex?" I ask questioningly 'So why do I care if he has an ex-girlfriend again?'
"No!" he states, way too quickly 'Ah! this might get interesting after all' "She doesn't quite exist in that way"
"Hmmm... I'm presuming therefore she's either an imaginary friend or a representation of some sort" I state, quite proud of my analysis.
He chuckles nervously before replying "Yeah.. her name is Taela" 'Taela? Ok, so he has an imaginary friend and calls her Taela?
FPOV
'Oh God, what was I thinking? Drawing Taela for Gerard to see, I must be crazy, worse he must think I'm crazy!'
"Yeah.. I used to talk to her quite a lot when I was younger.."
'Hey jerk! You still do!' Taela interrupts
"And I guess, she always used to comfort me so I did a more modern representation of what she used to look like" 'Well, at least from how his facial expressions have changed he doesn't think I'm AS much of a freak anymore, Taela also looks less angry, I guess she's happy I gave her a nice description'
"That's kinda sweet actually" 'Wait, did I just hear him correctly?'
"Let's see yours anyway, curiosity has got the better of me" I replied with a wink. Which caused him to blush! Maybe I do have a shot!
And it was wow.. just wow. It looked absolutely stunning, it appeared to be him stood at a crossroads, there was just so much detail and both paths seemed to be different.
"Well?" He questions me worriedly, 'Awh, he's afraid I don't like it, sweet'
"It's amazing" I answer honestly and his whole face just lights up like a jack-o'-lantern. I continue with "I can tell you obviously have some sort of inner turmoil and a decision to make from it, but you can't tell which is the right or wrong choice as neither path is openly dark or light" I awkwardly finish there as I realise both him and the teacher are looking at me rather intently.
"That was an amazing analysis of the work Frank" The teacher commends me with, "And I do admit I have come to the same conclusion"
After she walked off leaving me grinning like a pathetic loon Gerard comments "Wow. Hole in one" before chuckling causing me to giggle myself.
Quickly remembering yesterdays taunting by Taela I ask him "Hey Gerard, I've just realised I don't have your number" His eyes snap to full awareness as he has obviously been meaning to ask me the same question, causing me to blush "Ugggh, not this again. Please?" I hear Taela moan.
We exchange phones and put our own numbers in, the last couple of minutes of art went pretty smoothly after. We mainly just exchanged interests and it was only until lunch time when we ate food and went to the back of the bike sheds when things really picked up.
"Hey, you remember my artwork right?" Gerard asks nervously chewing his nail
"Yeah, of course I do, my memory's not that bad" I joked, trying to break the tension that's suddenly appeared in the air.
"Well, I'm kinda trying to make a decision over something, something important" he slowly adds.
"What is it?" I say putting myself closer to him for comfort
"You" he states looking instantly terrified.
"What about me?, have I done something wrong?" I ask the hurt ringing clearly through my voice, even though I've only just met him the day before.
"Let him speak! Can't you see this is hard for him?" I hear Taela scald me, and she was right, it did look to be hard for him. He had moved close, so close that I could feel his warm his breath on my own mouth.
"Is he really going to kiss me?.."
So, I think we all know the answer to Frank's question, and I'm sorry to make it so mushy with love at first sight and all, but it's the only way to keep it moving at a pace that won't make it too long xD please review if you like it, it will encourage me to write faster ;)