Chapter 12
"Mr Way?" the girl with the misfits wristband (Indy was it?) spoke up from the front row. "Could you explain that again please?" It had been four months since the incident with Mikey who had seemed to be avoiding me as much as was physically possible. He'd even gone as far as to buy a portable TV to put in his room so he didn't have to watch TV with me. Sadness filled me once again when I thought of my younger sibling. My nose had healed quite quickly and there wasn't any particularly lasting damaged caused, I looked fairly normal (not counting the dyed black hair and deathly pale skin). "Mr Way?" Indy asked once again; breaking my trance and bringing me back into the real world.
"What? Oh yeah ... explaining." I began to mumble and proceeded to re-explain the hypothesis work sheet I had been given for the kids to work through as part of their science coursework.
Eventually the bell signalling lunch time rang and the students packed their things into their bags before shuffling out of the classroom. "Mr Way!" Frank skipped upto my desk, grinning wildly. Smiling back at him I walked over and closed both my classroom door and the blinds of the window looking out into the hallway thus leaving us alone in the room. "Gerard," Frank whispere softly, dragging me by my vivid red tie back to my desk, "I realised something last lesson ... I'm going to be 18 in a month, in one more month we'll be free Gerard!" Frank grinned before standing up onto his tiptoes to plant his lips on mine. As surprised as I was that he was kissing me at school for the first time I pulled him closer and allowed my tongue to explore his mouth. Pushing his chest against mine, Frank entwined his fingers in my thin, black hair allowing him to pull my face further down towards his so he was at a more comfortable height.
"Oh my god ... Frank what the hell are you doing! Sir? What the fuck!" Indy yelled from the classroom doorway. At some point during our kiss, the adolescent girl had walked in on us ... I'd forgotten to lock the door. "Indy?" Frank and I muttered at the same time. Bolting out of the classroom door, she ran straight down the hall and away from the room.
"Indy! Indy come back!" I screamed from the classroom doorway down the hall. Turning to Frank my face filled with fear - we'd been caught. Running down the hall I scanned around for the teenager that had seen us. There was no sign of her. I searched everywhere I could think she would be until I walked past the library ... could she have hidden in there? Realising that if I left her to her own devices she would most likely report me to the head teacher and I would be arrested I thought it was worth a try. Cautiously, I opened the thin, narrow doorway and walked from the hallway into the brightly lit library. The walls were covered in the pointless posters found in most schools advertising various subjects and clubs that many of the students simply didn't care about. Growing ever more worried, I paced up and down the tall rows of books until I saw her sat on a small plastic chair as far away from the doorway as possible. Slowly and cautiously I walked upto her, trying my best not to make her feel intimidated or scared by my looming figure. "Indy ..." I began, realising that I had no clue what I was going to say to the terrified teenager, "I'm not going to say some bullshit like 'its not what you think it is' because it is and I'm not going to scare you into making you do what I say. I don't like this situation anymore then you probably do but I'm having to deal with it Indy ... and I'd appreciate it greatly if you didn't say anything. There's one month left until me and Frank can - in the laws eyes - be together. One month Indy. One month until we can be free ... one month till you don't have to worry about this. I can tell you, hand on heart, that I feel unbelievably guilty about what I've done with Frank because honestly? I feel like I've stolen his childhood, but that's what he wanted, and I love him enough to give him what he wants. Indy. It's up to you to decide here and now what you're going to do. Please, just tell me, I'd rather know now and be able to prepare Frank then me be dragged off and him left to deal with all this shit by himself." Pulling up a chair next to her I sat down and placed my chin on my hand so I could look at her more easily. When she looked up, I realised just how traumatised she was. Maybe it had been the fact that it was her teacher kissing a pupil that had scared her or maybe the fact that it was an older man with someone underage I'm not quite sure but I knew she was scared. "Honestly right now sir, I don't know what I'm going to do ..." Indy whispered, worry plastered across her face. Sitting back, I looked at her with my anxious eyes.
"What do you think of me Indy?" I asked softly, still looking at her.
"What do you mean?" She looked worried and shocked at my question, wary also as to why I was sat with her so calmly.
"What do you think of me?" I repeated softly.
"Right now I'm not sure. Before, I thought you were a bit of a weirdo like me or Frank, I respected you for that, but now ... right now I'm scared of you because what I saw makes me think you're some kind of sexual predator that you hear about on the news." She whispered, her forehead creasing slightly with worry lines.
"I can assure you Indy, I'm no sexual predator. Anything that I've done I've done because Frank wanted it. I never forced him into anything, if anything I was the wary one. And thank you for the weirdo comment." I chuckled softly, trying my best to make her crack a smile and lighten the mood. It worked. Slowly, the sides of her lips twitched upwards into a small smile. Almost instantly though the smile vanished. "I'm sorry sir but I'm going to have to tell someone about all of this," she began to gesture around with her hands, "all of this." she muttered quietly.
"I understand ... I suppose I'd do the same in your shoes," I smiled weakly and stood up; holding my hand out for her to shake, "thank you for telling me first though. Oh and by the way, good choice with the misfits." I winked as she hesitantly shook my hand before turning to calmly walk out of the library. As soon as the door was shut I bolted back to my classroom where I found Frank sat on the floor with his back against my desk. Almost silently I cursed under my breath before holding my hand out to Frank on the floor. Hesitantly he looked up at me with tear stained eyes.
"You can run away with me anytime you want." I whispered softly, lifting him up from the floor and kissing his cheek before grabbing my things from the desk and pulling him out of the doorway and out of the school building -shoving him softly forwards into my car and slamming my foot on the gas pedal.
/ Ta da! Updates, updates everywhere! Oh and just so you all know, I'm updating from a hotel room in the middle of no-where so this update may be the last thing I write before a crazy chainsaw wielding person walks into my "borrowed" room :D enjoy! Oh and I'd recommend grabbing some tissues for the next chapter, the two people I sent to check it ended up very sad so yeah, grab the tissues and comfort food ;-; /