They Don't Believe In Us (frerard)

3- A Not So Typical Day in the Uneventful Life of Gerard Way

Gerard's POV

It's Thursday evening now. Even though Mr. Ier- I mean, Frank, said yesterday he'd see me today, that didn't happen. I didn't have Chemistry class on Thursday. Our school has a weird schedule where we have certain classes 3 out of 4 different school days. They're 1 Day, 2 Day, 3 Day, and 4 Day, respectively. Weirdly enough, Thursday seemed to go on forever and ever. Luckily at the end of the day, though, I had long bell Senior Studio, so the ending of school came before I knew it. In art, we are assigned different projects, but it's not restricted to anything. We can use whatever subject matter we want, and usually whatever medium we want to make the project. I started doing a kind of comic strip on a big 20x16 inch paper personifying the four basic elements or whatever they're called: air, water, land, and fire.

I'm in my room, as expected for a loner like me. Some would say I need to get a life. I've seen the concerned looks my mom sometimes gives me. It's okay that she gives me those looks, though. She's just being the caring mother she's always been to Mikey and I. Our dad left us about a month after Mikey was born. I remember him sneaking into my room in the middle of the night and giving me a hug. I was confused. The next morning when I woke up, he was gone and so was every sign that he used to live there. I haven't seen or heard from the man since. He probably ran off with some chick from a bar he frequented or something. Anyways, I got off topic, I was drawing. As usual. I had my ipod dock playing some music faintly in the background. The new Muse song, Dead Inside, was currently playing.

The comic characters I was working on tonight were Batman and Judge Dredd, except they were both female. I love the whole strong female aspect. It's what I've always found girls to be, even if some were rude to me. The female population kinda fascinated me, even though I wasn't attracted to them. I was debating making a crossover between the characters, in the end deciding that I would, when Mikey called up to me saying that dinner was ready and we were all going to watch the new episode of iZombie we missed on Tuesday. I finished up some details on Clara Kent's hair before turning off my desk light and turning off my ipod, which had started playing Don't Fear (The Reaper) by Blue Oyster Cult and headed downstairs.

All three of us sat and ate some spaghetti my mom cooked up and sat in front of the tv, Mikey and I on the couch, Mom on the recliner, and watched the tv. Throughout the 40-something minutes of the episode Mikey was texting an awful lot. I managed to get a sneaky glance at his phone to see "Kristin :)" as the I.D. Okay, I wasn't going to ask. Since I was good with names, it sounded familiar. I think it was a girl in Mikey's grade.

Well, my night was uneventful, really. After we all finished, Mom went to do some online shopping while Mikey and I both went our separate ways to our rooms for the rest of the night. I laid on my bed and read some of the newest Never Boy issue when Andy texted me, asking if there was any homework in the few classes we shared. I told him we had a quick 5 problem worksheet in Chemistry (which he forgot about) and some Algebra homework (which he apparently had finished during study hall).

And this is what a typical day is like in the uneventful life of the emo hermit loser Gerard Way.

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Today is 4 Day, and that means no art class. Damn. I can't be deprived of doing art like this.

It also means that I don't have math class today, which means Chemistry is first bell. I'm always the first kid in class in the morning because I don't feel like dealing with others walking at a pace slower than a snail and taking up the entire hallway in one line so people have to push their way through.

I walk into Chemistry class, unsurprisingly being the first student there, and see Frank.

My heart leaps a bit.