In Another Life (frerard)

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I stood there, at the edge of the swamp. Hands clasping my shoes. My head on a constant swivel, looking for him. He wasn't anywhere to be seen. I began to panic, my sudden movements were only in my upper half as my feet were stuck, the hands were strong. I couldn't move.

The bats weren't coming as close as usual. I had been flailing my arms around, trying to shake out of the grip of the hands for a while. I decided to give up. I had never done so, I knew dying in a dream meant dying in real life. I'm okay with that, I had nothing to live for.

The hands had won. I had fallen onto my back, I had given in, its my time. I was letting the hands drag me into the water when I felt a hand grasp my back. It was warm, unlike the hands at my feet, it was trying to pull me up.

"GERARD WAKE THE FUCK UP!" I jolted awake to the sound of Mikeys voice. "What?" Why was he waking me up at... 8:00am. "Doesn't you're first class start in like 30 minutes? "It's Saturday?" "Uhm no it's not, it's Monday? Are you okay, do you not remember the weekend?" No. He's lying, no way I blacked out 2 whole days. Thats not right.

I picked up my phone to check the date. He was right, Monday, what the fuck happened. "Yeah, my bad. I'm up." It only took me like 10 minutes to get ready and the school was only like a 15 minute walk. I'll be good.

I got ready in 8 minutes, faster than usual. I was out the door by 8:10 after grabbing a pop tart for breakfast. I had all my classes today. Great.

I walked to school, the whole time thinking about my dream. Where was he? Why wasn't he there, why did I give up, who the fuck grabbed me. I had so many questions. I don't see Margo 'till Wednesday, I'll tell her then.

I walked up the steps of the school. I already can't stand anyone here, there was 2 weird girls making out on the steps. It's 8:24 in the morning, what the fuck. Okay I have 6 minutes until first class. My first class is in building A. My first and last classes were both in building A actually, math and biology. Fun. My other classes were all in building C which wasn't very far.

I walked into the doors of building. I was shocked by the lack of people. There was definitely people but not many. I saw one small group of people huddled in a door way and a few people just walking around, but thats all. I looked at my phone, where I had my schedule pulled up to see what room I was supposed to be in.

Funny enough that group of people happened to be standing right where I needed to be. Fuck me, now I either had to wait until they moved, and possibly be late to class, or ask them to move. Fuck, I don't wanna be late to class on my first day.

I slowly walked over to them, luckily for me, just the tallest strongest looking one had to be the one to turn around. "Hey can you move please." "Oh yeah, my bad man." "Thanks." I mumbled under my breath, not wanting to draw attention to me. "Hey hold on kid." Fuck.

I turned around to see the tall weird guy staring at me. "Black flag?" He said pointing to my Black Flag shirt. "Uhm yeah..." "I fuckin love Black flag. My name's Ray, nice to meet you." "I'm Gerard." I said as he stuck his hand out for me to shake. He seemed like a nice guy, no point in being rude.

"This is Hayley, Ryan, Patrick, Joe, and Andy." He said pointing to the people around us. "Frank's around here somewhere. Actually he's probably late." "You're not Gerard Way by any chance are you?" The boy named Patrick asked. "I am, why?" "Oh no shit, were friends with Pete, he talks about you a lot." Okay, I can trust these guys then. If Pete trusts them so do I.

"Nice to meet you guys." I said, putting a smile on my face. Maybe Margo was right, maybe I would make some friends. I checked my phone 8:29. class started in a minute. "I gotta go to class now." I said before turning around. All 6 of them followed me into the room.