I'm Glad I Met You

Chapter 4

"You're here early" Mikey smiles as he approaches me, "you smiled!" I fake gasp, which makes Mikey roll his eyes. "I like getting here early. Where are the others?" I answer his question, but add one of my own. "Gerard needs to talk to one of his teachers, so who knows how long he'll be, Frank will either be late or arrive a few minutes before the bell goes, and Ray will probably be here soon." Mikey says. "Anything exciting happening today?" Mikey asks and I nod, "we had to write a narrative for an assignment in Lit, and we get our marks back today" I grin, this is also my chance to get good feedback. "Let me know how you do" Mikey says, with a hint of happiness in his tone.

"Are you okay?" Ray asks from across the table, "what happened?" Gerard asks, joining the table. I feel someone poke my head "stop it Frank" I grumble swatting the hand away and taking my head out of my hands, "how'd you know it was me?" Frank pouts, "because who else is gonna poke her head" Mikey says, sitting next to me. "How did that assignment go?" Mikey asks and I groan, "the teacher failed me because the themes were 'too violent'" I scoff "I only wrote one murder scene! He should've seen the first draft, it was originally going to be told in the murderers point of view!" I rant. "Can we see it?" Mikey asks, I give the small folder to Mikey first.
"Come on" Mikey pulls on my sleeve "where?" I ask, the others seem like they already know what Mikey's talking about. "We're going to see your teacher about this" Gerard says in a duh voice, "no we don't have-" I start but Mikey cuts me off "no, you worked hard on this. Now come on." I agree to go, knowing there's no point in arguing.
"Gina, what can I do for you?" Mr Churcher asks, "we want to talk about Gina's assignment." Mikey confidently tells him, "and what about the assignment?" Mr Churcher sighs, "about how you failed her because she described a murder scene! It wasn't even that graphic, and she used the same amount of detail throughout the whole story!" Mikey exclaims. They continued to defend me until they teacher agreed to regrade my assignment.
"Thank you!" I squeal once we get outside, "it's fine" they wave it off, like they do something like this every day.

"Do you wanna stay together?" I ask Mikey as we make our way to the gym "course, you're not gonna get rid of me that easily" Mikey says "damn it!" I laugh.
"I see the losers have decided to band together" an idiot says and the class laughs, "well done! You explained you and your friends!" I sarcastically remark, "making comments like that'll get you bitch slapped" one of his friends sneers and I shrug, "then I'll fight back. And trust me, I'm not just gonna be slapping." I growl, stunning almost everyone in the class. I never normally reply to insults, although now I have friends to protect I'm going to fight back. "Why aren't you in your sports uniform?" The gym teacher asks, "my septum piercing is still healing so I can't do sport" I lie, my septum has already healed, I just hate sport. "What about you Mikey?" I see Mikey stiffen, he obviously hasn't come up with an excuse. "His asthma is playing up" I say for him, the teacher believes me and goes to quiz the other students that are out of sports uniform. "I don't have asthma!" Mikey yells at me in a hushed tone, "you do now" I laugh and pat him on the back.

"Thanks for making Mr Churcher regrade my writing." I say when we sit on the bleachers. "You don't have to thank me. You're a really good writer, you deserve a good mark." Mikey praises, I shuffle closer to him "I should thank you though... Especially since I got to see assertive Mikey, and he's really cute" I whisper making Mikey stiffen. "I'm pulling your leg" I tell him, putting a hand on his shoulder "oh... Yeah I knew that."
"I hate these skirts!" I growl as another gust of wind try's to blow up my skirt, "the wind is being more pervy then Frankie today" Mikey mutters making me burst out laughing. After we get our laughing under control we look at each other and start laughing again. "So what are you doing after school?" Mikey asks, "if I have any money I'll go to the comic book shop, if not I'll probably just go to the bookstore, why?" "I was wondering if you wanted to go with us?" Mikey offers and I nod, "sure."

"So are we gonna spend every second of our free time together?" I ask when we meet up at the end of the day, "probably" "okay."
Someone pushes Ray over which causes a domino effect on the others, "watch out" Gerard mumbles "what was that?!" The guy grabs Gerard by the collar, "let him go" I stand next to Gerard, "you need a woman to fight your battles?" The guy scoffs, I pull my hand back and slap his cheek as hard as I can. "Genders are not weak it's the people that are, if you pulled your head out of your arse you might be able to see that." I narrow my eyes at him, "whatever" he walks away, noticeably less confident. "You didn't have to do that" Gerard mumbles, "he needed it told to him eventually" I shrug. "Why don't you stand up for yourself like that?" Ray asks, does that mean they noticed me before? "I don't know, I just don't feel the need to stand up for myself" I shrug, "well you don't have to stand up for us" Gerard grumbles, "what?" I ask and he sighs. "We aren't weak, we don't need you to fight our battles!" Gerard says loudly. I look at the others, who look like they're try to decide what side to take. "You're right" I say, surprising them. What a great time to arrive, "I'm gonna go into the bookstore" I say before darting across the road and going into my safe house.