MCR Highschool [highschool AU]

Chapter 12

The next week wasn't very good. 

Gerard kept getting the threatening notes and he was getting more paranoid. The bullies would yell at him in the halls or hunt him down during class or in between.

Mikey was worried. There was something seriously wrong with his brother. Gerard was barely talking, he was super jumpy and always flinching at things. Every time they went out, Gerard would always look behind him, as if someone was following them. The others were worried too. They tried to keep Dustin and Jason away but they couldn't all the time. They knew Gerard was hiding things. Sometimes he would come home limping but wouldn't say anything. Mikey could hear him cry at night and have nightmares but Gerard would always deny it.

Gerard hated worrying his friends. But what was he supposed to do? If he told them what was going on, Dusting and Jason would hurt them. Well, more than they did already. Sometimes he would find Mikey crying or Frank would have a black eye, or Ray would get things thrown at him. Bob could ignore it, brush it off. But Gerard had it the worst, and he knew it. He would get pulled away and they would talk, or he had to walk home and he'd get beat up. Sometimes, even in the middle of school he'd get pushed around, shoved into lockers. The notes kept coming to. He hated the threatening notes. He hated them so much. Sometimes they said they would do something, but never do it, leaving him terrified all day. 

Gerard thought today was going to be 'normal'. But it was so much worse.

"Gerard! Get up!" he heard Mikey yell.

Gerard groaned and rolled off the bed and got dressed in his usual black pants, band tee and converse. Grabbing his back pack he went upstairs to join his brother. 

"Morning." He mumbled, going for the coffee maker.

"Morning." Mikey said, always the morning person.

"Shhhh. Stop being a morning person." Gerard groaned.

"Nevah." Mikey said, walking out to finish getting ready. 

Gerard muttered at him and drank his coffee. Fifteen minutes they were out the front door, getting in the car to go to school. 

"It's Friday. Think it's gonna be a good day?" Mikey asked, pulling out of the driveway. 

"Maybe." Gerard said, still sleepy.

Mikey chuckled and they drove in silence the rest of the way to school. When they got there, they got out of the car and walked for the school. But as soon as they walked in, Ray, Frank and Bob came running at them. 

"Come with us." Ray said, dragging the two brothers into and empty classroom. 

"What's going on?" Mikey asked apprehensively.

The three looked at each other. 

"They may have 'decorated' Gerard's locker." Frank said quickly. 

"What?" Gerard asked, staring at them with wide eyes. 

None of them replied so Gerard ran out of the room to go look for himself. 

"GERARD!!! WAIT!!" Ray yelled, running after him. 

The others took a moment to realize what was going on before they were also out the door. 

Ray found Gerard staring at his locker, people around him laughing. 

"Gee?" Ray asked quietly. 

"Why would they do something like this?" Gerard asked shakily.

On his locker was notes. Notes from his peers and Dustin and Jason. Notes like 

Kill yourself

Just leave us already

You're an emo freak

Gerard just stared at it. "Gee." Ray said, putting his hand on his friend's shoulder. 

At the touch, Gerard ran down the hall. 

"Wait!!!" Ray said, running again. 

Mikey, Frank and Bob stopped at the locker and yelled at people to leave. Then they proceeded to rip all the notes off of it. 

"I'm going to hurt whoever did this. This is getting out of control." Mikey said.

"It is." Bob agreed. 

"I'm going to joi-Mikey... you okay?" Frank asked.

Mikey had and evil smirk on his face.

"Oh just fine." He said. 

Mikey grabbed all the notes and stuck them in his backpack. "I have a plan."

"And what would that be?" Bob asked, a little nervous. 

"If this gets any worse, I'm turning these into the principle." Mikey said deviously. "Then to see who did it, they'll look at the cameras, and whoever did it will probably get expelled."

Frank and Bob just stared at him. 

"You're a genius." Frank said, patting Mikey's shoulder.

"Why thank you." Mikey said.

They started to walk to where they saw Ray run off, but saw Ray running back to them. 

"Ray?" Bob asked. 

"Where's Gee?" Mikey asked sharply. 

Ray looked at them with wide eyes.

"I can't find him."