Band Of The Broken

Stuck in a Locker

Gerard held my hand as we walked into math, my least favorite subject. We walked in and I felt Gerard flinch at someone I looked up at him and followed his gaze to a big brute who had scars on his face and an intimidating glare fixated on me, I grew very anxious, Gerard moved to hold me protectively against his chest. I snuggled closer feeling safer, Gerard walked me to a table in the far right and sat me on his lap. I leaned against him and the teacher walked in...

Math is useless right? That's why I fell asleep on Gerard, until the bell rang for us to go to lunch. Gerard held my hand as we walked back to my locker and we both put our stuff in the top shelf, to my right someone punched a locker I jumped and Gerard grabbed me defensively as the guy from math and afew more jocks they surrounded us and mocked us, laughing. I couldn't do anything, and I felt, numb it felt like someone was squeezing my heart.

I walked down the hall blood dripping from my nose down to the floor.

"Frankie," I froze and my breath hitched as I turned around to see Grayson. "Looks like your dad got to you first," I stood there, I heard the sharp sound of something snapping in place, I looked to see that he had pulled out a pocket knife. He lunged at me pushing me into the floor, he used one hand to pin my arms above my head he lifted up my shirt and used the dull end of the knife to cut through my black and purple bruises, I bit back my tears and swallowed my scream as his knife went deeper and deeper. I gasped as I felt something inside me snap I felt the blood flow out at a more concerning pace. He had cut a vein. I cried slightly as he dragged the knife down at full force...

I was subconsciously rubbing the two foot long scar as they mocked us, I stopped when someone punched Gerard then pushed him inside my locker. One of them grabbed me and threw me inside with him. He Hugged me as they closed the locker harshly, I started to cry into Gerard's chest as he hugged me tightly.

"Shh... It's okay Frankie," He whispered into my ear as he played with my hair, I slowly started to calm down as he held me close.

"Gerard? Did you get pushed into a locker again?" We heard Mikey call out, wait... Mikey? I punched the locker as hard as I could and Gerard flinched. I heard rushed footsteps towards us. "I'll try and pick the lock okay?" Mikey said.

"Okay," Me and Gerard both replied, after a while the locker opened, me and Gerard fell out and onto Mikey. Mikey made a weird noise of annoyance and pain and I yelped when Gerard landed on top of me, Gerard immediately jumped off and pulled me off of Mikey, I heard Gerard gasp as he touched my side. I looked and pulled up my shirt, my two foot long scar opened up and I sighed as the blood dripped down.

"Well... let's fix this up," I sighed as Gerard and Mikey looked at my scar... well now gash in my side, it didn't hurt when I pulled at the skin to check how deep it was Mikey gagged and covered his mouth, I saw the scared muscle I shrugged and started to walk away, but Gerard grabbed my blood covered arm I heard the soft dripping of the blood on my hands. I looked at him and he had tears in his eyes.

"What happened?" He asked quietly, as if afraid to upset me.

"How could I forget?... Grayson... He pounced on me and stabbed me making the scar deep and painful, he damaged a nerve in my side and severe a vein I was in the hospital for months holding onto life by a string," I sighed and Gerard hugged me getting blood on his shirt. He side hugged me as we walked to the nurses office, she gasped and rushed over to me and Gerard.

"OH! GERARD? WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU BOTH?" The lady shreaked I laughed an empty laugh.

"We got shoved into a locker and it happened to open his deepest and biggest scar from past bullying," Gerard breathed out, I lifted up my shirt and the nurse nearly fainted, and inspected it.

"Well... You will need stitches, but how are you able to stand? Doesn't it hurt?"

"Oh, It doesn't hurt because a nerve is damaged there," she looked at me quickly then called an emergency service to stitch me up... I was now in the hospital and the nurses tried to numb me in the area but I stopped them.

"No need to waste, my side is numb to pain anyway," I said as I casually stuck my finger in the wound not even flinching. They looked at me in shock but put the needle aside to use it on someone who would need it. They pulled out the needle and thread and slowly stitched me up, I just watched as they uncomfortably cleaned it and tied off the stitching.

"Well... someone wants to see you," one of them mumbled, I nodded to let him in already knowing it's either Gerard or Mikey... and Gerard peeked his head into the room as a nurse finished bandaging my side. He smiled when he saw that I was awake, and the nurse awkwardly left the room. Gerard had two cups of coffee and what looked like a bag of candy. He sat down next to me in the chair and handed me a cup of coffee, I smiled at him and took the coffee taking a sip. He drank from his own cup and opened a bag full of chocolate kisses. I sat the cup of coffee on the table and grabbed a handful of chocolates. He watched me and I just ate the chocolate happily along with him. I thought for awhile then grabbed another piece of chocolate, I smirked as I unwrapped it. Gerard looked at me quizzically, tilting his head slightly, he opened his mouth to speak but I shoved the chocolate into his mouth. He grinned slightly and happily ate the chocolate, I chuckled lightly and drank what was left of my coffee as we both continued eating chocolates...

We finished off the bag of chocolates and started talking about his music.

"So all of the songs you wrote have meaning to them right? What are the meanings of the songs we played?" I asked, he smiled slightly.

"I'll tell you them but they aren't the most um... happy meanings?" He said sounding like he was questioning himself, he sighed. "The meaning of Mama... Is a little deep... It's about a guy dying of cancer and he decided that he's going to hell when he dies... The Ghost Of You... It's about losing someone close to you... I had the idea after I had a nightmare that Mikey died..." I noticed that he was crying silently, I cupped his cheek and wipe away his tears with my thumb. He gasped slightly seeming to not notice that he was crying. I patted the spot next to me and he gladly moved to sit next to me, only for me to lay him down putting his head in my lap. I gently played with his hair and pet him, he closed his eyes and cuddled closer to me it sounded like he was... purring?...