Bitter and the Sweetness ☥ Frerard

☥ Chapter 4 ☥

"Holy shit, Gerard Way found your instagram?" Frank's best friend, Jamia, exclaimed as they entered their first hour together, and after Frank finally explained in depth as to exactly why he needed help.

The night before Frank called her but couldn't really tell her much over the phone because his mother kept nagging at him to do the dishes. So after he sent a glare towards the door, and a few snarky comments he had to tell Jamia his goodbyes and went to put the dishes away.

The pair of friends walked to their normal seats in the back of the class and then put their books and computers on their desks, then sat down.

"Yeah, dude. I got home and there it was: g.weezy," Frank told, Jamia, looking at how her face scrunched at the username Gerard chose, "I know, his username is super cheesy."

"Dude his username sounds like he's trying to be G-Eazy," she chuckled lightly, "Did you look at his profile?"

Her question made Frank's realize, shit, I didn't even stalk his profile.

Jamia saw it in his face and she gave him a disappointing look, "Frankie, you didn't even check his profile?"

"Well yes but no... I uh, I went on it to see the name and it said that it was Gerard. So technically-"

"Don't get all technical with me, Frank. You only looked at his name? Did you even read his bio?"

Frank's cheeks flushed a slight pink color, and he quietly mumbled, "No."

Jamia just looked at him with a blank stare, not saying anything. Although she didn't even need to say anything, Frank could just read her face, and he sighed.

"You want me to look at it right now?" Frank asked, making Jamia nod.

Frank pulled out his phone, going into instagram and clicking on Gerard's profile. Jamia took his phone from him and started reading Gerard's bio. It read, "i like my cat more than i like u... and i don't even have a cat."

"He's a total nerd." Jamia chuckled, making Frank want to read what it said.

"What's it say?" Frank questioned, now growing more curious as to what Gerard Way could possibly have in his bio. Jamia gave his phone back so he could read it, and when he read through it he couldn't help but crack a smile. "He's cute."

The two words that fell from his lips made Jamia raise her eyebrows in shock. Frank Iero has never used cute in describing Gerard Way. It was always, "he seems like such a dickwad" or "he's a major fuckboy". Never anything along the lines of cute.

Frank looked up from his phone to face Jamia. He had a questioning expression as he asked, "What?"

"Dude, did you hear yourself? You called him cute."

"What's the big deal?"

"I- nevermind." Jamia giggled and shook her head. The bull rang before either of them could say anything else.

The rest of the hour went by and neither spoke of Gerard. After that period though, they split to go their own ways, since they only have three classes together. So there Frank was, walking down the crowded corridor to his favorite class: choir. As usual, about three people stepped on the backs of his shoes. He's not quite sure whether they did it on purpose or if it was accidental, but he didn't care enough to turn around to see who it was anyway. On his way there he saw Gerard walking the opposite way. They caught each other's sight, and Frank flushed a light shade of pink as the older boy threw a wink and a smirk towards him.

Frank made it to the music room and entered, taking a seat at his usual spot in the middle row where the altos and tenors were usually sat. The bell rang, making everyone take their seats. No one really sat next to Frank, leaving two empty chairs next to his. He didn't mind though, he didn't really like being close to his other classmates while singing. Yeah, he loved choir and singing, but hearing his actual voice and the thought of others hearing his voice didn't really appeal to him. Especially since he was an alto. The only boy in that section. He desperately wanted to be in the tenors- maybe basses if he could have his way and have a deeper voice- but he couldn't, his voice just didn't go down to that range, no matter how bad he wanted it to go down. But amongst all of that, he appreciated even being able to be in choir, and where his teacher had him seated.

Frank was brought out of his trance when his teacher had asked everyone to stand to start their warmups. Warmups were always his favorite part of choir, because that was really the only time in the day where he could properly stretch his aching limbs. Plus, his teacher always had them doing new and silly sounding vocal warmups.

The class did their normal warmups when suddenly the teacher stopped playing the melody. Frank started really paying attention as to what was happening when his teacher began to speak.

"Ah, Mr. Way, you finally decided to join us." Frank groaned internally at the name he spoke and looked over to the door. And of course there he was. "You do have a pass with you, right?"

"Nah, I didn't come from anyone's class." Gerard said slyly then said in a fake posh accent, "Where shall I sit, sir?"

"You're gonna be marked tardy for that then. You can go sit with the tenors and altos; in one of the seats next to Frank. I'll have to talk to you about testing your voice range at a different time." Their teacher announced, making Frank's breath hitch. Of course their teacher put Gerard next to Frank. Of course the universe did this to him. At this point, Frank was fully convinced that something or someone put a curse on him.

Frank kept an eye on Gerard as he walked his way over to his new seat. Gerard kept the smuggest expression on as he did. Once he made it, Gerard kept an eye on Frank, with that small stupid smile that never strayed from his lips. His gazed burned into Frank, which made the shorter boy look up at him.

"Hiya, Frankie."

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hi guys! sorry it took so long to finish this chapter and put it up ): i've just had a major writer's block this past month. and in that month i've tried picking at it and wrote little by little, and it's crazy cause i thought that with this whole coronavirus thing goin on, i would have more time to write! and i do, i just couldn't get rid of that writer's block. but i'm hoping it's gone now that i have this chapter finished and up. something happened a couple nights ago that really inspired and motivated me to finish the rest of this chapter, so even though it was a bad thing, i'm glad it happened lol. this chapter is 1067 words, but it still seems super short ): so i'm sorry about that. but i hope you enjoy ! and i'm hoping to get started on the next chapter very very soon cause i have some ideas that just need to be out already! adios, stay safe <3 xøj