Photograph of You (Frerard/Rikey)

My Chem. Live (13)

-Gerard's POV-

Franks movement next to me woke me up, he sat stretching next to me. Apparently we fell asleep, my sketchbook laid open next to us, open to the page of alien us. Frank looked down at me, a smile on his tired face.
"Come on Gee, we have to get up, sadly." He got up, stumbling a bit and almost falling back.
After a moment, he reached down his hand to help me up. I took it, and stole a glance at me clock. We had about an hour and a half before we would have to leave, nice.
"We never went over to your place last night, whoops. Oh well, we have time." He gave me an adorable half smile. "Yeah, can I steal one of your t-shirts again?"
Frank knew full well he'd have time to stop by his place, but I threw a t-shirt at him anyway. I didn't mind him wearing my shirts, he looked cute in them. "Yeah, I'm going to get a quick shower but can you handle making coffee?" He chuckled a bit.
"You know I can Gee, enjoy your shower. I'll be in the kitchen waiting for you." He made his way out of my basement room, shutting the door behind him. I proceeded to haul myself off to my bathroom for a shower.

(Time skip)

Frank had his hand sitting tightly around mine, a half empty mug of coffee sat in front of him. He was focused on whatever was on his phone screen, a smile spreading across his face.
"Hey Gee, you know how My Chem is a thing, and like we have music and all that?" I nodded, what was he getting on about? "I found a place that has an open mic Saturday, and an open slot for a band to play at 7. What do you think?" He had an excited and happy look in his eyes, I understood where he was coming from.
"I think we should ask the rest of the band later today, we also don't have a drummer yet." He nodded.
"Fair point, it'd still be fun to play though. I'll bring it up later though, for sure. In the meantime, we need to get ready for school or we're going to be late." He pulled me up, finishing the rest of his coffee in one drink somehow. I have no idea how he does some of the things he does.
He took both of our mugs to the sink while I went to grab Mikey, the plan was to drop him off at Franks, then go to school- and that's exactly what we did. We arrived a bit early, at the time it seemed like it would be a good idea.
The halls were fairly empty as we walked through them to first period class, unfortunately we didn't have perfectly matching schedules. I dropped Frank off at the math room, then went to the science room myself. At least I got to see him in music, which was both of our next classes.
I sat down at my normal place in the back of the room, pulling out my sketchbook and opening up an empty page. I looked out the window that sat next to me, referencing the image that sat in front of me. Class started an hour after that, I had a,picture of it on my phone though so I could finish the sketch later.
The class period went by surprisingly fast, I didn't mind it though. Next up was music, and that means seeing Frank. I walked through the halls, people watched as I went by. Do I blame them though? If someone goes missing for two weeks, then it would be interesting to see them pop up out of the blue like me and Frank did.
It's probably going to be worse with Mikey though, the kidnapping made the news. People are bound to ask questions, on my way to music a few people had a pro he'd me, but turned away when I paid them mind. No idea what that's about, it's whatever right now though.
Frank made eye contact with me the second I walked in the music room, a smile coming from both of us. I joined him in our little back corner of the room, Ray joined us soon after.
"Frank, Gee, aren't you a sight for sore eyes. How are things going with everyone?" He didn't have to specify on what he meant, I gave an honest answer.
"It's been rough, relief that Mikey is ok though." Ray nodded. "There's been some pretty nasty rumors going around, some kids even got suspended for them." He had this disappointed look on his face.
"Was it really that bad?" Frank asked, a bit of concern showing in his tone. Ray nodded again. "Some of the more tame ones where that you guys transferred, someone started something about you guys getting arrested or something, that kid got suspended. I won't explain some of the.... bad ones right now, but trust me it got bad. All that matters though is that you guys are back, hopefully things will go back to normal soon."
The teacher walked in and started class, addressing Frank and I with a welcome back before giving instructions for today. Big surprise, we were given a free period. That's not sarcastic, that actually surprised me a little bit.
Frank, Ray, and I went over our band music again, Frank also told Ray about his discovery from this morning. He was just as hyped as Frank was, all we're waiting for now is Mikeys approval.
That's how things will work with band matters I hope, things have to be ok with everyone before we do anything. Not going to lie though, doing a live show sounds like it would be pretty cool.

Song of the chapter: Murder Was The Case They Gave Me (LeatherMouth)

A/N:
1. This is late af
2. I'm giving 2 chapters because it's also short af
But in my defense, I've had a (kinda) rough past few days, I'm back now but the story isn't where I need it to be regarding draft chapters.