More Than Just Curious

Gerard’s P.O.V

The next few periods went by pretty fast. So soon it was now lunch. Frank wasn’t in many of my classes, which saddened me in the slightest. He was a pretty good guy so far, and I promised him I would look after him. After what he told me that happened in his old school I just had to watch over him. It was pretty sad actually, he was such a nice guy yet everyone gave him shit.

“Gerard!” I heard somebody scream down the other side of the hall. I turned around to see who it was. It was my old time friend Bob.

I stopped and waited for him to catch up to me. Bob was one of my closest and only friends that I had. It was usually just the four of us. Bob, Mikey, Ray and I. Not to mention my girlfriend Lyn-z. I really don’t understand why she is with me. I mean she can really do so much better.

“Where’s that boy toy of yours?” he snickered at me. I gave him a quick scowl that he probably hadn’t seen.

“You’ve heard.” I stated more than asked. He nodded his head in reply, still smiling from ear to ear.

“I really don’t get how these people in this school are such dickheads, I mean can’t they mind their own business?” I fumed, walking with Bob to the cafeteria.

“I heard you got a new boy-toy!” I heard Lyn-z yell from behind me. I groaned awkwardly and turned around to be greeted with my girlfriend of three months. I gently kissed her lips as she walked up beside me, grabbing onto my arm for dear life.

“Who hasn’t heard anything by now?” I told them as I entered the cafeteria. I looked over to our regular table that was in the back row almost secluded from the rest of the cafeteria. I saw Ray sitting there with Frank and I couldn’t help but smile. I was glad Ray actually let him sit with us.

“Ew, look the new fag is sitting at our table,” Lyn-z complained pointing over to our table. She then snickered at her own remark.

I looked over at her with a shocked expression. Did she seriously just say that? I mean I was the supposed ‘fag’ at the school too. She was just heartless sometimes.

“Yeah, I am not sitting there if he is.” She continued talking but stopped walking. I sighed and stopped with her.

“Fine then don’t. He can sit with us if he wants too. I already invited him to sit so he is going to sit.” I told her. I knew she would be mad after hearing that but I didn’t really care. She needs to learn how to treat people.

She huffed and folded her arms across her chest. She stood their impatiently, tapping her foot in a very annoying way. She stood waiting for me to give in to her, but I wasn’t. I just threw my arms up in the air and continued my walk over to the lunch table.

“Wow man, you actually didn’t give in on her. Good job, dude.” Bob complimented me, patting me on the back. I smiled at him and continued to walk to our regular lunch table.
The way to the lunch table wasn’t as hard as it usually was. Only Tom tried to trip me today so I guess that was good. But I couldn’t help but feel bad for Frank. He must have gotten a lot of crap today, most likely because of what had happened in gym. If only I hadn’t of grabbed his hand and held it.

“Hey you guys!” yelled Ray as I sat down at the table, beside Frank. Ray looked around puzzled for a second before looking back over to me. “No Lyn-z?” he asked.

I shook my head and looked down at the table. I could see the guys looking around at each other, trying to figure out where my girlfriend was. I wasn’t going to tell them the truth, hopefully Bob wouldn’t say anything either. But, it was Bob and he had a loud mouth.
“Nope, no Lyn-z today. Mostly because she was all like ‘Ew fags over there! I’m not sitting there today if he is and blah, blah, blah’ so Gerard was like, ‘then don’t sit over there! I already told Frank he could so he is! He is my future boyfriend after all!’” Bob practically shouted, making some heads turn our way.

I looked over at Frank through my hair. He was looking at me and smiling at me. Not a whole smile, just a small short lopsided smile. The smile fit him nicely. Then I realized all the things that Bob had said.

“Not the boyfriend part though, Bob just threw that in there for effect.” I added on to the story. Frank giggled a little bit. The giggle made him sound like he was high.

“Hey Gerard,” Frank finally said to me after minutes of my arrival. I looked up at him and smiled before answering with a ‘Hey Frank’.

Frank smiled sheepishly at me for a second before looking down at the cheese pizza on his tray. He absentmindedly started picking off the cheese and popping it in his mouth. I wasn’t in such a good mood today so I decided against eating. So I was just transfixed on the way he ate. It sounded creepy, but I was just watching him eat.

Soon, I looked up and noticed that the guys weren’t sitting at the table anymore. I looked over to see them at the line waiting to get their food. I also noticed that Lyn-z was sitting at a table almost halfway across the cafeteria from me, talking amongst her friends and giving me hawk eyes. I couldn’t help but cringe and look away.

“Gerard, I thought you were going to be asking me some questions,” Frank told me, interrupting my thoughts. I smiled and nodded my head.

“Do you have a girlfriend?” I asked him. The color washed from his face, he starred at me with his wide hazel eyes before shaking his head no and going back to mutilating his food.

I stopped the question asking there momentarily and just looked at him. He was off into space now, just staring at his food. If I hadn’t known any better I think I could have seen a single tear fall down his cheek. I couldn’t help but think ‘what was wrong with him?’