Lie To Me (Frerard)

17: The Most Traumatic Chapter Ever - You'll Cry Like 69 Times

Gerard's life had pretty much entirely turned around within the past few days, and really, it was far more than just unexpected, and they really just hated to admit just how much of it was down to Frank Iero, but then again, surely, by now they could just stop hating every fibre of being that was Frank Iero, or at least, pretending to.

But the whole thing with Frank was always so much more than that, and there just wasn't anyway around a fact such as that.

Of course, things weren't perfect, things could never be perfect, because Frank knew Gerard was a liar and Gerard knew the same of Frank and in consequence there was little no hope of trust in the relationship, but when Frank Iero was more than prepared to kiss it better, Gerard Way was more than prepared to forget about it, even if it would eventually drive them insane.

But of course, the hardest part lay in explaining to Lindsey and Alicia the events of the past few days - the two knew about the whole gender thing and had been absolutely fine with it, mainly because they weren't assholes and valued Gerard's friendship more than the pronoun they used to describe them, again, because they weren't assholes, but the whole thing with Frank Iero was an entirely different pile of shit, and really, Gerard couldn't help but feel like their reaction wouldn’t nearly be quite as positive.

Gerard had texted Frank last night, but from then on there'd been no contact between the two of them, and they knew that Frank cared far too much for his reputation to ever consider hanging out with Gerard at school, especially in front of his friends.

Art class was a different story, and one that involved far more awkward detentions than Gerard would ever care to admit.

But they'd ended on a good note, and Gerard just couldn't help but feel that they were making something out of nothing here, and they really wanted this relationship to last, especially when they'd trusted Frank with pretty much every secret that mattered via both Gee and Gerard, and if Gerard knew anything, it was that Frank was always an asshole when it came to dumping people.

"Gerard, you're late, like really late, like I wanted to actually get to French on time, and avoid being stabbed by my teacher, but don't mind my will to live-" Alicia rolled her eyes as Gerard approached her and Lindsey at the front gate: the two having stood there for around ten minutes already, and growing more impatient by the second.

"I'm sorry- I... I kind of have something to tell you." Gerard admitted, blushing a little as they couldn't help but speculate every possible reaction to the news of their relationship with Frank Iero in their head - it would be interesting, to say the least.

"Mikey told us about the gender thing, you know. Said you were too scared to do it, which you shouldn't be because we love you, no matter who you identify as, okay?" Lindsey grinned at them, pulling Gerard into an unexpected and over affectionate hug, as Alicia snorted a little in response to Gerard's face of suffocation as Lindsey practically drained all the air from their lungs in the process of the hug.

"It's not that- I told Mikey to do that... and thank you, really." Gerard smiled, glancing from Lindsey to Alicia as the former finally pulled away, allowing them to actually breathe for the first time in about thirty seconds.

"It's fine. It doesn't matter in the scheme of things - you're still you, whatever, you're still Gerard, and you're still my friend, and you're still making me late for French - I think you should take this detention of my behalf to be honest-"

"Yeah, well what I have to tell you is kind of important, well it's important to me, so I guess it's important to you, and can you please not make any judgements before I've fully explained anything, because I know you'd want to." Gerard sighed out, catching both of their gazes in turn, and receiving a nod before continuing.