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“Kids, come on! The bus is here!” Awesome, the bus. Gerard looks excited, but he has a reason to be. His lovely best friend is also going to be on that bus. And not only that, we’re going to be together all the summer. Which means I’m going to be third wheeling through all these months. Of course, that wouldn’t happen if Ray decided to come along. I would love him instantly more than I already do. We need our second mom to be okay.
“Mikey, if you don’t come downstairs right now I’m going without you” My lovely brother said entering my room.
“Tempting… You know I don’t want to go Gee.”
“Why?” Is he really asking that? I don’t know, maybe I don’t want to have to put up with you and Frank being together all the time looking like homosexuals.
“It’s going to be boring and on top of that, you’re going to be all the time with Frank. What about me?”
“Mikes, you know I'm not going to leave you alone. And I’m sure you’ll make a lot of friends there.” He’s stupid. Me making friends? With my anxiety I think that’s a little bit difficult. Frank is the only friend I've ever made by myself and that happened because he started talking to me about how amazing Misfits were, all because he saw my t-shirt in class. And now he’s always fooling around with my brother. They can’t lie to me, there’s something between those two.
The other friend I have is Ray, I know him thanks to Gerard. They go to class together and they started talking because of some strange music project. Ray needed to come home for it and I was there bothering them. I was ten, okay? And my brother having someone over was really strange. Ray was god with me that day and came over a lot of times more. At the end, thanks to bothering them, I ended up being friends with him too.
But I don’t want to disappoint my brother. If he thinks I can make friends I’ll try… I guess.
“Come on, let’s go to the bus.” I said taking my suitcase.
“It’ll be fun, I promise.”
“Yeah, I¡m sure it’ll be fun Gerard… It’ll be fun…”
When we got downstairs we said goodbye to our parents with a hug and we went to the bus. There they put our suitcases in some strange trunk the busses have on the sides. From outside the bus you could see there were a decent amount of people inside, but my parents had told me that this was only the New Jersey bus. Wich means, there would be more people in the camp.
When we got inside I quickly grabbed my brother’s hand,I wasn’t planning on being alone the whole ride. I needed to go with him and I didn’t care if the stupid dwarf called Frank wanted to sit with him.
“Mikey, Gerard!” Oh great! Speaking of the devil… But, wait a minute, he’s not alone…
“Ray! You came!” I said excited sitting exactly on the sits that were in front of them. I would have to be looking back all the time, but it’ll be worth it.
“Yeah, I couldn’t have been all the summer without my friends.” He said while smiling. I have to say that Ray is one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen in my entire life.
“Friends? You should say sons, because we basically are.” Gerard was right. Ray is the only one who can manage to keep us calm. Even if I’m usually calm there’s sometimes when I get really mad at Frank or Gerard and he doesn’t let me punch them. At the end we all knew I couldn’t do it… I’m not that bad.
“ Well, if you’re my sons I love you so much. And I’m a single father that works very hard to keep you guys alive.” After Ray said that we all started to laugh. Ray and me were laughing like normal people would, while Frank and Gerard sounded like a walrus giving birth. They’re totally meant to be, each one more dumb than the other.
“Guys, I think this is going to be one of the best summers of my life.” I said without thinking.
“Weren’t you saying that you were going to be bored?” Gerard asked already knowing the answer.
“Were you saying that Mikey? Really? I’m hurt… That’s the reason why your brother it’s my favorite Way.” This time was Frank the one that talked, trying to sound hurt.
“Frank, shut up and leave Mikey alone. You know how difficult it can be something like this for him. There’s going to be a lot of people and he only knows us.” Wow, maybe it’s going to be true, he really is our mom. He knows me too well… Even better than my actual mom.
“Yeah, I know, but even like that. He knows us! He’s going to have fun with us!” Frank continued saying what he wanted to because he’s always right.
“I didn’t know Ray was going to come. If I knew that mom was coming with us I’ll have thought it was the best idea ever!” To be honest, I said mom as a joke, but people near us stared at me confused. Because of fear and shame, I hid my face on my brother’s neck. He just hugged me letting me hide more easily. In momelike this I love my brother.
I stayed like this a couple of minutes until I heard Gerard say my name as he patted my head.
“Mikey? There’s no one staring… Wait, I know how dizzy you can get on long rides… if you want you can stay like this and sleep, I don’t mind.” See? I have the best brother ever. I don’t understand how some people don’t get along with their siblings. Siblings are the best thing to exist.
I tried to get more comfortable snuggling closer to Gee and closed my eyes. He was kinda comfy to be honest. The voices of the people who were on the bus started to fade, slowly, until the only things I could hear were my brother’s heart beating and what was going on in my dreams.