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‘Frank, stop playing with your breakfast.’ Frank’s mom scolds, Frank sulks in his chair.
‘But, Mom.’ He whines, His mother gives him a stern look.
‘No buts, young man.’
‘I want to go to Ray’s, we’re gonna play hide and seek.’ Frank says,
‘It’s not 8 pm yet, you can’t go outside,’ his mother takes another bite of her eggs, ‘and I don’t want Mrs. Elizabeth knocking on my gravestone, because you kids have been running over her house’ She looks at Frank to make sure he had heard her.
‘Yes, mom’ Frank sighed.
The rest of the meal Frank kept bouncing and shifting in his seat, his mother kept giving him annoyed glances. After a couple of minutes, she gave in.
“Ugh, you go already.’ She exclaimed, ‘but make your body as visible as you can, cover up and don’t greet people you don’t know.’ she lectured.
‘Thanks, mom’ Frank jumped up and kissed his mothers cheek.
Ten years later…
It’s 8 PM and Frank is walking to Ray’s gravestone, he knocks two times and Mrs. Toro opens the grave.
‘Hello, Franklin. How are you?’She smiles, Frank smiles back.
‘Great, how are you?’ He asks while he floats past her backwards.
‘Fine, thank you. Raymond is still down stairs. You can go get him’ she waves her hand vague in the direction of the stairs. He ran down the same stairs, he has ran down for almost 11 years.
‘Ray!’ He shouted as he barged into the older boys room. Frank heard a loud bang and saw the flowy fro of his friend, Ray stood up while rubbing the side of his head.
‘Goodmorning to you too, you little asshole’ Ray said grumpily, ‘Oh, that’s just great. Now I can go ask my mom if she can sew my ear back on.’
With an annoyed expression on his face, he picked up his ear and slung his back over his shoulder. While Frank was just floating in the corner, dying of laughter.
‘yeah, well, thanks midget. I haven’t lost anything since i was like 11 years old.’ Ray grumbled, Frank just smirked. The curly haired boy stumbled up the stairs while his friend floated behind him.
‘Uhm, mom. Could you- uhm, Frank… I lost my ear’ Ray finally admitted, he let his head hang. Mrs. Toro’s head appeared from the kitchen.
‘Raymond, sweetie what happend?’She asked while grabbing her sewing kit from the closet in the hall. Before Ray could say something, Frank answered for him.
‘Sorry, Mrs Toro. It was my fault, I scared him.’ Frank apologized, Mrs. Toro waved my apology away.
‘nonsense, Franklin. This just happens sometimes when your limbs aren't that- uhm, well attached.’ She said casually, while sitting Ray down at the kitchen table.
‘Hold still, please, sweetie’ she mumbled as she put the first stitch in.
‘Come on, Ray’ Frank shouted while he flew through gravestone to cut the road to the church. ‘We’re late! My mom will kill me if the priest tells her we’re late again.’
‘Easy for you, you can float through everything’ Ray panted when he finally catched up with Frank. ‘I have to actually go around things.’ Ray said with big hand gestures, while giving Frank the death stare.
‘Ugh, solid people.’ Frank said while rolling his eyes. They still had to walk two blocks and then walk up the Church Hill, with five minutes left before class started.
‘Ray, i’ll just fly ahead and tell Father Stump what happened.’ And before Ray could answer, Frank flew away at full speed. He flew right through the classroom wall, he heard someone gasp. He looked around, everyone knew Frank flew through walls. Nobody was frightened anymore when he did it. After a few seconds he found what he was looking for: A new face...
‘Ahum, Franklin?’ Father Stump’s voice brought him back to the reality, he looked questioningly at Frank. Frank shook his head lightly.
‘Sorry, Father. Can you repeat that?’ He asked with a dopey smile, Father Stump sighed.
‘Why are you late, Franklin?’ He repeated himself.
‘Oh, yes. Right, uhm, I was picking up Ray this morning and I scared him.’ Frank could hear some people giggle. ‘So, he lost his ear and his mom had to sew it back on. That’s why we’re late.’ he explained. There was a knock on the door and Ray stepped inside, for a moment there was a weird silence and then the whole class started laughing.
‘Well, well class silence, please’ Father Stump sussed, ‘Ray, please sit down. It’s okay.’
Ray shuffled with a red head to his seat, Frank joined him at the table next to him.
‘what did you say?’ Ray hissed.
When Ray and I sat down at our table in the cafeteria, Ray was greeted with laughter from our friends.
‘So, Ray, we’re all ears. What happened?’ Brendon asked with a wicked grin. Ray sighed.
‘ha ha ha, guys. Hilarious.’ He said slightly annoyed.
‘ah, come on, Ray. You guys were making fun of me for weeks when I lost my hand last year.’ Joe tried to reason with his friend. Ray glanced at him and gave him an apologetic smile.
I’m sorry, Joe.’ Ray said to him, Joe shrugged.
‘That’s the fun of being a zombie, I guess.’ Joe replied and they ate they’re lunch.
After lunch period Frank had human history with Tyler and Ryan, so when they walked to class Frank asked about the new boy in his music class.
‘Does he have black hair and pale skin?’ Tyler asked, Frank’s head shot up.
‘Yes! Do you know him?’ He asked maybe a little too eager. Tyler shrugged and Ryan chuckled. Of course Ryan could already sense his little crush.
‘Not really, but he and his family moved next to us a week ago.’ Tyler explained.
‘Do you know his name?’
‘yes, Way, something with a G. Gerald maybe?’
‘Gerald and Frank sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G.’ Ryan sing-songed, Tyler laughed and he shoved them through the classroom door.
Ryan and Frank sat down next to each other and Tyler picked the table in front of them. They were talking about some party when they were interrupted with a small cough. Frank looked up and saw the new boy – Gerald – standing next to the empty desk next to Tyler.
‘Uhm, is this seat t-taken?’ Gerald stammered. Frank looked around the classroom and saw that while they were talking the whole class had filed in.
‘No, it’s all yours.’ Tyler said friendly.
‘Thanks’ he said, still a little shy. ‘Your my neighbour, right? Tyler?’ he asked, Tyler looked a little surprised.
‘Yes, I’m Tyler and these transparent idiots are Frank and Ryan.’ Tyler said while making a wide hand gesture to them.
‘Nice to meet you, I’m Gerard.’