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"Pick your partners for the next project" the teacher said, it's a rare occasion, usually she's the one assigning pairs. She must be feeling generous today.
Gerard looks over at Frank hoping that he'll take pity for him and will choose him instead of one of his other friends.
Frank's the cool guy who's friends with everyone, and Gerard is just a loser emo kid obsessed with drawing. He's lucky to just have one friend, but he's not lucky enough to always be that one friend's first choice.
Gerard's eyes are pleading, and it looks like he just won the lottery, because Frank is looking right back at him, smiling and walking up to him. "Wanna partner up?" the relief on the black haired boy's face is a bit too evident. "Yeah, that'd be great" it's very hearable in his voice too.
...
Gerard generally feels really comfortable around his friend. He doesn't know why, usually he's really awkward around people. Even his closest family, well, maybe except Mikey, but you get the idea.
That's why he didn't feel weird doing his hair when Frank came over. They had a lot of time after all. He was blow drying his dark waves, while the other boy sat on his bed.
"How long is this gonna take?" Frank whined after managing to stay quiet for the past 5 minutes, which is really impressive for him.
"I dunno, like 20 more minutes maybe? My hair's long, this shit takes a while" he answered nonchalantly.
Frank let out another whine "oh my god, I'm gonna die from boredom... At least let me do it for you?" he suggested and Gee had to turn off the hair dryer to make sure he heard him right.
"...You wanna dry my hair?" he looked over at the other slowly, still seeming a bit surprised by the request.
"Yeah, it can't be that hard, I watched my mom do it. I think I get the idea of this incredibly hard thing" he giggled and stood up walking over to Gerard. "At least I'll actually be doing something" he had a playful smile on his face.
"Okay, okay, just don't burn me" he couldn't help but smile back.
Gerard handed him the dryer and well... Frank somehow managed to fuck up blow drying hair. He really is a man of many talents. He burned Gee quite a few times and his hair was blown in all directions making them even more messy than usual. Straighting them now will take ages, but Frank's hands were so gentle on his scalp. He was really trying his best, he wasn't doing a really good job, but Gerard absolutely loved his touch for some unknown reason, so that makes it worth it. That's the most touch he got from another human in a while and he's not letting it go to waste.
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"Okay, I think we're done now" Frank sounded tired, he thought Gee's hair is dry 15 minutes ago, but Gerard insisted that it's still slightly damp and he'll burn them if he tries straightening it now. And he was right... for the first 5 minutes or so. He might have been stalling for the rest of the time, but can you really blame him? All he has to do is sit in a chair while someone else is doing all the work. The hot air is comforting now that Frank learnt how to stop burning him and his hands feel even better.
"Yeah it's all good now, thanks" sadly all good things must come to an end. "Now I'm just gonna straighten them and we can start working on that project" he plugged in the straightener waiting for it to warm up.
"...And how long is that gonna take?" Frank asked with a sigh.
"A while..." he answered with an awkward smile and decided to not mention that it's thanks to Frank's messy technique that it's gonna take so long. "I can put some music on so you don't bore yourself to death, but I gotta warn you, my music taste is... weird" he chuckled awkwardly and Frank smiled "Okay, show me what you got" he sat on the bed again as Gerard went over to his cd player putting in a freshly burned cd consisting of some of his favorite songs he torrented. He made sure to put the volume on low not wanting to startle his friend with his music taste.
As the music started to play he sat down and let out a content sigh, now that the silence in the room is filled. The straightener was really and he immediately got to work.
The "weird music taste" in question was skramz. Frank listened for a minute or two and spoke "this is the music you listen to every day?" he asked. "Yeah, it calms me down" Gee answered quickly not really thinking about his reply as he was still focused on his hair.
Frank stayed quiet for longer this time and Gerard started to worry that maybe he made him feel uneasy with his answer. It's not the most normal thing in the world that a bunch of dudes screaming about their lifes being shit with unsynchronized music in the background calms someone down after all.
Finally after a few more minutes Frank spoke again, allaying any doubts that Gerard had. "Yeah, I get it" you could pretty much hear him smiling as he said it. Gerard smiled too, and chuckled, but didn't answer anything. It's no surprise that those two are friends with how well they understand eachother.