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Gerard Way was just the average english professor at belleville high, nice, the therapist teacher, possibly gay, workaholic and a big artist. Frank Iero, janitor, college dropout and his band failed so he became a school janitor. Gerard had seen him a few times whilst leaving work, Gerard must say, Frank was quite the looker…but no, Gerard had decided no more romance after his divorce, Frank is just handsome in a bro way, not like he’d daydream about his soft (probably chapped and super dry) lips… NO! No romance.
One afternoon, when leaving school, Gerard spots Frank cleaning. Frank looks up at Gerard and smirked
[GERARD POV]
“Hello mr way, leaving work late?” franks smirk widening.
i rolled my eyes slightly and scoffs
“go back to cleaning… its not your job to observe me like that” though, i couldn’t help but smile. i quickly wiped that smile off my face and kept walking. i could see in the corner of my eye frank leaning against his broom still smiling, i can’t help but blush a bit.
He rushed to his car, a blue volvo 240 from 1987. He sat down in the drivers seat and sighed, why was he acting like this?!? He started driving home, frank still on his mind. That night, whilst laying in bed, all he could think of was Frank… his dark green eyes, nose ring, black hair.. his BEAUTIFUL behind- no! Okay, he just needed to sleep, no more thinking about Frank. Though, after just a bit more thinking about him, he fell asleep smiling.
[NEXT DAY FRANKS APARTMENT]
Frank woke up around 8am, dreading going to his boring job, but at least he didn’t have to work that much since the kids were clean enough. He gets out and grabs a cup of coffee, he glanced out the window, a rainy autumn morning, his thoughts immediately went to Gerard, the cute english teaher… he smiled slightly and took a sip from his coffee…
[GERARD HOUSE]
Gerard had woken up around 5am, and immediately got dressed, long brown wide pants, a white button up, black vest, a brown tie and blazer. he packs his brown leather messenger bag with his usual teaching stuff, he grabs his glasses and adjusted his hair, he grabs his coffee and put on some cologne. he takes one final look in the mirror and took a deep breath. he looks down at the ground to see his three cats meowing at him, he smiled slightly before his mind flashed with frank again, his face flushed. he pouts slightly. he grabs his umbrella and began walking to the train station.
[LUNCH]
Gerard was sitting in the teachers room eating lunch, the only peace and quite he can get on his job then… frank walks in…
“hey….” he sat down a few chairs away from gerard.
“Dont you have your own room?” he said but not in like a rude way
“what dont like me?” Frank smirked slightly and cracks open his dr pepper
Gerard stared at his soda
“what you want sum?” Frank asked, gerard shook his head.
Frank was the only openly queer adult at this school, Gerard didnt mind, he had a lot of queer students after all. But of course, he was curious about the identity… but he didn’t wanna invade his privacy.
Gerard glanced back at Frank, he still had a tint of red on his cheeks
[END OF DAY]
Frank spot Gerard leaving work late again, his smile widened by seeing him, he approached him
“Mr way!” he smirk and put down the broom, Gerard looks back at him and franks smile widened. His face flushed slightly and Frank smirked. He wanted to annoy Gerard
“Whatcu got in that bag?” Frank leaned against his broom and smiled
“uhhh…. books? pens…?” Gerard said hesitantly.
Frank slowly approached Gerard, Gerard got even more flushed. Gerard bit his lip and looked down.
“hey uh, so you like music right?” Frank smiled slightly, Gerard nodded
“you know i was in a band- pency prep. i still have the cds.”
Gerard tilts his head slightly “Yeah…?”
“Mhm. wanna come over and listen? i promise i have good coffee” Frank chuckled slightly.
Gerard looked around, slightly nervous but nods. Franked changed out of uniform and they eventually took the train to frank apartment.
Eventually they got to his apartment, it was quite small, a bunch of records and posters from shows
“come sit…” Frank motioned to his couch, Gerard sat down and frank walked into the kitchen. Gerard tried to get comfortable, eventually frank came back with a bowl of chips and two cups of coffee. Frank sat down next to Gerard and hands him the cup
“thanks…” gerard said quietly
“do you like f.r.i.e.n.d.s?” frank walked over to his dvds “or maybe you wanna watch dead poets society?” he grinned
Gerard’s face lit up “i love dead poets society..!” he tried to contain his excitement. Frank put in the dvd and sat down next to gerard again. Gerard was so immersed in the movie, Frank thought he was cute, eventually he had to get tissues for gerard once Neil died since he was quite sensitive. They ordered some pizza and listened to some music, eventually, Frank walked Gerard to the train.
“You know… i had a great time” Frank smiled
“Yeah me too…” He smiled. “uhh.. by the way, do you think you can just, take the train with me? i’ll give you some money for a cab.”
Frank smiled “no dont, i’ll come with anyways”
A few minutes later the train arrived and they got on. Gerard sat by the window and Frank sat next to him. A few minutes into the train ride… gerard fell asleep against the window, Frank smiled, he slowly move some of gerard’s hair out of the way, tucking it behind his ear, after a few minutes, when the train did a turn Gerard’s head fell onto franks shoulder, Frank got a bit surprised but enjoyed the contact. He wrapped his arm around him and held him close, he enjoyed having him close, as they neared Gerard’s stop, he woke up, he slowly opens his eyes, he felt himself leaning against someone…. franks warm shoulder, franks arm around his shoulder… he liked this.
he looks up at frank, frank looking at nothing, frank was so incredibly cute.. was he.. falling for him? but… gerard wasnt gay, no.. but was he? he wasn’t even sure himself at this point.. all he knew was that he liked frank.
he raised his head from his shoulder, missing the warmth.
“oh uh… my stop… is here..” gerard stood up, frank following him
“i know, i’ll walk you home” frank smiled and they got off the train, the walked in silence for a while, franks hand brushed against gerard’s face flushed, hopefully frank couldn’t see it because it was so dark…
after a few minutes of walking, they got to gerard’s house.
“Why is your house so big?” frank said curiously
“oh.. me and my ex wife shared it….” gerard nods slightly, franks too.
“well,” he grabs gerard’s hand, kissing his knuckles “good bye Monsieur” he smirks, still holding onto his hand
“uhm… yeah.. bye….” gerard’s face flushed again, but now frank could definitely see it. frank turns around and began walking away, gerard stood there, still in shock. he slowly turns around and began unlocking the front door.