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(!!PLEASE READ!! this has a polish class system bc idfk if u americunts have that so basically there are two 12th grades 12-A and 12-B thats why theyre both in 12th grade and they dont rlly know eachother idc if that makes sense)
Frank was sitting in his hotel room. (Note from the writer- im not giving you any context for what or where the trip is. Just know its a school trip and grades 12-A and 12-B went on and threyre staying in some shit ass hotel for the night). It was far after 12AM, probably around 2AM? The clock on the wall wasnt working and it just showed 6PM. He wasnt tired or anything, and that was the problem- hes supposed to be fast asleep right now. He could hear occasional footsteps and the quiet buzzing of the heater in the room that seriously looked like its about to fall of the wall and set on fire. The supposed silence was broken by a knock on the door, a very light one. He got up and walked to the door, fully expecting it to be some teacher telling him to go to sleep or to turn off the lights. Frankie peeked through the peephole, that really did nothing beacuse it was stained and blurry, so he decided to just open the door like a normal person.
And who could be standing there? Yup, the random guy he meet on the bus earlier. The one he shared a earphone with while listening to music on the way to the hotel.
-"uhm... so this might sound stupid but the heater in my room gave up, plus the window wont close for shit.... you mind if i become your roomate for one night...?" Said the guy... what was his name again? Gerald? Wait no, it was like spelled weird.... Ge... Gerard?
Frank was quite suprised seeing the person who he barely knows just ask him if they can sleep in his room..
-"eh, sure, just dont make too much noise and youll be fine." He yawned, knowing that hes doing it just for the sake of making this trip at least a bit memorable, or just "for the lore".
Gerard stumbled into his room, looked around and decided to just stand with his back against a wall for now.
-"Yeah err... where are you gonna sleep?" Frank havent thought of that. The bed was a small twin bed with a hard mattress, so two people cant really fit on it well unless they would be pressed against eachother, and since Gerard was at some point a total stranger, Frank surely didn't want to go with that option.
-"Uh.. i can sleep on the floor i guess, i dont really mind it.." Gerard mumbled rubbing his eye.
One of them was making this extremely akward, but they really couldn't tell who. After a moment of uncomfortable silence, Frank turned around and started digging through some bag that was laying on the ground. Gerard looked around, the room looked undeniably messy. The bed was undone, there were three opened bags on the ground, a shirt was lying on the floor and a Game Boy Advance without a cartridge on the bedside table. Then, Frank looked behind at the taller boy with a awkward smile and asked:
-"Ha, uhhh... we're friends, right?"
-"Umm... i guess so?" Gerard couldn't tell what Frank meant by that. Well, they do "know" one another, they sat next to eachother on the bus. Maybe they didn't talk much, since Gerard was reading a comic and Frank was busy playing Pokémon Ruby on his GBA, and both of them were listening to music in the background from Frank's walkman, they both enjoyed each other's presence, so that kind of made them friends. But still, why the hell would Frank ask that?
-"Friends dont rat on eachother, right?" Frank asked another question, which for Gerard it sounded weirdly menacing, so he laughed it off awkwardly and just answered
-"haha.. i dont think they do..?"
-"... okay, great."
Frank then pulled out a pack of cigarettes from the bag.
-"Cigarettes? Oh im gonna snitch on you if you dont give me one." Gerard joked.
-"Oh? You dick head! Haha." Frank stood up and handed Gerard one cig.
The shorter male looked around the room. Windows were sealed shut, and he doesn't want to trigger the smoke alarm because if it would go off, the teachers would wake up, see them smoking, yada, yada, yada... But the bathroom had a window that could open, and it could open wide. It was a small, rectangular window on the top part of the wall, so the smoke would fly out easily.
-"uh, we have to go to the bathroom for that."
-"Why?"
-"Smoke alarm. These fucking windows in the main room dont open at all, only the bathroom windows do."
-"Ohh, okay." Gerard nodded.
Theyre in the bathroom now. Frank is struggling to turn on the lighter- 'click, click, click, click... poof' He slid the cigarette between his lips and gave the lighter to Gerard- 'click, click, click, click, click..' with a groan, he shook the lighter and tried again- 'click, click, click, click, click, click...'
-"piece of shit!" Gerard hissed before hitting the lighter against his palm and trying again- "click, click, click, click...'
-"Need any help with that?" Interrupted Frank, but in respons the other guy just sighed. 'click, click, click...'
Frank took the lighter from Gerards hands and put it in his pocket. Then, he grabbed Gerards hand, the one he was holding the cigarette with, and pressed the tip of the gasper against his, lighting it up after a moment. The fact that Frank's face was so close Gerards hand made the latter boy feel something weird at the pit of his stomach, but it's not like he ever admit that.
-"Shit, i almost forgot" Frank began "Could you open the window? Its a bit too hight for me to reach, you know.."
-"Ah, sure, close the door though." Gerard put the cigarette between his lips and reached up for the window knob, twisting it downward and pulling on it gently to open the window. Frank closed the door, just like in Gerards reqest.
Now, Frank was standing against the sink and Gerard was right in front of him. It was quite cramped but its the best they can do.
Frank tapped the excess ash off of his cigarette, before taking a huf and blowing the smoke to the side.
-"We are in total trouble if they catch us like this, arent we?" He commented.
-"Yeah, absolutely dead.." Gerard leaned in closer, in the excuse of reaching towards the sink to tap off the excess ash. The guy in front of him, the one he doesn't even know the name of, looks very charming to say at least. Is it a crush? Maybe, but it could also just be the yellow dim bathroom light and sleep deprivation. Or even both? Who knows.
-"This place is a total shit hole, isnt it?" Gerard tried starting a conversation, but he realized that he just pointed out the most obvious thing
-"Mhm. If the school has money for a road trip, then why don't they have money to make sure we sleep in like, humane environments, and not some kind of trenches with broken heaters and windows that either cant close at all or wont budge open in the slightest" Frank answered, adding a joke at the end, before taking another huff and blowing the smoke through his nose
-"pfft, you made it sound like they fucking dropped us off at some kind of psycho scientist laboratory and made us into the test subjects!" Gerard giggled, blowing in the smoke from his cig and holding it in for a moment.
-"Well that might be just what they did! We may never know!" Frank joked again, with a overexaggerated tone, which made Gerard laugh
-"Shh! The walls are paper thin! They dont have enough funds for thicker ones!" Frank kept adding to the joke, which didnt help in silencing Gerard.
The two guys talked about really anything. Comics, games, consoles, music and any other thing two absolute teenage-dirtbags would talk about.
It had already been around 30 minutes of them standing in the bathroom, both of them already smoking their second cigarettes. Frank was completely unaware of how Gerard felt towards him, and how much he started to like him the day they met. Could you call it crush at first sight? On the guy, he does not know the name of?
-"At what time are we supposed to wake up next morning, though? I wasnt listening to the teacher at all." Frank asked, smoke spilling out of his mouth as he spoke.
-"I wasnt listening either. 7AM, or 8AM probably, and if not then they will probably wake us up by banging on the door, hehe.."
Gerard glanced over at him, rubbing his eye yet again. He was veeeery slowly leaning closer to Frank, but surprisingly, the shorter guy hasn't noticed a single thing. Gerard did anything he could, just to keep the conversation and the moment last.
-"This bathroom is a total mess and you haven't even used it before? I wonder how cheap this hotel actually is." Frank answered, looking through the small window at the pitch black sky.
-"Exactly! Is there really any good thing you can say about this place? Because i don't think so" Frank laughed, god, it was so endearing
-"Talking with you is actually so fucking easy, you know? I have no idea how we didn't meet sooner"
-"Yeah.."
Gerard decided to shoot his shoot. The worst Frank could do is like, push him away and joke it off, right? Well, you only live once,don'tt you? well, it depends on what you belive in...
-"uh.. can i try something?" He began, rubbing his eye, which seemed to be a thing he subconsciously did.
-"Yeah, sure, go at it dude." Frank still had no idea on what Gerard is feeling, somehow. How can he be so oblivious? The guy that is standing in front of him is madly in love with him and is literally leaning towards him as they spoke.
Before doing anything, Gerard gently tapped the ash off of his cigarette. Then, he leaned in and kissed Frank on the lips, holding him by his shoulders. This caught frank extremely off guard, and while at first, he tired pulling away, he didn't move an inch, with his hands on the edge of the sink behind him. They stayed like that for a moment, before the cigarette between Frankie's fingers slowly stared being uncomfortably hot before burning him slightly, making him flinch and push away Gerard on accident. He wagged his hand for a second to cool it off a bit, before turning back to Gerard with a abashed look because of the sudden kiss. Gerard was very anxious on how Frank is going to react. After a moment of silence, that for the taller boy felt like long excruciating hours, Frank let out a quiet chuckle before giving him a quick peck on the cheek.
-"Pfft, you went straight to the point." Frank commented.
-"Is that a bad thing?" The taller boy stammered, realizing that if Frank didn't like that, he could go all around the school, telling people that 'ohoho! Gerard is gay! He kissed me in the bathroom!' or some shit.
-"No, haha.. You're straightforward, or at least sort of." Frank assured him, while flushing his cigarette down the sink, which Gerard did the same after a moment.
-"Two cigs is surely enough for one day.. or one night." Frank looked up at the window again, thinking if he should leave it open for the night so the stench of cigarettes will leave.
-"Yeah... what do we do now?" Gerard mumbled, really clueless on what to do now. Is he like, still friends with Frank, or maybe more than that? Well, he probably is, since they both kissed and shit, but they're not exactly boyfriend yet, are they?
-"I guess we go to sleep. Its almost 3 AM, and the teachers will have a fucking problem if we walk come out looking like corpses" Frank answered.
They both walked out of the bathroom, closing the door behind themselves. Frank was sitting on the bed, while Gerard was squatted down in front of the bed, leaning against a wall.
-"...what are we?... like, are we still friends?"
-"I dont think so" Frank Protested, "you literally made out with me a while ago in the bathroom."
-"... so are we together?" Gerard insisted.
-"I guess we are" Frank shrugged.
After a moment of akward silence, Gerard spoke up:
-"....... Can we sleep in one bed?"
-"Together? Will we even fit on it?"
-"I mean, i think, or i hope so.."
"Hm.." Frank thought about it for a moment, "like, we are together, so i guess you can lay with me."
-"oh, okay, thanks." Gerard shyly thanked Frank, before standing up and sitting next to him, kissing him on the cheek.
-"i love you." He said
-"...i love you too." Frank answered, smiling.
And it was silent again, before Frank asked:
-"Soo... which side do you want to sleep on?"
-"Uh, i dont mind both. Its technically your bed, i think you should choose which side you want to sleep on."
-"Hm, okay."
Frank decided, that Gerard will sleep against the wall, and he will at the other side of the bed.
Their backs were turned against eachother, and the only noise around was the buzzing from the heater, untill Gerard asked one of the things that was sitting on his mind the whole time:
-"... I'd like to learn your name"