I had never really been open about my sexuality in any way, and the only people who know are my little brother Mikey, and our friend Pete. Mikey's not the most open person in the world, but he's out at school. That's much more than I could do, it was hard enough telling him and Pete.

Though, neither one of us are out to our parents for obvious reasons, we do plan on it soon. Pete on the other hand, is completely out to his family, which kind of makes it easier for me to get ready to do the same thing.

I myself, am pansexual, though I lean way more towards guys, and Mikey's gay. The most fun part about being gay though, is pride fest. The one part of the year where you can be as gay as you want, and instead of being scared that you won't be accepted, you get so much love and support, because everybody around you is gay too. And if not, they support it.

I've been waiting on pride fest all year, and it's in two weeks! I just have to finish school. Oh, right. School. School has been an absolute hellhole for me this year. 'Why?' you may ask. Well, my life has gradually been broken down piece by piece, all because of one person. Frank Iero. Every single chance he gets, he makes fun of me, or beats me up, or completely humiliates me in front of his 'gang of bitches' as they are most referred to. And, call me cliché, but I may have a very small, itty, bitty, teensy, weensy crush on him. He may push me to the ground and beat me up while yelling things such as 'faggot' or 'gay bitch' when his friends are around, but even then, when they go to leave, he always looks back with sad eyes, most likely an apology. I always hold his gaze for a few seconds before he has to look back to his group of friends as for it not to get suspicious.

Once school ends, though, I'll only have one week until my free day, the most amazing day of the entire year, pride fest.

*le time skip*

It's finally the last day of school meaning only one more day of torture and less than 10 days until pride fest. June is an amazing month. The only bad part is that I won't be able to see Frank again until school starts back up. That situation could be deemed good and bad at the same time, especially for me.

As I walk down the hallway instinctively going in the direction of my first period class, I'm snapped from my thoughts.

Third person P.O.V

"C'mon Gerard, you gotta get into your gay spirit! It's June, the month where gays reign." Pete says, noticing Gerard's slightly sad expression.

"Like, from the sky?" Mikey says just to see what Pete's response would be.

"Man, I wish. That would be fucking dope!"

Mikey snickers, "Don't you think they would get hurt or something?"

"Nah, it would only rain gays in June, so all of the gays who're already here can band together and put up like, trampolines to catch the ones that fall out of the sky." Pete replies seemingly proud of himself.

"This isn't your first time thinking about this, is it?" Gerard asks, giggling.

"No, actually."

"What a surprise," Mikey says sarcastically "Pete's thought about an abundance of gays falling from the sky."

This remark earns Mikey a punch in the arm.

Gerard giggles, but this doesn't last long. Soon an all too familiar voice makes Gerard freeze in his tracks.

"Hey, fags!"

"What the hell do you want, Frank?" Pete growls, menacingly.

"Well," Frank begins, walking towards the three boys with his goons trailing close behind. "since today is the last day, I wanna make sure you guys don't forget me over the summer."

"Can't you just fuck off for at least one day?" Mikey asks.

"You know, I could, but," Frank snatches Mikey by the collar of his shirt. "Where's the fun in that?"

Gerard immediately intervenes, "Get the fuck off of him!" he begins to reach for Franks arm.

Frank quickly lets go of Mikey and grabs Gerard's arm, pulling him close.

"I'm sorry." Frank whispers, quiet enough to where only Gerard and himself could hear.

Gerard is at first confused, but that confusion soon dissolves away when he sees Franks fist whirling back into a powerful and painful punch.

Frank begins to beat up Gerard, but before any of Franks guys get ahold of Mikey or Pete, the bell rings.

"Saved by the bell, huh, faggots?" One of them remarks. It isn't very scary because of his insanely high pitched voice. The boys name is Kellin.

"Just wait 'till you hit puberty." Pete remarks, making the Way brothers and even another one of Franks friends giggle.

Kellin glares at the boy and he immediately stops laughing.

"Let's go." Frank says, signaling for his boys to follow.

Pete and Mikey help Gerard up from the ground where Frank dropped him and noticed that his nose was bleeding.

"Let's get you to the nurse, we can get a late pass too." Mikey says, the other two boys agree.

The boys manage to survive the rest of the school day without encountering the group of bullies again. But one question had been whirling through Gerards head all day. Why did Frank say he was sorry?