English Teacher Blues 5

The car ride with Ray was awkward. "So, why did you do it?" Frank looked up from his hands with his considerably sober demeanor, "I don't know? I mean he kissed me first..." Ray smacked himself in the face with his palm, kept his palm at his temple and watched the road with lazy eyes. "Ray?"

"What Frank?" Ray answered in an annoyed tone. "I seriously didn't kiss my student." Ray's eyebrows raised, "You mean you didn't kiss him back?" Frank watched the light posts pass by for a while before even considering the question seriously. "No, I didn't kiss my student back. It's against everything I believe in." Ray pulled into the apartment's parking facility and stalled the car slightly.

"Does he remind you of yourself when we were teens?" The question caught Frank off guard and he faced Ray for only a second before hurriedly opening the car door and throwing the contents of his stomach unto the pavement. Ray sighed, "I'll just take that as a yes."


Frank straightened his black and white striped tie. His gray suit brought a frown to his face and Frank thought about the only events he could recall from his drunken saturday evening. The Way brothers were not in class that fine Monday. Frank had decided on Sunday that he was going to set things right between himself and the oldest Way Twin. Frank waited impatiently til his confrence period. He walked as casually as possible to the small hidden door and quietly slipped inside.

There were the Way twins. Mikey was desperately making out with another young man while Gerard sat lazily in his own plush chair. Frank observed the young artist for a few moments. Gerard was draped over the chair with his head and feet hanging off the arms of the one man couch. His normally make up coated eyes were clean of eyeliner and screwed shut. Frank crouched down and carefully removed Gerard's large skull candy headphones blaring Iron Maiden.

Gerard stirred only slightly and Frank kept his eyes glued on the young male couple, careful not make much noise as to disturb them. However this did not last long becuase Frank soon yelped due to a soft breeze of warm breath on his neck. Gerard crackled loudly and the young male couple looked towards Gerard and his startled teacher. Mikey and Ryan cracked up at the sight of the terrified english teacher.

"So what brings you here?" Mikey replied straightening out his large vintage specs. Ryan's hands settled down on Mikey's sides. "I want to straighten shit out between us," Frank tried to stutter confidently, but it came out as deflated and will-less. Gerard looked down at his hands, "Okay, let's go talk in the corner over there." Frank got up off the floor and Mikey looked at his brother with sad eyes.