Chapter 1
"Suicide Pete, freaking suicide, and you are acting like you've never known him, and you don't care!" Josh yelled.
"Look" Pete said with a calm voice, trying to keep it down because they are walking towards they're next class, "If he wants to try to commit suicide, that sucks, and I cried for two nights in A ROW" He stopped and turned towards his friend, "But you have to understand, I can't do anything about it, Tyler hates me, he called me, before he tried and told me he never wanted to speak to me again. I tried to talk him out of it, I stayed on the phone with him for an hour, while he just cried into the phone!" Pete accidentally screamed the last part, which then he gained some strange glares. Pete turned red, and quieted down, so he was at his "inside voice". "I told you, he just doesn't want to see me."
"Look Pete," Josh sighed, "We all know that isn't true, you and Tyler have know each other way before me and the rest of us started to know you two, it's been you two, together, till the end."
Pete took a long stare at Josh, "Why don't you go comfort him since you are in love with him" and then turned into the music classroom. Josh was left blushing, and saying something along the lines of 'shut up, we aren't in love.' Pete quickly scanned the room and saw a couple available seat in the front, but he preffered the back. This was his favorite class in all of high school, but now, not so much. The only reason it was his favorite is because he could play the bass here, and all of his friends were here. Josh took a seat in the front with the rest of them, which included Frank, Gerard, Ray, Andy, Joe, Patrick, Tyler, Brendon, and Ryan. They were taking up the entire two first rows, as all of them loved music, except Debby and Jenna were both in Gym class at this time, because they weren't big of music fans as the rest were. The teachers purposely put them all together, because they know that they are better when they are together, as it has been like that since 3rd grade. Until now.
10 minches into the class and already the teacher gave Pete 4 weird looks for not sitting with the 'gang' as Mr. Brayle called them. 2 minutes after that, Mikey finally showed up, and apologized for interrupting and being late. After what seemed like 20 seconds just scanning what was going on, Mikey went to the back, getting some weird glares from the gang, and sat down on the right, next to Pete. "Okay, as i was saying, can anyone tell me..." Mr. Brayle continued. Pete was expecting some kind of ass remark as to why he wasn't sitting with the rest, but got really surprised when none of that happened. Mikey just had a little smirk on his voice for a whole 10 minutes and there were 40 more minutes so left, so hell with this, we was going to figure out why.
"What's with the face?" Pete asked.
"Oh this,?" Mikey responded, "my momma gave it to me 17 years ago, why?"
"You'll know what I mean, spill."
"I think I might actually like someone again." Mikey said, smile getting bigger and bigger.
Pete was honestly surprised that Mikey would ever have a crush on someone again after what happened in Freshmen year, even though now they are in Senior. That bastard had the nerves to get Mikey excited over taking him to dinner, only to run into the girl he was screwing for over 2 years. Mikey told him everyone, after sobbing for 2 hours. And no way that guy was getting away, all 13 of them, Debby and Jenna including, although excluding Mikey because he didn't want to see him ever again, cornered him and they eached took turn saying something rude, when it seems like the guy didn't care, Brendon stepped forward and decked him in the stomach, only to be approached by Pete kicking him in the balls, and Ryan tackling him into the wall. After that, they all left, and they guy switched schools. That was their unbreakable friendship. Pete smiled while remembering the last part.
"What, wait, are you serious?!" Pete yelled, and Gerard and Ray had turned to face the back, Ray turning back immediately, but Gerard staring at the view, which was his brother and his friend yelling and smiling at each other. Gerard turned back around with a smile on his face, knowing what they were taking about.
"Yea, and you'll never guess who it is, I can't believe it took me 8 years to figure this out."
"Wait, 8? Someone in the group?" Pete asked.
"Yup" Mikey replied.
"Mikey I swear, is it Ray?"
"Wait... what... h-how did you know?" Mikey faltered.
"Well," Pete began, "your 'boyfriend' just looked back here looking like a damn tomato."
"Shut up," Mikey giggled while lightly punching Pete in the right arm, "He's not my boyfriend," at this point, Ray had turned around to see what was saying on, and Mikey looked at Ray, and said "yet" with a wink directed towards Ray. Ray smiled and turned around again, paying attention, to what it seemed like the first time in this class period.
"So, what's up with you and the rest?" Mikey asked, sounding like he wanted to ask that the entire time.
"Uh, so you know how Tyler tried to commit suicide?" Mikey nodded in response, so Pete kept on going, "Well, I was on the phone with Tyler before that, for an hour while Tyler was crying into the phone, but he told me he never wanted to see me again, so Tyler is mad at me, so I sat in the back."
"You'll do know he didn't mean that, right? It's been you two against the world before the rest of us popped up and we've all been a group, still through that, he was with you for your depression times, so it was good you were there with him, but you should try and go talk to him." Mikey said.
Pete responded with a shook of his head. "I tried over the phone, Mikes, he just told me to shut up, so I did, then out of nowhere he hanged up, so I grabbed my keys and drove quickly to his house, I found him crying with his wrists split open, so I wrapped him open, while he begged me to let him die, he hasn't talked to me since." Pete said, grimacing.
Pete meant to say some more, but the bell interrupted them, meaning it was time for 2nd period, which he didn't like, because it was Science, and none of them were in his class, only this pretty cool chick that, although he never talked to her, he knew here name was Hayley... Hayley, W? He had more problems than to think of someone's last name. He gave Mikey one last hug, said "Congratulations on finally admitting that you like him" and TRIED to leave for Science, only to be pulled aside by someone.