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Chapter Five, Part Two.
Mikey ran across the courtyard, messenger bag slapping his thigh painfully on the off steps, looking left and right over the faces of those he passed. Finally, he spotted Gerard eating a sandwich on a little bench and ran over to him. Out of breath, chest heaving, he somehow managed to get across that Frank was about to do something incredibly stupid and that they had to go now.
Abandoning their bookbags and lunches, the two boys ran for the nearest door. They took the stairs two and three at a time, dodging students and teachers, making their way up to the second floor. At the top of the stairs, Gerard froze, and Mikey, who had fallen behind, crashed into him. He followed Gerard's gaze over to the lockers in the wall of the landing, and then to Sami, arms laden with books, making her way to them. She was about three feet from her locker when everything seemed to segue into slow-motion. Gerard and Mikey stood there, breathing hard and fighting their somersaulting stomachs, watching her hand inch closer and closer to the combination lock.
She turned the lock, entering the combination, and lifted the latch. Mikey's stomach shot clear through to his brain. Gerard managed to get a barely audible "Don't.." out before it did.
With a bang, the door to her locker flew open, and the Hobbit-sized form of Frank Iero came shooting out at the unexpecting girl. "HI!!!!" he bellowed. She let out a shriek that probably could have been heard in the next county, and jumped, sending her books flying. People stopped and stared as she ran down the stairs, looking back over her shoulder in sheer terror. Frank stepped out of the locker and closed the door with his foot. He straightened his tie as he walked in the opposite direction, a seemingly perfectly nonchalant expression on his face, but Gerard and Mikey both recognized the smouldering defeat he was trying so hard to conceal.
Watching him stalk off momentarily suspended the reality of what they had just witnessed. It was so ridiculously absurd. The two boys stood there motionless on the landing, catching their breath, and still staring vacantly in disbelief after Frank.
"Did you just see...?"
"Yeah. Did he really...?"
"Yeah."
"Okay. Good to know you saw it, too."
"Likewise."
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(but don't feel pressure to keep writing this particular story if you ever get tired of it or w/e... I just need to keep reading your stuff!!!)