You're Perfectly Perfect To Me (Frerard)

Part 8. For Baltimore

Frank's PoV.

I was sitting in a train that would take me to Baltimore. I was listening to music and watching the views flash past me as I was thinking back to last saturday. My lips curved into a smile as I remembered how Gerard had come over to ask me to do something with him, just the two of us. I had to remind myself that he was still dating Lindsey though, so it wasn't like a date. I had told him about my friends in Baltimore as he had noticed the picture of them hanging on my wall. I had told him the same things that I had told the others too.

I had suggested that he could show me the city 'cause I really didn't know anything. I only knew where the school was, where the nearest food store was and the movie theatre in Clifton and that's about it. I also told Gerard this as we stepped out from our front door.

"Uh... I hate to break it to you, but there's literally nothing in Belleville besides schools, some stores and restaurants. Luckily there's other cities nearby that have interesting stuff like a record store, a comic book store and Starbucks", Gerard said.

"Really?" I asked, a bit surprised.

"Yeah... So do you wanna see boring things like grocery stores and stuff here in Belleville or do you want to see where all the cool places are?" Gerard asked.

"Well, I think it's enough that I know where school and the nearest grocery store is here. If I need anything else I can always ask from one of you guys", I answered.

"I agree. The record store is the closest, so maybe we should go there first. We have to go by bus though 'cause it's like 2 miles away", Gerard said. I nodded.

"Okay, let's go then", I said and smiled at him.

"Do you like bowling or playing billiards?" Gerard asked me as we started walking down the street we lived in.

"Uh... I haven't done much either of them, but I think both are fun", I answered. Gerard nodded.

"Even though we have almost nothing here, we do have a bowling alley and billiard hall, so if you want I can show you where they are and we can take a bus from there to the record store", Gerard said and smiled at me.

"Okay, sounds good. Although I probably won't remember tomorrow where any of these places are anymore", I said and grinned at him, making him laugh a little. Gerard had a nice laugh, I noticed myself thinking.

"It's okay. You probably don't go bowling or play billiards alone anyway, so it really doesn't matter, but since it's almost the only activity we have here, I thought it would be nice to show it to you", Gerard said.

"Yeah, that's true", I said and smiled at him. We walked a while in comfortable silence as I was trying to concentrate on the route we were walking so I might remember that later. It seemed quite an easy route though, it was mostly just walking straight and we only had to turn a couple of times during the mile we walked, so there was a good chance I might remember it.

After Gerard had shown me the billiard hall and bowling alley, which turned out to be on the same street, we went to wait for the bus. On the same street there was also McDonald's and Taco Bell, which might be useful to know in the future. That was also an motivation for me to try to remember the route.

Luckily we only had to wait for the bus for about five minutes and when the bus came, we stepped in. After we had bought our tickets from the driver we went to sit at the back of the bus. We didn't even have to ask each other where to sit, it was like a wordless agreement to go to the back.