The Pet -Frerard

Part 3

It's been 11 hours, 52 miniutes and 27 seconds since the moment my little Gerard left the park. After he abandoned me I walked back in the pet shop and finished my shift without anything intersting happening in particular. After that, I returned to my apartment and went straight in my room. I opened my laptop and started looking in every social media I am aware of for the name Gerard from Belleville.

Two hours later, I found him. He had a small account on Facebook. It had only seven posts, five of which were artworks of his. One was a picture of him and another guy and one was a picture of him. I made a copy of that photo and printed it. It is now taped on my desk. From the account I learnt a lot of things. His last name is Way. Who would have known. I also learnt that he is 23. He is also single. I should get to know more about him.

I stood up from my chair and walked in the bathroom. I slowly took my clothes off and enter the shower. "I love you Frank" he said from beneath me. I grabbed the shampoo bottle and pour some on top of my hair. "I love you too Gerard" I looked in his eyes as my hands were caressing his naked body. I started rubbing the substance on my hair and foam appeared. "Are you sure you want to do this?" I asked him. I opened the hot water and it started making it's way to my body. He nodded furiously. My hands grabbed firmly his hips and I - My cell phone started buzzing. I snapped out of my daydreaming. I closed the water and wrapped a towel around my body. I stepped out of the shower and picked my phone.

"Hallo?" "Hey Frank, wanna come over?" I recognized Ray's voice immediatly "Ehh I don't know." I wasn't really fond of meeting Ray. "Come on man, it's gonna be fun. There's a friend of mine already here and we are gonna watch movies." I started thinking it over. What did I have to lose? It's not like I could get hurt. I might actually get a side of Ray that is cool. "Fine I will come over. I'll be there in 10" I said and ended the call "Okay by-" Ray's voice was interupted.

I threw a sweatshirt and a pair of jeans on and got out. I started walking to Ray's house. I searched in my pockets for my cigarettes. As i touched the sharp edge of the new package I pulled it out. I picked one out of it and placed it between my lips. I grabbed the lighter I had on my backpocket and lit it up. As I breathed in the smoke I looked up into the black sky. I momently removed the cigarette to exhale and put it back in its place. I watched the smoke as it disappeared into the night sky. I always loved walking in the streets at night. There had been times I just went out for a walk at 3 am just for the feels of it. Walking on empty streets, when the whole town was sleeping was actually amazing.

As I finished my ciggaret I was at Ray's house. I knocked onthe door twice and waited. Ray opened up after a while with a smile on his face. "Hey man, I am so glad that you actually came." he said with his bubbly voice. "Yea, whatever." My rudeness made Ray's smile disappear almost instantly. There I was again being a dick again. "Mikey and I are sitting in the living room. We've been waiting for you to start the movie." He said , his voice dripping dissapointment. "Good. What are we watching?" I asked with no trace of excitement in my voice. "It's a movie called the Collector." "I think I've heard of it is it with a guy that captures a family in their house or something?" "No that's it." "Okay."

I walked in the living room and saw a guy that I immediately recognized. It was that guy that was in the picture with my little Gerard. What a freakishly convenient coincidence. "Hey" I instantly said. He turned his face to look at me. They looked alike. He was probably his brother or cousin or something. "Hey, I'm Mikey" he said tediously. "Yea, Ray told me. I'm Frank." He nodded. I sat besides him on the couch. "I'm gonna bring us some pop corn, hang in there" Ray said perkyly. God it annoyed me when people were that happy.

I was left alone with Mikey. I figured that he wasn't the type of person that would speak first. "So. . do you have any family? Siblings? Cousins?" God that sounded creepy as hell. "Eh. . Yea I have my big brother, Gerard." That was the information I was looking forward to listen. "What about him? Is he a good guy?" I asked full of interest. I needed more information. "Well yea, he is very nice. He is a loner but I still love him." "Is he older? I mean does he go to some kind of university?" "Ehh. . well he was thinking of going to art school in York, but there's been a lot of stuff going on. He's currently staying home." That was it. All i needed to know. Thank you Mikey, you just made my whole life easier, I thought to myself. "Aw that's cool"

Ray came shortly after we finished the conversation about Gerard. He sat beside me and left the pop corn in the coffee table in front of me. He put the movie on. I couldn't wait for it to be over. I knew exactly what I had to do next. And for it to be done I had to leave this place.