NO SIGNAL // FRERARD

thirty five

 Frank Iero's heart thudded loudly as he let out a quiet shriek and put his phone on the pillow so it was face down and couldn't see. His heart hammered loudly and he inhaled and exhaled quickly.

"Holy shit, I am so sorry, Gee-" Frank apologized, feeling incredibly self conscious all of a sudden and feeling his cheeks flush bright red as he covered his boDy with the soft, warm duvet and wrapped himself up completely, letting out an embarrassed groan.

"Oh no, Frankie it's fine I just thought I'd let you know. I mean, it wasn't a bad nipple-"

"Gerard please stop I'm going to vomit-" Frank laughed a little and looked at the phone that rested on his pillow. He yawned softly and lay down, phone mere centimeters from his head. He blinked softly, mouth parting a little as his eyelids fluttered.

Gerard's soft voice was laughing a little and chuckling, it sounded pretty. It was a beautiful sound. It was like snowflakes brushing against chiming bells in a cold breeze whilst Frank was curled up in a warm house by a soft fire. Or something like that. Frank felt a slight blush creeping over him as he giggled a little. His heart was thudding a little harder as he tried to disregard everything he was thinking about.

"Alright, I'll stop. Vomit isn't nice." Gerard responded, his voice distorted a little as Gerard presumably moved around or shuffled and something brushed past the microphone. It made Frank flinch a little but no more than a few seconds later he was turning up the volume just so he could hear Gerard's voice clearer.

"Y'know Frank, I wanna see your face. I mean, I saw your nippl-"

"-Okay there, Sunshine. Calm down." Frank swiftly cut off Gerard, not wanting to hear Gerard talking about his chest and whatnot. Though, he was a bit excited for the face seeing. As long as he could see Gerard's. There was still a small change of Gerard being a scary predator with a deceivingly gentle, sweet voice.

"Alright, only if I get to see yours too though, Gee."

"Wait I can call you Gee, right?" Frank asked quickly, he'd never asked if he could call Gerard the nickname that he had chosen for him and he would feel awful if Gerard didn't actually want that as a nickname.

"Yea of course! And yea, I'll show you my face." Gerard replied with humour and clear happiness in his voice. Frank winced as he heard the phone moving and being picked up, the loud white noise irritating his sensitive ears but not fazing him too much. Frank too picked up his phone and held it above him, seeing his reflecting faintly on the screen and finding a good angle.

"Alright so, I guess, on the count of three?" Frank asked softly, wondering if Gerard would actually hear him or not. There was a low noise from across the skype call when he heard Gerard laugh and say, "Yea!".

"Okay, alright. Three." Frank began, biting his lip nervously.

"Two." His heart fluttered like a hummingbird.

"One." He closed his eyes and pressed the 'Add video' button and let out a low gasp as he saw his own face appear in the corner.

"Holy shit."