Save me from myself

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Frank POV
I smile slightly feeling a weight lifted of my shoulders. I had felt bad all day I'm so glad I got to apologise to Gerard. Then I remembered something Suse said when Gerard was leaving. "So you have an apartment?" I say looking at gerards tear stained face. "uh yeah I'm moving in. I have a few boxes in my car I was gonna take over." Gerard says wiping his face.

"Oh ok well i will let you do that." I say looking down at Gerard hand on my wrist. "uh this may sound weird, but do you wanna come with?" Gerard says breaking eye contact with me. "sure." I say with a smile. "alright I can drop you off at your house after.do you need anything from inside?" Gerard say looking at me again with a smile. "Uh my bag is inside but we can just stop back here when we are coming back if thats okay." I say not wanting to go inside and the chance of Suse not letting me go. Like Gerard read my mind he says "and I'll text Suse once we leave the driveway so she can't tell us not to go."

We get in the car and I remember something Suse said once. "so you can sing huh?" I say looking at Gerard. "no." Gerard says keeping his eyes on the road. "Suse seems to think so." I say smiling. "When we were younger I used to sing a lot but I haven't in a long time, and she hasn't seemed to let it go." Gerard says with a sigh. "Oh ok. I'm sorry I didn't mean to upset you." I say with a frown. "Oh no you didn't it's just I used to sing a lot with my dad and..." Gerard trails off. "hey it's okay I understand" I say sympatheticly. "you know I actually believe you do understand. I don't know why but I guess you sound pretty genuine. You know I trust you and I've only known you for a day. " Gerard says with a laugh. "I trust you too." I say. I mean I really do.

"Can I ask you something?" Gerard says cautiously. "Yeah sure." I say breaking out of my thoughts. "You don't have to answer this but am I the only one you told about not only likeing girls?" Gerard asks. "told, yes. Are you the only one who knows, no. " I say with a slight headshake. "what do you mean?" Gerard asks confused. "Well most the school seems to know. I guess that's what happens when you date one girl since middle school and when she tries to kiss you, you push her away, then she tells her friends and her friends tell their friends and suddenly your the schools queer." I say. "god I'm so sorry." Gerard says with a glance over at me. " Oh it's fine. You get used to it I guess. "is that why that Andy kid and his friends give you such a hard time?" Gerard asks. I nod. "Fuck them." Gerard says. " Woah Mr. Way calm down, you shouldn't talk that away about your students. " I say with a laugh. We both continue laughing and then the rest of the ride is in comfortable silence.

Once we get to Gerard's apartment we both bring up a few boxes. " You need any help Gerard?" I hear someone ask. I look at the source of the voice to see a pretty girl with black hair around somewhere in between mine and Gerards age. "oh hey Jamia." Gerard say smiling at the girl. "These are the last two so we are fine." Gerard says still smiling. "I can unlock your door." She says with a smile scaraly similar to gerards. "I think I might just take you up on that." Gerard says tossing her his keys.

Once we get to Gerard's apartment and Jamie ,or whatever her name is, unlocks the door we set the boxes down in a corner with the rest of the boxes. Then That Jamie girl decides to talk again, "how much more do you have to move in?" She asks in a fake sweet tone eyeing me.

In my head I'm saying something like fight me you little cunt but on the outside I just give her a fake smile.

"Actually this is it for the boxes. I just have to go to IKEA one of these days and get some furniture. All I have is a bed I haven't even setup yet. " Gerard laughs. "oh ok and who is this?" The girl says. I can't for the life of remember what Gerard called her I just remember it's similar to Jamie.

"Oh right sorry, jamia this is frank. Frank this is jamia." Gerard say gesturing between us. "nice to meet you Frank, how old are you?" Jamia says sticking her hand out for me to shake. "18. And you?" I say shaking her hand. "I actually just turned 18."She says smiling. "Oh so your still in high school?" I ask. "yeah I'm starting a new school as a senior this year." She says with that same smile." I just moved in over the summer and I missed the first few days for personal reasons so it should be interesting." She says still fucking smiling.

I nod,"how do you two know each other." I ask praying she doesn't say 'oh us?I'm his girlfriend and he loves me we are gonna get married fuck and have kids someday' and then start making out with him. Or you know something like that.

"Oh we just met yesterday I unlocked the door cause his hands were full." She says with a laugh. "oh okay." I say with a sigh of relief.