Save me from myself

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Frank POV
I wakeup to a soft nudge and then,"get out of the way Gerard. Frank wake up you lazy oaf!" Suse yells while shaking my shoulders.

"Suse what the hell you probably scared the shit out of him!" Gerard says looking at suse. "Language please." Donna says while passing by the open door.

"Sorry mom." Gerard says quickly. I quickly get out of bed and Suse grabs my arm and pulls me downstairs. "you hungry?" She asks pulling out a box of of Reeses Puffs and a box of Cheerios.

"Yeah." I say nodding toward the cheerios. Suse gives me a nod and begins pouring two bouls of Cheerios.

"Morning." Gerard says walking into the kitchen. "good morning." I say giving Gerard a smile. He smiles back and I feel that feeling I felt when I got out of his car. I look over at suse who is grabbing spoons a shaking her head slightly. "Whats your problem?" Gerard asks suse. "you two." She says handing me my bowl of cereal. "what does that mean?" I ask nervously begining to eat my cereal. "It means I was hoping you two wouldn't really like each other. I was hoping not that you hated each other just that you didn't really connect." Suse says beginning to eat her own cereal. "so you could have him all to yourself." Gerard say through gritted teeth. "no I just wanted a friend that I knew was hanging out with me to see me." Suse says glaring at Gerard who in turn looks like he wants to throw a cup of burning water in her face. "Look you two are both awesome. I don't know why you are fighting. I like it best when all three of us hangout, but I also enjoy being around both of you individually. I don't like one of you more than the other. I like both of for different reasons so please just stop arguing." I say Beginning to eat my cereal again.

"Franks right." Gerard says with a sigh, "truce?" Suse shakes gerards hand while adding,"for now." With a little side smile. "thank you children, now im gonna get dressed." I say standing up and putting my bowl in the sink.

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As we pull into the school parking lot Gerard says,"you two can go inside I gotta get my bag from the back then I'm gonna go In the side doors, they are closer to the stairs so I can make sure I get there before any students." Gerard says getting out of the car. Me and Suse also get out and turn to start walking. "see you last period." Suse says without turning to Gerard. As we start walking toward the front of the school I turn slightly and give a little wave to Gerard, he waves back with alittle smile.

When we get inside we stop at Suse's locker first then go to mine. "so you don't think it's weird being friends with a teacher?" Suse says breaking the silence in the air. "no, not an art teacher. And he's your brother so like he's not some old stuck up creep kind off teacher, so it doesn't bother me." I say honestly. "if you say so." She says fixing her red beanie. "I'm gonna go to the bathroom quick see you in first." She says. "ok, see you in history." I say as she gives me a smile before heading off to the bathroom.

As I'm about to close my locker someone comes up next to me and slams it in my face."holy shit." I say out of surprise. "oh you shouldn't use that language in school." A fimilar voice says. I turn around to see none other than Andy and his fucking friends. I remember one of his friends name is Christen but the rest who knows.

"Can you please just leave me alone." I say turning to walk away. "And why would I do that?" Andy says with a  smirk and slams his hand onto the locker in front of me,trapping between him and the lockers. "Cause maybe you can find the love in your heart to spare me." I say sarcasticly knowing he's just gonna laugh in my face. "ha right." He laughs  grabbing the collar of shirt and flinging me to the ground. Guess who was right.

Andy gets on top of me and and punches me in the nose. I wince but I don't scream. "Trying to act tough I see." Andy says to me. "we will see how long that lasts." He says about to punch me again when I hear a voice I swear I have heard before I just can't think of where,"get the hell off him you worthless piece of shit!" The voice says pushing Andy off of me. With my vision blurred as much as it is I can't make out who the figure above me is. "Don't you all of have classes to get to?" The voice says to Andy and his friends I assume.

I hear the sound of feet retreating as arms are put around me helping me from the floor I decide to let them lift me. In the state I'm in at the moment I probably wouldn't have been able to do much anyway.

"Thank you." I mutter rubbing my eyes hoping it will make the blurryness go away. "No problem,Frank." I take my fingers away from my eyes surprised to hear the person address me by my name and see,"Jamia! Holy shit I didn't even realize it was you." I almost yell in surprise. She chuckles. "Im gonna bring you to my apartment to get you cleaned up." She's says. Before I can say'oh no you helped enough' she gently grabs my arm and leads me out of school and to her car.

When we get to the car she opens the passenger door for me and gestures for me to go in. Way to break gender rolls, I think to myself. I get into the car and buckle my seatbelt as she gets into the driver's seat.

The drive to her apartment is short. As we walk up the stairs we past Gerard's door. A slight smile spreads across my face at the thought of the dark haired boy. "when's he actually gonna start staying here?" Jamia asks breaking me out of my thoughts. "Huh?" I ask confused. "Gerard I haven't seen his car in the parking lot, when is he gonna start actually, you know living here?" Jamia asks as we stop at a door and she pulls out her keys. "Oh um he says he was gonna start getting the apartment livable Friday night. Like putting the bed together and buying some food and furniture. He said he as a couple thousand dollars put aside for food and furniture. So he'll probably be living here by the end of the weekend." I say snapping back into reality. "Oh okay." She says gesturing for me to go inside.

Her apartment has the same layout as Gerard's but a different color scheme. "You can sit on the couch while I get some stuff to clean you up." She says while setting her keys down on the coffee table infront of the couch. I nod in response.

"Here we are." Jamia says walking back into the living room with a bowl of water,a cloth, and some kind of medical cream. She gently places everything on the ground infront of me and then places herself infront of me as well.

She first takes the cloth and dips it in the water. "Im gonna clean up the dry blood first. Your nose bled a lot." She says touching the cloth to my face. I wince as she gets closer to my nose. She sighs and puts the cloth down. "The good news is I don't think it's broken, but it's swollen pretty badly." She says with another sigh. I nod. She then puts up the medicine. "This might sting if there's any open cuts." She looks closely at my nose. "I can't really tell if there is because of how red your nose is. Anyway this should help with the swelling."

She sqeezes a small amount of cream onto her middle and index finger. She then gently rubs it onto my nose, in slow, small circular motions. For the first time since she's been helping me I actually look at her. She is staring at me, lip between her teeth. We meet eyes, and just as I open my mouth to say something she appears to snap back into reality. She quickly takes her hand away and wipes her fingers on the rag. "Sorry." She mubbles cheeks glowing red. "No it's fine." I say quickly as she scrambles to grab the bowl and such. I try to help her but she says,"why don't you lay down for a bit your head probably hurts. There's a spare room at the end of the hallway." She says standing up. I quickly stand up as well, alittle to quickly."Fuck." I say falling to the couch. "Frank, are you ok?" Jamia asks helping me sit up properly on the couch. "Yeah I just stood up to quickly."I say. "You sure you're okay." She says sitting down next to me on the couch. "yeah im sure." I say nodding. "If you're sure." Jamia says. She crouches in front of me and takes my hands.

"Slowly." She says. I'm confused for a second. I then realize what she means. I slowly stand up jamia guiding me. We again lock eyes.

"How about that room?" Jamia asks eyes still searching mine. "what?" I asks confused of what exactly she is referring to. I then, again, realize what she means. "I think im gonna take you up on that." I say with a little laugh. She smiles letting go of one of my hand and using the other one to guide me down the hallway. "Here you are." She says opening a door and revealing a simple room with a double bed. She lets go of my hand and I walk into the room. "If you need anything feel free to ask I'll just be in the living room." She says giving me a small smile. As she's closing the door for me I realize how much she has helped,"Thank you jamia." I say looking over at her. She stops closing the door with it about halfway open, "don't worry about it." She says in a new York accent. We both giggle before she fully closes the door.

I look over at the bed and sigh. I flop down onto the bed. Almost as soon as i get under the covers I'm drifting off to sleep.