30 days with a demon | Frank Iero x Reader

✞Day 14 - 15✞ An end

"Have you ever thought everything comes to an end?"

"Of course it does."

"I mean, it's horrible. You know it'll end, but it feels like it'll last forever and when you notice, it just slipped between your fingers!"

No response comes from Frank, just an exhale is heard over the night sounds and I can feel his warm hand wrapping around mine, squeezing it for a moment. I furrow my eyebrows, looking at the starred sky while thinking. For a fraction of a second, I wonder how did we end up laying on a blanket that separates us of the cold concrete of an abandoned building's roof while talking about this subject and watching the stars; still, my mind averts back to my previous thought in the same speed.

It's only now that I noticed how close I'm to graduating - that everything is coming to an end. I'll never live again what I lived there.

"Twelve years!" I exclaim out of nothing, not caring about how crying my voice sounds, "Twelve years that I wished they would pass as fast as possible, but coming to an end is not that fun!" In a pause, I catch my breathe as my eyes flicker over the light spots in the dark sky, "In two days, my finals will start. Right after, there'll by my prom. Four or three years from now, I'll be graduating in college, maybe already working and won't even remember most of what I lived back in school!"

The abrupt silence makes me notice how much I had elevated my tone and feel a little embarrassed for doing it. A sudden cold breeze is enough to make noticeable the fact a tear started rolling down the side of my face - a single one that I clean with the back of my free hand.

Frank sucks in a breathe, but I speak up first, "And then we continue our lives! Just continue it! I know we have to continue, move on and shit, yet it's..." I trail off, trying to choose the right words, "It's sad, weird, how we need to do so! Forget the past, hold on tight and don't look back!"

"It's so unfair." Frank says through a breathe and I nod, shakily sighing. He moves around a bit, until having an arm around me and my head on his shoulder. "It's not like we gotta be chained to the past, but forgetting or letting back everything that made you be who you are today or made you happy, sounds so fucking... wrong."

It feels like I've let out everything I needed to - not solved or eased it, however, did make me feel relaxed. Like if I released a great amount of pressure, so now my mind is empty while the words he said struggle to keep inside it. Fortunately, I'm able to process what he said. "Yeah..." I say softly. 

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"It's official, I'm not going to school today."

"Oh, I thought you couldn't be absent because of finals and shit?"

"Not my fault a certain demon made me stay up until two in the morning to watch some damn stars."

"Oh, dear," He says and I can see the lazy teasing grin on his face even with half lidded eyes plus a sleepy vision. "but you're the one who wanted to stay there for so long and you've been wanting to stay home for the whole week!" I can't find an argument to use against him, so I don't do much more than groaning and adjusting myself in his arms before drifting off once again.

It's around ten when I wake up. I take a shower and change my clothes before we head down to the living room just to sit on the couch while watching TV, since I don't feel like doing anything. That includes eating.

"There's this festival happening in the city." Frank comments, shifting his position on the couch lightly, still keeping my legs over his lap. "Don't your friends go?"

"They do."

"They don't invite you or something?" He raises an eyebrow and I shake my head. "Why?"