The Sharpest Lives.

Chapter 2: Black Cat (Frank's POV)

I stayed inside the diner finishing my coffee after Gerard walked out. I knew he was heading to the woods, there was no point in following him and wasting the coffee.

Our little conversation made me laugh. It was funny how the motherfucker thought he was smarter than anyone. It was funny how he thought that he could scare me, following me around and threating me so I'd stay out of his way, which wasn't going to happen any time soon.

Gerard Way was someone interesting, I knew that since the first time I spotted him in a corner of the park, observing me with those hazel eyes and that red hair of his. If you want to spy on someone, don’t dye your hair a bright red, you are easily discovered.

I didn’t know what he wanted from me. The first thing I thought was that he wanted a friend but didn’t know how to approach someone. I discarded that possibility as he told me to stay out of his way. But now that I had talked to him I was more than interested in him. He seemed to be someone weird and I like weird people.

I paid for my coffee and headed to the woods, where I spotted him sitting under a tree, furiously sketching and erasing what he was drawing. He had a cigarette on his lips and the way he smoked was beautiful. Gerard made smoking an amusement and it was kinda driving me crazy.

‘’Want a cigarette?’’

I offered as he lifted his head up to look me in the eye. A smirk covered half of my face.

‘’Didn’t I tell you to stay out of my way, Iero?’’

He was frowning and the smile on my face became wider.

‘’With all respects, Gerard, I don’t like to do what I am told’’

He then decided to ignore me, so I sat next to him. I tried to take a peek at his sketch book, but he was hunched over it and I only got to see something that looked like eyes. I have always been fascinated by artists and the way they captured reality in a simple piece of paper, the way they could transcribe something from the real world and twist it until it meant something. How a can of soup could mean that much and even become an icon to an entire movement, amazed me. The fact that Gerard had that ability was just another more reason to like him, and I already had a ton of them. Although I knew it was a mistake to let him get close to me, and probably dangerous for both of us, I was so intrigued by him and his damn personality and the way he made smoking cigarettes look like having sex, that it was being hard to stay away from him.

‘’Are you going to sit next to me all day?’’

‘’Yes’’

He snorted. I laughed, he was so pissed off it was funny. I liked to trigger emotions on him, even if those emotions would make him loathe me at first, but I was pretty sure he would end up liking me too.

‘’Then I might as well steal a cigarette from you. I ran out of them twenty minutes ago’’

I smirked remembering our conversation at the dinner. First a cigarette. Then, a song. And finally, he would have some kind of feelings for me. I took my pack of fags out of my pocket and offered them to him. He sighed and put a cigarette between his parted lips, raising his head each time he let the smoke come out of one side of his mouth. I couldn’t get my eyes off him, it truly was a sight to behold.

‘’Are you gonna stop looking at me with that silly face any time soon?’’

‘’Not at all, I really like the way you smoke. You make smoking look like sex’’

He blushed furiously and I tried not to laugh. For the look in his eyes I could tell he was not a man who blushed easily and I couldn’t but be proud of myself.

‘’Honey, then you’ve obviously never tried sex’’

‘’Not with a guy, no’’

He raised that rebel eyebrow of his, making his cheekbones appear more prominent. Good lord.

‘’Oh sweet little Frankie, are you a virgin then?’’

‘’Well, I have been with girls if that’s what you’re asking about’’

I was in awe for the audacity of Gerard asking me such personal questions. I knew I had started the sex conversation, so why not play along with it? I could probably twist it to make Gerard blush again.

‘’Oh, no, Frankie. I was talking about that luscious booty of yours. Are you a virgin then?’’

This time I was the one furiously blushing. Jesuschrist, he had called my bum ‘’luscious’’. How was I supposed to return the favor?

‘’Yes, Gerard. I am a virgin. Though I bet that is not uncharted territory for you, huh? You don’t seem like the kind of guy who likes people enough to let them enter your life’’

He laughed and oh man was it a beautiful laugh.

‘’I have physiological necessities as everyone, Frankie. Don’t let my interesting personality and my love for solitude trick you into that’’

‘’So, you are a slut’’

I wasn’t asking. I just wanted to see his high cheekbones covered in that beautiful pink tint again, and I was sure he was going to be furious about this but his blush deserved this and more. Damn, I’d have get my penis out of my pants if that had made him blush.

‘’No, Frankie, I’m not. There’s only one guy I let disturb my solitude when it needs to be disturbed and that’s it. Fuck buddies are nice, Frank, search for one’’

Ha. As if. I knew I was too romantic to have a fuck buddy, I’d probably fall in love with him in the two minutes it took to take his clothes of. And by him I meant Gerard, because hell I wanted to see him naked. The fact that he had a ‘’fuck buddy’’ made me felt a pang of jealousy across my chest, which was irrational given the fact that I only knew Gerard for a week and had only spoken to him that day. But I truly couldn’t help it.

‘’Well, he’s a lucky guy, isn’t he Gerard? If you fuck the same way you smoke then hell I am jealous of him’’

Oh, there it was. His blush. I smiled at the sight and he looked at me in the eye. Approaching Gerard and letting myself be closer with him was a mistake and was putting him in danger and I didn’t want anyone getting kidnapped or murdered for me again. I stood up and shook the dust off my jeans, his eyes on mine during the whole process.

‘’Goodbye, Gerard. Don’t get too close to me, it’s dangerous and I mean this okay?’’

I walked away without letting him answer me and little did I know that those words would be the reason that made Gerard too curious about me to leave me alone.