not mine!!!!!!! creds go to SoloChaos on archive of our own just another copy of the forest fic make sure you have tissues

Frank is a seventeen-year-old who doesn't want to grow up and has little aspirations for anything beyond standing outside the local liquor store and getting drunk. But when he meets Gerard, the old, aging, and well known fag artist, he is offered something he cannot turn down. NOT MY STORY.

The first few notes of Nutshell by Alice in Chains drifts softly through the gritty stereo system of my sister's old Jeep Jeepster. The two-toned, characteristically box-shaped car was my sister Decembers pride and joy. She'd had it for a year and a half and ordinarily gave it a vigorous scrub down at least once a week. The car was probably the dirtiest it had been since she first "rescued" it off of Craigslist. There are crumpled brown bags of greasy fast-food nestled at out feet, and the usually immaculate windshield was plastered with the entrails of unfortunate insects.