New York City is not an easy place to live in, especially for two twenty year old boys who barely have enough money to pay the bills. All Gerard wants is something to distract him from his routine loneliness, to distract him from the fact that even if he wants to, he can't go to college. He needed to escape. They both did.

He realized then. All this time- all this aggression, it had all been for nothing. After all, what could he do? The guy never meant to hurt him, and Frank knew, he knew how horrible it felt to know that you've hurt and killed innocent people without having any control over it.