Words Mean Nothing.

Mikey was proud of himself. He'd just saved a boy from making the biggest mistake of his life and made himself a new friend.

As the two boys left the bathroom the left as slightly different people. After bandaging Frank's forearm and chatting about Frank's problem's and Mikey's Track meet the two had formed an obvious bond. Although, Frank knew Mikey knew he was gay it didn't seem to phase that fact that Mikey wanted to be his friend. Frank had his first friend and it felt like having family again.

Mikey was about to head back to his Track meet when an idea hit him like a bullet:
"You said your Aunt wasn't gonna be able to make it to town again until Sunday?"

"...Yeah?" Frank's reply was a mix of confusion and depression. He remembered his Aunt, fun loving, beautiful, caring, but, what she was replacing was a void that even he didn't think she could fix.

"Don't you think it's gonna be sort of lonely being home alone for a week? Especially after something so dark happened there. Are you sure you want to be alone for that long?"

"Um...I didn't really think about it. The weekend was definitely shit. It's scary as fuck without anyone there." Frank replied low.

"Stay with me! It'd be awesome. No one but, my brother & I. Parent's are constantly away on business trips. The only one'd we'd have to worry about is my grandmother Elena. She watches us when they're away. It's peaceful-and she makes the GREATEST cookies you could ever imagine." Mikey's words were obviously excited. He didn't want Frank going home to something that could make him want to kill himself again.

"I don't know...I've never stayed over at anyone's house-except my Aunt's. I don't know if I could do a week...besides...I wouldn't want to be a burden."

"NONSENSE. Frank, you'd never be a burden! I promise! The house is lonely when it's just the three of us anyway! And, if you don't like it we'll go to your house and stay there."

"Um...I guess that would be okay. But, I need to get clothes." Frank smiled. For the first time in three day a smile emerged onto his face.

"We'll get them after, after school. I'll meet you here and we'll touch base then!" Mikey smiled.

"Deal." Frank's words signaled the two to begin to walk to the last half-hour of there extra curricular hell. Giving Frank hope that maybe his week wouldn't be complete shit like he'd thought. He may have lost someone he cared deeply about, but, at least now he had someone else to talk to.