Frank’s POV.

My face fell when I realised what Gerard had said. Zack had asked him to marry him..? Shit.

“But.. You said no right?” I frowned. What else could I have said? Gerard couldn’t marry Zack, he was mine!

“I..” Gerard sighed, looking down at me, and my heart sunk, yet again. Oh god. “I said yes..”

“What?!” I squeaked. “No, you can’t have said yes! Why the fuck would you do that Gerard?! Me and you are meant to be together and then you go and say yes to that twat?! Why?!” I sobbed.

“How could I say no?!” Gerard frowned, shaking his head. “If I’d have said no he would have asked why and then I would have said something about being with someone else and if he found out about you all hell would break loose!”

“You could have made something up!” I yelled at him. “I don’t know, but you could have said someone else, I doubt Zack would have ever wanted to meet me any way, so you could have just said a random name and got it over and done with!” I couldn’t believe this.

Gerard was getting married.

“Frank I’m not having this conversation in school.” Gerard said as he packed everything away and slung his bag over his shoulder. “If you want to talk, not shout, talk, then we’ll go somewhere else.”

“No.” I knew I was over reacting, but something had to be done. “No, you know what? Fuck you Gerard, I can’t say this has been the best fucking birthday ever.” I muttered. Yep. It was Halloween, it was my eighteenth birthday.. And I just knew he’d forgotten but that didn’t seem so important now.

Though Gerard had always promised we could finally be properly intimate on my eighteenth birthday... I guessed that was out of the window now. I couldn’t believe any of this.

Before he could even reply; I walked out of the class and through the halls, straight out of the building. I needed to get away from him. I couldn’t go home, because my mum would ask what was wrong, I couldn’t go to Ray’s because he wasn’t talking to me, and Gerard was usually the only other person I could go to when I needed someone. Now he was gone too. I was so alone.

Gerard’s POV.

“Frank..” I sighed, though it was too late. He’d already gone. Fuck, what was I going to do now? I didn’t want to admit it, but even though I had said yes to Zack.. I’d only said it because I wanted to keep me and Frank a secret for a bit longer. I was slowly falling out of love with Zack, and it was going to break him when I told him.

I got into my car and leant my head back against the headrest, just sitting there for a few moments, staring at nothing. I loved Frank.. It was wrong, but I’d fallen in love with him. I really hadn’t planned on doing that but, I couldn’t help who I loved, could I?

I made my way home and sighed, running a hand through my hair as I got inside.

“Hey baby..” Zack smiled, his arms wrapping around me. “You don’t look okay.” He frowned gently. “What’s up..?”

“Nothing.. Just teaching teenagers all day, it gives me a headache..” I laughed slightly and rested my head against Zack’s shoulder, sighing quietly to myself.

“Poor baby.. You deserve a holiday, we should go on one.” He nodded, kissing my hair.

“How can I go on holiday when I’m a teacher? It’s not easy to just go off on holidays any more Zacky.. Not like we used to.” I whispered, nuzzling into Zack’s neck before pulling away. “I’m gonna go have a bath.. You sit back and have some wine.” He smiled gently.

“Okay babe..” Zack smiled gently and kissed his cheek gently.

I walked up the stairs and locked myself in the bathroom before flicking the bath taps on, watching it slowly fill with warm water. After a while; I tugged my clothes off and sighed, slipping into the warm water. I reached over and grabbed my phone, biting my lip gently as I flicked it onto vibrate.

‘Hey babe.. x’ I text Frank, biting my lip gently.

‘Hi.. x’

‘How’re you feeling? x’

‘Shit. How’re you?’

‘Shit as well, I’m sorry about earlier.. x’

‘It’s fine, Gerard. Guess we’re over then?’

I frowned at that. Crap, no I had to put things right. ‘No, we’re not.. I’ll sort this out okay? I love you. X’ I knew that would be a shock to him, because well.. We just didn’t say that to each other.

‘I love you too, but you’re engaged.. You’re getting married.. How can this work?’

‘I’ll find something.. It’ll work out. I promise x’

‘Yeah sure it will. I’m gonna go, it’s my eighteenth.. Mum won’t let me not celebrate.’

I frowned, thinking for a second. ‘Can I come?’

‘Um.. Without Zack?’

‘Of course’

‘Sure, okay.. Meet me outside my house.’

‘Okay, see you soon x’

I soon enough got out of the bath and got dressed, telling Zack someone from work had asked him to go out for their birthday, and Zack accepted that. Why wouldn’t he?

I drove to Frank’s house and stopped just down the road before beeping the horn, smiling gently as Frank walked out and came down to my car.

“Hey beautiful.” I smiled, watching him climb in.

“Hey.. Can we just forget about what happened this afternoon and, y’know.. Celebrate?”

“Of course we can.” I smiled and leant over, pressing a gentle kiss to Frank’s cheek before beginning to drive. I knew we’d end up walking or getting a cab back, but.. We’d end up somewhere. It was going to be a good night.