“I want to see the gorillas. They’re my favorite part,” Gerard declares. He clutches Frank’s hand and drags him through the swarms of people at the crowded zoo.
“Can we see lions after?” Frank begs. Lions are, by far, the most badass animal.
“On the way there, we can see the penguins too,” Gerard smiles.
Gerard and Frank spend about 40% of their time watching the llamas, which is strange considering that a there’s a llama and alpaca farm in town they could visit for free. They go inside to pet the llamas, Gerard sitting criss crossed on the ground and Frank crouching next to him with feed in his hand.
A llama walks over, and Frank holds out the food, but instead it rubs its head up against Gerard. Gerard laughs and rubs behind its ears. Frank frowns. For whatever reason, llamas really fucking love Gerard. About four come straight up to him within ten minutes, and none of them will eat the food from Frank’s hand.
“Fuck this,” Frank grumbles, grabbing Gerard’s hand and dragging him to the aquarium. There, they pet a baby stingray, which is only as big as the width of Gerard’s hand. There’s a walkthrough there with an aquarium as the walls and ceiling, and they run through with joy. Frank taps on the glass at an angry shark, who head butts the glass. The shark shakes its head and looks even more angry as Frank giggles and taps on the glass again.
“Frankie, no!” Gerard says, taking Frank away from any exhibits that gave him an interactive opportunity. Give Frank a privilege, and he’ll abuse it. Gerard learns this quickly about him.
Once they’re tired from walking all day, they sit down at a table and get ice cream. Well, Gerard does. Frank’s a vegan, so he gets French fries instead and ends up giving half of them to Gerard, who won’t stop puling his fucking puppy dog face.
Their last stop at the zoo is the gift shop. Gerard looks through all of the drawing books and interesting house decorations that are animal shaped, like a tiger that’s a pot holder and an elephant tea kettle. They walk past the toy aisle and Frank disappears inside. Gerard hurries after him to find Frank with a large purple hippo tucked under one arm and a stuffed boa around his neck.
“This one’s for you!” Frank offers, handing the hippo to Gerard.
Gerard accepts the stuffed animal and smiles as he turns it around his hands. Frank grins, knowing that Gerard loves it.
Gerard drops Frank off at his matchbox apartment, which Frank apologizes that it’s too messy to invite Gerard inside. They stand in front of the door. Frank stands there, staring at Gerard’s Converses, his hands in his pockets, when Gerard kisses him.
Gerard throws every ounce of his soul into the kiss, pressing his body up against Frank’s and lacing his fingers around in his thick hair. He rolls his tongue around in Frank’s mouth, sliding against the insides of Frank’s cheeks. He places one hand on the small of Frank’s back and pushes Frank against the door. Gerard pulls away for breath, to see Frank standing there, panting and blushing.
Gerard winks at him. He starts down the hall, calling over his shoulder,
“See you at the coffeehouse tomorrow!”

Notes

This chapter was super short but really cute, at least I think so.
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