Frank's POV

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After I walked Fallyn to her door and said a goodnight 'til Gee got back I went to my bedroom and tried to calm down the burning feeling in my throat.
Tomorrow would make it three weeks since I last ate.
The guys did not help me by going out and leaving me here.

We'd talked it over earlier while Fallyn had been asleep.
They were gonna go out and feed while I stayed here and kept on eye on her, while keeping my hands to myself (in Gee's words).

When they got back I was supposed to go out and get something as well, but so far it looked like it would be a while till they finished. The conversation between Fallyn and I before about people's flaws made me rethink what Gerard had been saying to me.

He'd been telling me to stay away from her and not do anything but that's not what I really wanted to do.
She'd said that I needed to do what my gut told me, not what others told me and I did need to do that.

Although I was still doubtful in general, after all my head loves to fuck with me and say what I'm doing at the time is a great idea even if it isn't. Right now my gut is telling me saying anything to her would be a bad idea, she was a bit freaked out after what Gerard did at the concert.

My mind flashed back to what I'd said. I'd told her that I hoped she found a guy who she'd choose over a party. I'd also said I'd hoped she'd find a guy who would value what she said whether it was too much or too little.
It almost slipped out of my mouth that I would listen to anything she'd say.

After ages of waiting for the guys to get back I gave up and decided to take a shower, yeah I'd taken one earlier but you can never be too clean, plus I was really sweaty after the concert which is typical, it's fun but it's also a workout the way I do it.

Gee and the rest of the group needed to make good use of showers more often.
How hard is it to jump in a shower at a truck stop?

By the time I got out of the shower and was bothered enough to look at the clock it was quarter past one. They better get back soon, they've been gone for nearly two hours.
It's not like its brain surgery or anything, I do the exact same thing and it only takes me thirty minutes.

If they're gonna take this long to get back I might as well have a nap, it's either that or watching crappy tv shows.
I wonder what Fallyn's doing right now, she's probably sleeping.

I should have insisted that we swap rooms, for a brief moment I got to see into her head while we were taking earlier and I know she hates that room.
Maybe I should go and check on her?

The only problem is that Gerard told me to get her back to the hotel then leave her alone.
This was another case of me listening to the words of others over myself.
I lay down on the bed and tried to think of something other than Fallyn. Sleep would be a good place to start. I let out a sigh and put a pillow over my face, it's not like oxygen mattered much to me, neither did normal food.

The burning in my throat increased and I gave up on sleep and went to the mini fridge which was filled with a variety of alcohol.
I'd reached the furthest known stage of hunger and it was not good.

It would start off feeling like normal hunger, then it would increase and after a week or so it'd disappear.
Halfway through the second week is when the burning would start and it felt like you'd inhaled smoke that would scratch your throat on the way down.
In other words, I needed to go out and get something (or someone) to drink, soon.
With my mind filled with thousand of thoughts I twisted the lid off a mixer drink, for some reason having alcohol in my stomach helps.
Smoking and drinking in one day, this would have killed me if I continued to act like this while human.

Once the bottle was empty I dropped it in the bin and plopped down on the bed again.
The burning drifted away and I put my face into the pillow, then somewhere on this floor I heard a door slam.
Haha, looks like the hotel got to someone.

It reminds me of the first time I stayed at a haunted hotel, the bands stayed at places like this before. When you happen to be one of the most highly talked about supernatural creatures its hard to be scared by ghost rumors.
Even if there were ghosts here or anywhere else I've stayed at its not like they could hurt me or scare me.

In the end I'm immortal and much faster, stronger and more powerful than someone who walks around in a sheet. Gerard and Ray have the same view on ghosts as I do, but Mikey and Bob get freaked out by the smallest thing even though they're immortal, it's funny.

The burning crept its way into my throat once more and I flinched, this is the worst its ever been. There's a chance I might have to feed during the day time tomorrow, if I do I'm gonna have to be real frickin careful.
One minor slip or unplanned action and I'll be in deep shit.

As I lay there with my face pressed into a pillow I considered how much I'd have to drink before the burning hunger in my throat would dissipate.
Ugh, this sucks. Everyone pretends to be or wants to be a vampire but nobody realizes how much it sucks, no pun intended.
Sure there's perks, but they don't always balance out the cons.

Perks: speed, strength, reduced need for sleep, quick healing, enhanced senses, magic blood, never ageing, no need for oxygen, the ability to hear the thoughts of others and some other random shit.
Sounds pretty awesome right?

It can be and it's almost ideal for someone like me who has to travel, perform and create on a regular basis.
Then there's the cons.
Cons: fangs, never die, can't age, no heartbeat, intense desire for blood to the point of needing it to prevent insanity and mass murder and the ability to hear people's thoughts.

Trust me, it sucks walking around everyday, looking at people and thinking 'you're part of a food group for me'. Fangs don't help either, they work like a dogs tail and are controlled by my mood.
If I get too excited, angry, happy, panicked or angry then they'll come out and there's not much I can do about it.

They also happen to be controlled by my hunger level, after two weeks of not eating it begins to hurt to keep my fangs hidden. That's why I'm chilling in my room with my fangs unhidden and I also happened to have accidentally put a hole in the pillow.

I heard a heart beating in the hallway and I considered going out there and getting something to eat right now.
It would be stupid to do that though and I needed to control myself.

Whoever is in the hall sounds like they're really freaking out though, kinda reminds me of the time I took Fallyn's hand in the mall a couple of days ago.
Frank you are hopeless, I thought while pushing my face further into the pillow.

I need to stop thinking of Fallyn and the cute expression on her face when I pushed her blonde hair out of her eyes on the bus a little while ago.
Someone knocked on the door and I sat up, was Gerard finally back so I could go out?

I leapt up from the bed as the person I assumed was Gerard continued to knock on the door, getting louder and quicker with each passing second.

"Frank? Please, open the door. Quickly!" That voice! What was Fallyn doing outside my room?
At the urgency of her voice I bolted to the door, unlocked it and twisted the handle to reveal Fallyn standing outside with Peanut at her feet.

"Fally-" She threw herself towards me and I continued to stand there, stunned, she should have been asleep, not running around.

"Frankie! There's something out there, it was in the elevator, it was glowing and I think I saw someone's hair! Please let me come in!" Without thinking of consequences I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her into the room before closing the door and locking it.

Her heart was beating fast and she was sobbing uncontrollably into my chest, she was the one in the hallway earlier.

"Lights were flickering and the bath was full and, and my clock said three thirty three!" I'm an idiot, I should have told Gee to get us a place somewhere else, this place has broken her mind.
What did she mean about her clock number?

I glanced at the time on my clock and it said ten minutes 'til two, what the fuck is going on?

"Fallyn, calm down, its okay." She was still crying into my chest and hugging me while I stroked her head and tried to calm her.

"There was something in the elevator!" I led her to the couch and sat down next to her while she continued to hug me.
What the hell must it have been to do this to her?

"It's okay, nothing's going to hurt you, I'm not going to let anything touch you." Slowly she calmed down and her sobs eased but her arms were still around my neck as she hugged me.
My throat burned worse with each beat of her heart and I struggled to keep myself in check.

Her body shook slightly as she curled up against me and I kept my jaw clenched tightly.
I'm ashamed to say this but the beating of her heart made me hungry and it took everything in me to keep my fangs hidden.

"I woke up and there was a knock at the door, there was no one there and the bath was full with the water moving." There was no way this could have happened, it must have been a bad dream or a hallucination but my gut told me that this had really happened.

She got control and took her arms away from my neck even though there were tears still pouring down her face. I don't know why she'd be crying, I don't know anyone who cries when scared, maybe she's an exception.

The sound of something shuffling came from the hallway and I looked at the bottom of the door which was dark. She followed my line of vision and started shaking next to me while a blue light glowed briefly from the crack under the door.

The light faded away along with the shuffling sound and I realized the hotels claims of this place being haunted weren't lies. I stood up to go outside and investigate what the fuck was going on, it's not like I'd have to worry about dying.
When I stood up from the couch Fallyn's heartbeat increased and I could tell she was panicking.

"Frankie, no! Don't go out there! Please stay here, don't leave me alone. Frankie, I don't want anything to get you." Her words made me stop immediately, whether it was intentional or not her calling me 'Frankie' effected my determination at the core.

"Fallyn, I need to have a look at the room and see if anythings there." Before I could say anything else she stood up and wrapped her arms around me.
I wasn't used to seeing her act like this, calling me Frankie and hugging a lot.
Sure all of the band would hug her but she never hugged us.

"I'm going with you then, I'm not staying here. It's practically the unspoken rule of horror movies, don't split up." With a sigh I nodded and she grabbed my hand, thinking of this moment later would without a doubt make Gee want to kill me.

"Fine, but if something happens and I tell you to run, do it." I was preparing for the worst, if vampires can exist why not other supernatural creatures.

With her small hand in mine I walked to the door and opened it, from what I could see of the hallway there was nothing there. Fallyn followed me as I slowly headed down the hall towards her room, the door was slightly open and it appeared to be dark inside.

"I closed the door behind me." She whispered as I went into the room and felt for a light switch despite my ability to see through the dark easily. My fingers brushed what I was sure was the switch and I flicked it on.
The lights overhead flickered before the room lit up and I looked around.
Nothing seemed to be out of place and there were no ghosts jumping up and down on the bed.

"There was a note saying the lights didn't work, there wasn't even supposed to be electricity going to them." She pointed to a piece of paper that sat on the counter. My eyes scanned it, damn she wasn't kidding. I remembered she mentioned the bath was full and I went into the bathroom to check, the bath was empty.

"I don't understand, it was full and the water was moving, I heard it splash onto the floor." Fallyn looked like she was about to start crying again, she looked tired and it was obvious she needed some sleep.

"I believe you, I also think you need to get some sleep, it's been a long night." The second the words left my mouth she began to panic.
"Frankie, I can't sleep in here. It sounds stupid and childish but I'm afraid to sleep." I hugged her to me as she started shaking again.

"I wasn't going to make you sleep in here, I was gonna suggest you, uh, stay in my room, if you want." She nodded against my chest and I let out a small sigh.

My teeth were aching and my throat burned even more as we headed back to 326, my room.
Gee was going to kill me if he found out I'd done this, he'd also kill me if I'd made her stay the night in 333.

Then again if he listened to her in the first place and let her stay on the bus or if he got back here an hour ago so I could go out and get something to eat, none of this would have happened.
She went into the bathroom as I got another drink from the fridge, this time my throat continued to burn.
Fallyn gave me a smile as she grabbed a pillow from the bed and sat on the small couch with it.

"What are you doing?" I asked as I grabbed another bottle from the fridge, it'd be my fifth today, yet no drunkenness.

"I'm gonna sleep on the couch." She fluffed the pillow and lay down, even with her small frame the couch wasn't big enough.

"You'll hurt yourself sleeping there, I'll sleep on the couch and you can sleep on the bed." I pointed to the queen bed with one hand while taking a drink from the bottle with the other.

"If the couch is too small for me then how are you going to be able to sleep on it?" She was right, the couch was too small for me but if I suggested we share the bed it'd probably freak her out.

"It doesn't matter, I'll be fine." I shrugged and tossed the empty bottle into the garbage, the burn's still there, fantastic.

"No, I'm not gonna come into your room and kick you out of your bed. You get one side and I'll get the other." Is she talking about the same thing I was thinking of?

"What?" Her face went red, yeah she was thinking the same thing.

"We'll share, you get one side of the bed and I get the other. I'm not a blanket hog, snorer or sleepwalker by the way." Of course not, I'd know if she is from the times I'd come into the bunks while she'd been asleep.
There were still some concerns when it came to me sharing a bed with Fallyn.

I was afraid of myself in two ways.
What if my vampire side took over and I bit her and what if I start to do what my gut says and I behave like the opposite of what Gerard wants, god I sound fucking stupid saying that.

"Oh-kay." She grabbed her pillow from the couch and immediately lay down on the side of the bed.
There was no doubt she was tired. I'd decided the guys wouldn't be getting back for a while so I might as well go to sleep too.

Fortunately the chance of Gee walking into the room when he got back was unlikely, when we got to a hotel everyone respected everyone's privacy.
With me on the far side of the bed and her on the other it was still impossible for me not to notice her heartbeat which was fast but steady.

I'd turned off all the lights and the glow of the clock radio was the only thing lighting the room.
I lay there facing the roof with her back turned to me as one of her thoughts registered.

'I'm an idiot, I should have stayed in my room and not caused him the trouble. Whatever's out there can go fuck itself for the next three nights. Actually, it can fuck itself permanently because this supernatural shit sucks.'

I chuckled into the darkness, for someone so small, cute and innocent looking she swore a lot.
She also smoked cigarettes, pot and got drunk, I guess looks can be deceiving she'll still remain adorable though.

The sound of something crashing to the ground came from the hallway and Fallyn jumped in the bed next to me.
Small vibrations came through the bed, she was shaking, I'd never thought she could be scared this easily. I thought back to the night we found her, she had spazzed out pretty badly from finding out we were vampires.

"You okay? Do you need anything?" I had no idea what you're supposed to give to someone who was scared like her, a glass of water maybe.
Before my brain registered what was happening Fallyn turned around and hugged me.

Her head laid against my chest and I could smell the shampoo drifting up from her hair.
How is it that girls always smell good?
I'm not trying to sound like a douche, I've been hugged like this by a couple of different girls before...but I had no idea what to do now.

I lay there awkwardly for a moment before I draped my arm across her back and she responded by putting her arm on my chest.
For a twenty two year old, world traveling, guitarist, vampire I was freaking the hell out right now.

This is like some mean reminder of a high school dance where you have the opportunity to ask the girl of your dreams to dance.
Except I have a feeling the girl of my dreams was only cuddling up to me because she happened to be scared.
Not that I was complaining.

Her hair fell across my arm and I could see the profile of her pale face even in the dark room.
"Frankie, why can't I feel your heartbeat?" I should have seen this coming, this was the perfect way for her to notice my lack of pulse even thought I was warm and very much alive looking.

"Maybe it's just faint, it's there though, how else would I be talking to you right now?" She giggled and I smiled into the dark, if I was lucky she wouldn't ask any further questions about it.

I imagined what this current situation would look like to someone else. If Gerard was to come in here right now he'd presume I'd been up to something I shouldn't. Then he'd probably kill me.
Her hair fell away from her neck enough for me too feel the burning in the back of my throat increase.
Some small dot of intelligence I had hidden far away told me I needed to feed soon or I'd do something regrettable.

Fallyn looked up at me for a moment and gave me a smile that made me forget my name and just about everything I've ever learnt. You could hand me a guitar right now and I'd have no idea what to do.

Her shaggy blonde hair fell around her face, her sea green eyes stood out brilliantly against her pale skin and I could feel the beating of her heart through my palm that I'd placed against her back.

I'd definitely do something regrettable.