Frank’s P.O.V

I woke up to something tickling me. “Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, stop please stop!” I yelled. After opening my eyes I saw that no one was in my room, meaning that no one was tickling me. “What the fuck?” Looking down I saw my phone blinking with a missed call from Austin. There was also a voicemail, “FRANKIE PLEASE TELL ME THAT YOU ARE OKAY! YOU HAVE BEEN MISSING FOR LIKE 4 HOURS OF MY LIFE AND I WOULD CALL YOUR MOM BUT SHE’S WORKING AND SHE TRUSTS ME TO KEEP YOU SAFE. FRANKIE CALL ME BACK BEFORE I REPORT YOU MISSING!” I sighed and called him back, he picked up after one ring, “Frankie is it really you? Or is it someone calling for a ransom?”

“It’s really me Austin calm down. What’s wrong you sound panicked and you’re gonna give yourself grey hairs” I said chuckling.

“Frankie you promised me that you would text me on your whole way home and then call me when you got home what happened?” That was when everything that my mind had been keeping from me for 5 minutes came back... I talked to Damien and he told me everything that he felt and why he did what he did. “Frank are you still there? Frank?”

“Umm... yeah. Yeah I’m here.”

“What happened while you went awol man? Did something happen to you? Do you want me to come over?”

“No, if you came over you would go on a killing spree after I told you what happened to me.”

“Okay, Frank now you’re scaring me. What happened?”

“If I tell you you have to promise to not interrupt and you will not yell and you have to promise to not kill him okay?”

“Aw shit I can tell this is gonna be bad.... Okay Frank I promise, but before you tell me can I call André and put you on speaker so he can hear too?”

“Yeah sure. Tell me when he’s in the room so I can start.”

“Actually I was here all along and you were already on speaker, so carry on!” André piped in.

“Oh my goodness! I swear I will kill you both one of these days, but today I need moral support, so you will live to see the sun rise again.” I got a chuckle out of both of them and them told them both everything that happened in the coffee shop, even the part about Gerard and Damien kinda sorta meeting. I needed them to tell me to not act like the world was coming to an end. After I was done André was the first one to speak, which was a given because Austin was going to need a couple of hours to calm down, “Why is it that you have spent all of your life not being noticed and you have all this sudden boy trouble?”

“Wow André how did you know that was what I wanted to hear right now?”

“Sorry Frankie I just thought that I needed to point it out.”

“Okay so now that you have so eloquently pointed that out can you please tell me how I am supposed to react to all of this new information?” It was silent for a while, I could practically see the two brothers sitting on the bed with Austins phone in between the two and André biting his lip while Austin is fuming and biting his fingernails.

“You can’t forgive him.”

“What?”

“You can’t forgive him,’ Austin repeated, ‘I know what you’re thinking Frank and I will not let you put yourself in that position. You are too forgiving of the people that have hurt you.” Austin concluded.

“Yeah Frank, like, remember that time that I was mad at you and got you in trouble and you still apologized to me?” André added.

“Yeah okay. Guy’s it’s late. How about we talk this over lunch tomorrow?” I suggested.

“Okay Frankie, good night” the two brothers said. After that I hung up and decided to make myself a pb&j then decided to go back to sleep.

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The next day I woke up right on time and decided that I would procrastinate going to school by taking my sweet time getting ready for school. I took a shower and stared at my closet until I heard some movement down stairs meaning that Austin and André decided to pick me up... great. I stood up off my bed and picked up a pair of black skinny jeans and searched through a whole stack of black shirts until I found my favorite one. Sighing once more I picked up my backpack and headed down stairs.

"Are you sure that you don't want anything for the road?" I heard my mom ask the brothers.

"No thanks Mrs. Iero, we're fine. I promise!" André told my mom.

"Mom it's like 7 in the morning do you have to be bothering these poor creatures already?" I asked with a smile on my face.

"Sorry I just can't stop Frankie! I still see them as babies in my mind!"

“Oh my god mom! Please these poor creatures alone! Now they’re not gonna wanna be my friends and leave again!” I complained dramatically.

“Oh forgive me Franklin! I didn’t know that I was killing little sliver that you call a social life! I am ever so sorry!” she replied with a smirk on her face.

“OO BURN!” Austin and André yelled at the same time.

“UGH! I hate all of you! Lets go to school guys!” I yelled as I headed towards the door, stomping my feet.

~~Time Lapse (At lunch)~~

I met up with André and headed towards the lunch room where we had both agreed to meet Austin. After we got our lunches I decided to ask André about the past week, because we hadn’t talked about him in a while, lately everything had been about me. Before we even knew it half of lunch was over and Austin was nowhere to be seen.

“Hey Frankie, where’s my brother?”

“Dude, I don’t even know. What time is it?”

“It’s 12:30, lunch is over in 20 minutes and he still isn’t here. Do you think something happened to him?”

“No, well at least I hope not,’ I was silent for a moment then added, ‘Austin is like 6 feet tall and he knows how to defend himself, but nevertheless lets go look for him.” We hastily picked up or things and headed for the main hall, that was where we met up with a very frantic looking Damien. “That’s new” I thought to myself.

“Frankie! Shit no nevermind, Frank! You have to come with me! Come on!” he kept on yelling pulling my hand, but it was to no avail, I refused to move until he told me where he was taking me or at least until he told me what he wanted from me, I decided to voice this to him. “I know where Austin is,’ he sighed as if to finally allow himself to breathe, “He’s in the parking lot and I think that he’s really hurt.” I turned around to look at André, it took about 4 seconds for all of us to conclude that we needed to get to the parking lot now. We followed Damien to a spot about 10 feet away from Austin car. “Austins car? We walked to school this morning” I mentally noted that I was going to ask him about that, when I got to him.

“Austin! Austin! Are you okay? Speak to me!” I yelled as I lifted his head.

“Frankie..’ he cringed as he tried to get himself to sit up, ‘My car was being fixed because some asshole decided to fucking dent it, but anyways they called me today and told me that they were going to drop it off at the house and I was like no drop it off at the school, I waited outside for them and next thing I know they hand me the car keys and I’m getting the shit beat out of me. Aw fuck I can’t breathe I think they broke something.”

“Austin we need to get you to a hospital! We’re gonna drive you there okay?” I looked over at André and he was in no condition to drive and I didn’t have my license with me, not that it mattered at the moment, but I didn’t want to risk it.

“I’ll drive” Damien suggested. That seemed to trigger something inside of Austin because he suddenly stood up, with the help of André, and said “No fuck you asshole! I’m not gonna let you drive my car!”

“Dude I mean this in the nicest way possible, fuck off! You’re gonna die in this parking lot if you don’t get to a hospital and no one is capable of driving right now except me... so shut the fuck and get in the car because I’m driving you to the ER.” Austin seemed struck by Damiens sudden outburst and must have came to the conclusion that he was right, so he walked to his car and got into the back seat with André leaving me to sit in the front with Damien.

In the effort to avoid the awkward silence or talking to Damien I decided to ask Austin how he was feeling. “I feel fine actually except for the difficulty breathing but it getting better laying down, I wanna go to sleep Frankie.”

My eyes widened at that, “No Austin you can’t go to sleep, you could have a concussion and it would be harmful if you go to sleep! André keep him awake!”

“Okay Frankie. Austin what day is it today? What is your middle name? Who is your favorite teacher? When is your birthday?”

“Oh my god! I know the answer to all those questions but I refuse to answer any of them! I am tired and I want to go to sleep! So good night!” The words were out of my mouth before I could even double check it. Austin and André and Damien all looked shocked.

“Damien and I are getting back together.”

The car came to a sudden halt and I jumped out. “Come on Austin we need to get you some help!” I pulled him out of the car and walked straight into the ER without waiting for André or Damien.

~~Time lapse of about 6 hours~~

“Yes mom, I will make sure to call you with any updates I have about Austin. I promise.” I called Austin’s parents and then my mom to tell her that I was at the hospital waiting for any news on Austin. His parents said that as soon as they could get out of work they would come, but they weren’t here yet. André went to go get some air because he “could not stand being in the building of death not knowing what the hell the doctors were doing to him!” I was sitting down staring at my hands came and sat down next to me.

“Frank, I want to talk about what you said in the car.”

I looked back at him completely awestruck, it had been six hours and I doubted that we would even get to talk about it. I hadn’t been expecting this. He saw my reaction and added, “I thought you hated me, so I’m like really confused and I also feel hopeful because I really really like you and I didn’t treat you right and I want another opportunity to show you--to treat you like you’re supposed t--”

“No please Damien stop there. Please, please stop. First Austin and now this, no please.”

“Please Frank, just answer me why you said that in the car?”

“I said because I knew that Austin was going to not want to sleep after he heard that. I failed to realize that you had already pulled in front of the hospital. I’m sorry I really am, but Damien I honestly can’t do this.”

“Okay Frank. Thank you for telling me.It’s getting late and my mom probably thinks that I’m dead or something, so I’m just gonna head home.” I knew that I was kind of a jerk to Damien so I decided I would give him a hug as an act of forgiveness, what I didn’t expect, though, was that I would feel something I haven’t felt in a long time.

Notes

What's this? AN UPDATE!?!?! I know I have been gone for like FOREVER! and I'm sorry. It's just that I got my rag (tmi I know) and then I went to Warped tour with my friends and in general I was in a bitch mood and so was my mom so that didn't help at all. In other news, THIS IS THE LONGEST CHAPTER I HAVE EVER WRITTEN SO PLEASE IF YOU DIDN'T LIKE IT DON'T HOLD BACK IN SAYING THAT YOU HATE IT. Comments? Questions? Concerns? Drop a beautiful comment or send a message my way!
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P.S I'm thinking of writing a Vampire frerard and another one as well... but idk it's still in the "in my head stage" so... be patient. As of late this is my main priority, so do not fret!

P.P.S I FREAKING LOVE CROWN THE EMPIRE THEY ARE SO AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL! SO GO CHECK THEM OUT FOR ME, KAY? KAY!