Love Will Overtake Us Both

"He... h-h-he r-relapsed!" Gee shouted, stuttering his words while he sobbed.
"Oh hun, come here; what happened?" I ran over to him and hugged him as he cried into my hair.
"I got there and he was all ready to go and he just collapsed and started fitting. They had to wire him up to all these machines again because they thought he was gonna die!" He sobbed harder so I pulled him as close to me as possible and wrapped my arms tighter around him for some sort of comfort.
Maybe things will never be the same. Will he ever be strong enough to come home or will he just stay in the hospital? Will he die? Will that medication stop working so he gets depressed again? I couldn't bear to see that happen, not to him anyway. If he doesn't come home, will Gee, Mikey, Ray and I ever be strong enough to live our lives as if he was still there or never even existed? All these thoughts spun round and round my head, making me dizzy and drop to the floor, pulling Gee with me.
"Are you ok Leil?" Ray asked, pulling my arms from around Gee so he could kneel down and comfort me.
"Are you ok babe?" Gee asked, wiping his tears and running his other hand through his hair.
"Yeah, I think; just had thoughts spinning in my head and then my legs just weakened and I fell as you all saw," I replied, pulling myself up to sit cross-legged on the floor between Gee and Ray.
"Well, you're fine now, right?" Mikey asked from the kitchen table.
"Yeah, I'm good thanks," I replied. "Gee? Will you and ray help me up?" I looked at him with puppy-dog eyes, no-one can resist my puppy-dog eyes!
"Yeah, sure," Gee replied and with the help of Ray, they both pulled me to my feet before Gerard swooped me up into his arms and carried me upstairs.

~Gerard's POV~
When we got into my room, I closed the door with my ass, walked over to my dresser and sat Leil down on it.
"What're you doing?" She muttered, trailing kisses down my neck.
"You know," I placed my hand under her chin and pushed her head up so we were facing each other, a smile crossing my face when she finally understood what I meant.
I trailed kisses down her neck until I reached the neck of her shirt, only stopping them to pull it off. I relocated my lips onto Leil's as she undid the buttons on my shirt and I pulled it off, not breaking the kiss. She then undid my belt and pulled my jeans down before wrapping her hands back around my waist.
"I love you," she muttered into the kiss, giving me the opportunity to sneakily slip my tongue into her mouth.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" I replied, breaking the kiss.
"I... think I should go and see Frankie first. Wanna come with me? I'll buy you dinner. At one of those fancy restaurants. Or do you wanna go somewhere else? You're choice Gee," she said, jumping off the dresser and picking up her clothes.
"Um, sure, I'll come with you. I'll let you choose babe, I'm no god at making decisions," I walked over to her as I spoke, pulled her up off the floor and kissed her, slowly and passionately.
She pulled away; "How about I drive us somewhere after seeing Frankie and we just eat there? Sound good?" she continued when I nodded as a response to her questions. "Ok, can I get dressed now?"
"Yeah, I'm gonna get dressed too, I'll be ready in 10 ok?" I replied as she walked out of the room and swung on the doorframe. I have to look good if we're going out for dinner; I've got to impress her.
I went to my closet and picked out some black skinny pants, a slim-fitted black shirt and a red tie. I slipped those on, carefully put on some cologne, brushed my hair and slipped into my red converse. I walked over to my mirror and, taking a comb, I brushed my red hair, taking care to brush every inch of it so it didn't look messy when we went out.
"Ready?" she appeared behind me so suddenly, I almost had a fucking heart attack. She looks amazing and there's me in a shirt, tie and jeans! Oh well, I'll leave it to her to dress nice. "We match!" she exclaimed before we walked downstairs and announced to Ray and Mikey, who were wrapped in each others arms, that we were going out...

~Leila's POV~
I walked into the bathroom, after getting a shopping bag from my room, and looked in the mirror. What a fucking mess, my hair's all over the place and is that a zit?! Shit, good thing I've got cover-up.
I carefully brushed my hair and tied it up in a bun before grabbing the clothes that were in the bag: a black, long-sleeved, fitted dress, red skinny pants and black heels. I slipped them on before covering up my zit and putting red lipstick on. That will do; I look awful but this all I have that looks nice.
Carrying the shopping bag with my make-up in, I walked out of the bathroom, put it in my room and walked to Gee's. I lingered in the doorway for a minute or two, didn't wanna disturb him brushing his hair. He's beautiful and he dressed up too. Shit! Do we match? Awesome! I crept up behind him and just stood there, admiring his looks In the mirror. It would be funny if I scare him now, I have been standing here for about 5 minutes and we needed to go if we were to visit Frankie. "Ready?" I said, smiling and giggling when it made him jump out of his skin...
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We got to the hospital just in time for visiting hours. Walking through the corridors, hand-in-hand with Gee, surrounded by staring people, has never made me feel more of an outcast. The dirty looks from people in the waiting rooms we passed made me feel like shit. "I can't do this Gee," we stopped walking to face each other.
"Of course you can. You'll be fine," he replied with a small smile on his face.
"I didn't mean seeing Frank! I meant walking through all the corridors: we keep getting dirty looks hun and I hate it; why can't people just accept that we're different?!" I shouted, causing more people to stare at us in utter disgust.
"Oh, just fuck off, the lot of you!" Gee spat and they looked away without muttering a word.
"Thanks babe," I replied, leaning in to kiss him. We carried on walking through the corridors and I just ignored the looks and comments from other people because Gee made me feel special and wanted, not like an outcast.
We reached the desk in the ward that had Frank in. "We're here to see Frank Iero," I explained to the receptionist.
"Are you family? You can't go in unless you're related to him," she said in a monotone, clearly not wanting to hear bull shit.
"I'm his brother and this is my girlfriend but they are really close," Gee said, his facial expression clearly showed he was desperate to see him.
"Ok, he's in room 203, that's all the way to the end of the corridor, take a left and it's about 5 rooms down," she said, pointing out the directions to us.
"Thank you," we said in unison as we walked down the long corridors.
I walked into Franks room first, followed by Gerard. He's awake! Thank fuck, he's gonna be ok, I know it. "Hey Frankie! How're you doing?" I said in a high-pitched tone. He looked at me, confusion on his face.
"Who the hell are you?!" He shouted, anger in his voice.
"It's Leila honey. You remember me, don't you?" Worry and sadness made my eyes fill up with tears as I spoke.
"Oh, sorry. You look different... stunning even..." he said, his voice fading away when he noticed Gee was behind me. "Well, don't you two look cute? So, you're totally an item now right?"
"Yeah, we have been for about a month," Gee said, walking towards Frank's bed and standing next to me, holding my hand for support.
"Congratulations! So happy for you," he said, a great big smile forming on his face.
"Thanks Frankie," Gerard said, smiling back.
He's not that happy for us, he loves you, remember? He's just trying to mask the fact that he's dying inside because he can't be with me. "Gee? Could you step outside for a sec? I want to talk to Frankie in private,"
"Ok, I'll visit you again, I promise," Gee hugged Frank and left the room, waiting for the door to close before I started talking.
"You're not ok about me and Gee are you?" I asked, sounding worried
"No! I hate it! Why can't we be together?" He muttered as tears started to fall down his face.
"You know why," I replied. I walked over kissed his cheek and hugged him. "I'll come back on my own so we can talk with more privacy ok?" I swiftly left the room and headed down the corridors with Gee.
"So... where we going to eat then?" he asked. He grabbed my hand, that was on the gear shift, as we pulled out of the hospital car park and drove away...

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