The Heartbeat Of a City

Sometime later both her and Frank jerk awake when his cell buzzed angrily. Frank mumbles into it for a bit. Then he closes it and turns to Sam.
“Uh, I have band practice in like, an hour.”
But sam is still clinging to sleep and mmmhnnn? mmmnn is the only response he gets. He giggles, quietly, and watches her smile at the tail-end of a dream. Then he reaches out and shakes her a bit more awake.
“mnnnnaagh. lemmeshleep.”
“Do you want to call someone?”
“Huh? call- Oh shit, yeah I should.” Her voice is still scratchy from sleep and Frank suppresses a grin as he hands her the phone.
Sam’s best friend picks up on the fith ring.
“Hello! Marie here, how can I help you?”
“H-hey, Marie, its Sam.”
“Shit seriously?”
Sam’s a little weirded out. Marie hardly ever swears, she had superduper catholic parents or something.
“Yeah seriously. Why wouldn’t it be me?”
“Well I thought that after you the walking naked thing you would be…”
Marie trailed off realizing what she said.
“You knew!? And you didn’t answer when I called you?”
“Well it was funny! You were taking it too seriously. You seem to be fine.”
Sam wants to cry.
“Funny? Yeah, totally fucking funny. I almost got raped and my feet are torn to pieces and its totally fucking funny.”
Her chest hurts and she’s trembling with anger and hurt. She thought, she thought Marie was above crap like this.
“Calm down, it wasn’t that bad! Anyway, you should be happy, you had Josh Maccleston’s dick inside of you.”
“He fucking raped me!”
“Yeah right, you totally led him on! Geez, I never thought you’d be such a slut.”
Its just words, but they are carefully placed and slip into cracks Sam never knew she had. She’s being torn apart. When she begins to cry softly, Marie just continues. There’s a note of jealousy in her voice.
“Are you seriously crying? Like wow, that’s so fake. How could you like, do this to me? You knew I liked Josh! Fucking whore. I used to think we were friends.”
Marie takes Sam’s feeling and twists them back at her. Sam hurts so much. She doesn’t know why she hasn’t just thrown the phone on the floor.
“Marie… Please…!”
“What bitch? crying again?”
Sam’s feelings of betrayal turn to anger. Josh had said the same fucking thing.
“Yeah I’m crying tears of fucking joy that I have an excuse to never see your face again. Go fuck Josh, I’m sure he’ll love your tight little ass. Just. Never. Fucking. Talk. To. Me. Again. Bitch.”
She slams the phone shut and forgetting it’s not her’s almost throws it across the room. Frank, who she had also forgotten, grabs her hand just in time. He carefully set the phone down and then pulls her into a hug when she begins to cry.
“Shhh, Shhh, Its okay. It’s okay.”
A part of her mind is embarrassed that she just threw a temper tantrum and is now crying like a three year old. It’s not a very large part.
“I thought… I didn’t know… She was my best friend.”
Frank hushes her and holds her tight until she stops crying. His arms are surprisingly strong, and a strange warmth rushes through her. He pries her off of his chest so he can talk to her.
“Gee has some girl’s clothes here that you can borrow, and after get dressed I’ll take you to band practice with me, okay?”
She sniffles and nods, glad he doesn’t ask questions. Frank is struck by the resemblance of a puppy/7 year old kid and impulsively leans in to hug her again.
“You’re strong, you’ll be fine.”
“Nk’you.”
His face lights up with a grin, and he fidgets nervously when he has to shoo her away to go change. He wonders briefly what watching her change would be like.

Sam looks at herself in the mirror. The long skirt isn’t normally her style, its a little too girly, but fits perfectly. When she tells Frank, he laughs.
“Seriously?”
“Yes! Whats so funny?”
“Nothing, it’s just…”
He looks at her and almost bursts into laughter again.
“Those are Gee’s crossdressing clothes.”
Her eyes widen and pretty soon they’re both rolling on the floor, stomach’s aching with laughter even though it wasn’t that hilarious. It just feels good to laugh.

Notes

I like fluff, but it slows down the plot but then again I guess this story is basically a lot of fluff between people with problems? Whatever THANKS FOR READING