The Light Behind Your Eyes

~Gerard's POV~

"Frank?" I asked in a shaky tone
"Yeah?" Frank replied.
"C-can I see your arms?" I asked in the same tone.

Frank rolled up his sleeves which exposed many purpley green spots and dark red cuts all over.

"When's this from?" I asked, pouring at the biggest bruise.
"The first day you were over, my dad doesn't like 'intruders' so he got pissed and the rest is history" he replied.

I looked at his arms a bit more and saw many cuts and scars everywhere. I was unsure of what they were from but the only way to get an answer is to ask.

"Frank, what're the cuts from?" I asked. He avoided my eye contact and mumbled something but I didn't catch it. "Frank?" I asked in a lower tone.
"Myself." He finally replied, still avoiding eye contact. "My dad always tells me how worthless I am and so does everyone else, so I believe them and take it out on myself."

I stared at him and he was almost in tears. I was almost in tears. I never went through anything like this so I didn't exactly understand it.

"Frankie, just promise, you're going to try to stop this, for me because I know and a lot of people know you're not worthless at all." I said to him.

Frank nodded and smiled. After that we didn't do much, finished our bits of homework we had left and watched TV. I fell asleep during the middle of a show because of how tired I was but it didn't really matter to me. Until I wake up at 2:00 because I can only sleep for however long at a time. This time I couldn't get back to sleep. Not like every other night where I had woken up in the middle of the night and fallen back to sleep real fast. But this time I had too much on my mind. I started to move around in the bed a little which I guess might have woken someone up.

"Gerard?" I heard a faint voice say.
"Hey Frankie" I said as I sat myself up.
"I'm going to stop. Okay?" Frank said.

I didn't reply instead I smiled and pulled him close to me.

Notes

Frank's history omg
real short chapter but I just got home from babysitting and I will be posting more in the morning don't worrrrryyy!

Itll be be less sad, trust me.
Sorry if this sucks it was written on an iPhone 4 which is as slow as a dinosaur so hooray.