SOMEONE Save Us

During our walk home Gerard was pretty quiet.At about halfway there, I broke the silence.

"So I have 3 mattresses on my bed and--"

"Wait, wait 3 mattresses, Jesus how pampered are you?" He cut into my sentence.

"No they're just to..well it's kind of weird but..."

"Just say it, it's not like I judge people." He eagerly said.

"I have so many because I like feeling tall when I wake up" I shied away in a hint of embarrassment.

"Ok, that makes sense..sort of"

"Anyway, yeah so i'll give you two 'cus let's face it you need more sprawl space than I do. So yeah we'll set you up on the floor in my room for now until we get the extra room cleared out." I smiled at the thought of having a roomate.

"Sounds awesome, why are there so many rooms if it's just the two of you guys?" He asked.

"Oh 'cus over the years my mom has helped a few foster kids get out of the system until they were back on good terms with family and stuff. I was the only one that she kept so i'm special!"
I sounded like a little kid.

"Jeez Frank I didn't even know that you were adopted! How old were you?"

"4. My other mother wasn't exactly keen on taking care of me or ya know even remembering I was there, so it's kinda bittersweet...more sweet than bitter."

"Oh...hey I just remembered what Mrs.Hill told us. I guess it kind of slipped my mind. Come to think of it, it's sort of the reason we were in all this fuss in the first place!" He changed the subject and I appreciated that because if he hadn't we would've just walked in awkward silence.

"Oh my god, you're right. That's so strange!"

"At least now we'll have a lot more time to practice and wow her!" He's so girly.

"True. Hey you want to know what I just realized?" I interjected

"What?"

"My house was 6 buildings ago and we are now walking no where." He looked back behind us and instantly turned around.

"Well, then let us be off!"

"Right!" I spun around on my heels.

When we reached my house, again, my mom was there. She was watching t.v and drinking coffee. As we walked through the door she bounced up. She almost ran over to us and embraced us BOTH into a hug.

"Where did you go?"She stressed

"Huh?" I was confused

"I saw the two of you walk by and you took a while to come back!"

"Oh! We were just talking and got distracted so we didn't notice that we passed by." I explained

She finally let go of us after what seemed like 10 awkward minutes.

"Sorry if that was too tight but I was just really worried y'all had run away or something!"

"It's okay Ms.Iero I love hugs!" Gerard sounded super positive. Weird

"What he said!" I responded

"So Frank..." She cued and waited.

"Huh, oh yeah! Mom this is Gerard and Gerard this is my fabulous Mommy!"

"Nice to meet you!" She hugged him again. Ok this is officially weird. 2 hugs very mysterious.

"Nice to meet you too" He actually hugged her back.

She had a huge grin on her face. We took off our shoes and jackets and dropped our bags in front of the staircase. Mom offered us some coffee and we desperately accepted. She placed the mugs of delicious caffeine before us.Then Gerard broke the non suspenseful silence.

"So Ms. Iero how much has told, by the way this is delicious?" I was caught off guard by his open demeanor.

"Well first off call me Linda, secondly thank you, and finally nothing at all, he just told me the details weren't appropriate to talk about on the phone" She smiled at me.

"I didn't sat that but yeah I figured in person was more suitable for this conversation." I turned toward Gerard.

"Okay, so where should I start.." I could see that he was struggling to start.

"Uh, I could tell her and you can cut in whenever, if you want to, you don't have to. I mean.." I started rambling but luckily he cut me off in time.

"Okay.Sure." We looked at each other and I smiled. He smiled back in gratitude.

While I was explaining, Gerard would cut in every once in a while to give better explanation. I was surprised with how much I remembered 'cus it was hard to understand him while he was crying. During the whole conversation my mom just sat in silence with a sympathetic look on her face. When I told her about the whole packing him out thing she reached her hand over to is and tried to relax him. When the explaining ended my mom stood up and wrapped him in yet another full body hug. It wasn't as 'out-of-the-ordinary' this time. She was simply being a good person.

As she let go she told him."You can stay here for as long as you like, tomorrow I want you boys to go and pick up Mikey from school and tell him he can stay here as well." Gerard's eyes flew open wide. Again i'd forgotten they were red.

"Wow! Really, you mean it, Thank You soo much Linda!!" Who sounded like a child now, haha just kidding. I was stoked to have Mikey stay with us too.

"Alrighty then.." I cut in "shall we go set up my room for you guys" He nodded and headed upstairs.

As Gerard walked out of the question I turned back and whispered to my mom."Thank You!"
She just smiled and nodded for me to continue walking.

Notes

Man I have so much reading to do!
At least I wrote out the story before hand or else...
I don't even want to think of how lost I would've been
Like major writer's block would've been there!
Thanks For Reading!!
-AToxicKilljoy