Chapter Seventeen: Frank's Birthday.

"Happy birthday beautiful!" Gerard squealed at his boyfriend, grabbing him by the waist and pulling him closer. Frank giggled lightly, slightly embarrassed because everyone in the corridor seemed to be staring at the two of them but Gerard didn't care a single bit. It had been a few months since his younger brother Mikey had found out about his relationship with the spiky haired boy but that had allowed Gerard to change somehow, it seemed as though it had set him free. Frank wrapped his arms round Gerard's neck, pulling him in towards his lips. Gerard abruptly broke the kiss, placing a finger on Frank's pouting lips to stop him from making a noise.

"I got ya summat." Gerard chuckled as he pulled a medium sized box from his bag but it was long and thin. Frank giggled excitedly as Gerard handed him the box covered in red and black wrapping paper, he pulled the wrapping paper away to reveal a canvas painting of himself and Gerard. Frank stood still schocked. The painting was of himself and Gerard but was in the style of the comic book characters Frank had found on Gerard's bedroom floor.

"It's ... Amazing Gee!" Frank squealed, hugging the painting and kissing his boyfriends cheek.

"Glad you like it," Gerard smiled sweetly, looking down at his bag, "I got you something else aswell." He dived into his bag to produce another box, but this time much smaller, about the size of an average tv remote, a red ribbon was tied in a bow around the soft, black material of the it. Frank gingerly took the box from Gerard and removed the lid to show a charm bracelet. It was a thick silver chain with little charms hanging off it, the charms were some of Frank's favourite animals like a small silver dog, there was also a line of engraved silver panels that read "FI&GW" in a heart. Frank looked up at Gerard from the bracelet and smiled, a tear in his eye.

"I love you so much Gee, thank you." He whispered, wrapping his arms around his boyfriends neck and placing his head on his shoulder, clasping the cold metal of the charms in his hand. Gerard hugged Frank back and told him he didn't have to say thank you, that he was the most amazing thing in Gerard's life that deserved to be treated like a princess everyday, especially on his birthday. Frank had laughed at the princess comment and playfully punched his arm before the bell rang signalling the start of lessons. The two boys walked hand in hand to class, the silver metal of the charm bracelet surroundig Frank's wrist and the painting tucked into his bag.

Ray and Bob had placed a card on Frank's desk, it had the image of a cupcake on it saying happy birthday. Frank secretly thought Gerard's card was best, he'd hand made it using hand drawn images of Frank's favourite things such as The Misfits and a small blue eyed Labrador puppy that made Frank's heart melt a little. The two boys held hands under the table, trying not to attract the attention of their maths teacher Mrs Bedford since she'd sent the two out before for holding hands.

Gerard made sure he stuck to his earlier statement of treating Frank like a princess all day. Ray, Bob and Gerard had each brought in a cupcake for Frank to make a wish with and use as a mini cake. Ray had ended up high fiving his and eating it from his fingers so Frank had lost out on one of his cupcakes but he didn't think too much of it, he shared the two remaining cupcakes between himself, Gerard and Bob.

Frank had decided his day at school had gone well and decided to invite the three other boys round for a small birthday party at his house, his mum had been forced to work and his dad had gone to Australia on a special business meeting so he had the house to himself. The three boys accepted but Bob's mum insisted on giving them a lift to Frank's house which they had gladly taken given the fact it had begun to rain. The four boys had filed out of the car and run at the speed of the light to Frank's doorway, the rain had got heavier whilst they'd been driving and thunder clouds had starts to form in the sky above.

Once inside, the boys dropped their belongings and walked into the kitchen. Frank sat down at the counter and pulled out a handful of food delivery leaflets leaving Bob and Ray to decide what they were going to order whilst he snuggled up to his damp boyfriend.

"Finally!" Bob moaned as the doorbell rang, he'd been put on duty of collecting the pizzas he had insisted on ordering. Ray laughed as his boyfriend made his way from his seat in the living room to the front door to collect the boxes of food.

"Wierd vegetable thingy?" Bob had decided that instead of taking notice in what people had ordered he'd describe what was in the box and hope somebody had a clue what he was talking about.

"That's me!" Frank laughed, grabbing the box from Bob's hand and tucking into his vegeterian pizza.

"Err, funny looking yellow chunks, is that pineapple?" He questioned in disgust, the idea of pineapple on a pizza disgusting him.

"Me!" Ray laughed as Bob pulled a horrified face at the pineapple before throwing the box towards Ray who catched it and began to eat.

"Aaah! My meat feast! Which means this pepperoni one is yours Gerard." Bob smiled and passed Gerard his pizza before sitting down to munch through his own.

The four had ended up watching an old episode of Spider-Man whilst they were eating and had resorted to putting Tim Burtons Corpse Bride on after they'd eaten. Frank had snuggled up with Gerard and Ray with Bob. Gerard and Bob ruffling Frank and Ray's hair much to their distress. The film finally finished and Gerard sent his mum a text telling her he'd be late since he was at Frank's house for his birthday. Ray and Bob walked home hand in hand leaving Gerard and Frank snuggled up on the sofa. Gerard leaned into Frank's ear and whispered Happy Birthday.

"Since it's my birthday Gee," Frank had begun to fiddle with his jumper sleeves, a sign he wanted something more then a kiss from Gerard, "Can we, err, go upstairs to my room maybe?" Frank smiled sweetly, running his hands through Gerard's long dark hair and snuggling up to him. Somehow, instead of answering with a simple yes, Gerard had managed to throw Frank over his back and carry him up the stairs only to throw him onto his double sized bed. Frank had giggled and hammered on Gerard's back but the smaller boy hadn't put up much of a fight. The boys kissed passionately before Frank practically ripped off their clothes.

"My poor ickle sex deprived Frankie." Gerard had chuckled as he kissed up Frank's arm to his neck making Frank moan lightly.

"I love you Gee." Frank had giggled whilst Gerard touched him.

"Love you too Frankie." Gerard replied, biting Frank's neck and dragging him under the black blanket covering Frank's bed.

"Happy birthday." Gerard whispered into Frank's ear, he smiled, his eyes shut making it look as though he was sleeping.

"You've said that multiple times today." Frank pointed out, laughing lightly into Gerard's pillow.

"I know, I just like to tell you, I mean, it only comes once every 365 days." Gerard laughed, ruffling Frank's hair and kissing his cheek before placing his misfits t-shirt over his head to cover his pale, lightly scarred skin. The two boys removed themselves from the black cocoon of Gerard's duvet and blankets and got dressed.

"I've gotta go now." Frank mumbled as Gerard pulled out his puppy dog eyes.

"Aww man, I'll walk you home kay?" Gerard whined before grabbing his boyfriends hand and pulling him out of his room. Frank laughed as he was pulled through the house towards the front door. Mikey waved frantically at him, shouting goodbye at the top of his voice as Gerard pulled him further away from the house.

The walk to Frank's house was quicker then usual as Gerard was practically dragging Frank. They had reached Frank's house within 10 minutes of leaving Gerard's and were stood on the doorstep as Frank dived into his pocket to find his keys.

"Love you Gee," Frank whispered, "thank you so much for the amazing brithday." He smiled innocently and pecked his smiling boyfriend on the lips.

"Love you too." Gerard smiled as his boyfriend closed his front door.

As he walked back home Gerard's phone rang.

"Hello?" He quizzed the device.

"Hey gorgeous!" Bert's voice echoed down the phone, Gerard sighed.

"Hi Bert, what do you want?" Gerard's voice sounded with hardly any emotion apart from annoyance.

"Meet me baby? I'm lonely!" Bert whined as Gerard sighed.

"I can't Bert." Gerard almost put the phone down but Bert began to whine.

"Why not?" Gerard didn't know what to say.

"Because, everything we do, it's wrong. Just wrong. Everything we did Bert, it was wrong, and it's never happening again. You can keep your stuff, and if you dare lay a finger on Frank or tell him anything, you'll pay for it Bert." Gerard hissed, pressing the red button on his phone and throwing it in his pocket. He sighed, dreading the next day