Chapter Twenty Three: And now should I be shocked by the last thing you said?

"Are feeling okay Frank?" Gerard asked, staring at Frank's calm expression.

"You mean because I told you how I feel about you? Even after you broke my heart?" Frank smiled weakly at Gerard's confused expression.

"Well," he didn't know what to say, "... Yes. Your, I mean, you actually ... Is this some kind of sick joke Frank?" Gerard sighed as he reached the only answer he could understand about what Frank had said.

"No Gerard, it's really not. For some stupid reason I still love you." Frank sighed, leaning back into his chair and staring at Gerard who simply looked dumbfounded.

"You ... you actually love me?" Gerard asked, scared to raise his hopes that Frank did actually care for him.

"How many times you idiot yes I love you." Frank chuckled as Gerard still looked dumbfounded. Suddenly his dumbfounded expression collapsed and was replaced with a dazzling smile.

"You, do?" His milky white teeth glistened slightly from a beam of sunlight entering through a window.

Frank shook his head lightly "Of course dummy!" He giggled childishly.

"I," he paused slightly, gulping, "I love you Frankie." Gerard grinned at Frank.

"I love you too Gerard." Frank smiled sheepishly back at the deathly pale figure grinning at him.