The Fantasy

“FRANK! Are you in here?” Mikey shouted, bursting into the mens toilets. Frank snapped back to reality, momentarily paralysed by the amount of blood dripping from his arm. “What?” He said shakily, quickly bandaging his arm up in tissue, listening to Mikey’s footsteps as he impatiently paced up and down outside the cubicles. He stopped outside his cubical, banging on the door. “Hurry up in there, Gerard’s being arrested” He cried.

Frank unlocked the door, opening it to find himself looking into Mikey’s terrified eyes. They ran out of the bathroom, heading down the corridor and out into the courtyard, pushing through the crowds of students to find the police dragging Gerard away. “You can’t do this! Tell them Frank, tell them I didn’t do anything wrong! He screamed, struggling in the strong grasp of the policeman. Frank said nothing, his face expressionless as he watched the policeman force a screaming Gerard into the back of the car; he could still hear him protesting his innocence as they drove away from the school.

As soon as the police had left, the whispering began. The chit chatter of students began to fill the air, Frank could hear his name being whispered across the school grounds as the circulation of rumours began. “We’re they dating?” one voice asked. “Apparently Frank was being abused by Mr Way” another voice said. “Well he was clearly asking for it, nobody at that age just gets abused do they? He clearly knew what he was doing” another said. All eyes fell on him as the world around him began to spin. He could hear the voices grow louder, dragging across his mind and burning under his skin. He wanted to claw at his flesh, she wanted to dig out the noise, that horrifying noise and claw it out of his body. “Are you ok?” Mikey asked, breaking through his thoughts, his eyes filled with worry as Frank’s face grew pale.

“Please make it stop, just make it go away” he whispered, he couldn’t see, he couldn’t breathe. The world around him was spinning. He chest felt heavy as he began to suffocate under the voices and eyes that were directed at him. In the distance, underneath all the noise, he heard Mikey calling out his name; yelling at everyone to “back off and leave him alone- you don’t know what’s gone on so back the fuck off”. The voices began died down as teachers ushered students back to their classes. The courtyard was soon empty and the world around her grew clearer as he began to come back to reality. His eyes refocused and he found himself staring into the eyes of Mikey Way, his hands gripped tightly on Franks shoulders as he gently shook him. “Frank? Are you ok? Jesus christ what did he do to you?” He said. Frank could hear the sorrow in his voice, it made him feel guilty. He shouldn’t have put Mikey or Gerard through all this.

He should have ended it when he had the chance.

“What happened, why did they arrest him?” Frank asked wearily, looking around half dazed; as though he was far away from this world. Mikey kept his hands firmly on his shoulders, afraid that if he let go, he’d go tumbling to the ground. He swallowed hard, he didn’t want to repeat the words the police officers said. He had his suspicions; but child abuse? This was something else. “They… they arrested him for child abuse charges, tell me it isn’t true Frank” he replied quietly; silently hoping that Caterina was wrong about what she had heard, that the police were wrong. After everything had happened with Ryan, he swore it would never happen again, that he would never ever harm anyone. How could he be related to someone like that? It made him feel sick.

Frank’s eyes shot up to meet his, tears welling in his eyes as he realised he had messed up. It was his fault Gerard was being arrested, if only he had just done as he was asked. Gerard wouldn’t have gotten angry with him and the police wouldn’t have been called. What was he going to do? Without him, he was nothing.

He was completely and utterly alone.

Notes

What will happen next? Do you think Gerard should have gone to prison (although I think the answer to this is obvious)

Leave your thoughts/suggestions below xxx

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