Blast it to the Back Row

Gerard looked up through his sweat-damp hair as Frank slumped off to their room.
THEIR room!.. God! how he wished it was more than just a shared space.
He'd been in love with Frank.. well, he didn't actually know HOW long now, but a long time.. LONG before they'd all escaped Battery City, before the bombs dropped.. Before the world turned to sand and pain and shit.
They'd been friends since they were kids of course, when Gerard had found the smaller boy stuck in a garbage can (fucking jocks). He'd pulled him out, and they'd been pretty much inseparable ever since.
Gerard couldn't really pinpoint the moment he'd gone from like, to love.. but he thought it was somewhere around his senior year, maybe when Frank came to him in floods of tears cos some girl, and Gerard couldn't remember her name (or chose to forget it) had dumped him and broken his heart.
It had taken an entire Batman movie marathon, and two large veggie pizzas to get the smile back on Frank's face that day. Gerard wished it were that easy still. He couldn't remember the last time he'd seen Frank smile, or heard him laugh.. he missed it..
He missed Frank's smile and adorable little pot laugh. He missed watching movies with his friends and not having to look over their shoulders all the time. HE MISSED PIZZA!!
Food in general was SO hard to come by these days, that they were OFTEN reduced to eating this disgusting Power Pup muck. God!.. This stuff was so bad, if he had a dog, he'd look for something else to feed it..
But they didn't have a choice. It was eat, or die.. Gagging on a lump of greasy, grey.. YUCK!.. Gerard wasn't entirely convinced that eating really WAS the better option.
Giving up, (after finding what he'd SWEAR was a fingernail) Gerard threw the can into what they were currently using for a trash bin, and headed outside.
Huffing in the hot air, Gerard looked out across the quickly darkening landscape. HOPEFULLY they'd have a quiet night, with no Dracs, or SCARECROWS... He could dream, right?...

Notes

Hi there chipmunks.. How you all doing?I actually have a good excuse for disappearing for the last week.. I was in hospital.. WITH NO INTERNET!!!... It was torture!.. That and the 6 operations, and only being allowed to eat jello, and well.. I was on the brink of madness, and have now, FINALLY come home, and have about a thousand updates to read!!.. But I didn't waste my time in there.. I wrote several chapters, and even began a new fic, so now I'm back, from outer space.. (sorry!) and really excited to get back to this.
Please comment, stay safe, and peace out babies!
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