Give Me Blood

They both woke up to a flash going off and low giggling. Frank recognized the person immediately, opening his eyes to see a way too energetic Jamia, wearing an amused expresssion and holding her phone out in front of her, apparently taking pictures.
'You two would make the cutest couple, I'm serious', she giggled, contradicting herself. To Gerard, who had now also opened his eyes, she looked just a little bit jealous, though she tried to hide it. Frank didn't seem to care, however.
Groaning and rather reluctant, he sat up on the couch he had previously been sleeping on, facing his wife. He knew that she was going to visiti him today, but with Gerard around he forgot everything, even himself.
The two Ieros had a silent stare down and all of a sudden, Gerard felt really uncomfortable in their presence. He cleared his throat awkwardly, until Frank broke the eye contact with Jamia to look at him.
'Umm, I better get going now', he mumbled, while already getting up and squeezing past Jamia without so much as glancing at her.
'Okay, bye, Gee', Frank says, while Gerard is opening the door. 'Will you return? We'll be here for another day. Please?', he shouts after him, getting a shrug in return, before the door slams shut.
Gerard lets out the breath he'd been holding in, as he walks away from the bus. The atmosphere in there had been really awkward, at least for him, and he's glad that he could escape it.
Meanwhile, inside the bus, Jamia smirked at Frank, raising an eyebrow and crossing her arms.
'It's him, isn't it?', she asked.
'Geeee', she mocked him, voice high pitched, expresssion dreamy, making him frown. Then, surprisingly, she began to laugh. 'I didn't even see this coming. You're really good at hiding it!'
She sat down next to him on the couch, in the same spot that Gerard had been sitting only minutes before her, and turned more serious.
'I'm sorry, Frank. This must be so hard'.
He shook his head at her, sadly 'It's not your fault. Actually, you're taking it quite well. I'm so lucky I have you'.
They hugged each other for a moment. They were as close as could be for a former couple, with one of them on tour. They were still married, of course, because they didn't want to have to explain their split to anybody and they got along well, so why not.
It was a secret between the two of them that they were no longer together and no one else knew.
They were good friends, though. Jamia would always have a special place in Frank's heart and she was still in love with him and would do anything for him (who wouldn't, he's a frickin cute puppy). She wasn't mad at him, however. They had both come to the conclusion that they could no longer be in a relationship together, when Frank had confessed to her, honest as he is, that he was in love with somebody else and that the feelings were strong. He refused to tell her who the other person was, even though she wanted to know. She was furious and really hurt at first, but she was also thankful that Frank was honest with her and didn't string her along. She still loved him wholeheartedly, so she forgave him and they became really good friends.
Now that Jamia finally knew who stole her husband's heart away from her, she wasn't even really shocked. Gerard and Frank had been really close before, they had kissed on stage, they were the ones who had established the thing called 'Frerard'. She wouldn't have thought that any of it had been real, though.
Well, Gerard had no clue, of that Jamia was sure. So that left open questions about what she had witnessed just this morning. Why was Gerard even there? What happened between the two men, if anything at all?
'What was that earlier about? What did he even do here?', she asked with suspicion in her voice.
Frank sighed, he had never told anybody about his feelings for Gerard and he hadn't intended to. Now it was uncovered, so he could as well talk to Jamia now.
'He called me. About a week ago. I missed him so much that I invited him here. We caught up a bit and then he had an emotional breakdown. I comforted him and then we fell asleep together', Frank summarized for her. 'What did he have a breakdown over?', she asked him, surprised.
'He misses the band', Frank sighed, 'I do, too'.
Jamia knew that and looked at him with sympathetic eyes.
'And what will you do about it now?'
'I have no idea. I can only wait for him to come back. There will be nothing more than friendship, though. We both know him and how much he loves his family'.
Frank looked down, sadness oozing from him. He had accepted the hopelessness of his one sided feelings for Gerard long ago but he looked broken.

Notes

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That was smooth, right? Hehe
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