"I had a good day yesterday. I went to the movies with Mikey, Pete and Gabe. I think Mikey was desperate for me to come now that Pete and Gabe are together properly now. You should see them, they can't get enough of each other. Mom quit her job as well. She said she was sick of working nights all the time. She's already found a new job in a rest home not far from our place. She's really happy to be working there because she doesn't have to deal with the younger patients that think they own the world and everyone should be focused on making them better. The old people are just huge sweeties according to her. Umm what else good happened yesterday? Oh! I completely forgot! Mikey proposed to Alicia! She said yes and Mom cried. And! Far out yesterday was really great. There's gonna be a new Harry Potter series. Based on Newt Scalamander, the author of 'Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them'. I wish you were still here for it. We could have gone to see it together. It's gonna be fucking wicked. Also, last week I decided I'm gonna go back to California for a week to go to Comic Con. I'll take loads of pictures for you and make sure I meet the best people."
I let out a long sigh of contentment and looked around. It was the middle of spring and the trees surrounding Frank's grave were blooming with blossom and were spreading everywhere. It looked like soft pink snow. It was beautiful. It had been 4 months since Frank had died. It had been tough. But I was dealing. Life goes on. I had nothing to gain from getting as depressed as Frank was. I had nothing to gain from drinking and I had everything to gain from carrying on with life. I visited his grave every second weekend, replacing the old flowers with new ones. Occasionally Mikey or Mom will come with me to visit him but I'm usually by myself.
A bird chirped loudly above me and let out some shit right next to my leg.
"That's fucking disgusting. A bird just shat next to your grave," I snorted,"I need to get to work now, Frank. I just love dishing up ice cream for snot nosed little girls," I sighed. I had gotten my job back at Sweet Things after explaining to them what had been going on. My boss had been wonderful about it,"I guess I'll see you in two weeks then."
I stood up and bent over to dust myself off, stumbling backwards into someone walking past like the dickhead I was.
"Fuck I'm so sorry!"I shouted out as I struggled to right myself.
"No no it's okay, don't worry about it," A deep voice said. I turned around to see a tall guy with long black hair coming down to his shoulders. He was wearing a Misfits t-shirt and had a bunch of bright red flowers in his hands. He also had a ridiculously cute smile. My stomach flipped around as he smiled widely at me from behind his dark sunglasses.
"You alright?" He asked me, pulling off his sunglasses to look at me closely.
I blinked away the trance of his eyes and stuttered out,"Yeah. Yeah I'm okay."
"I'm Bert."
"Gerard."
"Nice to meet you, Gerard. Who are you visiting?"Bert started walking and immediately I followed, not even thinking about when I decided to follow him.
"I just visited my boyfriend. Well ex I guess. You?" I looked at him as we took a side route through some graves.
"My Mom. She died last year,"Bert said casually.
"I'm sorry to hear that."
"Sorry to hear about your boyfriend."
We stayed quiet as we walked until he came to a stop next to a small gravestone. I was about to take a step back so Bert could do his thing when he looked at me and said,"Do you wanna grab a coffee sometime?"
"I- sure,"I smiled.
"Are you free today?"
"I have to get to work. But tomorrow afternoon I'm free?"
"Perfect,"He smiled widely at me. A few awkward seconds later we had exchanged numbers.
"So I'm gonna let you uh.."I gestured to his Mom's grave and took a step back.
"Yeah yeah. I'll call you tonight then, Gerard,"He smiled widely at me again, slipping his sunglasses back on to create a mysterious sexy look. I nodded stupidly and turned around to leave. As I walked down the path to the gate out of the cemetery I found myself grinning. It seemed like Frank would approve of this mysterious tall boy. With the sun warming my back and a smile on my face, I set off for work, the happiest I had felt since Frank's death. Mom was right. Life just goes on.

Notes

So first off I owe you all an explanation as to why I killed off Frank. Whenever I read fanfiction, or not even fanfiction, just books in general, it /always/ ends with a happily ever after. I lost my virginity to my last boyfriend and because of all the fics and books I read, I had the wrong expectations so when me and my boyfriend broke up, I was devastated. Now I'm not exactly blaming fanfiction or books or anything like I fucking love a happy ending, but for once I just wanted it to end in tragedy but with the main character moving on. Because that's what happens. Life continues. I got a new job and found a new boyfriend. I'm happier with him than I was with my last boyfriend and now I regret wasting a week moping over my ex. I made Gerard move on with life because I'm trying to get the message across that yeah, terrible things may happen in your life, but being upset about them doesn't help you. Moving on helps you and doing things to make you happy help you. Which leads me to a very exciting announcement (for me at least) I'm going to rewrite this story so it's not Frank and Gerard and I'm going to submit it as a manuscript to a publisher so I can try and be published!!!! This is very huge for me because looking online at it all and planning the re-writing has made me realise just how long and how badly I've wanted this. I always thought I wanted to be a chef or own a cafe or something but now I've discovered that this is what I want to do professionally and it's all down to the amount of readers I get on my fics.
I owe you all a huge thank you. I really do. You guys give me so much hope when you read my chapter and sometimes comment with thoughts or a mini-fangirl. It means the world to me and always motivates me to write, even if it is just a few sentences, you still inspire me and get the chapters done faster. Unfortunately for you, I won't be doing a sequel. I have too many fics I need to write and I also need to start with the rewriting of STFM so I really cannot continue with Gerard and Chesterton anymore, as much as I want to. I don't think I could do anything further with this anyway. Let's just say that Gerard finds his happy ever after with Bert and they move to New York or something. You decide. Have your own little fantasy, even if it involves nothing with Bert and Frank coming back from the dead to be with Gerard. I'm down for a little Spectrophilia (y'all ever read Anatomy of A Fall? Fucking amazing oh my good god).
I'm not sure when I will be writing something new officially, I think I might just pop out a few oneshots every now and then. Maybe. We'll see.
I hope you have all enjoyed reading The Strangely Familiar Midget just as much as I've enjoyed writing it. You guys mean the world to me. I really fucking appreciate you all and I;m so grateful that you chose to read my story. I love you.