All My Favourite Colours

I go home after another day. It doesn’t feel right intruding on someone else’s grief. I use Pete’s credit card to fill up the tank and take the six and a bit hour drive home. I try not to think about the end of me and Frank’s story and more about the middle and the start. How he laughed at me and Mikey as I shoved a unicorn on a grown man. How he begged me to bring him to a dingy place for dinner and how he kept hinting at me to say something smooth and awesome and how miserably I failed.
Mikey hugs me the second I step in the door and doesn’t let go till I tell him I want to be alone. It’s then sitting on my bed that I open the letter.


Dear Gee,
Hey man hope you’re okay. Don’t go crying on me now. I’m only writing this to get you to make sure they play the misfits at my funeral.
Love Frank.

I flip the page over.

I’m no good with words but here it goes.
Okay Gee the real reason I’m writing this to thank you for saving my life. I mean if you’re reading this I’m dead… But for two whole years before now I was dead. My friends never visited anymore. My aunt could only come up every now and again. I couldn’t even make my music anymore. This just wasn’t living. I’d wished to die for years so this is a weird ass dream come true. But the hardest part of this is leaving you.
Then you came along dressed in black with eyeliner smudged half way down your cheek and handing a twenty something year old dude a unicorn teddy. From then till now I’ve been thinking about you Gee. It was as if as soon as I had found a reason to live my lungs had realised they couldn’t. I guess that’s what you get for being a dick to your own body for twenty five years.
I am so fucking sorry for bringing you into my misery, Gee, but I can tell you not a second we spent together could ever be a regret. Even if it landed me in intensive care the next day.
If you say goodbye today, can I just ask you to be true. No regretting what we had because the hardest part of knowing I’m dying is knowing I’m leaving you.
Thanks for saving me.
All my love,
Frank.

Notes

A short chapter but i hope nit to abrupt. Thanks for reading my fic and I hope you enjoyed it!