Frank unlocked his car and let Gerard in. He sat down in the passenger seat, looking at Frank.
"What’s wrong?“ Gerard asked, he hated seeing Frank cry.
"Everything feels like it’s falling apart…” Frank sobs, he hated feeling vulnerable around Gerard.
Gerard thought for a second. He didn’t know how to tell Frank that life will get better…and he was sure as hell no professional at this.
Frank just couldn’t get himself to look at Gerard without wanting to cry even more. That was his best friend, but he couldn’t have felt more distanced than ever.
"Tell me what happened.“ Gerard said in a motherly tone.
"My boss fired me, and I’m still going to be 17 for a few months. I don’t have a job and no one will hire me because of my age and I need money for my rent and without rent I’ll be homeless.” Frank rushes.
He didn’t want to talk about it, let alone Gerard hear it.
"It’ll be okay, Frankie.“ Gerard shushed him, leaning in for a hug.
"I’m sorry, I’m so high maintenance.” Frank apologized, crying into Gerard’s shoulder.
"No, that’s okay. You’re my own personal cat.“ Gerard laughed.
"Can we go to the pet store?” Frank asked.
"Definetly.“ Gerard smiled.

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Once Frank and Gerard both arrived at the nearest pet store, they got out of their cars and headed in.
There we’re so many puppies and kittens that they were overwhelmed by cuteness.
"They’re all so fucking cute.” Frank gawked.
"Look. At. That. One." Gerard said, pointing to the sleeping puppy.
"Oh my god-d-d." Frank just about died, he was starting to feel better by the second.
"It's so adorable I want to cry." Gerard cooed.
A worker walked up asking, "Did you two want to meet him?"
Frank looked over at Gerard, both of them turn to the worker nodding.
"Hell yeah we do." Frank replied.
"Okay just wait over there," She pointed in the room, "And I'll be right back with him."
They waited a few minutes, both of them super excited to hold the puppy. She returned with him and he was feeding through a baby bottle.
She handed Gerard the puppy first, and he couldn't believe how soft he was.
Frank was getting antsy, so he pet the puppy while Gerard fed him.
"Are you guys interested?" She asked.
"Very much, yes." Gerard quickly added.
Frank didn't know Gerard actually wanted the puppy, but none the less he was still excited to play with him.
After about an hour of signing paperwork, Gerard was the new father of the puppy, Scups.
"Scups is a cute name." Frank smiled.
"I thought about Bandit, but I think I'm saving that for something else." Gerard pet Scups.
Scups gnawed on his finger while Frank and him just talked in the car.
Frank remembered earlier and he started to feel bad.
"Hey, I'm sorry that you had to miss your date." Frank looked down.
"That's okay, and hey look, now I have this cute mother fucker." Gerard laughed.
"I just freaked out for no reason." Frank said, embarrassed.
"No, you had reason, and it's okay to freak out once and a while. I mean you seriously think I haven't done that?" Gerard scoffed.
"I don't know, you're always so calm." Frank questioned.
"Nah, I just got so used to hiding it that now I don't notice when I don't react to things. Like when I got proposed to I was really happy, but I didn't show it and I thought I did." Gerard explained, making it easier for Frank to understand him.
Frank looks down at his phone "3 New Messages From: Jamia"
He looks at the messages,
"R u Coming to work?"
"Did you get fired?"
"Frank? Where r u?"
They sent over an hour ago...
"I think I should go..." Frank starts to get up.
"No- Wait..." Gerard grabbed his arm, "I mean- go on ahead. Sorry..." Gerard let go of Frank and sunk back into his seat, wondering why he grabbed him in the first place.
Frank drove over to Jamia's, while Gerard got home with Scups.
He unlocked the door as Bert was watching the television.
"Hey Bert," Gerard said hesitantly.
"Hey G-," He paused, looking at the puppy, "What the fuck Gerard?"
Bert got up, looking angry.
"It was so cute I'm sorry..." Gerard rushed.
"You seriously left me for a friend, then you thought somewhere in your stupid mind that it was okay for you to buy a fucking dog." He spat.
"Excuse me? Don't you ever dare talk to me like that!" Gerard shot back.
"Are you retarded, Gerard? Fucking return the dog!" Bert shoved him.
"Don't touch me, you sick Fuck!" Gerard ran up the stairs.
"Stop being childish and come down!" Bert called out.
Gerard locked himself in his room, holding Scups close to him.
"It'll be okay, just be brave my little boy." Gerard calmed Scups.
Bert tended to have a temper for petty arguments, but Gerard always knew how to calm him. He'd usually just leave him alone for a few hours.
"Scuppie is my puppy...Scuppie is my puppy..." Gerard sang, letting him gnaw on his sock.
Gerard didn't come down for the rest of the night.

Notes

Sorry it’s so short, I have an extremely fucking crazy excuse for not writing a ton, (this was two days ago) Okay please trust me on this I swear to you that I’m not lying. So me and family were running errands and we were checking out at the grocery store and my mom embarrassed me by making a minion joke so I walked away from her and I went to a sunglass stand. I was leaning on it and checking my phone then I felt really sick like I was going to throw up, so I put my phone away. I was too nauseous to walk to the bathroom (btw I was in walmart) so I just kinda stood there waiting for it to pass, but then my vision was going black and my hearing was fading like everything was becoming white noise. I had a dream or something and when I woke up I thought I was still asleep since I was FUCKING LAYING ON THE GROUND with this lady shaking me asking if I was okay. So I look over to see my sister staring at me and I was like so confused I was like NO FUCKING WAY DID I FAINT IN MOTHER FUCKING WALMART!!!!!! Then this guy came up and asked me what my name was and my age to make sure I didn’t lose my memory or something. He was calling the paramedics while his wife was yelling at him to help her with the groceries like what the fuck your husband is calling the ambulance to make sure I was okay and you’re fucking yelling at him, bitch. I’m going to marry that man. So this really nice lady who worked there was calming down and telling me not to move my neck just in case I broke part of my spinal cord. Then my mom walked up and I like started crying and not because she came up, it was because I was wearing a dress and I was like how many people have seen my panties? That was why I was fucking crying, over people that saw my underwear. How pathetic. The girl that first saw me said I was seizing when I fell so like I was like what?When the paramedics showed they did a bunch of tests on me and were hooking me up to machines while I was still laying on my back. So long story short I was extremely dehydrated and ya. But I was having a hard time writing this chapter to begin with. Sorry it’s a little late. Well I hope you enjoyed it.

-XOXO fqomb.