In My Mind Only

"I kind of... Liked it," he murmured.

Huh?

I looked at him in shock and then he cleared his throat suddenly, turning back to his food and focusing on the movie. I just decided to ignore it until he brings it up again, which I doubt he will seeing as this is Frank Iero.

"This is pretty good. I bet $10 bucks that he used to be in, like, special forces or something. Deal?" He suddenly said. I rolled my eyes at him and smiled.

"Deal," I said. I noticed he didn't make a move to shake hands.

"You know, you have to shake hands to enable the deal, right?" I told him.

"Yeah, I was just trying to see if you'd tell me or just let it happen. I do that often with people and you're the first person, other than Jealousy, to say something," he chuckled. He obviously seemed to have trust issues and I admired him for being such a tough kid. Suddenly, I heard a very small noise. It sounded like vibrating. I felt my pocket and my phone was still.

"Hey, is your phone vibrating or something?" I asked him. He shrugged and crawled over to the couch he was sitting on earlier. I saw him pick up his phone and then he turned to me, rolling his eyes almost.

"Can I use your room, Mr. Way?" He asked as he stood up. I nodded and he wasted no time in answering the call.

"Yes, ma'am," He answered. He walked into my room but didn't close the door. The movie was still playing and I didn't want to be rude so I paused it. The only noise being made was the central air.

"No, I'm not at home. I'm staying with someone until you and the demon, I mean, father get home," he spoke. There was a pause.

"What does it matter if I'm not at home if you're not at home? You want me to stay inside that huge house by myself for three days now? I refuse to feel more lonely than I have to be!" He raised his voice slightly.

"I understand that you and father's business is more important than my well-being. With that being said, focus on your jobs and leave me alone. You've done a very good job of doing that so far. Goodbye for now, ma'am," he huffed out. I sat on the living room floor, feeling very awkward having heard that conversation.

"Did you hear any of that?" He said as he came out and sat by me on the floor again. I nodded, not really wanting to make eye contact.

"Sorry," he apologized.

"It's all right, Frankie. Let's just continue the movie and get your mind off of it," I said as i went for the remote to hit play. At the same time, Frank reaches as well, letting our hands touch. We looked at each other. Not this cliche bullshit.

"Not this cliche bullshit," he said as he grabbed the remote and hit play. I laughed.

"That's exactly what I was thinking." We watched the rest of the movie in silence only making noises when he killed someone in a seriously awesome way. When it ended, we were completely satisfied. Well, I was since I can't exactly speak for him. He looked very happy though. At least, the Frank Iero version of happy.

"Okay, so what's next?" I asked as I took out the DVD and put it back in its case.

"How about a classic after such a dark movie?" he asked as he rummaged through his giant stack of movies.

"I love classics. Which one?"

"Well, I've never seen the Wizard of Oz, so how about that one?" he suggested.

What.

"You've never seen it?!" I exclaimed. I couldn't believe it. You didn't have a childhood if you've never-... Oh. Right. I grabbed the movie from him and unwrapped it easily.

"You're gonna love this, Frankie. It's so good." I put on the movie. This was the remastered version, meaning they edited out the person hanging themselves in the woods, so I'll probably just have to tell him about it whenever we get to the Tinman part.

"So what is this about?" He asked.

"Nope. You're going to have to watch it," I responded.

"I feel like you love this movie too much, sir-" I interrupted him.

"My name is Gerard. I'd rather you call me that while we're here so I don't feel so weird about a student staying with me for a few days."

"All right. Uh, Gerard, then," he said lowly. I could tell he felt very awkward about it, but then I thought that he hardly calls me by name yet it was enough to make me feel awkward.

"And yes, I really love this movie. It's my favorite, really." I pressed play and waited.

"By the way, this is pretty much a musical," I laughed.

"Oh, God, I hate those! Let's watch something else," he said as he went to grab the remote from my hand. I pulled the remote out of his reach.

"Ah, ah, ah! We're watching this. Believe me, I hate musicals, too, but this one is just amazing. The right actors."

"Gerard, c'mon!" He said as he stood up to reach it better. I crawled away a little before standing up as well and holding it higher. It wasn't that he was short (much), I was just taller than him. I laughed more, holding him at arms length. Eventually, he settled down back where he was sitting and pouted it seemed.

Then it came to the opening scene of Dorothy running up to her family's farm.

"This is in Sepia?" He asked.

"Yeah. Just wait maybe 20 minutes. Okay, so that's Judy Garland. The actress, not the character. Originally she wasn't the first choice to play this part. There were two other girls. One was Shirley Temple, who was very big at the time, and another girl whose name escapes me. Anyways, Because of Shirley Temple's contract, she wasn't able to play the part and then they also realized that her voice may not have been best for this film," I took a deep breath, still watching the movie, before continuing, "and the other girl, she ended up passing away due to an allergy, I think. I'm not too sure. So here we are with Judy Garland."

"Interesting, I think," he responded. "They talk so fast and weird like."

I smiled.

"Yes. Well, I have theories about that. Well, maybe just this one: back then, each minute of film had to be used carefully. It was very expensive then. But who knows if I'm right." We continued to watch the movie in silence and it was at the part where Miss Gulch was coming for Toto when a loud thunder roared and the power went out. At that moment, I felt Frank basically wrapped himself around my right arm practically shaking.

"Frankie?" He just hugged my arm tighter and continued shaking as more thunder roared across the city.

Notes

Putting up a new story soon! Probably not the best idea, but I'll risk it <3
Anyways, enjoy! Feedback would be sexy :3

-OAIF <3