Two Lonely Outcasts

Gerard's POV-

I gasped, shooting up from the bed. Looking around me as I started remembering everything.

Frank was beside me and he shot up seeing me awake and said,
'Hey, hey Gerard, calm down, it's okay, you're safe.' He told me, rubbing my back.
I broke down in tears
'Frank! It's not okay! I'm in the fucking hospital! Where's Rosie?! Rosie!' I sobbed, louder.
Gerard pulled me into his chest patting my back.
I couldn't stop crying.
Where is Rosie?
What happened to her?
She can't be alone...
What if she's still at school waiting for me to pick her up.
'Shh, Gerard it's okay! A nice police lady went to pick up your sister... she's in the waiting room with the lady now.' Frank told me.
'What? how does anyone know about me looking after her? I haven't told anyone... Frank, I'm so confused, what happening?!'
I shouted in frustration, still not having processed everything he has told me yet.
'Gerard look at me, calm down'. He said turnng my head to him. I looked at him, he wiped my tears away with his thumb.
'All you need to know now is your sister is safe, you're safe, Peter can't hurt you. Okay?'
I nodded, taking deep breaths to calm myself down.
'I'll let the police explain everything to you later, do you want to see your sister now?' He asked me.
The mention of her name made me cry again. I've failed her. She trusts me and now she's with a stranger outside, worried about me. She shouldn't be worrying about me, I should be taking care of her!
Frank wrapped both of his arms around me pulling me into a hug as a doctor came running in, hearing me crying probably.
I heard Frank mumble something like, 'Yeah, he wants to see her.'
and the doctor left the room.
Seconds later Rosie came running to me, wearing the same outfit, but her hair messed up and she had red eyes from crying. She jumped onto my lap and hugged me tightly.
'Geward, are you okay? The lady said someone hurt you! I'll protect you GeeGee I was so worried about you, don't do that to me again!'
She said to me, and she started to cry again.
I picked her up, placing her on my lap and hugged her back. She looked up at me and got a tissue and wiped off the remains of my lipstick from this morning.
Shit, I must look like a mess.
'Rosie, sweetie I love you, I'm sorry for not picking you up, baby.' I said into her hair.
She hugged me tighter. 'It's okay Geward, I love you too, I'm just glad you're okay.' She said.
'Okay, Rosie sweetie, you should step outside with Frank while I help Gerard clean himself up.' The police lady said to her. Rosie looked at Frank, curiously, as he got up and walked over to her smiling, slightly.
'Come on' He mumbled to her holding out his hand. She smiled back and took it, Frank gave me a little smirk as he left with her and they must be waiting in the waiting room or something. I turned to look at the woman.
'So, what the fuck happened?' I asked.
'Long story short, a boy, Peter? The boy that punched you... he's in questioning with the police right now, Frank called us when he found you on the floor, your head bleeding badly. We came and took you in. We know about your sister because Frank gave us your bag, it had your phone, and a picture of you and your sister as the profile, and we unlocked your passcode and found the school's number and we went to pick her up and inform her. Tomorrow we need to do some questioning to you about you taking care of your sister, without an adult. That can wait till tomorrow though. One more thing, Frank has been staying here with you the whole time, his parents came to see him a few times, Frank must really care about you, your lucky you have him, you know.' She smiled at me, and continued. 'You've been in a coma from blood loss for two days. Rosie's been staying at the hospital too, and she skipped school. For now get yourself cleaned up, have some rest and tomorrow we will talk more.'
Wow this was a lot to process... I just nodded, speechless and mumbled a 'thank you'.
The woman nodded and was about to leave when I stopped her and said,
'C-can Rosie and Frank sleep in my room tonight, after I get cleaned up..?'
I asked, a tad embarrassed. She smiled and nodded.
'I'll send them in, they will wait for you.'
'Thanks.' I said, smiling.
Shit, I had a pounding headache, I got up and walked, stifly to the bathroom. Locked myself in. I reached in my pocket to see if- yes it was, my blade was still in my pocket! I dragged it over my arms a few times, until there was no room left. Then I moved to my legs, until the pain was overwhelming.
I felt slightly lightheaded, and decided to take a shower. I stripped and washed the blood off of my arms and legs and washed my hair and face and whole body thoroughly. When I was finished I dried myself, tied my hair in a loose pony tail and got dressed in the clothes that the doctor gave me, which was light grey track pants and a plain blue sweater, luckily long sleeved.
I then went out to see Rosie asleep on the edge of my hospital bed, and Frank asleep on the chair next to it. I smiled and got into the bed, hugged Rosie and fell asleep.

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