Sold My Soul

Franks POV
“Sir please calm down.”
“Like hell I will calm down. That kid in there is mine and he is coming home right now!”
I wake up to the sound of yelling. It sounds like my father and kellin. They are outside the door.
“Sir he needs to rest. He is not being discharged until tomorrow. So until then let him sleep.” Kellin says. I can tell he is trying to sound intimidating, or maybe he’s trying not to let on the fact he’s scared of my dad.
“Didn’t you hear me you little twerp? He is coming with me right now. I have already spent enough money for him to be here.” He opens the door and I close my eyes so he doesn’t know I am awake.
“Mr. Iero you can’t just check him out. He has to go through testing to make sure he doe—“, he stops talking. I thought it was odd until I opened my eyes a bit to see my dad with his left hand in the air. He hit Kellin! Right as I was going to “wake up” I felt someone pull me out of the bed by my hair.
“Dad stop that hurts” I say with a whine. Have you ever had your hair pulled by a big man? It’s not enjoyable.
“I don’t care if it hurts. You have been gone from home for too long. Get your shit and let’s go. You” he points at Kellin “You forget we were ever here. Got it?” He nods. He moves his head to look at me and gives me a sympathetic look. I mouth ‘I’ll be okay’ to him. He looks sad but I can’t really do anything about it.
“Come on you little shit, we have to go.”
“Why it’s not like there is anything waiting for us. Mom is at work so why are you rushing?” I ask. Apparently that was a bad move. He punched me in the face. I think he broke my nose. It’s bleeding profusely. One thing about his reaction is bothering me, besides the whole him punching me in the face thing, he tensed up when I mentioned my mom. Oh god I hope he didn’t do anything to her. I picked up my phone and clothes and he dragged me out of the room. Before we were fully out I saw kellin calling someone on his phone. I hope it’s the police; I don’t want to go home with him. When we get to the car he throws me into the passenger seat and drives off. Wait. Why are we going the opposite direction of home? What is going on here? While I was busy in my head I didn’t see the flashing lights behind us. Finally the police are going to take away this bastard. My dad looks in the rearview mirror at the cops. I expected him to pull over but go figure he never does what I expect does he? He steps on the gas pedal and starts taking back roads, trying and failing to lose the cop.
“Dad, just stop the car.”
“No you little shit. I am not getting arrested because of my sorry excuse of a son. I only gave you what you deserved”
What the fuck! I never deserved to get the shit beaten out of me.
“Please just pu—“he slapped me.
“Shut up!”
He stops talking after that. The only sound I can hear is the police sirens in the back ground.
“Shit” he says. I look up from my lap and I see to police cars blocking the road. There is now way he is going to get away.
Then karma decided to fuck me in the ass.
He stopped the car and grabbed me by the arm and dragged me out. He then brought a gun out of his oddly baggy jeans and put it to my head.
“One more step and he dies”, he yells to the police.
“Sir let him go or we will have to shoot. Trust me we don’t want to shoot you.” They in turn reply.
“If I let him go what will you do?” He asks. I don’t know what he’s so worried about. It’s not like he killed anyone, right?
“Sir we will arrest you for murder of your wife, attempted murder of your son, resisting arrest, and domestic abuse.” My knees went weak after they said he killed my mum. She can’t be dead she’s my only support. I must have blacked out because I wake up and my father is in a body bag and I’m on a gurney.
“What happened? Is he dead?” I ask around.
“We are sorry to inform you that your father is dead. The police had to shoot him to save your life?” “My mother?” “He killed her before he got you. We are so sorry.” Oh god. My parents are gone. Who am I supposed to go to now? Nobody in our ‘family’ cares about me. My grandparents are dead. My aunts and uncles are homophobes. I have no one. You have Gerard. No I don’t. No way would his family take an orphaned kid that their son met a week ago. It’s worth a shot. The voice in my head says. Fine.
“Can I go home now?” I ask one of the cops that are near me.
“Your home is under investigation. We can either send you to the hospital to stay for a few days or we can take you to an overnight home. Which one would you prefer?” A man with a handlebar mustache asked.
“The hospital” I say quickly. Hopefully Kellin is there and maybe he would let me stay at his place. Maybe then I could talk to Gerard.
~~~ Le time lapse~~~
“Okay this is where you will be staying until we find you somewhere else. Okay?” I look at the nurse. She’s pretty but I can tell that she’s tired but also that she has been crying. When I got here she said her name was Nurse Lyn-z.
“Okay thank you. If you don’t mind me asking, are you okay?” I ask. She looks at me and starts to explain how one of her oldest cancer patients died of cancer a few hours ago.
“Poor Gerard. Mikey too, she was so special to them.” Wait Gerard. Oh my god! I feel so bad I really need to call him.
“Is he okay? Is he still here? I really need to talk to him. I have to make sure he’s okay” I rush out.
“Frank calm down. He is as okay as expected. No he is not here he went home. If you want I can call him in the morning and have him see you if he’s up to it. Okay?” I nod at her.
“Okay last question I promise. Is Kellin Quinn still here?” She nods and tells me she’ll go get him for me.
I look at the room that I’ll be staying in. It looks like a simple hospital room. All white but the only difference is the blood red blanket on the bed. The contrast between the white room and the blanket is astonishing. I move over to the bed and touch the blanket. It’s soft. What did you expect it’s a blanket. Idiot. Sometimes I hate my inner voice.
“Frank? What are you doing here? Are you okay? When I saw that bastard take you I was so angry. I wanted to go after you and make sure you didn’t get hurt but I knew both you and me would have gotten hurt. Do you forgive me? I am so sorry.” By the time he was done talking both him and I were in tears. I rush over to him and give him a hug. If someone walked in and saw a nurse and a ‘Patient’ hugging I don’t know what they would have thought.
“Kellin I am okay. Of course I forgive you. There is nothing to forgive though. He would have hurt you and I don’t want my only friend to get hurt. When we left we got chased by the cops. I thought it was because he kinda kidnapped me but it wasn’t. He was being chased because he killed my mother.” I stop to catch my breath and too calm down. I look at kellin and notice he’s crying again. I continue, “When we got cut off he pulled me out of the car and put a gun to my head.” He gasped. “That’s when I found out he killed her. I blacked out and when I woke up he was dead. Kellin I am so scared I don’t have anybody else. All my family is either dead or pretending I don’t exist. I have no home. They might send me into foster homes. What do I do?” I say the last part in a whisper. The realization that I lost everything just hit me so much harder than the first time.
“You will be okay Frank. I don’t know what will happen but you will always have me. I certainly know it will be a while for someone to get you a home so stay with me for a few days. Okay?” I look him in the eyes. Trying to find any doubt or hesitation. I can’t find any. I launch myself at him in a large hug. He returns the embrace with twice as much force.
“Thank you so much Kellin. You have no idea how much this means to me!” I hug him again then I go into a large yawn.
“Dude you’ve had a long and hard day. Go to bed then we can leave tomorrow. Okay?”
“Okay.”
Goodnight frank. Sleep well”
“Thank. Goodnight and thank you.” He smiles then walks out of the room and closes the door. I walk back over to the bed and get under the covers. I put my head on the pillow and slowly start to fall asleep. After about 10 minutes I fall into a dreamless sleep.

Notes

I'm back! Please don't throw fruitcakes at me! I'm sorry I haven't updated in 25 days. Ive been so busy with finals, and my nonexistent life, and more school, oh and procrastination. I promise I will try to update again in the next 2 weeks. This chapter was a lot longer then the other ones. A full 1,688 words. Daaamn. So yeah.. tell me what you think
Title: All that iv'e got ~ The used
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