We're Damned After All, Aren't We?

We had been in the car for about 2 minutes before I attacked him with questions. "Who where they?" Frank was checking the mirrors making sure no one was behind him. "I have no idea." I decided since I had him talking I might as well ask another "Why do they want me?" Frank quickly replied to that too "Like they said, someone has a bounty on you." That didn't answer my question at all, so I asked the last question that was picking at my skin. "Why did you kill them?" Frank seemed to hesitate with this one, "I couldn't let them take you." I suddenly forgot to breath and waited eagerly to hear his next words. "Because I love you and want to protect you with all my life."

sadly, That's not what he said.

Instead, he said "Remember? You're my #1 priority. I can't fuck this up so soon." I sighed and remembered that night when I met literal Satan. He wasn't as bad as i imagined, he was actually quite charming.

After about 3 hours, I had been bugging Frank about the smallest things. For the tenth time in under 20 minutes I asked "Where are we going?" Frank seemed extremely annoyed by the entire situation. He all but gritted out "I've told you before, you can't know until we get there." I sighed and said "If you told me I wouldn't want to know so ba-" before I finished my sentence, frank interrupted me by all but yelling "Will you shut up already?!" Which made me instinctively shrink down.

He sighed and said "Fuck, I didn't mean that... I'm sorry." I shook my head and said "No, I was being annoying. Its my fault." Frank looked like he was about to argue but I quickly turned my head towards the window, laying my head on it, trying to sleep. Eventually I did fall asleep, but it took awhile.

When I did wake up, It was almost time for the sun to rise. I was shocked that I had slept that long, but even more surprised that Frank didn't complain. "I'll drive now, so you can get some sleep?" I offered but frank shook his head no. "The suns going to come up in about 30 minutes, I'll let you drive then." I sighed but agreed. Since there was no way I'd be able to sleep for 30 minutes without going over I decided to stay up. "Anything interesting happen while I was asleep?" Frank shook his head no and smiled, "Great conversation." I laughed and said "yes, I'm quite the social butterfly." That's when I realized that classical music was playing. I looked at him and said "Classical? Really?" He looked at me and said, "What? I was born in 1867. What kinda music did you think they had?" That's whsen I realized that Frank had a life just like mine. And he died young too. He must have seen a lot... Wars, depressions, dictatorships... More importantly, where the fuck was he when I had all those History essays?!

Soon the sun had come up and I traded seats with Frank. He was asleep the moment the car started moving again.

I had been driving for about 3 hours when the sun started to get to the annoying stage where whatever way you leaned, the sun was always shining in your eyes. I remembered the sunglasses Frank always carries around (A/N if you're curious about where the sunglasses came from look at the picture for his character (A/N #2 he looks hot AF in it so prepare your ovaries/dick if you have one)) in the cup holder. I looked to see if Frank was awake and would bite my hand off if I touched his sunglasses. I hesitantly picked them up and put them on. They were a perfect fit and made driving 100% easier.

The sun was about a hour away from setting when Frank woke up. "What time is it?" I looked at the clock built into the radio and said "just about 8:30."

He yawned and stretched his arms out in either direction. He turned his body towards me and immediately said "Are those my glasses?" I kinda panicked and said "Oh, sorry, the sun was in my eyes and they were just laying there so-" he cut me off by saying "Its okay, they look good on you." I couldn't help but blush.

After that he said "Let's stop somewhere and get food. I'm tired and hungry and I need coffee." I laughed and said "there should be a gas station somewhere up here."

After about 7 minutes of looking, we eventually found one. We both walked in, grabbing some junk food and some coffee to wash it down. After paying, we walked back to the car and put everything in.

Frank was completely devouring his coffee while I said "I'm gonna fill the car up with gas." He nodded and I grabbed the pump, putting it in the car. I waited for about 2 minutes before I was about to take the pump out, I noticed a shadowy figure standing a few feet away in the outline of the tree. My breath hitched as I saw it started move towards me. I don't think I have ever jumped in a car, locked the door and hit the gas so hard in my life. Before the car could really move, the shadow was right in front of us. Frank yelled, "BACK UP." I put the car in reverse, and started going backwards, until I noticed another one right behind us.

In a matter of seconds, the car was surrounded. There was only one option left, I put the car in drive and pounded on the gas. The car sprang forward and we crashed right into the shadow. Of course. It being a shadow, went through us, but we had gotten away.

When I caught my breath I looked at frank. He had coffee spilled all down his front and looked like he had just seen a ghost. He returned my gaze just to say "That was fucking amazing!" Right as he yelled that I realized in all of the excitement, I had grabbed Franks hand and was still holding it. I quickly let his hand go.

The sunglasses I was wearing had fallen off, and on to the floor. I reached down and grabbed them, handing them to Frank. He smiled and put them on, even thought the sun was down. I laughed at him and said "The only people who wear sunglasses at night are blind people and assholes." Frank laughed and said "Well nobody likes you while youre 23 so you're lucky you have me to put up with you" I rolled my eyes at the crappy blink-182 reference and said, "Fuck you, and your sunglasses." While cracking a smile, and from what I can see, he was smiling too.

During all of the excitement, I had forgotten about the gas pump, which had been ripped out of the machine, and was still connected to the car.

Notes

I had to write this one like 2 times because I wasn't happy with it yikes

Hope everyone had a fun new years!

-Sky