You, Me, And The Apocalypse

Gerard's P.O.V

I woke up the next morning feeling really good. I mean what was there to not feel good about? I was in a massive house with security, had a good sleep, and was in the most comfortable bed I think I’ve ever been in. Mikey was already up and dressed.
“Good morning Sir, would you like to join me in a big ass kitchen for some breakfast?” I laughed at his British accent.
“Of course Michael, it would be my pleasure” I quickly pulled on my clothes, that’s a thought actually, we could wash our clothes, but I never wash my clothes, not now.

We had no worry walking downstairs, we still couldn’t leave our guns but we were cautious on our own terms. Mikey was right, this place did have a huge ass kitchen. Luckily we found loads of food. I used to make pancakes all the time and decided to Mikey’s delight I would do it again.
I took a bite into my pancakes moaning at the taste.
“Alright, get a room” Mikey joked.
“Mikey I haven’t tasted something this good in a while” He nodded eating his pancakes way too fast.
“This literally tastes like heaven” I had finished my pancakes by now, don’t judge me, we don’t usually eat this good.
“Pancakes were my favourite food then and they’re still my favourite now” We were both content with ourselves and were sitting at the table talking when all of a sudden the door opened. What the fuck? I decided not to immediately shoot whatever it was a just see first. I pulled my gun out just in case and had it tightly in my hands.
To our surprise a quite short, boy walked into the kitchen obviously still half asleep. Well I mean he wasn’t a boy, but definitely not a man either, I’d say he was our age. He was wearing stripy blue pyjamas and had very messy bed hair, he just carried on walking around the kitchen getting a bowl of cereal and trying to rub the sleep out of his eyes. He only realised there was another presence in the room when he sat down opposite us and I clicked the safety cap off my gun.
“HOLY FUCKING SHIT!” He yelled, his eyes going wide and falling off his chair.
“Who are you, what do you want and why are you here?” I said calmly still pointing the gun at him.
“What am I doing here? What the fuck are you doing here?” He slowly got off the floor with his hands raised. He looked like he didn’t even know we were even in the middle of an apocalypse.
“I asked the question first” He stared at us looking really confused.
“Well err, I am here because I saw this house and it looked pretty damn nice so I have been staying here for the past two weeks, some of my relatives used to live here, I’m actually a wanderer but felt like settling down for a while” Well it’s nice to know he’s not totally oblivious to the apocalypse.
“Have you got a weapon on you?” Mikey asked him.
“No, why the fuck would I?” I rolled my eyes and put the gun back in my belt.
“For situations like this or you know, if a zombie attacked you” He picked up a spoon and started eating his cereal, a few years ago I would literally have thought this would be me in the middle of an apocalypse, eating cereal while two dudes ask him questions with a gun.
“Well I didn’t expect company, this house is pretty secure as it is” Mikey went up and got a drink.
“The gate and front door was unlocked....how did you think it was secure?” He looked at me with wide eyes.
“Really? Oh well I didn’t know, anyway your turn, what are you doing here?” He honestly didn’t look like he’d do much harm and overall he was pretty cute if you ask me.
“Well I’m Gerard, this is my little brother Mikey” I pointed towards Mikey,” And we are travelling to Battery City, we had been staying at a motel about two miles from here but it had no food so we decided to move along, Mikey found this place and it has food, we didn’t think it was occupied by someone...if you want us to leave I guess we’d have to” The boy looked at me with a fond smile and stretched his hand across this able offering for me to shake it.
“Well hi, I’m Frank, you don’t have to leave, why wouldn’t I want company in the middle of an apocalypse? “ I took his hand shaking it then he did the same to Mikey.
“I guess we could stay for a while? It seems nice here, what do you say Mikes?” He nodded in agreement.
“If you need some clothes there are loads in pretty much every drawer and closet you look in.” Frank seemed pretty nervous and shaky, like he didn’t know how to act with us.
“Frank don’t worry about us, if you don’t hurt us we won’t hurt you, we’re honestly available to making friends, just no one around anymore wants to.” I’m glad Mikey knew what to say because immediately Frank looked relaxed.
“Thanks, I’d love to be friends with you guys, I get lonely sometimes you know? I guess that’s what happens in the apocalypse. How about you find the cinema and we have a movie marathon all day?” That to me honestly sounded like the best fucking thing I’ve heard someone say to me in that past four months. Mikey and I both nodded as Frank walked away to get changed.

“So you think he can be trusted?” I heard Mikey asking me.
“I think so, be cautious just in case, but I think he’s good, I mean come on, he came downstairs without a weapon in striped blue pyjamas” Mikey giggled agreeing with me.
“I can’t wait to make new friends Gerard! We haven’t had an actual friend we can trust in ages!” He was right, we haven’t and it will be good for both of us.
“Yeah Mikes, and he’s letting us stay here” Mikey just grinned at me.
“And you think he’s cute” He giggled.
“I do not!” I was quite taken aback, I didn’t exactly make it obvious.
“Yes you do, I know you, and you don’t look at people with those kind of eyes for nothing” Maybe I did look at him differently? I mean it’s undeniable that he’s cute but the chances of him being gay and liking me back aren’t very high, and love isn’t exactly my priority at this moment in time.
“Fuck you Mikey” I just stood up with my head held high and dragged him into a room which looked like it could be a cinema. Frank we sitting in there under blankets and pillows smiling at us goofily. Shit what if he heard us talking about him. I’m pretty sure I went bright red and Mikey just nudged me making me go and sit next to him.

Well this was going to be an interesting turn out. It would be good to make friends, maybe even more? But what we need is to earn his trust first.
We ended up watching movies all day and just laughing, talking and eating like pigs. It was a good day and we decided to all move into one room thinking it would be easier to defend ourselves if we had to. We made one giant bed, me sleeping in the middle of Mikey and Frank. I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillows and I fell into my dreams, or my nightmares....

Notes

Felt like writing another chapter