I should have never been driving

Gerard looked sad when he thought I wasn't looking at him, like someone just shot his puppy. He's a riddle and I'm determined to figure him out. We slept for the entire afternoon, "Gerard?" I whispered nudging him slightly. "Hey.." he said with a smile on his adorable face as his eyes fluttered open "I'm sorry I didn't mean to wake you.. I just... I wanted to know if you wanted to go to the club?" "Sure, give me five minutes" he huffed as he moved himself closer to me, closing his eyes again.
When he finally got out of my bed he disappeared to the bathroom so I decided I'd change my shirt and put my shoes on. "Gee? I'm going to make coffee, I'll meet you downstairs okay?".
I heard a faint 'mmhhm' come from behind the bathroom door, it didn't sound right. It sounded forced."hey.. Gerard? you alright in there?" I said tapping on the door and pressing my ear to the wood. "Frankie?... I think something's wrong" I heard him mumble unlocking the bathroom door to let me in. He was sitting on the side of the bathtub holding his stomach, one hand holding on to the side. "what is it?" I said dropping to my knees in front of him. "Frank.. it hurts" I lifted up his shirt to find that the bruise on his abdomen was a darker purple than before.
"My mom is downstairs, shes a nurse... will you let her check you over?" I said reaching up to cup his cheek. "No hospital's... promise me no hospitals" He said, tears escaping his eyes." No hospitals" I said in an uncertain tone.. I got up off the tiled floor and put my head around the bathroom door "Mom, will you come up here please?" I said raising my voice after a few minutes my mom reached the top of the stairs and knocked on the bathroom door, "Its going to be okay, my mom isn't going to hurt you." I said moving over to sit on the toilet seat, grabbing my hand as sat, "don't let go, okay?"
"mom, you can come in" She opened the door slowly, her soft sandy hair falling over her face. She looked at Gerard and the looked up at me.. "whats going on?" she said in a concerned tone. "This is Gerard, he's a friend... he got beat up the other day and I helped him, his stomach is bruised bad m'aa" she tucked the strands of hair on her face behind her ear and crouched down in front of Gerard who was still holding on to my hand.
"hello hunny, my name is Linda, can you lift up your shirt for me?" Gerard looked at me and I helped him take off his shirt. There was a scar on his chest, it looked a couple of months old.. I ran my fingers over it gently and looked at him. He looked at the floor, his breathing getting heavier.
" How did this happen?" My mom said running her hands over the purple mark on his abdomen and pelvis "I got jumped in the gym the other day.. they kept kicking me" Gerard said shivering " 1 to 10,how bad is the pain?" He moved slightly propping himself up, "about an eight or a nine, it burns" I hate seeing him like this, he was so full of life and sassy the first time I met him and its like his spark is starting to fade out.
"Okay, I'm just going to press down, this may hurt, I'm just checking for any abnormalities down there" she said pushing slightly on his abdomen. Gerard hissed, squeezing my hand and closing his eyes tight. "I'm sorry hunnie, it'll be over soon, I promise" My mom said looking up at him rubbing his side with her other hand.
"I cant feel any lumps or any abnormalities, you might have internal bruising, that's probably whats causing the pain.. have you felt queezy or light headed at all in the last 48 hours?" Gerard looked at my mom and nodded. "Okay, I can give you some pain killers and an ice pack, that should ease it off, does that sound okay?" she said in a soft voice "yeah, thank you Linda, sorry to be a burden on you like this" Gerard said in a quiet voice. "No problem hun, you're no burden at all" and with that she left to go and fetch some pain killers.
Gerard stumbled trying to find his footing, and held onto me for balance, he wrapped his arms around my neck like he did the day I found him. "Can we still go to the club?, ill be fine once the pain killers kick in" He said looking into my eyes... I couldn't hold it in anymore. I leaned forward and kissed him pulling his body closer to mine. Once we broke the kiss I mumbled "If you feel up to it we can, but just take it easy" He nodded and me and smiled, " I don't know what id do with out you Frankie" He said before kissing my neck.
I helped him into my room so that he could get changed and then ran downstairs to get the painkillers, glass of water and the ice pack to take up to him. "Mom? when Gerard feel up to it in awhile were gonna go to the club, is that okay?" she looked up from her phone and said "if he feel up to it of course, just look after him Frank" I nodded and walked up the stairs with the things I need to take to Gerard and knocked on the door with my elbow. "come in" Gerard said slowly pulling his shirt over his head. I handed him the pain killers and glass of water.. after he swallowed them he laid on his back on the bed. "want me to put the ice pack on?"
He looked at me and nodded. I pulled at the waist band of his boxers and carefully placed the ice pack on his pelvis and abdomen, my hand hovering over his crotch for a split second, I wanted to touch him but I didn't know if he wanted it. Gerard touched my hand putting it down on the hem of his boxers. " don't be so frightened, I trust you"

Notes

Hello my lovely's...
This one is a tad longer, I know some of the chapters are pretty short, so apologies for that.
I hope you enjoyed it, stay tuned for more over the next day or so...
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