No Coffee For Gee ~rewritten~

"Patrick are you done yet?"

"Almost dad!"

Patrick made sure that he wiped up any traces of chocolate left on the counter. Inside the freezer was the homemade heart that he carefully molded for Gee. Tomorrow was Valentines Day and he was going to finally confess how he truly felt to his best friend.

"Okay dad done."

"Whatever you were doing must have been really important."

"It was dad, it was, but let's get that shelf put together now."

"Alright."

Patrick's dad led him down the basement stairs and closed the door.

(time passes)

Gee was looking forward to today. He always liked Valentines Day, especially when they had school, cos it was funny watching how nervous and awkward all the boys got when they tried to give cards and gifts to the girls they liked, only to be rejected.
Gee had never received a real Valentines card before.
Of course, he'd gotten cards off his mum when he was little.
And from Frankie.. But unfortunately, those had only been friends cards. He wished they'd been more, like the ones he'd given the smaller boy in return, but no!
He'd kept every card he ever got from his best friend, but he doubted Frankie could say the same.

Pulling on his high tops, Gee looked at himself in the mirror.

"Urgh!.. He'd never like me like that."

He muttered, turning away and grabbing his jacket. He pulled it on, then picked up the small red box that he'd retrieved from his secret hiding place, and put it in his pocket, then carefully slid Frankie's card in beside it, before grabbing his back pack and heading downstairs.
He went to the kitchen to grab a coffee for the walk, and came face to face with Mikey.

"Morning Gee, you seem to be in a good mood today."

"Boys, you will be on your own tonight. I'm taking your mother out for dinner."

Gee visibly paled. An evening alone with Mikey?.. Terrifying!

"Um.. C-could I ask F-Frankie over?.. Please?"

"We aren't gonna be long sweetheart and tomorrow is a school day."

Mikey put his plate in the sink.

"Don't worry mom, Gee and I will be fine. We can watch Charlie Brown like we did when we were kids."

Gee swallowed, looking down at his feet.

"O-ok."

He looked up after a breath.

"Is there coffee left?"

"Sorry Sweetheart, Mikey finished the last of it and I have to go out and buy more grounds."

"I still say that are both too young to be drinking coffee."

Gee sighed, he should've seen it coming.

"K. I'll head off then."

He could always grab some at the 7/11.

"Wait for me big bro."

Mikey grabbed his bag and walked out the door with Gee.

"Hey Gee... Mikey."

"What's up Stumped."

Mikey pushed past Patrick causing him to fall into Gee, and almost drop his gift. He was going to give it now, but with Mikey around, that was not happening.

"Come on losers, we have to meet Bobby and the short shit."

Gee frowned, and started to walk.
He was trying to decide when to give Frankie his gift.

"Hey Gee, can I talk to you later...like maybe during lunch? I wanna ask you something, but not in front of..."

Patrick pointed at Mikey discreetly.

"Wha?.. Oh yeah, sure."

Gee mumbled back absently.

They got to Frank's with minimal damage to Gerard. Frank was waiting on the wall as usual.

"Hi Frankie."

Gee said quietly, rubbing the back of his head cos Mikey just pulled his hair roughly a minute ago.
Frankie's face lit up as he jumped down from the wall.

"Hi Gee. You good?"

Gee shrugged one shoulder noncommittally.

"No coffee."

He mumbled.

"Aww."

Frankie cooed, stepping forward and bringing something out from behind his back. It was a travel mug, and the smell of hot, freshly ground coffee reached Gee's nose.

"Have mine."

Thanks Frankie."

Gee said happily accepting the cup and taking a big sip, humming in bliss. Frankie grinned at his best friend, then glanced to Gee's right.

"Morning Pat."

He didn't bother greeting Mikey.

Patrick felt bad that he didn't think of getting Gee coffee, but he couldn't have known that Gee didn't get any...but then how did Frank?

"Hey Frankie."

"I think today's gonna be fun guys."

Frank grinned, stepping to Gee's left side and wrapping his arm round the back of his neck, continuing to ignore the younger Way.

"Gonna watch teenage boys getting rejected. You in Pat?"

"Not all of them I hope."

Pat said quietly to himself, but not quietly enough cause Mikey heard him.

"Do you have something for someone Stumped? Gonna pour your heart out and then watch them smash it?"

"Fuck off Mikey."

Frankie snapped, looking back.

"I'm just disappointed that you're not in High School yet, and we won't get to watch you getting laughed at by whatever unlucky girl you've set your beady eyes on."

"Bobby..."

Bob walked up to Frank and punched him in the face.

Frank fell back, landing heavily on his butt.

"FRANKIE!"

Gee squeaked, dropping to his side.

"Are you ok?"

Frankie grinned at the concerned boy.

"I'm fine Gee. Bob hits like a three year old!"

He turned and spat a little blood onto Bob's left shoe before scrambling to his feet to face the bully.

"Pat?.. Get Gee to school yeah?.. I'll catch up."

"Frankie no!"

Gee whimpered behind him.

"Come on Gee, let's go."

Patrick grabbed Gee and pulled him away as Frank jumped Bob.

(Time passes)

Frankie was limping slightly as he entered the school gates.
Gee looked up from where he was sat, tears trailing down his face, and Patrick's arm around his shoulder, comfortingly.

"Frankie?!"

Gee leapt up and ran over. He stopped right in front of his friend and gasped.

"Oh Frankie."

He said sadly.
Frankie had a busted lip, and spots of blood on his favourite shirt.
Gee reached up to remove a twig from Frankie's hair.

"You could've gotten really hurt. You didn't have to do that."

"What?.. Protect my friends!.. Of course I did."

Frankie pulled Gee against him, hugging him gently and rubbing his back as Gee clung to him, tears still falling.

"Come on Gee. I'm ok. Really!"

He looked up and nodded at Patrick, non-verbally thanking him from getting Gee away from the fight.

"Well I need to get to class guys, I'll see you at lunch. Gee, later?"

Patrick looked at him hopefully.

"Yeah. See you later."

Gee muffled into Frankie's shoulder.

Patrick turned to go.

(time passes)

Frankie and Gee had a couple classes together in the morning, and Frankie had one with Patrick, but they weren't all together again until lunch.

"Hi Patrick."

Gee waved as he saw his friend headed toward him in the cafeteria.
He was sat at their regular table, over to the right, just next to the doors that lead out onto the outside dining area. The doors were closed today, as it had decided to be a normal Jersey day, and rain like they were going to need a canoe just to get home.
Gee sipped on his pink milk through a bright red straw, and smiled as Patrick sat down opposite him.

"Not eating Pat?"

He noted that his friend hadn't been up to get anything from the overly cheerful lunch lady with the mystery stain on the right boob of her purple blouse.

"So I was wondering if we could talk in private?"

Patrick just picked at his sandwich, he was too nervous to eat anything.

"Err, yeah sure."

Gee smiled, then grinned as he spotted someone approaching Patrick from behind.

"BOO!"

Frankie yelled in Patrick's right ear suddenly, then fell into a fit of giggles.

Gee rolled his eyes, but giggled anyway, still grinning at his best friend.

"Jesus Fuck Frank!"

Patrick got up and stared the boy down.

"Grow up will you! That shit was funny when we were in Elementary school! "

"Calm down Pat. Geeze.. What crawled up your butt?"

Frankie rolled his eyes and went to sit next to Gee.

"Hey."

He grinned. Gee blushed slightly, looking down.

"Hi Frankie. How was Spanish?"

"Urgh!"

Frankie slammed his head down on the table, probably a little too hard.

"Ow.."

He sat up, rubbing his forehead, but still with a grin.

"Spanish sucks!.. Why do we have to learn it again? It's not like I'm ever planning to go to Spain!"

Gee giggled.

"Yeah, well I'm not planning on becoming a basketball player, but I still gotta go to gym."

He laughed.

"Suck it up Frankie."

"Why you little.."

Frankie suddenly attacked Gee with tickles, the other boy almost sliding off his chair and under the table as he squealed and wriggled to get away from Frankie's relentless fingers.

"Excuse me, you dropped this."

Patrick looked up to see a boy he didn't know.

"Huh?"

"In science. You dropped this."

Patrick looked and saw it was the card that he has for Gee. How did he manage not to notice?

"Oh thanks."

" Sure."

The boy smiled and then walked away.

"Hey Pat.."

Frankie grabbed his attention as he stopped tickling Gee and helped him to get back up on his chair.

"What you got there?"

"Oh...just something I uh...made for my...mom. You know I thought I would...cause its..."

Gee looked sadly at Patrick.

"Oh."

He didn't say anymore. He knew that Patrick's mum was dead, cos, y'know, Gee had gone to the funeral with him and all.
He looked down, suddenly very interested in his untouched, and now cold, fries.

Frank had been away with his mum when the funeral happened, but he knew about it.
He smiled sadly at Patrick, then looked at Gee, and realised he was hiding in his hair.

"Gee?.. You ok?"

Gee nodded slightly, glancing up through his hair at Patrick.

"I'm fine.. Are you alright Patrick?"

"Yeah, I'm good."

The all sat in silence eating or in Patrick's case picking quietly at their food. Before they realized it the bell had rung. Patrick never got a chance to talk to Gee. He started to get up and throw his food away.

"Oh hey Patrick?"

Gee stood and dumped his own uneaten food and empty drinks cup.

"You wanted to talk to me. Can it wait til after school?.. I can meet you by your locker."

Patrick smiled a little.

"Yeah, I can wait."

Patrick gave him a friendly squeeze on the shoulder and he was off to math.

(time passes)

"You have 20 more minutes for the test and..."

The alarm went off and everyone looked up.

"Alright guys, this is not a drill so get up and head to the planned exit we discussed."

Patrick followed everyone else out of the class. They went out the nearest door and ended up near the gym where Frankie had this period. Gee had art so he was on the same side too. Patrick saw Gee and Frankie and waved, but of course he could not leave the line will the head count was taken.

"20 21 22 and 23. Ok, class, you can mingle, but don't disturb the classes that are still being counted."

Frankie's class was dismissed, and he grinned, moving toward Gee, just as his class broke apart.

"Hey Gee.. I didn't fancy gym today."

He whispered surreptitiously, winking at the other boy.

"You did this?!"

Gee whisper/shouted, looking around wide eyed as he tugged Frankie to the side of the room by his sleeve.

"Why?"

Frankie grinned.

"Cos I wanted to give you something."

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a red envelope, handing it to his best friend.
Gee looked at it curiously.

"A Valentine's Day card?"

Frankie grinned, nodding.

"Good thing I got you one too then."

Gee blushed as he pulled Frankie's card and gift from his pocket and handed them over.
Frankie grinned.

"Open yours first?.. I wanna ask you something."

"Ok."

Gee opened the envelope carefully, and a small silver charm fell out onto his hand.

"It's to put on your bracelet."

Frankie murmured, waiting to see Gee's reaction.

Gee turned it over and saw the tiny stones in the face of the heart, and the key hole. He looked up, a shy smile spreading on his lips, then saw that Frankie was holding a necklace out from his neck, with a tiny matching key hanging off of it. His eyes widened.

"F..Frankie?"

Frankie smiled hopefully.

"I like you Gee, as more than just my best friend in the world, and I was wondering.. Will you go out with me?.. On like.. a date?"

There was a crowd that was forming near the gym. Patrick was still waiting for his teacher to finish the head count.

"Alright go on, but stay close."

Patrick ran over to where the crowd was.

Gee grinned wide, leaping onto Frankie.

"Yes Frankie!.. Of course I'll go out with you!"

Frankie chuckled as he wrapped his arms around Gee's tiny waist and picked him up, spinning him around.
Gee squealed, pushing his face into Frankie's neck as his feet kicked out behind him.
After a few turns, when they were both kinda dizzy, Frankie set Gee's feet back on the ground. They both ignored the cheers and congratulations that we're going on around them.

"I.."

Gerard blushed heavily as he spoke timidly.

"I've wanted you to ask me for ages now."

He giggled.

"I guess you should open your gift now."

Patrick pushed his way through the crowd. Whatever was going on sure had a lot of interest. He wondered if Frankie or Gee was here too.

Frank remembered the card and gift and quickly picked them up from where he'd dropped them when Gee jumped on him.
Smiling apologetically for dropping them, he opened the box first.
Inside was a small wooden pin badge. It was decorated with blue lines like the ocean, and the words "Gee & Frankie x" in Gee's small, neat writing. He was pretty sure Gee had made the whole thing.
Frankie looked up, a huge grin on his face.

"I love it Gee."

He pulled Gee toward him.

"And I love you!"

He carefully pressed his lips to the other boy's as Gee's knees turned to jelly, and he clung to Frankie for support as he slowly started to kiss back.

"Whoa are you okay man?"

Patrick just fell back into someone one. He lost his footing and his heart. It was breaking in two as he watched the love of his life and his now ex-friend kissing. Patrick took off running. He ran off school property. He ran all the way home. He burst into his door and run upstairs to his room. Surrounding him was art of all kinds that Gee had made for him. He pulled it all off the wall and threw it out the window. He looked at Gee's room. He didn't want to see it anymore or anything else for that matter. He ran down to the garage and found his dad's paint. he grabbed a can of black and went back to his room. He painted his window black and blocked out all the light. Then he looked at the bright colors in his room. They were the opposite of his heart. He shoved everything in the middle of his room. He locked his door and just started painting.

(time passes)

"Hey Gee."

Someone that Gee briefly recognized from lunch ran up to him.

"Hey, have you seen Patrick?"

He was holding Patrick's backpack.

"Uh.. No."

He thought for a second.

"I saw him at the beginning of the fire drill.."

He blushed slightly at the memory of being kissed by Frank in front of the entire school.

"But I've not seen him since."

He held out his hand.

"I'll see him after school. We always walk home together."

"Alright, good, I'm glad you can get it to him. He was talking about something special inside for someone and I would hate for him to be freaking out trying to find his backpack."

The guy handed it over and smiled.

"Thanks again. Oh and congrats again on you and Frank. You make a cute couple."

He ran off with a wave.

Gee blushed again and headed off to meet up with Patrick for that talk he wanted.
He'd been at Patrick's locker for ten minutes, and the corridor was now empty around him.
Gee pulled his cell from his pocket and checked to see if he'd missed any calls or texts from Patrick saying he was gonna be late.
Nothing but a text from Frank saying he had a detention for the whole fire alarm thing, so Gee should go ahead and walk home with Patrick, and that he'd call him when he was out.
Gee frowned, then dialled Patrick's number, but a moment later he hung up as he heard his friend's phone ring in the bag he was holding.

"Damnit Patrick. Where are you?"

He muttered.
After another couple of minutes he got curious and opened Patrick's bag. Maybe there was something that would tell him where the other boy was.
Inside was the usual. Books, an empty water bottle, an odd gym sock..

"Eww."

Gee used a pen to move it to one side, scrunching his nose up, then, he saw an envelope.
Smiling at the thought that his friend liked someone, cos it was obviously a Valentine's card, being red and all, Gee decided to check for a name.
He carefully pulled the envelope out, spotting a clear plastic box underneath with what appeared to be a homemade chocolate heart inside. Gee grinned. Patrick must really like this person.

Gee turned the envelope over and his grin dropped.
On the front in Patrick's curly writing was written simply "Gee x".
With increasingly shaky hands, Gee opened the envelope and removed the card.
Reading the print on the front, Gee's eyes started to leak tears down his paler than usual cheeks.

*This heart's for you,
I know it's small,
The real one's so much more..

.. For its filled with so much love for you,
It's impossible to draw*

The card slipped from Gee's fingers, that were suddenly kinda numb.
Patrick loved.. him?

"Oh fuck."

Gee breathed.
After a moment's deliberation, he picked up the card and put it back in the envelope, then back in Patrick's bag before zipping it up and heading out of school.
He should've waited for Frankie to come out of his detention, but he really needed to talk to Patrick right now, and it didn't occur to him until it was too late, that he was walking home alone.
His mistake became suddenly obvious as Mikey and Bob stepped out onto the sidewalk just ahead of him.

"Oh shit!"

He breathed, all thoughts of Patrick suddenly leaving his mind.

"Well well well, if it isn't my sweet older brother...and all alone. Where's your little bodyguard and your puppy?"

Gee backed up shakily before spinning on his toes and hurtling back in the direction of the school.

"Not so fast there."

Bob reached out and grabbed Gee by Patrick's backpack causing it to spill out all over the sidewalk. Gee went down hard on his ass and back. Mikey looked at the contents and picked up a red envelope.

"Awww look. Stumped had a crush on someone. Let's see who he thought would actually want his pathetic fat ass."

"Give it back!"

Gee cried out, grabbing desperately for the card as pained tears left fresh tracks down his cheeks.

"Bryar control him please."

Bob grabbed Gee and put him in a head lock on his knees.

"Thank you. Geeze all these interruptions."

Mikey opened the card and read it, his smile growing wider and wider.

"Well now, this is interesting."

"This is even more interesting Way."

Bob grabbed Gee's arm and thrust it out to Mikey. Mikey looked at it.

"Awww, who gave you that Gee?"

He played with the delicate charm.

"Maybe the answer is in your backpack."

Mikey grabbed Gee's back pack and upended it. When it was scattered all over the sidewalk he saw the card. He grabbed it and read it.

"Frankie? You chose Frankie over Stumped huh? Well Gee tell me, how does it feel to know that you broke that fat ass pathetic boy's heart? You really are dense you know that?"

Mikey picked up the chocolate heart off the ground. he opened it and tasted it.

"Stumped is a pretty good cook."

He chewed more of it.

"Where was I...oh yeah. Stumped has been carrying a pathetic torch for you for years and you never noticed cause you were too busy pining for Frankie. Well now you got him..."

Mikey stalked up to Gee and leaned in wagging the chocolate in front of him.

"Enjoy living with the knowledge that you destroyed your friend."

Mikey grabbed Gee's face and shoved the chocolate into his mouth. Bob let go and pushed Gee to the ground. They both walked off leaving Gee in a mess of books, paper, melted chocolate, and broken dreams.

(time passes)

"Pat? Patrick, you home?"

Patrick's dad walked up the stairs to his son's room.

*knock knock*

"Son?"

He tried the door, but it was locked. He assumed that his son was taking a nap so he didn't think anything of it. He just went downstairs to start dinner.

(time passes)

Patrick sat in the dark. His room was black and he was high off the fumes from the paint. There was no ventilation because he never opened the window which was also black. He giggled as he drank his father's vodka. He had ingested a third of it so far. For someone that never drank before, he was surprised that he was holding the liquor so well. He looked out into the blackness and made a dramatic comparison to his own life. He knew after today nothing would be the same for him again.

Notes

Hi there chipmunks.. How's you?

So Valentine's is good for some, but not all!..

Til next time.. PLEASE COMMENT and peace out babies!<3