*A few days later*


"Pst…" a voice travelled along the cool damp air, "psst. Hey, Frankie, over here!" the voice said again, its course and sneaky tone causing Frank to shiver almost as much as the walls which the cold soaked into.
"Frankie?" the voice whispered again.

Frank stopped dead in his tracks, his foot hovering above the floor like a cat waiting to pounce as its heart beat quickened. The voice repeated his name again and with every mention of his name Frank seemed to shuffle forwards towards the voice, only stopping when he felt the cool metal prison cell bars gently touch his awaiting face. If this barrier had not have been between the voice and Frank then it was certain that Frank would have jumped back as he saw the eyes emerge from the darkness. They were a dull grey but colours of red and green erupted from the iris with more colours spiralling and twisting endlessly like a waterfall crashing to its depths. Red crept in around the edges of the eye and they stared menacingly at Frank before the edges softened. Even through the darkness Frank could imagine the smile that would be plastered to his face as he felt the other humans breathe flood softly onto his face.

"Hey Friend…" the voice whispered again.
"Gerard. How many times do I have to tell you:I'm not your f-"
"Friend?" asked Gerard.
"I'm not friends with you. Now what do you want?"
"Well…." began Gerard biting his lip and flicking his hair to the side with his pale hands, "you could always let me out of this dingy little prison cell…If you know what I mean."
"Gerard. You're in custody awaiting to be trialled. Do you really think that I'd be stupid enough to let you out?"
"Well…you seem a little stupid if you ask me…" Gerard murmured swaying slightly as he stood.
"Excuse me?" asked Frank, his hands gripping the metal bars tightly.
"Ahem…." began Gerard, "well you did think that you could simply break into my house and get away unscathed but I don't see you locked up awaiting to be trialled. You could always join me if you wanted to…"
"Gerard. I'm not even supposed to be down here this late at night. I'm going to leave now…" Frank spun around and let go of the bars and drifted away into the darkness.
"No!" Gerard yelled, his hands feeding through the bars and grappling at the air before catching Frank's jacket and pulling him back into the bars. "Frank! Please! I don't care if you're leaving to see Al! Just please…"
"No!" yelled Frank, ragging Gerard's grip from him and turning away again, "I'm not letting you out Gerard! And that's the end of that!"
"shhh…" whispered Gerard, "All the others are asleep but Frankie…." he grabbed Frank again by the collar and pressed their faces (well as close as possible with the bars in the way) together. "Frankie! Please! Help me!"
"What is it?" Frank asked lowering his voice but still annoyance crept through it.
"I can't handle it much more Frankie. It seems like weeks since I last, you know, had a 'drink'. I can't last much longer Frankie! Eventually I'll……It's Tony as well Frank! He's evil! I swear!"
"Why would your cell mate be evil Gerard? Tony seems to be sleeping fine…" Frank muttered as he squinched his eyes up to look through the dark at the figure that lay on the bottom bunk with their eyes closed.
"No!" Gerard cried looking back to the sleeping figure, "he has a knife Frank! I swear, he's trying to kill me!"
"I highly doubt that Gerard and you ain't fooling me into letting you out or getting any nearer to you for that matter of fact. Now…" Frank took a step back from Gerard's shadow "…try to get some sleep before your trial starts in a few days Gerard, okay? After all we wouldn’t want a sleepy Gerard would we. You'll be fine. Sleep tight!" And Frank left the room and walked upstairs into the artificial light.

Notes

Hi. Short chapter here but important? Maybe it is...maybe it isn't.
Today was pancake day! Yay! I think I definitely deserved pancakes today after surviving 'kick a ginger day' yesterday. So that's fabulous. I know that I'm constantly thanking you all for reading and that it probably gets a bit annoying but I just want you to know that I'm very grateful. :) x
-Lou