Gerard's POV

My eyes creaked open as the golden sunrise crept through the basement window. I rolled over to face Frankie and I couldn't help but smile as I watched him sleep. I know he'll probably think I have no idea what happened last night when the truth is I remembered every beautiful detail of it.

When Ri, Frankie, and I were hanging out the night before, I had a major realization. Though I thought Ri was gorgeous and her personality was mind blowing, Frankie was the one that was constantly on my mind. It's been that way since I helped comfort him about Jamia and doubled when I saw the hurt in his eyes while Lindsey taunted him. I never thought someone could care so much, but Frankie has always been a special case.

I needed to talk to Ri about everything. I texted her saying meet me at Starbucks in ten, I began to get dressed when "Okay." flashed upon my screen. "I'll be back, went for coffee.", I scribbled on a sticky note and carefully stuck it to Frankie's chest. He shifted at my touch and rolled over. I smirked and headed out the door. If only he could see how mesmerizing he was to me.

"So you guys are back together!? Oh god yes! That's good, I'm so fucking happy for you!", she shrieked. I could feel every eye in the tiny coffee shop was on us. I told her it wasn't anything official because last night just sorta happened. She nodded with the stupidest grin on her face. Ri was more excited than I imagined she would be, which was a good thing. I was terrified she'd accuse me of leading her on, so to clarify I asked if there was any hard feelings. "Well I'm not gonna lie, it does kind of suck because I was into you, but I'm more happy for you and Frankie than anything. You guys kind of love only comes around once in a lifetime so I'm not gonna be the bitch to fuck it up for you. Plus, you're my best friend. I'd rather be friendzoned indefinitely than us break up and never talk again." She gave me a gentle smile and grabbed my hand, I smiled back and pressed my lips to the back of her hand.

We parted ways and headed back to our domains. I was thinking of what we could do today since mom was at work all day, Mikey was already out Christmas shopping with Tay, lord knows where everyone else is. I was in the middle of inviting everybody over via text when I almost rear ended the giant F250 parked in the driveway.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

I jumped out of my car and jetted into the house. Silence. That was until I heard arguing coming from under me, I nearly fell over myself as I ran down the stairs. My blood was boiling to the point my whole body felt like it was on fire. It was moments like this that led me to believe I could kill a man.

When I hit the bottom step, what I saw did it. I snapped as I saw my father holding Frankie in the air by his shirt. I tackled him to the ground and lost it. Blow after blow, I turned his face into a bloody pulp. He tried to get up and I put my knee to his throat, making him gasp and reach for air. "I swear if I ever see or hear you place another grimy fucking finger on Frankie or much less, see you on my fucking property again, our next encounter will be your fucking last. And you know how good I am with keeping my word." I stood up and kicked him in his chest. This is the day I've been waiting for all my life. It made me smile seeing this monster writhe from the pain that I put him in. I felt two arms wrap around my waist and returned the soft embrace.

That man always hated Frankie because he knew we loved each other. He tormented him for years, but I never knew until Frankie broke down out of the blue one day. He told me he would threaten him and call him names like faggot or freak. From that day forward, I promised I'd never let that happen again. I was always with Frankie while my dad was around because I knew he wouldn't think twice about bothering him with me there. That was one of the reasons he hated me, he was intimidated by me and when I realized it, I started to use it against him. It wasn't long after that he left to be with his sex toy Melanie. All I could think was good riddance and that I would finally sleep at night knowing that thing wasn't in my life anymore.

I had still failed Frankie though. I didn't keep him safe like I promised. I began to cry into the top of his head as I held him, "No, please don't cry Gee. Thank you for everything." He wiped the tears from my face smiling and gave me a light peck on my nose. He was always able to control my emotions like a light switch.

We dragged the unconscious body outside and threw it into the bed of his truck. I looked around to make sure no one saw us because the first thing they would think was we just murdered this man. Not that I cared, but I wasn't trying to live the rest of my life in jail and neither was Frankie. We washed our hands and waited for everyone to show up, sure enough they did soon after.

"Uh Gee...why is there blood all over the floor?", Mikey asked shaking as he walked in with Taylor. I asked him if the truck was still outside and he shook his head. Me and Frankie laughed and explained what happened. "Why am I never around when these things happen?!", Mikey threw his bags on the floor and pouted. We couldn't help but laugh at his hissy fit, but he was the last one to find it funny.

After the rest of the gang showed up, we spent the day talking about everything. That monster, what's been going on this break, and the genius plan I came up with last night, etc etc. Before me or Frankie could even begin to explain our situation, Ri busted with excitement and did it for us. Ray seemed to be the only one who couldn't grasp it. We all laughed at his attempt to piece together what we had just told him. "But I thought you and Gee were a thing...and Frank was doing his own thing..when did we even have time for this to happen?!"

"Just drop it please. You're making my head hurt with your fucking stupidity, Toro.", groaned Bob. Ray flipped his hair and said it still wasn't clicking to him, but he'd leave it alone. We then turned on the super old episodes of Batman and ripped it a new asshole as usual.

"Oh I'm gonna punch The Joker and expect all of you to believe its real despite the fact it's being hidden by a big, colorful "Pow!", Frankie mocked the 1960's classic. "I mean come on, everyone was discovering acid and heroin when this came out. You'd think it'd be a little more creative." We all laughed because Frankie was always so serious when we did this, like the lack of creativity pissed him off.

**2 hour time lapse**

Everyone seemed to have had a long night before seeing how we all crashed out at four in the afternoon. Trying not to wake up Frankie who was laying across me, I stretched out my body and laid my head back. Running my fingers through Frankie's soft locks, I smiled when I realized something.

I'm finally perfectly happy with my life for once.