I've never had the privilege of blending into crowds or to be honest just walking past someone and not being noticed. Well, there's a first time for everything I suppose. It felt strange to approach those huge double glass doors with black frames surrounding them and huge gleaming silver handles, without anyone even turning their head to look at me. I just wish that I could have gone the past years of my life unnoticed and simply treated as an equal human not some sort of crazy animal that has to be locked up in a wire cage, for 'its own safety' but really it's to stop others getting hurt. How glad I was to get out of there.

Do I even need to mention Frank?

Despite my rather marvellous disguise he could still tell it was me. He waved. Smiled. Laughed. He was just sweet innocent Frank who had supported me through all of this. He was my best friend and he was waiting patiently on the other side of the glass with a smile spread gleefully across his face.

But wait....if Frank could see through my disguise would the staff at the reception desk be able to tell that it was me? What if they caught me? What if they found the guard knocked out on the floor? What if Mikey hadn't got my text? What if Mikey wasn't even going to pick me up? What if they noticed it was me?
Too late now. I strode by the side of the reception desk which stood watch over the concrete car park. The white colour of the desk gleamed as if tinted with silver as it wrapped around two figures who were hidden tapping away at their keyboards. Bright lights reflected onto their tired eyes as one of the shadows peered over the desk at me.

"See you tomorrow, you're working a night shift. Bye keith..." She yawned as her eyes scrunched up and her arms stretched out above her head.

Keith?! Who the fuck was Keith? Was she talking to me? Was their somebody stood directly behind me? Was Keith even real? Had she even spoken?
Her eyes grew wider and her eyebrows furrowed and moved closer together in confusion.

"Bye Keith..."
She stared at me now. Quickly moving my eyes from hers I glanced down to look at one of the many tags attached to the uniform; squinting at an ID tag.

Keith Dawson
Security. Carer. First aider.

Oh! So I was Keith! Now it all made sense...well the fact that she'd called me Keith and then looked surprised when I didn't answer made sense anyway.
I looked up and allowed my eyes to meet hers. I prepared myself now, hoping for my voice to sound nothing like my own. After doing my best at picturing the real Keith's unconscious body on the floor I decided that he probably spoke in grunts and a deep voice, just like when he tried to 'comfort' me. I stiffened my back up, puffed my chest out and stuck my nose slightly into the air.
"um, goodnight..." I grunted, whilst pulling the blue jacket well over my shoulders.

I waved as I took one last look at the gleaming maze of corridors before opening the doors and stepping outside. I walked to the other side of the car park with Frank following closely behind me. Despite the feelings of joy that washed through my veins I couldn't show them just yet in case they saw me acting suspicious.
I waited until we'd reached the other side of the almost empty car park before I let myself smile. I threw myself down onto a small patch of grass, Frank doing the same next to me, and felt the blades of nature as they brushed against my hands. Even the air seemed cleaner, easier to breath in, easier to live and survive in with less despair being its burden. I took the hat off and cast it to one side, mesmerised by the way that the wind seemed to run through every strand of my now free hair before continuing on its never ending journey. Scents of flowers and grass and petrol and rubbish filled the air and the sky was laced with tiny little flies who buzzed and fluttered in all directions without a care in the world, barely even flinching when a bird would dive down from above and snack on the seemingly insignificant creatures. Speaking of creatures: I saw creature...I saw him trapped inside the building. Half eaten flesh face and ugly grey skin pressed harshly against the glass doors. Though I knew that they would not fail me, Creature was the one that was trapped now not me. I was free. And I was no longer scared of him because Frank was safe now.

It was as quiet as possible when my phone started buzzing in my pocket, geez it sounded like a fucking airport with planes taking off every second. I quickly threw my hands in my pockets, searching for the old Nokia phone before pulling it from my back pocket triumphantly. After apologising to Frank I put the phone to my ear.
"H-hello G-Gee..." Mikey stuttered down the phone, "s-so I'm almost there. A-are you outside?"
"Yeah. Yeah. I'm just outside little bro."
"O-okay. I'll be there in a few mins, o-okay."
"Yeah cool....see you soon."
"Yeah. B-Bye Gee..."

"Listen Frank..." I began, placing the phone back into my pocket, "I just wanted to thank you for always been there for me. I mean without you I don't know where I'd be."
"It's fine Gee." He whispered shuffling towards me.
I sat cross-legged, pulling him onto my lap so that I could hug him tightly.
"No. Frank. Really, I can't thank you enough. You, you mean so much to me. And I wouldn't be here without you."
"I promised you that we'd get out Gee. I promised." He whispered back to my ear as he melted into the hug.
"And you kept your promise. Hey! Wait! You've not met my little brother have you Frank?!"
Frank shook his head, his pale skin fading slightly into the air.
"Oh! You'll have to meet Mikey! You'll get on like a house on fire! In the best possible way! And you'll be best friends.....hey...frankie, what's wrong?" I broke off as Franks head hung glumly from his shoulders as his back curved into an arch.

"You are coming with me, aren't you Frankie?" I mumbled as I ran my hands through his soft hair, "Frank?"
"G-gee. I-I c-can't....I g-gee." he stuttered as he began to shake.
"No! Frankie! I need you!" I yelled whilst hugging him tighter.
"You have Mikey though Gee! He'll look after you. I promise. L-listen I-I'm sorry gee."
"But I want you!" I whined like a small child.
"I-I'm sorry gee. I can't stay here forever Gee. I don't belong here. I-I have to go. I have to. But I won't forget you. We made it out Gee. You are free now. Forget me and live your life. You don't need me anymore." Frank muttered glumly.
"No! Frank! You can't just leave! Please! You are everything to me! I-I j-just want y-you!" I burst into tears with them streaming endlessly down my face and watering the grass below.

He couldn't leave! Frank couldn't go! Frank was a part of me! Frank was everything! He'd helped me through the worst times! He'd saved my life on several occasions and I'd cried when I almost saw his being taken.
"Gee..." He mumbled my name and it sent a unbearable pang across my heart as his voice became broken and weak. "You have to k-keep on l-living, for me if n-nothing else."

I moved his head upwards one last time to stare into those beautiful green crystal eyes hoping that I'd be able to remember them forever, before Franks figure slipped from my grasp, floating freely along the air as a mist before simply dissolving away. I clawed at the ground and cried with tears gushing down my face and my hands trembling violently.
"Frank..." I whispered with my broken voice drifting along the air, "Frankie come back..."

Notes

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry for hurting Gee like this. I'm sorry, but at least he's got out. Final chapter should be up tomorrow night if I get it finished, I hope that the ending will be okay. Thank you for reading and I'm sorry if this was too predictable. I hope you are doing well. :)
-Lou