Prologue
Gerard was five when he first met Frank. It was a cold winter's day with the snow heavily falling in a spiral pattern down to earth. There were very few people outside so no one would have noticed a small boy sitting on one of the swings in the play park, his mother watching from a bench. You would have probably though that he was cold but if you thought that, you thought wrong, Gerard way was perfectly warm. His mother would never let him out without his gloves, a grey and black scarf draped around his neck and a large water proof jacket that made it seem like it was almost impossible to become cold. Gerard was swinging happily back and forth until he watched the old rusted gate open with a loud creek and a young boy around Gerard's age ran in dragging his mother behind him. Gerard couldn't quite remember what happened between the times the other boys mother sat down next to his and started a conversation, to the time the boy introduced himself as Frank. Frank sat down on the swing next to him and began to swing. Sometime during his swinging Frank's scarf fell off and was blown away in the wind but the young boy wasn't worried he was enjoying himself too much to chase after it, but soon Frank felt himself become cold, then colder and even colder. Soon he stopped swinging to because it became too hard to swing from his shivers he began to rub his arms trying to put the warmth back into his body. Gerard noticed this, and being the good natured child he was, he removed his scarf knowing he wouldn't feel the cold as much as Frank did and steadily moved towards the other child. When he got up close enough he wrapped it around Frank's neck before blushing and taking a step back, before speaking in a timid voice
"Keep it; you might catch a cold if you don't." Frank looked at him for a moment before going over to Gerard and wrapping his arms around him. He pulled away and as he did so he spoke
"Thank you" his tone was much more confident, compared to Gerard's. After that Gerard's mother came and took him home, the whole while the young boy thought of Frank.
They didn't see each other again till high school and they didn't recognize each other till a long time after that.