"The ball was saved ladies and gentlemen! Player 1 is out!" the wii was saying out loud.
"Son of a bitch..." Gerard cursed under his breath.
Gerard was alone in the late 1920's Victorian home located in New Jersy that belonged to Bob. He still wasn't sure of when or if at all Bob was going to return. For now, he was playing kickball on wii.
It had been about a week and a half since he had last seen Frank. 'For the better perhaps' Gerard had thought to himself. Relationships whether they were friendships or more than that between the vamps and humans weren't illegal but they were frowned upon. Gerard was about to continue his game of golf when there was a knock at the door. So, gerard turned the game off and went to the door.
"Hey bitch... you never called me back," said a tall man with a goatee and leaning on the house frame. Next to him stood and intimidating but confident woman that even under her dark skin still had the pale look. Lastly was a small girl, about 16 or 17. The girl had long pale pink hair covering most of her bright blue eyes, and was defiantly the all goth type. She was dressed in a red tank top with a long sleeve fishnet shirt over it.
"Whos the kid?" Gerard asked not wasting time being polite...not with them.
"This is Jinx, shes new," the man with the goatee said just walking right in followed by the two girls.
"Oh please come in Vlad," gerard said with an irritated tone. If Bob were here he wouldn't even show mercy on innocent looking Jinx and throw them out.
"Thank you..." Jinx said almost so quietly that Gerard almost missed it.
"Jinx...is that your...real name?" Gerard asked trying to be polite. She seemed like a nice and scared young girl, he didn't know why she'd be around Vlad and Arella.
"Jinx, be a good girl you know better than to talk to strangers..." the intimidating Arella came over and grabbed Jinx's arm through her pale pink hair and dragged her next to her.
"You killed an innocent young girl just so you can have a slave?" Gerard asked feeling pity for her.
"Hey by the time I was done with her, she was begging me to turn her..." Arella said with a sinister laugh. Jinx just stared at the floor in shame and let her long hair cover her face.
"How old is she?" Gerard pondered.
"two," Arella said referring to her vampire years.
"Gerard where oh where is our good friend Bob?" Vlad asked sounding bored.
"He got called away...didn't you hear?" Gerard stated in a monotone.
"Ha! What'd the little drug lord do now?" Arella asked clearly amused by all of this.
"Nothing that concern's you..." Gerard said now getting angry at the nosy vampires, "What do you want with him anyways."
"C'mon Gee we're bored," Said Arella.
"Yea, we came her to tell Bob to get his ass back to ur clan," Vlad demanded, "You could come to if you wanted. You just have to stop flirting with your blood bags unless you plan on killing her soon..."
"I am not turning him into a vampire and me and Bob left your clan for a reason," Gerard said rasing his voice.
"Oh you're running with the boys now? I always had a feeling you'd bat for the other team..." Arella said with an evil snare in her eyes.
"Look me and Bob are not joining your clan, we're-" Gerard began to explain.
"yea, yea, yea we know...mainstreaming," Vlad said with a disgusted tone in his, "ya know, I dont know how you and Bob can live off that hospital shit."
"It's no different from-" Gerard began again.
"It's the left overs! They freeze it, use what they need, and give us what's left by then the bloods like eating rotten meat," Arella complained.
"We need to change our behavior now that we're out in the open," Gerard said calmly.
"Not everyone wants to live off the hospital left over shit, dont you remember how blood from a fresh corpse tasted?" Vlad asked trying to sweet talk Gerard.
"Look, Bob's not here and I don't know when the hell hes getting back, so get out," Gerard said opening the door and let the moon light shine in.
"Fine..." Vlad said walking to the door followed by Arella and Jinx, "but tell Bob to call me I have to talk to him."
"Bye Gee..." Arella said in her seductive tone and ran her icy cold hand over Gerard's chest. Jinx followed silently but with her icy blue eyes through her hair gave Gerard one last pleading look to save her.
Gerard wished he could but he had enough problems as it was. Gerard slammed the door after they all walked out and listened to the car skid off into the night. He gave a heavy and depressed sigh and walked back into the living room. He flopped down on the blood red velvet couch tired. In the silence that filled the home since as the car got farther and farther away Gerard could sense someone else approaching the house. Bob?
Gerard jumped off the couch and ran to the door and flung it open hoping to see his blonde friend ok. Instead Frank was walking up the stairs to the porch. He could see the disappointment in Gerard's face.
"Were you expecting someone else?" Frank questioned.
"Oh now I thought you were- never mind, what are you doing here? It's really early..." Gerard stated.
"You mean late?" Frank asked with a small laugh. Gerard couldn't help but grin. "Your friend Bob, he's not back yet huh?"
"No..."
"Is he ever going to come back?"
"...I dont know," Gerard murmerd not bothering to hide his sorrow. Bob had shown him kindness when no one else would. Bob wasn't Gerard's maker but he had saved Gerard's life more than once. Not only that but Bob was a strong vampire and knew how to survive, Gerard had nothing but die hard respect for him.
Frank seemed to notice all of this and just went up to Gerard and put his arms around him. If Gerard was breathing before this, he sure as hell wasn't now. He almost wished his internal organs still worked, he missed that feeling of your heart suddenly stopping, and the butterflies. But he couldn't feel anything...only emotionally. For Gerard that was all he needed and returned the hug.
He wasn't sure how long he was immersed in that hug. He was a realitivly young vampire but he seemed to know what an eternity was like. When you live forever and never move forward an eternity seemed like mere minutes.
Frank and Gerard stayed up for hours, just talking about everything and nothing and played a few games of kickball. It was the best time Gerard had had in many years. But dawn was approaching soon. Then Gerard could sense someone approaching...on foot. It couldn't be Vlad and his clan...but the two people coming...they we're vampires.
"Frank! You need to get outta here! Hide!" Gerard said getting worried. He wasn't sure who the two vampires were and wasn't taking any chances.
"Why? Whats going on?" Frank asked as his panic level raised.
"I dont have time to explain! But listen you need to go to the-" Gerard started to say. Too late.
The front door opened and Gerard was ready standing in front of Frank ready to fight if he needed to...
"Gerard..?" called a familure voice.
"Oh damn...Bob can you give a guy a warning before you sneak up on us?" Gerard said relaxing.
"Here's your warning, this is Mikey. Mikey, Gerard, Gerard, Mikey," Bob said walking straight past the living room into the kitchen. "And who's us?"
"Frank's here..." Gerard said, he knew Bob wouldn't care.
"Hi!" Frank said putting his hand out to Mikey and shook his hand.
"Hello..." the new Mikey boy said smiling.
"Bob who's this?" Gerard asked eying mikey. He was tiny and skinny and looked like he'd never been in a fight before.
"He's my punishment..." Bob said unphased and he walked back into the living room with a glass full of thick red liquid.
"You had to make a vampire as your punishment? Jesus there are to many new vampires out there, I thought we weren't suppose to make any more vamps," Gerard said retaking his seat on the couch
"Yea so did I," Bob said chugging his drink, "and what do you mean new vampires? Mikey's the only one on record."
"What record?" Mikey asked now concerned.
"Vlad and Arella stopped by-" Gerard said getting cut off once again.
"What the fuck we're they doing in my house?" Bob asked raiding his voice.
"Hey they just waltzed in! They had a new vampire with them this little girl who's probably like 16 or 17 her name's Jinx, I bet Arella kidnapped her, did god knows what to her when she was human and turned her into a vampire!" Gerard explained, "Oh and Vlad said he needed to talk to you about something."
"When?" bob quetioned refering to Jinx.
"About two years ago,"
"Wasn't some kid kidnapped two years ago that was about 17?" Bob questioned.
"Oh yea...I forgot about that it was all over the news, wasnt her dad the pastor at the Fellowship church?" Gerard said now speculating what he could remember.
"They one out in Layontville" Mikey piped up. Bob and Gerard looked at him in what seemed like shock that he could even speak.
"How do you know about that?" bob asked.
"I used to go to that church, the pastor had a daughter who was 17 but she got kidnapped...no one ever found her...she had really blue eyes," Mikey said seeing that Bob and Gerard's eye's were fishing for more details.
"Damn...than that girl isn't on the records...we could turn them over to the Council up north..." Bob said a small smile forming on his face.
"You know I'd love nothing more than to see those silver crosses shoved up Vlad and Arella's asses but that also means that the girl, Jinx, would be killed to. The council won't want to keep her a vampire, she knows to much," Gerard said.
"Eh watever, I'm going to bed before the damn sunlight burns me..." Bob said taking off.
"Wait! we're do I go?" Mikey asked in his whiny voice.
"Oh yea...you can have my old coffin," Bob said taking off down the stairs knowing Gerard would show him were it was.
"Coffin?" Mikey asked nervously.
"Havn't you ever sleeped in a coffin before?" Gerard asked surprised.
"I did once...and I really thought i was dead then i came up and found Bob," Mikey said feeling his claustrophobia already start to set in.
"Don't worry kid, it's not that bad..." Gerard said and directed him towards
Bob's now former room.
Gerard turned and faced Frank. "Sorry for kinda ignoring you..."
"It's alrite, all that sounded important anways," Frank said understandingly.
"It's bad...this isn't good but there's really nothing we can do about it," Gerard expressed.
"So...have you thought about it?" Frank asked.
"Frank! I...I cant," Gerard said trying not to get frustrated with Frank.
"Why? I've got nothing left form me here, my parents disowned me, and you're my only real friend..." Frank said trying to sound sincere to get what he wanted.
"Frank...you don't want this. It's a lonley life," Gerard said miserably.
"But I wouldn't be alone, you'd have me and I'd have you..."
"No..."
"Please?"
"No,"
"Pleeeeaaassee?" Frank said walking up closer to him until his face was mere inches away from Gerard's.
"I... I'll think about it..." Gerard said trying to keep his cool. "Ya know I hate it when you do that..." secertly yearing for more.
"But it works, thanks Gee," Frank said kissing Gerard's cheek really quick.
