Chapter 9 - Gerard's POV

I woke up, laying on my floor, staring underneath my bed. I feel someone's arm on my waist, underneath my own arm. Frank. And then I remember. I lay there, smiling stupidly at all the dusty junk underneath my bed until Frank stirs behind me, taking his arm off me and flipping over. I stand up as quietly as I can, trying not to wake anyone up as I go over to my desk, take a fresh sheet of paper and start drawing my millionth drawing of Frank. But this time, it isn't from my imagination. He looks so quiet and content while he's sleeping, so wrapped up in his own little fantasy world, not giving a damn about his problems.

While I'm sketching, I look over at my clock, it reads 5:28am. I'm glad it's starting to get brighter in the mornings, or I wouldn't have been able to see Frank in my all ready dark bedroom. The initial stages off my drawing is almost done when Mikey starts to wake up, I hastily shove away any signs that I was drawing and pull out a comic book. I watch him over the top as he sits up and stretches.

"H-how long have you been up Gerard?" he asks, yawning

"Shhh!" I point to Ray and Frank, "Not long, I've just been reading." I whisper, I hold up the comic so he can see. He looks at my clock then starts to wake Ray up. "Mikey, what are you doing? Let him sleep!" I hiss, so as to not wake up Frank.

"We have school today, dumbass." He says, as he goes to wake up Frank

"It's fine Mikey, just leave him, we'll get them later, it's too early." I mainly didn't want to disturb Frank, but also I wouldn't want to be woken up so early.

"Fine, but Ray's awake now anyway," he says as a very tired looking Ray sits up slowly and rubs his eyes, his afro bigger than its usual size. "it's only fair we wake up Frank."

I sigh and gesture him to get on with it. I pretend to be reading my comic when he wakes Frank. Mikey basically shoves him over and tells him to wake up.

"For fuck sake Mikey." I get out my chair and rub my eyes, I go over to Frank and kneel down. "Sorry dude, Mikey isn't the best at waking people," I glare at Mikey "do you want any coffee? Anything you want?" Frank opens his eyes, looks at me for a moment then smiles.

"Coffee would be great thanks." he sits up, looking around, "What's the time?"

"It's almost 5:45." Mikey says

Frank looks at me like I'm mad, "Why'd you wake me at this time?" he says

"Well, I woke up. Mikey woke up, then he woke up Ray and thought it would be unfair not to wake you." I look over to where Mikey's standing and realise Ray has almost went back to sleep on my chair. "Maybe it's a bit too early to have coffee, I was going to get some but now I can't be bothered."

Frank yawns and lies back down, "Same."