On this note Damian stepped in front of Frank;

"No, if you want Frank you're going to have to go through me!" this seemed rather much for someone who had only been dating Frank for a day to do, and Tony was as shocked as I was, but formulated a response none the less.

"No, this is between me and Frank, if you want to fight me after that be my guest." Frank stood up cooly, looking from me, to Tony and then to Damian before saying;

"Damian honey, it's ok. I can take care of this no problem." he said pushing Damian to one side. "Do we really need to settle this with violence Tony? Let's step outside and see shall we."

This wasn't a question as Frank left the room flagged closely by Damian, that's when I went up to Tony grabbing his arm my eyes pleading.

"Tony, no he's too strong." I didn't want Tony getting hurt for me. "I'm ok, really I am!"

"Gerard, this isn't just about how you are. I'm not letting him get away with doing that to you, especially after he pushed you earlier. That kid needs to learn some manners and I care about you dude." I let go. He was set on doing this. I couldn't stop him now, that's something I realised as painful as it was I would just have to let him fiht Frank, but this wouldn't be the first time he had done something like this for me;

Year 7, One month into school term-

It was gym class, generally I llike gym. It's fun and this time we were playing basketball, I was a team with Neil and we were against Tony's team. It was pretty fun, the score was tied and I had the ball, I was aiming it up at the hoopy thing, I mean who really cares what it's called and suddenly someones fist collides with the back of my head. I drop the ball and collapse to the floor, but of course the teacher didn't see that and so Jason, the uy who had hit me, picked up the ball with a chorus of cheers from his team and dribbled it down the court. What he wasn't expecting was an angry Tony to chare down the court and slam into him. Tony landed on top ontop of his own team mate and started to beat the life out of him.

"You think you can hit my best friend and I'm just gonna let you get away with it?!" he screamed as he hit the guy over the head repeatedly, everyone on the the court ran either to cheer them on or to try and break them up. I stumbled to my feet just in time to see our coach screaming at Tony, for not only beating someone up for no aparent reason, but for that person to be on his own team and possibly the best player on the team.

Tony was suspended for a week because no one believes us crazy goths in this school, even though the witnesses did say that Jason hit me, he was only banned from playing one match and then rejoined the team.

Actually come to think of it, Tony does a lot of shit like that for me. It's odd, it's not like I can't fight my own battles, he just always seems to get involved. He was starting to walk out of detention, pushing past the chemistry teacher, out into the halls. I ran after him, stopping at the door of detention.

"TONY!" he spun around and began to jog back to me.

"You're not stopping me G" I knew this already.

"Why are you always there?" he seemed rather tacken aback by this question.

"Because your my best friend and I care about you man" he flashed me a smile, but it still didn't make sense.

"Are Neil and Jake as well?" he nodded "So then why do you never do this for them?"

He walked up to me, with an extremely serious look on his face.

"Because I love them" I stood there stunned.

"You what?" I stammered, I didn't get whatever it was that he was trying to tell me. That's the problem with Tony, he's so cryptic that it takes ages to get any kind of answer out of him.

"Like I said, I love them" he stopped right in front of me "but I love you".