Sorry I haven't updated in ages but this is one LONG chapter to make up for it. It's like 5 a4 pages xD Hope you like it 3

Chapter 25 – I'll end my days with you, in a hail of bullets

I squeezed my eyes tightly shut as I heard Bert's sleepy footsteps heading towards me. I evened out my breathing and was surprised by how convincing I sounded. Bert let out a sigh and turned back to return to his bench. I kept my eyes shut until I was sure he was asleep again. I opened them slowly and glanced in Bert's direction, yup, fast asleep with his mouth wide open. Gross. I swung my head around to loosen up my neck and my eyes discovered a dark figure moving closer to me from the right. My breath hitched in my throat, I didn't want to scream if it was Gee but what if it wasn't? What if it was a murderer? Looking back I could laugh at myself, but whilst I was in the situation I was terrified.
"Frank?" I heard a hissed whisper come from the figure. My fear was washed away and relief flooded in.
"Heyy Gee" I smiled brightly at him.
"How did you find me?" He walked into a thin beam of light shining down from the silver moon. My heart began beating wildly, I loved him so much.
"Mikey knows these woods like the back of his hand, he kinda directed me through it" He whispered, not wanting to risk Bert waking. Gee went behind the tree and started fumbling with the handcuffs. Next thing I knew they were dangling in Gerard's hands.
"How did you do that?" I asked, he didn't have a key or anything.
"Easy. I just pulled them apart. They're pretty flimsy, I guess Bert likes it kinky" Gee laughed, examining the cuffs. They looked as if they were made from plastic and they had fluffy bits sticking out of them.
"Maybe you should keep hold of them" I suggested, trying to make myself sound seductive. In reply Gee cocked an eyebrow before pulling me into a deep kiss. I was still sat on the ground and so he pushed me up against the tree and ran one hand up towards my hair before pulling my head closer to him. I had butterflies in my stomach but not from nerves, Gee just had that effect on me. I unwillingly pulled away.
"Not here" I gasped between breaths, Gerard moaned in reply. Our foreheads touching.
"We don't want to wake Bert" I added.
"I dunno, it'd be pretty funny seeing his reaction" I couldn't help but laugh.
"Is someone horny?" I laughed, keeping my voice low.
"That's not my fault" He moaned once more. In reply I ran my hand from his hair down his front slowly and just before I reached his crotch I jumped up and began walking back in the direction from which Gee appeared.
"Urgh. You're such a tease" he replied catching up with me and taking hold of my hand. I still felt the electricity running through our bodies. Despite the hideous events from earlier that night, this was perfect. Me and Gee, together walking through the moonlight.
"You're staying at mine tonight" Gee spoke after what must have been a ten minute silence. We were still not out of the woods.
"I told my mom yesterday I probably would anyway" We were walking faster and soon we were back on the road and walking past our school. It seemed like a lifetime ago I walked out of the school gates. I was relieved to see the school, it meant we weren't far from Gerard's house.
"So what are we gonna do about Bert?" I asked, he clearly wasn't going to leave us alone. He wasn't going to stop until he had Gerard.
"I think we should go to the police"
"Gee. Be serious. We can't go to the police" What would the police do?
"Frank. He knocked you out, held you against your will and he kissed you, which could be seen as sexual harassment. We need to go to the police" Okay, so I hadn't thought of that.
"I see" I couldn't think of anything else to say. We arrived at Gerard's and slumped up to his room, before we both collapsed onto his bed. I stole a quick look at his clock. It was 5:28am. Fuck. It was much later than I thought. I felt kind of bad for leaving Bert in the woods alone but I ignored the guilt as Gerard had kissed me lightly.
"I love you Frank"
"I love you too Gee"
"I will never let anyone hurt you, I'll end my days with you in a hail of bullets if I have to" tears formed in my eyes, what had I done to deserve someone this amazing?
"Gee. I love you. So much" I choked as a tear fell from my eye. I smiled when I saw his expression mirrored mine, I wiped a tear from his beautiful eyes.
"Sleep well" he whispered and soon I fell asleep.

I woke by the sound of the smoke alarm. I groaned and looked at the clock. 12.16. I'd slept in the woods for a little while but I'd got an extra seven round Gee's, who was still asleep next to me. That guy could sleep through anything, I smiled, kissed his forehead and went downstairs to see what was going on. I skipped into the kitchen to see Mikey with a pan on the stove, clouds of grey smoke emitting off of it.
"And I thought I burnt things" I joked.
"FRANK!" He dropped the pan and embraced me in a hug. The alarm, thankfully shut off.
"Hey Mikey" I looked over his shoulder towards the kitchen table and saw it was piled with junk.
"So... What happened?" I pointed at the pan and wrinkled my nose at the smell of burning.
"Well I decided to make pancakes, but then I wanted to put together my aeroplane and I forgot about the pan and well, it burnt"
"Hold on. You wanted to put together your aeroplane? Wow, how old are you?" I joked.
"Shut up. I love arts and crafts" I realised the Way family were really creative, I'd seen many drawing's Gerard had done across his desk in the previous times I'd visited his house and they were amazing. So original, I'd never seen anything like it.
"Fair enough" I smiled at him and he returned it. He was really similar to Gee, he also was very easy to be around. But he was a lot more shy than Gee, once you got to know him though, you have trouble shutting him up.
"Anyway, I'm gonna take a shower if you don't mind?" I'm sure he didn't but I thought it polite to ask anyway.
"Sure dude" I turned to leave.
"Hey Frank?" I looked back over my shoulder.
"Yup?"
"Where's Bert?" I cringed at the name, the guy just made me sick.
"Don't know. We left him in the woods"
"Do you think he'll try and come here?" Mikey asked, sounding a little worried.
"I don't know, maybe" I didn't want to worry Mikey but there was no point in lying to him.
"Okay" I paused before walking back upstairs towards the bathroom. I pulled open the wooden door and stepped onto the tiled blue floor. I stripped down out of my clothes and pulled open the shower curtain. The handle was quite difficult to turn as I was feeling quite weak but I soon managed to turn it and the water came gushing out. As soon as I stepped into the flow of water brown liquid began dripping down my body. I didn't realise how muddy I was so it took longer than I'd originally thought to shower. Once I was finished I stepped out and wrapped myself in a fluffy white towel. I felt so clean as I walked back into Gee's room. I didn't want to put my dirty clothes back on a clean body so I was hoping Gee would let me borrow some clothes. I entered his room to see he was still asleep so I walked over to him and kissed him on the forehead. His eyes shot open and stayed wide as he took in my appearance. He ran one finger down my chest and as he did so, my stomach filled again with those all too familiar butterflies.
"Can I just say how hot you look right now?" Gerard whispered, smiling a crooked smile.
"You're not so bad yourself" I replied. It was the truth, his hair was messy but that just made him hotter. How could someone look so perfect after they just woke up?
"I better get in the shower" He said with a hint of sadness. I raised an eyebrow questioningly.
"I don't want to leave you" he planted a kiss on my lips before slowly getting out of bed and walking towards the door.
"Erm Gee, can I borrow some clothes?" I asked.
"Damn. I thought I could keep you like that" He turned, winked at me, before opening his wardrobe and throwing a plain pale green tee and black jeans at me.

While Gee was in the shower I sat and had a coffee with Mikey. It was nice to talk to him again, it was as if we hadn't spoken for ages. I had to try and organise my time better and not lose touch with my friends. When Gerard was finished in the shower he thundered down the stairs in a shirt that was the same colours as the American flag, he looked amazing.
"Ready?" he asked leaning against the door frame. I had completely forgotten about the police station. I let out a sigh, I really didn't want to go. But I knew how stubborn Gee could be so I thought it best not to argue with him. We got in Gerard's car and drove to the station, it was located in the back roads of town, so it wasn't that far. We sat silently in the car, I was beginning to feel nervous. Would the police tell us to grow up and leave them to get on with serious problems?
"What are you thinking about?" Gerard asked, glancing at me quickly at the traffic lights.
"What the police are going to say" I answered honestly, staring down at my hands. The lights turned green and Gerard sped across the road towards the station. He parked quickly and turned to me.
"Frank, you have nothing to be worried about" he took my face in my hands and kissed me. I could never get bored of this, each time he kissed me the same electric current flew through me.
"Okay" I muttered once he'd finally dropped his hands from my cheek.

I walked into a square room which was surprisingly empty, there was a small window on the right side of the room and it let in very little light. Long rectangular lights stretched across the room and I felt as though I were stepping into the principal's office to be told off. I sat in one of the plastic grey chairs and Gee sat right next to me, gripping my hand supportively. I tapped my free hand on the table, growing more nervous by the second. The clock that hung above the door seemed to grow louder with each tick. Eventually an officer stepped through the door, she walked over to me, introduced herself as Amelia and shook mine and Gerard's hands. We then introduced ourselves in return.
"This is precaution" she said pointing to the tape recorder she had just placed on the table.
"Mr. Frank Iero, April 3rd, 3:49pm. So, what's the problem?" she asked. I told her everything that had happened, leaving out no detail. I knew how important it was to tell the complete truth and so I did. She was surprisingly pretty, big green eyes created a friendly face and she had blonde hair that had been tied back and held in place by her police hat. Her facial expression never changed, she just listened and it felt good to be able to talk and get it all out of my system. Once I'd finished she jotted down something on a piece of paper in front of her before looking at me through those big green eyes, she was young, I'd say about 25.
"Right, what we're going to do Frank is send a squad over to Gerard's house and to yours. You haven't seen Bert since the early hours of the morning?" She asked.
"Not since this morning, no." I repeated her words to make sure I answered correctly.
"Okay. Chances are that he'll turn up at Gerard's so I'll send me officers to his. I think it's best if you two stay together" I nodded in reply and she pointed to the tape player, I forgot that I HAD to speak.
"Okay"
"Interview ending at 4.30pm" She turned the recording device off. Had I been talking for that long?

We walked back outside and got back into Gerard's car.
"That wasn't so bad was it?" Gee asked me, turning out back onto the main road.
"No" I answered quietly, I did feel much better.
"I'm proud of you" He whispered. I placed my hand lightly over his on the steering wheel.
"So, what are we going to do to pass the time?" I asked changing the subject as I turned the radio on and blast out the music.
"Oh!" Gee squealed excitedly. He was such a kid sometimes, but then again, so was I.
"We can dye my hair!"