Once they got permission from the person in charge-some scary nurse lady named Kim- they went outside, and started walking on one of the stone pathways.
"So how much does this place suck, do you need me go all white night and rescue you?"
Zack laughed. "I don't know, I suppose it's not any worse then being alone in my house all night, although I really don't like having a roomate, thats why I cant sleep."
"I sleep over at your house all the time, and your usualy snoring happily by three a.m."
"Yeah but thats different, it's you."
Freddy gave him a funny look.
"What?"
"I don't know, just thinking about what Ella said."
"What about it?" Zack asked warily.
"We do touch a lot." Freddy said matter of factly.
"You touch everyone Freddy."
"Not as much as you, look Zacky, do you want to know the truth or not? Just know that if you do then things will change."
Zack thought about it, and reralized that no matter what Freddy said he would always be the most important person in Zacks life. "Okay."
Freddy looked nevous for a moment and Zack realized that he was the only one that Freddy really let his guard down around. "Zack I like you, more then I should."
Zack was silent. Even though he knew that, that was coming he still hadn't been able to prepare himself for hearing those words.
Freddy had a worried look on his face and Zack realized that he had to say something. The only problem was that he really didn't know what to say, but he had always gone on instinct with Freddy so he did that. Zack grabbed Freddy's hand and pulled him over to a secluded area.
Before Freddy could start questioning him, Zack reached up and pulled the drummers face down to his and met his lips in a gentle kiss. It only lasted a few seconds but it was enough to let Zack knew that he had made the right descision.
Freddy looked slightly stunned but quickly recovered and got a huge grin on his face. "Told you Zacky, I always have good ideas, that school is insane giving me f's all the time."
That response was so out of the blue and so Freddy that Zack just started cracking up laughing, feeling genuinly and completly happy for the first time in a while. "You definatly get a gold star for this idea" Freddy grinned and Zack kissed him again, all the while knowing that this was exactly where he wanted to be.
"Shit! we have to get back we're only allowed to be gone for a couple hours at a time."
"Why how long have we been gone?" It seemed like they had only been outside for a few minutes but when Zack looked at Freddy's watch he saw that it was closing in on an hour and a half.
Grinning they headed back, Freddy occasionaly grabbing Zacks hand and sqeezing it. Zack was shocked to realize that it really couldn't be described as abnormal behavior and he let out a small laugh. Freddy looked over at him questiongly.
"I was just thinking that except for the kissing this really isn't different to how we always act."
"Told you."
"Still the kissing is a definate improvment."
"Just call me Don Juan." Freddy immediatly dropped to one knee and dramaticaly kissed Zacks hand.
"Get up you freak."
When they got back to the unit it was lunch time. Apparently the hospital felt that lunch didn't need to be any more edible then breakfast had been, and Zack wasn't holding his hopes to high about dinner either. Freddy took one look at the food and immediatly announced that he was allergic to all of it.
"When you get out of here we'll have to get you some real food, of course you'll probably have to go to detox first because this food is seriously toxic."
At three o clock Freddy left because he had promised to babysit his younger cousin.
Zack spent the rest of the day trying to get used to the wierdness of being in crazy town with little sucsess and when he went to bed the only thing that kept him from slipping back into a full fledged depression was the thought of Freddy coming the next day.