Gerard sat on the tour bus with his sketch pad in his hand. Driving through the English countryside was always a nice sight and inspiration for Gerard to draw. It was different to sky scrapers and yellow taxi cabs. Even though they were just pulling up onto the motorway, he could still see the farmers’ fields. He began to draw green quilt like fields with little cotton wool sheep dotted around. Frank started to walk towards Gerard, feeling really upset. He knew that Gerard could always cheer him up. Frank hung his head down staring at his feet, and peered over Gerard’s shoulder. He watched as Gerard coloured the fields in a lovely deep green and the sky a delightful pastel blue. Frank smiled as Gerard worked so peacefully…
“Jesus! Frank! God, you scared me! I didn’t know you were there!” Gerard said, quite startled.
“Oh, sorry, Gee, it’s just… I love watching you draw, it makes me peaceful,” Frank replied to a still quite shocked Gerard.
“Aww, that’s very sweet. It makes me peaceful, too. Is there something you wanted?”
“Oh, yeah, there is,” Frank hung his head down, hair falling infront of his hazel green eyes.
“What is it?”
“I’m not in my usual ‘happy and hyper’ Frank mood,” Gerard put his sketch pad to one side and grabbed Frank by his waist, lowering him onto his lap.
“And why aren’t you in your ‘happy and hyper’ Frank mood? What’s happened?” Frank pouted at Gerard and gave him the puppy eyes.
“Ray and Bob won’t let me play Guitar Hero with them,”
‘Oh, God. Is that all? Bless him…’
“Well, I guess you’ll just have to wait and then I’ll be able to get my ass kicked by you on Guitar Hero, how does that sound?” A grin appeared on the small guitarist’s face and he gave Gerard a massive hug.
“That sounds great,”
“It’s a date,”
‘Holy shit! Did I just say that?!’ The smile on Frank’s face grew even wider.
“Yeah… It’s a date.” Frank finally said, giving Gerard a little wink.
‘Oh my God… I can’t actually believe that I said “It’s a date”… how fricking cheesy! But he must have liked the idea… his smile grew wider when I said my cheesy line… eugh… I’ll just draw; it’ll keep my mind off of it.’
It was 7 o’clock and the guys had just finished dinner. Ray and Bob weren’t playing Guitar Hero and Mikey was sat with the laptop on his lap, like it had been all day. He was talking to his fiancée, Alicia. Frank looked over to Gerard and his eyes shone like little gems. He and Gerard walked over to the TV set near the bunks and turned on the XBOX. Gerard knew he wasn’t good enough to beat Frank. God, he wasn’t even good enough to beat Mikey, and he wasn’t good at the game either. They began to play and not even half way through the song, Gerard was down by MANY points. The song finished and Frank’s face was back to his normal, glowing, happy and hyper face.
“Thanks for the game, Gerard. It’s put me back in my happy mood,” Frank said to Gerard whilst turning off the XBOX.
“No problem, you know you can come up to me whenever, any day, any time, and it’s certain that you’ll have a great time,” Gerard replied, with a gentle smile on his face.
‘God, I love it when Gerard smiles like that, he looks so innocent…’
“Oh, God, look at the time,” Frank said, looking at his watch. It was 9:45. “I’d better get some sleep; we’ve got a show tomorrow,”
“’Night, Frankie.” Gerard waved Frank goodnight.
“’Night, Gee,” Frank replied. “I love you…” he whispered so quietly, that he only just managed to hear what he said.