May 4th, 2008 (11:28 am)
current location:
a small dark room
current mood: stressed
current song: in liverpool - Suzanne Vega
“That was such a great show!” Frank ran off stage, eliciting a yelp of happiness as he jumped around back stage.
The other members of My Chemical Romance just laughed at the smallest members antics, and for the next ten minutes Frank danced and jumped around his friends.
Suddenly, he stopped and lowered his head quickly so that he was looking up from beneath his fringe, and the other members couldn’t see the pain written on his face as he went into the bathroom.
He turned on a faucet and drank some water, grabbing cupfuls of water in his hand and pouring it over his head. It diluted the heavy amounts of gel holding up his mohawk and dragged down the X’s written with eyeliner over his eyes. He clutched his head for a moment longer before falling to the floor…
Five Minutes Later
“Hey Fee-Fee, you in here? C’mon, I got us hotel room tonight… Frankie?” Gerard walked around the corner, and caught sight of the man he loved more than life sprawled across the bathroom floor. Frank’s face was wet and the damp hair was covering his left eye, and he was barely breathing. “FRANKIE!” Gerard ran to him, pulling Frank's small form to his own body. “Baby, you gotta wake up… what's wrong? Why aren’t you moving Frankie? Wake up... Somebody get help!”
Ray looked up suddenly.
“Did you guys hear something?” he asked
“I think it came from the bathroom...” Mikey said, standing abruptly and running to the bathroom, Ray and Bob following closely behind. They stumbled into the bathroom to find a sobbing Gerard clinging to a pale Frank.
“Gerard, what happened?”
“I-I don’t know, I walked in and he was on the floor. Someone call an ambulance, now!”
Minutes later, paramedics were putting Frank into an ambulance. Gerard went with him whilst the band followed in the bus.
The Next Day
Looking at him made Gerard's heart ache. The doctors had told him he shouldn’t touch him too much, and all he could think about was how his Frank looked so thin, so… sick. His cheeks were sunken in. How could he not notice something was wrong? He had been holding his hand since they let him near him, but since then he hadn’t moved.
'What if he doesn’t wake up? What if he does and he doesn’t remember me? What am I going to do? What's wrong with him? Why can nobody answer my questions? I can't do this without him… I can't live without him.' The questions repeated themselves until he heard a voice other than his.
“Gee, why are you crying?” Frank opened his eyes to a white room, all small and sterile, and a crying Gerard. Gerard’s head shot up.
"Frankie, you're awake!” He says as he shoots up and grabs frank around the middle and squeezes.
“Yes Gerard, I’m awake. Why does this surprise you? Where are we? And why were you crying?”
“Hold on a second... Um, it surprises me because you blacked out in the bathroom and have been out cold for hours. Five of which they wouldn’t let me near you because they were running tests with no explanation as to why. We are in the hospital now, and I was crying because I didn’t know if you were going to wake up!”
At that Frank burst into tears when he heard Gerard hadn’t left him, and he just imagined what Gerard must have been going through when they wouldn’t let him come in.
“Frankie, baby, what's wrong?”
“I haven’t passed out in a month. I thought it had stopped and I didn’t want you guys to find out, I didn't think it was serious! It would only happen for an hour or so, and usually at odd hours. But never during a show though, thank God!”
“How long has this been going on?”
“About 6 months. I guess the first time was after the Detroit show...”