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Now I figured there was only one or two ways out of this. I could either do that whole repeat it back to him thing a few times like I didn’t know what he was talking about and hope he gets frustrated and drops it, which never happens… Or I can fess up now and cry and beg for mercy…

I did neither.

I figured if he's gonna be all calm about it like it was no big deal then I would too…

“Uh yeah, yeah I did.” I say plainly turning back to him like it was no big deal. I was so fucking bluffing him… He kinda smiled over at me like he knew it too…”Didn’t I tell you that?” I ask him and he grinned a little.

“Naw I think I’d remember that.” He says and I shrug.

“Hmm. I thought I told you.” I told him trying to blow it off and he grinned a little wider like he was amused by my efforts.

“What did it say Elle?” He says glancing over at me as he turned off the highway now… Looked like he was going towards my house… What the fuck he's gonna make Frankie walk from there?

“Gerard you're not gonna bring him to the school?” I ask and he kinda made a face at me.

“I’ll drop him by the corner Elle.” He says and I frown a little. “I'm not going around six fucking u-turns, he can cut across the gate.” Gerard tells me and I shrug like whatever…I mean as long as he drives him all the way up the block and leaves him by the gate.

“You guys aren’t coming?” Frankie asks and I shake my head.

“I got a few things to do.” I tell him looking back at him and I see Gerard out of the corner of my eye pulling down the visor, cause the sun was just fucking glaring in… “Don’t touch that!” I yell over a little pancked. As he pulled the visor down he kinda grazed the garage door opener button.

“Touch what?” Gerard says a little startled.

“The button Gerard.” I point at it. He kinda looked up like what the hell I was talking about.

“This button.” He says and he pushes it.

“No!” I cry out. “Push it again!” I tell him and he laughs.

“Elle!” He tells me and I reach over and push it myself.

“Fuck Gerard. That makes the garage door open!” I tell him and he laughs.

“Uh no it doesn’t. ” He tells me and I shake my head a little at him.

“It’s a garage door opener Gerard. That’s what it does.” I tell him and he laughs again.

“Not from this far baby, were like 6 blocks from your house. It ain't gonna work.” He says and I shake my head no.

“Doesn’t matter how far you are.” I say and I look over and Frankie and he kinda shrugged like either he didn’t know, or he didn’t want to get involved.

“So you're saying the garage is open now?” Gerard laughs again.

“Well no Gerard I pushed it again to shut it.” I tell him and he shakes his head no.

“So if I push it again its gonna open?” He says and he kinda slowed down a little.

“Uh yeah. Don’t!” I cry out as he pushed it again. Frankie kinda laughed too now. “Fuck Gerard!” I tell him and I went to go push it but he put his arm up and blocked me.

“Baby it doesn’t work from this far. Trust me.” He says and I frown.

“You wanna bet?” I say and he slows down even more and kinda pulls to the side of the street. We were maybe 3 blocks away now.

“What kinda bet?” He says looking me over and I smiled. Silly boy. Doesn’t he know there's nothing he’d have to bet me to do with him, but if that’s how he wants to play…

“Well what is it that you want Gerard?” I say and he glanced at Frankie in the backseat who was shifting his eyes between us and grinning. “Cause I know what I want.” I tell him and he looked at me a little nervously.

“What's that?” He asks and I smile.

“I want you and Bobby to make up.” I tell him and he laughs. “I'm serious Gerard. I want you to talk to him and work it out somehow.” I say and he just looked over me and licked his bottom lip a little.

“All right Elle.” He says and I nod in satisfaction. “You really think the garage door is open?” He says and I pause a moment thinking…

“Well yeah it was shut when we left, right Frankie?” I ask and Frankie nods. “And then you pushed it, and then I pushed and now you pushed it again, so yeah its definitely open.” I tell Gerard and he looks back at Frankie now.

“You sure it was shut?” He asked him and Frankie nods.

“Defiantly. I checked it.” He replies. “I even checked the doors were locked.” Frankie says and I make a face. What good was locking the fucking doors when the god damn wall is missing!

“All right baby.” Gerard says and I got a bad feeling the way he was looking at me all of a sudden…

“Well what is it that you want?” I ask and he smiled. “I wanna know what you wrote in that letter.” He says and I sigh a little relived...

“Yeah okay, I can do that.” I say. I mean thats it? He wants to know whats in the letter! But then he holds his hand up.

“And... I want something else.” He says and I wrinkle my face at him, fuck I knew that was too easy...

“What?” I ask and he glanced over at Frankie like he didn’t want to say it in front of him. “I’ll tell you later.” He says grinning a little and I smiled. I knew where his mind was... It was so obvious.

“Well, are we talking like homemade porn kinda shit?" I ask him and he just smiled and didn't answer me. "I mean like is it gonna be dirty scream my name kinda sex or more like kinky up the ass kinda sex?” I ask him and Frankie starts suddenly choking on I don’t even know what, his tongue maybe?

“Elle watch your mouth!” Gerard kinda gasped at me and I shrugged. I didn’t see anything wrong with what I said…

“I was just asking if it was gonna be-“ I tried to say and Gerard cut me off…

“Does it really matter Elle?” He says as he pulls back on to the road and I shrug.

“No, I guess not cause I'm right.” I say and he smiled…

“Yeah we’ll see about that.” He says as he turns down my block… Fuck I hope I'm right… I really need him and Bob to make up…

Either way… its gonna be interesting…

Gerard turned down my block and Frankie frowned as he leant forward slightly.

“Dude I thought you were gonna drop me by the gate?” He says and Gerard cursed under his breath a little. I guess he forgot… He started to make a K turn in the middle of the road and I looked back at Frankie.

“You don’t wanna come to my house?” I tease him a little. “See that I'm right?” I say and Gerard grinned a little.

“You're not right Elle.” He mumbles and I ignored him and nodded at Frankie.

“Huh Frankie? Pleeease.” I whine at him and we were almost completely turned around.

“Fine Elle.” He sighs and I smile.

“Turn back around Gerard.” I tell him and he scoffs at me like I was kidding. “I'm not kidding. Turn back around.” I insist.

“Why?” He tells me a little annoyed.

“Cause Frankie's gonna be the witness.” I say and Gerard smirks.

“Witness to what?” He says and I smile.

“Come ON Gerard.” I whine and he sighed a little and started turning the truck back around once again mumbling obscenities under his breath now.

“Now you could fucking walk, I ain't driving you back up the block motherfucker.” He mumbles towards Frankie and Frankie shrugs.

“I’ll drive you Frankie, I gotta go get my box from Mr. S anyway.” I say and Gerard stops the truck suddenly. I mean he like slammed on the breaks mid way turning around. We were kinda crooked in the middle of the street now blocking the whole fucking road. Yeah, granted no one else was on the street, but really now! “What the fuck Gerard!” I cry out a little shaken up from the abruptness of it all.

“Exactly!” He yells over at me. “What the fuck!” He says and I just looked at him a little lost. “What fucking box?!” He says and it suddenly hits me that I never mentioned it… I mean after all the shit with Oli and the fire. I just totally forgot to tell him…

“Oh yeah.” I say and I could see he was about to lose it… I mean I didn’t mean it like I did before. I wasn’t trying to brush him off, I really honestly forgot… “Gerard just…just you stopped in the middle of the road.” I try to tell him and that was it. He flipped.

“I’ll stop wherever the fuck I wanna stop!” He yells and I cringed a little. “Now tell me what the fuck is going on Elle.” He says and I could see Frankie out of the corner of my eye about to say something but I cut him off. I mean I figured Gerard would just snap at him. And it wasn’t fair… I mean that’s what happened with Bob… I didn’t want to see him and Frankie having problems too cause of me.

“All right!” I say loudly. “I'm sorry. I forgot, after everything that happened with Oliver and...” I tell him my eyes welling up with tears and he kinda relaxed a little. He reached over and squeezed my thigh kinda apologetically, and then pulled forward a little more so we weren’t blocking the whole road… But he didn’t keep going. He stopped again, I guess waiting for me to finish talking… “You were wrong Gerard. Ray was wrong and you were wrong.” I tell him and he kinda made a face at me.

“About what?” He asks and I bit my lip a little.

“Mr. Samuel did know my mom.” I tell him and he scoffed a little. “He did. He brought me a whole bunch of pictures and crap in a box, but I had to leave them cause of…” I sighed a little sadly my voice trailing off... Gerard just kinda looked past me. Like he was absorbing the information. Analyzing it even…

“Tell him the rest.” Frankie says and I look at him a little confused.

“The rest of what?” I ask and Frankie smirks a little.

“You know how he asked you out.” Frankie says and I roll my eyes at him.

“Oh stop Frankie!” I laugh and I glance over at Gerard. He did not look amused.

“He what?” He says like he didn’t hear right.

“He asked her out.” Frankie says and I shake my head no.

“He did not!” I protest.

“He asked you to go to lunch with him. On a date.” Frankie says and I scoffed at him.

“Just stop Frankie, he did not.” I tell him turning back around in my seat so I wouldn’t have to look at him anymore. Gerard was looking at me pretty intently now. “What?” I ask him and he arched his eyebrow up like I had to be kidding. “He didn’t ask me on a date. He saw I didn’t have my car and offered to bring me to get something that’s it, he was just being nice.” I declare and Frankie kinda chuckled.

“Well what did you say Elle?” Gerard asks and I shrug.

“Yeah tell him what you said!” Frankie cries out. Like he was enjoying watching me get in trouble. He was actually encouraging it! I couldn’t blame him though, the number of times he's gotten his ass kicked by Gerard cause of me…

“I didn’t say anything.” I exclaim truthfully and Gerard looked at me like he didn’t believe it. “I really didn’t Gerard. I swear! Frankie dragged me out of there before I could answer him” I tell him and he glanced over at Frankie.

“You did?” He asks him and Frankie nods back in agreement. Gerard kinda sighed a little looking back over at me. Then he turns and kinda nods to Frankie like ‘thanks-good job’, which instantly pissed me off. I mean what the fuck! Why does he treat me like that? Like I'm a fucking child? And he encourages them all to do it too… “We’ll talk about this later Elle.” He says and I bit my lip a little.

“Or not.” I say under my breath and I suppose he heard me…

“What?” He says and I shrug.

“We’ll talk about what ever you want if the garage door is shut Gerard, but if it’s open...” I tell him and he smiled a little.

“Elle you know its gonna be shut right?” Frankie asks and I turn back and frown at him.

“What?” I say a little confused as Gerard pulls back on to the road slowly.

“Its gonna be shut.” Frankie repeats and I make a face at him.

“No Frankie. The button works, no matter where you are. You could be in fucking Alaska and it’ll open.” I tell him and Gerard laughs but I ignored him.

“Elle, I don’t know if you're right or what.” Frankie says tossing his hands up in the air. “But don’t you remember what the fucking fire chief said?” He asks me and I shake my head no.

“Uh no.” I say and he grinned a little.

“He said they had to turn the power off, you know when they put out the fire, they shut your power.” He says and once he said it, it sounded vaguely familiar…

“Oh yeah.” I say remembering back as I turned back around in my seat. He did say something about the circuit breakers… Aw fuck… that means… damn it!

“Holy shit.” I hear Gerard say and I look up to see what he's looking at. “I’ll be damned…”