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Frank's P.O.V

I wake up the next day feeling no better, sick feeling still consuming my stomach. I stare up Gerard's bunk for a while, wondering if he's up there. I doubt it. After he came back last night, he wouldnt let me anywhere near him. He just stayed curled up on the floor looking like he was slowly fading away. It stabbed at my heart that he wouldn't even let me comfort him but whatever is going on between him and Mikey is none of my business, no matter how curious I am. I drag myself from my bed, noticing for the first time, Ray's snores. I groan and head towards the bathroom. What I see is not what in except.
Mikey is sat, no, slumped on the floor against the bath, asleep. He has some sick down his t-shirt and around his mouth, his face far from peaceful. Panic begins to fill me as I think that maybe he's been drinking again. He can't! Not after he worked so hard to stop.
'Mikey,' I say quietly, 'Mikey, wake up.' He doesn't move.
'Mikey!' I say shaking him. His eyes pop open
'Wha-oh. H-hi Frank.' He looks down and I move in to hug him; he falls into my embrace and hugs me tightly, sighing.
'Mikey, you haven't been...d-drinking, have you?' I ask, regret filling me as I think that he could say yes.
'No Frank, I haven't. Promise.' I give a sigh of relief. A hint of guilt dreeping into me for not trusting him to stay sober.
'Good,' I say, 'we should clean you up anyway.' 
'Yeah,' he sighed, letting go of me and sitting up.
'Why were you sick anyway?' I ask.
'I was just ill, ' he replies, a little too quickly for my liking.
'Oh. Okay.' I say, standing up and offering him a hand.

Gerard's P.O.V

I wake up with my head aching. It's been a long time since that's happened without alcohol involved. I realise I'm still sat by the door of the bus. I must have fallen asleep. I stand up, my whole body aching, and walk towards the bathroom. I turn to go in but am stopped dead in my tracks. Frank is stood there, wiping sick gently off my baby brothers face. That should be me. Why is Mikey even sick? Oh god, he can't have got drunk, can he? I'll never forgive myself. I stand there, watching Frank clean my brother up, Mikey smiling down at him. I can't move. I can't even think. I'm jealous. I'm jealous that Frank is there for my brother when I should be and then I remember. I'm the reason Mikey is upset. I'm the reason he's in this state. 
'Gerard?' Frank asked. Shit.
'H-Hello,' I say. Mikey looks down the secnd he notices my presence. Oh god, he hates me. He has to. Why do I always ruin everything.
'H-How are you?' Frank asks, 'aah, Jesus, that was a stupid question.'
'No, i-it wasn't,' I say, 'I'm...okay. How a-are you?'
'Yeah,' is all that he says, 'I guess I'll leave you guys to....sort things out.' What did he just say? Frank tried to walk past me, Mikey looking pleadingly at his back. He can't even bear to be alone with me anymore. My own brother. He looks down the moment Frank's out of sight.
'M-Mikey?' I say, more as a question. He doesn't look up. He bursts into tears. I walk foward and tentatively put an arm around his shoulder. To my suprise, he leans into my touch and I envolope him in a huge hug.
I hold his shaking body against me until he stops crying. He looks up at me with sadness in his eyes.
'G-Gerard. I'm s-s-so s-sorry,' he stutters, a tear falling down his cheek. I delicately wipe it away.
'It's okay,' I say, giving him the biggest smile I can manage, 'I'm sorry too, for everything.'
'It's n-not your f-fault. Can w-we just be b-brothers, like always?' he asks. I think about his words. Can we? Can I just be brothers with someone as kind and funny and beautiful and just down right perfect as Mikey? Well, I was for all those years before, I guess I'll just carry on. It'll make Mikey happy.
'Of course we can Mikes.' He smiles at my response and just hugs me for a while longer before pulling away. I feel cold without his touch, strangely empty, like he somehow completes me.
'Gerard?' Mikey asks. 
'Yeah?' 
'Do you want a coffee?'
'Yeah, Mikes, I do.'



Hey, sorry this chapter is so short, it's just kind of a filler...the next one should be longer and there should be more drama....hopefully involving Frank. Thanks for reading xox