~Still Frankie's P.O.V.~
She repeated her name a couple of times after she had said it with me. She was very happy she remembered her name.
"Is funny mouthings!" She giggled. Boy did she love to giggle.
"Alright January, can you remember what happened to you and how you ended up in that alley?" I asked. She nodded furiously.
"THEY is chasing me.THEY want me still as still." She said quietly trying to hide her voice like whoever they where was in the room.
"Who is THEY January?" Gerard asked very confused as was I. She pointed to the ceiling getting scared again and burying her head in the side of my chest, closing her eyes tightly again.
"You don't have to be afraid anymore. I'm here, but who is chasing you? Do you know their names?" I asked trying to help her out as much as I could. She shook her head. She looked up at me with those blood red eyes begging for my help in a plea of fear for her own life and others around her.
"Is name of boy?" She then managed to get out. I tried figuring out what she had said and finally got it.
' She has a very complicated way of saying things now doesn't she...'
"Ummm... I'm Frank Iero." I was so confused I don't even think I had said my name the right way, but I must have because she didn't looked confused at what my answer was. The way she talked she was so much like a tiny child and it was all new for me I was always the youngest and never knew what a little kid talked like or how they talked. Gerard definitelly knew he had me and Mikey to deal with as kids.
"Is name of boy?" She asked Gee. He answered without hesitating.
"Oh me? I'm Gerard Way." He was very proud to be telling this girl his name. She nodded once she found out our names.
"Gerardway and Frankiero friends?" She asked again sonding a bit left out. The two of us smiled laughing to ourselves at the way she said it and then shook our heads agreeing.
"Yes!" The two of us said in unison as we looked at each other. He and I always had that weird twin telepathy thing going on where we would say the same thing at the same time.
"Is January friends?" She looked at us asking. You could see the hope in her eyes that one of us would say yes. I smiled again and as I was about to answer Gerard hugged her.
"Yes January is our friend. Why wouldn't you be 4laugh !!"I just nodded and watched as she hugged him back giggling again.
'I wanted to say that.... stupid face Gerard stare ....'
"Alright, January. I have to talk with Gerard for a second. Do you mind staying in here for a second while I do? I'll leave the door open and the light on this time. If you get scared you can come in the livingroom with us." I said quietly as I crawled off the bed taking Gerard with me to the livingroom. She nodded as we left.
"What am I going o do with her?! I can barely understand her! I'm an only child and never had to deal with a younger sibling! You did cuz you had Mikey. Awww what the hell have I gotten myself into?!" I whispered loudly, holing my head making it seem I was talking to myself.
Gerard grabbed my shoulders which made me look him in the eyes.
"It's easy. C'mon Frank you can do it! I mean you do want to help her right and thats your mind set right now right? And if I know you once you have your mind set to something you stick to it!" I nodded. I was about to punch him in the face for still trying to give me advice, but I knew I needed it from him. He was the only one who could ever help me through the realy bad times. I calmed myself from thinking about hurting him. I then focused myself back on January it was a pretty name.
'A pretty name that suits a pretty girl.... and normally you don't get that 'cause sometimes the girl has a really pretty name, but then the girl doesn't look so pretty or you get a girl with a pretty face and a not so pretty name.. girls must they be so complicated all the time?'
I turned my attention back to Gerard after a few seconds of being lost in my thoughts...all of this was getting a bit scary for me.
"And who they hell is THEY? And what does stil as still mean?!?!" I asked and was very panicy in doing so. Gerard shrugged at me still holding onto my shoulders and then letting go.
"I don't know. Only time will tell." He said. I don't even think he was sure of himself when he said that and that's what got me even more afraid and unsure of my self and wheather I could realy do this or not.
'Oh thanks for the reasuring conversation there ol' buddy of mine!' I thought sarcastically.
"Couldn't she live with you and Mikey?" I asked as my last hope he was soooo much better attaking care of people than I was.
"Like my parents would allow me, 'the irresponsible 20 year old that I am', let a girl the same age as you live in our house! You're on crack right?!?! Besides you're the one who lives alone inside a pretty big house!" He made air quotes when he said irresponsible 20 year old. And he got pretty mad at me for asking about her living withthem, but he didn't have to bring my parents into it either. It was a really good thing that he was my best friend at that point,
Either way he was right about it. He was so right infact that I had no choice but to let the girl stay with me without getting any of us in trouble. I did live alone even though I was 16. I had no choice I had no family. My parents died to years before and left me with a fortune to pay off the mortgage and supply myself in groceries until I was old enough to get a job.
"Fine, but you guys really have to help me with her I have absolutely no idea what the hell I'm doing here." I pleaded with him. He nodded. A feeling of relief flowed throughmy body at that point.
"Yea we will. But we HAVE to take her shopping aomewhere though. She can't wear the same torn bloody dress or your shitty rags now can she." He laughed patting me on the back. My mouth wide open at what he just said to me.
"I'm just kidding your clothes aren't shitty rags." He put his around me and we both smiled. I nodded. I still had a lot of money left from over the passed two years and I took it out of my dresser drawer.
Suddenly as we got back onto my room Gerard stood up from my bed after taling with January.
"Hey I gotta go. Mikey and i trying to get to diner early this morning for breakfast with everyone. You still coming? Bring January I'm sure she'd love to meet the rest of the gang you know." He smiled and I nodded. I watched as he walked out the door.
"Mmmmmmkay. See ya later." I called after him walking back into my room. Jauary was on the floor again playing with the lace of one of my shoe's. Then she looked up.
"Hi!" She said smiling at me.
"Hi." I sat next to her on the floor.
"Would you like to come to the diner with me and meet some of my friends other than Gerard?" She looked confused and had every right to be she was beeing bombarded with new faces everywhere she went.
"Gerardway and Frankiero friends other??" She asked unsure of herself and what I had said. I nodded. Figuring out how she talked wasn't so hard after all, just like Gee had said.
"Yea our other friends. Would you like to come?" I asked again.She seemed really excited and nodded frantically.
"Mmmmhmmm. Is fun!" She smiled. I laughed she was cute and she made me feel strange, but I liked it. It was better than any other feeling Roxx had ever given me.
I then got up blushing from staring her in her big beautiful crimson eyes. I went into my closet and pulled out a shirt, a pair of old, but in good condition, converse and a hoodie with The Smashing Pumpkins written on the front of it. Then I went into my dresser and pulled out a studded belt, a pair of jeans that were a little too long for her (she's almost an inch shorter than me), and a red and black stripped knee-high sock and a black knee-high sock for her.
"Here you can wear these until we get you some new clothes today ok?" She nodded again and I handed her the clothes. She seemed to be able to put clothes on ok. Except she put the shirt I gave her on backwards so I had to help her put it on the right way. January giggled the entire time I was fixing her which in turn made me laugh at her cuteness.
Once we were done with that we went into the livingroom and watched t.v until 9. She was very interested in the remote when I gave it to her. She started getting frustrated with it and tried throwing it through the t.v. I grabbed her wrist before she could do it and turned it off walking outside with her to the diner.
"Ooooh. Such BIG things!" She said looking up to the buildings. I smiled closing my eyes feeling the warm January(the month) sun on my face. I then looked down at her feet. January was on the tips of hr toes exactly like a ballerina except she seemed to do it better than those ballerina's I always saw in the studio down the street from the mall. She was very agile and graceful. This girl had ceased to amaze me . Even her amount of curiousity sparked my interest in her, it was completely amazing to me.
When we got to the diner and she walked passed the door.
"January! This is the diner! Come back!" I called half laughing the way she got embarressed and ran back to me. She gigled the entire way back though like it didn't bother her, but you could tell it did.
'She definitally doesn't ahve a problem with getting embarressed easily... she just seems to laugh it like it never even happened.... That's what's so great about her too!' I thought falling even more in love with her than I had in the past few hours.
"Sorry" She said smiling at me turing even more red from the cold and embarressment.
"It's ok. You don't really know you're way around yet, but don't worry we'll fix that. And don't be sorry ok." I smiling hugging her and she nodded. I held open the door for her and she bowed thanking me and walked inside with me.
