Mikey had fallen asleep on the couch and gerard was asleep in his room but ray, he was still awake worrying about frank, he sat in the kitchen at the kitchen island tapping his fingers on the hard metal of the island, ray and frank weren't as close as gerard and frank or mikey and frank but that didn't mean he didn't care any less about frank than he did mikey or gerard. Ray didn't want to wake up the others with his worrying or the car but he just knew that he had to do something to make sure frank wasn't wasted and passed out on the side of the road or worse, dead in a back alley.

Ray sat there in the dim light of the kitchen stuck alone with his thoughts and anxiety. He had been sitting there since adter dinner, anxiously waiting for frank to call or to come home but, nothing, it had been about 6 hours since frank had called to say he wasn't coming home yet and ray was worried out of his mind, what could be taking him this long?

Sitting there in what had been silence for the past couple of hours came a loud snoring coming from out in the living room, ray stood up and quickly walked into the living room to see mikey passed out on the couch.

Ray bent down to pick up micheal
"I told him to not stay up and wait for frank with me, poor guy needs his sleep."
Raymondo said lifting up Mikey holding him as if he was a small child or a baby. He then Carried mikey into his room and set him down on his bed, making sure to be careful and not wake the sleeping boy.

Ray carefully covered mikey in his comforter and leaned in and softly kissed mikey on the forhead.

"Goodnight mikey." He said with a smile closing the door.

Ray walked back out to the living room and picked up all the pillows mikey had nocked off moving around in his sleep. He carefully placed them on the couch and smiled as he finished up.

Ray glanced at the front door, the down the hall where mikey and gerard's rooms are.

"I hate to leave them all alone here......but poor frank, he might be lost" ray was torn between staying here for mikey and gee and going to find frank, he wanted frank to be safe and be able to get home but at the same time he didn't want to leave mikey and gerard without notice, it just wasn't nice.

Ray really didn't want to leave but also he wouldn't be able to live with himself if frank got hurt or killed and he just had to go look for him.

Ray snatched his keys off the counter and slid out the door.

A few seconds later he sheepishly crawled back into the house quietly closing the door
"I should write a note"
He walked into the kitchen, snatched a peice of paper off of a note pad and took a pen out of his pocket and scribbled out a not that read:

I've gone looking for Frank, if I'm not back by morning, call me and I'll tell you how to make freezer waffles
~love, ray <3

He put the not on the kitchen island and snuck back out the door and got into his car and drove off.

Ray sat in silence for a long 10 minute before turning the radio on, he struggled to find a good station this late but he managed to find a comodu radio station, it wasn't exactly his cup of tea but hey, it was better than silence.

Ray drove around for quite a while, going up and down every street, driving as slow as he could to make sure he wouldn't miss Frank if he saw him .

As ray drove on he began to get drowsy and his eyelids grew heavy and began fall, he needed ti find frank, he needed to make sure frank wasn't dead, but also he didn't want to end up dead himself from falling asleep at the wheel for then he wouldn't be able to be there for mikey......or gee or frank.

Ray drove away from the loud city he was in and pulled up to the parking lot of a worn out gas station right outside downtown.

He sat there listening to the radio for a few minutes more, still anxious and scared about frank, and worrying about mikey and gerard back at home, yea sure most of the time the two of them live together in that house, just the two of em, but ray couldn't help but worry that they won't be ok alone, that maybe they won't find the note, then that they will worry about ray and tear apart the town looking for him.

Ray's mind would not shut off, his eye lids where heavy and he was yawning and felt tired but no matter how long he shut his eyes his mind would not let his body fall asleep.

Ray sat there, wide awake for atleast another hour Sleepless and tired

"Sometimes i despise being the caring friend" ray wispered to himself trying to let his brain relax.

Not 10 minutes later he was so gosh darn tired that he didn't even care if his brain wouldn't shit off, his body was ready to. And he began to doze off.

He was peacefully sleeping currled up in a feetal position in the driver's seat of his Subaru, it was freezing and ray was wearing nothing but a t shirt and hole covered jeans, he was freezing his ass off but remained asleep.

As hours passed the cars on the highway slowed until there where only a couple of cars left on the road, this was strange for new jersey for usaly the roads where packed and full of cars, full of honking, and yelling but tonight was difrent. The city was mostly silent, the cars had vanished and all was calm.

Ray slept in the car all curled up like a dog on your lap.......except on a car seat. Ray's intentions where to listen to the radio and then sleep in the back but he fell asleep in the front seat, he never sleeps in the front seat, he's too tall, but he got so tired.

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As the night went on, the moon retired from the night sky and the sun began to rise. As the light was seeping through the car windows ray rose, still half asleep but it was easy to wake up when you where highly uncomfortable.

He kicked open the door and slid out of.the car and took a big yawn and stretched his arms out to the cloudy, grey, sky.

Ray's stomach groweled and he looked behind him at the gas station in wich hr was in the parking lot of.
He then slapped his hands on where his pockets on his blue jeans are, he felt a small lump and decided to rake t out, it was his wallet.
"Sweet, now i can grad b re breakfast before i find Frank" Ray said as he dashed into the gas station.

He entered the gas station and waved at the half asleep cashier, he didn't wave back

Rude

Ray headed straight to the snack aisle and looked at all his options, checks mix, chips, pretzels, so many optipns.

Ray finally settled for a bag of chex mix and an iced coffe, he payed for his shit and went back to the car, the sat there and opened up his food and his drank before turning the car on.he drove out of the parking lot and made his way to the highway.

As he drove, the radio on, he ate his chex mix and drank his coffe as he drove downtown to find frank.

Ray drove on and on down every last street, turning every corner, inspecting every parking lot in hopes he would find frank, sometimes, ray was a little too optomistic.