This isn’t my room… I pushed aside the blankets pretending that I didn’t notice how much they smelled like Sully, Shit I’ve been a pain to him again…!
I’d been living with a roommate for the first time for a little over a month and things had changed a lot for me in that time. Expenses had gone down a lot for starters and well… My patterns had probably changed the most. It was nice having someone there when I wake up and something I could hang out without the burden of judgment. And perhaps most notably, I’d had had lot fewer partners as of late. It was one a week tops and even at that and the strangest part of all was that I didn’t mind it. It was slowly coming to me that I probably like Sully. He was just so amazing. So beautiful. So smart. So kind. Basically, everything I’m not. How was it possible that a person like him exist?
“Food?” I questioned aloud as I walked into the kitchen after a quick trip to the bathroom. It was obvious that Sully had made it for me before he’d headed for work that day, “You’re way too good for me…” I frowned placing the well cold food in the microwave. It was almost one o’clock in the afternoon already.
. . .
“Man, I didn’t know he was so good at cooking…” I muttered to myself as I placed my dishes in the sink, “I should really make it up to him, huh?” I gave it some thought for a moment, but since we hadn’t known each other for very long I was still unsure what the boy liked, “Damn, why am I like this…?” Just then I heard a faint noise from my bedroom. My phone had started to ring, “Shit… Shit…” Can I make it? Without even looking to see who the caller was I picked up, “Hello?” I panted into the receiver as I tried desperately to catch my breath.
“Geez, little brother, I see you’re busy as usual.” I heard my elder sister’s laugh from the other side of the phone, “Don’t you ever take a break from your leisure activities?”
“Shut up…!” I bit back. My sister was the one person that accepted me as I am. Unfortunately, she also loves to tease the hell out of me, “I’m not like that anymore…” I said softly wondering if she had even heard me, “Like you’re one to talk…”
“Hmm, that’s fair, but I think I heard something even more interesting in there. It’s not like you to change your habits especially with the way mom and dad are, so who’s caught your attention, Robin?” She inquired and without even seeing her face I could already see her smirking at me in amusement, “It’s been a long time since you’ve liked someone in that way, hasn’t it?”
“No one!” Even through the harshness of my tone, I could feel the red heat spreading across my cheeks at her quick, and accurate, reasoning, “It’s not like that… He’s just my roommate!” Shit… What the hell am I telling her?!?
“He’s right by then…” I didn’t answer as I heard her laugh slightly, “Anyway, on to why I called you in the first place… Mom and Dad, visited recently, right?” I still didn’t answer as I thought back to my most recent encounter with the couple, “I figured you could use a little pick me up. If you’re out of bed yet I’ll meet you at the coffee shop uptown. You game?”
“Yeah… that’s fine.”
. . .
“Ah, I’ve missed you so much, Robin!” My older sister squealed her red hair billowing behind her like a cape as she bound toward me before enveloping me in her arms, “You should really contact me more often!”
“Yeah, I know…” I mumbled slowly bringing one of my arms around her back, “Grace, I love you….”
“Me too…” She slowly released me making sure to brush away the tears from my eyes, “You don’t deserve it…” I could only nod weakly at her response, “I’ll pay for you.”
. . .
“They haven’t been this hard on you in a while.” Grace shook her head and I could hear the venom on her tongue, “You’re going to ask me not to say anything again, right?”
“I don’t want to trouble you, or them.”
“Trouble them?” She fumed crossing her arms and nearly glaring at me, but it was also extremely sorrowful, “They’re the ones that are trouble… You don’t have to keep doing this to yourself. I just want my little brother to be happy…”
I grunted with a sigh leaning back in my chair as I sipped at my coffee, “Can’t we talk about something else?” She smirked twirling a long strand of red around her finger, “Please, stop making that face…”
“Hey. You’re the one that just had to talk about your lovely roommate earlier.” Her smirk only continued to grow as my face turned the same color as my hair, “So, is he into you?”
“How should I know that…?” I mumbled turning my face away from her, “Besides he probably thinks that I’m a total ass… He walked in on ya know… a couple of times.”
“Oof, that’s rough, little bro…” She laughed lightly patting her leg, “He hasn’t given you a rough time because of this though, right?”
“Well, not really…”
“That’s good then.” She smiled gratefully this time, “Just do what feels right and try not to suppress yourself too hard, okay? I’d like to meet this roommate of yours sometime. If he wasn’t that great you wouldn’t be making this kind of expression. I’ll come and visit you again real soon…”
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