my brother's type [thad/bellamy]
Jun 8, 2021 20:20:19 GMT -5
Post by kap on Jun 8, 2021 20:20:19 GMT -5
"Stand up
or die on your knees."
-----My brother Larry has always just seemed... different. For the longer time, I couldn't quite put my finger on it. On the bus on the way to the reaping, though, I think I finally figured out what was so different about him compared to me. He liked men, and not just as friends.
He liked them. He liked men like I liked women. I don't have a problem with it- no, not at all. I just feel bad that it took me so long to figure it out, and that he wasn't comfortable enough to just tell me before I discovered it on my own.
Another thing I realized- he had a type, for sure. When he wasn't staring at the buff athletes, the guys I caught him staring at all had the same sort-of vibe to them. It was the tall guys. Sometimes it was the skinny sort-of guys. Typically both in one. There were even times that I caught him staring at the kids that I probably would have bullied in school. The nerds. The dorks. I wasn't the nicest kid back then, to be totally honest. Then I realized what a nerd I was, at least when it came to studying the Hunger Games.
As I was wandering the training center, I happened to notice something- a guy Larry would've liked. Probably.
The kid was from Three. He had curly brown hair and some height to him. Kinda lanky. Overall typical Larry-staring material. I'm not sure why, but I approached him.
"Hey, you know what you look like?" I said to him. I didn't give him the chance to respond. "You look like the kinda guy my brother Larry would go for. Tall. Dorky. Ya know?"
I'm not really sure what prompted me to approach a total stranger and say that, but after the words came out of my mouth, I was sure it would go one of a few ways: the guy would take it a a compliment, he would take it as an insult, or he would simply brush it off.
I was hoping for the first one or the last one.
"Err- sorry." I said kinda quietly. "That was a little out of nowhere. I don't know what I was thinking..."-----