Riding the Bus With My Younger Brother

This happened about a month ago.   It should have been a simple, uneventful bus ride, but as it turns out, this specific bus ride is not one that I can so easily forget.  This is what happened...

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I was bored.   

I was just sitting on the city bus and waiting patiently for it to take me home.  It was supposed to be a short ride - ten minutes at the most - and barely memorable.  As fate would have it, this was not meant to be.

The bus slowed down to a halt and my younger brother boarded the bus.  

I was sitting in the front where there were no more available open seats, so my younger brother traveled toward the back of the bus to find a seat.  Shortly afterwards, a guy sitting behind me initiated a very interesting conversation with the lady sitting adjacent to him.

"Did you know that he and him are brothers?" said the man. 

"Wow really?  I didn't know.  So they're both... umm... well... you know?" asked the lady with an innocent-sounding curiosity.

It was grossly transparent that me and my younger brother was the main the topic of this conversation.  I listened closely. 

"Yeah I guess so," replied the man.

"Kind of makes you wonder what happened to them.  I mean, what made them turn out that way?"

At this point I could have turned around and thrown a clever comment their way, but I didn't.  I sat quietly in my seat until the bus stopped near my house.  My brother and I hopped off the bus, and we walked silently side-by-side.

I was inwardly steaming and pondered whether or not to tell my younger brother about what had just transpired.  To say the least, it is far from pleasant to hear strangers talk about me and my younger brother as if we were mutants.  Although I have seen the man and lady regularly on the bus, in essence they are strangers to me.  When we finally arrived home, I told my younger brother about their interesting conversation.

"That's not very nice," he said.

And he is right.   It really isn't nice at all.

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Magical Monday

Some cartoons I made. 

Wicked Wednesday

Me.  Taken Monday, April 8, 2013
Currently 23 years old and single

Super Saturday

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I saw a really cute white guy on the bus two days ago. He was young, around 20 years old. He looked a little like the guy in the pic above except that he wasn't shirtless lol.

I remember his smile the most...



What Makes A Man (Chapter 3)

 What Makes A Man is an ongoing series about a young gay man and is based on personal real-life experiences.

Read.
What Makes A Man
What Makes A Man (Part 2)

Food was on his mind.

For this reason he was at the grocery store and waiting in line to pay for his lunch.  The young man's stomach was a bear and it was growling for food to satisfy its growing hunger.  He wished that the line would move faster.

Rumble.  His stomach was growling.

As the young man waited in line, his eyes and his mind wandered.

To his right there was a Caucasian man lifting up his little boy and placing him into the child seat of the grocery cart.  It was nothing particularly special and he didn't think much of it...

...until he saw an Asian man helping out.

Slowly he realized that the two men were together; that is to say, they were a couple.  He was sure of it.  They wore matching pink shirts and they were shopping together with their kid.

He had never witnessed a gay family out in public before.  He sees gay couples regularly in real life - in fact he would see two boys flirting shamelessly with each other that very same day - but not gay families.  For some reason, gay families are a rare sight to behold.

And what do you know?
It is a little funny how he had suddenly forgotten that he was hungry.

He was busy admiring their bravery, their courage.  Maybe someday he himself will have a husband and children.  Maybe.  It all feels impossible sometimes.  After all, it would take a lot of courage and faith to make those dreams come true and he just wasn't sure if he had it in him.  Finding his Prince Charming would be a huge accomplishment just by itself.

"Ready?" asked the cashier.

"Wha-... Oh.  Yes, I'm ready."

He paid for his food, took one last glance at the happy family, and left the grocery store. 

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This happened on Thursday January 28, 2013.  I was on my way home from school and stopped by the grocery store to grab something to eat.

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