The Mandela Catalogue

A Little Bit Of Gay

Me and Fox were chilling in my room, watching a show. Fox was sat next to me with Bee on his lap.
"wait what's this show called again?" he asks.
"heartstopper, it's a comic series as well." I say.
"it's very gay." he says.
"Well then you should like it" I laugh.
"haven't you watched this already?" he asks.
"yeah but I want you to see it, it's a good series." I say.
Michael bursts in.
"who wants to go on a drive!" he says.
"I wish I could but I gotta look after Bean." I say.
"I can look after her, you guys should bring the gun with you though cause Twigs staying with me." he says.
"OHH YEEEAAAAH!!!!" Michael yells.
"you know how to right?" I ask.
"yeah, every 20 minutes I feed her a couple of green worms. I've done it a few times." he says.
"aren't you scared of them though?" I ask.
"not if I pick them up with tweezers." he says.
"okay." I say.

Me, Jackie and Micheal were about to leave.
"set an alarm for every 20 mins OK." I yell.
"I have!" Fox yells from the other room.
"I trust you Ok. Don't kill the only part of Pepper I have left ok." I say.
"I've got this, have fun!" he says.
And we leave.

I'm sat In the back, behind the drivers seat.
Jackie is sat next to Michael, who was driving.
"so, what were you two watching?" Michael asks.
"Heartstopper." I say, looking out the window.
"what's that about?" Jackie asks.
"it's about a boy called Charlie and he's gay. He likes this guy called Nick but Charlie and his friends think he's super straight cause he's this rugby lad." I say.
"ah." Jackie says.
We sit in silence for a bit. We were passing fields and wooded areas.
Michael breaks the silence.

"so what is your sexuality?" Michael asks.
"i still don't know. I swear I thought I was straight or aroace cause I never had a crush but, now there's just this one person who's making me question it all." I say.
I see Michael and Jackie quickly give eachother a look, Michael looks back on the road.
"what's this person like." he says.
"well, he's funny, he's cute and he's such a dork, I love it but I don't know if he feels the same way and I don't want to say anything cause it might ruin our friendship." I say looking at the chair next to me.

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(3rd person)

Fox lays on Damiens bed, his head and arms were dangling off the edge, he was humming.
"what are you doing?" Twig asks.
"being bored." Fox says.
Twig gives an unimpressed expression, although no one can see it because his face is always sad and drooping.
"do you want to do something?" he asks.
"what is there to do?" Fox asks.
"Well we could watch a movie, play a card game, etc." Twig says.
"what card games you know?" he asks.
"Solitaire, go fish, snap, poker." he says.
"solitaires not two player, snap gets boring after a while, no idea how you play poker. Go fish it is then." he says.

Fox gets out the cards, giving 7 to Twig, 7 to himself and then laying the deck of cards down.
He looks at his cards, his 7 contain two 4s, a 3, an ace, two 6s and a king.
"I forgot to shuffle these." he says.
"oh well." Twig says.
"who's going first?" Fox asks.
"you go first." Twig says, picking up his cards and looking at them.
"you got a 6?" Fox asks.
Twig gives him a six.
"have you got a 9?" Twig asks.
"go fish." Fox says.
Twig picks up a card from the deck.
"you got a 4?" Fox asks.
"go fish." Twig says.
Fox picks up a card from the deck, an 8.
"have you got a 3?" Twig asks.
Fox gives him the 3.
"you got an 8?" he says.
Twig gives him an 8.

They play for a while until Fox's alarm goes off. He turns it off and go's to Bean, he opens a tub of green worms and picks up a couple with the tweezers. He then feeds them to Bean.
"your growing quickly aren't you?" he says softly.
He feeds her a few more and then closes the tub, he watches the bird in silence until.
"so I am not sure whether I'm in the wrong or not, you humans are very complicated, but I can not help but feel you and Damien have something between you." Twig asks.
Fox turns around quickly, he blushes.

"no, it's just were really close you know?" he says.
"but you flirt, alot." Twig says.
"Well, I guess I do kind of feel like that but he definitely doesn't like me back, I'm not even sure if he's gay!" Fox says looking at the floor.
"doesn't he flirt with you back?" Twig asks.
"I mean yeah but that doesn't mean he likes me, does it?" Fox says.
"most of the time when someone is flirting with you it hints that they like you, is that not obvious?" Twig says.
"touché, but what if he's doing it as a joke or something." Fox says.
"Ok, I know I do not know you people enough, but I think you and I know Damien isn't an asshole." Twig says.
"So your saying he might like me back?" he says.
"what have I been saying to you for the past few minutes." Twig says.
"oh, right." Fox laughs.
"let's carry on playing go fish" he says.

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(back to Damiens POV)

I wake up to hear Jackie and Michael talking.
"what do you reckon?" Michael says.
"That we tell them soon, we can't keep it secret for long enough can we? And your going to have to tell your ex wife cause she's expecting you to come back is she not?" Jackie says.
"No, she hates me and I'm pretty sure she wouldn't care." he says.
"OK, I'm gonna trust you on this one." Jackie says.
"wouldn't you anyway?" he says.
"maybe." they say.
"what are you two talking about?" I ask, I look out the window, we seem to be driving past the fields again but the other way.
"oh, nothing important." Jackie says, looking back and smiling.
"it's nearly Christmas." Michael says.
"damn, that quick. I was expecting everything to go slower cause of the whole pandemic with the Alternates." I say.
"yeah, 24 days." Michael says.
"I gotta start buying you guys gifts." I say.

We arrive back at the house, it was dark out.
We walk into the flat, everything empty except a figure in the dark.
"hello" it says.
"hi Twig" I say.
"did you have fun?" he says.
"yeah." I say.
I walk into my room, Fox was fast asleep on my bed.
I sigh, smiling.
He opens his eyes.
"hey." he says in a tired voice.
"hey." I say back.
"come here!" he says.
"just a sec, I need to get into pjamas." I say.
He turns around as I get dressed.
I get into bed and he turns around.
"hey." he says.
"hi." I laugh.
"how are you?" he says.
"I'm OK what about you?" I ask.
"yeah, I'm fine." he says.
"come here." he says.
"ok?" I say, nudging a bit closer.
"a little closer" he says.
I nudge closer, our noses were neay touching.
"guess what." he says.
"what?" I ask.
"BURRITO ATTACK!" he says. He quickly gets up and rolls me in the covers, trapping me in a roll.
"noooooo, I've been captured!" I say.
"haha!" he laughs.
He jumps onto the bed, laying down next to me.
"you look so cute like that." he says.
I could feel my face go red.
"I do?" I say.
"yeah and cosy." he says.
He rests his head on the pillow, next to mine.
"well I'm going back to sleep, you get comfortable in your burrito blanket, goodnight." he says, he turns over.
"goodnight." i say, closing my eyes.