I sat at the breakfast table slowly consuming the eggs. 'Damn!' I thought to myself as one of the scrambled egg scraps fell onto my tongue, 'This food is really good.' "Wait!" I caught myself yell aloud. Joe turned around suddenly, "Is everything okay?" he asked confusedly. "Yeah everything's fine, it's just that the way the food is presented looks really good, I need to get my phone and take a picture!" Joe scoffed in a friendly way. "I'm serious." I told him. "Well go get your phone then, before the food gets cold." I grinned at him rudely, but sarcastically, which made both of us laugh. I then proceeded to scoot out from under the table in the chair and go back to the guest room to retrieve my cellular device. Does anyone even say 'cellular device' anymore? I say it as a joke.
Upon entering the guest room, I'm slightly startled by Tyler's right arm hanging off the edge of the bed, with his face in the pillow and chest pressed into the mattress. I walk over to the bedside table to unplug my phone from its charger. When the screen lights up I see one missed call from my mom. 'Crap.' I thought. 'I totally forgot I didn't even tell my own family that I'm gay.' I just stared at my screen in disbelief. 'I guess I can just call her back after breakfast.' I let out a sigh and exit the guestroom and start back on my way to the breakfast table. Once I arrived in the kitchen again, I saw Caspar already seated and eating. Joe looks over at me. "That took forever Connor, I mean even Caspar's up now!" Caspar smiled and a little air came out of his nose showing that even he thought it was funny. "Yeah, well Tyler is still asleep and I don't think he's gonna be up anytime soon." But, I spoke too soon. Tyler strutted into the kitchen looking like he'd spent hours getting ready. "The queen can be unpredictable." Tyler said. I rolled my eyes and Tyler laughed his contagious laugh. I then tried to get a good angle to capture a good picture of the food. In the end I had to stand on my chair and take a picture. After putting the picture into Afterlight and editing it to perfection, I showed Caspar and he said "It's just food." Which slightly hurt my feelings, but then he continued. "But you make it look like it's more than just food, like it has some kind of deeper meaning or some shit like that." Holding my fork with a piece of pancake on it, I half-smiled and patted Caspar on the back. "Thanks man, appreciate it lots."
After the four of us ate, I went back into the guest room to call my mom. It rang once......twice.......three times......"Hello?"
"Mom!"
"Connor! Hi honey how are you?" I heard her smile through the phone.
"I'm good, yeah, great actually."
"That's great! You haven't been answering your phone recently. I'm sure that's because of all of your flights and settling into Joe and Caspar's home."
"Yeah haha I've been so busy, sorry I haven't been able to talk to you."
"No it's alright sweetie, I'm just glad you're having fun."
"Yeah." My face reddened, and I felt the silence. The silence that I felt when I wanted to tell Tyler about my sexuality, although ten times worse. I counted the seconds of pause in my head, 'one............two..........three............four..........five............six........... sev-'
"Connor is everything alright?"
"Uh yeah, there's just something I have to tell you, if you have time."
"Of course! What's going on?" I bit my cheeks.
"It's about a way I've been feeling for a long time....and um...."
"Con, it's okay you can tell me."
"I'm.......gay."
"Oh! Are you in a relationship?" My jaw dropped in awe.
"You're okay with that? Like you're........fine with it?"
"Connor I don't care who you're attracted to. Love is love."
"Bu-"
"Con, I still love you."
"I love you too."
"Look honey, don't think there isn't anything you can't tell me, okay?"
"Okay......oh, and no I'm not in a relationship.......by the way."
"Oh okay."
"Yeah."
"Alright, well go enjoy with your friends okay? I don't want you to worry too much about anything."
"Okay."
"Alright bye sweetie."
"Bye." I was the first to cut off the call.
With my knees on the hardwood floors, my hands staggered through my suitcase to find something to wear. 'God, I have so many button down shirts.' I thought. I checked the weather on my phone, to find that it was going to be a chilly and windy day. I then decided to wear a sweater, and on top a thickish jacket that wasn't super bulky, but enough to keep you warm. My mind then began to drift off again. 'Wait, doesn't Troye live in Australia? So he must be staying with someone here in the UK...... Who is he staying with?' I ran to find Joe and asked him if he knew where Troye was staying. "Oh he's actually staying in a hotel. I don't know why though haha."
"Did he have no where to stay?"
"Oh, no! I offered my place but I guess he pre-booked his hotel before he came into the UK."
"Oh."
"The hotel and airline have like a deal or whatever but he only gets one night in the hotel so he's most probably going to stay here tonight."
"Oh...." My head was bursting with excitement. 'Maybe now was my chance to ask him out...?'
