tombur + unrequited tomboo
tmmy and rnboo click during freshmen year. it was spontaneous, somehow right.
rnbooâs a romantic, closeted teen, falling over puppy love. he develops feelings for tmmy hard only after a few months. his touches linger, his gaze longs. the change is obvious. heâs head over heels. everyone can see that besides tmmy.
the school year passes, rnbooâs crush never more than a false dream. tmmy is straight after all (?). for the summer rnbooâs older brother, w!lbur, comes back from uni.
his click with tmmy is more spontaneous than rnbooâs was.
w!lburâs exciting, an exhilarating addition to tmmyâs mundane and repetitive youth. heâs charming, new, enticing. who wouldnât be interested in your friendâs cool older brother, a smoker with a charismatic attitude and lead singer to an underground band. tmmy, unknowingly, starts to seek out w!lbur more and more every time heâd come over to hang out with rnboo.
his visits become more to see w!l than ran, his attention began to veer. it was painfully obvious what was happening.
it made rnboo nervous. it made him sick.
rnbooâs conversations became more curt with w!lbur. he would disappear when the older would enter, sneer when the older would talk, the tension grew. the house was a ticking time bomb.
the explosion wasnât as big as expected. they had a nasty fight one day, over something little that would usually mean nothing to either that shifted to tmmy along the way.
rnboo was sick of coming second place to his brother, never feeling good enough for both their parentsâ and now even tmmyâs attention. it felt like everything he ever got for himself became his brotherâs. it felt intentional.
the next morning, rnboo bumps into someone as heâs leaving his room. he thinks itâs w!lbur, his room is opposite of rnbooâs after all. when he realizes itâs tmmy, an awkward sort of horrified expression on his friendâs face for being caught trying to sneak out of w!lburâs room so early, rnboo feels nauseous.
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