tombur + unrequited tomboo
tmmy and rnboo click during freshmen year. it was spontaneous, somehow right.
rnboo’s 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. he’s head over heels. everyone can see that besides tmmy.
the school year passes, rnboo’s crush never more than a false dream. tmmy is straight after all (?). for the summer rnboo’s older brother, w!lbur, comes back from uni.
his click with tmmy is more spontaneous than rnboo’s was.
w!lbur’s exciting, an exhilarating addition to tmmy’s mundane and repetitive youth. he’s charming, new, enticing. who wouldn’t be interested in your friend’s 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 he’d 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.
rnboo’s 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 wasn’t 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 parents’ and now even tmmy’s attention. it felt like everything he ever got for himself became his brother’s. it felt intentional.
the next morning, rnboo bumps into someone as he’s leaving his room. he thinks it’s w!lbur, his room is opposite of rnboo’s after all. when he realizes it’s tmmy, an awkward sort of horrified expression on his friend’s face for being caught trying to sneak out of w!lbur’s room so early, rnboo feels nauseous.
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