Chapter 5 - Gen 6 - Lyric

I was stopped by one of the family ghosts out in the garden.  It made me wander who she was.  Up until now I had never really been that interested in the ghosts, some of them I knew there names and some, like this one, I didn't really know who she was, what she had done while she was alive or even which grave she came out of.  Then she asks for my autograph which I give her and she floats away, through the wall and into the house.  Maybe I should do some research on these family ghosts.

The next day started early with  a sing-o-gram. .

I spotted Mom in Performance Park so I went to Raspberry Park instead to play for tips.  After our last  conversation I really was not in the mood to even look at her.

The park was pretty busy with it being the weekend all the kids were off school and hanging out in the park - including Piper who was with Brandy.

Then I had a phone call, a romantic sing-o-gram to do because someone needed some help with their love life - outside the stadium - Forrest.  This was really going to be awkward, I did not want to be doing this at all.  I didn't want to know about his love life, I could just imagine he was chasing some pretty girl, I felt sick, this really put me in a bad mood!!

I did what I had to do and hated every minute of it.

Forrest:  "Lyric can we talk."
Lyric:  "I'm sorry, I'm busy Forrest I have another job to do, I need to shoot."
Forrest:  "Surely you can spare five minutes!!"
Lyric:  "I'm sorry no, I'm already running late."

I couldn't get out of there quick enough - I jumped in a taxi and went home, I had no job to go to I just had to get away before I made a fool of myself.   I ran into the house and just about made it to the toilet before I started to violently throw up.  I knew it was going to be harder for me being gay but I didn't expect to fall for the first pretty boy that turned my head.  If this is what love felt like then I am not sure I wanted it!!!

Cain:  "Was that you I heard throwing up in the bathroom?"
Lyric:  "Yes."
Cain:  "Are you not well?"
Lyric:  "I'm fine now, I think it's just something I ate!!"
Cain:  "You need to slow down, you are always running around and I hardly see you these days, you can take time out you know, its good that you are working hard to achieving your ambitions but there is such thing as working too hard."
Lyric:  "I'm ok really!  Why don't you phone the repairman, isn't that dangerous what you are doing."
Cain:  "Ive done this loads of time's I know what I'm doing!!"

I wasn't alright at all and I wasn't going to tell him why I had really just been throwing up.

After helping Granddad clean up the flood I went back to the Park, I didn't want to think about Forrest and his love life, and if I stayed home I know I was just going to go crazy.  At least while I was singing I could switch off and forget about everything.  Piper was still in the park with Brandy, at least he was having no problems, they really seemed into each other, this just made me think about Forrest again, I need to stop this, I am not only going to drive myself crazy I am going to make myself ill.

I spotted Uncle Brice in the park he made it obvious that he wanted to speak to me so I stopped playing and went over to talk to him.

Brice:  "Have you spoken to your Dad lately?"
Lyric:  "No I haven't why?"
Brice:  "Well maybe you should, he's a little down at the moment."
Lyric:  "About the gay thing - that's why I've been giving him some space, Melody said he was having trouble getting his head round it."
Brice:  "Its not you two being gay, although it didn't helping the situation, and maybe it's not my place to tell you this but he has left your Mom."
Lyric: "WHAT!!"
Brice:  "He is living with me and Dixie at the moment, he's pretty upset too."
Lyric:  "Why? I don't understand, what happened?"
Brice:  "This has been on the cards I think since you and Harmony were born, over the years she has really worn him down with the way that she is with you children.  Your Mothers attitude towards Melody's baby triggered it off I think and  Amber has totally turned on Harmony for being gay, she has over reacted and in Ambers eyes Harmony is now no better than Piper, who she totally has got wrong - your Dad couldn't take any more, your Granddad isn't around any more to talk any sense into your Mother, they had a huge bust up and he landed on my doorstep."
Lyric: "Where are Harper and Symphony and Harmony?"
Brice:  "With your Dad, your Mom is actually rattling around in that big house all on her own, Harmony has gone to live with her girlfriend.  Your Dad says he isn't going back but I can see how much it is hurting him."
Lyric:  "I'll phone him later!!"

Today has just gone from bad to worse - but I suppose in Dad's case he has just done something that he should have done a long time ago!!

Another Romantic sing-o-gram came in, it was outside the stadium again, I went never expecting it to be Forrest again, what the hell is he playing at?!  I just wanted a hole in the floor to open up and swallow me up.  I am going to have to tell him how I feel about him then maybe it will scare him away, having him around me just makes things worse.

Lyric:  "Do you really need me to do this again Forrest?"
Forrest:  "Yes I do because the person I want is being difficult."

So I had to perform the sing-o-gram again to him.

Lyric:  "So, didn't she like the flowers from earlier?"
Forrest:  "What?! Did you just say She!!  Oh Lyric ..."
He started laughing loudly
Lyric:  "What's so funny?"
Forrest:  "You!!"

He wouldn't stop laughing and I lost my head.
Lyric:  "Stop laughing Forrest, I'm not enjoying this one little bit, in fact, its killing me, its bad enough I had to do one romantic sing-o-gram for you today, without having to come back and do it again, what are you trying to do to me, drive me crazy??!!"
Forrest:  "There is no "She" and there never will be - I am gay you idiot, I can't believe you didn't know and I was beginning to think you didn't like me, you really don't get it do you!!"
Lyric:  "What!!?? You are gay, OMG!!!"
Forrest:  "You are always so busy, you kind of gave me the impression that you were trying to avoid me, the sing-o-gram this morning was just a way to get to see you, I was going to tell you something but you ran off without giving me a chance, now I am trying again, if I don't tell you soon I am going to go out of my mind!!!"
Lyric:  "Tell me what?"

Lyric:  "Tell me what Forrest?"
Forrest:  "This ....."
He didn't say anything else he just kissed me.
Oh hell now I feel such a fool!!!!!

Forrest:  "I'm sorry Lyric I shouldn't have done that in public!!"
Lyric:  "It's fine!!"
Forrest:  "It's not, look how he is staring at us."
Lyric:  "Ignore him that's Lex Strong, he doesn't have a sense of humor anyway, he's one of my old teachers, he's not a pap if that's what you are worrying about!!"

He had to go back into work, one of his team mates yelled at him to get back inside before the boss noticed he had snook out again. I was just stood there in shock, already doubting that him kissing me had been real.  He ran off so easily shouting after him "Come round in the morning so we can talk."  I felt my legs wobble and thought any minute now I am going to pass out.  That would be something that might amuse Lex, who was still stood there staring at me with the strangest of looks on his face.

After watching Forrest go back into work, I'm not sure how long I stood there, with my head swimming my heart racing and my legs wobbling.  When I finally pulled myself together a little and turned round to go I took a few unsteady steps then I stopped dead in my tracks I had a vampire stood there in front of me just staring at me, I could hardly see him because it was pretty dark, all I could see clearly was his glowing eyes.  At first he scared me a little but then when he stepped closer to me I realized who it was.

It was Tai another one of my school teachers.  We chatted for a while, mainly about computers, I was quietly becoming quite fascinated with the whole vampire thing and wandered what it would be like to be one. I have heard that vampires can read human's minds, I hope to berry he isn't reading mine right now!!

I had a few more sing-o-grams to do a celebration one for someone who had just had a birthday.

Then I found myself back outside the stadium doing a cheer up sing-o-gram for Lex Strong of all people, I did stop and talk to him for a while afterwards but he never mentioned earlier when he saw me and Forrest kissing each other, and I wasn't going to bring it up.

The next morning I found myself knocking on Forrest's door not long after the birds had started singing.  I had not slept well, I had been too excited to sleep, but I was also in shock still, he is gay and he kissed me, I don't get it, I even half convinced myself I had dreamt the whole thing.

Forrest:  "You are early!!"
Lyric:  "I couldn't sleep, I needed to talk to you"
Forrest:  "I don't like the sound of that!!  You have changed your mind about us!!"  he said looking a little panicked.
Lyric:  "No!!!  I needed to make sure I wasn't dreaming, that you did really kiss me last night and I didn't just make it all up my head!!"
Forrest:  "You can be so silly sometimes!!"

Forrest:  "Just to clear up any confusion that you might have ..........."

Forrest:  "Now do you believe it's real."
Lyric:  "Yes, but I don't get it?!  How did you know I am gay, I can't believe you are gay, why didn't you say anything?"
Forrest:  "Lyric the whole world knows you are gay, I thought you knew that, and as for me, you obviously weren't looking very hard because people don't tend to miss the fact that I am gay, I don't usually have to tell them!!"
Lyric:  "Still you should have told me!!"

He hugged me and I am finding this all a little too much to take in, its was like my wildest dream becoming true and I couldn't quite believe how it could.  Look at him he is gorgeous and look at me, plain old ugly - why would he even look at me twice??!!  I had to say something or I would always be wandering!!

Lyric:  "I still don't get it - look at you, you are gorgeous, what could you even see in my ugly face?"
Forrest:  "Are you mad - you don't have a very high opinion of yourself do you??!!  I actually love the way you look, you are far from ugly and anyway, I could ask you the same question - Mr five star celebrity, why would you even look at me - Mr nobody!!  You know I never expected you to turn up this morning, you have done a pretty good job of avoiding me all week, you have driven me half crazy because I don't think you quite understand how I feel about you!!!"
Lyric:  "Ok - Ok - I'm sorry!!!"
Forrest:  "Well, are you going to tell me why you have been avoiding me, or am I making a fool of myself and you just don't like me in the way that I hope you do?"
Lyric:  "Of course I like you, like not really being an adequate word and that's why I have been avoiding you, it was driving me crazy being around you, I saw you as a straight guy just wanting a mate and if you knew how I was feeling about you, I thought you would laugh at me and hate me.  I couldn't handle it the more I saw you and spoke to you the worse it got, I was trying to get you out of my head."
Forrest:  "You don't know how relieved I am to hear you say that, I never in a million years would have expected that I would be lucky enough to hear you say anything like that to me!!"

I suddenly realized he was feeling exactly the same way that I was, insecure and unbelieving that this was actually happening, he doubted himself just as much as I doubted myself, this was just crazy and I swear any minute now I am going to wake up and realize this was still just a dream!!!

The next day, Piper was having a birthday party, he was becoming a young adult and so was his girlfriend Brandy.  Our parents both turned up, Mom first then Dad a little later, they arrived seperately and I never saw them speak to each other the whole time they were here.  Forrest was also here, at first he hung around at the back feeling very uncomfortable and out of place and pretty star struck being around members of my family which I found pretty amusing, my family which I took for granted and was far from perfect like Forrest thought they were!!  Boy is he in for a shock!!!

Dad was pretty quiet and was definitely not his normal self, I was really feeling sorry for him, he definitely didn't deserve what was happening to him and I could quite imagine that my Mother was now being that cold brick wall for Dad that she has always been for all us kids.  She stood their showing no emotion or remorse, I could never quite imagine how Mom and Dad would have got together in the first place, they just seemed two totally different people that don't really fit together, but they must have done somehow they managed to have six children together.

Piper:  "So where do you work Forrest?"

Forrest:  "At the stadium, I hope one day to become a superstar athlete, what do you plan to do career wise."

Lyric:  "Oh Piper is going to follow the squash family tradition and become a bobby on the beat aren't you bro, I think he would look pretty cute in a police uniform!!"

Forrest and Juana started to giggle but Piper wasn't impressed.

Piper: " No way and you know it Lyric!!!!! I have nightmares now about my rides home in cop cars, don't think I want to do that for a living, we already have enough coppers in our family don't you think!!!!"

Lyric:  "Seriously Forrest he wants to do the same as me - vocal legend, although I am not sure why as he would much rather play his guitar than sing."

Bradey:  "So who is the pretty boy with Lyric?"

Cain:  "That's Forrest, his boyfriend, I only met him last night but he seems a nice enough boy."

Bradey:  "I can't say I've seen him before."

Cain:  "He works at the stadium that's all I know about him."

Bradey:  "He looks happy doesn't he Lyric!  I can't get my head round all this gay stuff, but I don't care as long as he is happy."

Cain:  "Yes he does look very happy, lets just hope it lasts, although it is not going to help with him being heir is it, I really don't know what I am going to do about it!!"

Bradey:  "I don't envy you, sometimes I just think she won't change her mind out of spite, if only she could see that Piper is a good boy, I know he was a handful when he was young but Lyric was right, he was acting up for attention, I hate the way she has just left you to clean up her mess!!"

Cain:  "I take it you and Amber haven't sorted out your differences then?"

Bradey:  "No, shes shut herself off from me completely, I now know how the kids have felt all this time, she has put up her brick wall and I can't get through it - I'm not sure I ever will, I hoped our separation would be temporary and would make her come to her senses but I'm afraid it has just made things worse."

Cain:  "Do you want me to try talking to her?"

Bradey: "You can try Cain, but I'm not sure it will do any good."

I felt a little guilty being so happy when I could see my Dad was so miserable.

Tonight Forrest was staying over, but tomorrow I was planning on making it a permanent thing,  I am going to ask him to move in with me.

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Chapter 6

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I was pretty surprised when I spotted that Amber was living in the big house all on her own and Bradey and the two youngest kids were now living with Brice and Dixie.  But then really I suppose, I shouldn't be surprised, I predicted she would grow old being very lonely!!!