Chapter IV:
"What?"
That is all I can manage. I really didn't imagine that. How the hell did that happen? I mean did he have an accident or something?
I guess my total confusion must have shown, because Debbie takes pity on me and explains:
"He was hit in the head with a baseball bat on his prom night, honey. He was in a coma for several days and nearly died! Sunshine suffered from brain damage and lost some mobility in his hand! Drawing that picture must have been extremely painful and exhausting for him! You really should be proud that he went to all this trouble to give you a gift!"
Wow, I'm totally speechless, and that doesn't happen all that often! Who would want to hit the perfect little blond in the head? Even nearly kill him! Surely the little twat couldn't have done something that horrible to provoke such hatred in somebody else!
I want to ask Deb to explain more, but she has already gotten up to serve some new customers. I guess that explains the lack of asking how Justin was doing during the party yesterday. Justin said that the family knew not to ask him too many questions after all.
Now I really wanna know what happened exactly to that twat! But I guess the Diner is not the place to ask! Maybe I should go to Michael's comic book store and ask him. I know he's known Justin from the beginning, or at least since he's been stalking Brian and wouldn't leave anymore.
I really can't understand what a grown man could love so much about comics. Okay, Michael is not really an adult in my opinion, but seriously, he even does his own comic book. At least he makes quite some money with it! Oh hey, that gives me just the idea!
Justin does the graphics for the comic, right? And I think the first edition was about some kid getting bashed, right? I might just need to read the book to find out what happened, and not asked someone from the family. They would all just want to know why I want to know, and I can't really tell them! Since I don't really know myself why I'm all that interested in the twink either!
When I get to the store, Michael is busy with a customer, some totally obvious nerd, man, those glasses! Anyway, this suits me just fine, as I don't really want to talk to him, I just need to see his comic.
My only problem: the comic shows some kind of gang bashers, but I can't believe that this is what happened. And I doubt that Brian flew to Justin's rescue like fucking Rage. I mean hello, reality check!
So this stupid book leaves me with just one damn option: I guess I have to ask a queen or one of the munchers about it. I obviously can't ask the twink, as everybody seems to know that he doesn't like talking about it. I guess I wouldn't wanna talk about the event that left me brain damaged either!
Now who the fuck should I ask? I don't want to seem as if I cared or anything, cause I'm just curious. Maybe I could use the info to get closer to Brian even! And anyway, I guess as part of the family, I should know about stuff like that!
I could ask Michael, I mean he really is the closest, and he knows Justin from the start. But I get the feeling he himself has a little crush on Brian, so the story I would get probably won't be the whole truth!
Then there is Ben, but I think he only got to the family later, so he might not know the drama either.
I guess asking Debbie would be alright, but man she always gets so emotional. If I talk to her about this, she will definitely start crying, or yelling, or worse, both. And then she will want to hug me again and I won't be able to breathe, again!
Well, maybe I should do this with Emmet or Ted, they don't seem all that dramatic. Okay, at least Ted doesn't! But I never really speak with them, so it would be rather weird asking them about this. I guess that excludes them then, too!
Alright, maybe the dykes then. They seem okay, with the exception of course that they're lesbians. Although I won't ask the mean one, Melanie! She always criticizes Brian, and I seriously can't tolerate that. Sure, he's a bitch, but he looks like a god, so no bad words about him, you got it? I guess Lindsay isn't such a good choice either. She too is so emotional, and always talks to me like a teacher. She's kind of patronizing and treats me like a kid. I'm not a kid, and I really don't like being treated like one!
So I think this leaves me with just one other option: BRIAN!!
Well, at least I'll be close to him then for a while. For that I'd even talk about uteruses with him! And I guess he knows Justin the best, but he also doesn't seem to mind telling him to fuck off when he's annoying as hell. Although I find him a lot more often annoying then Brian does! I hope he can tell me the truth. And I won't have to be afraid of him getting all emotional on me! The only problem could be that he won't want to talk to me. I mean, he doesn't really seem to be enjoying my company yet! But I'll change that!
"Hey Hunter, you alright? You've been staring into space for quite some time there!"
I must have looked totally stupid there, because Michael is looming over me, smirking like an idiot himself!
"Everything's okay, have to go!"
I tell him before I leave the store, thinking how I'll get Brian to talk to me!