John's not gay. That's what he says to himself repeatedly. 'I'm not gay. I'm not gay. I'm not gay.' It gets tiring and embarrassing. Tiring, because he gets embarrassed when he says it in his room, which he shares with Bobby. Embarrassing, because he says it too much and it comes out saying 'I'm gay. I'm gay. I'm gay' with the not muffled out.
Okay, so maybe saying it over and over again doesn't really have any effect to what he's saying. Maybe it's just the truth. But John's not listening with the truth.
These days, when John's in his what-the-fuck-I'm-not-going-to-bother-anymore-with-my-gay-ness kinda mood, Bobby walks in their room. John always fumbles with this magazine he 'accidentally' lifted off this store (he was reaching for a Playboy so he could remind himself of his straight-ness, but some guy bumped him and his hand 'accidentally' reached for a gay magazine).
Today, John is in one of his moods. He picks up the magazine, nonchalantly, and 'accidentally' picks up the gay magazine from under his bed when all the other magazines are on the bookshelf that lacks books. Oh, what a coincidence. Might as well look at it, John thinks.
Bobby walks in as John's fingers are nimbly skimming this guy's inner thigh. John jumps up and the magazine falls on Bobby's feet. Now, John's feeling like he's about to throw up. But he doesn't because that'd be a huge mess and just because he feels like crap, doesn't mean he should actually clean it up. Instead, John flicks open his lighter and throws a fire ball, for lack of a better word, at the magazine, burning the magazine and the tips of Bobby's shoes to ashes.
Bobby's not gay. That's what he always says. After he caught John looking at the gay magazine, he felt kinda weird. Now Bobby tip toes around, avoiding Rogue (because he doesn't want to hint he's confused) and avoiding John (because he doesn't want to hint he's confused).
A few days after the magazine incident, Bobby flips through the channels. It's after a little movie marathon with Rogue, to his dismay; John, another to his dismay, Kitty, Jubilee, and Peter. The movie marathon was cut short after Jubilee and Rogue started arguing between a horror movie, consisting of all the lacings of blood, murder, and a clown, or a romantic comedy, consisting of the ever-so-popular topic of homosexuality. Weirdly, everyone chose horror. I wonder how that happened, huh?
So after watching the beginning, with the main character getting her head chewed off by her dog, Kitty ran to the bathroom to throw up and Peter went to get more popcorn and never came back (Oh, spooky! Now, where's the dog?). Then when the beautiful girl started eating the dead carcass of the dog that died because of the main character's ghost, Jubilee went to see if she could find a dead dog. And after Jubilee actually found a dead dog on the front lawn and her scream echoed through the mansion, John ran to accompany Kitty in throwing up. So, Bobby stopped the movie and stomped on it because no one should eat a dead dog ever again.
Now Bobby's browsing through some movies. Finding mainly horror, romance, and even more horror (you'd think a mansion this big would get a happy movie!), Bobby gets restless and picks a movie from up off the pile and pops it in. And guess what- it's the romantic gay comedy. What a coincidence!
The next day, John gets the mail for him and Bobby. He goes through them. Junk mail, junk mail, junk mail. Nothing good. Nothing good ever comes for him or his roommate. John doesn't even bother to look through the rest because who wants to look at more junk?
Just the second John throws the mail on Bobby's bed, Bobby enters. And then John's jaw drops and a few seconds later after registering which piece of mail John's jaw dropped to, Bobby's jaw drops also.
On the cover of the magazine, there's a half-naked man whose arm is slung around another's who only has a piece of cloth to cover his private parts. The magazine is subscribed to Robert Drake.