Sandy stood next to the island counter reading the Saturday newspaper. He watched as Ryan entered from the pool house.
"Hey, so what were you doing last night?" Sandy asked as he got out a bagel.
"What? Oh, uhh, nothing." Ryan said looking a little pensive.
"Well you were out all afternoon," Sandy said slightly surprised at Ryan's odd reaction.
"Oh, yeah, Theresa was in town. We had ice cream."
"Well that is good. Theresa is a sweet girl. And she likes you, you know," Sandy said giving him a wink.
"Yeah. Well, with the baby, and Eddie, and all that, yeah we can't really be more than friends."
"That's good. It's hard to maintain a friendship with someone you dated. Things get weird."
"Well Kirsten and Jimmy are still friends? I mean just because you… do stuff or something doesn't mean you can't be friends."
"I suppose so. Ryan… did something happen?" asked Sandy.
Unfortunately Seth wondering down in his robe interrupted the question.
"Hi dad, do we have any bagels?" asked Seth as he purposefully avoided looking at Ryan.
"Sorry son, I ate the last one."
"Umm, well that is okay. I guess. Uhh I guess I am off to the shower," Seth said as he bolted out of the room.
"What was that?" Sandy asked.
"What?"
"Seth always has a bagel, coffee, and wants the Arts and Leisure section. Are you two fighting?" Sandy asked.
"What? No."
"Because I am getting a strange vibe off the two of you. Like something happened."
"No, nothing happened," Ryan said.
"Alright, if you say so."
Ryan lay on Seth's bed waiting to hear the shower go off. Sadly he had gotten caught up reading an issue of Fantastic Four, so he didn't notice when Seth came in.
"Ryan?" Seth asked.
"Oh… uh… hi."
"Why are you in my room?" Seth asked confrontationally.
"Seth, we can't be like this."
"Like what?"
"Seth we are good friends, we live together. We have get over this. We can't be weird."
"Weird. So now I am weird?"
"No… yes… I don't know."
"You know you started this. And now it is just going to be awkward for the rest of our lives. You might be gay, but I'm not."
"Well I didn't mean to, it just sort of happened."
'You don't just sort of kiss somebody."
"Look, okay, if you are going to be this way… I'm going to leave."
Ryan got up to go to the door, but as he walked past Seth his friend pushed him towards the wall and kissed him passionately, and deeply.
Shortly it was Ryan's turn to wake Seth up. Ryan leaned over and gently rocked Seth awake. "Seth… I think I'm… ga… I think I like… guys."
"Yeah," Seth said a little hesitantly. "I think I might too."
"Uhh, do you think we should talk to your parents? About it I mean?" Ryan asked fighting.
"No!" Seth cried, "We can't tell them."
"But, I don't want to keep something from them," Ryan said, "I mean they were cool with Carson."
"No! No! We don't tell them anything."
"Why not? I grew up in a house with nothing but secrets. Can't we please just be honest?"
"No. We just can't. They can't know."