Chapter 2
"You... you know?" Bobby asked. Robert smirked a little at the question. "I mean, of course you know, but..."
"But I'm straight?" Robert asked.
"Yeah, I mean... like I said, you seem straight" Bobby replied. He had known this was going to be a weird conversation, but he had really not grasped just how odd it would be to actually be in it. "Are you?" he finally asked.
"Yes, I am" Robert said, sighing, taking a seat on his bed. Bobby looked around and saw a recliner that he decided to sit on. "Confused?" Robert asked. Bobby nodded.
"It's a... story." Robert said and bit his lip. "Look... It doesn't matter. Go be gay. There's this kid called Victor, he's a bit of a whiner, but he's good at heart and I think you could hit it off if you could lower your standards a bit, though i guess your standards aren't that very high since I remember checking out Scott."
"Hey, hang on." Bobby said."First, I've already met Victor, and no thanks. Second, you're not getting out of this now, what happened to you?" Bobby almost exploded as his older self. "Did you just... stop? Fake it with everyone?" Robert looked sadder.
"I didn't fake it per say, it..." He stopped and leaned forward. "Look. This is only going to hurt you. Might hurt others. And whenever you go back, it's going to happen anyway. We can just act like we aren't the same guy.
Bobby shook his head, even angrier now
"Oh come on! What, like half way out of the closet? I'm gay, but soon I won't be?"
"That's pretty much what's going to happen anyway" Robert said. His tone now smaller.
"Like Hell!" Bobby screamed. "I'm not gonna start lying again, just because you've lied you entire life-"
"I DIDN'T LIE" Robert screamed. The room grew deathly cold. Ice formed and covered every visible surface, covering it by at least an inch. Robert took a breath. "Damnit" he said. " I hate when i do that." Takes forever to thaw everything out."
The sat quiet for a minute. Bobby didn't take his eyes off Robert. For a few moments he had felt such contempt of his older self, but it was now fading.
"I want to hear it" Bobby said. Robert looked back at him, now with a new look of surprise.
"Wait... did you say you told Jean?"
"Yeah... I mean... she already knew, and she... well she confronted me about it and..." Bobby shrugged. "Telepaths. man."
Now it was Robert's turn to get something dark in his eyes, for just a moment.
"She... read your mind and then decided to talk to you abut it, is that it?"
"Yeah... I mean, she meant well..." Bobby trailed off.
"Sure she did." Robert stood up and put his fingers to his head. After a while, he sat back down. "I'll tell you what happened in a minute."
"Why a minute?" Bobby asked.
"Because that's when Jean get's here." Robert said. "And after I chew her out."