Not So Normal Family

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Thomas had finished cutting up his food, he couldn't get it any smaller now. He leaned his elbows on the table and looked around the room sadly. His father was still stuffing his face sloppily and his mother was eating like a lady, as perfect as she had been trained to be when she was a child. "I'm sure your days were more than fine, guys." Their father says between mouthfuls. "Hey, Tommy, how was uh... What was it again? Football tryouts? Did you do it?" He asks him and looks at his son, observing how uncomfortable he looked. Jack, which is their fathers name, looked down at his sons plate and noticed he had cut it into small pieces and wasn't eating it, then looked back up at his son.


Tommy shook his head, "Why would I try out for the football team?" he asks, raising his eyebrows and leaning his head on his hand. Jack shrugged his shoulders, "I thought most boys would want to try out, that's all. Jimmy's kid down the road, Hunter, he tried out apparently." It was obvious that Jack wished his son would be more like the other boys, athletic and sociable, but Tommy was into reading, and expression, though he never really expressed himself per say. "You want me to be more like Hunter, dad?" He says harshly, clenching his jaw and looking his father directly in the eye. Jack shrugged his shoulders. Marie, their mother, butted in then, "No, Tom, that's not what he meant and you know it, he was just saying-"


"I know what he was saying." Thomas interrupts her, and whips his head round to look at her now. "There's no point wishing that you had Hunter as a son. You have me, and while that's probably the most unfortunate thing you guys could ever have, it can't change." He puts his fork down on the table with a clatter, and puts his hands down on the table so his palms were flat on the surface. Jack sighs, "Don't talk to us like that," he says authoritatively, and gestures to Tommy with his own fork, "We love you. All I was doing was encouraging you to-"


"I don't want to be on the football team. I would rather get aids and die." Thomas says quickly. "I would rather wear a dress, or puke my brains out, than be on that stupid football team, all right?" He didn't know why he was so angry all of a sudden, but he couldn't help himself. Thomas's vision was darkening, he rubbed his eyes and sighed, trying to get his vision back to normal, but all he did was blur it. He covered his eyes with his hands, taking a deep breath.


(Sorry that it's really long, I just wanted to get it all done)

 

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Katie peacefully ate her dinner, choosing not to answer his question. Her day was actually worse than fine, so she chose to stick with fine. She could see her father eyeing her hair, the purple color standing out in the light. It was pretty much her only mark of difference. She said it was done before she came to the good side and now she couldn't change it.


She was suddenly shaken from her memories by yelling, she looked up to her brother who sat across from her. Thomas and her father where currently engaged in a verbal fight, yelling and screaming going on at the table. She used to experiencing it outside of the dinner table, but not at the table. She began to eat fast to get out of there.

 

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Jack had gasped at Thomas's sudden defiance and rudeness, then slammed his hands on the table before standing up, pushing his chair backwards forcefully, he pointed a finger in Thomas's face as he spoke. "You're being stupid!" He yells? "A stupid little boy. Ungrateful!" Thomas watches him out of the corner of his eye, glad to have for a reaction but not feeling well enough to be able to enjoy it. He looks up at his father properly. "Football is not that bad! I don't understand why you would rather die." His father says, and Thomas shrugged his shoulders before standing up.


He pushed his chair back and left his uneaten plate on the table, then put his hands on his pockets and shrugged his shoulders calmly. "I don't want to live YOUR dream, dad. I want to live my own." He says as a final statement before beginning to walk out of the room. But as he passed through the doorway, the darkness of his vision blurred and darkened once again, and his whole body felt weak. Thomas fainted, collapsing to the floor without a sound as his family watched. Marie gasped, his father quickly moved away from the table and over to him.

 

[IceQueen]

Katie was the first to push out her chair, rushing over to him. "Don't touch him." She threatened, glaring at her parents, picking him up. "You have done nothing for us for years, you don't need to just step in now. I think he would prefer help from me." She said, glaring at them. She didn't wait for her father to yell at her, and her mother to chastise her, she just walked all the way to the stairs, hoisting him over her shoulder.


She could hear the complaints and yells from her parents as she marched up the stairs. "Just block them out." She mumbled as she walked the stairs, almost jumping up to the top. She wandered over to her brothers room, kicking the door open and taking him inside. She placed him on the bed, shutting the door and going to grab something to revive him.

 

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Thomas wasn't sure why everything had gone black. Why was he staring at his eyelids? Why did he fall to the floor? He knew the reason inside but he was too stubborn to admit that it was his fault. He began to wake up a little when he was taken up the stairs, and now laid on his bed, unable to open his eyes, but conscious. He didn't know who had carried him in here because he hadn't been awake at the time, but he hoped it was Katie and not their parents. He began to move slowly, taking it a step at a time so he didn't faint again. First step, deep breath, second, open your eyelids.


He looked over at Katie, the vision in his eyes still slightly dark and blurred and he was fighting to keep his eyes open for longer than two seconds. "What just happened?" He asks, mumbling so it was almost inaudible. He looked around his room and saw Katie searching for something. Afraid of what she would find, he quickly spoke up, "what are doing?" His speech was a little slurred but louder now.

 

[IceQueen]

Katie whipped around at the sound of her brothers voice. With a sigh, she walked over and placed a hand on his head. "Geeze. Just about gave mom a heart attack. Keep doing it and if where in luck, she will have one." She said, taking her hand off his forehead. "You passed out in the middle of the hallway, and I was looking for a cold towel. When she found a small towel, she smiled, taking it to his bathroom.


She rinsed it out, letting all the un seeable germs run off the towel before ringing it out to avoid it dripping water all over his sheets. She walked back over, placing it on his head. "You need to be more careful next time. You almost blew our cover." She said, chuckling a bit.

 

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Thomas lifted his hand and took the cloth, moving it from her hand and pressing it to his own head. He moved to sit up, but a sick feeling pursued him as he tried to move, so instead he laid back down. He could feel the tightness of his stomach, he was so hungry, and he heard his stomach groan loudly in the deafening silence of the room. He looked at Katie. "Am I dying?" He asks her, a childish question, but he asked her in such a young and curious way. He moves to sit up again, and when he does this time, he clasps a hand to his mouth, feeling the urge to vomit run through him. He shut his eyes and looked at his sister.


He looked around his room, glad that she hadn't found anything she shouldn't. He had many secrets, and she already knew one of them. How would she react about the certain other things that he had to keep secret for his safety. So he could be loved. "Will you pass me my phone?" It was on the dresser in the corner of his room, next to a pile of clutter. Unbeknownst to his family, he had had a boyfriend for a few months. Sometimes Thomas snuck out to see him, and sometimes he came here. No one knew about it, and he wanted to talk to him badly at the moment.

 

[IceQueen]

Katie chuckled, pressing a hand to the cold towel on his head. "No, but your stomach is trying to tell you that it needs food." She said, pressing him gently back down to the bed. "And no sitting up. You are in no condition to move."" She said, sitting back down. She was worried for him, like really worried. He shouldn't be doing this to his body.


Katie nodded as he asked her for his phone, getting up from the side of the bed. She saw his hand clasped over his mouth and she got up, getting a trash can and placing it beside his bed. She then began to search though his room with her eyes, finally landing on his dresser. It was sitting precariously on the edge, and she went to pick it up, passing it back over onto the bed with him.

 

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Thomas doesn't throw up, the feeling had passed for now, but he grabbed his phone eagerly as he laid in the bed. As he began to unlock it, the urge came back, and he let his phone slip out of his hands as he dived for the bucket, throwing up into it. What came out wasn't even food. It was watery, with little remnants of apple floating in it. Looking at it made him throw up again, and he spat out what remained in his mouth as he tried to regain his composure. He moved the bin away from him, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. He takes a deep shaky breath, before looking up at his sister.


"Bleh." He states simply, and smiles a little, before picking up his phone again and unlocking it, going onto his messages and quickly sending a text to his boyfriend, Aaron. He told him that they wouldn't be able to meet tonight. Or if they did meet, then it would have to be here, and Aaron would have to excuse the fact that he would smell like vomit. He turned the screen of his phone off and looked back at his sister, hoping she didn't see. He didn't know her views on homosexuality, but he did know their parents views. And the towns. People like him were shunned and beaten up, and he didn't want that.