Sinister: hello + a little story.

[Michael Grant]

hello. ive been a lurker for quite a while now, and ive been searching for 
the right way to start my end of this sinister relationship. ive been 
reading in awe some of the hilarious and touching posts thinking how 
anything i write will just be silly. i didnt want to just say "hey! im new!" 
i thought id wait until i had something decent to say, but this wait has 
gone on for months and months now. ive managed to even meet someone through 
the list (*waves at idleberry*) so i thought i really should start posting. 
anyway, i was writing this story for a friend and i thought it seemed like a 
good thing to have as an opening post. please be kind to me.

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Once there was a Boy. He knew this Other Boy. They were great friends. The 
best thing about their friendship was that they were so similar, they always 
sort of knew what the other was thinking. This made the Boy happy. He and 
the Other Boy had never really got to spend time together and get to know 
each other really well over the years. The Other Boy was older and in a 
higher year at school and they tended to hang around with different people, 
but the Boy always kinda knew that there was something special about the 
Other Boy. He hoped that the Other Boy felt the same, and he kinda knew he 
did, cos they were so similar. They weren’t ‘doing it’, they were just good 
friends, but when they would go out together people often thought that they 
were a couple. This made the two boys laugh. The Boy’s other best friends 
were girls. His close friends who were guys were often slightly distant. The 
Boy had always yearned for a close male friend, and it frustrated him that 
him and the Boy were so similar but never got the chance to pursue their 
friendship. The Other Boy was the one person who the Boy really felt he 
could talk to about anything, but for some reason, he often didn’t. He 
didn’t really speak to anyone much of the time. He ended up sorting things 
out on his own. He wished he were more like the Other Boy. He didn’t want to 
be him, he knew you should never want to be someone else, and he was happy 
with who he was, but he knew the Other Boy was simply lovely. He was so kind 
and sweet and sensitive and modest. Those were the things he really liked 
about the Other Boy. Another thing he especially liked was that the Other 
Boy could always make him laugh. The Other Boy, even though he was so 
sensitive and kind, was the funniest Boy the Boy had ever met. He could be 
silly and funny, or smart and funny, but he had this talent to make the Boy 
wet himself on the spot. The Boy really liked that about the Other Boy. He 
thought more people should be able to make people laugh like that. It’s a 
great quality to have. The Boy thought he had a bit of that quality as well. 
That’s why it was the sensitive, modest qualities of the Other Boy that he 
admired so much. They were both clever, and funny, and they liked the same 
kind of things, but the Boy wished he could have a few more of those things 
that made them different. He thought he was too brash, and arrogant, and he 
could get on people’s nerves. This never happened to the Other Boy. Everyone 
who knew him liked him. If they knew him well they loved him. He was an 
easily loveable Boy. It wasn’t that the Boy wasn’t popular. People did like 
him, but he always wanted to be a bit more like the Other Boy. The Boy 
didn’t think the Other Boy was perfect, but he wasn’t far off. He loved the 
Boy with all his heart, and although he could almost always tell that the 
Other Boy thought the same as him, he wasn’t sure about this thing. He 
didn’t love the Other Boy in ‘that’ way, purely as friends, but he loved the 
Other Boy as a friend completely and utterly. He would have done anything 
for the Other Boy, but he couldn’t tell him that. He didn’t know how. Their 
bond was very much one borne out of faith in their similarities, and maybe 
because they hadn’t spent that much time together over the years and had 
only recently started to see each other more, he didn’t know how he could 
talk to the Other Boy about this. So he decided to write a letter to the 
Other Boy, and to write in the third person to be really clever. He hoped 
that the Other Boy would see this for what is was; a simple story of a Boy 
and his friend, a friend who meant so much to the Boy, that he didn’t know 
how to say it to his face. He also hoped that this wouldn’t scare the Other 
Boy, but that he would think about it, and reply however he wanted. All he 
wanted was for the Other Boy to know how much their friendship meant to the 
Boy, and that he loved him very much.
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thanks for reading this. id be glad to hear what anyone thinks.

b&s content - i like the new single, but i do think i am blinkered, and will 
buy and love almost anything they ever release. (altho when they get to the 
"2step-garage-crossover-album" phase, i might just be tempted to say 
byebye!) i think that ilovemycar is one of the best songs theyve ever done. 
its just fantastic. its a song you just have to dance to. i dare anyone to 
walk down the street listening to that, and not start dancing wildly.

thanks again,

michael.xx

ps - is anyone interested in having either a pre-QMU meet-up or a glasgow 
xmas bowling trip?



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