Michael finished his homework and was ready to relax for the night. John, his 27-year-old brother came over, to mooch dinner off their parents again. Michael didn't mind. He enjoyed having his big bro around and he wanted to ask him a few questions anyway. Questions he didn't think he'd be able to ask anyone else in the world.
"Hey John, wanna come up and see my new guitar?", the 18-year-old asked.
"Yeah, sure. I've heard so much about it, I can't wait to actually hear you play it."
The two climbed the stairs they'd been climbing since they moved into this house, when John was 11 and Mike was just a toddler. The stairs seemed much smaller these days.
John's room hadn't changed since he moved out four years ago. It was tidier than when he was living in it, but that was about it. Mike's room was still a typical teenage boy's room. Clothes all over the floor, underwear (dirty?) half hanging off the desk. Socks, no doubt some cum-stained, on the floor next to his bed. And the guitar. It was a Fender Stratocaster bought for him by uncle Harry.
Mike picked up the guitar, turned on the amp and started belting out a few tunes: AC/DC, Jethro Tull, Nirvana. When he finally stopped, he put on some music to cover their voices and sat John down to ask him the questions that had been bugging him.
"John, I need to talk to you," he said. "I've been having some strange thoughts about me and some of my buddies and I'm not sure what to make of them."
"What kinds of thoughts," John asked.
"Well, I know I like girls, but I've been sometimes thinking sexy things about a couple of my guy friends. Like, y'know, gay things. Does that mean I'm gay."
"Well, I don't know. Only you can say whether you're gay or not," he said. His voice was soft and reassuring. This is why Mike knew he could come to his brother with these types of questions. He would understand, he wouldn't make fun of him and he would do everything in his power to help.
"You could be gay, or you could be straight, or you could be a little of both," said John. "Everyone has a little bit of gayness in them. Everyone. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Some people have more, some less. You can express it as a ratio or a percentage. Maybe you're 20% gay and I'm 21% — or maybe you're 80%. Only you can know and only after exploring your feelings for a while."
This made sense to Mike.
He told John how he felt. He liked girls. He'd had blowjobs from girls before and always came buckets. But he had also masturbated a few times thinking of the time he and Steven from soccer showered together after a practice. Steven's cock had gotten semi-erect and he'd been all embarrassed. Mike had a terrible time keeping his own erection down, but he did. Still, the thought had kept him in masturbation fantasies for months now.
John put his arm around his little brother's shoulders.
"And, if you were gay — or bi — would that really matter?"
"No. I just don't know whether it's just something I like to fantasize about or if I'd like to try it. I think I'd like to actually physically do something with a guy, but I wonder if the act of doing it would gross me out."
John saw Mike was getting a little stressed over the whole thing, so he pulled him close and started rubbing his shoulders to relieve the tension.
He worked his strong thumbs into his little brothers shoulders. He pressed his thumbs against the base of the teen's spine and ran them up and done slowly, surely giving him a tingling feeling.
At that, he noticed that his cock was starting to stir with all this touching and talk of his brothers sexy feelings with other guys. John was starting to wonder whether he, too, might be a little more gay than he believed.