Chapter 231

"Okay first question" I say to him "how did I not know you were able to sing this well?'.

He raises his eyebrow at me in something of surprise, like he was surprised at the utter triviality and stupidity of the question that I had asked, and I decide to leave it at that.

It is also something of a wonder to me exactly how my brother had been able to master my favorite talent, but yet I had known nothing about it. I wonder how he had been able to master singing so well, so much so that it will sound angelic in my ears, but I have never him singing and i had never known about it.

I hadn't even caught him singing once in my presence, and to me that sounds like he was deliberately avoiding it. I want to know if that is the truth or if I was simply that unobservant.

"Well you know those little songs I hated back when we were kids, I always tried singing in the showers and I found out I was just good at it. It simply came to me like a second skin, and I'd always known that i was able to sing from the age of six".

"But how come I didn't notice?" I ask him. A shy smile leaves his face.

"Well I might have decided to hide that part from you".

"Why would you hide such a thing from me?" I ask him and he simply shrugs his shoulders.

"Well with the sort of guys that you have around you all the time, I'm guessing it would be considered something of a little bit sissy if you had a brother who was always singing all the time".

I shake my head at this as I now realise Scott has also been subject to a stereotype.

"So you hid it because you were afraid of others making fun of you for using your voice?" I ask him and he tilts his head to the side.

"You can put it that way" he says.

"Well it's a bit more complicated than that isn't?" Oakley says and I also turn the thought around in my head. Why would something as simple as singing be complicated in any way, the structures of the school and its various governments come into play at this point, and the truth slowly becomes revealed to me.

I'm guessing that if Scott with the way he looked and that toxic nature that was always around him, I'm not actually wrong about this toxic part, if the way you looked at the toxic nature that always occupied the forefront in his mind and singing were coupled together, with him being able to sing so marvelously well, I'm guessing that he will be the subject of attention.

Not to sort of attention that would denote popularity, but yet it was still popularity in its own way.

It was popularity for you to have people make you a target for being picked on, and I don't think he wanted that.