06. Different
Different, Luke had learned, was just a nice way of saying weird. It meant abnormal, or meant that you were part of a minority. Luke was very different. He was pretty sure in this current time he was part of the smallest minority on earth. That of boys who were created by an alien species, made to be the perfect human being, and still had a crush on there best friend.
Not that Clyde knew that Luke was that different. Luke had been very good at pretending to be pretty much asexual around Clyde. He pretended to be embarrassed when Clyde asked him about girls, and never ever looked twice at a boy when Clyde was around.
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Clyde wondered how many more hints he was going to have to drop around Luke before Luke turned around and realized that when Clyde said, “I like different things.” that the sub text was “I like you!”
Luke was so different than all the other teenagers that Clyde knew. He wasn’t self obsessed, he didn’t conform to people. He didn't act like an idiot and chase girls all the time, which Clyde had to struggle not to draw conclusions from.
Not that there would be anything wrong for drawing that sort of conclusion if that conclusion turned out to be right. It'd be pretty hypocritical of him.
Because he had abig crush on luke.
The only problem was that no matter how much he liked luke he wasn't going to turn around and point out that difference. Because how would he react if it turned out that Luke wasn't... that different. It'd be so embaressing. Sometimes it was a good idea to hide your differences.