"I think you just described my dad's dream environment. Can't say as I've ever been hunting, though. Not a lot of hunting in my neck of the woods. At least, not of animals."
Sean listened in silence, just eating, while Troy talked about his old girlfriend and when he finished, he nodded. "Could be how you're raised. Could just be who you are. Me, I guess I'm a romantic. I believe in soul mates. I think you can truly care about and love a lot of people before you find that soul mate, too. It's not that there's only one true love. But, when you find that one person, you can't help it. The relationship just happens because it's all you need. Of course, I get leeway for such fanciful ideas, crazy musician and all," he teased. But, even if he'd doubted that theory before, he'd seen his dad and G, been around them long enough to know it was true. "Not that I'm going to go around mooning about for a soulmate. I'll find her or him when the time is right. Until then, I've got family, friends, and music. Can't complain too much about that."
He shook his head. "Not everyone. I do because it's never been a big deal in the circles I've run with; we're all a little more open to experimentation. Kinney prides himself on being out. No one says anything, but they're not all comfortable with it. A lot of them, but not all. And not everyone is open about themselves, either. There are still some who don't tell the world their sexual preferences as a matter of public record. Savannah, for example, accepts it as what makes people happy. But, she doesn't really get it, or accept it in general. Hell, Kinney's fucked plenty of the enlisted guys who all swear to being straight. You've just had the misfortune of one sex conversation after another, it seems." Sean chuckled. "And I guess this turned into one anyway, even though we said it wouldn't."
Grinning, he turned back to his food a moment before shaking his head. "What do you want? You might have had crappy plays at your high school, but we had no sports teams and Juilliard certainly doesn't. Just be glad I deigned to throw a ball around with my dad during his visits when I was a kid." Thinking about it, Sean nodded and smiled a little to acknowledge the hesitant admission of 'boyfriend'. "Music really has been my life, ever since I was a little kid. It's what makes me happiest. The rest...I guess in a way I take after my dad, which is so odd to think about. I'm not going to do it unless I do it well and damned well at that. If I'm going to do it, I want to be the best, or at least the best I can be. It's probably why I've been able to go along with all this training so easily. I refuse to be less than my best just because I didn't have a choice in being here."