Kish: Kyle's Breaking Point

On today's One Life to Live, we picked up right where we'd left off: with Oliver & Kyle's first onscreen kiss. You know, I'd be fine with starting every episode with a kiss between those two! Even if they're not on that day, they could just be kissing in the background of the first scene.

Anyway, Cristian walked around the corner and caught them, as we knew he would. He broke up the kiss by asking if this was what Fish didn't want to tell Layla.

Oliver reacted by pushing Kyle away roughly and asking what the hell was wrong with him. Fish told Cristian that he'd seen it, it was assault, the guy was all over him! Cristian wasn't buying it, though, and he told Oliver to stop, that he knew he was gay. Oliver insisted that Kyle had been stalking him and Kyle just shook his head and said, softly, "This is so sad." I really loved that little moment.

Cristian told Fish that he had to stop lying, that there was nothing wrong with being gay, but that Fish had to tell Layla. Fish lashed out again, saying that he wasn't gay and that 'this freak' had come on to him. Poor Kyle! He just stood there, silent, looking like his heart had just been ripped out.

Cristian rose to Kyle's defense, saying that he wasn't a freak, and neither was Fish: "So you kissed him back, so what, you're gay. What's the big deal Oliver?" Cristian told Fish to do right by Layla and tell her the truth himself, so Cristian didn't have to.

Oliver told Kyle not to come near him again and Kyle told him not to worry: they're done. Fish looked, just for an instant, like he wanted Kyle to take that back, but he just said "Good" and walked away.

Once they were alone, Cristian asked if Kyle was all right.

Kyle: I'm in love with a guy who hates the fact that he loves me. He'd rather force himself into an impossible situation with a woman rather than just come out and tell the truth.

Cristian: ... I'm sorry, man. But look, when he tells Layla the truth, he can come around.

Kyle: Don't count on him telling Layla.

Cristian: He's that scared?

Kyle: Yeah. But I meant what I said. We're done.

Kyle then took the opportunity to try and make Cristian see that he was lying to himself just as much as Oliver was. No, not about his sexuality (though, what a triangle that would be!), but about his feelings for Layla.

At the station, Fish seemed to have decided to take Cristian's advice by telling Layla the truth. He asked to talk to her in private, but while he was waiting for her to finish up some work, one of his day player cop buddies walked by and gave Oliver a thumbs up sign for having scored Layla. This macho approval seemed to change Fish's mind and he told Layla that what he wanted to say could wait until later.

Layla suggestively told him that they'd have the apartment to themselves practically all night, since Cristian was working late, and after a moment of looking like that was the last thing he wanted to hear, Fish kissed Layla and said it was a date.

I'm still loving this story. It's great how they've taken this unsympathetic character like Kyle and made him into a character to root for and, at the same time, taken an adorable guy like Fish and added an unexpected cowardice to his character, this overwhelming fear of who he really is. It makes him more fascinating that he ever was before.

You just feel, like Kyle did in the alley, a sense of sadness and pity for this guy who is turning his back on not only love, but on his true self, all out of fear.

I can't wait to see Kyle move on and to see how jealous it ultimately makes Fish! I think there's a lot of great story ahead.