Bram Greenfeld

**Abraham "Bram" Louis Greenfeld** is the quiet kid from Simon's lunch table. He is best friends with Garrett Laughlin and Nick Eisner. He moved to Shady Creek in his Freshman year.

## Personality

Bram is said to be a quiet kid who sits at Simon's lunch table. He plays soccer and is very smart. Bram also considers himself really funny inside his head, despite his shyness.

Bram also has some self-esteem issues, as he hid his identity from Simon because he didn't think of himself as attractive.

In *Love, Victor*, he looks happy and more self-confident, hanging out with his friends and roommates.

## Appearance

Simon describes Bram as "actually kind of adorable" with "expressive brown eyes, light brown skin, soft dark curls and cute, knobbly hands".

## Books

### *Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda*

Bram is mentioned throughout the book, but never in the context of him being Blue. There are some hints throughout the book that are subtly dropped, like his perfect English test score. (Simon knows that Blue writes in perfect grammar and words things very well). Also, he is named after a President of the United States. His email address is bluegreen118@gmail.com, referencing his last name and date of birth. He gifts Simon an Elliot Smith shirt that has a paper hidden inside it, which lists his phone number and tells Simon that he wasn't revealing his identity just because he felt like he wasn't attractive.

### *Leah on the Offbeat*

Bram and his friends are deciding where they want to apply to for college. He is accepted into NYU, and it seems like he is going to attend there with Simon, but is surprised when Simon instead reveals that he wants to attend Haverford College in Pennsylvania. The couple agree to start a long-distance relationship. Bram and Simon also find Leah and Abby kissing each other at prom, and are both shocked and surprised. Their friends come out to the couple as bisexual, and reveal that they have just started dating.

### *Love, Creekwood*

After graduating, Bram tries to keep in touch with Simon and his other friends from Creekwood High. He meets up with Simon, Leah, Abby, Nick, Garrett, and Taylor at a Waffle House. After Simon visits Bram in NYU, the couple have to say their goodbyes again, which pains Bram. Realizing that he only wants to be with his boyfriend, Simon emails Bram to tell him that he is transferring from Haverford to NYU the following year.

## Adaptations

### *Love, Simon*

In *Love, Simon*. Simon suspects that Bram is Blue early on in the movie, mainly because of how nice and funny he is to Simon. He wants to tell Bram that he is Jacques and decides to do so at Bram's Halloween party. After a few drinks, he musters up the courage to tell him, but as goes looking for him, he walks in on Bram and a girl kissing on a bed. Simon is discouraged and leaves disappointed, convinced that Bram likes girls.

Simon goes through possibilities until he runs out of them. After Martin publicly outs Simon, he makes a public post on the 'Creeksecrets' Tumblr page, to tell Blue to meet him on the Ferris wheel. On his very last ride, Bram comes up to him and sits down next to him. Bram asks Simon whether he is disappointed that it is him, hinting at some possible insecurities that he has with himself.

After the Ferris wheel ride, Bram joins Abby, Nick, Leah and Simon in their group. In the closing scene of the movie, he joins their group on their ride to school, having a set coffee order and the passenger seat in Simon's car, showing that he has been fully integrated into their friend group.

### *Love, Victor*

Bram is now happily living together with Simon in New York City and attends NYU, placing the shows events after the plot of Love, Creekwood.

He makes an appearance, as the show's main character Victor suddenly decides to visit Simon in New York City after Simon wrote he wished Victor was in New York so he can give Victor a hug at the end of the episode 7. However, as Victor made sudden plans, Simon wasn't able to be there at the beginning of Victor's visit as he was stuck in Jersey at his cousin's bachelor party. Instead, Simon sends Bram to pick up Victor and show him around. Bram takes him to their apartment and introduces him to Justin, Kim and Ivy. Bram realizes that Victor is feeling overwhelmed by the experience, with him deeming it "too gay" and decides to take him to a basketball league, where they play, Bram then reveals that it is a gay league, he wanted Victor to see that there is no one way to be gay. They can "be femme, butch, athletic, or in Simon's case, painfully un-athletic", but the one thing he can't be is afraid, and that he has friends who would be thrilled to accept him, and not be scared to let them in. Later, Bram and his roommates take Victor to Messy Boots, where Victor learns that Simon has shared his problems with Benji with Bram and his roommates. Feeling betrayed, Victor leaves the place. Upon his exit, he meets Simon who decided to ditch his cousins party and spend time with Victor instead. Simon explains to Victor that he only shared his messages to be able to properly help him. Since Simon has very accepting parents and a different coming out experience, while Bram had a girlfriend and Justin has very religious parents, they are able to relate to Victor's problems and support him accordingly. They make up and return to the others.

## Trivia

* Due to Becky Albertalli's friendship with Angie Thomas, the author of *The Hate U Give*, the worlds intersect. Therefore, Bram is the second-cousin of Starr Carter from *The Hate U Give*.
* In the books, Bram has a scholarship to Columbia University in New York.
	+ In *Love, Victor*, he attends NYU.
* Bram is black, Jewish and gay. When he tells Simon while they are on the ferris wheel, he laughs about it.