Friends aren't too easy
to come by
when everyone thinks
you're someone to
tease,
bully,
and ostracize.
Rumors of
'that queer kid'
have seemed to circulate
like wildfire
since I've arrived,
created by that
one mistake I'd made
of telling one
particularly insistent bully
that I wasn't male
or female.
It's all been
downhill from there.
I tried to talk to a girl
I sit next to
in history class
to ask for
a pencil
because I'd forgotten
my pencil case
in my locker.
Maybe I was trying
to strike up a conversation
too,
because as previously stated,
I need friends.
Maybe at this point,
after years of
never fitting in,
I'm getting a little
desperate.
But it doesn't matter -
she ignored me.
I heard her laugh about it
to her friend a seats over
a few seconds later,
even though I was sitting
right next to her
and could hear everything
she was saying about me.
I figured then
that my fate was sealed -
especially since I had nothing
with which to take notes
and I had trouble remembering
what we learned in history class
in the first place.
The teacher called on me
to solve a problem
in third period algebra -
one that I knew,
even though it was
a rather complex equation.
I know I did my work
perfectly
and gave her
the correct answer,
but she immediately told me
that I was
wrong.
Across the room,
I heard someone
muffle a laugh
and mutter,
not too subtly,
something rather rude
about me.
The next person
to be called on
gave the same answer
as I had,
and when the teacher
was prompted
to check her answer book,
'just to make sure,'
she found that
their answer -
my answer -
was correct.
"Oh," was all
the teacher said.
"I guess you're
right, then."
She didn't even
look my way
as she moved on
to the next problem.
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I just read a really emotional story on here and felt like posting another chapter of this. Don't even ask about my logic, it doesn't make sense to me either.
If you guys enjoyed this, please feel free to vote and leave me some feedback below! I'd love to hear from you guys.
Another thing: is there anyone else reading this who is a part of the LGBT+ community? Does anyone have any good stories they've found on here with characters in the community? One of the reasons I started writing this was because it doesn't seem like we have proper representation in the world, and especially not in literature. Story recommendations along those lines would be wonderful, if you guys have suggestions! c:
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