To my friends of my best friend,
I was timid around you when we first met. I always put my guard up around new people. That's just who I am.
When he introduced me, you all pleasantly smiled and said hello. But when you thought I wasn't watching, you started whispering to each other.
Maybe it was because I have short hair. Maybe it was because I was new. Maybe it was because I was wearing a bomb ass band tee.
But a part of me strongly felt it was because I'm gay. Because I like girls.
Maybe you thought that being gay is wrong. Maybe you wanted proof and was expecting me to start making out with the only other girl in the room. Maybe you felt threatened because I just bent the rules to your game.
But the only thing that truly matters is that somewhere underneath the staring and the whispering, you forgot that I was a person too.
I'm a human being. With emotions, thoughts, and temptations. I'm just a person. And I have absolutely no clue how to exist properly. I just am. I'm a person too.
Thank you M for letting everyone else see that I too am just a person. It wasn't until we sat on the couch and talked about Pokemon that everyone else saw it was somehow alright to talk to me. So thank you. Thank you so, so much.
Now, I'm a very quiet person. I keep my head down and my mouth closed. But all of you seemed to bring me out of my shell. I have no clue how but you did.
I was laughing. I was really smiling. I was having a good time. I was truly happy for a number of hours and I forgot how that felt.
I somehow was part of the group and I felt like I belonged there. Even after the very awkward and somewhat uncomfortable first two hours. It blows my mind how you guys just took me in and started treating me like family when you never even knew who I was before that day.
Thank you.
I really can't say it enough.
So to friends of my best friend... He said I would love you guys. He was right.
