Not so alone

Chapter 1: Birdy

It was a wonderful day, the birds were chirping, the sun was shining! Boone called up birdy to invite them to the park.

"hello birdy?"

"eyyyyy wazzup boonester?" Frederica chirped.

"Well I think you know my answer" Boone said with his usual, chill, boone tone of voice.

"The sky, I mean what else?" She said.

"you wanna head to the park with me?" He asked.

"You know I do! Let me get my stuff together and I'll meet you there!" They exclaimed.

"Great! See you then!"

Not too long later, boone finally found Frederica on the swingset and decided to join him.

"Hey birdy?" Boone asked, as he started picking up momentum on his swing.

"Yeah Boonester?" Birdy replied, going just as high.

"Can I ask you a few questions about things?"

"like what friendo?"

"well you know a lot about that gender stuff right?"

"Righto dude! What do you want to know?" She asked, now very excited to help her friend.

They both screeched and scorched thier feet on the ground to stop. Boone looked around to make sure nobody was listening in. Nobody was, it was safe to ask his questions.

"well....Is there a word for when you feel like your a girl sometimes, but maybe you're a boy the next? Or maybe no gender happens sometimes?"

"Oh you mean like when your gender is fluid?"

"Yeah exactly! You get it!"

"Well that's an easy one, the word for that is genderfluid!" he exclaimed.

"Genderfluid..." Boone repeated. Now he knew there was a word for what he was. Birdy noticing the somewhat awkward silence, decided to break it.

"any particular reason you wanted to know, you don't have to say if you don't want to."

"Well...I think im genderfluid."

"Really? Cool beans bro!" Birdy got up and gave him a hug. "Tell you what if you have anymore questions about stuff like this feel free to let me know! And if its okay for me to ask, what pronouns do you want me to use right now?"

Boone thought about it for a sec.

"Can you say her and she when your talking to or about me for now?"

Frederica made little finger guns at her friend "You know I can boonester. Say its hot you wanna go get some gelato down at that new place not to far from here?"

"Mmm Mmm! Sounds delish!" And off they went.

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Over the next few days Boone's gender changed rather quickly at times, this did not affect her pronouns too much as they were still she/her for the time being. She met up with freddy for drama club. Today they were working on the script and finishing the set for the upcoming play boone herself got the lead role in. They volunteered to stay after most everyone else left to get the stage done on time. As they were painting the backdrop for the night scene outside, birdy couldn't help but notice boone was deep in thought, he knew this because boone was not painting the stars at all, he was just staring at the wall.

"Hey boone, you okay?" They asked.

"Hmm? Yeah." This response did not sound a lot like the boone birdy knew.

"Anything on your mind you wanna talk about? If you still have questions about-"

"Is it just us?" She questioned. Birdy was a little taken aback this.

"Im not sure I understand what you mean." She said back.

"I mean...Is it just you and me who are...different...here?" Now he understood, and put a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"aww Boone of course not, I understand what you're feeling though, it was like that for me back in canada when I was younger, only my school was a little...conservative so to speak. finding someone else like me was a little hard. But I did, and there's more like us here than you think."

"Somehow it doesn't feel like it." Freddy smiled, a somewhat inappropriate response but they just couldn't help it with all she knew about her friends and the other students here. "I really mean it, you're probably friends with a lot of people like us, but either you or they haven't realized that yet"

Upon hearing that, it made boone feel a little better about herself.

"Have you thought about telling penn, and the gang your genderfluid?"

"Oh yeah a bunch! I think I'll just go with the flow and say it when the time feels right"

"Thats a good idea my friend" They continued to paint until the scene for the backdrop was finally done, a moonlit river and forest area.

Boones phone vibrated in her pocket, signalling it was time for this part time wise-person to skidaddle off to her job.

"Oooooh looks like the boonester has to leave for the job downtown."

"Oh?" Birdy looked at his watch. If they didn't leave now they would be late for sure. "Your right! ready for a friendly, not so friendly wiseman against minion match?" She asked with a devilish smirk

"You know it" Boone replied, and off they headed to thier destinations.