Misconceptions: Asexuality

Misconception: Asexuals won't have sex.

"Evie," Lonnie called as Evie turned to make her way into her Chemistry class, "I have a question for you."

Evie raised her eyebrow in response before stepping to the edge of the hallway in front of the classroom and waiting for her to catch up. Well, she supposed waiting for one person actually meant waiting for two, as her eyes caught sight of Jay five steps behind her back in a half-hearted attempt to stop her. She glanced back and forth between the two persons, going over the lack of breath in their voices to the sight of their clothes clinging to their shirts. Jay heaved a quiet "fencing practice" in response to her silent question, so she nodded at him and giving Lonnie's question her full attention.

"Do asexual people have sex? Like I understand don't have a sexual attraction to someone, but like I don't think it would mean every asexual person would completely abstain from having sex. And I kind of have 10 bucks riding on this so what's the answer?" Lonnie said, jumping up and down on her toes as if it could help her physically pull the answer from her mouth.

"Why are you asking me this question?" Evie sighed as she shifted her bags to one side to the other.

"Because you're our resident ace and could probably answer this question if you wanted to," Jay responded before dropping his voice and growling, "but I would have left the bet out of it, Lonnie."

She was the residential ace. 

Evie smirked to herself, allowing herself a moment of pride at the title, before focusing her mind back on the question. Despite the bet at hand, she really did appreciate the interest behind the bet itself. The search for knowledge about asexuality was a long, tiring one since there was a huge lack in representation almost everywhere you looked. And that doesn't even go into how the very few are shown on TV, since most ace characters are portrayed inaccurately to various degrees. 

"Jay, give Lonnie ten bucks," she commanded as Lonnie screamed and did a little victory dance in front of them. Jay grumbled to himself as he fished a ten out of his wallet and slapped it into Lonnie's hand.

"Why, Evie?" Jay sighed, his head dropping onto her shoulder momentarily as he breathes out his disappointment at the lost of his well-earned cash, "if someone has no sexual attraction, wouldn't they just not have sex?" 

"You would think so," she replies as Lonnie jumps around happily around them, "but there are so many other reasons for people to have sex. Some ace people still masturbate. Some will because their partner wants it or to have kids of their own. There are many factors honestly."

Evie's lips curl into a smile as she waves goodbye to Jay and Lonnie and slips into her chemistry class. Most of the class is already filled, which would normally bother her, but instead she takes a seat near the far left of the classroom and doodles happily into her notebook. 

As much as having a bet on asexuality seemed a little wrong, the idea that her friends wanted to know more about asexuality meant a lot to her because it meant they had been talking about it beforehand and wanted to know more about something important about her. And that was enough to make her day just a little bit brighter.  

She just hoped that they would continue to ask her questions.