Blue Nail Polish (Connor's POV)

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This new kid joined my math class today. His name is Jude and he's actually really nice. Some girl told me his mom died and I guess I assumed that he'd be weird and traumatized or whatever. But he's not. At lunch some of the bigger guys were pushing him around because he wears nail polish. They called him gay and a girl and all this other mean shit that probably isn't even true. 

If he was, though, gay, I mean, I wouldn't mind. 

"Connor!" My dad calls. "I'm going to the store. You need anything?"

I think about Jude and his blue nail polish. "Yeah, blue nail polish." There's a silence. I look up from my homework. I'm sitting on my bed and my dad is standing in the doorway. He sighs and sit on the end of my bed. 

"Connor, is there something you want to tell me?" I stare at him. 

"No. Nothing," I say. He thinks I'm gay. And that thats what the nail polish is about. But that's not why. I want the nail polish for Jude. I'm going to paint my nails too. If those assholes at school give Jude crap then they'll have to give it to me too. I don't really have a lot of friends and neither does Jude. I think this could be really good for me. Making friends. And good for Jude. 

"Okay," Dad gets up and leaves the door open a crack as he exits. 

Maybe I am. Gay. Just a little bit...for Jude. 

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