So... I was walking around my city, happy and smiling because I found a jewellery store that had silver rings on sale and I'd bought two, when I turned a corner and bumped into him: the most popular guy from my high school. I hadn't seen him in 20 years and I must say that... those girls who followed him drooling through the corridors would be very disappointed right now 😅 He's still in good shape and women could find him attractive, I guess, but his long blond hair and surfer style has gone forever, and now he's a grown man starting to go bald. He was a nice guy, not one of those arrogant bastards that was always trying to impress girls, and it happens that his grandparent's village is very close to my grandparent's village so we used to meet in the same club located midway every summer and even have mutual acquaintances... we weren't friends exactly but... close enough.
We had a small chat, we lost track of each other when we went to the University, and told me that he's a computer expert right now and works... in Finland! This is the first time he can come back home in years and I was the first 'old friend' he found by chance. He said:
"So... we could go out dinner and... you know... catch up."
"Sure, do you still keep in touch with high school friends?"
"Yes, with some of them thanks to Facebook, but I was thinking that you and me could... you know... go for a walk and try to find out if the old clubs where we used to hang out are still there in the old quarter..."
Cri.... Cri... Cri... (Insert sound of crickets here while I was trying to process the implications of that sentence)
"Are you trying to flirt with me?" To be honest, I'm a bit slow on the uptake when someone makes eyes at me... That's why I'm single probably. "Man... you know I'm gay, don't you?"
"What? Are you kidding me?" He burst into laughing and I looked down: Chuck Taylors, ripped jeans, Guns'n Roses T-shirt, several rings on my fingers and my rainbow coloured belt...
"Seriously... are you telling me that I don't ping?" Maybe another reason for which I'm single.
"I can't believe it... Where you gay in high school?"
"I wasn't even human in high school, I was a fucking teenager... I was... confused as fuck!"
"Wow... this is weird... I had a crush on you back then: the summer they opened the new municipal swimming pool in my grandparent's village, do you remember? You came with your cousin everyday..."
"I had a crush on your girlfriend next autumn when we started classes again... She was a beautiful girl..."
"Yeah... you should've seen her boobs... they were gorgeous..."
"I did... we had gym class at the same time and shared the locker room."
"What??? It took me 6 months to convince her to show me her tits!"
"Perks of being a lesbian..." (Insert big grin here) 😁
"Well, I have to go. It was nice to see you again and find out that... we have the same taste in girls..."
"Yeah, nice to see you too..."
That was three hours ago, I bet that half of my old high school mates know that I'm gay through Facebook Messenger by now 😂😂😂😂😂
