LGBTQ+ Struggles

Problem #28

So my whole life I always had a interest in different sexuality's since my uncle was gay. I never really thought of not being straight but I knew about pan, bi, lesbian, and gay from a young age when I really started to realize I wasn't straight was when I meet my best friend, Lillian, at first. I didn't know what I was feeling exactly but now I know it's me being bi. I had to move away from Lexi to like in a different place and I got to go to a new School. I don't want to say there real names for privacy so let's call them Riley and Emma. I hung out with Riley more then a did Emma but there was one more friend in are group let's call her Lauren. Lauren was never really the nicest to me she never picked on me or stuff like that but she always left me out of everything and lied to me. Lauren always went from boy to boy and one day she questioned herself on her sexuality since no boy stayed with her I said "maybe you Bi? Or maybe you just like all genders? Like Pan?" She asked me what Pansexual was and she claimed to have gone home and told her mom about it.

Then the next day she came to school telling me Gays were stupid and she wasn't one that her mom had told her that she ease my Bi or gay since they only acted one way this really broke me since by then I knew I wasn't straight so it made me feel different sense as everyone knows I'm middle school if one person here's you say your bi or gay there like "OMG? Is SHE look at my butt?! I'm not Lesbian! This is gross" I always hated people like this since it happens a lot in my school and I always felt bad for the person they were talking about one day.

I called Riley and we kinda just played Truth or Truth and she asked me "do you ever wonder if your not straight?" And I told her about my sexuality and she told me about hers and how she also had feeling towards her same gender I felt happy I wasn't alone then out of the blue. Emma came out as not knowing her sexuality but knowing she was not straight since she had a girlfriend. She had told Riley about this way before me and I told her about my sexuality and Riley's since Riley was to scared to tell her and I finally felt close enough to them to talk about stuff like this.

Lauren didn't know about any of all sexualities and we all knew what she said to me that day then one day in gym class I don't remember what brought it up but I told Lauren about how I had a nonbinary friend and she asked "what's that?" Of course I told her and she gave me this disgusted look awhile went by then Riley told us about how a girl kept calling her gay just to bully her the girl knew nothing of her sexuality and I said "if she ever says it to me I'll just laugh and say 'are you a mind reader or something?'" Then we started to make jokes and Riley was always obsessed with fanfics and story's so she told us about a story she read that said gay people travel in packs which was true for us.

Now Lauren still knows bathing and she's more distant from us all but now I feel happy I'm not alone none of us are. We should always have someone to talk to. I'm very greatful for having such great friends.

- Sadie, Bisexual