Bizarre Love Triangle (lgbtq+)

3 MEETING

I met Elia at a frat party in my first week. It was probably the least romantic encounter of all times. I was with Noel who was talking to some friends, when I noticed two girls making out right next to me. My gay little heart couldn't comprehend what I was seeing and I couldn't stop staring until one of the girls – Elia – noticed me and asked: "What are you looking at?".

I, too startled to think of an answer, just turned away.

My first class was two days later. I didn't realize that someone had sat down next to me until Elia spoke: "If it isn't the girl who stared. What was your problem?"

Her bluntness didn't make me more confident.

"I..." I started.

"Yeah?"

"Gay. Me gay!" I said the first thing that came to my mind. I secretly hoped I could at least make her smile with my awkwardness and love for fictional WLW-couples.*

"Oh eh, me gay too," Elia said without missing a beat. She grinned. "Do you have a cookie to split?"

I shook my head but grinned back at her.

"Anyways. I'm Elia."

"Grace."

"Nice to meet you, Grace."

Elia was openly gay, not only her looks screamed "LESBIAN!". She was a walking Pride billboard, all her belongings had rainbows on them. It slipped into our conversations, you could find pictures of previous girlfriends on her Instagram account, she made out with girls at every party. And slowly, I gained confidence in my own identity. Elia was the first person I told about Monse and she was very understanding. Coming from a Jewish family, her parents were very little supportive in the beginning, but it got better over time. That gave me hope that my family would come around at some point.

Elia invited me over for pizza and drinks. I brought Noel, David brought Nasreen and Elia brought another girl. This is how it always went. We met once a week, and usually, it was another girl. Even though there always was a girlfriend, we usually flirted a lot.

"What I've been meaning to ask you," she said one evening as we were sitting in her room, our backs against the wall, our legs touching. "Are you and Noel together?"

"No, why are you asking?"

"I was just wondering – you seem pretty close and he's calling you hon."

"Yeah, I know it sounds like it, but it's actually an abbreviation of Hunter – Hun. It started when we were making fun of people calling each other by the last name and it somehow stuck. That's why I'm calling him Harington and he used to call me Hunter. At some point it became Hun."

"Oh okay. I was just wondering because you said you were gay and –"

"Eh... I am pan actually."

"But when we met –"

"I just didn't know what else to say at that moment."

She laughed. "So you cited One Day At A Time."

"I did. And you knew what I was talking about."

"I did."

"We're both just dorks."

"And a sucker for lesbian content."

"And a sucker for lesbian content," I repeated, and we started watching The L Word.

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* Syd is in fact non-binary and not a woman.