Growing up, I didn’t see boys any differently than I saw girls. I didn’t wake up one day pining after every boy in my school. I never had a real school girl crush. I never really thought anything of it because I had feeling for buys, but I didn’t like them any more than I liked girls. My feelings …show more content…
At this point, I had sorta dated a girl, but it was more like playing house than a serious “relationship.” We convinced ourselves it was a joke and when it ended, I laughed it off. All that changed in seventh grade. That was the year I met Callie. Callie was the new girl at school and she was unlike anyone I’d ever met. She was a good five inches shorter than me. She had short dark hair that she kept tucked under her hat all the time. She also had a girlfriend. Not an 11 year old crush, but an actual girlfriend. Everyone loved her. No one rejected her at school. Everyone’s moms liked her, her parents accepted her, everyone was okay with her and her choices, choices that I’d been taught to hate. The closer I got to Callie, the more we talked about sexuality. During one of our conversations, Callie started laughing at something I said and “Dude, you’re so