Member Since: 11/27/2008
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Yep.
This male cheerleader that came to my school my junior year. He was a freshman. His brother was a senior and popular. And by this time I was also really popular with people. I ended up crushing on him after my gaydar went off. He found out a week later. So I had to come clean and tell him I liked him. He said that we could be friends, but nothing more than that. He didn't say CRAP about being straight, which I immediately thought was a red flag.
Anyways, it took forever to get over him since he was the first guy I liked after being cyberbullied so I felt rejected and I almost asked him out to Winter Formal because these two mean girls talked me into it. My friendship with him was so rocky, yet I fought so hard during my Senior Year to be friends with him. But, all my friends thought he was gay, except for the ones that were closest to him. But I got over him eventually, and I fought pretty hard to stabilize are friendship.
So I graduated, and I was basically the last droplet of pressure on his sexuality, because it was probably hard enough having a popular older brother his freshman year and then having an openly gay popular student crushing on you at the same time. Once we were both out of his spotlight 5 days a week, the pressure was gone I guess, as well as the stress. He came out in February, but I had the feeling he was on the verge of coming out since he liked a Facebook picture of another popular gay guy that goes to my high school, and that rose another red flag for me.
I think our friendship is stable now since everytime I've talked to him after graduation we've had no tension between us. And he also retweeted a video I made for his birthday just last week.
I'm happy for him, and I know I'll have one more year to see him before he heads off to college and I try out for The X Factor so maybe my friendship with him can finally grow.
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