He dances us over to the bed and looks into my eyes. I think he’s going to say something about how much he wants me, how good he feels or something. Instead, he says, I hope you don’t mind if we use condoms. I’ve been with a lot of guys, and I want to keep you safe.
I love Gabriel and Michael together. But they're definitely in that category of first loves: you fall for eyes, a scent, a comment, an expression. Then you struggle to figure out the rest. I wanted Michael to have someone who truly cared about him and Gabriel does. But I wanted a complication to come into play and it does.
It's pretty fair to say that sex positivity wasn't a thing in my high school and that wasn't a gender issue. If you had casual sex with multiple partners, you were shunned to some extent. As AIDS became more of an issue, this became something else. In a time where we didn't know how the disease could be shared, we didn't even know it was a virus, you had to worry that everything could be a death sentence.
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