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Living your truth is important, but sometimes living the lie is what keeps you warm, fed, looked after…breathing.
It’s unfair how heterosexuals get to love, laugh, and live so freely, while we second-guess everything. Our actions are always cautious.
“In life you need to celebrate all victories, big and small.”
“Don’t ever say that again,” he says. “You’re every bit as much the leading man as anyone else. Never forget that, and remember that I like you just the way you are.”
On this Friday night, we are just two boys kissing because we want to, because we like each other. And there is nothing at all wrong with that. Because love is love is love.
I don’t have a Prince Charming on a white horse. Instead, I have one in a white Jeep.
“You know what trope I really hate is when the main character decides to give up on the person they love in the name of protecting them.” She fixes me with a stare. “That’s what you’re doing right now. You’re trying to protect Bryson, but you don’t realize you’re hurting him instead.”
It was real then. And it’s real now. I’m using my wish now. I wish you were here. I miss you.
I choose to be happy. Because I can be. Because I deserve to be. Gay means happy, too, you know.