Role Playing

by Cathy Yardley

“I don’t like leaving the house, though. In fact, I’ll do a lot to actively avoid leaving the house.

She rolled her eyes. “No sexy fun times until you feel close to someone. And even then, not everybody you get close to. Just some people.” He felt gobsmacked. “That’s a thing?” “Yes, it is.” “Huh. Demi,” he said, testing the word out. He felt a strange lightness in his chest. He was going to go home and google the shit out of this stuff—asexual, allosexual, demisexual. The idea that there might be an explanation for something he’d always felt like a freak about was eye opening. The thought that he wasn’t alone in it was more comforting than he’d ever realized.