CIJS,
Thanks to circumstances beyond my control as a kid raised in a household where my family did not care to help me with my education, I failed first grade two times and was from that point on always two years older than everyone else in my class.
My freshman year in high school, during the blossoming of my sexuality, I first saw you. I thought you were beautiful. You were a junior in high school, on the football team, and I felt drawn to you in a way that I would only understand a couple of years later when a school counselor, who secretly counselled gay students, confirmed upon my asking her that you were gay.
I wonder if I had not been so shy, would we have been an item had I approached you? If I had been in your grade where I belonged, instead of having been held back twice, would we have had a better chance of knowing one another?
You were my first redheaded crush, though you wouldn't be my last; more on that another time.
Thanks to circumstances beyond my control as a kid raised in a household where my family did not care to help me with my education, I failed first grade two times and was from that point on always two years older than everyone else in my class.
My freshman year in high school, during the blossoming of my sexuality, I first saw you. I thought you were beautiful. You were a junior in high school, on the football team, and I felt drawn to you in a way that I would only understand a couple of years later when a school counselor, who secretly counselled gay students, confirmed upon my asking her that you were gay.
I wonder if I had not been so shy, would we have been an item had I approached you? If I had been in your grade where I belonged, instead of having been held back twice, would we have had a better chance of knowing one another?
You were my first redheaded crush, though you wouldn't be my last; more on that another time.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
~ Erin Hunter