Pride Story

Ok, this my first 100% true story here, and while it isn't as exciting, it sure was scary.

Ok, over here in the States, this past week was Spring Break for us. My family and I were headed up to Breckenridge, Colorado for some skiing. So everything's going great, when on Friday afternoon, I decide to use my dad's laptop to visit PrideStory. Big mistake. My mom notices me on the internet and asks, "What are you doing?" while looking at the screen upside-down. I quickly exit the site, but not before she catches a glimpse of it. I say, "Nothing." She says, "What site where you on?" While my heart is going a billion beats per second, I quickly say "nothing" again. She gets more agitated, and the conversation continues in this manner. Eventually, I go to a video game site and say, "This is where I was. Okay?" It wasn't. "Why were you so adamant about not showing me?" she asks. I make up a lie about how I didn;t think it was important, but she isn't convinced and threatens to ground me if I didn't tell the truth. I start to cry, because I knew that she would still keep asking even if I was grounded, I wasn't ready to tell anyone about my sexuality yet. I manage to squeak out the words, "I can't, I'm not ready!" She gets a little freaked out, and I say, "It;s a site where I just write poems, okay?" She understands, but then she pulls me into her room. She questions me a little further, and soon figures it out, although she didn't say it outright. I, of course, am emotionally spent. Thankfully, she didn't ask me about it for the rest of the day. She was fine with it, too, but I wasn't ready. And still being in my teen years, I'm still trying to sort things out. But I'll always remember this as my first "coming out" (as I don't think it's a phase), even if I never said it outright.

There you go. Maybe not as exciting as some the stories on here, but c'est la vie (that's life).