So You're Not Gay Then?

As I had been earlier, he seemed stunned but still didn’t say anything. I explained about the parties we’d gone to and how at first I thought it was just crazy college stuff. We’d made out for the sake of going along with all the other girls getting crazy at those parties.

“One of the first things Edi had said to me when we moved out here was, while she had every intention of taking her education and scholarship very seriously, she wanted the full experience of college. She said I should too—embrace the crazy parties and enjoy our college years as long as we were responsible about it—because her older siblings had told her before she knew it they’d be over. So that’s what I thought we were doing at first. But then she came out to me and confessed she’s been in love with me for years.”