Don't Look So Alarmed

Aaron

I hadn’t planned on saying anything tonight or maybe ever. I was afraid it’d make things too uncomfortable. I was afraid she might think it better if she quit and that I’d lose the chance to at least be friends with her. But after the revelation Henrietta had just laid on me, I figured I had to. It was clear now that what I’d thought I’d imagined feeling from her was not all in my head, but even more important . . .

Henrietta wasn’t gay.

What’s more she’d practically said it. She was only with Edi because she was afraid of losing her best friend. My heart went out to her because I could completely relate to the grief I knew I’d feel once I lost my best friend. Only I had other friends. Tons of family members. Henrietta had told me about her aunt in the past. They’d never been that close, so that’s probably why Edi meant so much to her, but just like my relationship with Mia, theirs was doomed too.