MY COMING OUT STORY: MY PROM DATE

            I would be lying to you if I said that someone besides my friend Marissa is my soul mate.  We became friends in my sophomore biology class where we were lab partners.  That year really defined our friendship because we would walk to classes together and would practically spend all day with each other.  In my senior year of high school, we were both officers on NHS together and that all in itself had its ups and downs, but somehow we persevered.  She seems to understand me more than any other person in my life.  I will occasionally send her lyrics to my favorite songs and she will always surprise me with a response that she loves that song.  We even share a favorite movie.  We also plan to take a road trip together someday.  We both put up with each other’s sass at times and we always know when the other needs to cheered up.  We have both seen the good and the bad with each other but we have always stuck around.  When I am with Marissa everything just seems so much more fun.  Even though I’m gay, I hope to still share my life with her because she means so much to me.   

It wasn’t until midway through my senior year that I knew I had to come out to her.  I couldn’t keep this big part of my life from her anymore.  Plus I had to dispel the rumors that she broke up with her boyfriend for me.  However, I thought it was hilarious that people even thought that to begin with, but I can see where they were coming from now.  So one night, we were aiding to Peter’s McDonald’s addiction by dropping him off at the closest set of golden arches and waiting in the car.  Marissa was sitting in the backseat and she was reading through my journal for my creative writing class.  I told her to be careful because I wrote a big secret in there.  Immediately she began to fan through the pages so fast in hopes to find something, but she never did.  So she asked what it was.  I had promised myself that if anyone ever asked, that I would tell them.  So I told her that I’m gay.  Just like Peter, she didn’t believe it at first, but she eventually figured out that I wasn’t lying.  After accepting it, her exact words were, “Thank God, my mom has been telling me that I need to find a gay friend.”  When she said that, I knew she was okay with it.  I would say from this point on, our relationship grew even stronger to the point that I asked her out to prom (Yes, I still went to prom with a girl).  It was the best night of our lives and we looked great, if I do say so myself.  I think her mom was also happy that she went to prom with me because she knew that she would be safe on prom night with me because Marissa had told her earlier that I am gay.  The relationship between Marissa and I still remains strong.  We text, skype and facebook to keep in touch.  When we are home together, the first thing we do is run up to each other and hug as I spin her in the air, kind of like in those sappy romance movies.  There is nothing in this world that would ever be able to separate us from each other because we mean too much to each other.