Aiden was hurrying to get to his first period class the following morning. He didn’t want to have to stop to talk anyone, or concentrate on anything other than schoolwork, lest he be forced to think about yesterday afternoon’s activities. He, however, wasn’t as lucky as he’d hoped he would be when his girlfriend came walking right towards him.

“Hey baby,” Kyla said smiling. She leaned up to give him a quick kiss on the lips. “What’s in store for tonight?”

Aiden grimaced. He had to stop this. He didn’t want this relationship to get to serious; he certainly didn’t want to hurt Kyla, she was such a sweet girl.

“Listen, Kyla, I think we need to talk.”

“Okay, well, what do you want to talk about?” she asked, blissfully unaware of what was about to happen.

“We need to stop seeing each other.”

“What?! Why?” Kyla’s mood had gone from elated to horrified in about two seconds.

“Listen, Kyla. I know you like me a lot, and I’m flattered, and I like you, too. But I just don’t feel about you the same way you feel about me. And you deserve to be with someone who has the right feelings for you.”

“I, but, we…” Aiden could see she was on the verge of tears.

“I’m sorry,” he said, rubbing her arm, trying to comfort her.

The gesture didn’t turn out to be very comforting however, and Kyla ran off in tears. Her presence was soon replaced by Spencer and Ashley, who had seen her running off.

“Oh my god, is Kyla crying? What’s wrong?” Spencer asked, concerned.

“Who cares,” said Ashley, in her typical rude manner.

“Ashley, she’s your sister!” scolded Spencer, a little annoyed with her girlfriend.

“Whatever…” said Ashley, nonchalantly.

“I, um, I just dumped her,” said Aiden, answering Spencer’s question.

“What? Oh my god, Aiden, why?” asked Spencer, a little surprised.

“Things just, weren’t working out between us,” Aiden replied.

“Oh, that sucks. C’mon, Ash, let’s go check on her.”

“Um, why?”

“Ugh, you can be so difficult,” said Spencer as she dragged Ashley away.

            Although Aiden felt like crap for what he had just done, he knew it would be better in the long run. Had he kept up the relationship, Kyla’s feelings for him just would have grown, making the inevitable break up even worse. He just hoped that he and Kyla could still be friends, she really is a great girl. And look at it this way, he though to himself, now that I’m single, there’s a certain Mr. Carlin I can freely pursue.  Even though he didn’t really want to, Aiden abruptly stopped himself from thinking these thoughts. He couldn’t like another guy. He couldn’t be…. gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, it’s just, it’s not me. I’m Aiden Dennison, jock basketball player. All the girls swoon over me. There is absolutely no way in hell I can be gay. But maybe I’m not gay, I just like Glen. Who’s a guy. You idiot, when a guy likes a guy that’s called being gay! Ugh, this is too much to think about….