After my talk with my mom I had to call Ashley and tell her all about it. She won’t believe how well it went. I still have to pinch myself to make sure I’m not dreaming. You would think the first one would be enough but I’m still not completely convinced. I never thought that coming out to my mother would be so easy. I always thought it would go very badly and end up with me standing outside the house with all of my stuff thrown all over the yard. I’m sitting in my room right now with a huge smile on my face and I can’t hide it. I take my phone out of my pocket and push my first speed dial number and put it to my ear when it starts ringing.

            “Hello?”

            “Am I in a dream or an alternate universe?” I have to ask that to make sure one last time I’m not dreaming this.

            “Spence? What are you talking about? I don’t think this is a dream or an alternate universe. What is going on? Are you okay? Did something happen with your mom? Do I need to come get you? Or do I need to hire someone to kill your mother?” Ashley shoots of a million questions and I can’t help but giggle as she does this. “Why are you laughing? I’m not kidding.”

            “I’m fine. Something did happen with my mom but you don’t have to hire anyone to kill her. You could come over here if you wanted to.”

            “Spence, you’re not telling me anything really. What happened with your mom?” Ashley says sounding confused. I guess I haven’t really told her anything yet. I should probably fill her in so her head doesn’t explode. That would not be good at all. I’d like to be able to see her beautiful face again so I’m going to inform her of what went down with my mom. I’m having fun though. Maybe I should play around with her for a little longer.

            “Well we had a very interesting talk this afternoon. I’m still a little shocked from it. I can’t decide if someone replaced my mother with an alien or something nice. It’s like she took a huge dose of happy with a side of nice. I like it. I need to find the person who made this and hug them.” I start to laugh as I hear Ashley exhale loudly getting upset that I’m not telling her anything useful yet. She is so funny when she is exasperated. I know it drives her insane when I do this to her but I can’t help it.