When I Came Out...

I told all of my close friends about myself when I told them about my girlfriend. Before her, I have only ever liked guys, but I had fallen so deeply in love with her that it made me finally accept the fact that I could be truly happy with a girl. I don’t know what that means for my sexuality, since she’s the only girl I’ve ever loved, or will ever love, but because I am looking forward to a long life together with her I knew that meant I needed to come out about us. All of my friends were and are incredibly supportive of myself and of our relationship, and it was such a relief to finally tell them and be honest about it.

A couple weeks ago I decided to finally tell someone in my family. My girlfriend lives 800 miles away but this summer she will be coming to my state to move in with me. We are both ecstatic. I just moved in with my grandma who built her dream house with her husband, and she mentioned before I moved in that I might want a roommate since my room is so big. That’s what gave me the idea. I had originally told her that my “friend” from Colorado wanted to move out to California for school and wanted to live with me and be my roommate. This is the story I stuck with until I had actually moved in a couple weeks ago and there was a complication.

My Gram and Grandpa wanted to move a second bed into the room in preparation for my new “roommate,” and I was very conflicted about this because I didn’t know what to say, or how to say I only wanted one bed.

After agonizing over it and torturing myself, while my best friend was helping me unpack boxes and my Gram came up to talk to me about it, I just said, “Gram… I only want one bed.”

She says, “So… you don’t want a roommate anymore, then?”

I say, “No… Makayla is still moving in with me.”

Then she goes, “So… you two are going to share a bed then? That’ll be interesting.”

And I finally just said that she was my girlfriend. She paused for a moment and then she goes, “Well I guess you won’t be needing that second bed then! Let’s move this other one out.”

Then it was my turn to pause, and I asked her very bluntly, “…So… uh, what do you think about all of this?”

And she goes, “What? You having a girlfriend? It’s not like you’re having babies. I am way more for gay sex!”

I just stared at her and then gave her a high five and a hug and told her I loved her LOL. Best grandma ever. <3

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