What's Stopping Me?

How can you call someone a friend, when they reject you after they know your secret? Most homosexual teens are usually very hesitant in revealing their true identity  or “coming out of the closet”, since they’re most likely in high school and as we all know high school is a “popularity contest” judged by the very people who can make or break you…..your friends and classmates…..The “most popular” kids are usually the school athletes and by athletes i mostly mean “The Jocks”, you know the ones that like to pick on others, mostly people who were different….. i.e. me. On the female spectrum of things..…it would be the cheerleaders who were the most popular. But aside from that i wanna specifically talk about the people who were your friends…… i had this one friend who i met in my freshman year of high school who was really into singing and so he joined the schools choir. We were really good friends we’d talk to each other all the time during school …..then he found out that i was gay…..then suddenly he stopped talking to me….i asked a mutual friend of ours, who knew i was gay, if maybe our friend had gotten a schedule change or if i did something wrong……..and she said “Nope, he said that he didn’t agree with your sexual orientation and didn’t want to talk to you anymore” and i was thinking “what?”, my sexual orientation never came up in any of our conversations, so i never mentioned it……But what did that have to do with our friendship….it wasn’t like i  was making any moves on him, we were just friends. All i wanted was to make friends and have someone to talk to, not create a complicated situation where i lose friends…….