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 There For Her
I was completely blown away when my best girlfriend told me that she was coming out of the closet. I'd never known a homosexual person before. I didn't know what it meant to our relationship that she wasn't looking at the men in the bars and at the grocery store, like I was.
The most horrifyingly embarrassing thoughts went through my mind over the days following her telling me. Could I deal with seeing her with another woman? Was she looking at me that way? What would people think of me, being friends with a lesbian?
It actually came to the point where I wasn't seeing her half as much as I used to. It wasn't intentional; I just didn't seem to have the urge to pick up the phone like I had before.
It was shameful. And I knew it. So I bit the bullet. I gathered my thoughts and invited my best friend in the world over for coffee. I even baked her favorite cookies, peanut butter with chocolate chip.
We sat at the kitchen table and talked for hours. At first, we talked about a number of questions that I had. Those terrible, haunting questions that I'd been so embarrassed to have in my head were just there. She was so patient with me. I was so ignorant as to what it meant to be a lesbian, but she answered all of my questions, no matter how small or silly. But the majority of the evening, we talked about the "normal" stuff. The things we always talked about.
It was great. I had my old friend back. A friend I'd never lost in the first place!
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