A simple get-together for my friend’s seventeenth birthday turned into sleepless nights thinking about an ignorant comment. The sun went down and we all sat by the fire roasting marshmallows and sharing embarrassing stories. All was going well until my friends boyfriend, Joey, made a remark that left a mark in my brain forever. “Jay asked me like twenty times how much I workout” he snicked after Jay left the party. Jay came out as gay during our sophomore year of high school and I did not even hesitate to accept him. At first Joey’s self serving statement sounded like an innocent comment, I soon realized that he implied that Jay had a crush on him as everyone laughed and commented on how Joey was taken. Unable to comprehend the significance
