I whispered into his ear. His face changed when I said that. He tilted his head and looked at me. When we walked into the classroom, I saw my brother so we started speaking in Spanish. He thought I was joking until I told him I was serious. My brother interrupted, “What’re you guys talking about?” We ignored him. He continued writing his character sheet for mandarin class and we started talking again.
When I got home, I went downstairs and hopped on the computer again to talk to Nate. I told him what I did that morning.
“See?” he said, “It’s not that hard.”
Thoughts started going through my mind. I asked myself a few questions. What would happen if I were to tell my other friends? What would happen if I were to tell my parents?
The next morning, I decided I was going to tell one of my close friends, Gary. On my way to English class, which was the first class of my day, I was walking with Gary. I was thinking about how I was going to tell him because I had not thought this through. I told him the same way I told Fred by whispering into his ear. He looked at me with an empty gaze for a while. “I don’t know how to react to that,” he said.
After class was