Age: 20 Male Height: 5'6" Weight: 120 Dark Eyes Likes: Reading, Acting on stage, getting compliments, Reeses Pieces, University, singing, spending time with his friends, watching movies, going out. Dislikes: football players (because he got punched by one once), cold wet socks, bigotry, crying, feeling lonely, people who don't return library books on time.

He peeled off the pajamas and got into the shower. He recognized her brand of shampoo, Clairol Herbal Essences. He could remember it always being in the shower and he could remember secretly using it sometimes because he loved the way it smelled. His mother bought him Prell shampoo and never conditioner.

He could remember envying his older sister, Adriana, for all the cosmetic things she was allowed to have. He sighed and squeezed some shampoo out into his hand and then washed his hair. He also remembered buying opaque shampoo bottles when he was in high school so that he could sneakily have shampoos that his mother considered to girly. Even clothes had been a battle, there had been a very fine line between preppy clothes and clothes that his father would object to.

It felt like he’d been hiding things forever. That had been why he decided to tell them yesterday. What a mistake. It seemed ridiculous now to even think that they might be okay with his being gay. How could he ever have even considered telling them something like that.