Also, I was still a closet case at that point. There were a few out gay guys, but none of them caught my eye. On the other hand, some of the guys got my heart beating faster. I wanted to want that, but my heart wasn't in it. I was good looking enough to get interest from some of the other kids, but that was all girls. Some of the guys claimed to be getting laid, but we all know guys lie. When I was in middle school, we all were a bundle of raging hormones. So I took out some of the more convoluted teen dopiness that we all (or me, at least!) engaged in. I've changed a few things, both to make it less clearly identifiable for all involved and also to smooth the story out a bit, since life is never as simple as we'd like.
