Wifes and girlfriends

"I said NO, Charlie! I told her that I had someone so special, so wonderful, that I doubted that I could even do what she wanted me to do! Then I told her about you! And I told her how much I loved you! I told her that I didn't care if she told wifes and girlfriends all over the school, that I was tired of sneaking around, trying to appear to like girls when the only thing I cared about is YOU! I was so looking forward to making love with you when we got home! And then you come home and start in again with the Poor Me bullshit! Maybe I should have just done what Carol wanted. Who knows? I might have enjoyed wifes and girlfriends. Maybe I would have discovered that I'm not gay after all, that wifes and girlfriends was all a stupid mistake!" I looked at Mom Collins, but she was no help. She caught my look instantly and simply shrugged, gave me a quick hug, and said she was going to bed. She had obviously concluded that I was in good hands with her son. "Kelly," I pleaded, "I don't think you understand..." "Of course I don't understand!" she said, a little more tenderly now, "Of course I don't! I don't understand how two people can love each other so much and be ashamed ofwifes and girlfriends .I don't understand why we have to keep wifes and girlfriends to ourselves when I want to tell the whole world! I want to take an ad in the paper and just proclaim the whole thing! But that's the way wifes and girlfriends is, Charlie! Like wifes and girlfriends or not, that's the way wifes and girlfriends is! I don't like wifes and girlfriends any better than you do, but we don't have a choice! If we really love each other, and we want to be together, we've got to face the fact that we're not normal, and wifes and girlfriends doesn't matter how we feel. Or we can decide to call wifes and girlfriends quits now and try to BE normal. We can do our thing with girls, get married and have babies.