One Step Further

So I came out to a friend of mine today!!!! Jamin's the sort of guy who turns everything into a euphemism, so it was kinda easier than I imagined. I didn't tell him to keep quiet about it or anything, so I'm fully expecting word to spread sooner or later.

Basically, my exchange-partner's mum gave me a nicely decorated hard-boiled egg for lunch (it's a tradition in Germany to decorate hard-boiled eggs for easter). He asked exactly what it was and I told him "it's a hard-boiled egg that's been decorated." Somehow (god knows how, but he managed it...) he managed to turn that into a euphemism and blurted out "some people have fetishes for decorated eggs." I didn't know this (and I doubt it's true, but the world can be surprising) but agreed with him and added on "I'm one of those people. Except for the decorated part. I just like eggs." By now it was obvious that we were talking about bollocks rather than eggs.... *rolleyes* and he basically said "So is this your way of coming out, through food??" I said yes.

So that was that.

I still wasn't sure if he thought I was joking or not, so we managed to get onto the topic again later. He replied "screaming homosexual?" to a comment I made (I can't remember what) but either way, I replied, "No, Jamin. I'm just gay, not screaming."

"Yet," he replies.
"No, I've been gay for a long time."

There was a bit of an awkward pause - I think that's when it finally hit him that I wasn't joking about being gay and liking 'eggs'.

"No, I meant the screaming bit."

And then it kinda trailed off.

I've been much more open about it recently - I said that I was going to text my partner's mum to say I'm leaving and he and the other girl we were with both said "ooh" as if to suggest something. I simply said "Jamin, you know what I'm going to say next." And he just looked at me and said "she's a woman". I replied "there's that. There's also the fact that she's x years older than me...." *lots of laughter at this time*

So perhaps I came out to two people. Definately one. But it's still a step forward!! :D
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