Camellia: No it’s not that it’s just… I have this crush on this boy at school..

Again it took me a minute to process this. For a moment I wondered if Cam just thought he was a boy because he thought it was weird for a girl to like a boy. There were plenty of people in the world who liked the opposite sex. They weren’t common, and society wasn’t all the way caught up with the idea yet but… it wasn’t weird. But I knew that wasn’t the case. Cam had his heart set on this feeling, and he had said he felt this way before school even started.

My next thought however… what was my little boy doing having a crush so early! But I couldn’t keep thinking of him as my little baby forever, he was growing up, and he had just made the most grown up decision anyone could make. I had to start treating him less like an innocent child.

Wisteria: Oh I see, I guess you told him how you felt?

Camellia: Yea… I was brave and told him I liked him, but he said it was weird for a girl to like a boy, and when I told him I wasn’t a girl he laughed and called me a freak… So I thought… maybe I am?