Okay my junior year is when I went into my goth phase, and met all sorts of new and "interesting" people. (80% of them were posers that I didn't pay much attention to.) My friend April had this irrational fear that if she didn't say goodbye and give a hug and kiss to every single one of her friends, they would die in a horrible accident (she was feeling guilty that her friend was mad at her when he died). So every time I left her, I got a hug and kiss. This labeled
her . Then we went to my friend Brie's Sweet 16 party. I was sitting on the floor, minding my own business, when April tackled me, landed on top of me, and a camera flashed. At the same party, two freshmen, Holly and Jackie, start doing god knows what in the chair in the corner. On Monday, I hear about how April felt me up at the party (her hands never left my hair but you know how stories go) and also that our two "best friends" (barely knew them) were lesbians. A week later, April kissed me on our way to homeroom (no tongue or anything, calm down boys) and this kid ran up behind me and threw a bagel at me and hit my bookbag. So I had a nice cream cheese smear on my bag all day, which of course my friends had to try and convince me wasn't cream cheese. Since he was a rather popular jock, everything he said about me and April was believed to be true. Then word got out about Holly and Jackie, and it was decided that EVERY girl within 100 yards of those two were also lesbians. The principal found out what was going on, and Holly and Jackie got called in. He reamed them out about how "inappropirate" their behavior was, and called their parents. Jackie's parents sent her to therapy and had her put on Prozac. Holly decided it was too much work and went back to guys. April kept kissing me and everyone else. Most ironic about this was the fact that I was so in love with my friend Mike, I could barely even think straight anymore. FINALLY, after over a month, I overheard someone say "See that girl? She's a dyke!!" And I thought, oh how lovely. I thought it was funny. My best friend Michele was upset because I was a "lesbian" and she wasn't. She was waiting to hear that about herself. She felt left out, because April kissed her too, and no one was talking about her. It was the biggest joke in school (to us, anyway). So then I was sitting outside during lunch one day, and some of Mike's friends decided to fuck with Jackie (which made no sense to me because the metalheads usually stuck up for us, rather than start shit) and threw a rock that hit me in the shoulder. It swelled up to the size of a baseball and turned purple. I couldn't even carry my books. So later on, I saw Mike and he's like oh look there's Christine and I was like fuck Christine and her fuckface friends and I got into a huge fight with him and he saw my arm and he freaked out and went and kicked the kid's ass for me, and Christine wouldn't talk to him for a week and I was so happy because he knew her longer and he still stuck up for me. Then I told him about how everyone thought I was a lesbian and he was totally shocked, because even he in his complete oblivion, caught on that "you are straighter than anyone I know, you know when they build a house and they use a 'straight edge' to make sure the walls and windows are right? YOU are what they're using" (I always found that conversation interesting). So then FINALLY, one day, after I just got done taking my math final, I was walking to meet Michele and I heard the girl behind me say, she's a dyke, her and that girl Michele she's always with, and I ran to tell Michele and she was so happy that she bought the beer that night!! April has refused to have anything to do with me since I moved out here, so I don't have any idea where she is or what she's doing, although classmates.com says she's a teacher and she's married. I'm still in contact with Michele, (who, by the way, is a party girl that I no longer have anything in common with, but I still love her just the same). I always wondered if the gossip was that bad because it was such a small town, or if it's like that everywhere.
So there you have it. I know it wasn't what you were looking for.