Talking Out of Turn

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"Hey," a girl with strawberry blond hair approached me. I nodded in reply. "I wanted to tell you something."

"Oh high schoolers think they know everything."

"What?" Her face wrinkled at my statement.

"I use to be a high schooler thought I knew everything, only to find out I know nothing." I crossed my arms over my chest. "I thought once I graduated I was completely done with the whole high school thing; looks like I was wrong. Oh the greatness of community college, overrun with secondary education know-it-alls." I could see her trying to come up with a reply but I wasn't done. "I could have been like you. Gone straight to college, it was possible or so it seemed. What was the point of staying with the traditional route. The only good thing that came out of that was my first local girlfriend. Well not really, that wasn't much of a relationship."

"You're--" I cut her off.

"Gotta love small towns. Should have known you would have been perturbed by that."

"I have no problem with you being a lesbian."

"I'm not. Bi would be the easiest way to put it but the easiest isn't always the truth."

"Then what's the truth?"

"I love who I love, gender notwithstanding."

"It's hard to believe you love at all." I clenched my heart for effect.

"Oh my heart is breaking." I remembered what had started this tangent in the first place. "What did you want anyway?"

"I wanted to tell you that I understand how you feel." The berated girl walked away leaving me there with my mouth agape, foot in.

"Great," I said under my breath a few moments later before running after her.