"Another 3 points for Rochester high!" The boys high five me. I end up doing another 3 points just to make my team win against Lewis high. They suck really, it was obvious we were gonna win against them. I did mostly the job of making my team win, well the other guys too but yeah it's mostly myself. We won cause I am- Wait, wait I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm Maverick Campbell, the school's basketball captain. "Good shot Campbell." "Thanks you did great too Moore." Moore is one of my teammates, sometimes I hang out with him outside practices and basketball games but I mostly talk to him at practice. "Are you going to Madison's party tonight?" "Yeah." " Alright see you tonight." He slightly touches my shoulder before heading to the boys locker room to take a nice refreshing shower. It kinda feels weird when he does that. The thing is that I'm gay but I haven't come out of the closet yet. Ive never told anybody that I'm gay cause how can I? I don't want to be teased and mocked by my own teammates. As if they're weren't already homophobic enough, I don't want it to be worst. What if they find out I'm gay? What if I'm striped off the basketball team? What if, worst of them all, the whole school makes fun of me? Why do I have to like boys? Ugh I'm all sweaty. Eh it's fine at least it's for a good reason. I look towards the stands and notice my parents and oh boy not him, my brother. Why is he here of all places? I quickly start looking somewhere else and I notice a certain someone. Wow he looks.. cute. I've never noticed him before. Is he cheering for me? Of course he is, who wouldn't but seriously trough is this the first time that he's here or? To bad I don't have the guts to talk to him. I climb out the stands to go see my family cause I can't take a shower yet. I can't go there knowing there is full of naked teenage boys. "Hey." "Hey you did great son." "Thanks." "Sweetheart you're all sweaty, don't you want to go take a shower?" "Nah I'm fine I'll wait a little longer." What a relief. My parents never question me about the fact I don't go to the boys locker room asap. "Where's your little girlfriend?." He says it in a mocking tone. "Shut up Tomas." "Son, I didn't raise you to act like that." My dad says it in a serious and firm way. "I get it." Tomas annoys the s**t out of me. I don't even understand why he's even here, wait mom and dad forced him to go. Of course they did. He'll rather be f**king some chick instead of watching his own little brother play a basketball game. How pathetic. "Darling don't be mean to your big brother." Just f**king great my mom is butting her nose in mine's and my brother business, just fantastic. My dad is a hypocrite and my mom only cares of the public eye. They wouldn't be here if I did something else than basketball. At least they still have me to make their public image perfect cause we all know that my brother Tomas is f**king everything up. I wonder what they do if they found out I was gay. Would they kick me out of the house of just do plainly nothing cause they want to maintain a good public image? I don't know honestly but what I sure know is that I don't want to see that happening any time soon. I decide to head towards the boys locker room cause I don't want to be near my family right now. I enter the locker room and notice that no one is in there. What a relief. I get rid of my sweaty clothes. I start the water of the shower. Ah it's so refreshing. After a few minutes, I turn off the water and walk us to the bench of the team. I dry myself off with a towel and get dressed afterwards. After all is done I start heading out from the locker room. As I soon as I get off, I notice coach talking to someone else. Eh, nah I don't want to talk to him. I continue walking out with my sports bag on my shoulder. I decide to head to the gym. As soon as I get in, I notice one of the cheerleaders, Makayla. We have a weird relationship going on. We kiss when people looks at us cause we want people to leave us alone but we never do when we're alone. That's because we both know it feels so wrong when we do. Well I know why for me but I don't know for her. I head towards her and miss her with a chaste kiss. She half smiles cause she knows everyone is looking at us. "You did great Mav, as always." "Thanks. Can we talk in private?" "Sure." We head towards an empty hallway where no one can see us. As soon as we get there she suddenly kisses me but I push her off. "Why are you kissing me?" "Ah it's nothing, no never mind, I-" she starts bursting into tears. " I like girls.." My eyes grew wide out of pure surprise. I decide to hug her out of pure confort. "It's alright I don't mind. " She eventually stops crying and looks up at me curiously. "So what's your secret?" "What makes you think I have a secret in the first place?" "Come on there is something that your hiding. Come on admit it." I think for a bit. I've never told anyone before? What if this comes out in the news or rumors that I'm gay or what if she tells someone? Oh screw it, it's only fair if I tell her my secret after what she told me. "I..I'm gay." Her jaw drops and she stops hugging me. "Are you serious or are you doing this out of pity cause I didn't think you would trust me enough to tell me such a huge thing!"Shh don't talk to loud. You don't want people hearing us. Anyways does this mean I shouldn't trust you?" She understood my commend and starts whispering instead."No, no, you can trust me. I won't ever tell a soul. Besides I've never told anyone this. My mom thinks I'm gonna marry some rich dude and have three children with someday." "Wow your family is as f**ked up as mine. You already know how my brother is, my mom only cares about our reputation and my dad is a hypocrite. We really both have f**ked up families." "Yeah." "But you really won't tell anybody right?" "Your secret will only stay with me." "Ok but what about our engagement thing?" "We still have to continue to kiss one another when people looks at us." "Yeah we probably should. My dad thinks we're dating. He always wants me to have a gIrLfRiEnD." She chuckles a bit at my recent comment. "Alright, we'll do that then." "Are you going to Madison's party?" "Of course I am. I'm forced to go cause Madison's is my step sister best friend. So annoying right?" "I can't even begin to imagine." "Ok then see you tonight!" We both laugh before going both are separate way. This life sucks. Why am I forced to this? We're in the 21st century and their is some folks that are big homophobic. What a joke. I start remembering the boy I saw earlier. Huh, I wonder who he is?