A Forbidden Fraternity It had been about two weeks since Taylor and I had moved into our dorm and opened the year by having sloppy drunken sex with one another. It had been awkward for a few days as we tried to ignore it, and on our second Thursday on campus I finally worked up the nerve to say something to my beautiful roommate. “Tay, we need to talk about what happened,” I started nervously. We had both been sitting at our desks doing homework. Well, Tay had been doing homework. I could barely focus with how awkward the situation seemed. “Thank God,” she whispered, sighing and letting her pen fall. “I’ve wanted to say something since it happened but I couldn’t work up the courage.” Her lower lip quivered and her eyes began to well up. I was so confused! “What’s wrong?” I asked, dismayed. I certainly hadn’t expected her to start crying. “I liked it,” she sobbed. Now I was getting VERY confused. “But my family is Christian, they can’t ever find out that I’m bisexual. They won’t accept me!” I crossed the room to comfort my crying roommate, wiping her eyes. I wasn’t really sure what to say, not being very religious. “Well, we don’t have to tell them. It can be our secret, they don’t have to find out. Anyways, we were so drunk it wasn’t like you really knew what was going on.” She hugged me tightly as I said this, and I wrapped my arms back around her. I liked it too, I longed to say. I know other ways to comfort you. But I stopped myself from saying it, even though I knew I wanted to caress every inch of her, to make her know that I accepted what we had done, that I had enjoyed it too. “Thank you so much,” she whispered. “I thought you were amazing when you moved in…I want us to be like sisters.” I forced my smile. How could I tell her I wanted to be more than sisters? It hurt to know that she thought what we had shared was a mistake, but I knew that she needed to believe it. …and then things took a turn
