blowing off steam
Ok, sitting in the car with three preppy yet extremely naive girls that grew up in a small town? Definitely not how I want to spend every afternoon, but hey, that’s carpool for you, right?
Now, I don’t usually contribute in their conversations. I don’t have many common interests with them, I don’t have any of the same classes with them- the only thing we share is that we all go to the same school. But hey, it’s a huge school, people from all over, etc. So, when it’s JUST the three of us who go to the school, the school finds no need to bus us there, so we carpool.
Now, at this point I’m sure I sound like a complete loner, but I’m not, really. Just these girls bother me so much. Normally I can ignore them; I put my earbuds in and enjoy the ride home with my music.
But when they start discussing Glee, I have to listen. And when I hear them start saying how they thought Kurt was the one being difficult, I have to speak up.
Now, had it been any of my other friends, or people I know, we could have had a normal debate about it, friendly and everything, and I’ve had this conversation with my friends, and some of them see the point that Kurt had, others feel that Finn was right, but we can agree to disagree and respect each others’ opinions, and they all love Kurt anyway. But these girls may be the biggest homophobes in the entire world.
Well, at least this side of Jersey.
Now, I’m not gay, but a vast majority of my friends are, and I’m cool with that, except when they start dating each other, but that has nothing to do with sexuality, it has to do with drama and I don’t like being stuck in the middle, but if they’re happy together- go for it, just leave me out of it when you start arguing about when your anniversary is, or what your song is.
Anywho. Back to the story.
I’ve been as obsessive with some of my crushes (I feel like such a teenage girl saying crushes, but I can’t even call them flings- they never came to anything fling-like), and I’m sure if I were in the same parental situation as he and Finn, I would have done the same thing Kurt did. Yeah, he was impulsive about it, but we all saw how it affected him in Laryngitis, and that he realized it might not have been the best idea, but now he’s decided to make the best of it.
So here I am, explaining to all of this to them, about how Kurt can’t help how he feels, and it’s probably more difficult for him to crush on people than it is for anyone, especially in a bigoted town like Lima, and had it been Quinn or any of the girls, doing this to get any of the guys, they’d be rooting the girl on, calling her a genius for getting their parents together. They looked sheepish for a moment, and then they all continued to talk about how Kurt was being creepy and how they agreed with Finn that Kurt should try and tone it down a little. Well, at that, I kinda flew off the handle.
Ok, not really flew, but hopped. I didn’t start screaming or anything, like I do sometimes when I’m desperate to get my point across to people who aren’t listening, because we’re in the car and there’s still fifteen minutes left in our drive, and that just makes things awkward. I did start saying how that wasn’t fair to Kurt because he should be free and proud to be who he wants to be, no matter what his sexuality is.
So… yeah. As I type this, I have a carpool of three girls who are looking at me like I insulted the Jonas Brothers or did something equally mortally offensive to them.
I feel accomplished.