Page 44 of I Can't Even Think Straight
It could’ve been more than one thing.
It could’ve been both.
It could’ve been something else.
Maybe I’m overthinking it.”
“Yeah, maybe you are a bit,” Matt says.
“But I see what you’re saying,” he adds.
But he’s in a world of his own.
“What’s wrong, Matt?”
“I’m just thinking about
what Ms. Sarpong was saying.
She was trying to get us
to come out to her, wasn’t she?”
“Definitely!
When she adjusted
her little badge,
it was giving:
‘Don’t worry! I’m an ally.’”
I pause to think.
“Or maybe she’s queer...”
“Do you think so?”
“I don’t know.”
I don’t wanna say
what I’m thinking.
I don’t wanna make
Matt more paranoid.
But he says it.
“Do you think the rumor
about us being together
has spread to the teachers
as well as the students?”
