Joseph loved ice cream. He probably loved it more than the average teenage boy but he felt like eating a bowl of it right now turned him into a girl. He needed a moment to think, though, so he took a bite and slowly moved it around in his mouth before swallowing it.
"Dinner. It started with dinner. Before Christmas, I set up this... dinner in the atrium on campus. It wasn't supposed to be some huge romantic gesture... just something nice, you know..."
He paused long enough to take another bite of the ice cream she'd given him. "She asked me to dance. There wasn't even any music but she asked me to dance and then she kissed me." He inhaled slowly and exhaled. "Do you know how long I'd wanted to kiss her? I returned the kiss but I pulled back and told her that what we were doing would destroy Matt. She said that she wasn't his any more and that she didn't want to have to be afraid of having feeling for someone else."
That was where it had started... one dinner, one dance, one kiss...