Gay panic

Date: 9/12/2018

I was at a presitigious private boarding school, moving into a temporary room because my permanent room wasn't ready yet. I was a gay teen and my boyfriend was with me. We got into the room, having already decorated it a little bit with my things (including a Captain Underpants poster?), only to find that a girl had moved in, lying halfway under the covers with a laptop. I thought that there must be some sort of mistake because obviously a boy and a girl student shouldn’t be living together. Her name was Debbie. I reassured her that I was due to move to a different building in a few days and that the school would have it sorted. I thought that she might be uncomfortable living with a guy in the meantime. I started to panic and figured that if I revealed I was gay, she would feel more reassured living with me. But I didn’t want to just outright say it because that would be weird. Then, my boyfriend picked up a heart-shaped Halloween-themed baking mold (no idea why that was there, there were like three of them stacked up on my desk). He said "Wow, isn't this thing tacky?" But I started using phrases like "no, I'm living for it" and "yaas!" to SUBTLY and CLEVERLY show I was gay. My boyfriend started looking at me like I was insane since I wasn't the type of person to say that sort of thing. Anyway, eventually I went to some sort of orientation meeting sans boyfriend. After the meeting I grouped up with an underclassman and and upperclassman. Since I was new, the two decided to show me around the confusing, fantastical grounds. I thought the underclassman was a precocious kid and I recognized him humming a tune from the Fun Home musical. Eventually we came to a garden full of some half-plant, half-animal creature called a “chil”. (Pronounced like "child" without the "d") They looked friendly, like something out of a Mario game. But the underclassman I was with got too close to the chils and the groundskeeper, who was hiding nearby, shot a gun at him. The bullet split his clothes open but left his body unharmed. He had PTSD for the rest of the year.