Ari

Once I came out, it was doing everything to try to control the image.

Well, the downfall was me having social media.

Okay.

Behind her back.

The problem had always been I would tell her white lies.

But for her, white lies were the worst thing in the world.

I've been spit on for a white lie, I've been smacked, I've been dragged across the room, anything.

So this one particular day, I remember it was Thanksgiving and I didn't have a phone, but I had a secret iPhone.

And I was hiding it.

I was hiding it so well.

I had made it past the summer into the next school year and all that.

And I was downstairs sitting on the dryer and I was texting and she comes into the dryer and she looks at me and she reaches out of her hand and I just put the phone in her hand and she walks upstairs.

Everybody comes over, everybody is calm, cool, collected.

Everything's happy, everything's fine.

I don't eat.

That's the first Thanksgiving I literally sat there and could not eat because I had no clue what was gonna happen.

I had no clue what was gonna go on and transpire.

So everybody leaves, everything's all settled down.

She sits me on the couch and she instantly goes off.

Mind you, my hair was straight.