belonged by freelo

I never thought I would be in this situation. I'm only a 16 year old white kid from Iowa that had no friends but now, my best friend and the captain of the ESports team just asked me if I would go to prom with him. The problem is that... I'm a boy. I mean, I did have problems with people like him in the past. Straight jocks pretending to like me just because I'm the only gay kid in school. I don't even like being gay. I just want to carry on with my life after high school and now I have to respond to this stupid prom-postal Enough about myself, let's talk about Seth. Seth used to be friends with me in middle school but now he bandwagon end to the jocks after I came out. Yesterday, during AP Game Theory he asked me if he wanted to take me to the NYC Fair in Central Park. I of course said no, but he look so disappointed when I said no that I had to come back to him and accept his offer. Fast-forward to today, it's a Friday night and we are on this Ferris wheel when he popped the question.

"Um... Fernando" Seth said with his voice gripping to his words. "I was wondering if you would like to go t-" repeating himself once more as he thought I didn't hear him the first time he said it.

"No." I said dishearteningly. Instantly regretting my immediate response. I started to glare into his sparkling blue eyes.
" I mean maybe... I don't know, OK!" I was becoming angrier by the moment.
"How do I know you're not queer-baiting me, trying to reel me into something just to embarrass me." I started to calm down and as Seth started to tear up. My heart fell straight out of my stomach. "I didn't mean to hurt your feelings" I said with emotion and started realizing his 'prom-posal' was real.

"I really, really like you Fernando." His tears started to tear me apart and I knew I made the wrong decision .
"We've been friends for a long time and I really like you. I just needed to keep my sexuality a secret from the team." Seth wasn't staring at me anymore. He was staring at the skyscrapers around us and how he beautiful it looked at night. The city around these hours just seemed to glow as I knew were in the center of the world.

"I'll do it." I calmly whispered. Seth slowly faced me and his smile lit up like the sky during the 4th of July.
"I'll go to prom with you, under one condition" my voice felt sickly as I knew my next words were gonna be toxic to Seth.

"What is it? I'll do anything." Seth said excitingly.

"You have to come out." My voice was hanging in the thin air around us. His smile slowly faded to a neutral state. Seth could never be out. To him, it's social suicide but for me, it's him being honest with everyone around him.
"Ok." I heard as I was about to tell him he doesn't have to. Seth finally looked at me in a snarky way. I started to think of how he would do it, or at least how he would come out.
"Let's just look to the sky tonight and we can cherish this moment for rest of our lives." I nodded in agreement and we just sat there, relaxing. For the first time in my life, I felt carefree and I felt like I belonged... I felt like I belonged with him.