"Jude, your my boyfriend and I want the world to know your mine." Connor told Jude, thinking Jude was more nervous about this then he was.
"But what if they don't accept you, because your dating me?" Jude asked his boyfriend, not wanting his boyfriend to lose his friends because of him.
"Then they weren't my friends to start with, were they?" Connor, said answering Jude's question, leaving Jude wondering how he got so lucky being able to be best friends and date Connor.
"Hey, Zach!"
"Hey, what's up Connor?" Connor's baseball teammates yelled out to Connor, greeting him with high fives and fist bumps.
"Whose this Connor?" Zach, then asked Connor, not recognizing the boy, standing beside Connor.
"This is Jude."
"So this is the Jude, you talk about all of the time."
"Yup" Connor, quietly said, embarrassed that Jude found out that Connor talked about him to his closest friends.
"You talk about me?" Jude asked Connor, trying to get Connor to relax, thinking he was getting tense and nervous, Jude could not have been more wrong.
"Yeah, I talk about you." Connor told Jude and gave Jude a short but sweet kiss on the lips.
"Your gay, Connor?" Zach asked Connor, after seeing Connor kiss Jude on the lips.
All of Connor's teammates were staring at him waiting for an answer, as Connor intertwined his fingers with Jude's fingers and said "Yes, I am and Jude's my boyfriend."
"So you guys are fags?" Ernie asked Connor and Jude, with a look of disgust on his face.
"We prefer to be called people but yeah we're both gay", Connor replied sarcastically to Ernie.
"Are you quitting the team?" Reggie, asked Connor, also looking disgusted, as if he was going to puke at the way Jude and Connor were holding hands.
"No!" Connor, replied quickly, Connor was starting to get fed up with all of these questions, he thought his teammates, his friends since elementary school would support and accept him.
"Well, I'm not playing with a gay guy!" Ernie said to Connor as he and Reggie began to leave the baseball field.
Connor began to form tears in his eyes, and his voice began to crackle, and he hated that people had to judge him for liking Jude, it was his life after all.
"Don't worry about them, Connor", Zach said to console his friend, who looked as if he was about to break now and start crying.
"Let's go, Jude!"
"Are you okay, Connor?" Jude asked his boyfriend, worried he was about to break down.
Connor, then leaned into Jude for a long but sweet kiss and simply said "yeah, I'm fine".
But the truth was, Connor couldn't understand why people hated him because he loved Jude, but he knew one thing for sure, he would pick Jude over anybody even his own family any day of the week.