Argh! This can't be happening!!! And all so quick too, Marco thought, sitting there in the washroom. He had been sitting there awhile. He just wanted to escape from reality. Just for two seconds would be nice.

Marco splashed his face with some water and continued on to seventh period. That was his Algebra IV class. He was two years ahead of all the other people in his grade since he started his algebra in seventh grade.

He walked in the class, ten minutes late, but the teacher let him off the hook since Marco is kind of like the class pet. He took his notes and books and other things he needed out of his backpack and put them on the his desk. He really didn't feel like doing the work. And he didn't. Luckily the teacher just expects them to do the work and not check it. Marco was too busy worrying.

But he didn't know what he was worrying about. So what if my first real relationship with someone had completely gone wrong? He couldn't help that. And he knew he couldn't help that. Something else must have been bugging him…

Maybe it was the fact that Dylan was ALREADY going out with this guy, when he had only known him for like a week. But, he realized Dylan wasn't part of the problem. At all.

Maybe it was that Journey was already going out with Dylan. Journey had to be smarter than that. It was a little freaky that a guy like Journey was going out him. Journey seemed too sweet and, well, smart to be going out with someone. At least Marco got to know Dylan before they started going out. That wasn't the big problem either.

Marco finally put his finger on it. Marco realized that the three of them were being way too stereotypical. That was alright, but it kind of proved that EVERY gay guy acted like that. But some do. But then again, some don't. He had to stop being too stereotypical.

To start with, the way he dressed is a dead give away. But he liked the way he dressed. He wasn't going to go out to tonight and shop for entirely different wardrobe.

Shopping. He could go shopping on the weekends and just the weekends, instead of three times during the week. He work with that.

His hair. No, that was like his clothes.

The way he talked could be changed. After awhile, though, he figured out that he couldn't change it after all.

The bell rang. Ellie and Ashley were in his next period, so he figured he could ask them for some help.

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"Ellie, I just had a brilliant idea!" Marco rushed into the classroom over to Ellie like his clothes were on fire.

"What? Did you invent something that…" Marco cut her off before she could finish her sentence. He does that a lot, Ellie thought.

"Something was bugging me in algebra class, and I finally figured out what it was."

"You seeing a doctor for it?" Ashley chimed in.

"No." That was a big no from Marco, by the way. "The three members of the family…"

"What?" Ellie said.

"'The family.' Gay/Lesbian lingo for someone who is." He said that quickly since he just wanted to get on with his idea. "Anyway, The three members of the family here at school. Oh yeah, four if you count the Lesbian." Marco was losing his train of thought. "We're all being too stereotypical. I kinda realized I definitely was, being into fashion and my voice and my hair and…"

"We get the point, Marco." Ashley just had to stop his ranting.

"Okay. I want to stop being too stereotypical." Ellie and Ashley just broke out laughing when they heard that. "What's so funny?"

"Marco, no offense, but you've always been like this. Ever since I can remember." Ellie honestly can't remember a time when he acted straight.

"I guess you're right." Marco was easily discouraged. But he wasn't going to give up without a fight. "But why can't I change? It's easy to do."

"Okay then, Mr. Del Rossi. I order you to be a heterosexual."

"Have sex with girls? Ew. Nasty." Marco gave a faint laugh. "Just kidding. I meant something easy to change."

"Okay. Do your hair…"

"Nothing to do with my hair or clothes though."

"Fine." Ellie was fresh out of ideas, now. "Ash, got anything."

"Well change the way you talk or walk. That's all I can come up with."

Marco thought about that for a little. "You know, change is harder than what I thought it was. Maybe I really should just drop the whole thing." He looked at Ellie. "But I see someone who needs a quick fixer-upper."

"Shut up. I do not." Ellie was offended by Marco's crude remark.

"Well, I need some change. I don't care who changes. Oh my God! I have a great idea."

"What?" Ellie didn't sound too enthusiastic.

"Ash and I could give you a makeover. Just for a day. Prove everyone wrong about what they think of you."

"And what do they think of me?"

"I don't know. I just want something fun to do. Come on. Dinner at The Dot on me and Ash and I will pay for all of you clothes and stuff like that."

"We will?" Ashley said. Marco gave her a look when she said that. "Oh yeah, of course we will." Ashley gave a nervous laugh.

"Fine. But I'm only doing it for you Marco." Marco jumped in a minor burst of excitement. After class, Ellie commented, "You know, if you weren't bashed recently again, I would so not be doing this for you."

"You're the best El," Marco said. He hugged her. He was finally having a girls night out, plus himself.