By the time I got back from classes the next day, Blake had already left our dorm and gone off somewhere. I waited for Ruby and Weiss to go to the cafeteria with Team JNPR before I started looking for the mystery binder. I searched everywhere for it. Under her bed, under her pillow, in her backpack. I checked everywhere Blake might hide something as big as the binder and then double checked just to make sure.
"Maybe she brought it with her?" I groaned angrily as I realized that she must've taken everything with her. Whatever it was, it was so important she couldn't even trust us not to- wait! Trust...
I felt so dirty as I pulled the book out of her bookshelf. She'd hidden it on a shelf behind the rest of her books, but I found it after looking less than a minute. I hated this. Sneaking around, doing the one thing Blake had promised me not to do. But there it was, sticking out from between a couple of pages like a bookmark. The beige pamphlet. I opened the book and memorized the page number before I slipped the pamphlet out.
The pamphlet looked nice, freshly printed and still crisp. Two guys were smiling and holding hands on the cover page and a rainbow flag was in the upper left corner of the front page. The title was printed in big, looping letters.
Am I Gay?
I had to read that a couple of times before I really understood what I was holding. I was one hundred percent sure this was the same pamphlet Blake had carried with her books, but…
"Well she's managed to hide more from us." I chuckled softly.
Thinking back, I guess it probably made sense. Even Ruby was slowly growing more and more interested in boys, and Weiss and I talked all the time... but Blake never really talked about guys much with me. That wasn't a really huge indication, but, Dust, even the book I was holding was proof that Blake might see girls as sexually attractive.
But why would she hide that from us? Why would she go through so much effort to avoid us and make sure we'd never find out this little part of her? Was she really that afraid we'd treat her differently? Even after the Faunus thing?
I sighed softly and read through the pamphlet. It was pretty good information about sexual orientations and how best to understand your own. Using all the tips, I could tell it worked pretty well, because I got an amazingly accurate answer of heterosexual. I closed the pamphlet and slipped it back between the proper pages. I returned the book back where it belonged and started trying to decide on the best way to approach her about this.
"Should I let her bring it up herself?" No, that didn't sound like a good idea. She'd been avoiding us for the past four days because she didn't think we'd accept her.
"What should I do?"