Lucas Yardell: one of the more popular guys in your grade. This is eighth grade, no one's really a jock, but he'd well known and has a jock type personality. He came to your school in 7th grade and you never thought much of him. He was okay looking, he wasn't rude to you, that's that. He was actually your best friend's crush... And still is

This school year, you've found it confusing who you like or think you like as some gay kid in middle school. You started crushing on your obsession of obsession from sixth grade are again, you find a lot of guys attractive - some physically, some personally. Lucas was Now one of those people. You didn't think you had a definite crush on him, but you found him cute. You couldn't say anything, through. Your best friend still likes him.

One day, you're in math class, and Lucas gets into a small fight with his fruend. It's dumb, but they get pretty mad. Lucas goes into the hallway and cries. Wen you hear this, you feel bad. It wasn't his fault, it was his friend's. Imagining him showing vulnerability completely changes your perspective on him. You're now pretty sure you have a crush in Lucas

The rest of the day, you ration it out and come to terms with your new crush. It was fairly small, and he was straight (so everyone thought), it was harmless, right?