This chapters title may be a little misleading. You see this isn't the beginning of me, this is the beginning of us. And by us I mean me, and the love of my life, Quinnby. Before I met her I did minor self harm because all of my friends had become popular, and abandoned me. I also had issues in the past with a guy sexually harassing me. Anyways, I found a reason to stop cutting, and that reason was her friendship. She kept me healthy, alive, for peats sake she kaput me sane. For all I know I could be dead if it weren't for her. I always had special feelings for her, but whether your parents support it or not, you are brought up told being homosexual is wrong. I always had these emotions tucked to the side, and was afraid to show them, especially around her. After a few years more and more people in society were coming out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, etc.but there a just so much hatred towards them, that even if we could have been together, the emotional downgrading would have been substantially unbearable. This is where I was afraid, this is where everyone was afraid.
