Hello, everyone. My name is Bella and I'm 18 years old. About three years ago, my parents punished me for being gay in the most horrible way and then I found out why. Even though my parents had no clue, I knew that I was gay pretty early in my life. I've had beautiful friendships with guys and girls. But when I was daydreaming about the meet-cutes in the middle of the street and one true love, the only image that would come to my mind was a girl. I didn't actually struggle that much with the idea, but I didn't tell anyone either. I don't know why exactly, but when I was 15, I started wishing that I would've just kept my mouth shut. That day, I was hanging around at my best friend Damien's house. He was one of those upper-middle-class "I'm against everything that my rich parents do" type of kids. We were swimming in his pool, joking around when he swam up to me and kissed me. I tried pushing him away, but he kept forcing himself on me. Finally, as I got myself out of his claws, he looked enraged. "I like you, Bella!" Damien screamed as if it was more of an accusation than a confession. He managed to cover the whole emotional spectrumโfrom rage to resentment to crying hysterically. I still felt like I owed him an explanation, so I came out to him. "Damien, I'm gay." His reaction was mostly saying "oh" and then proceeding to swim and play around as if this whole situation had never happened. I went home that very evening, sat in my room reading a book, not really pondering what had happened earlier, when my father came in... . . . if you're new here welcome to "My Daily Story โค๏ธ๐ฅณ where you get the best animated story and also be sharing my secret ๐คซ " and Please don't forget to share, review and rate this podcast ๐ . . For Business Inquiries: [email protected] . . . Click on this link to subscribe on Apple podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-daily-story/id1610950506 . . Want to check podcast webpage click on this link https://anchor.fm/my-daily-story-official . . You should also please follow/subscribe to our other podcast ( My Animated Story ) by clicking on this link ๐๐ป https://anchor.fm/my-animated-story This animated podcast story is a male story teller . . Please kindly follow/subscribe to this podcast to get notified when a new episode is up, also share, rate and review this podcast .... Thanks for listening to my story, see you in the next podcast episode..... bye ๐ฝ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/my-daily-story-official/message