My name is Travis Johnson. I am a young Black man living in Boston. I attend Emerson College. I am studying Business Administration there. I lead the kind of life that many people envy. I've got a full scholarship to college. I live in the dorms and I'm rather popular with the ladies at school. I can't blame them for liking me. With my six-foot-two and two hundred and twenty pounds of caramel-colored African American stud, I tend to get a lot of attention.
Currently, I'm on the football team and we've had a good season. Ten victories in a row. Not bad, huh? I hope we make it to the division championships this year. Everybody loves a winner. People on campus just seem to love me. I'm nice to everybody, opening doors for both ladies and gentlemen and also taking time to make small talk with a lot of the people. Not just fake stuff. I talk about real stuff too. Also, I work hard and maintain a grade point average of well over three. That's quite an accomplishment. Between my magnetic personality, good looks and academic and athletic successes, could you believe that people started calling me the Matinee Idol? In case you didn't know, the Matinee Idol is someone who is adored obsessively. I get that a lot.
On campus, I had girls all over the place throwing themselves at me. Heck, sometimes I had guys liking me too. I've got a little secret to confess. I love the attention. I don't care who I get it from. One of the female professors started paying special attention to me. A woman named Adrienne Luther. She was tall and slender, with light bronze skin and short black hair. Her eyes were a pale green. Adrienne Luther was an attractive woman. She was also one of the psychology professors. Her husband, Louis Luther was a tall, good-looking blond guy in his forties. He was the head coach for the men's basketball team. He was an okay guy, though I didn't know him very well. Adrienne Luther let me know discreetly that she was interested in me. I was flattered but I wasn't really interested. I had my eye on a pretty boy named Michael River.
Michael was this guy whom I simply couldn't help noticing. He was tall and slender, golden-skinned and brown-eyed. He was simply beautiful. Like me, he was very popular with the ladies. He was the star of the men's gymnastics team. Most people don't consider men's gymnastics to be a real sport. I didn't either but I was very interested in Michael. He was simply beautiful. I also noticed that he didn't have a girlfriend. He was also a bit of a puzzle. We went to the same high school and even though we didn't run in the same circles, I knew who he was. Michael used to be on the men's wrestling team. He brought home the gold medal for winning first place in the state wrestling championship during his junior year. He was a five-foot-ten, 120-pound guy who had won titles three years in a row. During his senior year, he shocked the whole school by joining the girl's gymnastics team and leading them to the state competition. He won himself a scholarship in gymnastics. This was truly shocking.
Another thing that made Michael River different was the fact that he was very open about his sexuality. Back in high school, he dated this girl named Cindy. She was a gorgeous, blond-haired, blue-eyed babe. During his senior year, Michael broke up with Cindy and started hanging out with the kids from the Gay Straight Alliance. I couldn't believe it! A star athlete and state champion hanging out with the queer kids! When questioned about it, Michael was vague at first then he kissed a guy named Paul in public. That's when the whole school found out that Michael River was gay. He didn't even hide it. He told the whole high school that he swung the other way. He lost some friends that way. He was so strong and brave that he simply didn't care. I admired him for that. I was also freaked out by the whole thing.