It was a perfect day to be huddled under the blankets with a lover. Outside, the season's first blizzard was rapidly covering the campus where Ashly and Jesse were both music majors. The two roommates and lovers had decided to forgo the dorm parties, celebrating the inevitable class cancellations, and instead simply spend the day together, enjoying each other's company.
Jess tenderly stroked his boyfriend's hair, as he reflected on the progression of their relationship. It began in early high school, when Jess and his (straight) twin brother, Kit, would host coed sleepovers, which generally went unsupervised. Ash and Jesse were always unusually close for boys, and when the girls, naturally more platonically affectionate, had decided to combine their sleeping bags into one shared sleeping place Jesse and Ashly followed suit. It began with just hand holding and cuddling, and slowly progressed into sleeping naked together in the same bed. They had never had sex, but had engaged in occasional fondling, and constant cuddling and kissing.
It took even longer to formally title the relationship. Although the openly held hands, and showed other signs of affection, even within the walls of their high school, a label had never seemed important to the love they openly professed. It was Kit's girlfriend, Lynn, who finally took it upon herself to clear the confusion for her fellow student population. Jess, was a self proclaimed bisexual. Ashly's sexuality was the mystery that kept the school talking. Lynn finally approached Ash, and demanded in her usual overbearing, but delightfully cute and cheerful way,
"You're gay, right?" Ash simply shrugged and said,
"You know, I'd never really thought about it?"
