• My First Crush

  by Anonymous

  It was a glance during the early days of 7th grade humanities class that first sparked those feelings inside me. I looked up from my textbook to meet his pale green eyes and was startled. I looked back down, blushing from embarrassment.

• When I Told My Parents I Was Bisexual

  by Angie Carty

  I first realized I was romantically interested in girls when I met my then-best-friend in middle school. She was kind and into the same things I was, like drawing, writing, and video games. We hit it off right away, and from then, our friendship grew.

• When I Lose My Virginity Is Up to Me

  by Hande Erkan

  When I started high school and became close with the popular girls, they pressured me to lose my virginity, since I had already been dating my boyfriend for a year. But at 14, I felt I was too young to have sex.

• My First Boyfriend

  by Julia Smith

  Names have been changed. Peter and I met in physics class when I was a freshman. We were told to decorate our folders with something related to physics and we both chose the iconic spaceship from the television series Doctor Who.

• Why I’m Still a Virgin

  by T.B.

  The names in this story have been changed. In junior high school, a small group of my friends, mostly guys and one girl, started talking about girls in the class who they thought were fast. “I can tell Melinda is a tramp.