Stupid Question Time

Noah was sitting on his bed when Cody walked into the room. He inwardly groaned. It wasn’t that Noah didn’t like the boy; in fact he was quite infatuated with him. It was just that he knew what time it was.

It seemed like every couple of days Cody would walk into Noah’s room with a happy, yet inquisitive, look on his face. It was those times that Noah wished he’d never befriended Cody. Because it was on those days that Cody would ask Noah question, after question, after question about anything he could think of. These questions were often pointless, embarrassing, or just plain stupid, and yet on those days Noah would spend anywhere from half an hour to two hours answering all of them.

“Is it stupid question time again, already?” Noah asked sitting down his book.

“Yep!” Cody said climbing onto Noah’s bed and getting into the standard stupid question time position, which consisted of Cody folding his arms on Noah’s chest and sitting his head on top of them, while Noah lie flat on his back.

“What do you want to know about today?”

“Umm, it’s about sexuality.” Cody said blushing. “Oh, but not yours this time!”

A couple of weeks earlier Cody’s question had consisted of Noah’s sexuality. That had been an awkward way for Noah to come out of the closet.

“Fine. Shoot.”

“Okay, so I know if your strait you like members of the opposite sex.”

“Yes.”

“And if you’re gay, you like people of the same gender.”

“Bingo.”

“And if you’re bi you like people from both genders.”

“Affirmative.”

“Okay, so then what is pansexual?”

“When you’re attracted to someone regardless of gender.”

“Isn’t that the same thing as being bi?”

“No. When you’re bi you’re attracted to people from more than one gender. When you’re pansexual you can be attracted to anyone, including people who fall outside the gender binary.”

“What’s the gender binary?”

“Uh, transsexuals.” Noah said giving an example, rather than the definition.

“Okay! So what’s asexual? I know in science class it’s being able to self reproduce, but what if a person says their asexual? What does it mean then?”

“It means you aren’t sexually attracted to anyone or that you don’t have the desire to have sex. It’s like the opposite of you.” Noah said with a smirk. Cody blushed.

“Okay. That makes since. But what do you call it if you’re strait, but like one member of the opposite sex?”

“What?”

“Like, if you’re gay for one person. Like, being attracted to one member of the same sex, but besides them you only like members of the opposite sex.”

“Then that one person is special and deserves a cookie.”

“So you don’t know what’s called?”

“I don’t know everything, just most things.” Noah said smirking.

“Okay, so then what’s two girls in a cup?”

Noah’s looked like a deer in headlights.

“Okay, it’s time for you to leave.” Noah said pushing Cody up and toward the door.

“But what is it?!”

“Ask your parents when you get home.” Noah said shoving Cody toward the door.

“Stop pushing! I’m going!” Cody said as he walked out the door, but right as he was about to leave he turned to Noah.

“Remind me tomorrow, dude, I owe you a cookie!” Cody said before shutting the door and leaving.

And after a moment Noah realized what he meant.

“I’m still not telling him what it is.” Noah said to himself before walking out of his room in hopes of catching up with Cody.