21 - Show Me You Care

21 - Show Me You Care

Mia

“I think I might be asexual.”

Emma paused Howl’s Moving Castle, and we both turned to Summer who was sprawled on an entire couch by herself, stuffing kernels of popcorn in her mouth. Emma’s house was built like a mansion and had its own home theater, where we all were currently sprawled with tons of blankets, pillows, snacks and junk food to last a month.

“Didn’t you hook up with an entire football team?” I asked.

“I didn’t. It’s a rumor.”

Emma patted the sheet masks that were on our face and motioned me to remove it. “Then why do you think you might be asexual?”

She shrugged and sat up, staring at her lap and thinking hard. “I don’t feel any sexual desire whatsoever towards anyone. Unless it’s Howl, of course.”

“Of course.” Emma and I muttered in unison. Howl and other Ghibli heroes were perfect boyfriend materials.

“Maybe you could be demisexual? Isn’t asexuality a spectrum?” I said, patting the serum of the mask all over my face and down my neck. As