Perhaps he was attracted to me and didn’t mind that I was really a boy! The thought was strangely exciting but I also wondered why I was so attracted to him. Two boys attracted to each other was surely not right! To add to the confusion Joan appeared to be attracted to me as Gillian.
At that time I of course in my innocence I had never heard of lesbians or gays; maybe those words never even existed! I decided to just relax and enjoy it and hope that time would sort things out.
We arrived at the centre of town to find it buzzing with girls and boys from our schools, all chatting happily and blissfully unaware that one of the girls was in reality a boy! I was scared, as many of my school friends were about and they could recognise me at any time.