An unnamed 22-year-old male Reddit user recently shared how his friendship with a new gym buddy led him to develop a crush on the guy and realize that he himself was bi. His tale has a dark twist but an ending that’ll melt your heart.
“This all started a few months ago,” a Reddit user named lilstupidwhore, wrote in a now-viral thread. “I noticed this guy at my gym and I knew something was immediately off. I was like nervous to even look at him, but I decided to get rid of that nervousness and just talk to him. He was actually really nice and funny and we quickly became buddies.”
The two began regularly working out together and they quickly became best friends. “I love his personality, he makes me laugh nonstop, and [not gonna lie] he’s mad thick,” the Reddit user wrote.
Then, about two weeks later, the Reddit poster’s girlfriend broke up with him. When he shared this news in a heart-to-heart conversation with his 24-year-old gym buddy, his gym buddy revealed that he was gay.
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“I quickly started to piece together that it was the same feeling I get when I look at a really pretty girl,” the 22-year-old wrote. “And over the months it’s been increasingly hard to be near him because he’s just so… gorgeous I guess. Whenever I go to sleep, I just imagine him there snuggled up to me. I just wanna text him all the time… and I just wanna kiss him so bad. I guess this is me coming out as bi… I met a beautiful guy at the gym and …. I wanna ask him out so bad.”
Numerous Reddit users encouraged the guy to ask his gym buddy out and begged the 22-year-old for updates.
Here’s where the tale turns slightly dark. As his original post went viral, he wrote on Twitter that he was being flooded by messages from people “feeling as though they’re entitled to know about my life,” including “people being genuine pieces of s–t, not even asking kindly, but demanding for updates as if I can just magically make them happen.”
“For every 20 good people, there’s been 10 insane pieces of s–t spamming me with demands for an update and calling me slurs because I can’t magically make these things happen,” he said.
It got so bad that he deactivated his social media accounts for about a week. Luckily for his followers, he returned to social media a week later.
One day, when the two were at the gym together, the Reddit user told his thread’s followers, “we’re gonna do our sets and when we leave ima walk him to his car and tell him. Thanks for the courage everyone!”
Afterward, he posted an update, announcing, “I’m f–king crying in my car rn holy s–t. He said yes. So I walked him to his car and I told him. And bruh…the way I couldn’t speak lmao I was so nervous.”
His gym buddy said that he already thought that he was into him because, “I can only catch you respectfully staring at my butt so many times before it’s a little sus,” meaning suspicious. The Reddit user then told his gym bro that he was bi and the two scheduled a date for the following Friday.
“He looked so flustered and cute when I told him…he had the prettiest smile lmao,” he added. “I guess we’re a little more than just gym bros now…I seriously couldn’t have done this if this didn’t get so much random a– support lmao. Anyways…I’m f–king shaking…I actually did it…bruh I love him so much…so so so f–king much. Thank you for the support!”
Just goes to show that a little physical fitness, the willingness to make new friends and even a breakup can help lead to romance and a newfound identity.
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ShiningSex
Not straight. End of story.
Polaro
Everyone’s path to discovering who they are is different.
G R
Nice story but all the “bruh and sus”, you need some kind of thesaurus to understand people today.
JamesEvanHart
I mean, the word “sus” is pretty easily deciphered based on context. But, who doesn’t know what “bruh” is? That’s pretty obvious.
mz.sam
This also includes how an article or editorial on this site is titled, i.e. ‘Swole-mates’.
Rocinante
I agree. This language is specific to the z and millennials but x, boomers etc., all had their moronic colloquial non-sense as well. I guess I was a geek or something; always considered that speak ignorant or just poor English and my friends never used language outside of proper English. We were all AP English students. My English fail is the use of F**k as a noun, pro-noun, verb, adjective and probably others; grew up around New Yorkers; that’s my excuse anyway. . But generational non-sense speak is usually just a sign of laziness or group think. It sounds stupid. Remember the Valley girl nonsense; that was awful.
Annoys the f**k out of me:)))))
Jack Meoff
The Reddit poster is clearly British based on the language and grammar and possibly a low key Chav. Think Eggsy from Kingsmen.
JJinAus
Believe it or not, there are different dialects of English. Suss is a common word where I live.
Polaro
the source is social media. Be happy it makes any sense at all.
handy6924868
You do NOT owe anyone a reason, an excuse or any explanation of your feelings, your actions, your loves. Be who you are! Just be mindful of your thoughts so you don’t go coocoo. Good Luck!
eeebee333
I don’t think I’ve ever read a Reddit story that sounded real to me.
Gadfeal
Show us the pictures; othewise, it sounds like a teen’s daydream.
KyleMichelSullivan
I learned a long, long time ago that “straight” is a social construct and can be dispensed with at the right time and in the right place.
winemaker
Am i the only one who finds atrocious grammar irritating? Really I see more and more bad grammar and wonder if people are really that illiterate, careless and lazy or don’t know how to use spell check. Either that or they had lousy teachers or didn’t pay attention in school. That being said you never know what might happen when you get rid of your fear of talking to somebody new and just what might happen as a result. The person could be a total a**wipe or become the love of your life. Such a simple thing often pays incredible rewards.
Jaquelope
No, you are not the only one. I find the same irritation for bad writing, and often wonder the same things, even/especially when it happens in a newspaper or national magazine. Are there no editors or proofreaders anymore?
Den
Grammar, word meanings, words themselves, slang and jargon are all in constant flux. Were that not the case, all writing dating back to medieval English and earlier would be easily understood. As with all other societal and cultural changes, the pace of linguistic evolution and the variability of slang has increased in modern times.
You can either keep up or rail against it. But be certain the latter tactic will change nothing, and using the slang of the current generation by the current generation is no indication of either education of intellect.
dinard38
Nope. You’re certainly not the only one. It irks tf out of me, especially when the grammar errors are things we should have learned in 2nd and 3rd grade, like the use of “your” and “you’re”; “there”, “their”, and “they’re”. I don’t know why this one irks me so much, but when people use “women” instead of “woman”. “I love a beautiful women.” Ugghhh!!!! Lol!!!
jsmu
@Den: What ludicrous asininity and incompetent attempts at deflection!
The fact that language changes in NO way means it cannot also degrade beyond recognition. Personal dildoes (oh, so sorry, ‘smartphones’) and social media cancer stage 5 have resulted in dumbing-down so profound that people are no longer capable of even basic correct syntax, grammar, and orthography–much, much less logical, organized, or rational thought.
Your idiotic admonition for us all to ‘keep up’ with stupidity, vulgarity, and lowest-common-denominator trashspeak is an excellent example of what’s happened to the entire world.
nm4047
Really, now we’re reading Agony Aunt stories (cut & paste from reddit). Like many of the stories on reddit, just made up BS.
Den
Charming story, but reddit is not a reliable source for anything. This may well be nothing more than a charming story…fiction and nothing more.
stan2015
Well its a nice story. I just hope it is true.
THAT Steve
True or not, it gave me a genuine smile after a craptacular day at work. That’s all I need.
Creamsicle
I could actually get behind an ongoing queerty series of fanfiction based on reddit posts. I don’t even care if it’s real. Hell, get a writer to set up an elaborate catfish of accounts to write it all up as long as it’s cute and/or hot.
firebolt87
These stories are always amusing to read but I sincerely doubt they’re real. But hey, if this one is, good for both boys!
Donston
As I’ve said many times here, everyone’s preferences and sexual dimensions and sexual journey is their own thing, and everyone has their own makeup when it comes to the gender, sexual, affection, romantic, emotion, commitment spectrum. However, anyone with a lick of sense knows that the majority of these Reddit stories are complete fiction or are widely exaggerated. While the writing style and grammar choices of this one comes off like someone trying really hard to reflect a typical “straight’ bro”. It’s very caricature, almost camp. But so long as you don’t take these stories that seriously I guess it’s not a big deal. The hyper focus on “straightness” in the majority of them continues to be cringe-y though.
Man About Town
I just love it when people bare their souls and post what should be private and personal info on social media and then cry foul when others react in unpalatable ways. Jeez, how rude, huh?
radiooutmike
This is what happens when everyone starts to accept marginalized people.
This man, perhaps ten years ago, but certainly 20 or 30 years ago would probably not have accepted himself. But in this day and age, he can and it’s okay.
I remember being in college 35 years ago and having feelings like for a few college buddies of mine; but I never, ever, revealed that. My loss, I guess; but we all make our own journey to self discovery and acceptance.
chappy51
That’s so awesome! Good luck to both of you!