真心半解--同人文(11)
orientation leader.”
When the moderator tells people to step in if they identify as Asian, she finds herself part of a
group of roughly fifteen students that do so. She cannot stop staring, even after they've stepped back into the circle. She has never seen this many Asians in her life. She's never seen any Asians, period, outside of her dad and the checkout clerks at Asian grocery store.
The prompts keep coming. She makes note of the people who step in because they've
experienced the loss of a loved one, those who are interested in philosophy, and those who have high
spice tolerances. She mostly can't relate to the others (“Step in if you have a Midwestern accent”, “Step in if you say pop instead of soda”).
Then, one of the last ones: step in if you identify as part of the LGBTQA community.
Her eyes widen as she sees the number of people stepping in. Twenty, then forty, almost half of