#aroace panic

STOP MAKING ME GET FLUSTERED WTF I HATE BOTH OF YOU (I hate one of them)

peter pettigrew x preston fawley | marauders era | this part- 399 words | wip | aroace slowburn

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Fall was officially in full swing, leaves crunching under Preston Fawley's feet, a cold breeze tickling his nose. It was only a few weeks into the new year, and Preston had already slipped from the dorm room and into the brisk morning air a dozen times.

He was fairly used to the whole routine by now, to all of his dorm mates and their respective schedules. After all, it was fourth year-- and the only truly notable thing that had changed in all of those four years was the addition of Regulus in the halls. But even that was old news now, and Preston had grown accustomed to the way Regulus would glare at them and mutter things under his breath.

yeah she hasn’t stopped. Instead she’s been blowing the comments off and saying I need to take a joke and that I’m overreacting :(

anyway today was finally the breaking point. She said “you seem like the kind of person, where if same sex marriage was ever illegal, you’d marry a gay man(implying he would secretly date a guy and I would secretly date a girl)” I replied to her saying no I wouldn’t do that because I’m aroace and that would have literally no benefit for me and she decided to respond by saying “well yeah but maybe you’d fall in love”

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I’ve bee open about being aroace with her for about 3 or 4 years now. Until now she’s been making mostly sexual comments and jokes and I guess I never really felt to bad about them and was able to make myself forget it because anything involving sex kinda feels fake to me but idk this was the breaking point. Her implying that I’m wrong about myself and that I will fall in love someday (Ik it’s not exactly what the quote said but based on our past and other factors I know this is what she’s thinking)

what really broke me tho was afterwards another friend came up to me (she said this at our lunch table in front of many other people who also know I’m aroace and didn’t react at all) and talked to me bout it. I’m actually so so grateful they came up to me and told me what she did wasn’t right and that they’d noticed all the other times she’s said things like this. And idk I was holding back tears

Up until now no one has ever really acknowledged what she’s been saying or anything so having someone actually do that and agree with me that she should not be acting like that… idk it meant a lot to me. They hugged me and asked if I wanted them to talk to her about it and I just felt so cared for ig? Idk I’m really grateful for all they said

Anyway the point of this post was to say I’m going to try and talk to her one more time tomorrow and try to explain why I don’t like these comments and how she’s being homophobic and try to explain more in depth ig that I’m not only aroace but also romance and sex repulsed