Fly Girl is coming home with me for the holidays. Not for Xmas, but for New Years. I usually go up north with The Boyz for New Years, and she’s gonna come along.

Wheeeeeee!

When I go home, I’ll be flying into Detroit, staying there with the fam for Xmas, then riding up north for New Years, and flying out of Traverse City to come back to Minneapolis. (In case you’re wondering where Traverse City is, hold up your right palm and point to the tip of your pinky finger. Roughly.) FG is also flying into Detroit, riding up north, then flying out of Traverse City. And this is where it gets interesting.

I was thinking that I’d just avoid having her and the fam cross paths at all. I can pick her up from the airport, head straight to Ann Arbor, stay a night with The Boyz, and then go up north with them. What made me rethink that was that I knew if I talked to her at any point while in the vicinity of my parents, I would not be interested in keeping (or able to keep) her visit a secret. Because folks listen in on your half of the conversation. I’m not tryinna run out of the room every time she calls.

But I want to avoid any guessing on my parents’ part, or any “‘sup widdat?” conversations. And I would definitely like her to meet my sister.

So I got it in my head that I should just tell my parents up front. “FG is coming to town. She gets in Wednesday. She’ll be around that day. We’re staying in Ann Arbor and then going up north.” And then make them decide if they want to meet her or not.

I have no idea how this meeting might go down. Lunch? Drop by the house? What? I figure I’ll worry about that later because it may just be a moot point. I had thought at first that I wouldn’t be disappointed if they said they didn’t want to meet her. Mostly because I was thinking of the relief of not having to figure out how the meeting would happen. But I probably will be, at least a little, if they say no.

And it’s weird because if they were local, they wouldn’t be meeting her so soon. It’s only been a month, fer chrissake. But the fact is she’s gonna be there, and she’s important to me, and they might as well get used to the idea. At least get used to the idea in principle.

My sister said that it would probably do them good to meet a “normal” person. Because all my friends and family hate the first girl I was involved with and apparently my mom has it in her head that #1 turned me gay. Or something strange like that. (Really, after the whole experience with #1, if I were gay before, she would have turned me straight.)

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of letting my parents decide. I don’t even know if my dad knows anything about her. I haven’t talked to him, so I haven’t personally told him about her. He generally refrains from expressing an opinon on anything (and I do mean anything), so I have no idea where he’s at with this. And my parents hardly talk to each other, so I don’t know if my mom has deemed this important enough to mention to him. I have made a point to mention FG every time I’ve talked to my mom.

I’m gonna be worked up either way. Upset if they say no, nervous if they say yes. But FG’s a brave soul and will probably be okay with whatever happens. Even though having her there is the stressor, I’ll feel much better having her there.

So, yeah. That’s the plan. Thoughts?

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