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Well hello there my name iWs Tim Hammerstone. I live in Topeka, Kansa. I have brown eyes and hair. I'm the baseball captain. I'm 18 years old, I'm a senior at High-Stone High school. So what else is there to tell you ummmm... Ohh yea I hated gay people. I used to bully gay people but it was in the past. Now my best friends are gay. I know what you're thinking “wait what!?!? First you hated gays now you're friends with them. How?” I will tell you but let's started on how my hate well old hate started with gay people. It started in a little church where my parents took me on Sundays. That day we were talking about how “GAY ARE A SIN” or how “ GAYS ARE GOING TO HELL”. Well everyone in the church was clapping even my parents so I clapped. I was little so I believed them even when I didn't know what they were talking about, I just remember that. Now I'm 14 all grow up and started to understand that gay were the reason why there is so much evil in the world. I started disliking them to hating them and finally loathing them Then we had new neighbor their name are Philip Waters, Jessie Brooks. We were the best of friends. Philip was normal like in height, he had hazel-green eyes, he the captain of the soccer team. He is Hispanic-American. Jessie, she loves to draw, color, and paint, or anything related to art. She was was small for her age. She had green eyes and she American. We were best friends until they both to me they were homosexual. It went like this: "hey Tim we need to tell you something" "ummm ok what's about?" "me and Jessie are really nervous to tell you this, based on your option" "ok you guys are creeping me out what do you want to tell me?" They both took a deep breath and sa... ... middle of paper ... ...n her cheek " PLEASE WE WILL GIVE YOU ALL YOU WANT" Philip also begged I got up . All I thought was I'm such a monster to get them this scared. " no I want to talk to you guys. I'm not going to hurt you guys I promise" They were scared but let me talk "I want to say I'm sorry" after that I told them what I dreamed about " can you guys forgive me please? I'm so sorry, can we still be friends like old time" I know they would forgive me. So I was about to leave when they said "we forgive you but we won't be friends until you make the people to stop bullying us because we are homosexual" "deal" I got people to stop bullying them and I finally got my best friends back. That dream change me lot. It show me I should be more careful with people feels, their love etc. well that my story bye.

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