My sister surprised me at work today by popping into the mall when I got off. She was doing some Christmas shopping, and wanted to surprise me with a visit. Luckily she caught me just before I was about to sneak out of everyone’s sight to get home. We had dinner, and had the most frank discussion about our lives and relationships.

My sister reveals to me that she’s kind of seeing someone, and for a change, it’s not a “bad boy”, and is actually a nice, FOB-ish Korean guy. Now, my sister is by no means an unattractive girl. She’s cute, spunky, and has the sensibility of a girl older by a decade. I’ve always imagined myself having martinis with her at a bar, talking frankly about anything in the world. She proceeded to tell me the great story where she broke the hearts of three guys in a span of two days.

Just as she’s decided she likes her new love interest, she lets it leak to a male friend online, who promptly tells her to call him. She does, and she gets a crying boy who confesses that he’s had feelings for her too. Oh boy, what drama. Afterwards, she calls another friend, and as she relates the story, the friend also confesses that he’s had such feelings before too. In these two day period, she also receives a ring on what would have been her and her ex’s one-year anniversary. It’s a ring with two diamonds!

i guess someone didn’t get the memo. My sister had to break the news (again) of their breakup to her ex, who then proceeds to refuse the return of the gift, citing “I want you to look at the ring and remember how you ruined a guy’s life!”

There she is, my sister, the Heartbreaker.

As I was dropping her off back at her dorm, she also recounts to me that all of the boys whose hearts she broke while in Puerto Rico when she was in Middle/High school have all turned out to be gay! So, not only is she a Heartbreaker, she’s also the GAYMAKER! I suggested she use that factoid as ammunition against boys who want to break up with her.

If you break up with me, you’ll turn gay!

But all in jest, folks. My sister is a Heartbreaker/Gaymaker.

In the past, the only thing that has before stopped me from talking to her in complete honesty about my lifestyle and events is the fact that I know that she is still very active in the Church community. I’ve always had this innate fear that my choices and my life would just alienate me from her and other members of my family. But granted, it’s 2006, and young Christians are more accepting today and more diverse than say, 30 years ago.

She broke the ice by trying to convince me to join the family in North Carolina for a New year’s skiing trip with the lure of cute boys,and I managed to tell her that there was a boy I was keeping on my mind. After that, the weight was lifted off. Someone punch the Staples Easy Button.

We ended the night happy and giddy with laughter. And for that, I am happy.