Carlos didn't know he was bisexual.
To be fair, he didn't even know bisexuality was a thing at all.
He had crushes on both boys and girls his whole life. It was pretty natural since he was a little kid: Heather Fox at Camp Wonky Donkey, that cute boy with dimples when he helped his aunt at her restaurant (whose name he didn't even know), Sasha, even though the whole situation was confusing and messy as hell, Andre Harris when he worked with Gustavo, all the Jennifers since day one at the Palm Woods, and, if he was honest with himself, he’d even glanced at one of his best friends once or a thousand times and felt his heart skip a beat.
But since other guys only talked about girls, and girls always talked about boys, he just assumed that everyone felt exactly like him and silently chose to only talk about one gender, you know? Did it annoy him sometimes that he wanted to talk about kissing boys as much as he wanted to talk about kissing girls but had to keep it to himself? Yes. But who was Carlos Garcia to change the way the world spins, right?
When the band finally met Kelly's wife, he was really supportive and simply assumed she chose to be a lesbian because another woman wanted to be with her too – which was actually really cool of her. She was so brave for challenging the way the world worked. And when Dak Zevon came out publicly as a gay man, he was so proud of his co-worker, even when he didn’t understand why so many fans were upset, like they couldn’t marry him anymore. He really thought people only chose who they were based on who they liked at the moment, and that was it.
Until Lucy came out to him.
Lucy had accidentally told her parents about her new partner, and now they were coming in the next twenty minutes to meet her boyfriend. Except there was no boyfriend, so she needed his help to cover it up. Of course Carlos accepted, and after they met up with her parents, when they were already back at her apartment, he asked Lucy why she had lied about having a partner.
She said her partner was a girl, and Carlos didn’t understand why it would be a bad thing that she had “become” a lesbian just like Kelly. Then Lucy explained that while Kelly was, in fact, a lesbian, she herself was actually bisexual and wasn’t ready to come out to her parents yet.
It was at that moment that he discovered that no, not everyone felt what he (and Lucy) felt. That he was bisexual and not everyone in the world was.
He had so much to think about. It was electric and terrifying at the same time to know that he had a whole new world to explore in his hands. And maybe one of his friends in apartment 2J could help with that.
