Abby's Un-Valentine

Before this book, it had never stood out to me that Abby didn't have a love interest. Her turning down Ross's dance invitation reminds me a lot of how I turned down straight guys before I realized that I was trans—I liked boys but something about the idea of me pursuing a relationship with a straight guy seemed wrong to me, and I only wanted to pursue relationships with guys who weren't straight. Abby's reasons for rejecting Ross could be interpreted as Abby being gay but not yet realizing it. The other club members other than Kristy all think she should go to the dance with Ross and that Abby's making a big deal out of nothing. Abby has a conversation with Kristy where Kristy reveals that she dated Bart because it was socially expected of her and she went along with it, and not because she wanted to date him. It's very easy to read Kristy and Abby as gay in this book, and that's why I enjoyed it so much.