Mason Barclay, who describes himself as a "very homosexual male", wanted to attend a sleepover at his best friend's house.
Knowing that boys are not normally allowed to attend teen girls' sleepovers, the teen boy decided to send his friend's mum a polite text message, asking if she'd let him attend.
"I am one of Houston's best friends," he wrote to Houston's mum. "If she had people over on Friday, would I, a very homosexual male, be able to take part in the sleepover?"
He carried on explaining why he should attend: "I think the common meaning behind only allowing the same sex to share sleepovers is due to the typical interest in the opposite sex, when in this case, I do not like the opposite sex."
He was not expecting Houston's mum's hilarious open-minded response.
