Icing on the Cake

~14~

I very slowly walked all the way home, letting a few tears fall down. Tears of pain and tears of embarrassment, but mostly tears of frustration that I lived in the world where treating people like me like this is okay.

I quietly walked in the door and tried to hurry into my room without running into my parents or brothers. I didn’t want to answer any questions.

“Luke Robert Hemmings!” I heard my mom’s intimidating voice scold me. “I just got a call from the school!”

I turned around sheepishly.

My mother’s face turned angry when she saw my bruised face. “So it’s true.” She said. “Everything they told me is true.” I didn’t say anything. I kept looking down. “Look at me Luke! Your principal said you were trying to go to prom with Calum? So you think you’re gay now?”

I looked down again.

“Look up at me! That’s disgusting! If you don’t stop that right now you’re going to hell! You shouldn’t be surprised you got your ass beat at school. I just spoke to your father and we are in agreement. We want you out of the house! Your father will be home in an hour. OUT BY THEN!”

I started crying again. I ran in my room and grabbed some essential items. I then walked out of the house. “I can’t believe you’re doing this!” I barked at my mom.

“If you ever stop being queer, maybe we’ll accept you back.” She said back to me.

Tears rolled down again. I looked over to see my brother Jack looking sympathetically at me, but saying nothing. Staring at him, I was begging him to do something, to help me somehow. But he didn’t, wouldn’t. Didn’t know what to do, wouldn’t know what to do.

I walked out, walked onto the street, not knowing where I would be going.

Notes

Fav line of the chapter: "but mostly tears of frustration that I lived in the world where treating people like me like this is okay."

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