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Kiera stared at her parents’ stunned expressions. Not terrified. Not
horrified. Not disgusted. Just…shocked.
She’d called and said she had something she needed to talk to them
about. They sat down in the same living room she grew up playing, building
forts, and watching movies in. She told them everything. Right from the
start. How, when she was fourteen, she realized she wasn’t attracted to guys
the same way other girls her age were. How that both terrified and
exhilarated her. How, once the exhilaration wore off, she was just left with
the terror and the aftermath of knowing she was different.
She’d told them how, in college, she’d dated women secretly, if dating
was the right term. She knew it wasn’t, and she confessed that too. That it
was basically no strings attached because she could never take the chance
of forming an attachment with anyone, even if she badly wanted to. She
told them about how she often felt very lonely, even when she had a ton of
friends around her.
She told them about how hard it was to live a double life, but how she
couldn’t imagine losing everyone’s love and support. She confessed that the
whole thing with Shane was fake. Finally, she told them about Romi, even
though she didn’t mention her name. She said there was a woman she was
in love with, but she had broken things off because she didn’t have the
courage to fight for the future she really wanted.
After she was finished, she felt exhausted, but she also felt curiously
light. Emotional and mental burdens were real, and they’d been pressing
down on her, weighing on her for a very long time.
“I-I don’t know what to say,” Kiera’s mom finally whispered. She still
had her husband’s hand clutched tightly in her own. They’d been that way
the entire time Kiera was speaking.
Kiera’s dad just gave her a blank, confused look. Kiera knew it would
take a long time for what she’d said to sink in fully. She sat across from her
parents on the love seat while they were on the couch. Their reaction so far
