This is for SEAL Team Week Sunday's prompt - Childhood. This story is about moments in Jameelah's Childhood that helped him discover who he is.
July 4th 2017 - Perry household
Naima was trying to get her 6 year old daughter to wear a summer dress for the barbeque the boys were having but the little girl was having none of it, she was screaming, crying, yelling and was doing just about anything to stop her mother from making her wear that god-awful dress. You see Jameelah Perry absolutly HATED dresses according to her they made her feel all 'icky inside' of course she didn't tell her parents this fact as then they would want to talk with her about it and why it made her feel this way and she was just not ready for that conversation, actually the only person who she had told this fact to was her Uncle Trent and he told her that it's okay to not like dresses. Speaking of Uncle Trent he had actually came early to set up and had came around back where Ray was, the only reason he had heard Jameelah was because he had went inside to put away the beer and heard screaming coming from upstairs so he went to investigate and found Naima trying to get Jameelah to wear a flower patterned dress and Jameelah was throwing the tantrum of the century but as soon as she saw Trent she calmed down, ran over and jumped into his arms.
"Hey Meelah what's all the crying about?"
"I don't want to wear the dress"
"Okay well why don't you tell your mom why you don't want to wear it instead of yelling at her?"
"Okay... I don't want to wear the dress because I don't like the way it makes me feel"
"N: What does wearing a dress make you feel Meelah?"
"It makes me feel icky"
"Okay now I know your mom usually let's you pick out your clothes so it might be important to her that you wear this dress, why don't you ask her?"
"Is it important to you mom?"
"N: Yes it is"
"Why?"
"N: Well it's important to me Meelah because we're going to be taking some pictures and all your aunts and uncles are going to be here and I would like you to look nice"
"Okay now Meelah what would you like to wear?" She pulled out a pair of jean caprees and a yellow T-Shirt "Okay now I know wearing the dress is important to your mom and wearing this is important to you so how about we compermise so how about you put on the dress and put on the jeans underneath so then you have on something you want to wear while also wearing something important to your mom"
"Okay I'll be out in a minuet"
N: Thank you Trent I had been trying to get her to wear that dress for like 20 minuets before.
T: your welcome, I should probably start helping ray set up the backyard.
N: yea probably should see you in a bit TrentJanuary 25th 2024
I look at myself in the mirror and all I feel is a skin crawling feeling come over my body and if were being honest here I dislike myself quite a bit and I know I don't even have a big chest or wide hips but I feel like I do and that everyone can see and it makes me so uncomfertable. I'm broken out of my thoughts by mom calling me down for dinner so I put on a baggy sweatshirt and head downstairs an it turns out mom made my favorite for dinner; spagetti with meatballs and the whole time during dinner my mind is off of my incounter with the mirror. When dinner ends I go up to my room and text Uncle Trent and ask if I can come over to his and Uncle Brock's place and talk with him and he responds fairly quickly with a 'Sure Meelah tell me what time and i'll pick you up' so I go downstairs and ask if I can go to Uncle Trent's Place tomorrow and dad tells me I can.
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At Uncle Trent's place I tell him about what i've been feeling lately and he doesn't interup me at all just sits there and listens to what I have to say which i'm beyond grateful for as I don't know if I could have repeated myself. After I tell Uncle Trent everything he just looks at me with..... understanding? He tells me when he was my age he felt the exact same way and he later found out he was Transgender and I make a mental note to research the term when I get home and then after the serious talk we go on a hike with Cerburus and Uncle Brock.July 1st 2026
I'm so nervous because today is the day that i've finally worked up enough courage to tell my family who I really am and just as i'm physcing myself up for the last time mom calls me down for dinner and as I head dwn the stairs i'm shaking because I'm so nervous. When I sit down at the dinner table I take a deep breath and call the attention all on me everyone is looking at me and it's so nerve racking but it's just like ripping off a band-aid so I tell them.
"Um.. Mom, Dad I have something important to say and please don't interup me untill i'm finished.... i'm Transgender and my name is Jayden and my pronouns are He/Him." When I look back up at everyone they all look calm and mom when she gets to me for the mash potatoes she says "Jayden how many scoops would you like 1 or 2?" and I just start crying - happy tears of course - and dad asks me what's wrong I tell him i'm just so happy that they all accept me, dad tells me of course they would and that there's no reason he wouldn't love his baby boys.July 4th 2026
The anual barbeque is being held today in our house and I'm super excited but also nervous to tell everyone and when I go into the backyard I see Uncle Trent has already saved me a spot, when I go sit down he asks if i'm ready and I tell him yes so he stands up and gets everyone's attentionand tells them I have something to anounce to everyone so I stand up and tell everyone and they all except me and I breakdown in happy tears for a second time this week.
Well that was fun to write monday's prompt will be out within the next week or so, hope you all enjoyed - Jayden
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