Adopted by Heathers: The Sequel

I Thought I Trusted You

Tickets to the winter dance stopped selling on Friday, and everyone was gossiping about who was going with who next Friday.

I knew I was going with Red, but not as a date or anything. Just as friends. God, I couldn't wait for prom. When I would be out and proud, and Red and I would be hopefully still dating and we can dance and laugh and it'll be the best night of my life.

I still had a year to wait, though. Which was sad.

I was watching the gaggle of straight dudes hand their girlfriends dance tickets and I groaned. I wished I could do that to Red, despite us not being straight.

I could pretend that Axel or someone was my date for the night...

Red pulled me aside and said, "I'm kinda sad I can't hand you a ticket and skip away with my lesbian fabulousness."

"I'm kinda sad I can't hand you a ticket and casually twirl into the next room with my bisexual glory." I said, laughing.

Red giggled at me and skipped away. I leaned against a locker, letting the scene take shape.

I held my own ticket in my hands. Ticket number 57 out of 100 sold. I was lucky. There are some kids in my grade who didn't even get to go to the dance because they couldn't get a ticket in time.

As the other kids were handing out tickets to their partners, (including Shirley and Astrid, along with one other gay couple) I could see Red growing more and more angry by the second.

"Red?" I whispered to my girlfriend. Red sighed and turned away from me.

"RED ASHLEY?! WHAT IS GOING ON??" I screamed. Red groaned and turned towards me.

"I'll tell you what's going on." Red said. She pushed past me and stepped into the crowd. "I was planning on going to the dance with the person I'm dating, but  someone doesn't want to come out!"

She pointed right towards me at the last part. And honestly, that's what stung the most. Red just outed me to the entire student body. And there was nothing I could've done about it.

Dead silence as I ran down the hall into the bathroom. As soon as I locked myself into the stall, the P.A. machine went off.

"Would Catlynn McLemore please report to the front office to be dismissed, please? Thank you."

"Well, there goes that." I said to myself, trying to wipe my tears. I splashed some water in my face so I didn't look like a total mess, then ran out of the bathroom and stormed up to Red.

"I'm breaking up with you." I whispered harshly in her ear.

Then I stormed away to whoever was picking me up.

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"Sunshine?" I heard, and Jessica was standing near the front office.

"Hi." I said coldly to my aunt.

"What's going on? I haven't seen you since you were in the hospital? How are you feeling? How's school?" Jess asked.

"Well, I'm feeling better, I'm no longer student council Vice President, and school sucks." I said. "Okay, can we not talk about school. Just sign me out and get me out of here."

"Catlynn!" I heard, and Red was storming down the hall. I didn't feel like getting in a fight with my ex while my aunt and the principal were around.

Even though most, if not all, of the school knows I was bi.

Then it hit me. If Red had screamed loud enough, Jess could've heard her. Oh. God.

The only way I can get home free is if I come out to Jess. Here goes nothing.

"Hey, um, there's something I need to tell you about in the car, okay?" I whispered to Jess. She nodded and took me to her car.

Moment of truth.

"Um...the reason I was crying today was because...um...something happened." I said. The story would only make sense if I came out first, then told the rest of what happened today.

"Hmm?" Jess said, backing out of her parking spot.

"Well, um. I'm a bisexual. I'm dating a girl, please don't tell Elle!" I screamed.

Jess' car came to a screeching halt.

"Jess?" I asked. My aunt sighed and said, "Sunshine, why didn't you tell me earlier?"

I started sobbing and said, "I was scared. My biological family was really against this kinda stuff except I think my older sister is a lesbian and she hasn't come out despite her being in her twenties and I'm so, so sorry Jess don't be mad at me please I love you!" I ranted.

"Aww, Sunshine. We all love you no matter what. Tell the others when you're ready, okay? Now, who's the lucky girl?" Jess said.

"Well, it used to be Red, but we broke up today." I said. "She outed me to the entire school. I don't think she did it on purpose, but it still hurt."

"Oh my God. And yeah, it wasn't hard to figure out that Red had feelings for you. I knew it since I met that girl." Jess said. "And especially with that weird dream that you had when you thought Red was dead, it was obvious that you had feelings for her too."

"Can we change the subject?" I said. Jess nodded and we drove in silence.

Would I ever forgive Red? Quite possibly.

The question was if she would ever forgive me.

AN: This is the evil plan I was talking about earlier. I've had this plotted for a while. Hope you enjoyed and catch ya later! Love ya all!