Deliverance (Fem x Stem)

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Teyanne Sully

"The good Sully name would be tarnished if you two remain here. You must go," my mother shooed at me. "Or rather," she tapped her chin thoughtfully, "You break up with her."

"Lilliana and I aren't even together," I told her, anger coursing through my body. "Ah, so you two were just messing around. Now my daughter has become a whore," my mother spat. I stepped towards her. "Don't speak to me like I'm just anybody. I'm your daughter."

"You're 18 now. An adult. No longer my daughter as far as im concerned," my mother huffed. "Go ahead and leave. We have some things to do," she told me sharply. My mother led Ms. Burk gently back into the building, my grandmother lingering behind.

"We aren't your family anymore. We're just the Sully's to you," she snapped. I watched them go back inside of the building, my chest hollow. So is this how it felt to be disowned? I numbly walked through the parking lot to my Jag, where Lilliana leaned against it, facing me with her arms crossed. She was silent as I unlocked the car and she got into the passenger seat. Matter of fact, she was silent the entire way to her dorm.

"I was stupid. To let this continue," I whispered.

"There wasn't even anything. We were just friends. I knew getting caught up with you would probably lose my focus on school, but now I'm really losing school, Teyanne. What do you have to say for that?" she barked at me.

"I'll use every dime I have saved up to pay for you to go to college elsewhere," I promised her.

"Better start counting your coins den," she huffed, looking away from me angrily.

"I'm losing my family too, in this. We aren't even together and they're doing all of this. I didn't think a few 'disagreed about' words at church would make my mom- Mrs. Sully act like this."

"Well now we know, don't we?" she snapped.

"You can lie and tell your family you switched schools after I pay for your college but me, I'll have no one," I yelled.

I slowed at a red light.

"If you knew your family was like this, why even bother trying to be with anybody?"

"Because I wanted something of my own. Something they couldn't control," I admitted quietly.

"I'll call my mother tonight after I look at colleges. I'll have to send in applications and forms and all those other things," she me clippedly. "I don't have a job, Tey. I hadn't even gotten around to that."

I nodded meekly, driving into her dorm lot. "I'll help-

"You don't think you've done enough of that?" she hopped right out and slammed my door. "Thanks for everything, Tey." She stomped towards the building, leaving me feeling abandoned and dumb. I had always been what my family wanted me to be, but the moment that I broke away from that, everything crashed down on me.

Maybe they were right...only bad things could come from two women being in love and together.

I went back to my house and started moving things around. I didn't want anything the same as when Lilliana was here. It hurt too much. I only had a few more payments to pay off before I owned this place, so I didn't have to move out thankfully.

As I rearranged my furniture, a dull sadness sat in my heart. After I had been ready to give my all to Lilliana, my family broke us up. True, we could be together in another city- in another place. But it was obvious Lilliana wanted nothing else to do with me and that she was furious about switching colleges.