Flower petals - a lesbian love story

3. Art

⚠️READ!!!!⚠️
‼️T.w.: homophobia and a homophobic slur‼️

I CAN SAY THIS SLUR AS A LESBIAN MYSELF AND I DO NOT PROMOTE THE USAGE OF THIS WORD EVER!!

If this word is ever used against you or someone else, tell someone with authority. The usage of this word is not okay, and being LGBTQIA+ is 100% fine, and should be supported and respected. Remember you are loved!
If the usage of this word is triggering to you, please skip until the end of the story, where I'll give a short recap of what happened❤️‍🩹
Take care of yourself and your mental health, and enjoy!
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Adria's pov:

*TRIIIIIIIING TRIIIIIIIIING*
The bell rings, and a huge crowd of people gather at the gates of the school and try to leave as soon as possible. I take my time, since it's not like I'll get through that crowd and I was planning on grabbing my art supplies so I can paint at home. Today was surprisingly amazing! I hope I can become closer to Julie. The way she speaks gives me butterflies in my stomach, and her lips seem so soft..
I enter the art room. I grab my stuff and as I'm about to leave I hear 2 people talking outside of the classroom.
"Did you hear about that new girl?", I hear a boy say.
"Yeah dude she's super hot! I'm going to ask her to come to my party this weekend" the other replies.
I can't help but listen to them talking about the new girl. My Julie.
"She already became friends with the weird dyke though"

Those words hit me like a knife to my chest. It feels like I'm 14 again, just came out as a lesbian and my classmates are calling me names. It makes me remember how I felt after the girls in my class started screaming at me for looking in their direction in the changing rooms. It makes me relive the times I ate in the bathrooms, because I was being threatened with assault if I went to the cafeteria.

"Yo dude you can't say shit like that, not cool"

I hear the boys laughing and walking away, and I'm sat there in shock of what I just heard. I look around the classroom, and watch all the art made by different students to calm myself down. I never noticed the details in their paintings before, or the symbolism behind it. I grab my stuff and silently leave the classroom.

I leave school and go to a local park. I love painting there. There's a big lake where a lot of ducks and other wildlife live. I set up my easel and start painting the scenery.
*klik klik*
*klik klik*
I faintly hear the clicking of a camera. I look next to me and see Julie, who probably also didn't notice I was there. I look at her and what she's doing for a bit. She's crouched, trying to take a picture of 2 swans swimming together. She looks so focused, and I can't help but start blushing.
I never knew she was into photography! That's probably why she signed up for an art course at school.
"Julie!" I yell at her. She looks up at me, and yells my name back after a second. "Adriaaa!"
She runs to me and gives me a hug. Her arms wrapped around me make me feel weak in the knees.
"What are you doing here?" I ask curiously.
"Not much, I'm looking around the neighbourhood for a nice spot to take photographs. I wanna take some for my wall, and I love photography"
"Nice! I always come here to paint"
She looks at my painting and smiles.
"You're really talented you know?", she says looking in my eyes deeply.
I blush and am about to say something back, but suddenly she gets a notification.

📣 come to my party this weekend! Huge house, no parents, lots of rooms and booze! Address: Bazinga lane 430 📣
-Connor

She seems shocked by the notification, but happy at the same time.
"You should totally come with me to this party! And bring your friends too!", she exclaims.
"Euhm I don't really-"
"Pleaaaaase?", she looks at me with puppy dog eyes.
".. fine"
"Yay!!"
We talk a bit more, and after an hour I go home.

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RECAP OF THE STORY FOR EVERYONE WHO SKIPPED!
So basically Adria goes to the art room after school to get some stuff, when she hears 2 boys including Connor talking about a party. A boy mentions Adria and says something bad but Connor shuts it down completely. Adria has a flashback to when she was younger and was being bullied for being lesbian.
She goes to a park and paints, when she sees Julie doing photography. Julie compliments Adria's work, and Adria gets interrupted by a message on Julie's phone inviting her to the party. She asks Adria and her friends to come.

That was the recap with all the most important details, I hope that this helps people who're sensitive to this type of stuff, even if it's very short ❤️

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Authors note:
Hi everyone! So I'm a bit sad that this story is kind of flopping, as it's something I really enjoy working on :(
If anyone would want to share this story with someone who would be interested, I'd be very grateful ❤️
Also I'm working on some character designs of how I see these characters in my head, so I might upload them at some point!
Have a great day💋