Forbidden love [GirlxGirl]

Chapter 6

"So this is your apartment?" Tyler raised her eyebrows "that cult of yours must have a lot if money if they pay an apartment like this for every Rumspringa person. Wish I had the money for an apartment like this."

I shrugged my shoulders. I ,also, had no idea how our community can finance this.

"Is there still some of your stuff left?" I asked Tyler, realizing that she just came back from her dorm.

"Well this is all that's left." She held a sports bag above her head "just a few clothes, my basketball and some books."

I saw tears glisten in her eyes as she put the bag down. "Even my guitar burned down."

I wrapped my arms around her body and held her close to me. I heard her sniffle before her tears ended up on my shoulder.

"Shh, it's gonna be okay." I tried to comfort her. In my community, we were learned not to get attached do material stuff but I could understand Tyler.

"Basketball and my guitar were there for me when no one else was and it's burned down. It's fucking burned down." She unwrapped herself from my embrace.

Although I didn't know for that long, I had never expected to see her this vulnerable. The Tyler I knew was a tomboy, who was way too hard on herself and didn't show much emotion, but the Tyler in front of me was an emotional wreck.

"We can get you a new guitar tomorrow and what else you need."

Tyler rubbed her forehead "Ain't got no money for that shit. God, I spent all my money on that dorm and now it's just gone. And you what's the worst thing?"

"What?" I asked. it seemed like she wanted to yell out all her frustration.

"The worst thing is that everyone else can turn to their parents except me."

"I've heard you say stuff like that before. Why can't you turn to your parents?" I settled myself on the couch and gestured for her to do the same.

"Well" A cynical smile played around her lips "They don't want me as their daughter. I've always been an only child, you know? They were so proud of me and I was so spoiled, but they were very, very religious. When I was 17 years old I told them that I was gay, that I liked girls the way I was supposed to like girls. I had struggled with it for so long and I just wanted them to tell me that it was okay and that they were gonna be there for me but they didn't. You know what they did do? They grabbed a bag, threw some of my stuff in it and told me to leave and never come back."

"People actually do that?" I asked, surprised by her story.

"Apparently."

"Oh that's so unfair. And then? What did you do?"

"I went to Julia's. Her parents are also religious, but they deal with it the right way. They showed me love and let me stay at theirs for the last few months of my senior year. It was very generous of them but I didn't want to depend on them so I worked really hard at school and eventually got a scholarship. It covered a lot of the finances, but I still have to work a lot to pay my dorm."

A wave of nauseousness overwhelmed me as I took Tyler's whole story in. Parents actually did this to their kids?

"Well there's only one thing that can help us right now."

Tyler frowned at me as I walked towards the kitchen but smiled as I came back with two spoons a Ben & Jerry's bowl.

"The cookie dough flavor is my fave." Tyler yelled excited.

"At least we got that in common."

I pulled the lid of the ice cream and sat it down between us.

"We will still go shopping for the things you need tomorrow. I'll pay your guitar, I've got this whole lot of money I don't need, anyway."

"I can't take that." She licked some ice cream from her spoon.

"See it as a 'thank you' because of your help with showing me around in LA and going shopping for me."

Tyler shrugged "I guess I can take that."

"Good." I smiled.

After finishing the ice cream we both realized how drained we were from this day. We decided to order some take out, which we ate while watching a movie called 'the vow'.

"I already told you that I only got one bedroom right?" I asked as we got ready for bed.

"Yeah" Tyler answered as she put some toothpaste on a toothbrush "I hope you have a small bed" she flirted.

"Lucky for me, it's pretty big. Oh, and we will get another bed tomorrow too. Another one will definitely fit in the room."

"Guess I have to enjoy this -once in a lifetime- night, then."

I rolled my eyes "don't expect too much."

Soon after that we put on our pajamas and she joined me in bed, where we talked for a bit.

"Do you know when they will renew the dorm for you?"

"Well, they told me they will start rebuilding next week but it will take three to four months until it's done." She answered.

"Well, at least you can save some money the next couple of months." I told her.

"True" She laughed "I'm really thankful, you know. You're a really nice person and although I don't have that much with religious people, I do really like you and I think God did a really nice job when he made you. Especially when he decided to throw some lesbian into you."

I raised my eyebrows. "At first I wanted to say thank you, but now I have to convince you I'm not a lesbian."

"You sure, Becca, are you really sure you're not a lesbian?"

"Positive." I answered.

Tyler suddenly sat straight up in bed and hovered over me while her soft lips touched mine. I couldn't do anything else than respond to that. I got dizzy in my head when her tongue licked my lips, begging for entrance, which I gladly accepted just a few moments before she turned away.

"Are you still sure you're not a lesbian?"

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Well that was that. A sweet little kiss before shit is about to go down.

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