My Journal: How Not to LGBT [EDITING]

Chapter Two

Entry Two- The Weekend

I didn't write anything for the rest of the school week- there wasn't much to it. Just a shit ton of homework (That's what I get for coming to a school in the middle of spring.) At lunch the day after I met Sam, Alice, and Jenna, we gave each other our phone numbers, so we spent all of our free time texting each other. I learned that Sam is trans.

Sam, Jenna, Alice, and I decided to meet up and go somewhere we chose when we met up on Saturday. I was in my usual outfit of some band shirt, converse, and on that day, black skinny jeans. We were going to the park to start off with, then see where we would go from there. I was walking to the park and texted 'Any names for this group yet???';

Me: I'm on my way to the park. I'll be there in 5

Sam: Ok, the rest of us are already here

I walked through the park entrance and saw the three people I call my friends on the playground. Alice and Jenna were on the swings and Sam was next to them so geniusly smoking, knowing I have asthma. I walked behind the trees, silently, before going behind the swings and poking Jenna when she was close to me. She yelled, "What the fuck," as she stopped swinging. Sam saw me as I was causing mischief and started laughing and he stomped out his cigarette. It was good to know I wouldn't have to go to the hospital because of it. Jenna looked behind her and flipped me off. I smiled at her and said, "Love you too." Everyone but Jenna laughed and I climbed up the monkey bars and sat on the top of them. We sat in silence for a minute before I awkwardly said, "You know how my family doesn't give a fuck about me? While they kept saying shit like, 'You need to make friends,' and I said I do and they now want to meet you so after this do you want to go to my house so they'll shut the fuck up and go back to forgetting I exist?" I got a 'Sure' and two nods as my answer. Alice suggested, "You should come out to your family. All of us are, and they support us." I thought for a minute before agreeing. We decided to stay in the park half an hour before Alice had to be home. We then walked over to my house.

I unlocked the door to my house, and yelled, "Hey, I'm home. My friends are here too!" My mom walked to where we were and said, "Hello! I'm Lexi's mom. I'm assuming you're her friends?" I was actually surprised she was being nice. Sam was the first to talk, saying, "Yeah. I'm Sam, and they are Jenna and Alice." My mom nodded and said, "Okay. Would you like to stay for dinner?" Everyone said they would, so I said, "I actually have something to tell you and the rest of the family, so I can say it at dinner." She looked at me for a second, confused as to why I actually wanted to tell her something before nodding and saying, "Okay." We made our way to the table and Mom got the food. When she came back, everyone else was already there. I introduced everyone to each other so that was out of the way. "What is it that you have to say?" My mom asked after she sat down. "Umm... Well I'm Asexual Aromant-," I responded. I got cut off by my dad. No one in my family had ever said anything about the LGBT community, so I had no idea how they would react.

-Warning maybe? It says some hate.-

"Okay, well I hope you know that those aren't real and that you'll find a husband sometime who you'll love and want to do more with," He said. [This isn't important to anything but Migraine just came on and I might actually cry and I never cry. Okay bye] I got kind of pissed off by that, and said, "Do you have any idea how much this is taking me to say. You also kind of cut me off. What I was also going to say is that I'm nonbinary. I've always hated the nickname 'Lexi' and everyone else in the world calls me Alex." He looked at me before saying, "My answer is the same as last time, those. aren't. real. There are only two genders; you're either a boy or a girl. And you're either gay or straight. You know that being gay is wrong. Oh, and don't even bring up transgenders to me."

-Warning over-

Alice, who never cusses or does anything remotely 'bad,' slammed her hands against the table and practically screamed, "What the fuck did we ever do to you? We're just living our lives and assholes like you have to come in and say shit like that! I happen to be dating Jenna and I love her a lot- and did you even know we existed before 15 minutes ago? No! You didn't! Sam is trans and the same applies to him. Did he ever do shit to you?" After that Jenna pulled her down to her seat. I couldn't blame her for reacting that way. I've wanted to for a long time for pretty much everything. My mom sternly asked, "Lexi, did you know this?" I sassily replied with, "Fuck yeah I did. We're probably probably better friends because all of us came out to each other." "You have one day to pack your stuff. After that if I ever see you in this house..." She didn't finish the sentence. I laughed. "You can't even come up with a good threat. Consider it a deal. I'll start packing now."

I walked up to my room- well ex-room now, and my friends followed. When I opened the door to my room, everyone walked in. "We'll all help you pack. You can stay at my house," Sam said. I nodded and said, "If you find a black permanent marker, leave it out on my bed. Same with red and black paint, a paintbrush, and a plastic box lid or something. We can get my bed stuff last. I'm getting boxes now, you can start taking posters down and put the pins in a pile." My entire wall was made up of posters, the only paint you could see was in the places that weren't big enough to put anything or in between shelf things or something. Seeing as we just moved, there were still a shit ton of boxes in the garage. I grabbed as much as I could carry and made my way back upstairs. As soon as I walked in I saw Jenna looking at a foot tall pile of posters. She asked, "How many boxes will we need for the posters?" "I used a big one with all of them piled on top of each other, so there's that," I answered.

We eventually got everything except the paint, paintbrush, paper plate, marker, and bed stuff in boxes. I uncapped the marker and it turned into a sword- not really. I wish it did though. I went to the now plain white wall and wrote, 'Fuck you guys. Have fun with your assholeness,' big on the wall. After that I took the paint and mixed it until it looked like blood. I painted it on my hand and put my hand print under the kind, very family friendly message to creep out everyone and make it think it was actually blood, just because I'm kind of morbid like that. I wiped my hand off and said, "Lets get the fuck outta here."

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Does anyone have any suggestions for books on wattpad that doesn't have smut or anything more than cussing? I'm flying to Utah for a week and I need something to do on the plane.