Jonathan Matthews > Caleb Matthews
You’re disgusting. How could you do this to Aunt Camille and Uncle Everett? Why do you have to choose to be gay? Just stop it!
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Jerry Matthews: I can’t believe my brother raised someone like you. What a disappointment for this family.
Marcia Butler: Stop being gay and maybe they’ll let you come back home.
Kylie Butler: Stop treating Caleb like this. He is still the same person we know and love.
Marcia Butler: Do not support your cousin’s unacceptable behavior or we will ground you, young lady.
CHAPTER 5:
Friday afternoon came around and it was the day I somewhat dreaded. Mike had band practice, Marc with cheer practice, and Michelle with volleyball practice. Alison had a meeting with the school’s decathlon team. Jenny was usually with me, but she started joining the photography club. I needed some sort of club, but I was too shy to join any before and my being out was starting to be a problem. I decided I could walk to Mike’s house, but then I would be a free target for those bullies.
“Oh, screw it,” I grumbled.
I made my way out of the school. Out on the sidewalk, a pair of figures stood. They looked familiar, but I was not sure what to think. I continued to walk and I soon realized that my parents were actually waiting for me.
“Son, have you decided to stop this heinous act,” Mom asked.
“We will forgive you for your behavior once you go back to being straight.”
I could not believe what I was hearing. Tuning them out, I decided to continue walking.
“Do not walk away from us, Caleb Aidan Matthews,” my father shouted. Usually that tone and the way he called my full name would stop me in my tracks, but I simply did not care. “We are still your parents and you must do whatever we say.”
That was what stopped me.
“Oh really, after you kick me out and tell me that you have no son, you decide to swoop back in and tell me that I am now your son again?”
“Don’t speak to your father in that tone, Caleb.”
“He’s not my father anymore, remember? I haven’t had a father for more than two weeks,” I spat back. “Oh, and don’t go saying that you’re my mother, too.”
I kept on walking, hoping my parents did not follow me.
“Get back here, right now,” my father shouted.
“Sorry Everett, I’ve got places to be and here is not one of them.”
“Have you no respect for your parents?” my mother asked. I turned around and took a good look at them.
“I’d respect them if I had any.”
A pair of footsteps charged towards me. Before I knew it, my father had me pinned against the school fence. His face was red and there was a murderous look in his eyes. I stared at him. It was a repeat of everything that was happening to me. I was bored of it.
“Hey, isn’t that the gay kid?” I heard someone say from behind the fence.
“Yeah,” another person said. “Let’s go. We don’t want to get involved with that.”
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Roman pour AdolescentsCaleb Matthews had a normal life until one mistake with a Facebook post changed it all. He was kicked out of his house, but he had his friends to help him up. In his journey through self-discovery, he will meet new faces, both good and bad. Like any...
