Selfish Pleasure: A Homophobic Nightmare

Chapter 7: Selfless Pain

Part 1

Students began throwing food and trash at the walls of Mr. Vargas' classroom before he came out.
"Hey, what's going on?" He asked.
"Child molester!"
"Pervert!"
"Get off campus!"
The students began to yell as reporters approached him.
"Mr. Vargas, how does it feel to change your own sexuality?"
"How will you be telling your family?"
"Do you believe the students have done this to you?"
"Will you be going to court to fight against this?"
The reporters flooded him with questions before he could stop them.
"What are you talking about? I'm not gay!"
"Then what are you doing here?" Frankie asked as she showed them a video of him and Jake kissing on her phone.
The students gasped and mumbled as Mr. Vargas struggled to find a response.
"That's not me! You can't record me without my knowledge!"
"You can't date students, let alone underage ones." Frankie replied.
"Mr. Vargas, has the Brofriend trend really influenced your views and sexuality?" One reporter asked him.
"No.. I've always been gay." He confessed.
"So has Jake," Marcus replied before Nathan looked up at him.
"Mr. Vargas, do you have any last words to tell the press before going to jail?" Another reporter asked before an officer approached him.
"Lillian, I'm sorry. I love you, even if it's not in that way. I never wanted to hurt you nor Daisy, but I did what I knew was right, for everyone. This thing with Jake was only to fulfill my wrongful desire and nothing more. I did what was right for everyone but myself, now I've met the consequence." Mr. Vargas said looking into the cameras.
Jake watched from inside the classroom as Mr. Vargas was taken away. Marcus walked up to Nathan before saying
"I'm sorry."
"Why did you do that to me" he asked him.
"I didn't know what else to do, Nath. I didn't want to hurt you or anyone else. Look what I did, I made your parents kick you out, Jeremy's Pastor father upset with him, and half the country thinks I started this trend on purpose to extinguish mankind." Marcus told him.
"Genius plan." Frankie joked before realizing her place in the conversation.
"Marcus, that's the price you pay for being yourself, for taking risks. When you do things differently, you get different results. You didn't do anything but help people to find love, and truth." Nathan told him.
"But can't you see I changed people's views, I convinced people to try the impossible. Look at Jake, I thought he would never go along with it yet he was all along. He was going to be our proof to the people who are completely against us; they're still out there."
"It's okay, Marcus. We don't need to prove anything. This is who we are, we are two beings in love.. or whatever this was."
"Nath, you know I love you."
"I know."
"Well, don't you love me?" Marcus asked after a short pause.
"After yesterday, I don't know if I can forgive you. You left me when everyone else did."
"No, I stayed with you, I gave you a room! Nathan, I would never leave you alone on the streets, I knew you had Frankie. Please try to understand why I had to get away from all this to take some time to myself to think." Marcus told him.
"I do, I understand. And I want you to understand that you don't need to fix things that aren't broken. When you're true with yourself and the world, it only helps the world to realize their truth. The only thing you did wrong was leaving when you didn't know what else to do. Too many people leave for the wrong reasons, that was one of them." Nathan told him before Frankie walked over to him.
Nathan and Frankie walked to the parking lot as Marcus watched them leave.

A few hours later, Marcus went on a local news station to talk about the now infamous scandal at the school.
"We are here with the young man who started it all, Marcus from West Valley High. Marcus, could you tell us how long you've known about your friend's romance with Mr. Vargas and how long it had been going on?" The news anchor asked him as they sat at a large table in front of multiple cameras.
"I'm not here to talk about that. This year on the first day I became a senior at my high school, I made a mistake. I saw someone I knew was so different, so new, and so incredible. And I knew all this just by looking at him. Yes, it was a him. I saw something in him that I knew I had to know everything about. So I asked him out on a date.. but that wasn't the mistake. The mistake was telling him it couldn't be public. My mistake and biggest regret was not giving him the best first date he's ever had; one where we didn't have to be so secretive. I was a guy who dated girls all my life, well, most of it. And every girl I dated, I dated because I saw that same thing about them. After seeing.. Nathan, I was confused. Not because I saw something in a guy, but because I'd never seen something like that in any girl, in anyone before. I'm not here to say that my experience with another guy changed my sexuality, I'm here to say that sexuality is indefinite. You will run into people you never knew you'd have such feelings for. You can say you are one thing, then realize you're another. You change regardless of your sexuality. If you see what you like, it can change everything. Then there's those who know exactly who they are, and who they're attracted to; no question about it. You know exactly what you like, and who you like... and in the end, it's the same for everyone. The only thing that's different is how straight people usually don't have to come to a realization nor go through something like this; stopping them from being themselves. I can't change world alone, I can only help it. And we all need to do our part. This may be new to so many, but like in the past, we must learn to embrace and welcome change.. especially when the result liberates thousands of people who deserve it as much as we do." Marcus told the anchor.
"I see, so you once were straight but now you are.."
"In love. Bisexual if you have to configure it. I still am attracted to girls, but also to my... well, also a guy I know." Marcus interrupted as he looked down.
"We also have conservative spokesmen Andy Grassman here with us; a former Pastor and veteran. Andy, what are your thoughts?" The anchor asked him.
"What do you have to say to the parents of the children you've encouraged to explore this kind of behavior?"
"I say that is out of my control."
"But because of you hundreds of children are questioning their sexual preferences."
"Which is something many of us go through regardless of me, being myself, having to do with it."
"Well by you being yourself, it influences our children to be just like that! It puts ideas in their heads!" Andy told him.
"They will discover the idea at some point in time, kids grow up to be smart."
"What about the child molesters? How in the hell would we protect our children from people like you and that teacher of yours especially when they're trying to convince our children to try something new?"
"Child molesters are not all gay, gay people are not all child molesters, and the same way we would protect them from straight molesters; tell our children to stay away and tell someone. That's stereotypical. For many people who realize they are gay, one reason for their incapability of coming to terms with their sexuality is because of people like you and your way of thinking."
"Well it is against the Bible and it is wrong to support going against the Bible and Jesus."
"The Bible was written many years ago. Times have changed, the world and its people have evolved. There are countless other things we do that are technically against the Bible. But nevertheless, not everyone believes in it, maybe for a reason."
"You think you could change my opinion on this, but I will always believe that people like you should never get the same rights as straight normal people."