Cryptophobia - Hell & High Water

CHAPTER 2 - CHRISTINE: 8:23am - 5 Days until outbreak

Christine Heart, Rachel's mother would happily admit that she and Edward, her husband, were not always the most attentive parents to Rachel, but one would be hard pressed referring to them as bad parents. They did their best by Rachel and no one could deny that. They sent her to the best schools, gave her the best start at life, provided her with everything her heart could possibly desire and more. She was well travelled, given a car and waited on, hand and foot. This was a girl who had grown up without a worry in the world, everything she could possibly want or need was provided for her, so her daughter's recent choices in life were bemusing to say the least.

Christine herself knew she was far from perfect, she certainly had her own flaws and her relationship with her husband had seen better days, but they were at the very least trying to work things out, improve it little by little, day by day. She loved him still, her heart didn't waver there, but she only wished she saw more of him on a daily basis, he was always working and whenever he returned home, he was too exhausted to partake in any family related activities.

Guilty to say given how much she appreciated his efforts to help keep a house over their heads, but it made her feel incredibly lonely. This wasn't the extent of their relationship when they got married, they could barely keep their hands off of each other, fast forward twenty odd years and she would be so lucky to even exchange a glance that lasted longer than a few seconds with him. Christine didn't want to admit it, but maybe that had had an effect on their relationship with their daughter, maybe that was why she had rebelled and taken on this faze.

Christine could only pray that that was what it was after all, a faze, because if she convinced herself that this perverted behaviour was to be the norm, it would break her, she simply wouldn't be able to accept the notion that her only daughter had become a...a...she couldn't even think it, it was that disgusting.

In hindsight, maybe sending her to that all girls school wasn't such a good idea, for where other girls had the mental strength to overcome irrational curious feelings, her daughter clearly didn't, subjugating herself to a distasteful immoral lifestyle that would only end in misery.

The facts spoke for themselves after all and no matter how her daughter try as she might to convince her that this lifestyle was the right one for her, Christine would never accept it, she had done the research herself. Fact one, homosexuals are not born homosexual and there is no credible evidence to prove it so, this is a fundamentally flawed way of thinking and would negate the biological function of the different sexes, fact two, the ideal that ten percent or more of any one population is homosexual is bullshit to say the least, homosexuality stems from a pushed agenda and misguided perceptions on reality, fact three, homosexual relationships are not in any way similar to heterosexual ones, homosexual relationships are not constructed on the foundations of monogamy, they wouldn't even understand the principles of the word, fact four, homosexuals are more susceptible to sexually transmitted diseases, why else the pandemic of aids, gonorrhea and other STDs, fact five, contrary to popular belief, homosexuals are not as happy as they would lead all to believe, they are experiencing what could be considered a psychological downturn, indicative of past dilemmas and in Rachel's case, quite possibly the trauma of her parent's waning feelings towards each other and being sent to an all girl's boarding school, fact six, women relationships are no less unhealthy than males and that's because facts demonstrate that two thirds of women still have sex with males, therefore transmitting diseases back and forth, not only that, studies show that women in these illicit relationships are also more susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer. The biggest and final fact is that homosexuals are not lost, they can be helped, in the same way criminals can be reformed and those with psychological defects can be helped, because that is exactly what homosexuality is after all, a psychological defect, nothing more, nothing less.