Gradually Accepting You

I'm G.A.Y.

Selena's POV:
I made a change in the universe one day.
That change delayed an event in another universe.
My universe.
After a year of watching the moon spin
and the stars twinkle,
she came back to me.
Safely.

It was 3 a.m. and I had heard a knock at my door.
I got up and opened the door.
In that moment,
I had seen the brightest star to exist.
It seemed as if it was the sun,
because it light up my world.

Anna my love,
I knew you'd find me.
I knew you'd run back into my arms.
I was tired of looking at the stars,
they were nothing compared to you.
It was always so dark
and so lonely.

I want you as bad as ever.
Now that you're standing right in front of me,
I long to kiss you.
And I did so.
Your lips were so soft and so gentle.
Never have I felt such electricity in my body
when the space between us no longer existed.

When you spoke so softly,
telling the story of how you found me,
I cried uncontrollably.
You lost yourself trying to find me.
But one thing you didn't lose,
was your love for me.
You ran towards the danger
that the world was warning you about,
but it didn't stop you.

-

My dearest friend Troy,
why have you come through the door
with such visible scars on your body?
I've figured out that your morality is gone,
as I am not able to recognize you.
Whether you're you or not,
I still see the man who went through hurt and pain,
for his best friend.

"You're safe,"
were the first words that exited his mouth.
How lucky I am to have him
for he has given me strength, belief, and security.
Troy Summers.
My hero.
He saved me.
He saved my girl.

-

In the end,
it was the world that was wrong.
Wrong about homosexuality.
Wrong about you.
Wrong about me.
Wrong about our love.

-

In all the time that was wasted trying to fight the system, Troy and Anna figured out that they didn't need to. The system would always be corrupt. They rejected ideas that were out of the norm and the people were afraid of power. Aren't we all? Troy and Anna approached Jeff two days after they read my letter. What brave human beings they were. They could've easily called the hetero-enforcement on him, but they didn't. What did they do? They both tried to let Jeff see their perspective, not brainwash him. Jeff pushed them away, threatened them, and became ignorant in every way possible. Troy wanted to give up. He started drinking and started a lot of bar fights with strangers. He hoped things would be less painful. Anna helped him get back on his feet and came up with a plan. Somehow I knew my friends would do everything they could. That, they did. Let's just say they dug up information on Jeff's parents and they were both arrested. Jeff stopped his little operation. Knowing that he would no longer have anymore victims was such a relief. Jeff disappeared. Where he had gone didn't matter. He had been defeated. All this time, we focused on the wrong things. Beating Jeff was the win. Beating him was our final destination, not beating the system. With that, we learned the most important things. As Anna and I are reunited, we want nothing more, but happiness. That's why we decided to get married. We didn't get married by law, but in our minds and our hearts. I proposed to her. She was mine forever. To us, it didn't matter if we got caught again, or if we never remembered one another, because having lived a temporary life with her, would last forever in my heart. There is something to be understood though. Ever since the day Troy, Anna, and I reunited we didn't get a happy ending. We were wanted. We couldn't escape that. For some reason, the world saw us as criminals. The world did not see us as humans. They saw us as a target and an experiment. We will never see the close people we had in our lives again. Who knows how long we'll survive. I keep hoping that if we hide out long enough, maybe the world will be changed when we return, but the truth is, nothing will change if we sit around. And the most saddening thing is, that it's three teenagers against the world, and we all know how that battle will end.