A Long Way Down

5. My girlfriend

Yes yes I know what you are thinking, yes Ann was a lesbian, the reason it hadn't been mentioned yet was because she never let her sexuality define her, well that was her plan. But all she wanted to be more than just her sexual preferences. The keeping it all 'low key' thing has worked for her, well until she moved secondary school. When she had started out as the knew kid in year, she was already known and labelled as the lesbian, everyone made fun of her, even though they didn't even get to see how amazing she really was.

While everyone was bullying her both in real life and over social media, she met another new girl at her school, and the new girl already knew about her being a lesbian, but she didn't care, she was a lesbian too. And after months of helping Ann through the bullying, Maisie (the new girl) fell in love with Ann, and Ann had fallen for Maisie too.

After weeks of dating in private, on their one month anniversary, they went public to the school, they were the first LGBTQIA couple at the school, and they embraced it. At first everyone seemed pretty accepting, until Maisie and Ann kissed and everyone was disgusted, then the bullying started again, this time worst than the last.

Ann knew how to handle the torment, but Maisie didn't, and after months and months of being singled out and being treated differently by teachers and students alike, and being called 'fag' and 'gaylord' she'd had enough, so Maisie decided that it was all too much for her and broke up with Ann and then Maisie moved school, she had left Ann to deal with the homophobic bullying all by her self. The two never spoke again...