A Compilation of Random Ideas

Straight

A/N: I totally made this cover on the powerpoint presentation. 

This story is an AU where homosexuality is the norm and heterosexuality is banned. It revolves around a girl trying to navigate through life while hiding the fact that she is different and the dangers and violence heterosexuals could possible have faced if this was indeed real. I am currently writing an essay where I will delve into the history of LGBTQ+ and homophobia and the portrayal in media throughout history. I might actually post it. 

Hope you enjoy this little snippet. See you at the end. 👋

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Entry #12                     27/08/2018

Everyone around me has a partner or it seems that way to me. My neighbour recently got married to her fiancée. As beautiful as the wedding was, it was another reminder of my singleness. Even Adam (that little pipsqueak owes me chocolate) had his first kiss with his boyfriend, Tom. That was another jab in the gut. Liz got back together with her (ex)girlfriend again for the umpteenth time after what seemed like a long, tiresome and somewhat stupid breakup that lasted a whole...3 days. As a good best friend I subtly and not so subtly advised her against it but they're back together so that plan failed.

Mama and Mum celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary. A quarter century to spend your life with someone. Adding that to the list on 'Ways To Remind Me That I Am Still Single'

Lucas (Note: Get charger back), in his twenty-three years of life has never had a boyfriend or kissed or even held hands with a boy. He never told me but I knew. He was different. Who he loved was against the law. Though it wasn't public knowledge, my older brother was living illegally just cause he liked the opposite sex. A Hetero.

My first assumption was when he would stare at Jennifer Olsen, a dopey, lovestruck look on his face. Now that I look back on it, it was kind of obvious. The look in his eyes when she sat across from him at the dinners we had with her fathers. When she got married to her wife three months ago, it looked like both sadness and jealousy used his face as a punching bag.

I remember having my first kiss at thirteen with a girl, Jane...I think. I had done it out of peer pressure, to get those kids to stop chanting that ridiculous song. 'Jane' had confessed to liking me and I panicked. Must have made it seem like I liked her too cause next thing you know we're kissing. During and after the kiss, while 'Jane' was blushing, I stood in shock. Even though I knew I didn't fancy her, I thought I would feel something but I didn't. No metaphorical sparks or butterflies. Nothing. I always knew I was 'different' and that moment solidified it for me. Like my brother before me (lol) I, Eleanor Romaine did not like females. I am a hetero.

I can never ever come out to my parents. They hate heteros. Call them the scum of the earth. The lowest form of humans, though I think it's ridiculous they would send me to conversion camp somewhere in the outskirts of the city and I've horrible thinks about those places. Gran and Grammy would definitely understand.

School starts in a week. Can't wait to see everyone.

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You made it to the end. 🙌. Thank You. 

Kind of short. It's only 494 words. 

Hope you lot enjoyed it. Comment and review. Please tell me what I can do to improve (criticism is much obliged). 

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xx Mare