(Gweneth is played by indyamarie jean)
"Gwen you know tonight is the night of the full moon right?"my mother reminded me for the 100th time tonight
"Yes mother, I heard you all 17 times you've said this prior"I replied in my perfect daughter voice.
I put this persona on so my mom cannot sense the irritation in my voice, it's not polite for a young women to display anger towards their elders.
"GWENETH!" She yelled slamming her brush down on my dresser
I slightly jumped due to the sudden out burst.
I opened my mouth but was cut off by a knock on the door
My mother looked at the door then to me and as if she was instructing me to open it.
I walked over to the door and opened it slightly peeking to see who it is before opening it wide open.
"Leslie!" I cheered happy to see my friend. She was one of the older girls and I admired her so much.
She dressed in boys clothing at times so many people didn't like her, the town suspects homosexuality but she denies it. She simply states that the clothes she wears are simply for comfort.
I think she looks beautiful
I open my arms to hug Leslie as she squeezes me.
" you look nice Gwen, hello madam Charles" she says acknowledging my mother.
My mom has never liked Gwen since the town thinks she's homosexual and that's a crime. I don't see the big deal behind it, they don't hurt anyone.
My mother nods at Leslie with a forced smile.
"Well mom we'll be on our way now"
I said rushing out the door
"Wait! gwen don't forget to wear that necklace your father has gotten you. Give Leslie the bracelet !" She shouts after me
" ok mom, I love you" I say still rushing
" I love you too" I hear her say muffled behind the door.
Once we've moved away from earshot of my mother we snuck into my room.
"Shh" I motioned to les
She furrowed her eyebrows at me
"Here" I gave her this bracelet my dad brought home.My parents are strict about me wearing my jewelry at all times. It's ridiculous, I don't think that I need to wear it in the shower and to bed but I do to satisfy them.
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Me and Leslie are going into town tonight, I don't live too far from it but it's a long way to go.
"This looks expensive" she says to me eyeing the bracelet she's wearing.
"What is it? Real silver" she suggests playing with it
" I guess so" I reply shrugging my shoulders
I interlocked our fingers as we walked, immediately she dropped her hand.
" what" I say confused and offended, do my hands feel weird or something?
"Netty you know the towns people think I practice homosexuality, they'll really believe I do if they see us hand in hand" she says frustrated.
" But they have no proof so they can't possibly punish you for it" I say to les
"Do they ever really have proof for execution netty?" She said in a sarcastic tone
I rolled my eyes in response to her
"Netty even if I'm not thrown in jail I'll become the talk of the town again and your mom listens to the towns gossip" she explained to me
"Ok..you have a point I'm sorry." I replied to her feeling bad
"It's ok" she said lightly patting my back
There was an awkward silence after she did this.
Awkward as in the conversation was awkward enough and you just added to it by doing the most awkward gesture possible.
"So what are we doing when we get to town?" I asked Leslie
She looked over at me and smirked
I knew that face
She's up to something.
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"Lee" I whisper shout
She ignored me
"Lee!" I whisper shouted again
She looked behind herself at me and paused then went back to what she was doing.
"Come on netty" she says to me and gives a warm smile. I have no choice but to smile back, when someone looks at you like that you have to smile because it's like second nature. First you're angry then they smile and that's it you're helpless.
I smiled harder
"Netty you ok?" She asked with a skeptical look while letting out an amused chuckle
"Yes I'm fine" I said trying to stop smiling
I loved being in Lee's company. We've become such great friends and even before we were I wanted to be her friend from watching her. She was so genuine, I seen her offer her last piece of bread to a hungry boy. He wasn't even homeless just hungry. She's so kind, the type of person you'd want to be around.
It's strange to want to be someone's friend but lee was so nice and she's beautiful. She's the type of person you'd want to be around all of the time.
Suddenly my thoughts were interrupted as we came to a stop.
This is where we're going netty
I looked up in confusion
" lee I don't know if this is a good idea" I say skeptically looking infront of me
"My mom did sa-" I started but was cut off by her squeezing my shoulder
"Shhh, we'll be fine" she coo'ed at me and motioned for me to follow her
" hurry" she whisper shouted
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