'Polar opposites' ~ Minizerk

Chapter 20 - Parents

A/N - Woop, woop. My longest chapter yet. 1020 words. Thats mad to me. I've never wrote anything on wattled more than like 800 words. I also love this chapter so much and I hope you do too.

Simon's POV:

I walked back home, not living that far from Josh's. Nothing could ruin the mood I was currently in. I was in cloud 9. Whilst walking the memories of the day and our relationship drifted through my head along with the thoughts of how lucky I was to have Josh in my life let alone being my amazing, adorable and not to mention hot boyfriend.

When I walked through the front door of my house I didn't expect my parents to be home. They never usually were. It was around 11pm and a week day so even if they were home they usually wouldn't be awake, let alone sitting on the sofa staring at the door as if they were waiting for me to come home.

"Simon, we're so glad you're finally home" my mom said walking over and pulling me into an awkward hug. This was so strange to me, no one (apart from Josh) had hugged me in the past 10 or so years and especially not my parents. As I've already said my parents hardly ever acknowledged my let alone were affectionate towards me.

"Hi?" I replied

"Your mother and I wanted to have a conversation with you about something that she was told today" my dad spoke

A million things flashed through my head, but mainly one - Josh. I knew my parents had friends who had kids that went to our school but I thought that they would just keep it to themselves cause you know, it's non of their business. And then I started to panic remembering why we always went to Josh's not mine, what. Happened the night me and Josh got together and what my parents had said.

"What's that?" I ask trying to play off the idea that I knew wha they were talking about. If they didn't know,I didn't want them too. Not yet anyway.

"Well my friend Jane has a daughter who is in your year and she told Jane that something happened at school today and it was to do with you, and after Jane here this she told me. Why didn't you tell us?

"Tell you what?' I asked, I hated to admit it but I was so scared in that moment, my defence mechanism had always just been deny, deny, deny and right now that was coming out.

"Come on Simon we know, you can't hide it anymore. What's his name?" My dad asked.

I was done. I couldn't take keep hiding anymore. I'd done it for the past 17 years and I didn't want to do it anymore.

"Josh" I said in a voice quieter than it had been before

"Why didn't you tell us?" My mom asked again. That question annoyed me, surely she knew.

"Are you joking? Like are you deadly serious? Do you not remember the last 17 years of my life or do you really just not know I'm here most of the time? You always ignore me, most of the time it fees like you didn't even want a kid so I'm just a burden. You only 'want' me when it benefits you, never when it doesn't. So even if what you said three weeks ago didn't happen you still would be one of the last ones to be told. Even if you weren't homophobic pieces of shit, you're strangers to me. Why would I tell two strangers my deepest secret? Being with Josh taught me that I do deserve peoples attention, I'm not a burden and I'm actually wanted in this word unlike you ever did, which is as parents should have been your job. But you're always so caught up in your paying jobs you never realised that." Tears starting to flow out of my eyes. I was so wrong earlier this had definitely ruined my mood. "I've had such a good day, I don't need to put up with his bullshit" I finished beginning to walk away and up the stairs

"We realise we were wrong. We know we should have done so much better and we shouldn't have said anything we did. We always lived in our own bubble where things that weren't the social norms didn't affect us so we thought badly about them, but we know now that they do affect us, they always have affected us we just did't know it or rather didn't want to know it." My dad said making me pause on the third step.

"We love you Simon, we always have and I know we've been shit at showing it but we realise that know, we want to make things better between us. We don't care that you're gay, we care that you are loved by someone" (subtle Grey's anatomy reference)

I couldn't stop the tears from streaming out of my eyes now. Sobs wracked my body. My mom pulled me in for another hug and my dad joined this time. For the first time ever it felt like we were a proper family.

We pulled away after a while and they both smiled at me.

"So come and tell us what he's like" she said pulling me over to sit on the sofa with them. She sounded like a typical mom, something I had always wanted.

"Well his names Josh, he's 3 days older than me, he's funny and kind and caring and sweet. He likes all the things I like; the same music, games, Tv shows. He has an amazing little brother who is just as caring and sweet as he is, like he went through so many lengths to keep our relationship a secret for the past three weeks. He has dark brown almost black hair and themes dreamy green eyes I've ever seen. I love him so much" I said beginning to ramble but also blush because I just realised I said that to my parents.

"Let's see a picture" My dad said

I showed them my lock screen which was a picture of us two. Josh was standing behind me leaning forward and kissing my cheek. He looked so pretty in it. It was by fas my favourite picture of us.

"Awww he seems like a lovely lad" my dad said

"Yeah he really is"