Flash Fictions (Andi Mack)

LGBT Lips

Welcome, this story will be a strange little AU. I wanna say flash fiction, but it may run on and become a one-shot. We'll just see what happens.

As we all know the world is divided heavily, with conflicting ideas, beliefs, and values from the West side to the East side. Entire continents raged with declaring war on one another decades after decades, the fighting never seemed to stop. But that was all over 100 years ago. Now things are astronomically different. The question remains, how did all that change happen?

It wasn't an immediate effect that took place, instead it was a gradual change through worldwide movements. People would identify themselves as different because of their religion. Those same religions lead to wars amongst the people. The problem was that with changing times the religions that were born thousands of years ago never changed. People had to learn to let go of those silly beliefs.

Places like North America and South America became known as just simply America. Protests striked in the European countries as their churches closed down. Not everyone was open to the idea of focusing on life as we know it rather than the mystical belief of fate. It took nearly 60 years, but it happened, from a world divided to a nation united.

Every year the media would broadcast a special message on the 28th of April to remind the world of the simplest fact that was forgotten a long time ago which lead to all the wars.

- We are all human -

Just 16 characters, 13 letters, 4 words was all it took. Differences among humans no longer divided them, but instead brought them closer together. Some say that superpowers aren't real, but many would argue that they all now possessed the superpower of diversity.

In the town of Shadyside everyone was getting ready for the first of June. That month stayed as pride month, however in all honesty every day on the magnificent Earth it felt like pride day. No racism, homophobia or sexism. All those terms of black, white, male, female, gay, and straight were deemed unreal. Not a single one of those is a real thing. They are just terms that us humans created to label, and categorize people for simplicity reasons. As different as one used to feel for being one, and not the other, they know felt interconnected being human. So why do we still have pride month?

The answer, a few different reasons. Some have it as a way of reassurance to not fear the world would revert back to how it was. Others have it to feel empowered. But the majority had it for expression. It is a little known fact that it's easy to show than it is to tell. That is why for every day of pride month individuals would decorate their lips.

There were kits you could buy and do it yourself. Additionally there was stores and booths that were doing peoples lips. Their top lip would be colored like the pride flag, and in black their bottom lip would read one to two words. The expression, read my lips, was now a reality for the world on every day of June.

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Meanwhile in the Goodman residence Cyrus laid out a kit for his lips to do in the morning. When the morning came he sat on a stool in front of a vanity opening up the kit. There he tossed aside the instructions that he did not need. He's done it practically every year of his life of knowing that he is gay. Carefully he colored from one side with stripes of six different colors to the other side. Then it was time for the needle like quil that was meant for writing the word. With great caution he finished up with the word, Gay, now on his bottom lip.

Throughout the school day he saw hundreds of pride lips. The one he was most excited for was his boyfriends, so he could taste the rainbow. Sure it was missing one color, but that didn't matter. Pushing him against the locker Cyrus gripped the front side of jacket with both of his fists presenting him with a passionate kiss. When Cyrus pulled away he stared into his green orbs and asked, "how's my bisexual baby boy doin'?"