Below The Radar

The Mask Hurts

Aye! I successfully coded my first ever program, and then right after that I done another quick project. It may not seem like much to make a calculator with 4 operations, and a slot machine, but it took me many, many hard months of learning. Three different languages I had to learn, just to accomplish this (although I only partly learned the one). Also I found out there is an army of queer coders, so yay!

~•~ Recap ~•~

Cyrus & his Boyfriend went to sleep in the nude, the night before planning to come out to Lucas' parents. Jonah, Marty, Andi, and Amber went out to the movie theater as a date. TJ started to learn ASL for Libby. In the end of the night Walker & Natalie show up at the theatre.

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Questing the group of four, Natalie asked "why aren't you sitting next to your girlfriend Jonah?" with Walker at her side with interlocking elbows. Oh great, Jonah thought. What were the odds?

"I was just getting to that," Jonah said standing up from his seat. Marty immediately looked unhappy with the operation as Jonah switched around his spot where he sat at the very end followed by Amber, then Andi, and finally him. Walker and Natalie ended up sitting the middle in the row behind them. If Natalie didn't know any better she could have swore that there was something going on between the four in front of them.

The only picture online of Amber and Jonah was the one that she had took and posted on her own. The same goes for Marty and Andi, but they have literally zero photos together. Like what kind of relationship even was that? Natalie wondered if Jonah still hung out around Cyrus. He had her gaydar going off the charts, and she heard that he had a boyfriend. Maybe his gayness was rubbing off on Jonah, and turning him.

If that was the case Natalie was going to make sure that Jonah stays straight. The world doesn't need more of them dumb homos. Walker sat uncomfortable next to her as they watched the movie. He remembered all of the homophobic things that she would say. One time the news was going on talking about a shooting that happened at a gay bar. Natalie was extremely disgusting about it, and seemed glad that they had all died. Walker just kept his mouth shut, there was no point in fighting ignorance, or at least that is just what his parents raised him to believe.

However Walker didn't care what was up with Jonah, and the rest no matter how many times Natalie brought it up. It was none of their business, and he couldn't care less what they could be. There was one promise that Walker made himself. If it just so happens to be that Jonah is turning gay like Natalie believes, he will leave her the instant that she starts being rude to him, or any of them about that kind of thing. There is no point in dating a bully. Even if it was just small things like snide remarks. It baffled him how in the world Natalie's parents let her say things like that. Intolerance isn't something that you just are, it's something that you are taught.

Andi was pretty satisfied because she was still sitting with her girlfriend. They didn't hold hands, but they had the backs of their hands touching, and that little bit of physical contact was all that it took to get them through the movie that Walker, and Natalie was ruining. Amber understood that what she done with Jonah was wrong, and because of it she developed a keen eye for detecting bad relationships, and that's what Walker's was precisely. Natalie just dragged him along, like he was her little minion. She probably loved the title of boyfriend, more than she actually loved having him.

Marty couldn't focus on the movie as he slumped lower in his seat with a frown on his face as his heart sank. The love on the movie was only making matters worse for him. It was a classic tale of lovers who went through great lengths just to be together. It was meant to be empowering, but Marty couldn't feel more weak. Why can't his love just be like that? All around him girls would be found kissing their boyfriends without feeling ashamed, but somehow he felt ashamed with his.