Crestfallen

Chapter 21

June 12

(4:00 pm)

“So this is your new boyfriend Lilium?” Her father asked looking at Jake and Lilium holding hands as they entered the head mistresses office.

“Yes, father,” Lilium, said with an obviously faked smile painted on her face. “This is Jake,”

Lilium felt Jake’s hand tense slightly as he saw his own parents sitting in the corner of the office. Both of their parents had been called in from home to see the progression of their children. Her parents had barely traveled a few minutes while Jake’s had come all the way from their trip to India to be here.

She could see her mother look on the two in disbelief, apparently shocked that she would change her sexual orientation within two months. It wasn’t surprising to her that her mother would not believe her. Her mother had been the only one in her family besides her grandmother to actually accept her orientation.

Her father on the other hand, seemed remotely glad that his daughter had decided to be with a boy instead of a girl. She had to wonder why though? If she was with a boy she could become pregnant, but with a girl she had nothing to worry about other than sexual transmitted diseases, which she did not have.

The only thoughts going through her head at that moment were of being free. Sure Jake and herself would have to keep up a fake dating scene for another few days and then break up. After that they could go free and nothing would ever go wrong for them again. It was the perfect plan really; both of them get the Hell out of this damned place.

“Well it is nice to see the man who took my daughter out of her awful habit of girls,” Her father said shaking Jake’s hand as Lilium entered the room to sit on the couch in-between her parents and Jake’s. Her mother grabbed her hand as she sat down closer to her mother rather than to Jake’s parents.

“Sweetheart,” Was all she heard her mother say before Jake sat down next to her.

“Actually it was your daughter who got Jake out of his habit.” Jake’s mother interrupted as the two just sat their nervously waiting to be caught like little children. “He was very stubborn there for a while, I am so glad he meet a young lady like Lilium,”

“Thank you,” Her father said as the two set eyes on each other.

Jake’s father remained quiet, not daring to look at his son or Lilium. He seemed to be the near same as Lilium’s mother, however, definitely more ashamed of Jake than anything. Her mother hadn’t even bothered to say anything as the head mistress came into her office and sat at the desk in front of them.

“Good afternoon,” The head mistress said using her fake and innocent looking smiling she gave to all parents who showed up to her insane asylum. “Well, congratulations your children are cured.”

Jake’s mother and Lilium’s father got wide smiles on their faces at the thought of their children actually being corrected. It was the perfect moment for both of them; they got their children back to normal within only a few months. Nothing else would matter after this as long as they did not go back to their old habits of being with the same sex.

It would be shameful to have wasted all of that money on something that didn’t even work. No matter what they did, the two friends would be the way they were until the day they died. It didn’t matter what they did, they were in love with the same sex and what the fuck else mattered?

“So how long have you both been attracted to each other?” The head mistress asked Jake and Lilium the second time that day.

“When we first got here we felt rather drawn to each other, or at least I was, I can’t read Jake’s mind I’m afraid.” Lilium said with a short and sweet giggle at the end. “Either way we quickly became friends and things just heated up from there on.”