Cliché Love Stories

Love Sees No Boundaries

*Note: This will have alternating point of views and they will have abrupt stops, that seemed to be the only way I could write this to my liking and this story will not be following the format of the song. I'm honestly not sure what happened . . .*

Can You Feel the Love Tonight from the Lion King

Love Sees No Boundaries

Garret

It was around ten o'clock at night and Terra and I were sitting on the grass at the local park that was near my house. The velvet sky was clear and allowed the stars to shine bright and the full moon lit the whole park. Terra was staring up at the sky with a smile on her face, her chocolate skin shining beautifully as she was bathed in moonlight.

I sighed, running my hand through my hair causing Terra to turn and face me with a frown on her delicate lips.

"Spill." She said. I looked at her, confused.

"What?" I asked. She looked at me like I was an idiot.

"You're not telling me something. Garret, you can talk to me about anything. Unless you plan on breaking up with me. If that's the case, you can keep that to yourself and let me be happy until you drop me off at home." She said as she threaded her arm through mine and leaned against my shoulder.

She was right. I was hiding something for her. I've been hiding it for months. I have never introduced Terra to my parents and there was a reason for that. They were unbelievably racist and there was no way I was going to subject my girlfriend to that. I loved her too much to have my family ruin that for me. I knew she always thought it was because I was embarrassed of her, but I was embarrassed for her.

"It's nothing." I lied miserably.

"We've been together for eight months, I can tell when you're lying to me. What is it that you are hiding from me? I won't be mad." Terra said. I sighed. I needed to tell her. I couldn't continue hiding the truth from her. I just needed to have a delicate way of telling her. And there was no delicate way of saying my family is racist and hates anyone not white. I don't know how they never had the ability to brainwash me, but I wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth.

Terra

Every time Garret wasn't looking at me, I had taken my turn to study him. I could see it in his posture that something was bothering him. I just couldn't pinpoint what it was though. I wasn't sure if he wanted to break up with me, or tell me a massive secret.

Usually he is none stop chatty and I have to kiss him just to get him to stop talking sometimes. Now he's barely said a few words.

"Spill." I said suddenly as I turned to frown at him. I couldn't take the suspense anymore. If something was bothering him so much he knew he could talk about anything to me. I was his girlfriend, it's in the job description to listen and be understanding.

"What?" He asked. He looked absolutely adorable with the confused look on his face, but I wasn't going to let him get out of the conversation with just a look.

"You're not telling me something. Garret, you can talk to me about anything. Unless you plan on breaking up with me. If that's the case, you can keep that to yourself and let me be happy until you drop me off at home." I smiled at him and threaded my arm through his, my head tucked against his shoulder.

"It's nothing." Just like always when he lied, his voice went down an octave and he avoided eye contact.

"We've been together for eight months, I can tell when you're lying to me. What is it that you are hiding from me? I won't be mad." I said.

I chewed on the inside of my lip and waited. What he had to say couldn't be that horrible, right? He isn't actually thinking of breaking up with me? Oh God, I've opened the floodgates and I am not looking forward to what Garret is going to say.

Garret

Terra was staring at me and she looked terrified by what I was about to say. I still was unsure how I was going to start off.

"Garret, you're really starting to freak me out. Spit it." Terra prodded as she poked me in the chest.

"Promise not to hate me and to hear me out?" I asked her. Terra scrunched her eyebrows together in her usual confused, yet extremely adorable way, but nodded anyway.

I sighed, "You're black-," Terra snorted and looked at me.

"Yes, clearly. Is that suddenly a problem?" Terra asked. She was joking, but that didn't make me feel any less uncomfortable about it.

"Not to me . . ." I trailed off, hoping she'd fill in the blanks.

"I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Garret, seriously what's wrong?" Tessa was getting frustrated by this point and it was validated.

"My parents are racists and they would hate you immediately if I introduced you." I ended up yelling in her face and rudely pushing her away before standing up and pacing. I was nearly tearing my hair out. That was not how I planned telling my girlfriend that my parents would hate her as soon as they say her just because they were still stuck in their ways about non-whites.

To my surprise, instead of yelling at me, or being disgusted, Terra started giggling. She stood up and wrapped her arms around me to cease my movement.

"I'm not dating your family, Garret. I am dating you. If me being black was an issue to you, we wouldn't have gotten together in the first place. You were scaring me." Terra punched me in the arm before kissing me softly.

"I'm sorry I waited so long to tell you." I murmured as I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her into a hug.

"You were trying to protect me. It was sweet, but don't ever do it again." Terra said as she gave me a stern look.

"I promise. No more secrets." I told her. She smiled up at me and I felt all sorts of relief.

Terra

"My parents are racists and they would hate you immediately if I introduced you." Garret yelled it in my face and then ended up shoving me away. He began pacing in the grass in front of me, mumbling to himself.

I had processed what he had said and I couldn't help but laugh a little. I was even remotely upset about what he just told me. I really didn't care about what his parents thought of me. I wasn't in love with them, I was in love with their magnificent and caring son.

I pushed myself up from the ground and hugged Garret from behind to keep him for wearing a hole into the grass. "I'm not dating your family, Garret. I am dating you. If me being black was an issue to you, we wouldn't have gotten together in the first place. You were scaring me." I may be okay with what he said, but that didn't mean I was okay with him not telling me for eight months, so I punched him in the arm before kissing him.

"I'm sorry I waited so long to tell you." Garret said softly. He wrapped his arms around me and pulled me into his chest to hug me.

"You were trying to protect me. It was sweet, but don't ever do it again." I gave him a dark look look. I didn't like Garret keeping things from me; it didn't matter if his parents were racists, he should have told me in the beginning.

"I promise. No more secrets." Garret said. I grinned at him and the relief on his face was obvious. I loved my boyfriend and he meant everything to me. I wouldn't end a relationship just because his parents didn't like me. I was happy with what I had and his bigoted parents weren't going to change that.