The Safe Place Project

The Decision

Then next day, Hailey, Riley and Skylar, all worked together to make chocolate pancakes. Ace, Alex, and Teo, walked down stairs to a wonderful smell, Ace had just gotten out of the shower and Alex and Teo were playing card in Alex's room.

Hailey called all of them down down for breakfast, and it was time for Teo to make the decision. Once everyone was down they ate, Ace turned on some music, Legends Never Die started playing off his speaker, Teo started singing, whenever he would sing at home, it was like his escape, he didn't have to worry about his father hurting him since he wont do it whenever Teo is recording. He would record his singing and post it on Youtube as an escape he always got positive feedback and he felt awesome whenever someone correctly gendered him even though he sounded feminine. When the song ended he noticed that everyone in the room was staring at him, embarrassed he apologized quickly and went back to eating.

"Why would you ever apologize for being that good of a singer?" Hailey asked, disbelief and awe in her voice.

"Because I'm not a fan of what my voice sounds like so I always think that people don't like it either...." Teo replied unsure of how the others would react.

"Why are you insecure? Your voice is amazing?" Alex questioned.

"Because my voice is to high..." he responded .

"So Teo , I was thinking, a lot, and if its ok with you, which its fine if it isn't, decided to ask you, would you like to live here?" Hailey questioned.

"You mean that you want to adopt me!?!" He exclaimed, shocked someone would want him after all the things his father told him.

"Yes, everyone wants you to stay here." She said "so?"

  "Yes! Of course!" He cried, tears brimming his multicolored eyes.

  "Awesome!" They all cried in unison.

    They all sat there happily, finishing their food and then heading to do there daily work. Ace did the dishes, Alex washed the clothes, Hailey cleaned,  Riley, Skylar, and Teo worked on a sign for the building. Hailey explained that the group who they call "The Seven of Safety Society" wanted to make a safe place for LGBTQ+ youth and young adults who have been abandoned, disowned, are in unsafe environments or just feel unsafe. Riley and Skylar were painting a big sign to hang up on the front of the building, Teo was drawing some posters to hang up around town. 

----------A Few Hours Later--------

      Teo had finished the posters and was making copies to put all over the city, which was very time consuming since Ace had finished  his chores and decided to mess with Teo. He kept taking the original drawing  and not letting Teo make copies. Eventually they got all the copies done, about 200. The two boys collected Alex and went to go hang up the posters, they were going to get Riley and Skylar to come help them but they were still doing the sign. The boys walked into gas stations and asked, politely, is they could hang up a poster, about 5 to 10, let them, a lot of them didn't. They hung the posters on power poles, and cork boards that were hanging up outside of stores and restaurants, if someone asked what they were putting up they'd hand the person a poster, they put them up at pit stops, and in Central Park and some other parks. 

      When they were making there way back down another street, Teo noticed something off, while Ace was hanging up another flyer he noticed that a kid who was like 15 or 16 was being picked on. It didn't look like the three other kids were their friends, it looked like they were attempting to harm him. That's when Ace noticed that the kid that was being bullied was bleeding, they had a black eye, and there were multiple cuts over their face. Ace pointed this event out to Teo and then they both noticed that two of the three kids had a knife, one was holding it to the kid that was backed up to the walls throat, this is when they decided to intervene. Ace and Teo ran down the street to help the young kid, Teo called out to them and yelled at them to stop. They got there and told the three kids to stop again.