Escape || an LGBT+ story (DISCONTINUED)

Chapter 64

'Bye Jake, bye Nick. Good luck you two, I'm leaving.' I say when my mom calls me to go home.

'Bye, thanks for spending time with us, Jay.' Nick says. He is applying sunscreen on Jake, since the sun is very piercing. Nick has applied sunscreen on me as well, an hour ago. My mom's eyes almost popped out. Weird, when Joshua did it she had no problem with it at all. That was roughly two years ago. My mom had just thrown the sunscreen bottle at him. 'Can you apply it on her for me? Great!' Yes, because back then, Joshua still went to church dilligently every sunday.

-Needless to say, I burnt my back that day because I treasured the fact that Joshua had applied the sunscreen on me too much, leaving me not being able to move without a scorching hot pain stinging my body with every movement next day. Not the smartest thing I've done.-

My mom is pretty simple. As long as kids still go to church, they are okay. However, if they don't, they are rebellious, recalcitrant and basically straight from hell. No matter their reasons. It's just the devil. 

My mom is just quiet on the way home, too busy processing everything she has just witnessed. When we get home and we are drinking water, she finally speaks up. 'So, um, those are your friends?'

'Two of them. Jake and Nick.'

'How old are they?'

'Nineteen and twenty-two.'

'Twenty-two?!' My mom is at the verge of collapsing.

'That is not that bad, Mike is twenty-four.'

'What business do you even have with these men?'

'Mom, I'm literally turning 18 next month, I am old enough to choose my own friends. Nick is just a really easy-going person who is nice to talk to. Jake and I have good laughs. Mike and Ian live with them as well, but I don't talk to them much.'

'And Joshua? Joshua was with them that day. Does he live there too? What are you hiding? No, Jasmin, you-' She gasps.

'Geez mom, no! Why do you think so much?'

'Why was he not at the beach with the other boys?'

'Because they are closer friends, they often stick together.' Technically not a lie. 'Besides, he was working.'

'And these guys don't have to work? Where do they even work?'

'Is this an interrogation?' I ask. 'I'd say, why didn't you walk up to them and ask them yourself, if you are so eager to know?'

My mom gives up. 'Why don't you just hang out with other girls your age like a normal girl? You're always around boys, I constantly have to hold my heart in fear that one of them might try something. You're too pretty, Jasmin.'

The dead-naming, "pretty", how she just assumes I can't stand up for myself, and is asking me to be like a normal girl, it's really too much.

'Mom!' I burst out. 'I didn't even choose to be like this, how should I let that decide my friendships. I can protect myself. I-'

'That's what I thought too, until-' In the midst of yelling at me, my mom falls silent, then says in a low and strict voice: 'Go to your room and reflect on your behavior. You shouldn't speak to a person who is above you like that.'

Until what, mom?

I want to ask her, but she gestures for me to get away and looks exhausted all of a sudden, I feel like I shouldn't ask her any more questions.

'I see.' I say, before turning around and running upstairs, acting like I'm an angry teenager, but now my anger has dissolved to make place for confusion.

Until what exactly?

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Word count: 598

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Okay so I have a writer's block right now and I'm at chapter 68 in my notebook, so I don't really feel like updating anymore. Butttttt my writer's block for Our Nanny is a Boy has disappeared, so I'll be writing that instead, I know most of yall won't mind since it's SO FLOOFY IM IN LOVE anyway i dont think ill be gone for long after all im kinda hooked onto this story so just wait for it and read nanny yeet