“Spence, what’s wrong honey?”

Spencer shook her head and continued to ball on the kitchen floor. Arthur didn’t know what else to do, he didn’t know what else to say, so he took his daughter in his arms and held her as she cried into his shoulder.

–

Paula drove her car having no destination in mind. She had the windows down with the cold wind blowing in her face and shivering rain mixing with the angry tears on her face. She felt that the wind and rain would wash everything away, that all the bad would be gone once the sun shone and that rainbow of new beginnings was shone ever so brightly. Fucking rainbows. Damn Ashley. Damn homosexuals. Ugh.  

She drove with her foot pressed forcefully onto the pedal while muttering over and over again that he daughter couldn’t be gay.

She reached a lifeless cold hand onto the volume knob on her radio and turned it up.

I kissed a girl and I liked it

The taste of her cherry chapstick

She banged the seek button to send her to another station and muttered to herself, “Damn songs trying to tell people homosexuality is fine. Idiots!”

If what they say is true

You’re a boy

And I’m a girl

I will never fall in love with you

“Are you kidding me?! A man and woman are supposed to be together! Ugh! Songs these damn days are so stupid. Damn kids looking for attention by kissing girls and not falling in love with boys. Damn radio stations. I’d be better off listening to the damn wind and rain.”

She slammed the volume button in turning the sound off.

Paula rode and rode with the rain falling onto her face and wetting and ruining her seats, but she didn’t care. She continued to drive into the darkness on a rode she didn’t recognize. She was covering land she had never seen in her entire life. She was getting away from a daughter she claims she didn’t know anymore. Those roads were as new to her as Spencer’s ‘choice’. She had her suspicions for the longest of times but she didn’t want to ever believe that they were true. She didn’t want the day to come when the realities would come forth, when the truths would be told and out in the open. She couldn’t handle the fact that she had raised a sinner of a daughter. She thought she had taught all of her kids’ right from wrong and that this ‘thing’ Spencer was doing was as sure as hell wrong in Paula’s world.