Chapter 1 Unburdened
Katie and Maya Matlin seem to live a good life, they had pretty much everything they could ever need a loving family a nice house and they were both doing great in school.
The sisters also shared a huge secret they were both hopelessly in love with girls that to their knowledge they had no chance with.
Maya was falling hard for her best friend Tori and Katie was falling even harder for her enemy turned friend Bianca.
Both Matlin sisters had a hard time accepting the fact that they had fallen for girls at first but the fact that they had each other to lean on made it somewhat easier.
The weight of there collective secret weighted them down tremendously and up until a few nights ago they thought they had their feelings under control but the sleepless night they had just endured had been their tenth in the past three weeks, so they decided it was time to get some help processing their feelings.
"Katie I don't know about you but I'm done with all the hiding and sleepless nights." Maya said as she walked out the door into her sisters car.
"I know Maya but what can we do its not like we have a ton of support here."
"I can see that, but don't you think its time we got some help at least told someone?"
"It is but who can help us out here its not like there's people we can talk to." Katie said as she continued on the drive to Degrassi.
"Well I was reading a few blogs and I found out that if we don't want to go to mom and dad we could go to someone we trust outside of family."
"Okay that's a start, but who can we trust with this big secret that wont head for the hills when they find out?"
"Well we could go to Marisol shes your best friend."
"As good as that sounds I think Marisol wouldn't be a good place to start."
"Well the only other people coming to mind right now would be Fiona and Imogen they are Degrassi's picture perfect couple."
"Do you think they would help us out?"
"Katie it worth a shot what else can we do?"
"Well alright Maya but no one else finds out about this."
"Okay Katie if we hurry we have a shot at catching them in the parking lot."
When they finally got to Degrassi Katie parked the car and found Imogen and Fiona drinking coffee.
"Hey Imogen and Fiona." Katie greeted.
"Hey Katie whats up?" Fiona greeted.
"Well Maya and I wanted to ask for advice on something." Katie said.
"Go ahead Katie." Imogen added.
"Well we have kind of been hiding a secret and kind of wanted some advice." Katie said.
"Well what is it?" Fiona asked with peaked interest.
"Maya and Katie held hands hesitating.
"Well Maya and I are both into girls." Katie said.
Both Fiona and Imogen were shocked.
"Oh my gosh are we the first people you've told?" Fiona asked.
"Yeah we don't really have anyone we can turn to." Katie replied.
"Well we're glad you trust us enough to tell us". Imogen said.
"Well if you guys need anything we will do whatever we can to help." Fiona stated.
"Thanks guys now lets get to class." Katie said as the four of them entered Degrassi.
The day went by fairly quickly for Katie she made it through most of the day with out making contact with her crush Bianca, that quickly came to a stop when Marisol and her were in the parking lot waiting for Maya to come out and Bianca was walking by in low jeans and a cutoff shirt that showed off her dancers body.
"Katie you okay?" Marisol called trying to snap Katie out of her daze.
"Uh yeah Mar I'm good just tired." Katie said clearly lying.
"Okay if you say so."
About five minutes later Maya showed up walking out with Tori.
"Maya come on we have to get home." Katie called.
"Sorry Katie I got caught up."
"Will you two hurry up I wanna get out of here." Marisol called from the passenger seat.
Katie and Maya got into the car and drove off.
"So Maya I saw you with Tori back there if I didn't know any better I'd say someones got a crush." Marisol said.
"Maya immediately got defensive.
"Shut up Marisol, I do not have a crush on Tori shes my best friend."
"Geez Maya I was only joking." Marisol replied.
The rest of the ride was conducted in silence with both Matlin girls thinking about the way Marisol reacted.
When they dropped Marisol off and got home they found the house to be empty.
"Katie the way Marisol was joking got to me."
"Maya calm down she didn't know."
"I know but if her joking got me this worked up what will mom and dad be like?"
"I don't Maya but at least we don't have to hide it as much because we have Fiona and Imogen".
Katie and Maya spent the rest of the afternoon doing homework and just relaxing.
Their parents showed up a few hours with takeout.
"Katie Maya we're home." Mr Matlin called.
The four sat down to enjoy their dinner Mr Matlin had noticed both girls were a lot quieter than usual.
"So girls anything exciting going on?"
"No dad nothing big." Katie responded.
Just as the girls were finishing up dinner Maya heard her cell phone ring.
"Ill be in my room Maya said as she sped off.
Katie finished her dinner and went to her room.
When Maya finished on the phone she went into Katie's room.
"Katie I just don't know what to do just the sound of her voice makes me crazy".
"Maya slow down what happened?"
"I was talking to Tori about relationships because she just broke up with Zig and she told me she wished she could find a guy that would be there for her just like me."
"Don't read too much into it Maya, you might scare her I've learned that with certain girls you cant be so direct."
"Katie don't give me that if Bianca called you you'd be reduced to a rambling idiot."
"Alright I admit it I would but we need to take this one step at a time and we took the first step and that was becoming unburdened".
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