Author's Note and Disclaimer: I don't own them. Okay, in case you haven't
noticed Love is a Many Splendid Thing has received a makeover complete with
title change. So it's basically the same story but just tweaked a little in
my attempts to better it. So please read and review. Thanks.
Chapter 3: A River Named Denial
Red light, turn signal, cars whipping by, Val drove aimlessly away from Kingsport High trying to concentrate on driving and only driving.
She finally pulled off into the parking lot of the EMT station and sat at the wheel staring off blankly over the steering wheel and tried to pull herself out of her stupor, but this caused an unwanted thought to cross her mind, Jamie was gay.
She felt herself stiffen and felt her hands grip the wheel a little more tightly than intended. Okay, so maybe she shouldn't think about Jamie's..whatever, right now.
And so she picked up her purse from the passenger seat leaving in her backpack. Somehow she didn't think she'd be able to work now. She got out of the car and began walking toward the station still in something of a trance.
Denial was good, denial was safe. In denial she didn't have to think about the fact that her perceptions of one boy had just been totally and completely shattered.
It wasn't that she was AGAINST homosexuality or anything of the like, she'd always prided herself on being relatively open minded. Hell, she had to be open minded when being friends with Caitie Roth.
But it was just that when you've gotten close to someone you think that you know nearly all the basics about them, their personality quirks, their work ethic, their sexuality. Just little things that make someone up that so many people take for granted.
And Val had taken Jamie for granted.
Shoving her belongings into her locker at the station she yanked out her uniform. Before she slammed the locker door shut she got a look at the pictures on the inside of the locker door of Jamie's initiation party into the squad.
Smiling at the image of him gagging on the "punch" she realized that it might not matter so much. That he was just as gay now as he had been in that picture and that frankly, she didn't mind so much.
Feeling better about the situation she slammed her locker shut and walked off to the bathroom to get changed.
So much for denial.
Chapter 3: A River Named Denial
Red light, turn signal, cars whipping by, Val drove aimlessly away from Kingsport High trying to concentrate on driving and only driving.
She finally pulled off into the parking lot of the EMT station and sat at the wheel staring off blankly over the steering wheel and tried to pull herself out of her stupor, but this caused an unwanted thought to cross her mind, Jamie was gay.
She felt herself stiffen and felt her hands grip the wheel a little more tightly than intended. Okay, so maybe she shouldn't think about Jamie's..whatever, right now.
And so she picked up her purse from the passenger seat leaving in her backpack. Somehow she didn't think she'd be able to work now. She got out of the car and began walking toward the station still in something of a trance.
Denial was good, denial was safe. In denial she didn't have to think about the fact that her perceptions of one boy had just been totally and completely shattered.
It wasn't that she was AGAINST homosexuality or anything of the like, she'd always prided herself on being relatively open minded. Hell, she had to be open minded when being friends with Caitie Roth.
But it was just that when you've gotten close to someone you think that you know nearly all the basics about them, their personality quirks, their work ethic, their sexuality. Just little things that make someone up that so many people take for granted.
And Val had taken Jamie for granted.
Shoving her belongings into her locker at the station she yanked out her uniform. Before she slammed the locker door shut she got a look at the pictures on the inside of the locker door of Jamie's initiation party into the squad.
Smiling at the image of him gagging on the "punch" she realized that it might not matter so much. That he was just as gay now as he had been in that picture and that frankly, she didn't mind so much.
Feeling better about the situation she slammed her locker shut and walked off to the bathroom to get changed.
So much for denial.