Unwillingly

Chapter 4

Haruka stopped the elevator before it closed. "Talk to me Michiru." she leant against the railing that was around the outside walls. "What do you mean you thought you were gay once?"

A sigh left the other woman's mouth, her gaze dropped to a tiny crack in the carpet on the floor of the elevator. "I was 16 when I had a growing attraction to my friend Ami. I confronted her about it and she slapped me, we've barely said hello from that point out." She felt the tears well up in her eyes "She had been my best friend since we were little...and she just slapped me, right there in front of everyone. When I got home that night, I was so upset. The first thing I did was run to my mother." She let the tears flow as she remembers what happened that dreadful night. "I explained to my mom the whole thing, my liking Ami, and her slapping me, I didn't leave anything out. Then she started to explain to me how bad being gay supposedly was. How everyone hates a 'fag.' How I was going to run into nothing but people who hated me." She regained her composure as the elevator came to a stop on the First Basement floor, it being a parking garage.

They both stepped off and headed in the same direction. "So she pounded it into your head that it's not ok to be gay then?"

"Yeah...My feelings for Ami never faded away, they just got worse after she slapped me. I don't really love her anymore, because she's engaged and marrying some genious medical student." She shakes her head "Mother's tried to set me up on blind dates, but I wasn't attracted to any of those men." She stopped next to her car. "I'll see you later Haruka."