Chapter: 2 Reactions

Rated: PG13 for occasional language (homophobic words)

Disclaimer: Would I write these and actually own Degrassi? If you can't figure that out, you probably shouldn't read this. It'll be over your head. (Joking!)

Ch. 2 Reactions

"Ma? Pa? Can we talk?" Marco ventured nervously.

"What?!" His dad barked. They were about to eat dinner.

"I have to tell you something."

"What?" His mother inquired, curious to know.

He opened his lips but he couldn't form any words. His mouth felt dry and sticky. He began stuttering, "I-I... um... I'm-"

"Marco, do you have a new girlfriend?" His mother smiled at the thought.

"Well, um-"

"See Rosina?" Mr. Del Rossi put his arm around Marco's shoulders. "I told you that's why he always said he was going to Spinner's."

"Pa!" Marco unwrapped his father's arm and backed up. "No. That's not it..." He shut his eyes and blurted out his confession, "I'm gay." As soon as the word gay left his mouth, all Marco could hear was dead silence. He slowly opened his eyes.

His parents were looking at him in utter shock and confusion. Marco would have laughed at their faces had it been a different situation.

He looked at his mother with any ounce of hope he had left. Suddenly she started crying and backed away from her own son, diminishing what was left.

Then he started shaking as he turned and looked at his father. His eyes were bulging, his face turning red, and shaking as well. He looked at his wife and then back to Marco.

"Pa..." Marco whimpered in fear.

"Shut up! You... fag! You are not my son! No son of mine is queer!" He spat out the last word like it was a disease.

"But Pa!" Marco protested, tears forming in those big, brown eyes. "It's who I am!" This only proceeded to further anger Mr. Del Rossi.

"Get out!" He screamed at his now disowned son. "Never step foot into my house again!"

"But where am I supposed to go?" Marco refused to allow himself to cry.

"Why don't you go live with your boyfriend?!"

Marco couldn't hold it any longer. He started crying, only further proving to his father what was already known. "But..."

"GET OUT!!!" He father threw a glass vase at Marco, which shattered against his side. Marco clutched his side in pain. Before Mr. Del Rossi could throw something else at him, Marco stumbled out of the front door.

Marco managed to walk around the block before collapsing in pain. He held his side as he cried.

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P.S. I don't know when I'll have the next chapter up.