A/N: So, I got my first exam of the next two weeks tomorrow, so a short one today ^^ Enjoy!

The week they were visiting Casey's parents raced by. It was the morning of the last day. Alex and Casey were laying in bed, Alex in Casey's arms.

"I don't want to leave." Alex confessed. "Your parents are much more fun than mine. They actually seem to love you. Mine only care about status and if you look good and something. I'm not even accepted. Your parents accept you. Accept me. They make me feel like home."

"I'm glad you like them." Casey kissed the top of Alex's head. "And I'm glad they approve of you."

"Me too. I can't deny I wasn't a little afraid they wouldn't though. It's not nothing. Mostly I don't agree to meet parents or something. It's not my thing. Mostly parents don't like me. Mine don't either." she smiled weakly.

"Why did you do it?"

"Because it seemed really important to you. And you would never say yes to my proposition to move in with me."

"So you did it mostly because you wanted me to say yes?" Casey grinned. "That's evil, Cabot."

"You know me. Sometimes I am." Alex turned around to face Casey. "Are you angry with me now?"

"No, of course not. I know how scared you were to meet my parents. And it says something about how much you want me to move in with you. I'm flattered, Cabot." Casey stroked Alex's nose with her index finger.

"I mean, it's not that I didn't want to." Alex tried to make it right.

"Alex, it's okay. Really. I'm not mad at you. You have my word. I know how you feel about meeting parents. My parents are important to me, although I don't talk to them very much, but they always have been. They always supported me." Casey paused for a while. "Can I ask you something?"

"Of course. Why not?"

"Because it's personal." Casey said.

"You can know everything about me, Case. I love you, you know that. I want to know everything about you. And you told me about your youth. It's a two-way system." Alex assured Casey.

"Okay.. How was your youth? Coming out and stuff? When did you know you liked women instead of men? Did you tell?" Casey asked a lot of questions in just one breath.

"Wow, that's not one question, but a whole bunch of them. Well.. I will answer." Alex sighed deeply. Casey laced her fingers between Alex's and brought Alex's hand to her lips and kissed them. "Since I was about twelve years old I think, I had the suspicion that I liked women more than men, but I didn't know it for sure. In movies and TV series, I always paid more attention to the women than to the men. When I got older, I was the only one of my friends who hadn't been hysterically in love with one of our male classmates. I felt kind of an outsider. I thought I was weird.

Until I met this girl at high school, I guess junior year. She was really gorgeous and I had a crush on her. She was also a junior, and she moved to our town. Once I had to stay late at school for some project I was working on and when I came to the bike shed, she was there, waiting for me. She told me she had never seen someone like me before. We rode back home together, talking about our feelings and stuff. She told me she found out she was a lesbian a few years earlier, but she never outed herself, because she wanted to be sure before she did. She also told me she never kissed someone. She had noticed me staring at her in the hallways and she figured I might be a lesbian too. So after a few weeks she decided to talk to me when she had the chance of being alone together.

So we rode back home every day after that. I never got over my feelings. Instead, I've fallen in love with her more and more. She was really nice and gentle and I could really talk to her about everything. We were both ashamed of our friends that we never like a guy before, so we had a lot in common. I felt a bit guilty about me being in love with her, because I wasn't quite sure if she knew, so one day I decided it wouldn't be more than fair to tell her. I invited her over at my home, because my parents weren't home anyway, so.. I told her.. She kissed me. It was really great actually. At first it was a bit awkward, but it felt really good.

From that moment on I was sure I was a lesbian, but I didn't want my parents to find out. They wouldn't approve of me. I decided I would keep it a secret, until I was old enough to take care of myself. I was just sixteen years old. I kept seeing the girl for the rest of my high school, secretly of course. I couldn't invite her to my home every time and other way round either. When we were at the end of senior year, when the holidays started. My parents still had to work, so I invited her over at my place. We were both ready to have sex for the first time. So, we were making out and we were both half-naked, when my mother barged into my room.

I thought she was having a heart-attack. She kicked her out and told her to never set foot in our house again. I cried, because I was really scared. My mother grabbed my shoulders and shook me so hard, I almost passed out. She yelled at me. She told me I had disgraced the family. That I was sick. I should be in a nuthouse, being treated for my disease. I told her I didn't choose for it.. I was just born this way, but that made her even angrier. She slapped me in the face. She said I made her sick. She was so mad, that she kicked and beat me, till I was sore. My father came in just in time, because I think she may have killed me if he didn't intervene.

He stood up to my mother for me, but when he heard I was gay, he was mad too. Not in the way like my mother, but he didn't like it. He told me I couldn't be that way in his house, but he wouldn't disown me, because he loved me. They never accepted me. Sometimes I visit them with thanksgiving or Christmas, when my whole family stays at their place, but that's only because it's more of an obligation than that I really want to be there. I can't forgive them for what they did, especially my mother. She could have beaten me to death." Alex exhaled and wiped away some tears.

"I'm so sorry, Alex. I am. Your mother shouldn't have beaten you up so much, and they should have accepted you for who you were. This is terrible." Casey pulled Alex in for a hug and she cried. "What happened after that?"

"I ran away to my girlfriend's house with some clothes and a toothbrush. Her parents never asked me why I stood in front of their door, because I was covered in bruises. I guess they didn't have the courage or something. I cried all night in her arms. As soon as I could, I moved out of my parents' house and went to college." she sobbed. "After that, my girlfriend and I lost contact and we grew apart. I started dating other women. I've never heard from her since my freshman year of college."

"She sounds really nice." Casey said, while stroking Alex's hair to comfort her.

"Yeah, she was. But luckily I have this incredibly hot woman now and there are no parents to screw that up." Alex smiled weakly.

"Oh, it's only that you love me because I'm hot?" Casey grinned.

"Yeah." Alex giggled through her tears.

"What do you do to me that I can't be mad at you?" Casey asked smiling like crazy.

"I'm so adorable." Alex said seriously.

They burst into laughter in unison.

"I love you so much, Alexandra Cabot."

"And I love you, Casey Novak."

A/N: Ah, it turned out to be a longer one than I thought. I got some inspiration :) Hope you liked it.