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Chapter 4

Karma's POV

Jackie asks the group, not noticing the tension that has suddenly arrived among the four teenagers, "Don't you all go to Hester?"

Shane responds quickly, "No, no, no, no, no. They're not-"

"Friends with us yet." Amy interrupts.

Karma laughs. Good save their Aims.

Amy reaches for Shane to pull him away from his mother. "Let's change that, shall we?"

Karma grabs Liam and pulls him away for a private conversation of their own.

"How can you do this?" Liam asks Karma.

"It wasn't even my scheme." Karma defends herself. Actually this time it really wasn't. I couldn't have planned it any better, but still not my scheme.

Liam clearly doesn't believe her. "Right, so Amy convinced you to pretend to be a couple again?"

Why is this so hard for him to believe? Why does he even care who's idea it was? "Yes."

Liam scoffs at her.

"It was this whole thing with my mom and her PFLAG group." Karma explains to her ex. "And" she sighs in frustration, "Can you just not say anything?" Can you just not even be here?

Liam nods his head, "I'll do ya one better. I'm pretending you're not even here." He turns and sips his drink.

Rude! How is gonna pretend I'm not here? He's the one fighting with me!

Karma almost yells at him, "Why are you even here? Oh, let me guess. You and Shane are hitting on gay guys and their girlfriends." I'm not even surprised. This is a total Liam thing to do. Uggghhhh. Why did I think I was in love with him?

Liam turns back to her with his brows furrowed, "That's none of your business, but yes. Old Liam is back." He turns around and walks off into the crowd.

Yeah, old Liam who was only interested in me because he thought I was a lesbian. Speaking of lady loves, where did Amy get off to?

Glancing around the room a bit, Karma sees Amy still talking to Shane. It looks like she is counting off something on her fingers. She's arguing with Shane too? Damn, what is with these guys tonight? Why can't they just butt out?

Karma walks over and stands next to Amy, ready to jump into the argument if necessary. Shane just looks at her, shakes his head, and walks away.

"What's his deal?" Karma asks, still angry because of Liam.

"Being all know-it-all-y." Amy replies.

Karma turns to look at her, "Yeah. Liam too. Can we just...ignore them and be girlfriends?"

Karma holds out her hand to Amy, expecting her to take her hand. Amy slaps her hand like a high five, "Yeah!"

Why did she just slap my hand? If she doesn't wanna hold my hand, maybe she doesn't wanna do this. Where's my mom at?

Karma starts walking across the dance floor, Amy hot on her heels. Karma sees her mom and quickly heads towards her. As she walks up she hears her mom saying something about a "share circle".

"Or you can open your legs and jump on the mechanical bull." Jackie offers the group of women.

A couple of ladies whoop and holler and Molly knows she is losing them, so she desperately says, "Oh, but you can't go now because Karma and Amy," Molly wraps her arm around the girls. "Were just about to share."

"Awwww" the ladies all say, clearly ready to listen to their love story. Both girls immediately protest.

"Oh, no, I don't think anyone wants to hear us-" Amy says as Karma is speaking.

"We weren't actually planning on sharing."

Molly insists, "But everyone here is dying to hear your beautiful love story. Please."

Damn mom. Stop burning a hole into my face. Aw fuck. She's giving me the face. Let me make sure Amy is okay with this. Karma looks from her mother to Amy. Shit, she wants to do this for my mom. Guess we are telling our love story…

All the ladies sit in a semi-circle while Karma starts their story.

"Amy and I grew up together. We've been best friends since forever. Last year we realized we were more than just friends. We started to experiment with our feelings, just a few dates here. A kiss to see if felt weird or not. It felt like the only right thing I have ever done. We got noticed at school as being a couple, and shockingly we got nominated for homecoming queens. This meant that we had to come out to our parents, which can be so difficult when you live in Texas. I never expected us to win, but I guess the students at our school really enjoy seeing us happy. We kind of have a whole fan base going on, and my mom is our number one fan. Here we are, still together, still going strong. Every day that I'm with Amy, I just feel like the luckiest girl in the world." Can anyone tell that I can't stop smiling? I'm telling our story how it should have been. How I wish it had been. "We're not only best friends and lovers, but, um," Karma looks straight into Amy's eyes hoping to convey all the feelings she has for her in her next words. "We're soul mates." Amy smiles at Karma, then her smile starts to falter like maybe she's finally understanding Karma isn't just putting on a show.

"I'm sorry, did you say lovers?" Farrah's voice cuts sharply into the night, and through their moment.

No way! Can any more people who are not supposed to be here show up? What the hell is Farrah doing here?

Karma and Amy turn around to look at her. "Mom?" Amy says very confused.

"Can I talk to you, sweetie." Farrah replies. Amy looks at Karma, who nods in understanding. As Amy walks over to her mom to try to explain the situation, Karma switches seats to sit next to her own mother.

"Sorry ladies, but Amy has to go talk to her mom about something. I guess you're stuck with just me." Karma explains to the group.

Debbie sits down across from Karma. "Oh, that's perfectly okay. I wanted to get to know you anyway. You're mom is the most amazing president I think we have ever had. And she cannot stop bragging about you. Not only do you have a beautiful, loving girlfriend," Luckily for Karma Amy has returned at this point. Hmm. That was a short talk. " but you're so good at so many other things. How do you do it? Staying number one in your class can't leave a lot of free time, I know."

Karma smiles to cover her confusion, "I don't see how it would." I'm not even close to number 1 in our class. Maybe like number 101.

Debbie continues, "On top of that, you spent spring break building habitat houses in Mexico?" I've never been to Mexico? What the hell? Mom made some crazy stories for these ladies. Who leaves the country to build a house?

"Oh my, God. Debbie, it's your favorite song. Let's go dance." Molly quickly grabs Debbie's hand and pulls her away from the girls. As soon as they are gone, Karma's facade drops like a falling bag of bricks.

"Can you believe that?" Does she want all those things to be true?

"I know. Like you could ever build a habitat." Amy says, then chuckles at her own joke.

Karma shakes her head, "Is my mom proud of me for anything real? No wonder I'm so good at lying about myself. It's in my DNA." I may lie about a lot of things, but I don't lie about my mom. She's a huge dork and kinda weird, but she's my mom and I accept her for who she is. Does she not like who I have become? Does she want me to be someone else? Some super daughter who rushes off to help strangers in other countries, like my freaking brother did?

"We can't let our moms ruin our night. Let's just forget about this PFLAG stuff and have fun." Amy suggests.

God, look at her. Trying to help me, when she has her own mom issues going on tonight. I'm so lucky she is in my life.

"You're right. And there is something I've always wanted to try." Karma says with a mischievous smile.

"I'm not sure I'm going to like the answer to this question, but what is it, Karma?"

Karma stands up and points at the mechanical bull.

"What? No way!" Amy instantly responds. Karma puts on her best pouty face, Amy tries, and ultimately fails at ignoring it. "Ugh. Fine, but only if you go on with me, so when I fall I'm not the only one looking like an idiot."

"Deal!" Karma exclaims and drags Amy to the beast.

This could either be the best idea I've ever had, or the worst. Both of us on a machine, sitting as close as two people can possibly get, while it bucks and spins. This is going to be so hot!

Amy climbs on first, swinging one leg over. When she gets situated she helps Karma hop on and as it's about to start Karma slides herself forward and places her hands on Amy's hips. She instantly feels Amy tense up. Hmmm, me being this close to her makes her nervous. Good nervous or bad nervous?

Neither girl can think too long because once the bull starts to move their only thought is "don't let go!"

Both girls laugh and try not to fall off. They are clearly having a great time. Every time the bull bucks upwards Karma pulls a little on Amy's hips, making sure that 1. Karma doesn't slip off the back of it and 2. Amy's body is pressed against hers the whole time. She hasn't been this close to Amy in what feels like forever, so Karma is treasuring every moment.

All too soon, the bull wins and the girls fly off towards the mats surrounding it, Karma landing on top of Amy.

"Ooh" the crowd choruses.

Still laughing, Amy says "Get off me."

"Here, let me help you up." Karma offers. "Sorry I body slammed you. You okay."

Karma cannot take her eyes off Amy. God, even after getting thrown on the ground by an electronic bull she still looks amazing. Her hair looks….well it looks like she just took a tumble in the hay. It's so sexy. Too sexy, I will not be able to think straight if it stays like that.

"Ugh, your hair, let me fix it." Karma steps up closer to Amy.

"Thanks." Amy replies.

As Karma uses both hands to frame Amy's hair around her face, she can feel Amy looking at her. Karma smiles, and she sees Amy smile back. Maybe she's not completely over me. Maybe I still have a shot. The crowd is still watching them, and everyone "awws" them.

Oh, shit. There are still people around us. Amy just made the whole world disappear just by smiling at me. That's only ever happened once before tonight. That was with Amy too. The night of the threesome. I swear, for a few minutes I totally forgot that Liam was there. From the moment Amy took off that coat, my whole world was all about her. Her and that confidence, and those abs! Who knew she had abs like those?

Karma's thoughts/memories are interrupted by Amy's voice, "I, uhhh, have to go to the bathroom." She quickly turns around and walks off. Karma, a little disappointed wanders over to a nearby hay bale and sits down to wait for Amy to return.

She hears someone call her name. "Karma, grab your stuff. We gotta go." Her mom tells her in a rushed whisper.

Karma rolls her eyes. "Why? Did you tell your friends that I have a space launch to get to?"

Molly, not picking up on Karma's sarcasm or mood, "Actually, Jackie knows you're faking it," Karma looks at her mom. But I'm not faking it. "And we gotta leave before she tells everyone." Molly starts to panic. "What was I thinking? Lying is wrong."

Karma takes this opportunity to get some truth from her mom. "Why did you tell all of these people lies about me? Am I that disappointing?" Aren't I good enough a daughter for you mom?

Molly's heartbreak is written all over her face. "No, honey, no, no, no. This is not about you."

Feels that way.

Karma's mom continues to explain. "This is about me. I don't know if you can understand this, but sometimes I say and I do things that I think will make people like me."

Oh, I understand. More than you will ever know in your life, do I understand.

"And I hate that about myself, that I care so much about what these people think."

Oh. My. God. I am literally just like my mother!

"But I don't think that I can stand to stay here and watch Jackie tell everyone that I lied." Molly sounds like she is close to tears.

Karma softly tells her mother, "It's okay if you wanna go, but, Mom," Karma turns her body to face her mother. "If these people only like you because of something that isn't real, then they don't actually like you. And they're not worth all of this." Trust me on this one Mom. I know what I'm talking about. I am way too familiar with this kind of situation.

Molly looks at Karma, totally stunned. "How did my daughter get so wise?"

"By pretending to be a lesbian." Karma answers. They both laugh and Karma leans in for a hug while Molly wraps her arms around her wonderful daughter.

Karma look around the room, trying to find Amy because she has been gone for a long time. She sees Farrah and standing by the drink bar. After a minute or so, Farrah walks off and Karma sees Amy standing there, holding two cups. Karma instantly smiles and waves. Amy returns the smile, and waves back while mouthing the word "hi". Karma gets up to walk over to Amy. She takes the drink Amy offers to her.

"So how are things with your mom?" Amy questions.

"Actually, not bad. She just wants people to like her, so she made some things up. Like, who hasn't done that before?" Karma glances at Amy and they both crack up laughing.

After they finish their drinks, Karma holds out her hand. "Alright, girlfriend. I do you owe me a dance." Karma leads them out onto the dance floor. As the singer starts singing a love song, Karma places her hands on Amy's shoulders, Amy puts her hands on Karma's hips. They begin to sway to the music.

"This has been okay, right?" Karma asks, concern evident in her voice. "Not too weird?"

Amy shakes her head, "No, no way. It's been fun." She laughs.

Karma tilts her head. Not weird, Amy is enjoying it...our fake date night out pretending to be a couple. I've enjoyed tonight too. "It has been fun, hasn't it. No boy drama." No Liam trying to sleep with either of us.

"No girl drama." Karma continues. No Reagan trying to steal you from me. "No giant check drama. Just you and me." Karma smiles and pulls herself closer to Amy. She lays her head against Amy, so they are now swaying to the music as close to cheek to cheek as they can get.

"I wish it could always be like this." Karma accidentally confesses. How will she take that?

"Me too." Amy responds. Both girls smile and they pull the other closer, snuggling as tightly as possible while still moving on the dance floor.

Suddenly, the song is cut off by microphone feedback and a woman's voice saying, "Um, excuse me, everyone. I have an announcement to make."

The girls stop dancing, but don't let go of each other's hand, and look towards the stage where Molly is standing in front of the microphone.

"My daughter, Karma, is straight." The crowd gasps and murmurs can be heard. Molly continues. Karma lets go of Amy's hand and crosses her arms, curious as to where her mother is going with this. "I let you all believe that she was gay, because I wanted it to be true. But I have to accept the fact that my daughter will never, ever be a lesbian. But despite this, she has many other wonderful qualities. She's kind and caring, creative. Oh, she has the most beautiful voice. Oh, and she was so quick to potty train."

I can't believe she is actually doing this. My mom is facing her fears of being rejected, of being replaced in her group. And she is proud of me. I can't believe she is doing this for me.

"Mom! Mom, that's enough. Thanks." Karma cuts into her mother's speech.

"Yeah. I would rather resign my post than change one single thing about my daughter." Molly finishes, and the crowd applauses.

Debbie gets onto the stage, standing next to Molly she speaks into the microphone. "We are proud to have you as a friend and president." Molly's mouth drops open in disbelief as she hugs Debbie.

"Well, that was nice." Karma's turns to look at Amy…..who is not standing next to her anymore. In face, Karma can't see her anywhere in the room. Where did she go? I need to share this moment with her.

Karma is still looking for Amy when her mother approaches her. Debbie has got an upbeat country dance song playing and wants everyone to square dance. Molly grabs Karma's hand and pulls her towards the center. "You know, it's funny." Molly begins, "When I joined PFLAG all I really wanted was to help people learn and grow."

Karma's phone vibrates, so she pulls it out of her back pocket to check it.

"But the person who really needed to learn and grow was me." Molly shares with her daughter.

It's a text message from Amy reading, "Family drama. Had to go." She didn't even say goodbye. "Okay. Text me if you need me" She replies.

"Is that Amy?" Her mother inquires.

Defeated and not looking at Molly, Karma responds, "Yeah, she had to go."

"Oh, you look really bummed about that." Her mother observes. "Are you sure you're straight?"

As Karma puts her phone away, she smiles at her mom. "Mom, I am not gay." Bisexual….maybe. Definitely Amy-sexual. "Let it go."

"Okay, okay. I'm sorry." Molly says. "And I accept you."

"Thank you."

The mother daughter duo continue to square dance among the crowd.

"You know, I dated a woman in college." Molly states.

"Mom!" Karma says scandalously, grinning at her mother.

"Stacy." Molly says as an explanation. "She was the gentlest lover."

"Keep talking and I'm gonna stop dancing." Karma threatens half-heartedly. Both women laugh and enjoy the rest of their night.

Later, while Karma is laying on her pile of blankets in the juice truck, she thinks about her night with Amy. How they laughed, how they held hands, how they held each other close during that dance, the way their bodies moved in sync while on the mechanical bull. The look in Amy's eye when Karma called them soul mate. I could feel it. She still loves me. She is still in love with me, but she scared of getting hurt. That has to be the reason she tensed up when I touched her. During the dance she held me like she never wanted to let go. She only left during my mom's speech…...the one where she told a room full of people that I was 100% with a doubt straight, never to touch anybody in a les-be-sexy way! Oh God! Shit, now I have to do damage control. I need another date night/ could be passed off as a friend thing. What's coming up in this boring ass town. Oh! Prom! I'll convince Amy to go to prom with me. I'll say just as friends, so she doesn't bolt, then I'll serenade her with songs, and dance with her the way we were always meant to dance together. What could go wrong?