The gossipers say so many things that most of the time, they say absolute crap, but sometimes they happen to stumble across the truth.
Of course any kind of reliable news source didn't bat an eye at our story. After all, the magazine's only reason to start talking about Gumi and me is because Gakupo mentioned my present on some social media account. If you put that with tons of unused photos of us having dinner, then you got the perfect recipe for gossip. Just add a story and voila; a new spike of income.
Gumi, however, took it on another level. I thought we could just wait it out. She, on the other hand, planned ahead. Of course we weren't going to agree, I said. I thought she was scared. Turns out it was her parents all along. She couldn't bear them hearing 'such things' from the media, think it's a lie, and then actually have their daughter dating another woman.
But she was scared. She was scared of how her parents would perceive her. They weren't religious nuts to my knowledge. They just happened to dislike 'irregular' love. But Gumi wanted to come out to them either way. She wanted them to hear the truth from her.
I hate the idea of coming out of the closet. Love shouldn't be made so special, it shouldn't be kept as something irregular. Normalize it, I thought.
But she said that nowadays, with people still so against it, it deserves to be presented with a warning.
She looked so sick while saying it. Nothing could stop her from boarding the next train, though. She didn't want me to come with her. I hated that, but as I said, nothing could stop her.
She would stay overnight, and tell them at noon the following day. She did just that. She was back home around two in the afternoon.
It hadn't gone well.
The silver lining is that they promised not to tell anyone, even as they kicked her out.
But Gumi's still crying and damn I hate that.