~~ Authors note: Hey guys so this is the second part of Mary's story! I highly suggest reading part one first. I don't know if there will be another chapter though. Thank you to all that took your time and sent feedback, it's always welcomed!~~
"Hey Dave, so I'm not really sure about everything anymore. As you know Angela and myself have basically been in a relationship you could say since the fall. Now that it's July and I've been here for months, and I don't know why, but I'm on the fence about this. You know uncle David didn't raise us like this."
"Like what Mary?"
"Like this. Like what I'm doing, like what I've been doing for almost a year now. Being gay."
"Are you serious right now Mare? You're being ridiculous"
"No I'm not David! Don't get me wrong, she's an amazing woman and friend, and she took me in when I had nothing, but this isn't me. She isn't..me. I love her to death, but I feel like I'm not doing right."
"And by 'doing right' to whom do you mean? Cause these past months you've been the happiest I've seen in about 5 years."
"She makes me happy! She makes me feel like I'm somebody and like I matter! It's just gay alright?"
"Mary you sound pathetic right now and you're pissing me off. To tell you the truth, you're being stupid. So tell me, who the hell are you rethinking this for?"
"Uncle David. God."
"Wow. Talk to me when you start doing things for Mary, ok?"
"David I'm sorry. I don't want you to be angry with me, it's just...I don't know. I'm sorry."
*** That was a conversation I had with my cousin David on email last week. He's like my older brother considering we were raised together by his father (uncle David) when my druggie mom left me on his doorstep when I was only 2 years old.
Uncle Dave was a great man and took me in with open arms, but he was stern. The way he raised us was, in his words, "don't bring home a faggot son, and Mary my love I can't wait to shake the hand of the gentleman that sweeps you off your feet".
I remember this one night he walked in my room when I was 16 and caught me kissing my bestfriend, Allison. He flipped out of control, threw her out while banning her from ever coming back, screamed my head off for hours, and grounded me for 2 weeks. He was a very large deep voiced half Cherokee half Italian man, so he scared me shitless and I never saw Allison personally again, and my lips never touched a females after that. Beyond scared straight? We both thought that, but yelling can't change a true feeling you have.
Now it's an early July morning and I'm getting back from my run only to walk in on a teary eyed Angie sitting against the office desk with papers in her hand. I noticed how sad she looked, so I took my headphones out, dropped my iPod, and walked over to her.
"Hey..Ang, what's wrong?"
She didn't look at me but at the papers in her hand laying on her lap, she started shaking her head and her lip quivered, holding in tears.
Seeing her hurt made me want to kill the person that made her feel that way. Not knowing that I was the reason, I go to give her a hug.
She looked up at me while saying "Stop" and pushing me away slightly.
"What's going on babe?" I ask
She holds up the papers, gets off the desk and throws them down on it. Her cold hurt eyes never left mine as she wiped a tear away from her cheek.
I was still confused when she got really close to my face and said
"Your shit is packed and in your trunk" gave me a glare and walked upstairs.
I didn't know what was going on, but what she said was serious and I've never seen that side of her. It hurt me to know that she packed my things and was kicking me out, what did I do? The papers!
Rushing over to the desk and grabbing them and reading them, my heart sunk. I've never felt so stupid and heartless in my life.
They were printouts of my emails to David. I must've left my account open.
"Shit" I thought. I felt flushed, but of course I love Angie, so I ran as fast as I could after her screaming and banging on her locked door to open and let me explain myself.
"Angie!!!"
silence
"Angela! Open the door, let me explain!"
silence
"I love you baby, just open the door and let me explain it, please!!"
The door swung open with a furious Angie now in my face.
"Explain what, huh? Explain how I'm a good friend? How I fucking took you in when your dead beat husband beat you nearly to death and you used me to get better?"
Tears started pouring down my face and I could barely speak.
"no"sobbing "I'm.."
"You know what Mary!? You don't love me. You've never loved me, because if you did, you would have never even thought about your dead uncles wishes ahead of your own happiness!"
"..stop, please.." still sobbing but calming to talk.
"No Mary, I'm gay and I'm fucking proud of it! I want you out. I don't want to talk to you right now. I don't even wanna see you. Get out!"
"where would I go huh?"
She didn't answer and kept a gaze out the window, not looking at a pitiful me.
I knew she would need to calm down before she'd give me the time of day again, so I turned to leave. Stopping in the doorway I looked back and said
"I didn't use you Angela, and I really do love you."
She still didn't look at me, so I continued my walk of shame out of the house.
Sitting in my car alone, I broke down even more.
"SHIT SHIT SHIT" I yelled while slamming the steering wheel.
I knew that I had just screwed up the best thing that's ever happened to me. Taking in a few heavy breaths, I dried my tears enough to go for another run, that's always helped me think. It actually helps me think, reminisce, forget, anything.
This run was a long one and accomplished nothing but bad thoughts. Like what if Angie never forgives me? What if she doesn't ever let me talk to her about it? What if she went and fucked some random chick to get over me? So many things kept running through my mind making me depressed and angry.