"You don't have to apologise Sophie, I want this too, this was always going to be difficult, but love is never easy, especially in our situation. I can't promise that nobody will ever find out before you leave school or tell you that either of us will cope with the rest of the year to get through. But no matter what, as long as we have each other, it won't matter. I'll stick to teaching as normal, you study as hard as you can, maybe even make friends, so we have other things to distract us."
"But when can we be together, I feel I have lost you already, I need to have some time with you, to explore my feelings for you." I said tearfully.
"I want that to, but we have to take each day at a time. Although, knowing that when we are apart, you still hold my heart, and knowing it is in the safest place in the world, that is enough at least in part to keep us together in spirit. We will find the time to be together. Weekends maybe, we can chat or talk on the phone. I know we will have limited physical contact, but just believe in us and everything will be fine."
"I will, I promise, I need you like the flower needs the sun, now that I have found you, I can never let you go."
"It's scary I know, I have never felt anything like this for anyone but you Sophie. Even my best friend never made me feel alive like you do, so you can bet I am never going to lose you." We both held each other and cried, we were so lost in our own world, we forget about my parents, who had been listening to everything we said. After several minutes we were interrupted by a not very subtle cough coming from my dad. We both woke up from our reverie and looked towards my now smiling parents.
"Let's go back into the living and finish this conversation, we may have a small solution to your problem." said dad. We both stood and followed them into the room and sat together on the 2 seater couch. Once we were all seated, mom explained the plan of action.
"It was very touching to both of us to see just a much you seem to care for each other, even though we both felt with Sophie wanting to date a teacher, it seemed so wrong to us. But seeing how you interact and how lost you seem to be Amy, we feel that keeping you together secretly is something we want to help you both to do. So we have suggestions that may help. Please listen to what we have to say first before you say anything." Amy squeezed my hand and we both agreed to the listen.
"First thing I will suggest Sophie, is what Amy mentioned. You need to make friends, not only do you need the distraction at school, but it is wrong for you not to socialise with people your own age, it is a part of growing up."
"I will try real hard to do that, it won't be easy but I will try."
"Good, all we can ask is that you try. I want you to understand we are not going to make demands of either of you, but we want to help and anything we suggest, is just that, a suggestion. Ok, next we feel that neither of you can be seen together outside of school, and that means no dating until Sophie finishes school. I know that seems unfair, but you have to be very discreet."
"I agree" said Amy.
"But obviously we all need to think of a way that you can at least spend time together. We want to trust you Amy with our daughter, as long as you respect our wishes we will allow you to spend time with Sophie in this house. This is not easy for any of us, but we would feel better that all of your personal time be spent here. Part of that, I would recommend, is that Sophie returns home straight after school, unless she has friends to visit or social events to attend. Amy, I must insist that Sophie does not visit your house at all, even if we did fully trust you; it is too easy if anybody spots a student enter your house to make correct assumptions. Amy feel free to come and go as you please to this house, but never together, if anybody asks who you are, we will say you are our friend, which is not a lie. Now the final part. This was extremely difficult for your father and me to agree upon, but it is something we agree. We feel that if she had met someone her own age and had not told us about it, she could have acted like most young adults, like myself, and snuck around finding places to be together with you. As it is she has told us about yourselves and if your willing, not to sneak around, then it would be unfair of us to stop you having some alone time, which is a part of growing up and discovering each others, err special places, we want to respect your privacy. You have both told us you are not ready to explore that side of things just yet, but I know personally that it won't be long before you do, trying to stop that will cause problems. So we have decided to get Sophie a double bed and that if at anytime you wish to stay Amy, you can. It is going to be hard to adjust to all of this, for all of us, so as long as you both follow the rules and be as discrete as possible; we feel this would be the best course of action to take in order for you to have a successful, and hopefully secret relationship until after school has finished and ready to tell people. So what do you think?" I was shocked; I mean how many times can this night get any stranger. They say honesty is the best policy, and they were right. I spoke with Amy who agreed it was the best and only option we had, my parents in a short time had successfully figured a solid plan of action that not only kept our relationship a secret, but also allowed us to explore freely in the privacy of there home. How could I not agree?
"Mom, dad, you have got to be the smartest, greatest, most amazing people and parents in the world. The suggestions you have made not only do the both of us agree, but the trust and love you are showing us is simply amazing. I know this has been a shock to all of us, even to me who started this whole chain of events tonight. But to have you on our sides like this is something neither of us could hope to have. It shows me that coming to you, and being honest with you has been the best choice I have ever made, I also thank my sister for helping us to find a path in life that is right. I believe tonight has brought us all together to form a stronger relationship and a hope for a long and happy future. Thank you both." I was crying by the end, my parents are so wonderful, so I got up and gave both my parents a great big hug. When I had finished Amy decided to do the same, giving them an extremely teary 'Thank You' to both of them.
That night would never be forgotten by any of the four of us. It was a turning point in all our lives. In one night I had told everyone I am gay, helped my teacher, my friend and my love to admit her own secret, and also find love with me. It bought me closer to my parents as well as helping Amy find surrogate parents, to replace the parents that abandoned her 9 years ago. What a night. We spent the rest of the night finalising details and working out any little detail we missed. It was interesting, exciting, new but scary, everything that we had to plan, it seemed wrong but it was the right thing to do. I suppose when you fall in love with your 27 year old teacher and your both female, society would tend to feel a bit negative towards any such behaviour, but at least we had my parents. There support was invaluable, and mom was right, that if I was straight, things would have been so very much easier and would not have had to spend a year trying to find out who I was. But after this night the only important thing was that I had found my true love, Amy Taylor, a smart, wonderful, caring, and amazing (you get the idea), woman. I loved her with all of my heart and soul, and now we had the privacy and time to tell each other that and explore our love. All thanks to a loving sister to guide the way, honesty, the best of friends and the love and support of my parents. I was indeed blessed and very, very, very happy.
