Small Talk-After a Movie

The Princess and the Frog

The landscapes are changing and we are shaped along with it.

We were sitting down on a black bench waiting for the rest of the family to return to us.
It was actually the first time in a long time that it was just us two together, with nothing to do but wait.
I was looking down at my Skittles and thinking how out of a million moments you can tie memories to something like a box of candy and just get lost in your own heartbreaks, remembering those victories and defeats in life. There's so much to hold in that could burst out.

I asked her the questions I always wanted to ask her.

Do you really love him?

What changed?

Do you mind me dating boys?

Would you like to meet my boyfriend if I had one?

Who was the first gay person you ever met?

We do have family members like me; aren't there more?

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And I responded to the questions she had always wanted to ask:

I don't feel comfortable going back to a place that I know has a stand against the life I live, the life I believe in. That's honestly why every Saturday, you don't see me. I love my church family, but it's never been the same.

I do feel that I was born this way. I don't argue with what I feel inside.

Don't worry about me mom; I'll be safe.

I think that's a load of B.S. Sexual orientation doesn't make you less or more of a person. He's only saying that because he wants the best for me. He's always been tough on us. What's really valuable is the work you do, regardless of whether you're gay or straight. I can name a list of people who are successful, happy, and in love who are gay. It's all up to me whether or not I want to be happy.

-We ended up looking together at other people pass by the corridor of the movie theatre.
She'd make comments about people, and I'd go, "Mom!"

For a long while, I thought that she would never understand me, who I really was, and how I really felt. Monumental heartbreaks just seemed to eclipse all of our lives; it was as if there would always be darkness, with no light. No eye to eye.

When Shaun and Omar returned from Avatar, we went out the exit doors into a sky lit with sunshine. You could see Mt. Rainier and the blue horizon.