about making amends with my parents, I didn’t
want to give up on the idea that we could all
be a family someday. So instead, slowly and
deliberately, I typed out a message letting them
know that I would be attending the coming-
out ball.
My dad replied within seconds:
THE
WHAT?!
A message from my mom flashed across the
screen:
Miguel, we will talk about this separately.
If that’s what you want to do, Grace, do it. But
please don’t let your aunt make you do something
you aren’t comfortable with.
I sighed. I wasn’t sure I was comfortable
with attending a fancy ball, but I didn’t want
my parents to know that. So I typed a quick
yep
in reply and put my phone back down.
“They are ready for you at the stables
whenever you want to go,” Duncan announced
when I came back downstairs. “Would you like
me to drive you?”
“No thanks, I’ll be fine,” I said. From what
I remembered, the stables were only about
a mile down the road. I would have happily
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