01-18-2017, 09:05 AM
Elyse shook her head. Her mother didn't understand. She couldn't. She didn't know what it felt like.
"I can't do that, Mom,"
she said after a pregnant pause. "We can't hide this forever. And pretending it doesn't exist doesn't change what I am."
Elyse felt sadness, but also anger that her mother wasn't trying to understand this. She kept her anger at bay, however. "You don't know, mom. You don't know how it feels to wake up in the morning and know that any second your own parents would come and kill you. You don't know what it's like to know that your brothers and sisters would turn on you at a moments notice."
She sighed. "This brotherhood is breaking, Mom. I don't know if you can see it in Denmark yet, but it's happening. War is coming and it's a civil war. I have to choose my side mom. And I have to believe that I'm and others like me are good people."
She paused, feeling a pain like a knife in her chest. She knew this would hurt her mother just as much, but she had to stand true to what she believed. "I love you and Dad very much, but I can't live like that anymore, Mom. If you and Dad can't accept me for what I am, then I can't come home."
Edited by Elyse, Jan 18 2017, 09:05 AM.
"I can't do that, Mom,"
she said after a pregnant pause. "We can't hide this forever. And pretending it doesn't exist doesn't change what I am."
Elyse felt sadness, but also anger that her mother wasn't trying to understand this. She kept her anger at bay, however. "You don't know, mom. You don't know how it feels to wake up in the morning and know that any second your own parents would come and kill you. You don't know what it's like to know that your brothers and sisters would turn on you at a moments notice."
She sighed. "This brotherhood is breaking, Mom. I don't know if you can see it in Denmark yet, but it's happening. War is coming and it's a civil war. I have to choose my side mom. And I have to believe that I'm and others like me are good people."
She paused, feeling a pain like a knife in her chest. She knew this would hurt her mother just as much, but she had to stand true to what she believed. "I love you and Dad very much, but I can't live like that anymore, Mom. If you and Dad can't accept me for what I am, then I can't come home."
Edited by Elyse, Jan 18 2017, 09:05 AM.