Chapter 10
Saturday
11:40 p.m.
He could hear his mother in the kitchen as he stared back at his father, seeing something in
his eyes but not sure what it was. At first it looked like maybe hate, or anger but then it
didn’t feel that way. For a second or two he thought it might even be something like
understanding or maybe just wanting to understand. All he knew for certain was that his father
had yanked him away from what should have been the best night of his life, the first time when
he really felt happy. His own anger was real, he could feel it bubbling away inside churning
his stomach.
Nothing really made much sense to him; so many different things were running thru his mind as
he sat there, waiting for the shoe to fall. All he knew was that he wouldn’t accept it, that
no matter what his parents said he would see Dakota again and they would be together. How he
wasn’t sure, but inside where it mattered he knew it would happen. His face grew sombre as
he felt the tension rising, felt his father’s anger or confusion or whatever the hell it was
that his dad was feeling reaching for him.
His eyes lifted upwards to stare at the man he called dad. Noah could see the anger flash in
the eyes but also he felt the confusion now. It was like his father was waging some inner
fight, some war or something and yet he couldn’t quite figure out what it was that had him
so pissed. Okay, so his son was gay, why should that matter or make him any less his son? Did
who you sleep with really change who a person was? Didn’t his dad understand that who he was
right now, this very second, was still the same person he had been this morning?
Okay it maybe was a shock, maybe he should have talked to them about what he was feeling and stuff like that. Trouble was how do you go to your parents and tell them that hey I like guys not girls? Man he could just see the reaction that would have gotten; still maybe he should have thought
