May I Have this Dance by Thianna Durston

Author:Thianna Durston [Durston, Thianna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A Thia Thing
Published: 2018-02-14T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Hours later, Avit lay next to Just, listening to him breathe deeply. It felt like something had shifted within him and within them tonight. He knew what it meant, but wasn’t sure how to do it. How could he come out?

Nobody in his family was homophobic that he knew, but not being anti-gay was not synonymous with being okay that your family member was. How would they react? He knew he had a pair of gay uncles on his mother’s side. He’d never met them, but that had nothing to do with the fact they were gay—at least he didn’t think it did—but with how they had treated his father when his parents dated.

From what he could remember of the story, his uncles were a bit shocking in that they were fraternal twins and when they went to college announced that they were a couple. His mother’s family was surprised and a bit put out. His mother said she had kept contact with her two favorite siblings when most of her family shunned them. Until they came out to meet Armand.

It was amazing how two people who shunned convention and were living openly as a couple, though they were twins, could be so completely biased against Armand’s race. His mother sent them packing and hadn’t spoken to them since.

His parents had suffered blows from more than one direction when they married and had made it through each one. How would they feel toward a son who was bi? More importantly, how would they feel toward a son who wanted to be in a relationship with a gay man?

Just tightened his hold on Avit, making him smile. There was something incredibly right about being with Just like this. He’d rarely spent the night with a female lover before. When he had, he hadn’t enjoyed the cuddling afterward. Being skin-to-skin with Just felt perfect. Right. Natural.

Why couldn’t the rest of the world see it that way?

That question kept running through his head. All through Sunday while he and Just stayed at the studio apartment, talking about their childhoods, laughing at silly things, and touching. Twice they went downstairs to Just’s personal studio space and danced. Avit wasn’t sure he could ever get enough of dancing with him.

How could this be wrong when it felt more right than any relationship he’d ever been in?

On Monday and Tuesday the question continued to plague him. An article in the Tuesday paper caught his attention. A dual wedding of a heterosexual couple and a gay couple. The article was positive and the large image of the couples kissing made him smile. Perhaps there was hope after all, if the conservative Yakima paper would put that on the front page.

He felt so hopeful that by the time he arrived at class, he felt like he was on a high. It allowed him the space to reach his rhythm. It was like a beat, a feeling he’d never noticed before. It slid along his spine and connected him to the world in a way he had never understood.

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