Pride and Joy by M. L. Rice

Author:M. L. Rice [Rice, M. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Lesbian
ISBN: 9781602827592
Google: XT97tgAACAAJ
Amazon: 1602827591
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2012-11-13T00:00:00+00:00

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“I can’t do it.”

“Yes, you can. You’ll always regret it if you didn’t know for sure.” Jennifer patted Bryce’s knee as they sat in the car.

Bryce looked nervously at her house through the side window.

“It seemed pretty obvious.”

“I know, but this is the last opportunity you’re going to have before you leave next week.”

Bryce took a deep breath. “Okay. But I’m scared shitless.”

Jennifer smiled kindly. “I didn’t say it would be easy.”

Bryce got out of the car and made her way purposefully to the front door. She rang the doorbell and felt a mixture of relief and fear when both of her parents opened it.

They didn’t invite her in.

“Mom? Dad?”

“Bryce,” they said as one.

She hesitated. “I’m…I’m leaving for the academy next week and…I just can’t leave things like they are with you guys.” Despite her best efforts to fight them, tears welled up in her eyes. “I love you both so much.”

Her mother made a move to embrace her, but stopped short. “Bryce, don’t you know how much we love you too? Why do you think we’re doing this?”

Bryce shook her head in disbelief. “You’re cutting me off because you love me?”

Her mother turned and buried her face in her husband’s side as she sobbed. Bryce’s father spoke. “We just want you to know that there are consequences to your decisions. This is what happens when you make the wrong one. Your mother and I will always be here for you when you decide to turn your life around and come back to God and to us.”

Bryce’s fingernails pressed painfully into her palms as she balled her fists in anger. “I don’t understand what you’re doing, Dad. I don’t understand any of this.”

He shook his head sadly, but it was her mother who turned to her and answered. “Bryce, we have given you everything. You’ve wanted for nothing. Everything you have ever done has made us the proudest parents in the world. You were the perfect daughter. And now look at what you’ve done. You’ve chosen to be an abomination. You’ve chosen sin over your own family.” The next words came out in a staccato of grief. “We. Are. Ashamed.”

Bryce couldn’t find words.

Sobbing, her mother said one final thing. “You have a choice, Bryce. When you make the right one, come home to us.” She placed her hand over her chest. “You have broken my heart.”

The door closed slowly.

The sound of it latching shut and the lock being turned into place echoed as loudly as an explosion in Bryce’s ears.

She turned around and walked in a stupor back to Jennifer’s waiting car.

She didn’t have to say anything.

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