The Transition Zone by Zoe Storm

Author:Zoe Storm
Language: ita
Format: epub
Tags: transgender, trans, identity, romance, lesbian, bisexual
Publisher: Zoe Storm
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve:

Coming Out

The plane rumbled loudly under me as we descended towards Nashville. Well, this is it: time to face my family, for the first time since I realised I was transgender. Not that I had any intention of coming out to them, though. I just hoped I could manage to keep everything hidden until my inevitable coming out.

It was the afternoon of the twenty-ninth of December. Once I’d come back from having dinner with Lena and Lexi, recharged my cellphone, switched it back on, I found an e-mail from the airline I’d booked my flight with – the flight that had been cancelled on the twenty-third because of the Storm of the Century – offering to replace the ticket and put me on an upcoming flight, and I’d managed to grab one for the twenty-ninth. Which was very good: I would manage to spend New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day with my family, at the very least, since I couldn’t be with them for Christmas. My mother was obviously elated, as were Peter and Leah; they’d given up hope of seeing me in person before spring break.

I wouldn’t be talking to them about my recent realisation, though: there was lots of thinking I needed to do before I would even consider doing that, I wanted to be secure in my identity before opening that can of worms.

I wondered how my mother would take it. I sincerely hoped she would accept me, but I had my doubts; even though she’d defended me against Uncle Adam at Thanksgiving, that was because he’d disrespected me. I had no idea how she would take her child coming out as queer: she was from a traditional Southern family, after all, just like my father had been. And just like Uncle Adam, of course. Even though she always said she loved me – quite often, in fact – and she’d said I could talk to her about anything, it could become ugly. I would need to plan my coming out carefully, and steel myself for possible rejection.

But that wouldn’t be for a while still. For the time being, I could just enjoy myself and relax, hanging around my family. Yes. Some R&R would do me good, after the whirlwind of emotion that had been the previous few days.

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“Theo! Over here!” my mother called, waving at me as I left the secure area of the airport with my luggage in tow.

“Hello, Mother,” I said, rushing over and hugging her. “I’m so glad to see you.”

“Me too,” she replied. “I’m happy we could manage to meet before the end of the year. Did you have a good flight?”

“Yeah, there was a bit of turbulence, but nothing much,” I answered, following her out of the terminal. “I was lucky the storm cleared out faster than I thought.”

“It did, didn’t it? We got some snowfall here, but nothing near as bad as what you experienced. When did it stop snowing up there?”

I thought back. “It was still going, though not as hard, on Christmas morning.

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