Miranda's Memories (4)
Lauren says, “We are only showing our feelings for each other.” “Are you nuts? You can’t do that here. It’s against the code of conduct. I will call security, who will take you to the Student Conduct Office. Dean Barry will decide punishment,” Qiana says taking a walkie-talkie from her belt. “What? Please don’t do that!” Lauren begs. She says, “I have to, I’m sorry.” “Are you doing this, as we’re gay?” “No,” she says, calling security on her walkie-talkie. The ladies are regretful. Patricia Barry and the girls sit by her office’s desk. She asks if they are Hunter students and, after they nod, checks their IDs. She writes their information on a pad, returns the IDs and asks, “Why did you do what you did?” As they put their cards away, Lauren says, “We love each other a lot.” “That is not a good excuse,” Barry says. “We know and will take any punishment you got as long as you don’t tell our families.” Miranda says. Barry says, “I must, it is school rules.” “No please do not! They’ll kill me if they learn about this,” Miranda says. Barry says, “That is not my problem. You usually would get a two-week suspension for this, but the school has a huge LGBT presence, so I’ll let it slide, but there will be consequences if it occurs again, understand?” “Yes,” the girls say. Barry says, “Good now go home.” The girls leave and Barry contacts their families. Miranda sits on her bed as her angry parents stand by that night. Sharon asks, “What were you thinking?” Miranda says, “I was too caught up with my feelings to realize Lauren and I were doing something forbidden at the school.” “Do you love Lauren?” Bridget asks. She says, “Yeah, we declared ourselves a couple last year.” Sharon yells, “This is unacceptable! You can’t be gay! We won’t allow that in the family! You’ve been infected with a disease and we will cure it!” She yells, “I am not infected with anything! Who can “cure” people of being gay?” Sharon says, “Dr. Mimi Yankovitch, she is a good friend, who has an office in Yonkers and told me she can kill the infection that makes people gay! We’ll take you to her tomorrow.” Miranda says, “Huh? Never!” Sharon asks, “You defying your father?!” Miranda yells, “Yes! Being gay is not a disease. It’s not curable, it is who I am.” “Who you’ve become!” Bridget says. Miranda yells, “Who I am, who I choose to be!!” “How do you think Carle will feel about this?” Bridget asks. Miranda says, “Don’t you drag her into this mom.” “We won’t have a gay daughter, is that clear?” Sharon yells. Miranda says, “I guess you got one daughter and not two. I’m leaving.” “You don’t mean that,” Bridget says. “I do!” Miranda shouts. “You are not going anywhere. Like it or not, you will listen to my rules when you’re under my roof!” Sharon says. Miranda says, “So I’ll find myself a new roof. You two are dead to me!” and angrily leaves her room, knocking a table with a vase on it in the hallway, shattering them. She leaves the home knocking down two filled garbage cans in the front yard. Sharon and Bridget go to the opened living room window as the latter yells for her to return. She walks in her neighborhood upset, passing three women smoking outside a building entrance (one asks if she wants a joint), some Hasidic boys (one catcalls her), a mom chasing her daughter and family of three outside a store. She is also nearly hit by a moving car at a crosswalk and goes to an overpass, struggles with herself and recalls the fight she had with her parents. She looks at the highway below, and climbs over the railing. Approaching the bridge, Lauren sees her as she calls her. Shocked, she yells her name, runs to her, and grabs her arm as she lets go to stop her fall. Miranda looks up to see her. She asks, “What are you doing?!?!” She says, “I don’t want to live anymore!” “Let me guess your family got mad after learning you were gay?” Lauren asks. Miranda nods and cries as Lauren grunts and groans, saying, “This isn’t the answer. I still love ya.” “Really?” Miranda asks. Lauren says, “Of course, I’m not mad.” Miranda says, “Thank you,” as Lauren pulls her up back onto the overpass and tensely holds and kisses her while on the ground. “Let’s talk about this more at my house,” Lauren tells Miranda, as they stand up to leave. The ladies sit on Lauren’s bed unhappily. She asks, “Why didn’t you tell your parents you are gay?” Miranda says, “I already told you it is against our religion!” “You can’t keep it a secret for life. What did they say about what we did at school?” Lauren asks. “They went insane, saying homosexuality was a disease and they would take me to a lady they knew who claimed she could cure people of being gay,” Miranda says. “How did you reply to that?” Lauren asks. “I said being gay is not a disease, it is who I am and choose to be. They refused to believe me. I said they were dead to me and left the home,” Miranda says. “So why did you try to kill yourself?” Lauren asks. Miranda says, “I need family support despite their beliefs and have no one else to go to. If they can’t accept me for who I am I don’t want to live.” Lauren holds her face saying, “You are wrong. I am here for you. It’ll be okay. I’ll always love you.” Miranda says, “Thanks, I love you too.” The women look at each other, then lip-lock and hold each other’s faces. They take off each other’s tops to go topless, feeling each other’s chests and kissing. They lie down with Miranda on top and take off each other’s shorts and panties. Miranda is on all fours. Lauren moves down and kisses her neck, chest, and stomach. She puts her head between her legs with her feet on the floor to masturbate, give her oral, and feel her buttocks. “Oh yes that’s it!” Miranda says as Lauren sits behind her, kisses and licks her buttocks, and fingers her vagina and anus. She licks her anal cleft and gives her a rim job. Miranda orgasms, saying, “I think I’m going to cum!” She sits up, facing Lauren to kiss her neck and breasts as she holds her head. She slowly stands, letting Miranda kiss down her torso, then sits on her shoulders to let her give her oral as Miranda masturbates. Lauren shuts her eyes, saying, “Right there, you got it!” She about faces, bending over so her buttocks is at Miranda’s face. She kisses her cheeks and fingers her anus and vagina, then licks her anal cleft and sucks her anus and spanks her. Lauren orgasms, holds her chest and yells, “Keep doing that.” Later Lauren lies on the bed. Miranda lies facedown atop her, head on her chest. As she is stroked from hair to buttocks, Miranda says, “Thanks for cheering me up.” “Happy to finish what we started.” Lauren says, “Me also,” Miranda says. Lauren says, “Hey why don’t we find a place to live on our own? We can have sex whenever we want and you will get the freedom you need.” Miranda asks, “Uh how will we do that without full-time jobs or family support?” Lauren says, “My parents got promoted at work and their salaries rose. They support my rights to be gay, have you as my partner and didn’t even punish me for what happened today at school, just saying me to control my hormones.” Miranda says, “Lucky you.” Lauren says, “Yes, I know they’ll help get you out of your problems.” “Thanks, can I stay with you as we look? I cannot go home in my current state.” Miranda asks. Lauren says, “Yes I’ll always support you,” Miranda grins and falls asleep while Lauren fondles and kisses her forehead and turns off the adjacent nightstand’s lamp. Miranda places her things in a suitcase and duffel bag the next day when her parents enter her room. “Please don’t do this,” Bridget says. “I must mom. I love Lauren,” Miranda says. “You care more about her than us?” Sharon asks, “You don’t care for me. If you did, you’d support my right to have her as my partner,” she says. Bridget says, “We didn’t create our religion’s rules, we just follow them,” “Well I won’t, bye!” Miranda says. “Hey when will you return?” Bridget asks. “When you accept me for who I am,” Miranda says, then leaves the home with her things, ignoring Sharon’s order to stay put. On the taxi ride to Lauren’s home the driver sees her looking at her family’s portrait and says he can go back. She declines. Lauren and her family wait outside when the cab arrives. Miranda pays the driver, exits and hugs Lauren. Jody takes her suitcase out of the cab’s trunk. It leaves. Tammy takes her bag. The family welcomes her, then they go inside. Tammy and Jody give her food, clothes and leisure time and she and Lauren often bathe together. The ladies, after two long months of searching find a Chelsea apartment they like and can afford. Miranda stands outside her old home on October 19 as moving company workers take her things into their truck bound for her new one. Her family comes out. Bridget asks, “You sure you want to do this?” Miranda nods. Carle asks, “Why are you leaving?” “Dad and mom can’t accept that I love girls, so I can’t live with them,” she says. Carle sadly says, “I will miss you.” Miranda kneels, kisses her forehead and says, “I’ll miss you too. Don’t forget about me as I will not forget about you.” Sharon shouts, “You’re making a mistake. God will punish you for disobeying him.” She stands, saying, “I’ll do that to be happy.” Sharon tries to reply, but Miranda stops him saying, “Don’t say another word. You can’t change my mind. I know I’m making the right choice with Lauren.” After the workers finish putting her things in their truck, they enter the cab and the driver honks the horn. Miranda says, “Goodbye forever,” to her family and goes into the cab. The driver asks if she is sure about this. She nods as he starts the van and departs. Her family watches in shock. Carle cries, as Bridget picks her up. Her parents, not knowing her new address, text and call her repeatedly demanding she come home, including as she and Lauren eat at a café, watch a Broadway show and have sex in their home. After a month she changes numbers, bringing peace. On December 16, the women go into their living room in towels after showering together. They pull them off, lip-lock, feel each other’s chests and arms and lie on a table with Lauren atop as she kisses down Miranda’s chest and stomach. She stands on the floor bending forward to give her oral. She moans with eyes shut. Lauren gets atop her to lip-lock. She kisses Lauren’s stomach and breasts as she moves up and sits on her face to let her to give her oral. Lauren shuts her eyes, pants, and grabs her breasts. She gets off to stand by Miranda, who sits up. They lip-lock holding hands. Miranda gets off the table, as Lauren lies on it. Miranda bends forward so her torso is atop Lauren, who has her knees bent and feet on the floor. They lip-lock and run their hands down one another’s buttocks, vaginas and legs. Governor Eliot Spitzer enacts Proposition 3 in March 2008, but resigns soon after from an escorting scandal. In June, the vote to pass it at the State Assembly in Albany is deadlocked, so Judge Jones is assigned to decide its fate. Miranda and Lauren check the bill’s support via local newspapers and stations. Lauren comes home from work on July 12 as Miranda shows her rude comments people make on an online news story on her laptop like “God hates fags and dykes,” “All gays should go to hell,” and “Adam and Eve are so ashamed.” Upset, they join a pro-LGBT group to get support for Prop 3 by giving flyers to passers-by on the streets and talking at rallies and marches. Their work pays off as by September, most New Yorkers want it passed. The ladies watch the local news and cheer as the anchorman Rosario announces the big swing in statistics from May, 63% for and 32% against compared with 50% for and 46% against. Miranda unknowingly enters an antigay rally outside City Hall on October 10. The people yell, “No to Prop 3, no to homosexuality!” repeatedly, having shirts and signs with messages like “Homosexuality is a sin,” “No gays in New York,” and “Gays must die!” She watches in disgust, as their leader, Giselle, goes to the entrance steps and says from a microphone that gay marriages are inhumane and will corrupt families, marriage is a union between a man and woman only, kids cannot exist without a mom and dad and churches would have to perform services that go against their beliefs. Miranda hears somebody call her and turns to see her family at the courtyard’s other side. They gesture for her to come to them. She reluctantly does and, upon reaching them says, “I am not surprised to see you here.” Bridget says, “We miss you a lot, especially Carle, and I know why you’re angry at us, but we’d want you to come back.” Carle hugs Miranda, who says, “I just can’t.” Sharon says, “We’re not mad at you. In fact we accept you for who you are and are happy you and Lauren are together.” Miranda asks, “Oh really?” Her parents nod and she asks, “So why you at an antigay protest?” “We still don’t favor gay marriages, but learned we must accept some things whether we like it or not. We are sorry for not supporting your choices and love you as our daughter,” Bridget says. “Oh, about time and thanks mom,” Miranda says. Bridget asks, “Do you want to come home?” Miranda thinks briefly, says “No, I’m sorry, it won’t work,” and leaves the courtyard. Sharon and Carle beg her to return. She never hears from them again knowing it is the right decision, as letting Lauren into her family would cause religious conflict and them to suffer. Back in the present it keeps raining and the crowd yells, “Legalize Prop 3! We want to get married! Love conquers all!” State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and two assistants leave the courthouse, go down the stairs, and stop halfway as reporters and cameramen go to them. Flashes go off from the cameras as Cuomo says, “Ladies and gentlemen, I am glad to inform you that Mr. Jones has approved the passing of Proposition 3 thus legalizing gay marriages in New York State effective July 2009!” The group and Kelsey cheer, hug, high-five, or embrace each other. Cuomo and his men go down the stairs and past them to an SUV on the road, as the media group follows. Lauren and Miranda hug and kiss passionately and are psychiatric and dental interns three years later respectively. A taller Carle makes a surprise visit to their place on August 10. They cry and hug her upon seeing her at the front door. The three later sit on a sofa. “How did you find out where we live?” Lauren asks Carle. She says, “My friend searched your names in a public record site his mom paid for.” Lauren asks, “Do your parents know where we are?” “Nah that site needs payment to see all. Dad and mom would not do that,” Carle says. Miranda asks, “What have they said about me?” Carle says, “They act like you never existed. I lied to them to come down saying I was at a classmate’s home to study.” Miranda asks, “You understand why I had to leave?” Carle says, “Yes, but I support you. I have a gay classmate and know what you’re facing.” Lauren asks, “Isn’t he too young to decide that?” Carle says, “Don’t know, but point is I accept homosexuality as part of our lives.” Miranda says, “Good. Our wedding is in November at Long Beach. You can come, but don’t tell our parents or their friends.” Carle says, “I love to and swear I will not,” sees a framed photo of Miranda and Lauren’s engagement party on the nearby table and asks to see it. Miranda gives it to Carle and says, “I’m glad many people came.” She sees Diane and Val in the backdrop frowning and asks why. Lauren says, “They bullied me at Madison for being gay. As payback, I made them come to come to the party and wedding.” Carle giggles, sees Willow in the backdrop and says, “I usually see this guy taking photos and videos of trains and buses here.” Lauren says, “Yeah Miranda and I ran into him a few times in our Madison years. He was in my psychology class in 2010. After I told him about us he begged us to invite him to our party and wedding saying he loves lesbians.” “Oh, but not likely the way you want him to,” Carle says. The three giggle and talk. At the wedding at a churchyard by the ocean three months later, Miranda and Lauren stand on the altar in dresses holding hands with Tammy, Jody, Diane, Val, 8 bridesmaids, Willow and other friends and family in attendance. Farrah the officiant asks Lauren, “Do you take Miranda to be your lawfully wedded spouse?” She replies, “Yes!” He asks Miranda the same as she too says yes. He says, “If anyone here knows of a reason these two should not be joined in holy matrimony speak now or forever hold your peace.” Everyone is silent, thus he asks Carle, the best person, for the rings. She gives them to him, but stands there confused, so he says, “You can sit now.” Everyone laughs as she sits by Willow, who praises and high-fives her. Farrah reads the ring vows. Jody asks, “Carle do your parents know you are here?” She shakes her head. Tammy asks, “What did you tell them?” in worry, as the brides take the rings from Farrah and put them on each other’s fingers. Carle says, “That I went to a friend’s house.” “What if they learn the truth?” Jody asks. Carle shrugs and the brides repeat the vows, as Tammy says, “I know you love your sister and she loves you too, so speak to her later.” Carle nods as everyone turns to Farrah. He says, “…I now pronounce you wife and wife, you may kiss your brides!!” Lauren and Miranda happily kiss and hold hands and an organist plays The Bridal March. Diane and Val clap slowly. The bridesmaids throw their flowers as everyone else claps happily, hugs or shake hands.
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