My Shorts, and Flash Fictions - 5. Prompt #579 – First Line, "How can you be so sure?"

“How can you be so sure?” AJ’s Dad asked. “Have you tried not being gay?”

“Sure Dad, I’ll try not being gay, as soon as you try not to let your heart beat,” AJ snidely retorted. After the day he has had, dealing with the Police on Tommy’s detention, that listening to his Mom and Dad’s idiotic questions about being Gay, was starting to get too him.

“Look, son, I think what your Father meant was, have you tried dating a girl before?”

Tommy, who was there, was looking away innocently, sipping on a beer, he ill-advisedly was drinking, and he knew the coming answer.

“Yes, I have. In fact, the three occasions between when I was fifteen, and now, I have fucked three girls. But, just to let you know, I had to visualize fucking a dude, in order to get off. It was not a fun experience.” AJ stated this with a tone that suggested he has lost all patience and was about to leave.

“You should tell them, who you were thinking of…” Tommy muttered.

“Look, AJ… Son, we love you. Your mom and I are from an Older Generation, who didn’t have Gay, Bisexual, and Lesbian friends or even the knowledge of what you have it today. I don’t even want to discuss Transgender or any of that Identity Politics stuff. I don’t think I can take it all in,” his Dad responded, changing his tone to be more loving. “I’m just a cattle rancher. I can ride a horse, tend the fields, tend our herd, and everything else needed to run a successful ranch, but I don’t know shit about your orientation. This much I know, it’s not a choice, you’re born that way, but some Gay Men lead traditional family lives. Ever watched Brokeback Mountain? Sad movie… but that’s not the issue. We love you Son, unconditionally, and want you and Tommy to be happy.”

It was the two young one's time to be stunned now, and an awkward silence fell between the four of them. It was Tommy who broke the silence, “You watched Brokeback Mountain? All of it?”

“It was billed as a Western.” AJ’s Dad smiled while giving the answer.

“Boys, what we are asking for is time to adjust and your forgiveness. Never once did your Father and I have wanted you to feel you couldn’t come to us. To make you feel uncomfortable, or feel ashamed of yourselves.” AJ’s Mom chimed in and promptly fell into a crying fit. Her husband leaned in to comfort her. “Please forgive us, for making your lives a living hell.”

AJ and Tommy moved over to the other couch in the living room, and hugged AJ’s parents, whispering their forgiveness, and promises of giving them time. They sat there, a few minutes before, moving back to their seats, with Tommy getting everyone a beer, “I think this calls for a drink all around.”

They all sipped the Bud Light, Tommy’s favorite, in silence for a moment more. “So… the other part of this discussion let me see the ring, Tommy!” AJ’s Mom commanded. Tommy held out his hand to show her. The ring was three bands of metal, Gold, Titanium, and Platinum, with a 3kt princes' cut diamond. “Wow, that’s gorgeous. Where did you get it from, AJ?”

“It’s a local shop. We’re going there tomorrow; as Tommy read a story called ‘Clueless Camping’ on that website he goes to. There’s a Danish custom were both partners, regardless of sex, wears an engagement ring and those same rings are used as the full wedding rings. He wants to pick out a matching one for me.”

“That’s splendid and very romantic. Now, for your Big Gay Wedding—,” AJ snorted beer through his nose, as Tommy started laughing “—what’s so funny?” His Mom asked confused.

“You just said Big Gay Wedding, right after that first discussion. It just hit me funny is all,” AJ said as he blushed.

“Oh… well. I’m not gonna get another Wedding to plan, so yes, it’s gonna be big, and it's gonna be, well, Gay. So which one of you two boys get the Bridezilla role?” His mom continued unfazed.

“The one that Bottoms, I think. That is the right term, or is it catcher?” AJ’s Dad was looking at his Smartphone.

“What site are you on?”

“Urban Dictionary... What’s snowballing?”

“DON’T!!” AJ and Tommy yelled at the same time.

“Boys, do you actually do this? Swap cum between you two, while kissing, then you each swallow half of it?”

“OH MY GOD!” Again both AJ and Tommy utter that, at the same time. AJ takes his dad’s phone away from him, while Tommy turns to AJ’s Mom, “There really isn’t a gay Bridezilla, just uppity queens. AJ and I looked at our schedules, and his course load is about to get intense. So while he’s off getting the big money Masters of Genetics degree, I’ll help plan the wedding, around my English Literature classes.”

“Then it’s settled. AJ focuses on school, Tommy and Dawn will plan the wedding, Dawn mainly while Tommy focuses on his courses, where he will succeed too, and I’m bankrolling.” AJ’s Dad states, with a lot of emphasis on Tommy not neglecting his course load either.

“Sounds good Bruce, now let’s let these two boys run home, and do some snowballing.”

“MOM!!!!”

“What? You don’t think, your Father and I don’t have kinks?”

“I don’t want to know…”

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