First Partner (closed with @valorandgold)
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Mia didn’t know when the internal questioning began. Perhaps it started during her waits outside of Marshall’s private school? How she would admire the boys...and girls, in uniform? Or how when she’d go shopping with her mother, she’d stop at the tabloid stand and admire the actors and actresses on the covers? Or perhaps it was the day she met Emerson.
Emerson was the same age as Mia, 16 years old. She had blonde hair with one blue streak down her bangs, and the most mesmerizing hazel eyes. She attended the same school as Mia’s brother, Marshall, and was in 10th grade. She lived in the same neighborhood as Mia, only two streets over. It was Emerson who introduced Mia to what being bisexual was, because Emerson was bisexual herself. In her 16 years, Emerson had ‘dated’ five people. Two girls, and three boys. She was always nice to Marshall, especially when the bullies picked on him. Emerson knew self-defense.
They had started ‘dating’ only two weeks ago, but Mia had never been happier. She now waited for Emerson as well as Marshall after school, and the three all walked home together, Mia and Emerson usually walking hand in hand. She was happy to have Emerson as more than a friend, to teach her the things about the world that her mother and papa had not yet taught her. But she knew that eventually, she’d have to tell her parents. She couldn’t hide her relationship forever.
And it turned out that she wouldn’t have to.
They had just returned home from school. As soon as the door was open, Marshall burst through the door, yelling for their father.
“Daddy, we’re home! And Mia brought her girlfriend!”