Billy and Danica stared back at Quinn. “Her parents were very
conservative. They went to that church. I can barely remember
anything about it. Dallas didn’t go after she was older. Her
parents didn’t force her, but they still went I guess. I don’t
really know if that was it or if it was just their personal beliefs,
but right before we started dating, Dallas came out to her
parents. We did it the same day, remember?”
“We all sat down together as a family,” Danica said. Billy
nodded.
“She told me that her parents were stunned, but they told
her they loved her and supported her. Maybe they were in
shock or maybe they changed their minds about the supporting
thing. I don’t know. Dallas said that she lied to me because her
parents basically worked on her and convinced her that she
was too young to really know what she wanted. That she
should basically keep her options for being straight open. That
maybe this was just a thing or a phase or something. I don’t
exactly know. I was so stunned myself when she told me that,
that I could barely process it.”
“Skeptical?” Billy asked helpfully.
“Yeah. That too. They made her move. It was their choice.
They wanted to take her away from me. Maybe not me, maybe
it was everything. I told her that she should have told me. Or
us. Our family. We would have helped her. She was seventeen
though, and not legally an adult, and even if she was, I know
she would have gone. She didn’t want to lose her family. She
doesn’t have a big family like we do. Her parents were
basically all she had.”
“Ugh, if that’s all she had, I would have cut them off, said
good riddance, and called it a day.” Billy was obviously