Copy,  pasting the address into my phone's GPS, I headed over to Lynn and Liam's house.

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No longer than a ten-minute drive and I was at their house. It was fairly nice sized although it was pretty big compared to my place which was a cheap townhouse my father bought after what happened with my mom. Walking up to the front door, I rang the doorbell and didn't have to wait long for Lynn's beaming face to greet me."Skylar, I'm glad you could make it. Come in."

"Thanks," I said, smiling back at her.

"Oh, and my mom and Liam's are both home. I just thought I'd let you know beforehand, they're probably gonna want to meet you. No surprises, right?"

Her mom and Liam's? Did she just forget to say dad at the end of her sentence because it kind of sounds like both their moms live here with them? *Maybe I'm just paranoid or something, I shouldn't worry about those things right now. I'm sure their mom and dad are both nice enough.* I assured myself.

Coming out of my thoughts, I nodded in response. "So you have anything planned for while I'm here or are we just gonna wing it?" I asked.

"Not much planned, I just thought this gave us more time to hang out. Talk in person, you know? Although checking out my room was somewhere on the itinerary." Lynn smiled. "You know, you can tell a lot about a person by there room."

Nodding again,  we had finally reached the living room at our slow pace. I noticed Liam sitting on the couch just looking at us. Guess he was waiting for Lynn to answer the door and bring me in? I waved to him as we got closer.

"Hey, Liam, nice to see you," I said.

"Sup Skylar. We weren't sure you were actually coming."

"Yeah well, I promised I would try to make it so here I am." I sent a smile his way and went to sit beside him as Lynn did the same, sitting beside me.

Lynn - trying to be the good hostess she probably normally is - offered me something to drink. I declined her offer and we got back to having a normal conversation. Not long after, two women came down from upstairs talking. I guess one of them's Lynn's mom and the other is a friend or something. The two women saw us all sitting on the large couch together and walked over to us with smiles on their faces.

"Hi there, you must be Skylar. Lynn told me you might be coming over today, in fact, Lynn has hardly been able to shut up about you since last week." I looked over at Lynn to see her looking away, huh. Looking back at the two women, the one with shortish honey hair continued talking. "Anyways, my name is Rachel, I'm Lynn's mom and this is my wife, Stella."

Wait, what? The woman - Rachel - took the other - Stella - by the waist and gave her a kiss on the cheek. I shifted uncomfortably in my seat trying my best not to show my disgust for the action.

"Yeah, I'm Skylar," I confirmed. "It's nice to meet you two." Forcing a smile on my face, I held out a hand.

Stella was the first to shake it then Rachel following her actions suite. Just because I don't like their choices, doesn't mean I should be a bad guest.

"It's nice to meet you as well." Stella smiled at me. "Will you be staying for dinner tonight? Rachel and I were just about to get started on it."

"Yes ma'am, I will," I responded.

"That's wonderful. Well, we'll leave you three to it. Wouldn't want to ruin your good time." With that, Stella took Rachel's hand and walked away into another room.

I let out a small breath. I had no idea their parents were gay and it made me a little uncomfortable to be put on the spot like that. Really, I feel like Lynn and Liam should have said something beforehand so I wouldn't have been so unpleasantly surprised. At least if they said something about their parents being lesbians I would've been able to mentally prepare myself for having to deal with it. Ugh, I probably won't be coming back anytime soon.

"Your parents are gay," I stated.

"Damn, what gave it away," came Liam's sarcastic reply.

"Neither one of you told me your parents were gay!" I whisper-shouted so their moms couldn't hear my distaste from the other room.

"It's no big deal, I don't know why you sound like it's the most awful thing ever."

"I mean, aren't some of your friends gay too?" Lynn adds.

"It's just Damien and that's different. Can we drop this now? I'm done with this conversation," I said.

"Oh, now you're done? You didn't seem so 'done' when you brought up the fact it bothered you." Liam started to get all defensive.

"Seriously Liam, drop it now. We don't have to escalate the conversation."

 Lynn shifted in her seat, looking uncomfortable. She looked away from both of us, refusing to make eye contact but I could still see a bit of a frown though.

Liam nodded even though he knew Lynn couldn't see him then looked at his fidgeting hands which he placed neatly in his lap. The room fell into an awkward silence and I started to feel a little angry with myself. *Good going Sky, you did it again. You opened your stupid mouth and made your friends uncomfortable again. You just had to say something, didn't you?*I sighed.

About one unbearable minute later, Liam turned back to us although admittedly, he was looking past me to Lynn. "Hey Lynn, why don't you go and show Skylar your room?" he suggested.

Lynn nodded slightly. "Yeah, sure," was all she said before standing up and walking.

I got up and huffed. Following Lynn to her room, I stayed quiet same as Lynn. I only spoke up once we reached a platform on the stairs that allowed them to change direction.

Placing a hand on Lynn's shoulder, I spoke up. "Hey, Lynn?" She turned to face me. "Look, I'm sorry my comment upset you, but I can't change how I feel about certain things. It would've at least been nice if you just gave me a heads up. Don't be upset please." I gave an apologetic smile.

I felt proud of myself for my speech. With anyone else, my pride would be too high to consider other's feelings. Today though, I put that aside for someone else. I wonder why I decided to finally grow up and apologize for my actions?

Lynn gave me a soft smile and said, "It's fine. Thanks for that, now come on." She then turned back around and continued walking up the stairs. Making our way through her hallway we reached a door and she pulled it open. "Well, here it is."

My eyes landed on the room and it certainly was a lot neater than mine. I just have to wonder if she cleaned it before I got here or if her room is always this neat. She had a bunk bed type bed but with a desk area underneath instead of a bottom bunk. Its pastel pink and turquoise sheets were pristinely made and the bed was pushed up close to her window. The window covered a good part of the corner of the room and had light pink curtains pulled open, allowing light to flood in. A computer and a few other things were carefully placed along the desk just as orderly as the rest of the room. No clothes littered the ground - unlike my mess of a room - and a pastel pink rug sat in the middle of the floor. You could actually see the floor of Lynn's room. I wish I could say the same for my own room. A white hamper sat beside the ladder of her bed so I guess she actually used it. I had to applaud her for not being as lazy as me. She also had a white padded bench that sat at the foot of the bed. Er, just under it I guess?

I walked over to a white bookcase across the room from the bed. It was stocked full with novels I had barely ever seen unless I was being dragged to the library. A few Polaroid pictures were stuck to the outside of it. "You really like to read, huh?" I questioned.

"Yeah, definitely." Lynn nodded and smiled to prove her point. "By the way, there would be more things on the walls, but we were going to start painting them soon and I didn't want to be taking the stuff off just to put it all back on again."

I looked away from the bookcase to see her extremely bland off-white walls. I nodded and went to stand back beside Lynn.

"Your room is neat," I state. "And I mean, like, not messy, but it's cool too." I looked away from her as I started to ramble.

"Thank you, Skylar. Do you wanna sit? We can just talk for a bit if you want," Lynn suggested.

"Yeah, sure."

She moved to sit on the bench and I followed her actions, sitting beside her. We kind of just sat there glancing at each other every once in a while, not actually talking. Good job Skylar. How 'bout you just be more awkward, that would be great. I Rolled my eyes at my actions but I still didn't speak. Why I was being so awkward, I didn't know but it sure annoyed me.

It wasn't much longer until Lynn spoke which I was grateful for... Kind of. "So, I know we learned a lot about each other over the phone, but I never really asked you about Tony. You said he's been acting weird and I've noticed you're getting really annoyed at school. What is he doing exactly that's bothering you so much?" Lynn asked, generally interested.

I breathed out an exaggerated sigh, rolling my eyes before speaking. "He's been getting super clingy. Normally Tony's okay with that but lately, he won't give me any time to myself. Don't get me wrong, I love him, but I wish he would kindly stop riding my non-existent dick. It's getting on my nerves that any time I finally have without him, he's right back there again with his hands running wherever they please. Not to mention, he's started playing the jealous boyfriend role a lot more." I let out a huff and spent a couple more minutes ranting.

I really needed that but I still wish Lynn would have left that can of worms alone. My big speech made me seem like an ungrateful little bitch for having a concerned boyfriend. I can't have him changing like that on me when we were already perfect though. By the time I finished my schpiel, I was not in a good mood. The ghost of a scowl made its way to my face and wanted to become more evident. Lynn must have noticed and she gave me a reassuring hug, showing me her radiant smile. It made me smile too.

"You shouldn't let him get your mood down, but why don't you try talking to him?" Lynn suggested.

"I don't know if he'll change what he's doing just because I talk to him," I reply stubbornly.

"Then give him a reason to listen to you. This is bothering you, so fix the problem. Don't act like a lap dog just because he's your boyfriend, you have a say in things too you know."

"Alright Lynn, I guess I could try getting him to ease up a bit. Thanks for the advice." I gave her a thankful smile.

She nodded. "It's no trouble at all. Someone as beautiful as you should always be happy." Lynn then tapped under my chin, lifting her own and smiling as to say 'buck up'.

I gave her a lopsided smile. Her smile is so beautiful it's almost contagious. With that thought, my smile shrank a bit but neither Lynn nor I mentioned anything about it. *Not beautiful. Stop thinking like that.*

Lynn and I talked for a little while longer in her room before we were both called down for dinner. I waited for Lynn to lead before taking a deep breath to calm myself before having to face Lynn and Liam's, uh, parents again. *Everything is going to be fine. You can do this Skylar, just get through a dinner with them and you never have to come over again if you don't want to,* I reassured myself.

When we reached downstairs, the smell of spaghetti sauce wafted into my nose. I always do appreciate a good home-cooked meal. I mean, when you're eating junk food and take out more than four times a week, who wouldn't? A good couple of months ago when Damien invited me over for dinner was really the last time I had a home-cooked meal. Well, besides last week when Tony came over. As we got to the kitchen I could see Liam and his mom, Stella sitting down with plates already full of spaghetti. Rachel came over not long after and sat down with her plate and smiled at Lynn and me. I smiled back and went to go get myself a serving before sitting myself between Lynn and Liam.

We all started eating and whenever I would look up, I would see Stella and Rachel looking at each other with love and admiration. I couldn't help but compare that to how my parents used to be. They were always so happy together, especially my dad. Just thinking about how things used to be made me angry at how they were now. A small frown made its way to my face that I hoped no one noticed and I clenched my left hand to my thigh to try and calm myself down. They disgust me and this right here just gives me one more reason to not like them. Why did I even decide to come? I could have stayed home. Though I didn't. I came to see a friend and I'm not going to be rude while I'm here.

"Sky, are you alright?" Lynn whispers to me, placing a hand over my clenched one.

My face softened and I nodded.

"So Skylar, Lynn's been telling us you really like video games," Rachel started.

I nodded, putting a smile on my face. "Yes, ma'am."

"Oh please, call me Rachel. Now tell me what kind of games you're into, I'd like to go one on one with you sometime." She smirked.

For the rest of dinner, we talked about different video games and our accomplishments. Surprisingly Rachel was quite the game expert and she sounded like she was a great gamer too. I really didn't expect that Lynn's mom would be so cool like that. Ignoring the real problem I had with the two women, I had a great time speaking to everyone. When it was time for me to leave, Lynn and Liam walked me out. Standing outside the door, Lynn closed it so no one inside could hear.

"Sooo, what did you think of our parents?" asked Liam.

"They were pretty cool," I said. "I still would have liked to be told that they were gay though."

I just had to comment. It bothered me too much not to mention it again. I know I had already reacted to the fact, but I was still upset that I had to walk into a house and be subjected to seeing something like... That. My arms were crossed as I waited for someone to say something. I could see Liam clench his fists but he just walked back inside, closing the door a little harsher than he should.

"Well, Bye then." Lynn hugged me gingerly. "I hoped you would be able to look past the fact that our moms are gay. Maybe in the future, you'll be a little more open-minded."

I winced a bit when she said the word "gay" and after she finished her sentence, she let go of the hug and went inside.

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I will probably slow down uploads because I've been procrastinating for about a solid month and a half. Also sorry this update is a bit last-ish. I didn't have internet for a week.