I'm Coming Out

{I did not feel like taking another break I'm going back on break for personal reasons. All chapters I already have written are edited and scheduled to upload when they need to be.

I'm also gonna try and catch up on chapters, at the moment I've been writing random chapters out of order (I have the entire rest of the book planned out already) based on what I feel like writing.

I'm signing off today and I'll see y'all in a few weeks.}

We have been planning today for about two days now. Jessie has been writing her coming out speech to her dad during our 3 am talks. She just kept adding more and more. Our 3 am talks lasted until 5 am. She is ready. She is nervous though. I don't blame her. I don't plan on telling my mom until I'm 40. Then maybe I'll tell her about my relationship with her boyfriend's daughter. Hopefully, he doesn't reach husband status.

I got my mom and Levi out of the house for the day. He ended baseball camp yesterday and I told her she should take him back to the school to help set up her classroom. He was all for it.

Jessie needs to be alone with her dad when it happens. I will be eavesdropping but she asked for that. I tried to convince her to let me videotape or audio record it but she wasn't having it.

I hear a knock on the door and I yell come in.

"Are you ready?" She asks.

"Yes," I say and stand up.

I pause the TV and then follow her down the stairs. When we reach the bottom she looks around and motions for me to follow. Collin was in the dining room. I quietly slide onto a stool at the counter in the kitchen, barely out of view. She continues walking.

"Hey, Dad. Can I talk to you about something?" She asks.

"Is everything ok?" I can hear the concern in his voice. Maybe he isn't so bad after all. I can't believe I just said that.

"Dad, I'm a lesbian. I just want to tell you I like girls," She says kinda quickly.

"Do you really think you needed to tell me that? I've known since you were 5 and making your Barbies kiss while Ken was in the toilet. Not the Barbie toilet, our actual toilet"

I try so hard not to laugh. My face was turning bright red so I moved to the couch so he wouldn't hear me. The only issue is I can hear them. They talk for a few minutes.

Collin says "are you fucking kidding me?" or lets be real honest he yelled it.

My stomach drops. I thought he was chill with it. Did she tell him about us?

He practically runs out of the dining room, stops for a split second, and makes eye contact with me. Shit, I am done for. He keeps going and quickly runs upstairs.

I stand up and walk into the dining room. Jessie looks stunned.

"Are you ok? What happened" I rush over and sit next to her.

She smiles. "He took it great. He asked me if I liked anyone or if I had a girlfriend and I lied and said no."

"Then what was all that commotion?" I ask.

"Oh, that. Yeah, I told him what my mom said and he flipped his shit. Let's go eavesdrop" She stands up.

We head up to my room and sit on my bed. Collin is in my mom's room screaming on the phone. It seems like one is hanging up on the other then someone calls back and they start yelling at each other again. It's quite entertaining honestly.

"I'm sorry you have to hear all this," She says.

"Don't be. Do they ever talk?" I ask.

"Rarely but when they do it is just like this," She says.

If he can be a bitter ex-husband then I can be a bitter child of divorce. Right now I'll be on his side though. The lady on the other end of that phone call hurt my girl. Maybe I should go in there and yell at her too.

Collin comes into my room after the third hang-up and tells us to leave the house and find something to do. A little fucked up that he kicked us out but he didn't want us hearing that so.

We don't have anything in particular we want to do so I turn on the music and just drive. Windows down, she is holding my hand and we are singing throwback songs at the top of our lungs. I love seeing happy Jessie.

After driving around for nearly 2 hours Collin finally texts Jessie that we can come home. Honestly, we could have gone to Orlando and back in those 2 hours.

When we get home he stands up immediately from the couch. "Jessie, I tried to talk to your mom and fix everything with her. She wouldn't budge. I couldn't fix it. I'm sorry" He sounds so defeated.

"Don't be sorry Dad. It's not your fault. I'm better off without her anyway"