During the Second Civil War, a new U.S. political party called the Family Protection Movement established The Divide, which separates Normal people from those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. Seventeen-year old Serenity Blackwater lives in the normal Midwestern town of Mapleville, but she is not normal. She hacks into an illegal gay chat room and meets Dawn, a lesbian who lives in a gay community less than a mile away. Serenity discovers normal people can bribe their way inside the walls and decides to go, both to meet Dawn and check out what may be her future home. Dawn is even more beautiful than Serenity hoped, and the two soon become a couple. But Serenity only has a few months before she must take the Normal Verification Test, and then she’ll be separated from her family forever. So she joins the Human Equality Organization, an underground group working to end The Divide. Dawn thinks the rebellion is too dangerous, and since Dawn’s ex-girlfriend Malaki is also a member, Serenity doesn’t tell Dawn about her involvement. Serenity reveals to the HEO that her parents are leading a campaign to organize attacks on all Gay Communities. With her help, the HEO creates Project Jericho, in which all Gay Communities walls will implode at once. But after too many delays, and when Dawn discovers Serenity has been spending more time with Malaki than her, Serenity knows she has to start the revolution herself. She heads to D.C. to contact a group of senators secretly against The Divide ... or straight into a trap set by the Family Protection Movement.

Uprising

I stopped my bike and Sol walked out the door.


“Go around to the back, please,” he said.


I walked the motorcycle up the driveway and around to a back yard. Once there I flipped up my facemask. “What is this?”


He smiled. “I’m Sol’s twin brother, Zol. Congratulations, you’ve passed your initiation test.”


“We’ve never sent a recruit to a normal town like this because usually it’s impossible, but your case is special. I reach out to normal allies here, just like Sol with his community HEO members. We don’t have many like you in the entire country who are able to not only manage trips in between both worlds, but who are willing to take the risk. Sol had to find out if you were trustworthy before he could send you on real missions.”


I slumped, disappointed my mission had been fake, but also relieved I’d passed Sol’s test. “Do you think next time he’ll let me know more about what I’m getting myself into?”


Chapter 28