Kim Flowers

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

Horrible thoughts filled my head. What if this whole time Malaki had been trying to get Dawn back? What if her friendliness to me was just a front? What a bitch!


“Wait,” I said, holding Akasha back. “Let’s just watch for a minute, see how they act.”


Malaki went around the group, giving high fives to the other three, and to more people around them. It seemed like maybe she had just arrived; it was impossible for her to have been there long.


As Akasha and I watched, however, we saw no flirtatious gestures at all between Malaki or Dawn. In fact, they were each trying to monopolize Enrik and Joy’s attentions.


“Looks like we’ve got nothing to worry about here,” Akasha said as a song ended.


We walked forward and joined the group, laughing at the shock on everyone’s faces.


Chapter 32