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

As the room quieted again, Sol paced. “Our next mission is to distribute the implosives to other Gay Communities. Two members will be assigned to each community. I have already discussed with some of our senior members who these will be.”


I started to rise, but Sol held his palm out to me first.


“Miss Blackwater, I assumed you would want to be included in this mission. We have verified through our straight allies that what you heard about normal leaders plotting to bomb Gay Communities is a real threat.”


“You may have saved many lives by giving us this information, Serenity. This is the main reason I convinced the other leaders we should carry out Project Jericho right away, as opposed to some of their preferences for next month, or perhaps next year. You deserve a special place in this project.”


I leaned back in my chair and smiled, happy for the first time in two days.


Chapter 38