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

RockURMohawk: I sent this to Sol. He says to try to find as much information as you can. There’s a meeting tomorrow at 6 P.M. if you can make it.


Serene1: Okay. Oh yeah, why did Project Jericho get delayed?


RockURMohawk: Someone none of us has ever heard from before sent a message through our web site. They said they’re a secret straight ally group of Senators from DC and want to join the revolution.


RockURMohawk: Sol thinks they’re spies. But he didn’t know what other information they might have, and thought we should all lay low for a while in case they found out about our secret passages or something.


Serene1: But what if they really are allies?


RockURMohawk: Sol’s going to look into it. I’m glad you told me about what your parents are doing; that must have been hard.


Serene1: I thought about giving up until I heard that.


RockURMohawk: Please don’t quit. We’re so close. We just had an unexpected delay.


Chapter 41