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

“That was brutal.” I could barely keep my eyes open, and my legs felt like rubber.


Malaki took the handlebars and got on front. “Come on, we’re almost there.”


I must have really been tired to let her take control. I got on back and leaned against her with my eyes closed.


My tablet beeped from my backpack and I groaned. At the other end of the tunnel, I pulled it out of my seat compartment as Mal wheeled the bike through the factory.


“Sol says he saw us on the cameras, and to get some rest and give him details about the delivery later today.”


We reached another door and I allowed my right eye to be scanned. My feet dragged as we climbed floor after floor, and finally we reached the parking lot.


“I’ll take you home, and then I’ll get out of here.” My heart sank at the journey still ahead of me.


“Oh, come on, Ser. Get on the back.”


Chapter 44