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

“We’re doing the best we can,” Sol said quietly.


The rest of the meeting discussed Project Politician Persuasion, and I reluctantly admitted what my parents had said the night before about spreading the word to get rid of all Gay Communities.


Mal and I were emotional wrecks by the time the meeting ended. We left in brooding silence. Both of us had ended up in tears, and a few other members even joined in. The next meeting wasn’t for another week now that Project Jericho was delayed once again. It was Wednesday, and we should have been anxiously anticipating Friday. Instead, my feet dragged as I walked to my bike so I could take Mal home.


She put her hand in mind. “Please stay with me tonight.”


I nodded, not wanting to spend another night alone at my house.


Surprisingly, Mal didn’t tell her family every detail of the meeting this time when we got to her place, but she did tell them that Project Jericho had been delayed.


Her mom gave us both hugs, and her brothers scoffed.


Chapter 49