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 don’t know what’s going to happen after tonight, right?” she whispers at my neck.


She pulls back, more beautiful than I’ve ever seen her, soft dark hair framing her face. “Do you still want all the things you said before? College and kids, and someone to share your life with?”


With a mischievous grin and her golden-brown eyes gleaming, one of Dawn’s hands darts under the back of my shirt, and suddenly my bra is unhooked.


Dawn and I leave the quarters before my parents return.


“I think we should say goodbye to some of the others and find out if anyone else knows what’s going on,” I say. “I’ll text Z and see what kind of place she’s in, too.”


Chapter 67