"You clumsy boy", Kwofo playfully glared at me, "I should have allowed you slip and hit your head on the floor", he guides me to my bed.
"You can't blame me for playing the clumsy card with Father, he was talking about how much of a taboo having a mate outside your specie is not only bad, but considered a taboo of the highest order", I lie on my bed.
" You of all people should know how much your Father loves upholding the law. How much he loves and cherishes the laws", he helps me remove my shoes.
" Do you think they've reach their homes?", I ask Kwofo who was busy arranging my shoes.
" They might have reached if they left the same time we did. Their kingdoms are not all that far from the academy, the same way ours aren't far", he answered, already knowing who I was asking about.
"I hope so", I sighed in bliss.
"What will you do if your father finds out, or will you be the one you tell him? ", Kwofo sits on my bed, a look of concern on his face.
I shrug quite uncomfortably ( am more comfortable shrugging when am either standing or sitting, and not when am lying on the bed), "am not ready to tell him just yet Kwofo", and i don't think I will ever be ready to tell Father.
"You better tell him before he finds out from someone else Buch. He will understand more, and maybe accept you if you tell him yourself more than he will accept you if he hears it from people who're not supposed to know before him".
I nod, " i will think about it Kwofo, but I can't promise telling him just yet. I need a little more time to think of the right way of approach; first telling him I like boys and not girls ,before I drop the bomb about having more than one mates, and from the other species at that".
Telling father of this will be more than he can handle; not only is his own son a male lover, but he have forbidden mates, something the society is highly against.
"If you put it that way, I can see how much difficult it will be for him to accept the second. The first he can endure, but am afraid of the second", he smiled in encouragement, " he will accept you nonetheless because you're his only son, and your happiness should be his utmost concern".
i nod, "I hope that's the case Kwofo because I can't leave with myself of Father doesn't accept me. He's the only family I have left, his acceptance is of utmost need".
I have no doubt mom would have accepted me; she was the one who told me to always follow my heart no matter where it might lead me..
She always tells me to leave my life the way I know will make me happy despite the hate from others.
I know mom would have accepted me without as second thought.