Kay, so due to the fact that I am currently obsessed with this story, and I
really need to finish TiO, I'm gonna post the first part of the first chapter here, so Zen and whoever else bothers to read this can give me their opinion.
Confiteor
Chapter 1: August:::August 2nd:::
:::Zexion:::
:::Theme: Chop Suey by System of A Down::: “Do not lie with a man as one would lie with a woman; it is detestable.” It’s right there, in the words of God; detestable. Lectivus 18:22, plain as day. He’d never bothered to look it up before, and now, sitting in his school uniform at lunch, it was unsettling to see it in text. Suddenly Zexion wasn’t hungry anymore.
Zexion hated himself. He felt like he had betrayed his parents, slighted God and it
hurt. Why did this have to happen to him? He prayed, he went to Church, he was top of his class, he had always been everything his parents had expected of him and more.
But now…
All of that was ruined. Why you ask? Because he had fallen inexplicably in love with his best friend. His homosexual, very male best friend whom his parents despised with the belief that he was
wrong wrong wrong and that he was going to hell for daring to live on God’s earth when he just
didn’t belong.
Zexion had never thought that about Demyx. Recently he only thought that about himself.
It was detestable.
:::Demyx:::
:::Theme: I‘m Gay by Bowling For Soup::: Demyx loves Zexion. End of statement. It’s just one of the basic facts of the universe, like that doge balls are magnetically attracted to glasses or that chicken noodle soup makes you feel better.
Yep, as long as fast food is greasy, Demyx will love Zexion. It’s just unavoidable.
…But that doesn’t make Demyx feel any better about it.
It’s not that they’re both guys, Demyx has known he’s gay for years, or even that Zexion will never love him back, it’s that it’s
Zexion for Elijah*’s sake! Loving him feels like telling a little kid that Santa Claus isn’t real.
…Okay, and
maybe Demyx feels kinda down about all the unrequited love girly shit too, but it was mostly the first bit.
Demyx wasn’t even quite sure what the bible said about gays; he just knew that it was apparently bad. Zexion’s parents thought it was bad, they thought it was
really bad, but Zexion didn’t.
Something that Demyx had, at some point, started to love him for.
And it didn’t matter how many times he told himself (
No, bad Demyx, bad.), it didn’t help. No matter how much he told himself it wouldn’t work, because he
wasn’t going to do that to Zexion; he was never going to ask Zexion to love him because that was asking him to abandon his religion and to suffer the hate of his entire family. Demyx was
never going to put Zexion through that.
But McDonald's still sells burgers, so Demyx doubted he’s stop wishing anytime soon.
*The 9th century BC Hebrew prophet. Demyx and his mother are non-observant Jews. Which means that they don’t really celebrate Jewish holidays. They still celebrate Christmas, Easter, etc.; just not for religious purposes.