One Fine Day in Una…

I was on the balcony leaning forward. I was lost in my own world, lost to what the others were talking about. The ocean, that’s where I wanted to be. I stared out at the world, I could see no ocean. I longed for it with each passing moment. The others were laughing and chatting. Here I was lost in oblivion. Then suddenly, it happened. Out of the blue, I felt it. I was jolted back from my world into reality and I looked around to see his face. Solemn as ever.

This did not happen. This did not happen.
But it did.

The others had a look of utter bewilderment in their eyes. It reflected what I was feeling. My greatest fear was dawning on me at that very moment. I was utterly confused about what had just happened, and within that moment the others burst out laughing. Jerry was guffawing, Unsilent was on his knees laughing and the girls were holding their sides. I didn’t know what to do. This was not a laughing matter, not to me at least. I looked at him again. He looked at me as if everything was normal.

THIS ISN’T NORMAL!!!

How should I react? I was confused, so afraid. I felt violated and used in that split moment in time. It felt like a big part of my life, the life I knew was just taken away.

“Why did he spank me??? Why did Papareboy spank me???”

Thought Halik, bewildered as ever.

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And with that bold move, Papareboy stepped out of the closet, and our lives were never the same again..