earth below

Faye smiled and nodded. She got up, shook CHs’ hand and thanked him. “Thank you, I am really grateful for all your help. I hope you have a lovely week.” She smiled and turned to leave. She pulled her sleeve on her sweater down and wiped her eyes a few more times before leaving. She wasn’t sure if Eli was going to want to talk to her after but Faye walked over to the desk and scheduled them another appointment for the following week, same time and day. She turned around and smiled at Eli. “Hey, I made us another appointment for next week. The same time and day okay?” She asked, adjusting her purse. 

“Shush, Eli… Schmli.” Perhaps she was as bad at rhyming as she was at remembering. However, the little blonde smiled at her friend, grateful for his company. “She’s just fine! A little bored, but that’s nothing unusual in this town. What about you, earthie? Got any gossip to entertain me with?”

Aislinn laughed and nodded. “Alright. You ready?” She asked, raising her eyes at Eli, who was now laying down next to her on the grass. “One - everyone knows I’m in love with Gabe, two -  I started a new job where I get yelled at thirty times a day, three - all my classes are hard and I feel stupid, four - I got asked out on a date by a girl I hooked up with and I said yes.” She sighed to take a breath. “See, there’s a lot of problems up in here.” She stated, pointing to her head.  

“I’m sorry, were you talking to me?” Lillian said, looking up from the book, about gardening, she was currently reading. It was rare that someone would genuinely seek her out for company, so the small blonde could only assume that she had done something wrong. “I can move if you want. I’ll find another tree to sit under, if you want this space..” She continued, quietly. 

She reached out and took the book back and placed it among her other stuff and sighed. “Sorry, Eli. I didn’t mean to hit you.” She shook her head. “I just didn’t think college would be this hard.” She shrugged and put her head in hands and groaned. “If you wanna sit and listen to me complain, I’m all for it. I have more issues than that stupid textbook too.” She replied. 

“is there not? what about the ones keeping us in here? the ones stopping us from living a life we want to live instead of the life we’re forced to live.” charlie had always had plans to go travelling, see the world and honestly? be that person that parties hard in every damn place they went. it was hard for them, to think that maybe they would never get to see the seven wonders of the world, or travel across europe backpacking. “i’m not saying anyone here said any of that, or haven’t been great at those things. it’s not about that, eli, jesus. it’s about having the parade, having the march. it’s not going out and getting shitfaced that’s the important part, or do you not know anything about stonewall?” charlie had thought that maybe eli would understand, but perhaps they should have picked someone else. they had contemplated asking nicholas, but with a guard for a girlfriend it didn’t seem the greatest idea and they knew that even this would push dear theodore too far. “it’s hard to have a march by yourself, and the rainbow will look beautiful, it doesn’t need to educate. it just needs to be seen. oh, and comparing one non-binary persons experience to anothers? doesn’t mean shit. we all have very different experiences.”

“you don’t need to tell me what it’s like out there for the community, when many don’t even include my identity in the damn acronym. i know what it’s like out there, and i know what it’s like in here. sure, people are more accepting but some still need EDUCATING. like, when someone asks you to call them by a certain name, or pronouns, you gotta try your best to remember that, right? and this shit about accepting trans but not accepting that you can identify as both or neither or something inbetween?” sure, no one had said that to charlie whilst they had been in grimstone, but they knew people would always be confused unless educated, even those who did think that they knew a lot about the LGBTQIA+ community. “it might be pointless to you, but it’s not to me and the fact that you think that it is proves my point even more. it might be pointless to you but to some of us? it’s the most important thing. to celebrate whether we already feel the place we’re celebrating in is accepting or not because some of us went through that shit you saw on the streets and now want to celebrate POSITIVELY. and it’s the fucking war that’s stupid, and this place is mostly stupid, not this. you don’t wanna join in, feel free to go be geo-force some place else but considering pride month was ignored, i’m bringing pride month to grimstone. besides… this place needs a little COLOUR.” after charlie’s little speech, they used their power to help them reach high with the aim to make the rainbow one that could be seen for miles. 

Aislinn just started taking classes at the college and they were hard, to say the least. While sitting in the park and trying to understand the statistics class, Aislinn rolled her eyes and thought about how much longer it would take her to understand the material. She closed her textbook and tried to throw it across the park. Tilting her head back, Aislinn groaned. She wasn’t sure where the textbook landed but hoped it was far away from her. She sighed loudly as she heard footsteps and didn’t open her eyes. “If I hit you, I didn’t mean it. But you can just leave the book and go.” 

“you don’t think pride is important? that we should be doing things in LG that we should be able to do out there? the place they’re keeping us from?” charlie asked as they looked over the other. “it’s not about just that. it’s a STATEMENT, eli.”

“well, i’m doing it because if they’re not going to paint the town rainbow, i AM. i don’t know why you want to paint the town a different colour. thinking an earthy murial?”