Until today, I was so far in the closet, I made snowmen in Narnia.
But today my sister has found out that I’m reading m/m romance.
She was searching for a pair of shoes in my room and, looking at my nightstand, she has seen the cover of Without Reservations. As you can see here the cover isn’t nothing special or particularly hot, but it isn’t something that you usually find on a cover. I wasn’t in the room, so I don’t know if she has read some pages or just the abstract you can find at the end of a book, but she came running to me (and she isn’t a child, she is near 30 years old) screaming and laughing:
“But mummy knows you reading a gay book?”
“Of course”
“And what she thinks about it?”
“That I am a perverted person and I need some serious and high specialised help”
“But, are you a lesbian?”
“No, I’m not, why are you asking?”
“Well, you have a gay book…”
She laughed again and than put her coat on and left the house to go out with her friends.
She probably didn’t say anything more because she was late for her appointment, but I’m sure that when she will come back, we will have a very veryyyy long conversation about my book taste, where we can confirm again that I am a shame of my family, the crazy daughter good just to read freak book and Japanese comics and, of course, all this thing will be use to blackmail me.
The true is, dear sister, that, of course our mother doesn’t know: first above all, until two minutes ago, you yourself doesn’t know m/m romance existed, so I don’t think a middle age woman who lives in a bigot country like ours can image something like that.
Plus, I have ordered it on line and I have used my money.
Plus I haven’t one gay book, I have actually more than one and other several yaoi novels and manga, but they are hidden in my bookcase, where, I’m sure, you are going to play treasure hunt.
Plus, you were in MY room. Why you have to look in my nightstand? You know the meaning of privacy? As far as I remember, if I have to go to your room, I am not allowed to look around, I have just to pick what I need, than turn and go away. Why aren’t you do the same thing?
Last, but not least, why reading m/m books make you think I’m a lesbian? In our bookcase we have Yukio Mishima and Fannie Flagg: I know, different genre, but that make you and our mother a lesbian too and our father a gay? If I read “The Silence of the Lamb” you think I will star to kill and eat people?
So, no more Narnia for me, welcome to real word.
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