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My Best Friend Gemma
Date: 11/17/2015, Categories: Lesbian, Author: bisaurus, Rating: 1, Source: LushStories
Gemma had been my best friend for as long as I could remember, my dearest confidant, my soul mate. When I discovered my sexuality as a teenager, she was the first person that I told about it. She never judged me any differently because of it. It had never crossed her mind how my orientation would have anything to do with our friendship. Gemma and I were the best of mates, and nothing could ever break us apart. The worst day of my life was the day that I fell in love with her, merely a few years afterwards. Knowing that she could never reciprocate my feelings, I stopped talking to her. She tried telling me that I had hurt her deeply, but what she did not know was that it must had been nothing compared to the heartbreak that I felt. It took her one month to find out what was going on. The day that she told me she had, found out what was going on, I meant, was also the best day of my life. It was the winter break of our junior year at college. The break gave me the opportunity to avoid her without having to bump into her in classes and so on. Staying at home also meant that I had the time to reevaluate my feelings. I had just decided to stop loving her, not for the first time, when she came knocking on my apartment door that night. I was having a Gilmore Girls marathon on Netflix, not expecting anyone to interrupt at all. Reluctantly, I put away my laptop and the bowl of popcorn. And when I saw that it was her, I knew that I had no choice but to face her for once and for all. ...