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her. I noticed that Madison shrugged her shoulders.
    DWIGHT
    Gran, what are you talking about?
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    Anyone who gives a speech like that can’t be anything else but gay.
    DWIGHT
    I know that this makes you hate me even more.
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    I have no words and don’t really want to talk about it.
    DWIGHT
    Well we have too. My lover is on his way here.
    MADISON
    Great, we get to meet him.
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    I refuse to have dinner with a tootie-fruity. I did not raise you to like men.
    DWIGHT
    It was not a decision.
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    What do you mean that it was not a decision? God didn’t make man to be with another man. How you two are suppose to populate the earth? Two sticks rubbing together only make fire and that is how you are going to get burned? What would your grandfather say?
    DWIGHT (standing up at the table)
    Well Gran, with our two sticks rubbing together, we have had some very steamy night s and days too, if I might add.
                  I left the table before I was forced to say anything else. I didn’t want to disrespect my grandmother, regardless of her feelings for me. Now that Brian has forced me to come out of the closet I know that I will really be disowned now.
                  I went into the restroom and washed my face with cold water. As I held my face in my hands I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. I pulled it out to find that Brian was calling.
    DWIGHT
    Hello.
    BRIAN
    Where are you? I am in the dining area but I don’t see you.
    DWIGHT
    I am in the restroom.
    BRIAN
    Okay I am on my way in there.
    DWIGHT
    Okay.
                  It wasn’t ten seconds after we ended the call that Brian walked into the restroom. He gave me a quick kiss on the forehead when we saw each other. Brian propped himself next to the vanity and folded his arms.
    BRIAN
    How is your brother?
    DWIGHT
He is resting. He has two cracked ribs, a concussion and both wrists are broken.
    BRIAN (reaching out to hug me)
    Baby, I am sorry to hear that. I am here for you.
                  A customer walks into the restroom. Brian and I quickly release each other.
    CUSTOMER
    Oh I am sorry.
                  I looked down at the floor and turned. I didn’t want him to see my face. We waited patiently until the customer left before we began our conversation again.
    DWIGHT
    On top of all that you forced me to come out to my grandmother.
    BRIAN
    How did I force you to come out?
    DWIGHT (feeling the tension build up inside of me)
    By bringing your black ass here. I told you that my family is not like yours. My grandparents hate me. I was always that black sheep of the family.
    BRIAN
    I am going to overlook part of what you said because I know that “we” are upset.
    DWIGHT
    I apologize. Please forgive me.
    BRIAN
    Baby, you know that I am here for you. That is why I flew down…to be by your side. We are one.
                  I could not help but to fall into his arms. I planted my head in his chest and gave him myself to keep safe.
                  I felt it was time that I introduced Brian to my family. As we walked out of the restroom I could feel my face turn red. The heat from my neck rose to my earlobes. Approaching the table I thought about the speech that I gave my grandmother earlier. I did not want to eat my words.
    DWIGHT
    Gran, Maddie, this is Brian.
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    Oh so that’s how you meet them - in the restroom. You are trash just like your mother.
                  Right then and there my balls grew twice the size.
    DWIGHT
    Mrs. Ella Cove – this is my lover…Brian!
                  I saw my grandmother “clutch her pearls.” My face lit up like lightning in a midnight summer sky.
    MADISON
    Um, nice to meet you Brian.
    DWIGHT
This is my sister Madison. She is the one who raised me.
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA (angrily)
    How dare you disrespect me like this? If it had not been for Jefferson and me, you would