Act One
This story is dedicated to anyone who's LGBTQ+ and needs a little bit of happiness in their lives. This novella is by Natalie.
Kia and Paige Mueller sit professionally in an exquisite booth in Atlantis's Dinner House, a restaurant the sisters used to eat at as children.
Kia: Paige, look. I know it's hard for you to process--
Paige: What is hard for me to process? All I know is you're ditching your amazing life here to go live with the human population because you'll "fit in". That's hardly a reason.
Kia: Paige, please. Listen to what I have to say?
Paige: I've been listening my whole life and I heard nothing. Now when you have the decency to tell me, I think I'm better off in the unknown.
Kia gently takes a bite of the Mallowmelt on her plate.
Kia: Paige...
Paige: Kia, you may not have a job, but I do; please make this quick.
Paige raises her arm and calls for the check.
Kia: Last week, I was out shopping for a dress. I'd broken up with Kyle a week prior, and things seemed to be heading uphill for me. Nothing was slowing me down, my depression suddenly evaporated, and things were looking bright.
Paige raises an eyebrow.
Paige: Looking up?
Kia: I've always been... questioning who I am. It was finally time to leave the closet.
Paige: What closet?
Kia: Paige, I came out as heteroflexible. It's not a--
Paige gasps and her thin champagne glass shatters on the ground and people around scream.
Cut to black.
Kia: Paige?
Kia screams as she steps on a piece of glass as she scours the room for her older sister.
Kia: Paige?
She grips the wooden table next to her, glancing at the wispy light coming from the moon as she staggers to her feet.
Kia: Paige, I know you're there.
Kia feels a tear slip down her cheek. Now she's alone. Really alone.
Kia feels her hand slip on a smooth paper and she picks it up.
It reads;
Help me. London Liar. ASAP.
