Chapter 1: Dreaming...
"You can't run from me. You can never run! Even if you run to the ends of the Earth, even if you run to the bottom of the ocean, I will find you and I will make sure to once again lock you up where no one can pay their eyes on you. You are mine!"
My eyes shot open and I raised my head from the desk, startled.
My heart was racing and I had broken out in cold sweat. What was that dream?
It was so dark and heavy on my heart that even after waking up, I was still feeling the effect of that man's words.
And those words came from a novel I had read in the past. I was sure of it.
In my first year of college I read a novel my friend who was in the book club gave to me.
It was a book with various tags but the tag that got me curious was 'BL', and it was then that I came to understand what that tag meant.
It was basically a book where men fall in love with men or boys have crushes on other boys. In any case, it was a story about the same gender falling in love.
But there was something odd about this book.
Now, I don't really judge the idea of men falling in love with other men. Just give me a good book with writing that will blow my mind and I will read anything, even if the context involved monsters and humans 'cohabitating'.
Anyway, I believe love should be shared and given to whomever it was due without discrimination. I didn't even know if I was gay or straight since I had never, in particular, fancied anyone irrespective of their gender.