Adult Content Warning
This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.
-
Tags
Summary
Eddie is 8 years old sitting along the stiff and uncomfortable pews of his church during Sunday mass.
Stain glass windows stream in warm colorful light against his skin. His back pushes into the hard wood, and his small body's weight presses against the thin cushion lining the pew. His feet can't even touch the ground. He swings his legs lightly as he folds the pages of this week's bulletin into different shapes. Helena had already scolded him to pay attention to the sermon a few times but gives up in favor of letting Eddie quietly fidget to himself.
The boisterous voice of their priest thrums through Eddie's mind, with each crease and fold of the paper he resists any effort to make sense of the words the congregation mumbles in agreement with. He’s heard this sermon before, the odd names of books and verses ring familiar in his ears.
Eddie is 32 when his catholic upbringing comes back to haunt him.
Eddie is 33 years old when his gay crisis begins.