Submitted to: Contest #58

Born This Way

Written in response to: "Write a story about someone feeling powerless."

Drama

BORN THIS WAY

TO SURVIVE

Ciara a lesbian girl- she is one of the most popular girl of her College because of her flawless dancing skills and killer expressions. Every single boy has a crush on her, but no one know about her condition except her parents . Her father is an Architect and her mom is a Doctor. She is the elder daughter of them. She has a younger sister but she is studying in a boarding school.

The College where she study is one of the best college in her town.The College is known for their great performances .Ciara is the main dancer of her college dance group. Everyone loves her because of her kindness. But no one know about her character. The College is also known for organizing parties for their students. So, in the Christmas eve, the authority of the college again decided to organized a night party. At the party Ciara is looking really gorgeous, everyone just staring at her. Among them there is a boy name- Alex who has a deep crush on her, but he never told her. He is leader of the Football team of the College. He is also known for his good looking face. Still afraid to propose Ciara.

But that night he decided to proposed her. So he asked Ciara for dance and fortunately she agreed with him.They started dancing still nervous to propose her. After some time when he gets a chance he proposed her in front of everyone, but she refused his proposal and left the party and went back to home. Alex can't handle his rejection because everyone present there is making fun of him. He never like to lose. So, he decided to get revenge from her because she hurt his ego. Then he started to stalking her everywhere. He collected every single details of her.One day when he is stalking Ciara in her house,she is talking with her mom about her lesbian character . When he heard about it he was socked and decided not to revenge. When he told this think to his friends one of his friend stole the video that Alex taken and leak that video to get his friend revenge. He viral that in the social media from his fake account.

Next day, when Ciara went to college no one is talking to her, everyone just ignore her. When she went to her locker, she saw that at her locker someone stick a paper writing their ' A Lesbian ' . When she saw it she was shocked. She goes towards her friends but they just ignore her. The friends who were admiring her till yesterday now they are making fun of her . After sometimes, Ciara was called by the principal and he said that she can't represent her college for the Dance Competition. When she asked him the reason he said that a lesbian can't represent our college. It is really shameful for us. It will effect our College image. When she heard about it she burst into tears . After that when she entered the classroom everyone just making fun of her and insulted her by calling her a lesbian. She can't handle it. So, she went to her home and locked her room.

Her mom asked her what happened from the outside of her room but she didn't respond. Her mom called Ciara's dad and told him everything. So her father come back home and knock at her door. But she still didn't respond. So, he decided to break the door, he saw that Ciara attempted suicide. But fortunately she is still alive so, they take her to the hospital. After someday she came back home and told everything to her parents. So, they decided to go to her college. But at the college, the principal just ignore them. When she heard about it, she was angry and frustrated at the same time. So, she decided to do everything by herself. She used social media as a platform she told her whole story in the media. After some hours, her story become viral. Some people is showing support to her but some people is just making fun of this thing. After somedays she was also invited in a national interview. At the interview she discussed about everything. What the society think about her and her parents as well . She said, " I am happy with who I am. I am not fake just like my friends. People like me are just afraid to express our true self because of the society. Because the society can't accept as who we are. "

After her statement some people started to show her support but still some people making fun of these things . But around a month later , people started to support her more and also the other people like her. She become an icon for those peoples. And also In her college, every single person tell her sorry . The Principal told her sorry and also to Ciara's Parents.

She is now happy that she is accepted by the society as who she is. After a while she performed in a dance competition and when the people heard the lyrics some people become emotional. After her performance every person present in the event giving her a standing ovation. This thing break Ciara into tears because she never thinks that she would be accepted to the society as a lesbian.

After some months she was invited in a program where she had to give a speech , She said that we are also human ,we have also write to live a normal live . No one is perfect by birth . We become perfect with the help of our hardwork and our dedication.

At last remember--

"NO MATTER GAY,

STRAIGHT OR BI

LESBIAN,

TRANSGENDERED LIFE

I'M ON THE RIGHT

TRACK , BABY I WAS

BORN TO SURVIVE "

Never loose hope. Believe in yourself.

If you believe in yourself you can change the whole society's thinking.

This story is inspired by the song "Born This Way " by Lady Gaga.

Posted Sep 07, 2020
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7 likes 3 comments

Siú Valery
13:37 Sep 21, 2020

Moving story. Language must be improved

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Crystal Lewis
06:56 Sep 13, 2020

Sweet story and I’m glad everything went well in the end. :)

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Bhaswati Gogoi
10:32 Sep 13, 2020

Thanks for your compliment ..

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