The Truth 4

Of course, this had a debasing effect on George and would result him living the summer with Jeff and his mother. During this time, George’s ex would reappear long enough for Jeff to out him to the whole family only months after proposing to the mother. George felt betrayed by a revelation that he had planned to make the next summer before college. He begged his mother not to marry Jeff, who had discovered the secret by searching George’s personal letters, but was told that she would do what she wanted to do.

This left George by senior year more than eager to leave home. A brother that humiliated him, a father who hated him, a stepfather who had violated his privacy and a mother who had betrayed him—these were the circumstances of his life at that point. And this on top of a developing eating disorder as well as daily humiliation in school were the final pushes to get George ready to leave home.

After graduating high school, as well as surviving the wedding he wanted nothing to do with, George made plans to live the summer with his mother and latest husband. He believed it was his only choice left between a father who hated him and a brother who resented him or a house where he could ignore his stepfather and mother.

At this point, an unexpected piece of luck arrived. Jeff’s cousin Lisa needed a nanny for her two children and though George was socially awkward with his peers, he had always a rapport with children and adults. And so George spent the summer away from his family and began to see that his life could be more.

As George began to find this new person within him, he realized that with college he had a chance to start over. To become someone new and different, not the fat class faggot whose parents didn’t seem to want him. But rather, someone interesting, someone who had traveled, been a cheerleader, been a drug addict and in love with many boys. Someone who would be so interesting and fun that people would want, need, to know him. And as he rolled this though around in his head, he came up with a new name of this person….

Rory Lapointe.