Inherent Love - Season 1 - Episode 11

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Inherent Love - Season 1 - Episode 11

“What!!?” He blurted out with a chuckle. “Why would you think I was gay?”
“Well, as I said, you and Jack were pretty close at some point.”

“So what, you thought we were gay lovers?”

“Yea, kinda.” She said and looked at him with a smile on her face. “Come on! Don’t look at me that way; I had never seen you with a girl before.”

“That doesn’t mean…Oh my! So you have been thinking I was gay all this while?”
“Come on, why are you making it seem like I thought you were a serial killer or something.” She said and hit him playfully on the arm. “I don’t have any problem with gay people; I just wanted to be sure what your sexuality was.”

There was silence in the car for a while and then he looked at her for a while before saying, “So, Jack is really gay?” She nodded her head at him. “Are you sure? How did you get to know?”

“Trust me; you don’t want to hear that story.” She said and had a faraway look on her face. “He has apologized and all that, but it doesn’t change the fact that he…he is attracted to guys.”

“Hmm! I still find it hard to believe.”
She looked at him and a smile appeared on her face. “At a point I even thought he had a crush on you the way he always talked about you around the house.” She said but he didn’t say anything back. His mind was miles away. “So, that’s my story. I am married to a guy who isn’t attracted to me.” She turned around to look at Stephen again, but he was still lost in thought.

Stephen sat there, his mind thinking up how he could weave this whole story into a book. He turned to look at her for a brief second, and then looked away again, feeling guilty for trying to use another person’s pain for his gains. She was going on and on, in little rambles, about how bad her life was and how much pain she goes through keeping the secret that her husband was gay to herself.

As they say, truth is stranger than fiction, Stephen thought. He had always thought Jack and Modupe were the coolest and happiest couple he knew. Little did he know that they were both living a lie. His mind went back to something she had said earlier, and then he looked at her and asked, “So, all you were doing was trying to make sure I was happy in a relationship.” She nodded. “That’s so selfless of you. And you would be cool with a friend of yours being with me, even though…even though you have feeling for me?”
“Yes. We can’t be together, but it will bring me joy if you were with someone I know would bring you joy.”

“This is really complicated.” He said and looked out the window. “The rain has stopped. Let me change the tire.”