jule1122 (jule1122) wrote in qaf_drabbles, @ 2008-06-11 21:58:00 |
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Entry tags: | author: jule1122, challenge #70: best friends |
Challenge #70: Best Friends
Title: Friendship Bracelets
Author: jule1122
Note: This may have needed a few changes, but I hot exactly 100 words on the first try, which never happens, so I was afraid to touch it.
Condom: Cynthia
“Hey, we match again!” Debbie smiled brightly as Jennifer joined her in front of the PFLAG float. Debbie’s shirt had faded to lilac while Jennifer’s was still bright purple, but they both proudly proclaimed “I Love My Gay Son and His Husband.”
As they marched hand in hand, Jennifer noticed the bracelets they both wore. She remembered spending hours as a girl weaving strands of brightly colored thread into friendship bracelets. She and Debbie may not have made these themselves, but the simple message “Erase Hate” bound them together in love, understanding, and yes, blood, more tightly than ribbon could.