Total pages in book: 28
Estimated words: 26006 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 130(@200wpm)___ 104(@250wpm)___ 87(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 26006 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 130(@200wpm)___ 104(@250wpm)___ 87(@300wpm)
“I wanted to come out once, not over and over—to my dad, my mom, my aunts and uncles, my former teammates—you get the idea. Now, we should get out of here. This story might blow up, and I don’t want to get cornered here in the TV studio. I’ve said what I wanted to say, and I really don’t want you two to become the center of a media circus. That’s why I purposely didn’t use your names when I was on the air, to try to protect your privacy.”
“I really don’t care about a media circus,” Kel said, “and I think what you did was important. There are still so many queer kids out there who are afraid to leave the closet, and they needed to see this. There might be some people in poly relationships, too, who’ve never seen themselves represented.”
“I totally agree,” Noah said. As he grabbed my garment bag and slung it over his arm, he asked, “Out of curiosity, did you charter a private plane so we wouldn’t have to deal with a lot of nosy people at the airport?”
I nodded, and Kel asked, “Why didn’t you tell us you were going to do this? We could have tried to provide some moral support.”
“I was afraid I’d chicken out, or that the producer wouldn’t give me the air time, and I really didn’t want to disappoint you,” I admitted.
Kel cupped my cheek and smiled at me as he said, “You did so good, Sonny, and I’m incredibly proud of you.”
“Thanks. I’m pretty proud of myself, too.” My phone vibrated, and I pulled it from my pocket and glanced at the screen. I had it set to alert me whenever my name came up on social media, and yup, there it was. I shut the phone off and put it away again as I said, “As predicted, the story’s already starting to explode. We should go.”
When we stepped into the hallway, we found it was buzzing with people, and a guy with a TV camera was hurrying toward us. The three of us were so giddy with excitement that we couldn’t help but laugh, and we joined hands and took off running toward the exit. Then we threw the door open and burst into the sunlight.
As we jumped into the waiting limo, I called to the driver, “To the airport, and please hurry! We’re ready to go home.” The man gave me a little salute in the rearview mirror, and then he started to drive.
Noah snuggled in on my left, Kel on my right, and Kel asked, “How do you feel, Sonny?”
“As if the biggest weight has been lifted off,” I said. “I don’t know if I’ve ever felt this happy and optimistic. I can see our entire future stretched in front of us like an open road, and there’s not a single thing standing in our way.”
My boyfriends snuggled closer, and Noah told us, “I see it, too.”
Kel grinned and nodded in agreement. “So do I, and it promises to be a hell of a ride.”
The End