J.M. Snyder

Back in college, Larry Carson played drums in a friend’s band and fell in love with the lead singer, Geoffrey Mason. But all that’s in the past. Larry’s now thirty-five, divorced, and father to a precocious thirteen-year-old daughter. One day, when Larry picks Crystal up from school, a song comes on the radio by a new rockstar climbing the charts. Larry recognizes Geoff’s voice immediately, though Crystal calls him Geo and claims he’s the hottest new singer on the scene. Just hearing him brings back a flood of memories, reopening wounds Larry thought long healed. The more he listens to Geo’s music, the more Larry falls in love with his former boyfriend all over again. Partly to prove to his daughter that he used to know Geo back in the day, and partly to reconnect with his old friend, Larry buys tickets to an upcoming concert and manages to score backstage passes. But there was a reason Larry and Geoff lost touch -- and stayed out of touch for so long. Will Geo even want to see Larry again after all this time? Or will the magic of their old familiar song bring about a harmonious duet?

Old Familiar Song

Or as if he’d stayed up late making love to the man of his dreams, which he hadn’t done since college.


Cautiously he opened one eye and found himself pressed against Geo’s bare chest. A ruddy nipple lay flat in a bed of faint hairs near his cheek; by wiggling his nose, Larry could make it pop up to greet him, and in doing so elicited a sleepy sigh from his lover. The arms around him tightened, and a leg smoothed along his as Geo snuggled closer.


So not a dream, Larry decided. Which was good, wasn’t it? Awesome, in fact, as Crystal would say, to find out that the only man he had ever truly loved still loved him, too.


But the fact of the matter was that they lived two very different lives now. Larry couldn’t ignore that. Geo was a rising rock star with a lucrative career ahead of him, and who was Larry? No one really. Hell, he’d had to sign a non-disclosure agreement promising not to mention their past relationship just to be able to see Geo again.


Chapter 70