When website designer Rick Pruitt takes his eight-year-old son Micah to see the latest Pokémon movie, he expects to be bored out of his mind. What he doesn't expect is to fall in love with the guy ahead of them in line.<br><br>Self-confessed nerd and Harry Potter look-a-like, Marty Owens runs a comic shop downtown. Marty needs a new website to help grow his business and Rick needs a guy he can eat cozy meals with, snuggle up to, and ... But no matter how many of Rick's boxes Marty checks, there's still Micah to consider. Fortunately Micah and Marty hit it off, connecting over a love of video games and all things Pokémon.<br><br>Rick starts coming by the comic shop after hours to work on Marty's website. Can they also build something long-lasting and meaningful offline, too?

Dad's Nerdy New Boyfriend

Armed with Marty’s login information, Rick accessed his web host account page and set up the MySQL database that would provide the backbone of the store. Once that was in place, he began uploading all the files from his computer to Marty’s server, careful to put them in a subdirectory so they wouldn’t overwrite the current web pages displayed on the site. He wanted time to get everything in place and working on Marty’s site, which would include importing at least some of the items Marty hoped to sell online, before the webstore went live. By installing it in a subdirectory, he could figure out the variables he needed to run it on Marty’s server without running the risk of anyone erroneously trying to buy something while he was still working on the code, or having to put the whole site into maintenance mode for an extended length of time.


Chapter 22