Gymnast Frank Bethune arrives on campus already enamored with the star tight end, Bill Billingsly. Although the chances of them meeting are slim, fate draws them together, and their friendship turns to love.<br><br>Ever since childhood, Bill has dreamed of playing professional football. Though high risk to his potential career, Bill would seek out clandestine encounters with other guys when and where he could, but the first time he spots Frank, Bill knows he is someone special, someone he could possibly share a life with. If he’s drafted, will Bill and Frank be able to continue their closeted relationship, running the risk of discovery? Or will they have to part company for the sake of Bill living out his dream?<br><br>Bill knows he’ll need to use all his considerable skills learned on the field to score the life he wants off of it, too. Either way, is happiness even possible when it’s the NFL vs. love?

Love or the NFL

“If you think it would be better if we didn’t see each—”


“No!” Bill said emphatically. “That’s not what I’m saying at all. I want us to be together. You’re not like other guys I’ve taken a chance with. They were just for emptying my balls, getting relief from the horniness.”


“You mean like Dennis,” Frank said, thinking once again of what he’d witnessed at the gym between his teammate and Bill.


“Yeah, like Dennis. But right from the first, I had this feeling about you, that you could be more to me than that. I want to explore a relationship with you. One that goes deeper than just sex.”


“I’d…I’d like that, too,” Frank said, feeling wonder and excitement that Bill was actually saying such things.


“That doesn’t mean I don’t want to be with you in that way—sex I mean. I just feel it can be more for us. Don’t ask me why, because I couldn’t tell you.”


Chapter 11