Colin Hunt, a vivacious and outspoken art student, is a comic-reading, anime-loving, all-around geek. What he lacks in size, he most definitely makes up for in personality. But things have been tough for him lately. A heavy workload. A showcase to prepare for his final. A sick mother to take care of. Ever the optimist, he's more interested in finding someone to have some fun with rather than finding anyone serious. For Dexter Erikson, life has been difficult ever since an accident left him in foster care and cost him part of his arm. After discovering music therapy, he found an outlet for his pain and the perfect way to express himself. Now, sporting tattoos and piercings, Dexter is the lead singer of a pretty kick-ass punk rock band and owns the stage like it's nobody's business. He’s also goofy and dorky, shy and bashful, with a bad habit of falling in love yet a horrible fear of commitment. So what happens when vivacious geek meets shy punk rocker? The first answer is a lot of sex. The second answer might bring both Colin and Dexter to places they never dreamed possible.

Rock and Roll Chose Me

“Know what she does when she’s not doing the band thing?”


“For real! She teaches little kids at a studio. Wants to open her own one day.”


They continued to talk for a little while longer, catching up on lost years like not a day had gone by that hadn’t included an interaction between them. Turned out Daisuke was still taking in every stray he came across, even with a roommate, until he found a forever home for them. Made sense that he was now a veterinarian’s assistant.


Daisuke, Colin knew, had been born two months premature and with seventy percent hearing loss. He’d gone through a series of hearing aids and the newest editions only needed one battery per year. A huge money saver, according to Daisuke. Colin, having been born unable to hear with his left ear, could relate to the condition. They even ended up in the same speech therapy class in middle school.


Chapter 4