I'm sick of being called Junior. Sure, I'm William Nicholas Martens, Jr., but I just want to go by Nick. I'm sick of my boyfriend mismatching his socks on purpose. And I'm sick of being in the closet.<br><br>All this changes when my band Taking Back Nick lands a record deal. My friends Casey, Kennedy, Levi, and I are about to make it big. In one night I come out to my parents and break up with my boyfriend. And then the hard part starts. Casey is my oldest friend, and I move in with him after my breakup. But things ... start to happen.<br><br>We skyrocket to fame, but Casey finds himself in the middle of some serious addiction issues. Combined with him showing me so much affection, I start to worry there's more going on than just the stress of success. Will Casey be able to overcome his addictions and find happiness? More importantly, will that happiness be with me?

Porch Light

“Casey, you remember my mom, right?”


He held out his hand, but she pulled him into a hug. And immediately started to cry. “Thank you for being there for him when I couldn’t. I can’t ever repay you.”


He patted her on the back, looking at me while I quickly wiped away a few tears. “Of course, Mrs. Martens. He’s a good guy.”


“Oh please, call me Stacy. Anyway, where are we going now?”


We spent the day wandering around the city until it was time for the show we’d booked at a drag club downtown. Mom sat in the front row and, for the first time ever, watched us perform a live show.


She hadn’t come to any shows when we had first started out in King. It was amazing that, almost a year after we had been offered a record deal and I came out to my parents, I would find her in a drag club in Palm Springs, cheering and clapping, telling the large drag queen at her table I was her son.


Chapter 65