The night before Noah Hill left his hometown of Mountain View, he had a drunken sexual tryst with his best friend, Lucas Wesson. Deeply in the closet, Noah is horrified at his behavior, and terrified of what Lucas would think of him. He left the next morning without saying goodbye, and effectively cut off all ties. He returns five years later to help his father, and runs into his old best friend almost as soon as he reaches town. And nothing has changed. He still loves Lucas, and he still can't stand to meet the other man's eyes.<br><br>Lucas has been through a lot in the past five years without his best friend's support. A marriage. A divorce. A child. Running his own business. He also remembers his one night with Noah with perfect clarity. For five years, he only wanted Noah to come home. But now that Noah is back, things have changed too much to ever be the same between them ...

My Only Home

Noah got back in his car, but he didn’t start the engine. Instead, he dropped the chair back and watched the sky through the window, covering himself with his jacket to ward off the chill. It wasn’t nearly as comfortable as a bed, but he didn’t relish the thought of returning home. He was content to lay there, letting his mind drift from one subject to the next, from one memory to another.


Somehow, it always came back to Luke.  2


The diner was packed. There was a single seat available at the bar, and he had to fight his way through parties waiting to pay their bills and waiting to be seated to claim it. There seemed to be a wide variety of people, and most surprising of all, he didn’t recognize a good number of them. Where were they coming from? Did the diner hold a regional attraction? Were people willing to travel some distance to eat there?


Chapter 5