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“I haven’t really been to a wedding where I’ve, uh… let loose. But, hey,” Dennis shrugged, “maybe I’m doing it wrong.”
“If I hadn’t already agreed to go to this conference, I’d offer to go with you,” Robby said casually. “Show you how it’s done. I’ve got a good track record as a plus-one, too.” Dennis had to say something. To interrupt. To shut this down. But what was he supposed to say? No, you can’t be my plus one, because I lied about my cousin, and there is no wedding, and it seems a little weird to bring a date to a fucking funeral– “Apparently parents love it when you bring home a doctor.”
And just like that, the bubble popped.
“I’m not gay,” Dennis snapped.
He had never hated the sound of his own voice as much as he did right then.
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Or, Dennis is anxiously headed home for a "wedding" in Broken Bow, Nebraska, the details of which are increasingly fuzzy. Robby's got a medical conference in Omaha that same weekend. So they carpool. Seventeen hours both ways in an enclosed space with no way out except a tuck and roll. This'll go great. -
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As Robby lifts his shirt up, Dennis is overcome with the need to bury his face in his armpit until he passes out. The gold chain with its Star of David that he always wears rests just below his collar. As Robby strips off, Dennis allows himself a longing look.
Yeah, Dennis admits to himself, he’s down pretty bad.
He’s certain that the fishing trips his brothers took with their dad didn’t have this additional complication – that of the man taking them being so hot they’d want to cry. Trinity’s comment, ‘daddy wants to take you to the woodshed,’ bounces around in Dennis’s head.
-Robby takes Dennis out on a fishing trip. Neither of them expected it to end this way.
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Of all the plans Robby made for his three-month sabbatical, he never expected to end up on his own doorstep, trying to break into his own house.
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16 Apr 2026
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Late at night, drunk and alone, Dennis thought texting a friend for advice would help. He was wrong. The bar, the booze, the buzzing phone… all of it spun into chaos he couldn’t control. Dennis realizes some mistakes don’t just break the rules: they rewrite them.
And Dr Michael Robinavitch?
He’s the most dangerous consequence of all.Bookmarked by keepItChill
06 Apr 2026
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The defining truth of his life is, people leave.
He was a naive boy who wanted to believe in something larger than him, so every fucked up thing that happened to him meant something. So that every person who left, walked away, had some higher purpose elsewhere.
He knows now, the reality. That he's just easy to walk away from. That people don't stay for him.
Until Whitaker.
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05 Apr 2026