If you never fooled around with someone of the same gender, did you even go to high school?
PEYTON
My whole life Iโve had the pressure of being Marcus Talon and Shane Millerโs football prodigy. Iโve been destined to follow in my NFL-playing fathersโ footsteps since the day I was born. I usually thrive under pressure, but as senior year looms, it all gets too much, and I need an outlet. The last place I thought Iโd find my release is at Levi Vanderbiltโs graduation party. In his bed. With him.
Itโs a one-time thing. An experimentation. And while it was fun, we agree that being with guys isnโt for either of us. Iโm happy to accept that until he turns up in California.
I havenโt had to think about him for four years, but now I canโt get him out of my head.
LEVI
Coming to Franklin University for grad school to follow a boy I hooked up with once is the stupidest thing I could have done.
We said that high school didnโt mean anything, but the truth is, that night made me realize who I truly am, and since then, Iโve been trying to find that sense of freedom again.
Iโm hoping it can be with him, but everything Iโve heard around campus points to Peyton not having the same life-changing revelation I did.
And if thatโs the case, did I just move across the country for a straight guy?