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“Santos recently got into soccer and she’s been pulling Dennis into it,” Robby elaborated, and Dana couldn’t tell you why she didn't question in that moment why he knew that fact. “We’re talking about which team to support, since Pittsburgh doesn’t have one.”
“Robby doesn’t even have a team,” Whitaker complained, and the lack of honorific was so obvious in hindsight, though right then Dana had hardly questioned when the resident had gotten so comfortable with the attending. “He just roots for whoever is playing against Philly.”
“City loyalty,” Robby emphasized again, causing the younger man to roll his eyes once more and huff out an exasperated sigh.
“Sorry, kid,” Dana offered to Whitaker. “I’m with Robby on this one. Fuck Philly.”
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Three times Dennis and Robby's relationship should've been obvious to everyone around them, and the one time nobody could ignore it anymore.
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Dennis is a theology major whose parents planned his life for him, but one day he stumbles into the wrong lecture hall. Now he must decide between his family and the future they have planned or the future he does dare to dream about.
AKA: Dennis meets Robby before he is ever in med school and throws the plan his parents have for him out the window.
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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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If God is always listening (and Dennis has been told repeatedly that he is) then God already knows what goes on inside of his head. God knows that Dennis has been harboring strange, perverted desires for as long as he’s known how to want. God knows that Dennis’s peers never could capture his attention the way their fathers did. God, more than anyone else, knows the sheer depths of the youngest Whitaker child’s depravity. All-seeing being, right? That’s the way the story goes.
So fire and brimstone it is.
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Dennis Whitaker grew up learning that love could hurt—and that silence was the only way to survive it.
On a quiet farm in Broken Bow, the only place he ever found peace was a hidden lake beyond the apple trees. It was there he met Derek, his first love, a boy who made him believe in something more. In escape. In freedom. In a life beyond the one chosen for him.
But when their secret is discovered, Dennis is forced into an impossible choice—one that will follow him for the rest of his life.
Sent away to be “fixed,” he learns how to bury what he’s done. How to silence desire. How to become someone else.
Years later, he’s still trying to walk the path he was given.
But when he meets two men who make him question everything he thought he had buried— maybe the right path was never meant to be straight.