Author: Jack Sinn

(A/N: This post contains a bigoted uncle character. Nothing is explicitly mentioned, but there’s hints of transphobia and racism and abuse that might be uncomfortable to read.) Around noon, a steady stream of people arrived at the house. While Jodie played host, Mitch took his station in the kitchen and reheated everything that he helped…

With Jodie scrambling about and making herself impossible to ignore, Mitch begrudgingly elected to get out of bed. He hurried to the bathroom before Avi could barricade himself in there for an hour and a half, doing fuckall, presumably grooming himself. Except his routine took a million years from start to finish, and not even…

“Hey guys,” Avi greeted in a shaky voice as he unbuttoned his jacket. “Wait, what happened?” Jodie launched out of the recliner and met him in the hall. After he shrugged the coat off, she snatched it away and hung it up on the coat rack. With a heavy exhale, he dropped his luggage onto…

The day before Thanksgiving was a whirlwind of preparation. Mia offered to run last minute errands, since she had a shift at the bar that evening and wouldn’t be much help in the kitchen, and Jodie handed her a list of items and a credit card. Meanwhile, Mitch set up shop across the countertops and…

For the first time in years, Mitch didn’t have concrete plans for Thanksgiving, which thrilled him. He had little attachment to the holiday as it was, but being forced to dress up and drive into Manhattan to eat with Calvin’s parents and watch football wasn’t his idea of a good time. Or worse, when they’d…

Unsurprisingly, Mitch didn’t sleep much that night. He came close to telling Jodie about what happened with Avi, but refrained because she was so elated by how well everything went at Fighting Spirit. A compliment was even paid to Toby, and he couldn’t go and put a damper on her mood after that monumental feat….

Mitch took his time getting the guitar out from the trunk, while also pretending to look at his phone. His heart raced a mile a minute, and he schemed about more ways that he could stall. Then again, It was just Avi, and they were friends. Nothing about this should be complicated. All Mitch had…

(A/N: This update contains intrusive thoughts, self harm mention, and mention of a drug overdose. Nothing is in graphic detail, but please proceed with caution.) Toby’s reluctance was obvious as he stepped away, as was the restraint that he demonstrated from making further comments about spending the night together. Mitch genuinely appreciated that this didn’t…