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Macklemore gave me inspiration for this chapter. I hope you like it... Also, sorry it took so long. I have two other stories going an I had a third but I just finished it.

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Cam's POV (Saturday Evening)

The doorbell rings and I make my way down the stairs with Jared in my arms to open the door. My siblings are here… Well, the ones who live in Toronto.

I open the door up not even a moment before my sister is rushing toward me."Give me that baby!" Audrey starts setting down her purse on the floor and taking Jared from my arms.

"Hi to you too" I say as she carries the little bugger through the living room and into the kitchen where Maya and Lexi are preparing whatever they're cooking. I know that Lexi is in charge of salad, but I didn't ask Maya what she was cooking.

"Hey bro!" my little brother greets me with a small smile as he walks into the house.

"How are you Mick?" I ask my little brother curiously as he picks up Audrey's purse and hangs it on the back of a dining room chair.

"I'm good. Nothing has changed since yesterday when I saw you at practice." He tells me awkwardly walking into the living room.

"Oh… okay." I tell him as I sit next to him on the couch.

"How's that girl you've been seeing? What's her name again?" I ask him not knowing what else to say to him at the moment.

"Winnie, and she broke up with me a month ago." He continues with a frown.

"Uncle Mickey!" Lexi comes screaming into living room to give him a big hug. "What's up Kiddo?" he asks her giving the small girl a big hug.

"I missed you!" she tells him happily, and he smiles at her. "So, Uncle Mickey, you have to come to my birthday party when I turn 9 because my friend Mikey really wants to meet you. He knows all of your scores and records better than I know daddy's! He wants to be like you when he grows up!" she continues telling my brother with a hopeful smile and he quickly tells her "I wouldn't miss it for the world!"

She grins this time showing all of her teeth before Maya calls her back to set the table.

"She's just the definition of excited." My brother laughs as the little girl runs out of the living room.

"Yeah… She's a little ball of energy." I add referring to Lexi who seems to jump off of walls.

"What happened with the girl?" I continue asking about what he had told me before Lexi ran in.

"I'll tell you later." He says standing up and going into the kitchen. Okay then…

I follow the rest of the people in the home and head to the kitchen where Audrey hands Mickey Jared and helps Maya with the finishing touches of dinner. I guess she made stuffed Shells. Yum!

"Babe, could you put this on the table?" she asks handing me the salad, and I nod heading into the dining room where Lexi is carefully setting the table.

"Daddy, does the fork go on the right or the left? I don't remember!" she says worriedly as I set the salad in the middle of the table.

I laugh at how frustrated she is getting, and quickly shake my head. "I don't think it matters, Munchy!"

She scrunches her face up in her angry face, and I realize that I did it again. I called her Munchy.

"Sorry!" I tell her messing her hair up and causing her to give me a meaner look.

"Dad, I don't think I like you anymore!" she tells me with a pout, and I sigh with a smile. She's too funny.

"I love you too!" I tell her walking back into the kitchen. Audrey hands me a basket with bread in it, and sends me to set it on the table and I do as I am told before the rest of my family joins Lexi and I in the dining room sitting in their seats.

Maya takes the baby from Mickey as Audrey sets the shells on the table.

"There you go, Jared." Maya says as she puts the baby into the Johnny Jump Up and sits in her seat.

Mickey starts to dig in and Lexi gives him a shocked expression. "Uncle Mickey, we have to say grace!" she tells him in a whisper and he quickly puts down the fork and nods his head as Lexi starts. Maya and I were never very religious, but Lexi takes comfort in things like that. She goes to a parochial school, and she insists on saying grace every night which is fine with us.

"God is good! God is great! Thank you for this food and for fixing my cancer and tell my baby brother that I say hi and that I love him and tell Sabrina hi too! Amen!" Lexi says with her head bowed and hands together.

She doesn't always bring up Wyatt and Sabrina, but she has the last couple of days. I wonder why…

We start eating and talking and all of that. "How was school this week, Lexi?" Audrey asks our daughter curiously with a smile, and she smiles up at her.

"It was boring." She tells my sister with a frown as she picks at the food on her plate.

"Really? Your mom tells me that there's a boy you like. What's his name?" Audrey questions the little girl and her face turns red.

"Since when do you like boys?" I ask my Munchkin worriedly. She can't like boys. I'm not mentally prepared for that.

"I don't!" she tells us all with blushing cheeks. She's 8. She can't like boys yet.

Maya smiles to herself on the opposite end of the table and Lexi scowls at her mother.

"Um… I have an announcement." Mickey says nervously during the silence, and we all look at him confusedly. What could Mickey have to say that requires an announcement?

"Alright… I'm telling all of you first, but I plan on telling mom and dad and Justin and Chase when they come visit." He pauses looking around nervously running his hands through his short brownish blonde hair.

"I'm gay" he claims in barely a whisper. Did I hear him right? Did my little brother and teammate say that he's gay?

I look at him with wide eyes while Audrey looks around confused and Maya gives my distraught younger brother a sympathetic smile.

"Did you say that you're gay?" Audrey inquires with shock lacing her voice, as Mickey nods.

I suppose it makes sense. He's never been one to keep a girlfriend.

"Does that mean you like boys like Tristan?" Lexi asks him curiously and my palm unconsciously brings it way to my forehead as he nods sadly at her.

"Oh my god, Mick. You can't tell mom and dad. They'll disown you!" Audrey says still in shock as he looks at us from across the table looking upset.

"You can't tell anyone on the team! I don't know what they would do. They're all homophobic assholes! Mickey, are you sure?" I continue shaking my head at my little brother.

Maya gives both Audrey and I dirty looks before rushing to Mickey's side as he starts crying.

Maya rubs his back reassuringly glaring at Audrey and I as Lexi sits next to Mickey extremely confused.

I'm still in shock. My little brother is gay… and a professional hockey player on a team with Luke Baker and Mike Dallas, the same guys who ridiculed me in high school for being gay when I wasn't even gay. He's fucking screwed if anyone finds out.

He plans on telling our parents? Does he not know our parents? They are completely anti gay people. Dad would go on rants for hours when gay marriage was legalized way back when. I guess Mickey wasn't alive yet, but he's got to know how traditional our parents are.

Dad will freaking kill him if he doesn't have a heart attack first.

"Why do you think you're gay?" Audrey asks Mickey still not believing his first statement.

The crying twenty year old being comforted by my wife wipes his eyes and looks at Audrey like she's stupid. It was kind of a stupid question.

"That's enough, Audrey." Maya says giving my sister a look of disappointment as she tries her best to calm Mickey down.

"I think I'm gonna go home!" Mickey mentions standing up and sniffling as he wipes his nose of the tears and snot streaming down his face.

Maya follows him out, and Lexi looks between Audrey and I confusedly. Is it bad that the thing I'm worried about most is my 30th birthday being ruined by this news?

All I wanted was a week with my family being together doing fun things that families do together and if Mickey is gay and decides to tell everyone… it'll be ruined.

"Dad's going to murder him." Audrey tells me rubbing her forehead.

"I can't believe this." I groan getting up and pacing the floor. This isn't good. This is terrible.

Maya's POV

"Mickey, they'll come around and your parents will too. They all love you so much no matter what." I tell the young man as he walks to his car upset.

"I don't want to be like this. I've tried my whole life to not be like this." He cries hitting his fist against the steering wheel of his car.

"It's not something you can change. It's just the way a person is. My best friend is gay." I tell him walking around the car and sitting in the passenger side preparing to talk the kid I have watched grow up off of a ledge.

He hits his fists against the steering wheel again "I don't want to be!" he yells angrily.

I see the familiar brown eyes filled with sadness and anger. It's funny that they have the same eyes. It's funny that they have similar personalities… other than this that is.

"It'll be alright!" I tell him as reassuringly as possible, and he just looks like he wants to jump off of a cliff.

"I told him that if I told my family then they'd hate me. He's tired of being my dirty little secret, and I don't blame him. I'm tired of keeping this secret, but if Cam and Audrey can't even understand, how will my parents?" he cries throwing his head against the seat back forcefully, and jolting the entire vehicle.

"Audrey and Cam are just surprised. They'll be fine, and your parents will come around to it too. You shouldn't have to hide who you are." I frown understandingly knowing how difficult this must be for him.

"So Mickey, do you have a boyfriend?" I ask the younger boy curiously with a smile hoping to goodness that he stops crying.

He chortles through his tears and he shakes his head quickly. "I don't like that word." He tells me sadly, and I reword my phrase asking if he has a "love interest".

"Kind of… We fuck and I'm in love with him. He says he loves me, but he's giving me all of these dumb ultimatums now. I don't want to tell my parents." He tells me as he pounds his fists against the wheel again. My eyes widen at what he just told me and my hand hits my mouth in shock.

"Mickey!"I shout horrified at his use of such language. I don't mean to be crazy, but he's still a kid in my eyes. I can't hear about that kind of thing or that word out of his mouth without being surprised.

"I'm sorry!" he apologizes before throwing his head in his hands again.

"Don't worry about it. If you're not ready to tell them then don't. It's not something that you should rush into. I know for a fact that they will love you no matter what, but only do what you're comfortable with." I advise the man putting a hand on his shoulder.

"I've been hiding this from everyone since I was 14. I can't do it any longer." He groans still upset. "Then you should tell them. Do whatever you feel is right. I just don't think anyone should pressure you into it." I continue patting his shoulder.

The 20 year old nods his head at me before simply saying "Thanks Maya"

"No problem at all. Now why don't we go back inside? I think we should talk about this." I add quickly pointing to the front door and he nods exiting the car only for me to follow.

He opens the door and walks into the dining room sitting back down at the seat he was sitting in. I sit in my seat, and Audrey and Cam are still there looking confused. Lexi is nowhere to be found, but I'm nearly certain that she just went upstairs which is fine.

"Are you guys going to say anything?" I ask breaking the awkward silence that seemed to last forever between the siblings as Audrey bounces a relaxed Jared on her knee.

"Do you have to tell them this trip? I'm trying to have a good time on my birthday." Cam says rubbing his forehead. Did he seriously just make this about him? I mean I know that that is why they are coming, but seriously? I love that man, but this is just a little insensitive.

"Cam" I interrupt his next statement as he looks at me. I shake my head signaling for him to stop and he does. Thank you!

"So… how long have you known that you're gay?" Audrey questions her brother sitting across from her curiously and he shrugs. "I guess since I was 13 or 14." He responds calmly glancing over at me for approval. I give him a reassuring smile, and he nods giving his sister a forced smile.

"But you dated girls in high school…" she adds with a confused stare and he nods. "And they were nice girls, but I wasn't really into them in that way." He continues hesitantly and she nods. "Oh."

"You're not going to tell the press or anything, right? They'll tear you apart. I mean I know that we're an accepting country, but the team is what I'd worry about most." Cam adds anxiously biting his nails.

"I don't think so." Mickey responds scratching his head.

"So… why are you telling us now?" Audrey asks raising an eyebrow at her little brother.

Mickey lets out a sigh and looks at me curiously. I nod my head figuring that he's just going to tell them about the guy he's been seeing.

"I'm in love… and he doesn't want to be a secret anymore." He tells them with a deep breath. I see my husband scowl quickly and Audrey looks at Mickey curiously. "Ooh… who is he? What's he look like?" she asks him excitedly.

"His name is Simon Lawson, and I don't really know how to describe him. He's a male model." He smiles obviously thinking about the man he's in love with. I think it's adorable how giddy he's getting thinking about him, but when I glance at Cam he looks utterly disgusted.

He's never had issues with Tristan. Why is this different?

"I need to step out for a minute." Cam states as he walks out of the dining room.

"Do you have any pictures?" Audrey asks her little brother with a smile. At least she's coming around.

He pulls his phone out and pulls up the facerange page of this Simon fellow to show us the pictures. The man on the screen is thinner and has bleach blonde hair similar to Tristan's.

"He kind of looks like Tom Felton." Audrey says glancing at the picture. "Very good job, Mickey. I'd hit that." Audrey jokes handing the phone back to him.

"We can talk about boys now… This is going to be fun." Audrey tells her younger brother and he shakes his head. "I'm not talking to you about that."

"Fine! Be like that." she laughs at him and Lexi comes back down the stairs. "How come daddy is puking?" she asks me confusedly and I sigh before rushing up the stairs.

"You're ridiculous! He's your little brother regardless of who he loves." I tell my husband walking into the bathroom with m arms over my chest.

How is he acting like this? It's not a big deal. "It's just a shock, okay? It makes me sick to think about." He adds standing up and wiping his mouth as he flushes the toilet.

"Then don't think about it. You don't think they go around thinking about us when they see us together… You're being very insensitive. He's your little brother and he's scared enough without you just thinking about your stupid birthday!" I tell him a bit loudly.

"Now my birthday's stupid?" he asks yelling back at me a bit.

"Not what I meant. I just think that it's not your job to decide when he tells them. It's his choice." I rebut at my inconsiderate husband.

"I just want to have a good week, but we might as well cancel the whole thing because Mickey can't tell them that he's gay. He can't. My mom will start crying and my dad will start throwing things. You don't know my parents as well as I do, Maya. It's not a good idea!" he yells at me getting in my face.

"You're being really selfish! Mickey probably feels a lot more worried about this than you do, and here you are being a total asshole!" I retort back putting a hand on my hip as he rolls his eyes at me.

"I'm the asshole! Yeah… Sure! Why don't you stay out of my family life?" he asks angrily.

"Excuse me for caring about your brother more than you do… and my god… We've been married for 10 years your family is my family!" I yell annoyed at how he worded that.

"Yeah? Except for my mom right? You hate her!" he adds obviously just trying to push more buttons at this point.

I laugh sadistically at the fact that he's pulling the "You hate my mom" card. "You know that I've tried everything to make your mother like me, but she doesn't. I don't hate her. She hates me, and you know damn right that that's how it is." I shout at him as he walks out of the bedroom into the hallway.

"Stop fighting!" Lexi yells up the stairs crying. Oh my god… We were way too loud and way to open with this argument. We have company.

"I'm gonna take the kids for a walk. I'll let you guys talk. Mick left. He's pretty upset. He didn't mean to cause a fight." Audrey says with Jared on her hip.

"I'm done fighting… Audrey, mind if I join you?" I ask her walking down the stairs still pissed off at Cam. She shakes her head and we quickly grab the diaper bag and coats and what not before getting the stroller out of the trunk of my car.

We stroll down the road with Lexi walking with Audrey as I push Jared in the stroller.

"So… that was intense! I haven't heard you guys fight like that in a while." She points out with a frown.

"He's being ridiculous. All he cares about is his dumb birthday being perfect… I understand that he was looking forward to this, but he shouldn't be such an ass about it. If Mickey wants to come out then he shouldn't feel intimidated by Cam about when he can do it." I explain to Audrey and she nods.

"I get what Cam is saying though. The week will be ruined if he tells them." Audrey frowns shrugging her shoulders.

"Do you really think that they'll think any less of him? He's their son." I add really not being able to believe that a parent would ever actually disown their child for being gay.

"Have you met my dad, Maya? When you guys got married he was completely grossed out that your friend was gay. He thinks it's unnatural and gross." Audrey tells me and I sigh.

Poor Mickey being born into a family that has absolutely no tolerance for gay people or the woman their other son married.

"Hopefully they learn to accept it because that isn't something that he should have to hide." I add strolling the little baby down the sidewalk.

"It's a long shot. I hope so too. I love my baby brother." She laughs sympathetically.

I hope that Cam stops acting like this. He's his little brother no matter what. He needs to be understanding and considerate… I get that it's a big shocker, but still.

Tell me what you think about it. Someone on the first story said that they liked Mickey and wanted to see more from him, but I never got around to putting this story line in then. I figured that it would be a good time. I know that this story isn't as much about them, but they did have a little scuffle and that'll continue. :) Hope you enjoyed.