p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;"To say the ride to where ever we were going was awkward, would be an understatement. I knew that we were on Liberty Avenue, a place that I being a gay man rarely went. I mean I love my people and am out and proud but I've always been the kind of guy that doesn't like to draw attention to themselves. Scratch that, I wasn't that kind of guy until I took the bat to the head. Doing something like that can change your perspective, you know./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Don't Panic!" "You can do this." That's what Brian Kinney kept telling himself as he walked with his mother and his two kids towards The Diner. He hoped no one was inside that knew him and his thoughts were not lost on the looks of the guys who saw him walking with his "family". He didn't care if they had that look, if they saw him with Gus who was babbling with Justin about something and Liddie who he held securely on his shoulder, but to think that Justin was apart of the unit well that was another story. Okay maybe it wasn't maybe he really didn't care what anyone thought. Now he just hoped that no one was inside that he knew./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;"He walked inside and there sat "the gang" in a back booth and look there's the woman who considered herself his other mother. Oh yea, this was going to be fun./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Who the hell is that?" asked a confused Michael as Brian walked into the diner, ignored them and sat across from them with his mother and some blonde./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""I don't know but he definitely is a cutie and I was with Brian all day yesterday and he didn't mention anyone" said a very nosy Emmett Honeycutt./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Well, they're obviously out as a family, so what we're going to do is sit here and mind our own business, if Brian wants us involved he'll invite us over," said Michael's husband Ben trying to be the voice of reason./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Oh please." Shrieked Emmett and Michael in Unison./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Look at him Ben, what do you think they are saying?"/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""As I said Michael, it's really none of our business."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""So Justin you just got back into town, where were you?"/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Mother I don't think that is any of your business, why did you decide to join us this morning anyway?"/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;"Justin hated that Brian was getting upset. He didn't need to get upset, if he had learned anything this fine morning about Brian he learned that Brian was the type of person that didn't need to be upset./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""It's okay Brian, I mean your mother came over this morning and found me with your son and I guess she have the right to want to know some things. But yea, I was in New York putting on a show."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;"Joan tried to keep the look off her face. He was a performer, God she thought that Brian had grown up, but look at this boy. Now that she really looked at him, all she saw was a boy and now he was a performer, he is probably in one of those boy bands or god forbid a magician. She had to get out of here and she had to get this sea urchin away from her grandkids./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;"Justin could see the wheels turning in one Joan Kinney's head. She was all smiles but now she is wondering, what is he? Well, he's lots of things. Murderer of late, but yea, the wheels in her head were turning and it was time that he put a look of shock, on her face. Yea, this was going to be good./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Yes, Mrs. Kinney I'm an artist, I just had a little show at an art gallery in New York."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Oh, a little show, to sell your little pictures, so what did that give you like a few thousand or so, I would love to see your work."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Well, I'm putting together a show here at the Sydney Bloom Gallery, I did one a few months back and my highest piece sold for about thirty thousand."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;"Brian was eating his breakfast and he thought he'd choke when he said his highest piece sold for thirty thousand. He fucking knew it did, it was now sitting in the lobby of Kinnetik offices. That meant that the cute blonde sitting before him was Justin Taylor. Fucking Justin Taylor, the mollusk's brother./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Well fuck me." Brian didn't realize that he had said it out loud./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""What is it Brian?" asked a concerned Joan./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""I brought that it's now hanging up in Kinnetik."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;"Joan was disgusted, apparently this young man couldn't sell anything and he needed Brian to buy his drawings for him. What had Brian gotten himself into. He definitely wasn't growing up, but to look at the two of them, you could so tell that Brian was now one Smitten Kitten./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Oh no Brian, that one was special for you. Molly told me about that one, it only was sold for about fifteen hundred and thanks for that by the way, but the painting I was speaking of went to a man in Maine. He paid thirty thousand for this one and remember I told you last month he bought one for sixty."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""You sold a painting for sixty thousand dollars!" shouted Joan./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Say it a little louder mother I don't think they heard you at the back table." Spat Brian./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""I'm sorry, I just, wow, you are something else Justin Taylor. Listen I'm intruding, I'm going to let the two of you get back to spending your family time. I need to go to the church and see a couple of my friends anyways"/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Are you Mrs. Kinney, we wouldn't mind if you spent the day with us, isn't that right Brian."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""No, not at all."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""No I'm going to let you boys get to it. I'll call you tonight Brian. Come here Gus give Grandma a kiss."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;"Justin knew that he has done the right thing, now Joan thinks that Brian has a good relationship going, and maybe just maybe, she'll leave him be, at least for the holidays, so Brian and his family can have a good time. He watches Brian, as Brian watches Gus tell his grandmother goodbye, and he can see the love that he has for the little boy written all over his face, he can even see the love that he has for Joan. It really did hurt, that he wasn't going to be able to help him. I mean, this was all that Gus wanted for Christmas, but he couldn't be the one to do it, he just couldn't. Brian would never forgive him, once what he did to his family came out. Yes, now was the time to leave. He grabbed his bag and walked out of the back of the diner./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;"Brian was glad that his mother was finally gone. He wanted to talk to Justin, now that he finally knew who he was exactly. Molly had always told him, that he and Justin would be perfect for each other, well now it looked like he was going to get his chance. He turned back to the table and was surprised to find Justin's seat empty./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Gus did you see where Sunshine went?"/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""No daddy, I was saying goodbye to Grandma."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Grab your coat, let's see if we can find him."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Don't Panic!" "You can do this." That's what Brian Kinney kept telling himself as he walked with his mother and his two kids towards The Diner. He hoped no one was inside that knew him and his thoughts were not lost on the looks of the guys who saw him walking with his "family". He didn't care if they had that look, if they saw him with Gus who was babbling with Justin about something and Liddie who he held securely on his shoulder, but to think that Justin was apart of the unit well that was another story. Okay maybe it wasn't maybe he really didn't care what anyone thought. Now he just hoped that no one was inside that he knew./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;"He walked inside and there sat "the gang" in a back booth and look there's the woman who considered herself his other mother. Oh yea, this was going to be fun./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Who the hell is that?" asked a confused Michael as Brian walked into the diner, ignored them and sat across from them with his mother and some blonde./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""I don't know but he definitely is a cutie and I was with Brian all day yesterday and he didn't mention anyone" said a very nosy Emmett Honeycutt./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Well, they're obviously out as a family, so what we're going to do is sit here and mind our own business, if Brian wants us involved he'll invite us over," said Michael's husband Ben trying to be the voice of reason./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Oh please." Shrieked Emmett and Michael in Unison./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Look at him Ben, what do you think they are saying?"/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""As I said Michael, it's really none of our business."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""So Justin you just got back into town, where were you?"/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Mother I don't think that is any of your business, why did you decide to join us this morning anyway?"/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;"Justin hated that Brian was getting upset. He didn't need to get upset, if he had learned anything this fine morning about Brian he learned that Brian was the type of person that didn't need to be upset./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""It's okay Brian, I mean your mother came over this morning and found me with your son and I guess she have the right to want to know some things. But yea, I was in New York putting on a show."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;"Joan tried to keep the look off her face. He was a performer, God she thought that Brian had grown up, but look at this boy. Now that she really looked at him, all she saw was a boy and now he was a performer, he is probably in one of those boy bands or god forbid a magician. She had to get out of here and she had to get this sea urchin away from her grandkids./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;"Justin could see the wheels turning in one Joan Kinney's head. She was all smiles but now she is wondering, what is he? Well, he's lots of things. Murderer of late, but yea, the wheels in her head were turning and it was time that he put a look of shock, on her face. Yea, this was going to be good./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Yes, Mrs. Kinney I'm an artist, I just had a little show at an art gallery in New York."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Oh, a little show, to sell your little pictures, so what did that give you like a few thousand or so, I would love to see your work."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Well, I'm putting together a show here at the Sydney Bloom Gallery, I did one a few months back and my highest piece sold for about thirty thousand."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;"Brian was eating his breakfast and he thought he'd choke when he said his highest piece sold for thirty thousand. He fucking knew it did, it was now sitting in the lobby of Kinnetik offices. That meant that the cute blonde sitting before him was Justin Taylor. Fucking Justin Taylor, the mollusk's brother./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Well fuck me." Brian didn't realize that he had said it out loud./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""What is it Brian?" asked a concerned Joan./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""I brought that it's now hanging up in Kinnetik."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;"Joan was disgusted, apparently this young man couldn't sell anything and he needed Brian to buy his drawings for him. What had Brian gotten himself into. He definitely wasn't growing up, but to look at the two of them, you could so tell that Brian was now one Smitten Kitten./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Oh no Brian, that one was special for you. Molly told me about that one, it only was sold for about fifteen hundred and thanks for that by the way, but the painting I was speaking of went to a man in Maine. He paid thirty thousand for this one and remember I told you last month he bought one for sixty."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""You sold a painting for sixty thousand dollars!" shouted Joan./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Say it a little louder mother I don't think they heard you at the back table." Spat Brian./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""I'm sorry, I just, wow, you are something else Justin Taylor. Listen I'm intruding, I'm going to let the two of you get back to spending your family time. I need to go to the church and see a couple of my friends anyways"/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Are you Mrs. Kinney, we wouldn't mind if you spent the day with us, isn't that right Brian."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""No, not at all."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""No I'm going to let you boys get to it. I'll call you tonight Brian. Come here Gus give Grandma a kiss."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;"Justin knew that he has done the right thing, now Joan thinks that Brian has a good relationship going, and maybe just maybe, she'll leave him be, at least for the holidays, so Brian and his family can have a good time. He watches Brian, as Brian watches Gus tell his grandmother goodbye, and he can see the love that he has for the little boy written all over his face, he can even see the love that he has for Joan. It really did hurt, that he wasn't going to be able to help him. I mean, this was all that Gus wanted for Christmas, but he couldn't be the one to do it, he just couldn't. Brian would never forgive him, once what he did to his family came out. Yes, now was the time to leave. He grabbed his bag and walked out of the back of the diner./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;"Brian was glad that his mother was finally gone. He wanted to talk to Justin, now that he finally knew who he was exactly. Molly had always told him, that he and Justin would be perfect for each other, well now it looked like he was going to get his chance. He turned back to the table and was surprised to find Justin's seat empty./p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Gus did you see where Sunshine went?"/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""No daddy, I was saying goodbye to Grandma."/p
p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f5fafa;""Grab your coat, let's see if we can find him."/p