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    Nevermore, Dude
    Nevermore, Dude
    Nevermore, Dude
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    Nevermore, Dude

    By L.J. Hamlin

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    Jamie joins his parents and sister for one last family vacation before his summers are his own. But he's unhappy he has to share a room with Chris, a football playing jock. Jamie has been bullied by jocks his entire life. Chris is everything Jamie isn't and doesn't want to be.

    Chris is immediately attracted to his roommate Jamie. But Jamie proves to be elusive and non-communicative.

    When an incident with their sisters breaks the ice, Jamie and Chris discover they have both stereotyped the other. To their surprises, they have much more in common than they first thought.

    When the vacation comes to an end and they have to go back to their separate universities, will they be able to manage a long-distance relationship?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJMS Books LLC
    Release dateApr 14, 2018
    ISBN9781634866125
    Nevermore, Dude
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    L.J. Hamlin

    L.J.Hamlin is a chronically ill writer who likes to write to escape from the pain. She loves animals and the supernatural.

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      Nevermore, Dude - L.J. Hamlin

      Epilogue

      Chapter 1

      Last family vacation ever: that was Jamie’s parents’ promise and the reason why just a day after gay pride with his friends, he’s pulling his stuff off a bus outside of Camp Hope. All the families who work at the law firm his parents work at were invited to come spend the summer. This year his folks decided to take a month off and to drag Jamie and his sister with them. She’s fifteen so couldn’t find a way out of it. At twenty Jamie thought he would, but when your parents offer to pay for you to go travelling next summer, well, Jamie decided it couldn’t be that terrible.

      His sister Cassy is waiting for him with some older guy who keeps trying to look down her top. Jamie knows his sister can handle herself, but it doesn’t mean he won’t help if he gets a chance.

      Jamie. Cassy hugs him as soon as he gets close with his bags. He’s been away at college, and it’s been a month since he saw her. He swears she’s grown an inch and got a piercing.

      Jamie chuckles. They let you get your nose pierced?

      Cool, right? The piercing glitters in the sun.

      The guy in a camp counselor shirt clears his throat. I don’t get a hug?

      He says it like it’s a joke, but Jamie can tell he’d hug her if he could.

      No, you just need to tell Jamie who he’s rooming with. Cassy’s tone gives away that the guy annoys her, but she’s trying to be polite, as their parents always want them on their best behavior at work events. Luckily it’s been four years since Jamie faced this hell.

      Fine. You’re lucky it’s just the two of you. You’ll be sharing with Chris Fox.

      Jamie’s stomach plunges down to his feet and stays there. He’s met Chris before. They’d been friendly as little kids, but Jamie’s mom had shown him Chris in the Facebook group the company keeps for family stuff. He was a football player, a total jock with accomplishments listed all over the group.

      Ohh, foxy Fox! You want to trade? Cassy waggles her eyebrows, which is another thing. Everyone is always saying how handsome Chris is, which he is, tall, blonde, blue eyes, probably has a collection of sorority girls’ panties on his dorm room floor.

      He’s, like, twenty-one. Get a crush your own age. Come on let’s go.

      Chris is the opposite of Jamie, who doesn’t play on any teams, is in drama club, has the left side of his head shaved bald and the rest long and blue. Jamie is a skinny, geeky, drama nerd and proud of it. He’s also gay and spent high school picked on by jocks for who he was before he was even out. Now he refuses to hide. College is more accepting than most places, though not the sports department, and he’s dreading having some bro type giving him shit for up to a month.

      Let me take you? No-name the creep asks.

      Actually I’d like to talk to my brother in private. I can show him. Cassy smiles.

      You know the way?

      Yeah. Cassy rolls her eyes, but the creep drops it and lets them head off alone.

      Why do you know the way? Jamie asks as they walk away.

      Relax. I met his sister there the other day. Kelly, she’s cool, my age, hates Gary the loser, too, Cassy explains.

      Gary, that dude who was looking at your chest? Can I have a talk with him? Jamie is still pissed at the way Gary was around Cassy. He’s also

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