Faking It

"Nicholas darling, you remember Nadia?"

"Yes Mom, where is this going?"

"Nowhere, I just think next time you're down you should ask her out."

Nick spluttered and almost swallowed his own tongue. "What!? No!"

"Why not."

"Because, um, because...I'm...gay?"

"What?!"

"Huh?" nick was as surprised as his parents at what he'd just said. Sadly for nick his parents weren't as strict Texan as he'd thought and his mother recovered quickly.

"Well, no matter. I know plenty of eligible men who..."

"No! I mean, I already have a boyfriend."

"You do?"

"Yes as a matter of fact I do." Nick was lying through his teeth. "In fact he works right here in the lab." Nicks brain was telling him to stop now but for some reason he couldn't shut his mouth.

"Well, you two must come and stay with us over the holidays."

"But mom-"

Mrs stokes held up a hand to silence her son "I insist." And with that she left. Nick was in trouble.

"Please Greg, it's only for one week."

"No, no way. Not! A! Chance!"

"Greg I did not want to have to do this but you left me no choice. You do this of those pictures you did in college for that magazine, will find themselves poster size and all over the crime lab."

"So you need me to pretend to be your boyfriend."

Nick smiled in relief. "All you have to do is come to my parents for a week. After that we can stage a break up and be done with it."

"Fine but we never speak of this to anyone."

"Agreed, oh! One more thing, we leave in two days."

"What!?!" but nick was gone. Damn nick for blackmailing him. He had a bad feeling about this.