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The story
The short version. Boys' Love, 30 episodes on YourChannel. It is raining the night Caleb's mother opens the door and tells him to get out. He steps out with a single bag, and his father's car is already at the curb.
It is raining the night Caleb's mother opens the door and tells him to get out of her house, calling him disgusting. Caleb's answer is just: goodbye, take care. He steps out with a single bag. His father's car is already at the curb, and a blond boy leans across the seat: must be bitterly cold, I'm Mason, dad's waiting in the car, let me take the bag. Someone in the front warns Mason not to scare his brother, but Mason only settles Caleb's shoulder: it's okay, Caleb, let's go home.
At the rink Chase leans on the goal post in his number 36 jersey and watches the new boy. Mason, your new brother looks pretty mild tempered, he says. Then, as a heads-up to Mason: let's hope he isn't too soft on the ice, make sure he doesn't steal the puck from you out there. What starts as a cold rain outside a closed door has turned into a hot breakfast, a brother, and a spot on the ice — and for the first time Caleb is told plainly that it is all in the past and time to start over.
The next morning Mason has been up before him. I didn't know what you like, so I just made a little bit of everything, he says, laying out a spread. Make yourself at home. Caleb does not know what to do with that — no one has ever cooked for him without conditions. Then Mason tells him the plan: dad said you're great at hockey, after breakfast I'll take you to school, today's the team tryouts, I'll introduce you to the coach. Caleb answers the way someone does when a kindness is still new: thank you, Mason.
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