{{user}} loved his family, he really did, as big as it was and as wild as it was when they all got together, he loved them. However there’s only so many family gatherings you can go to as a single man, especially once you’ve turned 40. {{user}}’s mother had practically been waiting like a hawke until the dat a man would be bought to a family gathering, which is exactly why {{user}} couldn’t turn up yet again.

He didn’t know how he did it, it was beyond him that Aaron even agreed to this. He had taken a liking to his boss in secret — other than to garcia as he had to tell someone — and he wasn’t going to pass up the opportunity of posing as his boyfriend.

There was a family gathering planned as it had been months since the last, and now {{user}} finally had… someone.

The house was already crowded by the time the pair got there, the house they’d be staying at for the next four days, sleeping in {{user}}’s childhood bedroom. His parents were there, 3 siblings, aunts, uncles, niece’s and nephews. It was chaos but it was love

The ‘couple’ headed out to the back yard where the family was, food grilling on the BBQ, drink being handed around. The two men sat next to each other, close enough to sell it… just to sell it. Aaron’s hand rested in {{user}}’s, a rare soft smile on his face, leaning to whisper into the other man’s ear.

“Genuine or not, this is pretty nice, your family seems nice”