These pressures merely add to their common teenage angst. Peyton and Brady are the sons of the first queer football couple to ever win a Super Bowl! All three boys have been raised by fathers with aggressive expectations: Peyton and Brady are expected to enter professional football, while Levi’s father intends him to be a lawyer and join the family firm. Oddly, the story begins with a high school graduation party, not for Peyton and Brandy, two juniors, but for Levi, a senior classmate and the scion of a wealthy, elite family. While the series’ individual contributing authors of the components need not be set in any competition, ‘Football Royalty’ just seems such an apt work to conclude this reading adventure – a well-earned reward for our indulgence. In this final installment of the ‘Franklin U’ series, featuring “out” college students, author Eden Finley joyously ends our literary journey. I’m hoping it can be with him, but everything I’ve heard around campus points to Peyton not having the same life-changing revelation I did.Īnd if that’s the case, did I just move across the country for a straight guy? We said that high school didn’t mean anything, but the truth is, that night made me realize who I truly am, and since then, I’ve been trying to find that sense of freedom again. I haven’t had to think about him for four years, but now I can’t get him out of my head.Ĭoming to Franklin University for grad school to follow a boy I hooked up with once is the stupidest thing I could have done. I’m happy to accept that until he turns up in California. And while it was fun, we agree that being with guys isn’t for either of us. The last place I thought I’d find my release is at Levi Vanderbilt’s graduation party.

I usually thrive under pressure, but as senior year looms, it all gets too much, and I need an outlet. I’ve been destined to follow in my NFL-playing fathers’ footsteps since the day I was born. My whole life I’ve had the pressure of being Marcus Talon and Shane Miller’s football prodigy. If you never fooled around with someone of the same gender, did you even go to high school?

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