Fun and Games Written by Celestial

Adam's heart was pounding hard against his chest hearing what Riley just told him. "What do you mean your dad knows ?" he asked.

"My dad knows about me. He knows I'm gay. He had the cd you made me. " Riley responded.

"So he knows about me too ? He knows that I'm your boyfriend ?"

"No don't worry. I told him that he's another guy from school. I made sure I ruled out any suspicion of him thinking it was you. I don't want you to go through this."

Adam felt so bad his Riley had to go through this. He knew he'd have to go through this too, one day with his parents. "So, how was their reaction ? Both of their reactions ?"

"Well, my mom was understanding. She defended me against my dad, but even she couldn't win against my dad. He yelled, his eyes filled with rage. He was really pissed off. I never seen him that way. It was scary. He yelled at me cruel things until his voice couldn't take it. So he's not done with me. Right now he's resting, later he's coming back to grill me again. My mom comes in time to time to check on me. She's a little scared of my dad right now. I talked to just her and she told me a lot, like she'd never seen him like that before and whenever the subject of being, well gay came up he always steered clear of it. He couldn't stand it when people accussed them of being gay or anything. Not even the other guys understand why he was like that. It's like he's hiding something but my mom perferred not to ever mention it to him or ask about it. I feel terrible. I never meant for her to go through this because of me. Adam, what can I do ?" Riley fell on his knees sobbing once more.
Adam's tears were on their way, he knew. His watery eyes stinged. "Don't worry Riley. I'll figure out something. Just be strong against your dad. Let aunt Vikki help you through this. I'm gonna be doing something but I'll call your cell so your dad won't get upset. Is that okay, love ?"

"Yeah, that's good. I'll wait for your calls. I'm pretty sure my dad's not going to let me do anything else. I'll be strong, for you. Good night, Adam."
"Good night, Riley. Sleep tight." He hung up the phone and eent to bed. He looked out the window at the moonlight outside. It was beautiful. Then he thought of Riley. No matter what he did he couldn't get him out of his head. He thought of what Riley said about his dad. Could his uncle be hiding something ? The same uncle Kevin that was always there when his dad couldn't ? He couldn't of reacted like that. He didn't seem like that, and why does he only have a problem with being gay ? Maybe something of that matter happened to him a long time ago, before aunt Vikki. No matter what it was, he was going to find out to help Riley and solve this little mystery he got himself into.


Adam woke up to his clock radio. He finally learned how to program the damn thing to music and not the alarm that he despised so much. He wondered how it went for Riley last night. Then he remembered his mission. Find out why his uncle was like that, but first he'd have breakfast.
He went downstairs to see his family at the breakfast table. He sat down at his usual seat and began eating his bacon and pancakes. He looked around the table at all his brothers and sisters.
Evie was next to him. She sat there looking at her food and seemed like she was troubled. Yesterday she was relishing in him getting trouble but today she looked depressed. He looked at his other side and there was his seven year old sister, Quinn eating her Pokemon cereal. Across from him were his two three year old twin brothers, spilling their cereal all over their side of the table. Adam finished quickly and left the table. Before leaving the kitchen, Nick blocked him. "I need to talk to you , son."
They walked out to the patio in the company of their two golden retrievers and great dane puppy. Nick sighed and put his hand on Adam's shoulder. "Son, do you know about Riley ?" he asked.
"Yeah, I know about that dad. Why ?" Where was his dad going with this ? But he remembered, be calm and cool. He wasn't going to reveal himself.

"Kevin just informed me this morning. Well, I guess as his best friend, you'd know. Kevin wants to know who's the guy that got Riley into this, you know the boyfriend. His name is Adam as well. Do you know who it is ?" Nick asked.

"Dad, I wouldn't tell if I did know. I'm not selling out Riley like that, but no, I don't know this guy. Never seen him." Adam watched his father's face change to a surprised one. He knew he was surprised of that response. Then he decided to go for it. "So dad, what do you think about Riley and Kevin's reaction ?"
Nick was shocked at the question. He swallowed hard and looked at his son. He was serious with the question, then he'd have to answer it. "Well, I think Riley is a great guy no matter what. However, I thought the Kevin's response to the whole thing was fine, well fitting for the situation.I might have done the same thing, so I don't blame him."

Now Adam was the shocked one. He never knew his dad to be like that as well. They had a friend that was gay and Nick never was mean to him at all or anything.Nick told him the story how he was one of his best friends out of the Boy's and he told him straight out after a concert. What did Nick do ? He hugged him and supported him. So now why is he like Kevin ? Something was not right.He had to find out what's going on.
"Well son, I'll just call Kevin and tell him you don't know the guy." Nick told him petting one of the retrievers and going inside.
Adam didn't understand. What's going on here ? Why did his father say he'd react the same way ? Should he talk to his mother about this or should he ask someone else about this ? Did that mean he'd react the same way when he'd have to confess that he's Riley's boyfriend ? Then he'd have to wait until he' could figure out what exactly is going on. Then he realized something. He'd never been so determined to do or solve something ever in his life. Finally, he felt good and determined to solve this. So he decided to go ask a couple people that might help him answer these questions, uncle AJ and aunt Andrea, uncle Howie and aunt Stephanie, mom, uncle Brian, and someone else. One of his dad's good friends who'd he thought about during the conversation.
First, he wanted to go and set things straight with someone, Aidan.

He drove to the house and parked right in the drive way. He rang the bell and Aidan's mom, Andrea opened the door.
"Adam, honey how are you ?" she asked opening the door.
"Ummm....I'm fine. I'm sorry about me and Aidan and all. That was..." he said until interrupted.

"Don't worry about it. You're boys. It's ok. You shouldn't have done it in public however but it's ok. It won't hurt our careers like the boys said. Do you want to talk to Aidan ?" Andrea explained letting him inside.

"Yes, if that's ok."

"Sure. He's in the living room playing his virtual gaming system or whatever it's called." She left the door and walked straight into the mini gym AJ had built for her and the kids.

Adam stopped right in front of the distracted Aidan, who had a helmet over his head connected to the television and gloves, and was stepping on a mat on the floor that contained buttons. It was obvious to Adam that he wasn't going to notice him at all unless he'd stop playing, so he did the only thing he could do. Adam walked to the outlet and unplugged the game.
"Hey, who the hell.....!" Aidan yelled out taking off the helmet but stopped when he saw his friend standing there with the plug in his hand. "Oh, it's you."
"Look, Aidan. I'm sorry about the other day. I didn't mean for all this to happen. You're, no matter what my best friend and nothing will take your place. We've known each other since we could walk. Don't throw all that away. I love you too much,bro.
Still, that doesn't mean that I'm not going to stop being with Riley. I love him. I hope you can understand that and we can all be friends again." Adam watched Aidan's face struggle with his emotions.
"I'm sorry, Adam. You're right. We are best friends and we shouldn't let this get in the way. I'm sorry about everything, about hitting you and Riley. I guess I was in truth a little jealous with all the time you spent with him. I want to still be both of your friend. I'm sorry, Adam."

"It's ok. Don't worry. It's past us now." Adam told him giving him a big hug.

"Well, I guess I'll call Riley and apoligize to him too." Aidan said picking up the phone.

"That wouldn't be a good idea, he's grounded and his dad's on the war path."

Aidan looked at his friend confused."What ? Since when did Riley get in trouble, besides the other day ? He's everyone's model of a picture perfect teenager. What the hell did he do ?"
"His dad found out about him."

It took a while for Aidan to realize what Adam was talking about. "Oh, damn. I'm guessing uncle Kev didn't take the news well, then. Does he know about you though ?"

"No, and as I talked to dad and Riley about this, these strange things been coming up, like our dads and uncles been keeping some secrets from us. I was thinking of going to the library and searching through the net to see what we can find. Want to join ?"
"Yeah, sounds good. I'm guessing there you'll tell me the big details on what's going on. First, however let me call my girl.She into researching stuff, especially back in the 90's and 2000's."Aidan picked up the phone again and started dialing looking at the small tv on top of the video phone.

"Girl, huh ? Well I don't blame you for not telling me. So, who is it and can she be trusted ?" Adam chuckled. Suddenly he saw a beautiful girl pick up the phone and in the sweetest voice answered."Hello Aidan." It was Celeste. He couldn't help but smile.
What the boys didn't see was Aidan's mom, Andrea watching and listening from the corner.

The trio went to the library's computer area. Adam sat down and logged on the net. He typed in Backstreet Boys in the search box and clicked go. Thousands of articles came up. "Shit, how are we going to find which ones have what we're looking for ?" Aidan said discouraged. Celeste grabbed a chair and pushed Adam a little to the side.
"We're going to have to filter the articles for the ones we want." She typed in different things and the list reduced. "See, now the list has shrunk down to size. Is there any thing in particular we're looking for ?" she asked staring at the screen.

Adam rubbed his chin, feeling the little stubbles it had, trying to think what they can look for. He didn't even know what they were looking for. "I guess scandals, troubles, big news, that type of stuff basically."

Celeste typed what Adam told her and the screen changed revealing all the stories and articles they were in search for.
All three were shocked as they read some of the headlines of the articles that came up.
"Oh my God ! Look at all these stories about them and a lot of have daddy. What did he do ?" Celeste nervously scrolled through the stories and counted how many were about her father.

"Damn, all these stories look bad. I can't believe what some of these things are saying." Adam told himself. He and Celeste turned to Aidan who just stared at the screen, upset and in awe.Then he mumbled " God, dad why didn't you tell me."