About this story
Sixty chapters of two a.m. calls between his shifts and comic-convention deadlines, a fake-dating pact remembered from a school festival, a rough patch when he starts seeing someone else, and a fire that turns a spare room into shared rent — until one night in his kitchen, neither of them backs down. The morning after is its own disaster.
Who you’ll meet
The reader's firefighter best friend of more than a decade, who hands over his flower-stuffed helmet at a comic convention.