Graham also comes out to his high school hockey team and gets drunk, but that goes pretty well, other than the drunk. Rikker relates way too much to that poor chick, but secretly it turns out there was a rescue for the chick after all. There is also a bit about how both guys (separately) watch this depressing nature special in which a baby penguin chick gets trapped in a crevice and abandoned by its mom when she can't figure out how to rescue it.

But when he dropped Rikker off with his mother, the one person he could trust.well, it wasn't that he was abandoning Rikker by choice. At this point Rikker is all 'I'M OUT'' and leaves, but then his dad picks him up and reveals that sadly, he hasn't been able to change his wife's mind about hating homosexuality in seven damn years.

Which uh, they somewhat do when Rikker finds out halfway through that a religious personage has been invited over for dinner to talk about therapy. Rikker is very, very nervous about this and is planning on bailing to go to Graham's (luckily for Graham, his parents have been cool about him being out) if things go wrong. Rikker's dad has been pushing heavily for him to come home for a few days, which he hasn't done in seven long years since he got booted out of the house. 'Yesterday' is the followup to 'The Understatement Of The Year' and features Graham and Rikker returning to their original home state of Michigan for a few days before going to Skippy's wedding. This book actually has romantic use of a thesaurus and it is DARNED CUTE. Josephine is a shy sort who's trying to work up the nerve in many ways. Pepe is one of those 'Golden Retriever' sorts of guys-always enthusiastic and cheerful and adorable with his ah, use of the English language. 'Studly Period' is a side adventure featuring French-Canadian hockey player Pepe, who's been mentioned here and there throughout the series, when he goes to get tutoring in writing from awkward nerd Josephine. I've already reviewed 'Blonde Date,' previously mentioned here. As already said, it's very good and sweet and adorable. Anyway, this book is three novellas taking place in that series. I think that's the best work Sarina Bowen has done and I miss the drama of the early 20's that she covered so well.

Blonde Date by Sarina Bowen