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shows was always a good time: Sawyer had made a movie
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after the tour for his fifth album and before he started work
on the sixth, and had honed his interviewing skills on that
publicity circuit. He'd cooked with Martha, danced with Ellen,
and stared down Dave, and they all loved having him. The
movie hadn't set any records or broken any new artistic
ground, but it had proved Sawyer could act.
He'd come such a long way from the cute but dumb boy
Noah had originally taken him for, Noah thought proudly.
Noah waited patiently through the first few segments of
the program: jokes about the day's news, a TV actor
promoting his show, a cooking lesson, a comedy sketch about
paparazzi and this segued into the segment with Sawyer as
Rooney Turner showed some of the pictures that had been in
the tabloid and on the gossip blogs, and then brought out
Sawyer.
Sawyer looked well-rested and relaxed on the screen,
wearing jeans and boots and an emerald-colored shirt that
made his eyes look even greener. He shook Rooney's hand
and waved a few times to the audience, who started cheering
the moment he stepped out onto the stage and didn't stop
until he'd been sitting on the stool a few minutes. A
stagehand gave him a guitar, and he played and sang one of
the new songs with Kit and B.J. behind him on piano and
electric guitar.
Noah had heard the song before, of course Sawyer had
composed much of this album at the piano in the Venice
house but he'd never heard it so polished and lovely.
Sawyer's voice sounded strong and sweet as he sang, "'I'm
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the kind who falls in love forever,'" and he winked at the
audience when someone cheered that line particularly loudly.
"People love your love songs, babe," Noah said, and
Sawyer leaned his head on Noah's shoulder.
After the song and a commercial break, Sawyer joined
Rooney, who complimented him on the song and the new
album and the movie, and they finally got to talking about the
photographs.
"These pictures must have been shocking and upsetting,"
Rooney said seriously.
"Upsetting, yeah, but mostly I thought they were hot,"
Sawyer said and leaned his chin on his hand, smiling, as the
audience started whooping again.
"But a bunch of photographs doctored to make it look like
you're kissing your best friend," Rooney said.
"Rooney, could I interrupt you there," Sawyer said. "I
came on the show today to set the record straight. Those
pictures aren't doctored. Noah Kingston, the other man in the
pictures, he's been my boyfriend for almost seven years. I'm
gay."
Rooney grinned and started applauding him, as did some
of the people in the audience, though a few made "oh, no!"
sounds. Sawyer smiled it looked determined to Noah and
nodded.
"That's very brave of you, to come out in public like this,"
Rooney said when everyone had quieted down again.
"I don't know from brave," Sawyer said, "but I do know it's
necessary. If people are going to try and use my sexuality
against me, then I can't let them. I love Noah and I hate how
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upset this has made him, so I figured it's better to be honest
than to hide."
"Noah Kingston," interjected Rooney, "is, of course, a
renowned photographer. He did all of your album covers, isn't
that right, Sawyer?"
"Four of the six," Sawyer said, and the screen showed the
first album cover, with a baby-faced Sawyer at nineteen.
There were more wolf-whistles. "That's the first one. We met
at that photo shoot."
"Was it love at first sight?" asked Rooney, and Sawyer
laughed.
"For me it was. Noah took a few years to come around."
The screen showed another picture not a professionally
posed one this time, just Noah and Sawyer on vacation
together, Sawyer handsome and suntanned, Noah unshaven
and wet from swimming. They leaned against each other on a
beach blanket, and Sawyer's head was on Noah's shoulder
and his eyes were closed. Neither of them were smiling, but
they both looked happy and comfortable.
"Oh, my," said Rooney.
"That's from last summer," said Sawyer. "He took me to
Belize. It was awesome."
"It sounds like the two of you have a lot of fun."
"We do," Sawyer said. "Oh, we do. He's the most
important thing in my life."
"Is Noah watching right now?" said Rooney, looking
touched.
Sawyer looked at the camera and said, "I hope so."
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Noah looked at the flesh-and-blood Sawyer at his side,
who was watching him with a hopeful smile. "Well?" Sawyer
said. "What do you think?"
"I," Noah said, "think I love you."
Sawyer smiled wide and kissed him. "Good to know you
still love me," he whispered. "And that thing I asked you?
Have you been thinking about that, too?"
"Yeah," Noah said. "I've been thinking."
When he didn't go on, Sawyer said, "That song? The falling
forever song? That'll be the first single. There will be a video
and everything. And." He swallowed. "The song's about you.
All my love songs are about you. And I don't want to sing to
another model in the video and I don't want to pretend the
song is about someone else. I'm sick of pretending, Noah. I'm
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