Semi-related to my last post but…
So, Colt and Ryland aren’t related. Just two guys who met, became close-ish friends in college and than drifted apart because they obviously took very different paths in life.
Now imagine, Ryland Grace has just nuked his science career. He half regrets it, he’s half relieved but either way he’s unemployed and there’s a non-zero amount of the world slandering his name. So, he goes on a bender or two. That’s how he meets Tom Ryder. He doesn’t know Tom Ryder before hand, not even as an actor. Why would he? Grace isn’t into action movies, nor is he really concerned with celebrities. Ryder’s talking all big about how he’s an actor but Grace lives in California for Pete’s sake, everyone’s an actor. They hook-up, Ryland is only slightly protruded by the fact Tom keeps calling him “Colt” in bed but he’s hot and Grace is drunk so who even cares?
At this point it’s been years since Colt and Ryland have actually spoken so he’s the furthest thing from his mind. He doesn’t connect the dots.
A few years later, Ryland’s cleaned up his act a long time ago, he’s a teacher now, he’s happier than ever. On a whim, Colt reaches out to Ryland again. They catch up and they both realize that Colt is working on a film that’s being shot only a few hours away from Ryland’s apartment. Awesome! Colt invites him to hang out on set.
On the phone Colt had complained a bunch about this one actor. He’s an asshole, pompous, arrogant, stupid. Every name in the book. Ryland thinks the name is vaguely familiar but he can’t place it, he chalks it up to it being a celebrity so obviously he’s just heard the name in conversation. Ryland gets to the set, Colt and him are cutting up, laughing, catching up. Until, Tom decides to barge into the conversation.
It takes a second for it to register in Ryland’s mind, he’s half way through saying “Do I know you from somewhere” before it clicks. And then several more things click. The ‘Colt’ Tom was moaning about all those years ago? Yeah, it was Colt Seavers.
It doesn’t take long for it to click for Tom either. He has to do a double take. It’s incredibly awkward for the both of them because Ryland KNOWS and Tom KNOWS HE KNOWS.
Colt’s just confused. He’d get it if Ryland was starstruck or something, Ryder’s famous even if he is a douche, but he’s never seen Ryder this worked up. He’s stammering and tripping over his own feet to get away. Ryland is simultaneously horrified and trying not to laugh, he’s too good a person to out Ryder though, so he can’t say anything.
Colt’s now confused because he’s certain Grace and Ryder have had to have met before but he can fathom where (he completely missed out on Rylands party phase and only remembers him as the bookish guy from school) or what Ryland could have done to make Tom so flustered around him. He would never guess that they’ve slept together, again he missed that phase of Grace’s life and, to Colt, Ryder seems like the most obnoxiously hetero guy around.
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