Slap Shot: A Gay Young Adult Romance Story

By Derek Clendening

When Patrick finds out he wasn’t invited to Joshua’s birthday party, he’s devastated. After all, they’ve been boyfriends for six months. The championship game looms, their relationship takes a sharp turn and Patrick worries he can’t deal with it all. When Patrick must come to Joshua’s defense on the ice, he finds the courage to put their love back on track.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Derek Clendening
• Release date: May 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310816673

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Slap Shot

By Derek Clendening

Published by Rainbow Reader Press at Smashwords

Copyright 2015 Derek Clendening

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Slap Shot

The whole thing started on a Saturday morning. Well, technically it started the night before but I didn’t know about it until the next morning, so that’s why I’m saying Saturday. That Saturday, I’d slept in late and had rolled out of bed and covered myself with my blanket as I stomped down the hall. I sat down at my laptop and logged onto Facebook, which set the whole thing in motion.

On my newsfeed, I saw that Joshua Madison had been tagged in a photo.

A photo from his birthday party.

A birthday party I hadn’t been invited to.

In the picture, he was sandwiched between two of our teammates and all three of them held beer bottles in their raised hands. And they were smiling. Oh yeah, smiling like they were having the time of their lives.

I’m not the kind of kid that gets all bummed out over not being invited to a party or not getting included in something—although I’m usually invited to everything and I’m never left out of stuff—but when your best friend doesn’t invite you to his birthday party, something’s definitely wrong.

It wasn’t that I was being paranoid either. It was just some gathering that wound up at his house or something. There were banners and cake and everything. Judging by the background, our whole hockey team was there. Everyone but me, I mean.

The kid who tagged him was Bradley Sacco, our goalie. Let me tell you how smart Bradley is. In history class, when we were learning about the Nuremberg trials and the Nazis who were sentenced after World War Two, he asked our teacher why Adolf Hitler himself wasn’t