There’s A Jock In My Bed! [Âœ“] Seeing Red

Every year since his 2nd birthday, Ashley, Ash for short, has been losing the ability to see colors. Yellow on his ninth birthday, Violet on his 13th, Pink last year and so on and so on, like clockwork.

Defeated and taking care of his cancer-stricken cat, diabetic mother, and caught in an never-ending job, he finally gets the chance to be an actual journalist, but he must first pass the interview with the billionaire CEO wearing the burning red suit.

Reece Red, the new, young and wild CEO of R.E.D. NEWS CORP, a right-wing, republican and conservative news organization, is about as confused as anyone his age about how this thing works. When he sees Ash the first time, who challenges the him on his credentials, he instantly hates him.

But they end up finding that they need each other in more ways than one.

Debuts: SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 (Prologue at 6:am, Chapter one at 6:pm) at the same time as the FINAL chapter of STILL JUST FRIENDS.

I’ve always wondered what would happen if I wrote a story about a black lead and a white lead falling in love on Wattpad. I wondered what it would be like if I…didn’t make it simple. That I didn’t pretend like these two boys come from the same world. That I didn’t pretend that color was blind. And I forced them to see it, and their stark differences. 

I wondered what would happen if I took an intelligent, black kid in a black neighborhood, surrounded by his black family and friends and through in a young, privileged white young man who is good at heart, good natured but blinded by his family’s wealth. I wondered what would happen if I made neither the hero or the villain. That I blurred the lines of what was right and wrong.

I wondered if I could get away with it and be successful. By letting those to worlds clash, by not shying away from the tension, while also leaving the humor, the fun, the love in there. By keeping it romance, instead of drama.  

I wondered if i could address social issues, and mental health issues and strike the right balance, while also leaving room for kisses and zany, idiotic situations.

I wondered what would happen if I created a cast that wasn’t what the lgbt genre on wattpad was so used to. Even black writers have almost exclusively white casts. I wondered what would happen if I introduced a headstrong black lead and have him talk like black people talk when they are amongst friends; have him talk about things they talk about. Dreams, aspirations that they dream of. 

 Would they just imagine him as white? Or would his thoughts, his situations, the imagery that he describes reflect that he was black. 

Five years into my Wattpad career, I’m tired of just wondering. I’m going to do it. 

Seeing Red is that story. That tale. And it premieres September 30, the same night Still Just Friends comes to it’s definitive close. 

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