Dude

Epilogue

Five years later - I'm 22 years old now and I still work at the ranch with dad, Leif who is 20 years old and the other four ranch hands. Leif and his girlfriend Ariel are also attending the local community college for their degrees in equestrian thearpy as well. Dad has found himself a very nice girlfriend, Hannah Johnson and they're planning on marrying next year.

I have two extremly handsome son's; Rory James who is 4 years old with dark blond hair and dark blue eyes and his biological brother, Riley Dean who is 1 year old and he has light brown hair with extreamly dark brown eyes.

Now you might be thinking to yourself, 'Legacy, are you a single father?' and though there is nothing wrong with being a single parent because some of the strongest people are single parents who raise strong children; but I am not a single parent, I have a partner, to whom I am marrying in a year and a half. Now, this wonderful, sexy, handsome, strong yet sweet, hard when he needs to be, funny, and all other wonderful words that fail me now.

Your other question might be who is this man? This wonderful man who has been my boyfriend turned fiancee for the last four and a half years is the one and only Sinclair Parker, yup that's right the arrogant older brother of sweet Carter Parker.

Sinclair is 22 years old himself but he is six months older than me but hey I have a thing for older men. *Wink* *Wink* Sinclair showed me after the couger attack that he was sincear in his persut of my undivided attention, well that and he became a better son and older brother and it took six months for me to agree but I finally did to date him and become his boyfriend.

Carter is now 13 years old and is a typical teenage male and he stopped coming to see me only last year. Carter and I have an even better relationship than what we did five years ago and he loves spending time with Rory and Riley and those two little boys absolutly love their uncle Carter. David and Cole are as much in love as they were when I met them; perhaps more than they were when I met them, I just hope that Sinclair and I can have their love and relationship when Sinclair and I are their age. Sinclair, along with college he helps out on the ranch as another 'dude' or ranch hand as does Carter on the weekends for credit towards his health class, science class and he also gains college credit.

Sin and I adopted Rory and Riley a year ago on the day Riley was born and he and Rory were removed from their mom's home; she couldn't afford to raise the both of them and didn't want them seperated, so she placed them for adoption on the day that Riley was to be born and we already had Rory in our home for three months at that point; their adoption was finalized a month later.

Adopting them was one of the best decision I have ever made in my life and Sin would agree; we're considering adopting once more but haven't finalized any decisions yet. Sin is going to college for his buisness degree for when dad decides to retire we can take over and run the buisness together; dad suggested Sin go for buisness since I have no desire to attend college again for that degree and Sinclair couldn't decide what he wanted to do, so problem solved for both of them.

Leif and Ariel plan on working at the ranch until they retire when they are much much older like Sin and I are planning; Leif and I have decided to leave the ranch to our children with Rory running and owning the place but they all have to work together and it will hopefully continue to be passed down generation to generation.

Speaking of Leif and Ariel they are talking about possibly marrying in three or four years and I suggested to him that when Sin and I marry, we should do a double wedding since, well why the hell not? Leif said he would think it over with Ariel and get back to me soon and yes, talked to my finacee about this as well and he was all for the idea.

With my cougar bite that I recieved due to my carelessness healed completly but I still have a horrible scar and my shoulder hurts when the weather turns bad; I'm planning on having shoulder surgery after the wedding to hopefully correct this problem and might as well add to the already exsisting scar.

I may be a 22 year old man working on a 'dude ranch' working as an equestrian therapist but I am so much more than that. I am a man who is in complete love with my fiancee', I adore and love my family and most importantly I am two hundred percent in love with who I am; a gay man and I have learned to not allow anyone to bring me down for my sexuality. If you are struggling with who you are, please remember that you are who you are and no one has the right to make you feel that you deserve less than anyone else.

Love is love no matter if you are straight, gay, lesbian, pansexual, transgender, bisexual, either form of asexual, intersexual, transexual or however you classify your sexuality. Please do not allow the narrow-minded dictate how you see or express your love. There is nothing wrong with you as a human being, it is the world that is wrong.

If you only decide one thing today, why not let it be that you choose to be yourself? Just because our path might be different from those who ridicule, doesn't mean our path in life is wrong.