I said in my last update, “I said in my last update I hoped to have a new story ready to post by May, and guess what? I made it a whole month early!” That part wasn’t an April Fool! I have been writing a real fanfic, and I’m ready to start posting it. It’s not the Brian horror story, but the Kevin and Nick drama, My Brother’s Keeper.
This one has been a long time coming. I actually got the idea for it way back in the summer of 2013, but I had just started Sick as My Secrets, so it went on the backburner. I came back to the idea in the summer of 2017 after I finished SAMS, and wrote the first few chapters between July and January. I was feeling so good about it that I put up the first two chapters as a sneak peek on New Year’s Day in 2018. I wanted to get further into it before I started posting it “officially,” but I was pretty sure I was committed enough to it to be able to continue it. Then 2018 happened. I didn’t write a whole lot the rest of that year, until I got on a roll with another new novel, A Heart That Isn’t Mine. I still loved the idea for My Brother’s Keeper and felt fairly confident that I would return to it when the time was right, but I had to get AHTIM out of my head first. But now, three years later, the time is finally right. I’ve been working consistently on this story since February, revising my first draft and writing six new chapters. I have ten total now and am on a 21-day writing streak, so things are going well enough that I feel ready to commit to weekly updates with this one.
The first two chapters have been “officially” posted, and I’ll be back next weekend with Chapter 3!
Synopsis:
As the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2008, Kevin Richardson felt like he had it all: a wonderful wife, a beautiful baby boy, and a newfound freedom to do whatever he wanted to provide for his family. Not like his former bandmate, Nick Carter, who could barely take care of himself, let alone someone else. But when a tragic accident changes Kevin’s life forever, Nick is forced to step up and start caring for his friend. Will he rise to the occasion, or will Nick crumble under the pressure of trying to support Kevin and straighten out his own life at the same time?
Genre: drama
Starring: Kevin, Nick
Status: incomplete
Published: April 2021 – present