How many times am I going to give my heart to someone who will inevitably break it?

MATTY

Three years ago, the only man I ever loved broke my heart. I've been careful to keep it mended since. Which isn't hard given I'm working myself to the bone just to afford rent and hormones. Love isn't part of the program.

But of course, here comes Elias Lee: all sweet dimples, lonely smile, and oh, he's a dancer like me—or like I used to be.

I couldn't cut it at the big production company I moved here for, but when Elias drags me to the house he shares with his son and accidentally volunteers me to be his date to his sister's wedding, the passion and love I thought I'd lost for dance begins to creep back in.

Why oh why do I keep falling for emotionally unavailable rays of sunshine?

ELIAS

My dating life is abysmal. I can name the amount of hookups I've had in the last five years on one hand. It's hard to find time between taking care of my son and working late into the night to afford all of his medical needs.

When I run into Matty Nichols—literally—at Randy's Diner, I'm slapped in the face with so much attraction that I can't help but seek him out again and again. I don't have time for a relationship, but when Calum takes a liking to him and I find out his studio apartment is covered in black mold, of course I have to offer up my couch.

I don't mean for my sister to get the bright idea that he's my boyfriend and insist I bring him to her wedding.

Even if Matty was interested and I wasn't a hot mess, being with me comes with more baggage than I'd ever ask him to put on his shoulders.

Roleplay at Randy's is a low angst, fake relationship, MM romance between a hard-of-hearing trans man who falls hard and fast, and the single dad stripper who never stood a chance.

Love beyond the binary, serving up low angst trans romances at Randy's Diner.

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