It was Christmas Eve, 2000, and the boys of the teen-pop group 98 Degrees were staying with Nick and Drew Lachey's parents for the holiday. Everyone (Nick, Drew, Jeff, Justin, and Nick and Drew's Parents) was sitting around the fire in the den, caroling and drinking hot cider. They stayed up until about 10pm, then they decided to retire for the evening. Drew said his good-nights, then headed upstairs to his bedroom, his parents and Justin did the same, leaving Nick and Jeff in the den, on the sofa watching 'It's a Wonderful Life'...
No words were spoken from either one of them, but occasionally one would glance over to the other and flash a subtle grin, then look back to the television. Nick let out a sigh and picked up the remote, and said, "Do you mind if I change it?"
"No, it's cool," Jeff replied. Nick proceeded to search for a program worth watching, when he landed on MTV, which just happened to have a Ricky Martin concert special showing. "Oh, SHIT!" Nick thought to himself. "Ricky is SUCH A CUTIE!" he continued his thought. Nick was secretly gay. No one knew at all. Absolutely NO ONE. We're talkin' a MAJOR CLOSET CASE. But he definitely knew that he was, and that it wasn't just a phase, no doubt about that.
Nick looked over to Jeff and said, "Man, I hope we can tour with him someday. He's such an awesome performer." Jeff agreed, "Yah, that would be fuckin' cool!" In Nicks mind, he was thinking, "Fuckin' right it would be! To be able to fuck that cute little Puerto Rican ass EVERY NIGHT on that bus....mmmm...." They continued to watch the show for about 10 more minutes, when Jeff looked over to Nick's lap, not helping but to notice the enormous bulge pointing down his thigh in his pants. Jeff's mouth fell open, and he thought, "HOLY SHIT!" Nick quickly flashed a look over at Jeff, and Jeff quickly picked his chin up off the floor and stared at the television, pretending not to see anything. Nick slowly turned his head facing back forward, beginning to feel his face blush. "Oh shit. He saw my hard-on," he thought. He slowly reached between them and grabbed a pillow and placed it on his lap, then his hands folded on top of the pillow. He then slowly moved his eyes over to Jeff. Still watching television. Then he moved his eyes downward, to Jeff's crotch. "OH MY FUCKING GOD! HE'S HARD TOO!" he thought in utter excitement. "Wow...I always thought that he was gay...or at least bi," he thought.
He decided to be brave as a mother fucker, and said, "So...do you think Ricky's cute?" Jeff, raising his eyebrows and developing a look of confusion, surprise, and excitement on his face at the same time, said, "Um...what?"
"You heard me. Do you think Ricky Martin is hot?"
"Um...uh...well...I guess...I mean, he's not like...ugly," he replied, stammering. "Me, too. I bet he has an awesome dick," Nick said, trying to get Jeff to open up, in more ways than one. Jeff grinned, then bit his bottom lip. Nick, seeming to get braver by the second, shot out another question for Jeff. "Do you think I'M cute?" Jeff said, "Well...um...well...uh...yes...I guess..." Nick then said, "Well I think you're GORGEOUS." Jeff began to blush, then said, "Oh...really? Thanks..."