Joshua stared at Hanna in disbelief. He had thought they would want to discuss things with him to find a good foundation for the merger. But a marriage meeting? Did the Reyes family even have a daughter? Perhaps a niece? Admittedly it wasn't a bad idea, rather traditional but not something the Q Group could too easily drag through the dirt.

In all honesty, the young man was quite impressed they had come up with the idea at all, his parent's had vision but strategy was not always their fine point. Did he like it? Not at all.

As mentioned earlier, he was quite the romantic at heart. He wanted to find someone who he would truly connect with. Or at least someone who wouldn't feel belittled by his looks. But to go to a marriage meeting for the sake of the family business, he could question what sort of third-rate romance novel was his life becoming.

His family members could see the reluctance in the second son's eyes. Unfortunately, they unanimously concluded it was due to the fact that he had never told them he was gay.

Of course that couldn't be farther from the truth. Even worse for him, they decided not to embarrass him on the fact that they had 'found him out', only worsening the poor communication.

"We were discussing it with Caroline and Marcus. We are not forcing either side but from the sound of things we do think the two of you will get along with each other. Think of it as a business meeting if that makes you feel more at ease but there is no pressure on you to agree." John was coaxing his son, downplaying the situation so that he would feel less impacted by the initial meeting.

It seemed to be working.

Hanna nodded and opened the file, taking out a picture. "Just look at the picture, if you like the looks, there is no harm in just meeting. If you two don't like each other in that way we can find another foundation." She slid the picture over, Joshua somewhat sceptical, although slowly softening.

That was until he saw the picture.

His immediate reaction was the word 'cute' resounding in his head. Joshua's reaction was not one too out of the ordinary, Henry was a very good looking man who almost the entire population would describe as cute, he had that youthful vibe to him, even through a mere photo. One so spectacularly badly taken it was impossible for Joshua to realise the subject of the picture was a fellow man.

The shot was a paparazzi shot from 3 years ago, when Henry was still a rather fresh-faced university student, conveniently taken before his last drastic haircut, meaning his hair was almost down to his shoulders, half-up-half-down to keep it out of his face. The setting was a café in a foreign city and a large part of his body had been covered by the shrubbery entwined with the fence bordering the artisan café. However, unlike the more recent pictures, this was the only one that showed his face clearly with a cheerful smile. Since this point in time, Henry had perfected the art of avoiding the press or having any recognisable photos even get onto his family's radar. He was extremely careful with people trying to slander him after a near experience that had almost ruined his university friend. This picture was also take by a rookie looking for their big break, meaning the photography skills were rather shabby.

Unfortunately for Joshua, who would have never thought his parents would set him up with another man, looked at the photo believing it was a woman, and the combination of bad skills and good looks had stopped anything that could have raised suspicion. As far as he was aware he had been shown a photo of a young woman who's looks could rival his own. He didn't realise that seeing this pretty face had put a lot of insecurities he had at bay. While he couldn't see her body too well, he could see this was someone who he had a possibility of getting along with.

At come point, his pretty complex had stopped him getting close with people in general, not that he had ever noticed.

The young man still found the entire situation ridiculous but after seeing the photo he did not mind so much with just a meeting; like a true romantic, he was getting hopeful, not that he would ever admit it even to himself.

Form across the table, Archer smirked, satisfied. Even if he had a few doubts on whether his brother was actually gay or not, he felt like his reaction to the photo confirmed it. This was because unlike his usual glance, he was looking at the picture, ad he seemed to like what he saw. Joshua had never advertised the true brilliance of his memory to any of his family, they had no idea a glance was the same as a photo to him. In this situation he simply found no reason to look away immediately, unlike his encounter with his brother's partners or someone he didn't really know. Hanna and John had seen this too, all three of them too satisfied to realise the picture itself was not all that great.

No one could be sure why both set of parents had opted to use photos they had quenched before reaching the public, nor why of all the photos they could have chosen they went with the ones that unintentionally brought out the androgyny in both men.

Of course, no one could truly explain why neither first tried to discuss their sons' so-call sexual preferences to men.

Since finding a foundation for a merger was important, Joshua hadn't immediately dismissed the marriage meeting. Along with his parents coaxing him and giving him a photo that could give him a little hope, he had slowly found his answer swayed.

And so he agreed.