I’m With The (Boy) Band

Summer 2000. Three weeks with famous band. One mansion.

Cameras everywhere.Jaxsper Finn never wanted to be on reality TV, so how did he end up stuck in a Malibu mansion with a boy band, two other contestants, and cameras that never stop recording?Teen heartthrobs Three North are the stars of, “I'm With The Band” and Jaxsper is just one of the “normals” picked to be on the show with them. He plans to keep his love of the band a secret.What he doesn't plan for is Aiden North, the band’s lead singer.Aiden is kind and funny. He is real in a way that shouldn't be possible when you've been famous since you were thirteen.

And when Jaxsper is together with Aiden—really together, away from the cameras—Jax feels something he's never felt before.But this is reality TV. Privacy doesn't exist, and everything is content. When a stolen kiss ends up on film, Jaxsper learns exactly what it costs to have every moment of his life captured on camera.Sometimes love is worth hiding, not because it's wrong, but because it's worth protecting and sometimes the realest moments are the ones nobody else gets to see.Set 2000, the early days of reality TV, before smartphones, before social media, when mixtapes were how you said "I love you" and LiveJournal was where you processed your feelings—this is a story about surveillance and privacy, performance and authenticity, and finding something real in a world obsessed with reality.