Life or Something Scary like That by T.C. Blue
Jack can't wait to start his life with Paul... but not as you are thinking. Jack and Paul were roommate at College, they shared the same dorm room and they went so good along that now that they are both in graduate program they decided to rent a small apartment together. No more shared room, each of them will have a private bedroom. And with that Jack hopes also to have a private life, since in the past four year he was almost a monk. Jack is not searching for Mr Right, but Mr Right Now is another question: Jack would do with a buddy friends relationship, someone with whom shares the bed and the morning after kiss goodbye till the next time. Someone who knows him but who doesn't want to "have" him for all the day and night.
And instead Jack finds himself with a new roommate, since Paul got knocked his sweet girlfriend Melissa, and they are marrying and Melissa's brother, Cliff needs a room. Jack is not so happy on the agreement, but when he sees Cliff he can change his mind. Cliff is a 21 years old guy with an hot body and a friendly behavior, the wet dream of every gay man. Jack is beginning to think that lucky smiles to him when he realizes that he probably has found the only 21 years old gay who is tired to play the field and wants to settle down!
So apparently two men who are perfect together, for real don't have so much in common due to only a little particular: Cliff wants forever and Jack wants now.
Jack is not such a bad guy as someone can think. He is facing the end of a very important relationship in the only way his mind could afford: rejecting the idea to allow to someone else to take the side that was of the other man. From the chaste life he had before Cliff, to the frenzy of one night stands after meeting him, Jack is in full denial.
On the other hand, Cliff, who apparently is the man who is searching a steady and long term relationship, is also him, in a way, in denial; pretending to find Mr Right at first sight, an almost impossible quest, he is avoiding to face the risk to be hurt again. He hadn't a very bad experience like Jack had, but even in his little, he was burned by love, and now he is cautious. But hoping that at 21 years old someone takes him seriously, is almost like not searching at all.
I like this story, it's a good contemporary story on very young characters. Maybe even too good for so young characters: they are behaving like worn out men with a lot of experience behind, and instead we are speaking of two boy of less than 25 years. It's not impossible that people like them really exist, but probably if there were more of them, world would be better.
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