As will happen in a house full of people, someone will intrude at just the wrong moment, and it caused a whole lot of heartache. I was dismayed, too, every time Mac denied his “gayness” knowing that it gutted Jez. Mac seems so hesitant, so reticent, that I was as surprised as Jez when Mac takes control in their experimentations. He tells this story and his POV is so bittersweet. Jez is taken with Mac and he’s heartbroken when they finally do go out with their friends and women are hitting on Mac right in front of him. I found this to be a very tender friends-to-lovers story. Each time he has to walk Mac back, however, as Mac is opposed to considering himself even a little gay, being a recipient of all Jez’s sexual favors notwithstanding.

Jez wants more, and is sometimes able to achieve it when he and Mac are fortified by liquid courage. They talk about school, work on projects together, and play video games. His revised opinion is “potentially bisexual” as he finds Mac to be extremely good-looking, sexy and-as they spend more and more time together-interesting on a personal level. Jez went to private boarding school and he had many male partners in his adolescence, though he rather considered himself straight. And he is stunned when Mac agrees.Īs the weeks pass, Jez’s desire for Mac climbs. Without the chance of meeting people for sex, Jez suggests they jerk off together. So they spend a lot of quiet Friday and Saturday nights at home. While they both want to go out partying this term, neither is in position to do so: Jex is skint (broke) and Mac needs to focus on his assignments. Mac’s folks are pretty much expecting Mac to flunk out after he didn’t keep on his studies.

Jez’s parents have money but cut off his allowance after Jez rang up a huge debt drinking last term. Jez and Mac are housemates in their second year of uni.

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