The ending is also beautiful - I love the fact that the two of them are young (they're still in college) so I believe that they have a long happy journey ahead of him. The words that Brian tells Tate are so beautiful, it just choke me up. How he tries so hard to tell Tate that he is gay and he is love with Tate. How he hurts for Tate and how he yearns to keep Tate safe. So you would see how he feels for Tate and how he deals with his own understanding that he is gay and he wants Tate like he wants no one else before. The story was told in 3rd person but from Brian's point of view.

True that Brian starts with girlfriend but he realizes that girls do not work him up - and he comes out from his closet (with the help of his ex-girlfriend). It's not a gay-for-you story, despite the blurb saying that Brian so outwardly straight. This was a beautiful hurt/comfort story, that just squeezed my heart, and well, made me cry. *sniff* Sorry, I just had to wipe my tears a bit. But how could he convince Tate that he had feelings for him, when Tate thought that he was straight and he was so used to being invinsible? It might took a grand gesture to do so, but so-help-him-God, Brian would do anything to make Tate see him for who he really was. Brian couldn't help to want to protect Tate from all harm, to save him before Tate lost his soul. However, after they became friends and moved in together, Brian learned that there was more to Tate than just a kid with strange look and non-stop talk. Tate was an extraordinary sight, half his face was taken up with a glorious tribal tattoo, his right ear, nose, eyebrow, and lip pierced, and his dark hair cut into a Mohawk.

Brian Cooper first met Tate Walker on a bus, when the latter came to sit right next to him.

The Talker Collection by Amy Lane