You Were Always On My Mind by Deirdre O'Dare

[reviews_and_ramblings]

Although I can't expect much in a very short story like this one, 37 pages, the author manages to make me change my mind on one of the two hero even in few pages.

Garth and Peter went to high school together. I believe that Garth had an hero adoration for Peter: Garth was a nerdy type, all books and school, to much shy to be forward with girls, and so he remained alone by himself; his only link to the outside world was Peter, the bad boy of the school, that parents avoid and that daughters always looked for. Handsome and friendly, he took Garth under his wing (maybe also with a selfish interest, since the boy did his homework) and Garth was more than happy to follow. There was no hint in Garth's recollection of the past to a sexual interest, if not for an only night, when Peter and Garth fooled around with too much beer in body, but the morning after all was like before, and then they went to different college and different life.

Now Garth is a high-paid lawyer specialized in the show business world, and Peter is a famous singer with a problem. It's obvious that Peter asks to Garth to be his lawyer, it's not so obvious that, from the first time they met, Peter shifts their relationship to a personal level and Garth is unable to deny him. Peter has the reputation of a womanizer, in the magazines is not said that he is into men, and Garth has always thought to be a one man type... so why neither of them deny what is it happening between them.

At first Peter is not a very nice character; even when he was a teenager, he was arrogant and even a bit selfish. As an adult, nothing is changed, he still takes what he wants without asking, almost believing that all is due since he is the MAN. Truth be told he is willing to reciprocate, but still, it would be nice if he asked at least once. Anyway, Garth is not the type of man who resents to be treated in a submissive way: there is not a clear reference to a D/s relationship, but it's obvious that Peter and Garth correspond to the classical top and bottom pair. As Peter said, they have a past in common that allows Peter to skip a lot of step in his new relationship with Garth, and maybe this also allows to Garth to be comfortable with Peter in a way he would never be with someone else.

So yes, the story is nice, even if I would likely kill Peter if I met him in real life. And they spend a lot of time in bed, there is really no time to relate them with the outside world, but well, it's always the same problem when the story is short.

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