The Best Gift by Shawn Lane

[reviews_and_ramblings]

Take two young pretty boys who know each other since forever and so, in a way, bring with them all the innocence of youth, add my personal kinks of the difference in body structure of the two guys and the long hair of one of them, and you have the recipe of a very nice short story.

Apparently Malcolm is an high maintenance lover, small and pretty but not so independent, he seems perfectly paired with Jordan, wealthy macho latino man, police officer and 12 years older. And if sometime Jordan has that superior attitude that makes you cringe, well, Malcolm seems happy so the reader, and best friend Dustin, can’t really deny him the perfect boyfriend. But when Jordan comes out like a totally cheating man, to only person to whom Malcolm can turn is his best friend Dustin, the same best friend who is pining after him. Malcolm doesn’t know, and Dustin didn’t tell, but now having the man in the close quarter of his one bedroom apartment is like torture.

What I liked of this story is that, even if Jordan was a cheating man, he wasn’t a totally negative character. In a way, he was right for Malcolm, if Malcolm wasn’t already “booked” by Dustin, romance rules speaking. Jordan has his idea on love, and being faithful is not one of them, but he is not treating badly Malcolm; he is attentive and careful, and even when they went separate way, he still has some attention for him. But when I said that Malcolm was booked by Dustin, I mean that they are predestined lovers; they met when they were teenagers, they fell in love even if no one of them had the courage to admit that, probably since they were too young. They need only the time to realize that, and their happily ever after is ready right there, for them to reach it. So, in a way, Jordan did a favour to Malcolm cheating on him, he gave to Malcolm a reason to reach for Dustin and their happiness together.

Both Dustin than Malcolm are still so young, and life for them is still something they will have to discover; no one of them is stronger than the other, they are both at the beginning of their path; the sweetness of this story is that they have the change to walk that path together, forever and ever, one of the few chance for your first love to be also the last one.

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