6/8/2015 c8 chocovic-chu
I LOVE Bobby! He was too adorkable to resist! He just had this charm that out-shining other characters; I never knew I would find this kind of straight male chara in slash stories. :)
Thanks for sharing! I enjoy it so much - especially when reading Bobby!

6/9/2013 c8 Sugartits
That was friggin adorable x

8/6/2012 c8 Maria
Lol so im the 100th review words dont begin to describe how incredible this is i loved the story! I started reading it at like 12 in the morning cuz i was bores i stayed up to 4 almost 5 in the morning to finish this story i fell inlove with the two bestfriends i thought they would end up together at the end but oh well i still loved the ending by the way im also a yaoi fangirl but im 12 so ppl think its wierd but oh well my friends told me bout it and i liked it i like sweet romantic gay stories not jusy erotic smut (again im 12) but im turning 13 in a month lol sorry this is so long but it has always been hard for me to find a good romantic LONG story and i finally found it so thank you:D

3/11/2012 c8 xfffxfxfx
Okay, I'm surprised how well you've portrayed everything, given that you're a straight guy. Not that I'm trying to minimize your achievement ("Pretty good... for a straight guy") I'm just saying you've done well to overcome those barriers. Especially the first section, until they leave for college - very well done.

I found the second section less compelling than the first. Instead of the characters pushing the story forward with their desires and motivations, you basically contrived a slapstick comedy. It's amusing, alright, but it doesn't have the poignance or power of the first half.

10/4/2011 c8 16Ioga
This wasn't quite among my favourites, but I guess mostly because of the weight it put on observed difficulties of being yourself. It's just that the depressiveness gets to me. Also, I suspect I didn't need _more_ indications that Texas is a strange place indeed; when will someone write something where the population of Texas is somehow generalized as, uh, sane? Or at least focus on their strengths and let us know what they are? X-)

But even here, I learn new stuff. "Pulling back cuticles the right way" sounded like a genital area operation to me, particularly in context of "trimmers", until later when Chaz was finding this stuff out by just looking at Bobby's hands (although there's these theories of what you can tell from people's relative finger lengths...). ;)

And this story successfully hurt my head too! Oh man, if the earlier education about high heels made me momentarily reassess my feminity, all the demands for manicuric activities etc dished out by Alex jumped straight to the deep end of the pool. I'm not sure how to feel about guys getting pressured on their looks - I'd prefer that _no one_ does more than "getting even" about the status quo. So in other words, I'd like to go "ha-ha" at making Bobby spend time on looking right for his girlfriend (who notices all these things as much as Alex), but particularly in this case, it comes out more of a "gulp". "Where does failte's material come from? Real minds of reasonably intelligent people?"

I'll try not to ponder what random semi-familiar gay men of the Alex type might think of my surface finish - and instead hope that the intense critical focus on appearances implied here is really just a side effect of the competitors being the same gender as the targets of attraction - which would mean the criticism is only applied to other guys, while women are off the hook. But I really don't understand people obsessing about visual details when I don't have the eye for it myself, and it bothers me to think that other people's looks could possibly be as painful to such people as someone making a continuous obnoxious noise would be to me. Well, I hope not anyway. (Finns are genetically specialized in obsessing about what other people think of them, can you tell. "Don't do anything that might be the equivalent of making an obxnoxious sound at some people, or karma will catch up with you for not upholding their needs." ;))

But then actually, come to think of it, I might also be reading Alex' commentary from the wrong cultural perspective. Instead of suffering so badly that he is forced to comment (in the nature of "I love you dearly but will you PLEASE stop making that noise, I can't concentrate on anything!"), maybe he just doesn't respect Bobby's personal space quite as much as I'm inclined to assume (in the nature of "oh and by the way, your ****'s so small it matches your brain, and you also seriously need a manicure"). Given their other exchanges, this might be the case.

Educative stuff, your writing. Got lots of humanity stashed between the lines.

Nitpick of the day: a good spellchecker could probably catch some of the typoes in this one. :)

Thanks for this!

6/2/2011 c8 7SarryMatts
I really enjoyed this. At first I wondered if it was going to be another cliché of best friends having feelings for each other/one triggering the other to develop feelings and they end up together plots but wow was I wrong.

You tackled something not many people do; the difficulty a straight teenager may have accepting his best friend wasn’t and you did it so well! I think the way you had Bobby gradually deal with it and come to understand it was very well done. It wasn’t a sudden ‘I get it now’ moment.

The characters were all unique and interesting yet realistic and bonded well together. I enjoyed the friendship between Bobby and Alex just as I liked how realistically you portrayed the romantic relationships. Chaz was probably my favourite, he had an interesting back story and it showed how his attitude to life had developed. He wasn’t just an ‘I hate straight people because they’re straight and different to me’ character.

Also, you had relationships end and it wasn’t because one betrayed the other! It’s important that stories show real life and sometimes things just don’t work or people drift apart.

The last line was great too.

Anyway! Thank you so much for writing this! It’s brilliant!

I’ll stop my rambling now 

Amazing story. Glad I stumbled across it.

5/9/2011 c8 Feeshes
XD Fantastic, my friend!

I loved their prank it was damn hilarious.