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Myles’ jaw dropped and his heart started to beat a little faster in his chest. Was Sage actually admitting something here? Best to check… “Uh?”

Sage shrugged, “There’s no point in lying about it – you surely knew how I felt about you back when we were kids?”

Myles felt as if his heart was going to burst, “You had feelings for me?” Like the ones I had for you?

He nodded, “Well, yeah.” He said, rolling his eyes. “Couldn’t you tell?”

Myles laughed, relief flooding through him so quickly he felt a little lightheaded, “What? Between the scowls, the put-downs and the downright avoidances you managed for months at a time? Hell, sure I knew you really liked me underneath it all.”

Sage frowned, “You really didn’t know?” he asked.

Myles closed his eyes for a moment and counted to five. Opening his eyes again he decided to spell it out for his old friend, “No, Sage.” He said, “It wasn’t obvious that you liked me at all. I was besotted with you, though and I managed to maintain the hope of a small child that one day you might feel at least something for me. I never gave up.”

Sage blinked, “Yes, you did.” He said, “You gave up on me when you went to Manchester. You forgot all about me. You left me without a backwards glance and never got in touch again – until now.”

Myles looked at him incredulously, “Well yes.” He admitted, But only because you sent me that text, telling me to get lost and die.” To never bother you again because you were so over our pathetic friendship and to go and bother some other straight guy that I hoped was less straight than they first appeared.

Sage closed his eyes, his face going red with embarrassment, “Uh, yeah.” He mumbled, “I didn’t mean any of it. I was kind of hoping that we were going to gloss over that part…”

Myles snorted a laugh. Sage was impossible to stay mad at. He was impulsive, grumpy and had made some pretty terrible decisions concerning the pair of them but everything was fixable, “Come here and kiss me and maybe I’ll consider it.”

Sage’s jaw dropped, “Kiss you?” he asked his eyes going round and his face getting even redder, “Are you crazy?”

Myles shook his head, “No.” he said, “Well, maybe I’m crazy about you but I’m definitely not crazy.”

Sage finally cracked a small smile. “A kiss.” He murmured, “I don’t know…”

“What’s one little kiss between friends?” Myles encouraged, sidling across the sofa towards him.

“Oh, God. It’s got disaster written all over it.” Sage muttered under his breath.

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 I’d been so damned focused on my own truth-or-dare challenge, I hadn’t been paying proper attention. Now it occurred to me that the very beautiful and very sexy Kane had pulled a name from the hat... and that name was mine. Shit. He was far too good-looking for this...

He smiled at me. I smiled back. Why wouldn’t I? He was gorgeous...

My eyes flickered towards Elliot who was gazing at Cristian with a bit of a love-struck expression on his beautiful face. I sighed. There was no way he was ever going to be interested in me. If I was honest, I wasn’t really bothered; I was just suffering from a little hurt pride. I’d spent money on him last Christmas – the least he could have done was to give me the gift back and tell me he wasn’t interested.

Kane’s eyes followed mine to look at his friend. They narrowed slightly as he took in what I’d just seen. Elliot was clearly setting his sights on Cristian. Kane took me slightly by surprise when seconds later, he was grabbing hold of my waist and lunging at me... As his lips bumped a little clumsily against mine, I had my epiphany. I closed my eyes and parted my lips. I was instantly in heaven. It was almost as if I'd been put on this earth just to meet Kane. I honestly felt that I'd been waiting my whole life to kiss the perfect man and he'd just been delivered in the sexiest packaging imaginable. Oh, my God! Talk about your ultimate Christmas miracle!

Kurt had gone to bed by the time I got back so I couldn’t talk to him until the next morning.

With a flash of genius inspiration I started to cook bacon. No one could resist the smell of bacon... He appeared in about ten seconds.
“Bacon?” he asked, looking at me hopefully.

I raised my eyebrows at him. “You get yours when you tell me what happened to Jonny’s nose.”

He went red, “He was disrespecting you.” He said sullenly, “I didn’t like it.”

Well. I hadn’t expected that. I looked at him, “He was disrespecting me?” I asked, “How? What did he say?”

He went, if possible, even redder, “He said you were a good lay, that you were nothing but a quick roll in the sack and that he didn’t think you had any sort of future.”

I blinked. He might have put it crudely, which had clearly offended Kurt, but in all fairness, he’d got it bang on the money – because that was exactly the way I felt about him too... “Okay.”

Kurt frowned, “Okay?” he echoed, “What’s okay about that?”

I shrugged, “Well, it’s not like I’m in love with him or anything – we’ve just been messing around.”

Kurt scowled at me, “Well, I think you should choose better guys to mess around with – he’s a right wanker.”
Suppressing a smile, I nodded. "Okay," I agreed, "Good idea."

“Who’s the lucky guy?” Sebastian asked kindly. He was such a sweetheart and I could totally see how Kurt had fallen for his subtle charms.

I felt my face heating up. Shit. Was I that transparent? Sebastian had only met me a handful of times since he and Kurt got together last year – the last time being when they were home for the summer break. It had now rolled back around to the winter break and since Kurt had missed Christmas with his family last year, due to realising that he’d fallen headlong in love with his roommate, Sebastian, and had only been back for the New Year; they’d come over to us straight from university for Christmas this year, with plans to spend the first part of their Christmas break with us and to go back to Seb’s family for the New Year. “There’s no special guy.” I mumbled – lying through my teeth of course but there was no way I was about to tell them.

Kane raised an eyebrow, “Oh, yeah?” he asked, “So why are you blushing?”

“Get lost, will you?” I said defensively. Well, wasn’t that the wrong thing to say? All four of them turned to me with their mouths open and then...

“Oh, my God!” That was George.

“You really have met someone!” That was Kane, looking utterly delighted for me.

“What’s his name?” That was Sebastian.

“The boy’s finally been tamed. We have to meet this mystical creature.” And that was Kurt, grinning knowingly and looking like a Cheshire cat.

I smiled bashfully back at them all, my heart swelling with their combined enthusiasm, “I’d love you to meet him but he’s rarely around here – he’s a flight attendant...”

I didn’t actually expect any of them to know whom I was talking about, since he didn’t even live in France anymore. He was from across the border and his family lived in Turin, but he had his own apartment in Les Arcs and he spent most of his down time skiing in the winter and mountain biking in the summer. He was totally into the same things that I was. He was amazing...

I was wrong about them being clueless though. Kurt was right on it. “Are you talking about Cristian Llardi by any chance?” 

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Finished!

Myles was close, now. Too close. Sage felt hot all over and he didn’t know what to do with his arms. They all of a sudden felt too long and were just hanging at his sides. What was he supposed to do with them when Myles finally got his way and they kissed? What the hell was he supposed to do with his mouth when it was pressed tantalisingly next to Myles’ beautiful full lips? Should he use his tongue like they did in the movies or was that only in the movies and normal people didn’t do things like that? But hell, nothing was more sexy than watching Elio kiss Oliver in Call Me By Your Name. Elio’s tongue licking up Oliver’s mouth was something he’d watched a million times on YouTube. It was an incredibly sexy move and he’d been dying to use the same action on Myles ever since…

He was panicking now and he knew it. What was more, Myles would know too and then he’d want to know why – and then Sage would have to tell him that he’d never kissed anyone before and Myles would know that he’d lied in school about all of the girls he’d supposedly got off with and then he’d think he was pathetic and it would all be over…

“I’ll never leave you again.” Myles said huskily, emotion turning his voice gravelly, “I never wanted to leave you in the first place.”

“But you did.” Sage reminded him, “Because I told you to go and you left.”

He nodded, “I didn’t know what else to do.” He sighed, “I was terribly under-confident when it came to you. I didn’t know if you liked me that way and you never really seemed to want me around. I didn’t want you to hate me by staying when you didn’t feel that way about me.”

Sage’s heart tightened in his chest. He’d always felt the same way about Myles but he’d had to protect them both against Danny’s violence. If Danny had any inkling that they were more than friends it would have ended in someone being, at best, badly hurt. He didn’t want to think of the worst-case scenario. “I felt exactly the same way as you.” He whispered, “I’ve always…” he trailed off.

Myles closed the distance between them and gathered him into his arms. No words were necessary as he lowered his mouth to Sage’s and captured his lips in his own.

Sage felt his whole world shrink right down to their kiss. It was all that mattered, all that he could feel, all he could comprehend. He had no idea if he was kissing Myles back properly, going more on what felt right in the moment than anything else. His tongue seemed to have instinctively developed a mind of its own and was chasing Myles tongue every time he felt it invade his mouth. It was heaven on earth. Everything he’d ever wanted and more. Totally against his will, he felt his eyes welling up with tears. Holy shit, was he going to cry? Simply from being kissed by Myles? How utterly mortifying.

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 I’d been so damned focused on my own truth-or-dare challenge, I hadn’t been paying proper attention. Now it occurred to me that the very beautiful and very sexy Kane had pulled a name from the hat... and that name was mine. Shit. He was far too good-looking for this...

He smiled at me. I smiled back. Why wouldn’t I? He was gorgeous...

My eyes flickered towards Elliot who was gazing at Cristian with a bit of a love-struck expression on his beautiful face. I sighed. There was no way he was ever going to be interested in me. If I was honest, I wasn’t really bothered; I was just suffering from a little hurt pride. I’d spent money on him last Christmas – the least he could have done was to give me the gift back and tell me he wasn’t interested.

Kane’s eyes followed mine to look at his friend. They narrowed slightly as he took in what I’d just seen. Elliot was clearly setting his sights on Cristian. Kane took me slightly by surprise when seconds later, he was grabbing hold of my waist and lunging at me... As his lips bumped a little clumsily against mine, I had my epiphany. I closed my eyes and parted my lips. I was instantly in heaven. It was almost as if I'd been put on this earth just to meet Kane. I honestly felt that I'd been waiting my whole life to kiss the perfect man and he'd just been delivered in the sexiest packaging imaginable. Oh, my God! Talk about your ultimate Christmas miracle!

Kurt had gone to bed by the time I got back so I couldn’t talk to him until the next morning.

With a flash of genius inspiration I started to cook bacon. No one could resist the smell of bacon... He appeared in about ten seconds.
“Bacon?” he asked, looking at me hopefully.

I raised my eyebrows at him. “You get yours when you tell me what happened to Jonny’s nose.”

He went red, “He was disrespecting you.” He said sullenly, “I didn’t like it.”

Well. I hadn’t expected that. I looked at him, “He was disrespecting me?” I asked, “How? What did he say?”

He went, if possible, even redder, “He said you were a good lay, that you were nothing but a quick roll in the sack and that he didn’t think you had any sort of future.”

I blinked. He might have put it crudely, which had clearly offended Kurt, but in all fairness, he’d got it bang on the money – because that was exactly the way I felt about him too... “Okay.”

Kurt frowned, “Okay?” he echoed, “What’s okay about that?”

I shrugged, “Well, it’s not like I’m in love with him or anything – we’ve just been messing around.”

Kurt scowled at me, “Well, I think you should choose better guys to mess around with – he’s a right wanker.”
Suppressing a smile, I nodded. "Okay," I agreed, "Good idea."

“Who’s the lucky guy?” Sebastian asked kindly. He was such a sweetheart and I could totally see how Kurt had fallen for his subtle charms.

I felt my face heating up. Shit. Was I that transparent? Sebastian had only met me a handful of times since he and Kurt got together last year – the last time being when they were home for the summer break. It had now rolled back around to the winter break and since Kurt had missed Christmas with his family last year, due to realising that he’d fallen headlong in love with his roommate, Sebastian, and had only been back for the New Year; they’d come over to us straight from university for Christmas this year, with plans to spend the first part of their Christmas break with us and to go back to Seb’s family for the New Year. “There’s no special guy.” I mumbled – lying through my teeth of course but there was no way I was about to tell them.

Kane raised an eyebrow, “Oh, yeah?” he asked, “So why are you blushing?”

“Get lost, will you?” I said defensively. Well, wasn’t that the wrong thing to say? All four of them turned to me with their mouths open and then...

“Oh, my God!” That was George.

“You really have met someone!” That was Kane, looking utterly delighted for me.

“What’s his name?” That was Sebastian.

“The boy’s finally been tamed. We have to meet this mystical creature.” And that was Kurt, grinning knowingly and looking like a Cheshire cat.

I smiled bashfully back at them all, my heart swelling with their combined enthusiasm, “I’d love you to meet him but he’s rarely around here – he’s a flight attendant...”

I didn’t actually expect any of them to know whom I was talking about, since he didn’t even live in France anymore. He was from across the border and his family lived in Turin, but he had his own apartment in Les Arcs and he spent most of his down time skiing in the winter and mountain biking in the summer. He was totally into the same things that I was. He was amazing...

I was wrong about them being clueless though. Kurt was right on it. “Are you talking about Cristian Llardi by any chance?” 

Will I get it written on time???

Myles was close, now. Too close. Sage felt hot all over and he didn’t know what to do with his arms. They all of a sudden felt too long and were just hanging at his sides. What was he supposed to do with them when Myles finally got his way and they kissed? What the hell was he supposed to do with his mouth when it was pressed tantalisingly next to Myles’ beautiful full lips? Should he use his tongue like they did in the movies or was that only in the movies and normal people didn’t do things like that? But hell, nothing was more sexy than watching Elio kiss Oliver in Call Me By Your Name. Elio’s tongue licking up Oliver’s mouth was something he’d watched a million times on YouTube. It was an incredibly sexy move and he’d been dying to use the same action on Myles ever since…

He was panicking now and he knew it. What was more, Myles would know too and then he’d want to know why – and then Sage would have to tell him that he’d never kissed anyone before and Myles would know that he’d lied in school about all of the girls he’d supposedly got off with and then he’d think he was pathetic and it would all be over…

“I’ll never leave you again.” Myles said huskily, emotion turning his voice gravelly, “I never wanted to leave you in the first place.”

“But you did.” Sage reminded him, “Because I told you to go and you left.”

He nodded, “I didn’t know what else to do. You didn’t seem to want me to stay and I didn’t want you to hate me by staying when you didn’t feel that way about me.”

Sage’s heart tightened in his chest. He’d always felt the same way about Myles but he’d had to protect them both against Danny’s violence. If Danny had any inkling that they were more than friends it would have ended in someone being, at best, badly hurt. He didn’t want to think of the worst-case scenario. “I felt the same way.” He whispered, “I’ve always…” he trailed off.

Myles closed the distance between them and gathered him into his arms. No words were necessary as he lowered his mouth to Sage’s and captured his lips in his own.

Sage felt his whole world shrink right down to their kiss. It was all that mattered, all that he could feel, all he could comprehend and all that he’d ever wanted. He had no idea if he was kissing Myles back properly, going more on what felt right in the moment than anything else. His tongue seemed to have instinctively developed a mind of its own and was chasing Myles tongue every time he felt it invade his mouth. It was heaven on earth and totally against his will, he felt his eyes welling up with tears. Holy shit, was he going to cry? Simply from being kissed by Myles? How utterly mortifying.

He pulled away, his breathing laboured and his body feeling shaky, “I think I need a minute.” He managed to choke out.

Myles blinked and nodded, “Uh, sure.” He said, “Take as long as you need.”

“Oh, God. I’m sorry.” Sage gasped, wiping his eyes on the backs of his hands, “I don’t know what’s the matter with me.”

Myles blinked, “You don’t?” he asked, “Oh.”

Sage wiped his eyes and looked at Myles, “What?” he asked with a bit of a snarl, “What do you think’s wrong with me?”

Myles shook his head, “There’s nothing wrong with you.” He said gently, “You’ve just been living without love…” 

Sage opened his mouth to argue.

“I didn’t mean with your sister, mate.” Myles said softly, unwilling to poke the bear any more than he’d already done. “I know you love her and I can see that she loves you. What I meant was that you’ve been living without the sort of love that I can give you and I do love you, Sage, as inconvenient as it might have been for you when we were kids. I always have. I think I always will.”

Sage’s eyes filled up with new tears. Christ, he was becoming a total cry-baby. What the hell was wrong with him?

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 I’d been so damned focused on my own truth-or-dare challenge, I hadn’t been paying proper attention. Now it occurred to me that the very beautiful and very sexy Kane had pulled a name from the hat... and that name was mine. Shit. He was far too good-looking for this...

He smiled at me. I smiled back. Why wouldn’t I? He was gorgeous...

My eyes flickered towards Elliot who was gazing at Cristian with a bit of a love-struck expression on his beautiful face. I sighed. There was no way he was ever going to be interested in me. If I was honest, I wasn’t really bothered; I was just suffering from a little hurt pride. I’d spent money on him last Christmas – the least he could have done was to give me the gift back and tell me he wasn’t interested.

Kane’s eyes followed mine to look at his friend. They narrowed slightly as he took in what I’d just seen. Elliot was clearly setting his sights on Cristian. Kane took me slightly by surprise when seconds later, he was grabbing hold of my waist and lunging at me... As his lips bumped a little clumsily against mine, I had my epiphany. I closed my eyes and parted my lips. I was instantly in heaven. It was almost as if I'd been put on this earth just to meet Kane. I honestly felt that I'd been waiting my whole life to kiss the perfect man and he'd just been delivered in the sexiest packaging imaginable. Oh, my God! Talk about your ultimate Christmas miracle!

Kurt had gone to bed by the time I got back so I couldn’t talk to him until the next morning.

With a flash of genius inspiration I started to cook bacon. No one could resist the smell of bacon... He appeared in about ten seconds.
“Bacon?” he asked, looking at me hopefully.

I raised my eyebrows at him. “You get yours when you tell me what happened to Jonny’s nose.”

He went red, “He was disrespecting you.” He said sullenly, “I didn’t like it.”

Well. I hadn’t expected that. I looked at him, “He was disrespecting me?” I asked, “How? What did he say?”

He went, if possible, even redder, “He said you were a good lay, that you were nothing but a quick roll in the sack and that he didn’t think you had any sort of future.”

I blinked. He might have put it crudely, which had clearly offended Kurt, but in all fairness, he’d got it bang on the money – because that was exactly the way I felt about him too... “Okay.”

Kurt frowned, “Okay?” he echoed, “What’s okay about that?”

I shrugged, “Well, it’s not like I’m in love with him or anything – we’ve just been messing around.”

Kurt scowled at me, “Well, I think you should choose better guys to mess around with – he’s a right wanker.”
Suppressing a smile, I nodded. "Okay," I agreed, "Good idea."

“Who’s the lucky guy?” Sebastian asked kindly. He was such a sweetheart and I could totally see how Kurt had fallen for his subtle charms.

I felt my face heating up. Shit. Was I that transparent? Sebastian had only met me a handful of times since he and Kurt got together last year – the last time being when they were home for the summer break. It had now rolled back around to the winter break and since Kurt had missed Christmas with his family last year, due to realising that he’d fallen headlong in love with his roommate, Sebastian, and had only been back for the New Year; they’d come over to us straight from university for Christmas this year, with plans to spend the first part of their Christmas break with us and to go back to Seb’s family for the New Year. “There’s no special guy.” I mumbled – lying through my teeth of course but there was no way I was about to tell them.

Kane raised an eyebrow, “Oh, yeah?” he asked, “So why are you blushing?”

“Get lost, will you?” I said defensively. Well, wasn’t that the wrong thing to say? All four of them turned to me with their mouths open and then...

“Oh, my God!” That was George.

“You really have met someone!” That was Kane, looking utterly delighted for me.

“What’s his name?” That was Sebastian.

“The boy’s finally been tamed. We have to meet this mystical creature.” And that was Kurt, grinning knowingly and looking like a Cheshire cat.

I smiled bashfully back at them all, my heart swelling with their combined enthusiasm, “I’d love you to meet him but he’s rarely around here – he’s a flight attendant...”

I didn’t actually expect any of them to know whom I was talking about, since he didn’t even live in France anymore. He was from across the border and his family lived in Turin, but he had his own apartment in Les Arcs and he spent most of his down time skiing in the winter and mountain biking in the summer. He was totally into the same things that I was. He was amazing...

I was wrong about them being clueless though. Kurt was right on it. “Are you talking about Cristian Llardi by any chance?” 

And when you've read that one, get a load of this standalone Christmas romance....

Conner raised an eyebrow. “Did you do something stupid?” he asked with the ghost of a smile.

I nodded maintaining my no-eye-contact façade, “Yup,” I sighed.

He brightened and sat forward in his seat, “What? You mean… did you actually tell him?” he sounded pleased and incredulous all at the same time.

I rubbed my eyes and looked up at him sheepishly; I was never any good at the whole no-eye-contact thing anyway, “Yup,”

He looked hopefully at me, “And?” he asked with a hint of a smile.

I looked at the two eager faces before me. There wasn’t a trace of gleeful mickey taking in either of them. They both knew the way I’d felt about Skye back in school and sixth form – hell, sad git that I am, they knew that I’d never felt that way about anyone since too.

I shrugged, “He already knew,” I said. “He reckoned he looked for me to tell me he’d made a mistake but…” I trailed off.

“Well, why don’t you go over there and ask him to go out for a drink with you one night, then?” he nodded in the general direction of where I’d been stood talking to him.

I scratched my neck nervously, “I can’t do that – I’ll look all pathetic and needy.”

"I don't want to knock your confidence, mate - but you are all pathetic and needy." Biff leaned forward and patted me on the shoulder, "we've been propping you up for years, mate - it's Christmas, just get laid, already." 

Biff had such a nice turn of phrase...

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