"My One True Weakness"

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This discussion is about the story My One True Weakness, currently standing at three chapters.

 

As always, be warned that there may be spoilers in the discussion below.

 

This story, which appears to date back to 2001-2002 based on the Nifty posting, takes a new perspective. The protagonist this time is the beautiful, attractive kid that everyone wants to meet and go with. Yet he finds this position strangely unsatisfying. We first meet the main character, Russ, in the midst of awesome sex with an awesome and equally handsome guy named Joey, who is totally infatuated with Russ. But Russ's feelings don't return the love.

 

At 15 years of age, I've had sex a total of 18 times with five different people. And you know what? Once the whole mystery and initial wonder of sex is gone...it really is highly overrated. It doesn't take long to realize that after the first few times. That's when you begin to search for something more than just a warm body to snuggle with. You go looking for something that can change, that can grow, that can surprise you once in a while and make you feel whole and complete inside. Basically...something that has the ability to make you feel good for longer than 'fifteen minutes with foreplay'. And as cute as he was, and a nice guy to boot, Joey was not it.

Here is a guy with the sex life any other high school student would die for, and he's bored and indifferent about it. He wants something more.

 

That something appears in the shape of a freshman named Colin. Russ falls head over heels. But Colin seems to be afraid to let a relationship develop. We readers are suspicious that Colin really is gay, and that his longtime friend, Missy, is trying to get him to overcome his fears and make something happen with Russ, but Colin seems unwilling to cross that bridge. Russ, in the meantime, can't figure out what's going on, and is deathly afraid of making a misstep -- especially if it should turn out that Colin is not gay after all.

 

So we leave Russ at the end of chapter 3, having mind-blowing sex with Joey again, but the whole time imagining that it's really with Colin. And that was more than 7 years ago (the last chapter posted in December, 2002). Alas, poor Russ's love has remained unrequited for far too long.

 

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