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Rob Hutchinson is used to being the ugly duckling. Depressed and overweight and pathetically in love with his gorgeous best friend, he decides that he's had enough and he wants to change his life. So he signs up for a weight loss boot camp.

Ethan Shaw has been best friends with Rob his whole life, and he's always loved Rob for his kind, gentle character. So when his best friend drops out of his life for a long time to go to weight loss camp, Ethan finds himself lost - and missing Rob so much more than he expects.

When Rob comes back two hundred pounds lighter, Ethan is stunned by this new stranger in front of him. And Rob realises that his feelings for Ethan haven't gone away.....

[RATING: MATURE]

Credits go to the cover artist, who is NOT me, I am just borrowing this beautiful artwork!

Help! My Best Friend Is Now Hot [BL]

The first shot of whiskey burned like hell, but after the initial burn, it was easy to keep knocking them back. Ethan didn't want to think or feel, he just wanted to get the hell out of here and go somewhere, some place where no one knew him. No Julia, no Rob, no O'Leary, no anybody. But the thought of not seeing Rob actually caused a dull ache in his head, and he wondered if Julia had been right all along. Was he really in love with his best friend?


He had never really thought of himself as gay, since he had always had girlfriends since high school. Sure, now and then he had looked at another man and thought that he was rather good-looking, but that was about it. Didn't all guys do that, straight or otherwise? He had never looked at another guy and gone, "Daaaamn." He was too much of a ladies' man for that.


Then there was Rob. Not exactly in the "Daaaamn" category, even if he was the nicest guy on earth and pretty much meant everything to Ethan. The best friend he could ever hope to ask for. Someone who he could call at 3am and ask him to bail him out of jail or something, and Rob would do it in a heartbeat, no questions asked.


Rob. Ethan downed another shot of whiskey. Just thinking about the man made his heart lighter, made his head clearer. Maybe Jules was right. Maybe he was way too attached to Rob for his own good. Even more damning was the way he had been looking at Rob in the video. It was the way a teenage girl would look at BTS. Complete, utter adoration. Fuck. Was he really somehow gay?


"I'm not gay," he whispered to himself, earning a strange look from the bartender. But the truth was that gay men didn't behave differently from other men. The whole mincing, limp-wristed, sequined caricature was just an ancient stereotype. Ethan had had such friends throughout his life, like Jack, a burly electrician who went mountain-climbing during the weekends. Tough as nails, and yet he was gay. So being gay meant he was just like any regular joe, right?


But if he was really gay, as Julia had accused him, then why didn't he find men attractive? Ethan surveyed the bartender indifferently, then turned his eye to some of the other guys in the dive. Nothing. But just the thought of Rob made all kinds of things flutter in his stomach. He groaned to himself. What the hell was wrong with him?


"Fill you up?" The bartender was lifting an eyebrow at him, his hand poised to reach for the JD behind the counter.


Chapter 11