Kyle and Jonathan were perfect for each other, the two halves that, once together, made a whole. And then one snowy night just before Parents’ Weekend on the campus of Hamilton University, Kyle drops a bomb: he’s breaking up with Jonathan. Follow the couple through the stormy (in more ways than one) night that ensues. Why has Kyle suddenly decided to throw away something so precious and good? The answers lie in their backgrounds, and will gradually come to light as a winter blizzard rages around the young couple. Their tortured paths bring them to the covered bridge where their love had sprung to life on a hot summer day. But will the warmth of that memory and the heat of the love they once shared be enough to outclass the storm, and more importantly, bring them back together?

Class Distinctions

That summer day had been the first time Kyle had kissed him. Jonathan stilled at the memory of the kiss, not just because of the wonderful physical sensations it had brought on, but also because of how weighted the gesture was with meaning, with the import of something beginning


He remembered all that had followed the kiss, the almost wordless surrender of each other’s bodies to the other, the frantic embraces, and the hurry to shed their clothes. It was like a moment that had been coming for weeks, since they had first laid eyes on each other at the beginning of the school year, and now that the moment had arrived, it couldn’t happen fast enough. He recalled kissing Kyle everywhere on his body, working his way down from lips to neck, to chest, to nipples, to tracing the line of dark brown hair that bisected his navel and led farther south.


Chapter 12