What Happens at Christmas
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When two friends pose as boyfriends, could what happens at Christmas turn into something more? Justin is recently and unhappily single. Christmas is coming, and he doesn't want to face his ex alone at their office party. So Sean-Justin's best mate and long-time secret crush-volunteers to go with him and pretend to be his new flame. Sean has always lusted after Justin from afar, but there's never been a good opportunity to ask him for more than friendship. Posing as Justin's boyfriend isn't a chore, and if Justin wants to rebound onto him, Sean's more than willing. At the party pretence and reality blur, and a kiss on the dance floor leads to a night of passion. In the aftermath, they both assume it was a one-time thing until fate intervenes. Stuck together in London over the holidays, they give in to temptation again. But what happens at Christmas stays at Christmas... right?
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TWO ½ Stars
Although the MCs in this short are post-college and already in the workforce (one is) it very much felt like an NA to me and that's one genre I tread lightly. In any case this was a sweet friends-to-lovers story for Justin & Sean friends since childhood who had “fancied” each other since their teens but had never let each other know in spite of being BFFs mainly because Justin came out young but not so Sean.
Fast forward and Sean is returning home after doing some traveling and is staying with Justin for a few days. Justin has broken up with a cheating ex and needs a date to the office Christmas party. Sean volunteers to pose as his new boyfriend and .... we all know what happens.
I guess I wasn't convinced that there was a real lasting passion in these two. It felt more like “lads” scratching an itch and it does seem fun but as far as a HEA I'd have to see more of them in adult form to believe it.
Something to read if you have a couple of hours to kill and don't want to engage your brain much. I quickly forgot the name of both MCs because they had zero personality traits to make them memorable.
