I really really liked this story! The way you described Tanner and Roz and Japheth was amazing. I would love to read a sequel about Japheth though: the ending may have been very realistic, but it still made me really sad for him. I would love to read about him finding his own happiness and to get his side of the story, and even maybe the possibility of reconciling with Tanner who has been his best friend since childhood?

Anyways, great work and thank you so much for posting. :)

As a lover of words, awkward boys, and soft romance, I can hardly express how perfect is this story. Tanner's character is so real, so human, so endearingly flawed... Reading this story was like drinking a warm cup of apple cider on a cold, windy autumn evening. Soft, spicy, tender, comforting, with the sweetest aftertaste. Thank you!

You gotta be pretty freakin amazing to write this. Tanner's so well done and Roz is obvious, but that doesn't matter. They were cute, they were natural and you're my next hero:)

really good story...very sweet...wish it had been longer or there had been a sequel

This one was brillaint too! XD

I love your characters, they are all so interesting and different and... they're just great! _

Um, anyways, I had to favourite it because it deserves it and it'll save me the trouble of hunting it down when I next feel like reading it. :p

This is so weird! At first I thought he'd get with Japheth, but I like Roz more anyway. Really, he's prefect for Tanner, because Tanner is such a mess.

I feel bad for Japheth, though (how do you even pronounce that name...jsut the spelling is killing me...)

Anyway. Stop babbling now.

~S

I have somewhat mixed feelings about this story. Mostly, I absolutely loved it. Tanner is wonderful and so interesting, especially some of the words that he has trouble with, because I can completely see what it is that he doesn't like. The way Tanner experiences some words brings to mind a form of synesthesia, although I'm not sure if that was you were going for. In any case, it was very evocative. I also love how intuitively Roz understands Tanner and how well he slips into Tanner's life. I will admit to being seriously upset by the whole debacle with Japheth, because I loved him, too. I honestly thought it was heading for a threesome there for a while...but mostly I was upset that things got so bad they couldn't even be friends in the end (although I will admit that was a realistic way to handle it all, since that situation would be very upset in real life).

Anyhow. I really did enjoy this and it's probably a story I'll come back to later on, even if I know the ending will make me simultaneously happy and sad.

I love this so much. I think I saw a typo or two, but I can't remember where. I think a lot of people can identify with Tanner a little bit on some level, but you did an amazing job on conveying his character through-out. And Roz is so sweet. 3

Wow. This made me feel a bit emotional and raw and wow. I really like stories with crossed wires and all that and this was executed so well I just- ...now I need more. Damn.

What an amazing story. It made me so worried for him in the middle hoping it would turn out well then so fluffy and warm at the end. Thank you so much!

Wonderful and beautiful story! I loved your characters, they all felt so real. Tanner's point of view was great. It was sad that things didn't end well with Japhet because he really was a good friend. Maybe sometime he will forgive them. And I loved Roz. He was so great and sweet and understanding and really interested. It must have been such a relief for Tanner to find someone that wanted to understand him, that asked the right questions and doesn't just tolerates his Habits but also loves them as much as him.

Thanks for writing such a beautiful story :)

I.. I feel so heartbroken. I thought they would all end up happy in a triangle, but it just wasn't meant to be. D:

The writing was lovely, and my compliments for your style. It was a good read, and I think the way you worked in Tanner's "habits" into the whole perspective really made this piece stick out.

i'm in love with this story! tanner was just so innocent.. i love how you let the sexual tension between him and roz grow so slowly ) i just wish jaspeth and tan could've stayed friends, but that wasn't really a possibility in that situation, was it? thank you for making my day!

Oh my, I love this. Fantastic.

I have to confess that I have mixed reviews about this fic. On the one hand Tanner gets a guy who understands him (and that's pretty hard to do), who wouldn't love that. But in the course of this love he loses his 2 friends. So the conclusion I must come to is that you have to write a sequel with Japheth coming back...