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Only pleading doesnt sound right.
After all, those puppy-dog eyes are more often than not used to express a feeling of cloying sentimentality.
Over the course of eight episodes, Charlie and Nicks relationship grows more and more complicated.
But more to the point, its the kind we wish we couldve experienced ourselves.
Hapless run-ins in the hallway.
Apologies in the rain.
Kisses at the park.
Here is nostalgia as a vehicle for healing.
Therein lies the appeal of gay YA for those of us squarely outside the young adult moniker.
It offers templates for what couldve been, yes.
But in that phantom nostalgia theres also a hidden plea for the future these storiescan help construct.
