Adam was exploring curiously through the garden, not straying far but also not paying attention as Alec started looking through the gifts. Puzzled at the question, Adam looked over, and then wondered if he'd made a mistake. Cosmo was about make-up tips and crushes on boys, right? It was a magazine teenage girls read. Maybe the wrong choice to offer the male guardian, but it had been available, and Adam had picked up the water-stained copy because it was free and a glimpse of the outside world that Alec might appreciate.

"What?" Adam asked, coming over to find out what Alec was talking about. He glanced at the page and blushed, startled to find that it was a very explicit article about sex positions. The accompanying illustrations weren't exactly pornographic, but they very clearly implied the situation. "Oh," he said, turning deep red and feeling light-headed again. He had a crush on the attractive male guardian, and now he'd given him a heterosexual sex guide.