With the case of John-Paul and Craig it was inevitable they were going to end up together after John-Paul declared his love for him only to then try and say he was going through a confused state and is in fact not gay or in love with Craig. The two started off merely as acquaintances but were soon best-friends and spending every free minute with one another even when they were with their girlfriends. Originally John Paul is quite good at hiding his true sexuality and even convinces himself to date his friend Hannah and double date with Craig and Sarah. He soon seems to be fighting his conscience and abruptly dumps Hannah leaving her distraught and emotional. However John-Paul is soon talked around by his and Hannah's mutual friends and he soon rekindles his relationship with Hannah and tries to do all the things a caring boyfriend would do which in the long run just makes him miserable. On one of their many dates after having fallen in the lake by the pub 'The Dog in the Pond' and gone back to Hannah's to dry off the two consummate their relationship which makes Hannah feel ecstatically happy whilst John-Paul seems a bit withdrawn from the whole situation until Craig starts to badger him about how it was and to rate Hannah out of 10. The whole Hannah and John-Paul relationship was a sham from the start, Hannah and John-Paul should have realised that it would never work especially since John-Paul kept having mood-swings, kept ending and re-starting the relationship and continuously lied to hide the fact that he is in fact a homosexual and to make matters worse fancies his best-friend.
With the John-Paul and Craig relationship it was affair/secret from day one. After John-Paul finally came out as being gay and became comfortable with it there was the initial tiff between them due to Craig feeling slightly uneasy but that was soon forgotten when Craig realised he'd lose his best-friend if he was too suddenly become homophobic. The friendship then took an unexpected turn when John-Paul seemed to be getting over Craig, Craig seemed to be not able to cope with it, was somewhat jealous and soon realised that he was just as attracted to John-Paul as he is too him. There is a new found twist when the two sleep together but rather than Craig being just as happy as John-Paul he is instead disgusted with himself and goes on to call John-Paul a faggot when he tries to console/comfort him. Which is kind of confusing for both the viewing audience and John-Paul as Craig is the one who came crying to John-Paul's house. Wanting to know when he got over him and whether have sex with a man felt wrong.
"Get your hands off me! FAGGOT!" Craig.
However from that moment Craig is drawn to John-Paul spending his free time with John-Paul rather than Sarah whenever he can, dating the pair of them knowing that it is not fair on either on them but sort of keeping Sarah to hide the fact that he is in a homosexual relationship and is indeed in love with John-Paul and just loves Sarah the way friends love one another. When it finally comes out that Craig and John-Paul are sleeping together, the two families are up in arms. Craig's family because they seem to be somewhat homophobic and can't understand why he has chose to be this way. Whilst John-Paul's family are not happy because they think he should have left Craig alone as he was already with Sarah. But no-one seems to understand or see that Craig pursued John-Paul, John-Paul kept rejecting his advances but Craig wore him down until he could have both for his own personal pleasure. In the end Craig admits that John-Paul means more to him than Sarah after getting caught fooling around with her at his engagement party to Sarah.The trouble being that Craig is slightly embarrassed by the prospect of being gay and is unable and unwilling to kiss or even touch John-Paul in public leaving the two to go their own separate ways. They reunite sometime later and Craig has now embraced his gay side and is no longer afraid to be intimate with John-Paul in public. This time when Craig leaves John-Paul goes after him and the two walk off in the sunset together. Happily holding one another intimately on the train without a care in the world.
This programme partially related to my short film in the way in which Craig feels the necessity to hide his romance with John-Paul from his family and friends. He feels as though he is unable to tell anyone as they will not accept it nor understand which is true to some degree because even when Craig admits to loving John-Paul to his mother she's quick to ignore it and tell him to beg Sarah to take him back. His older brother Jake was totally disgusted by the notion of his brother being more interested in men and made no secret about it and even flinched when Craig squeezed past him. His family eventually came to terms with it but it seems like it is something they neither discuss nor acknowledge.
