BOOK ONE
Discovering your sexuality in high-school is one of the most challenging things a teenage boy can face. Being closet gay for months, finally coming out, being greeted with a punch in the face and being shunned is even worse.
For Julian Dou...
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I bit my lips, his mouth opening before he uttered the only thing that made sense to me, "God loves all his children, right?"
Paul hit my shoulder lightly, his fingers curling around the sign and lifting it back up, smiling at me before turning around and holding it higher, his back flexing in the sun through his fitted t-shirt.
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Julian (Jules) Douglas:: preacher's kid, star student, athletically gifted. Paul (Pauly) Jones:: couch-hopper, taking a break before college, artistic genius.
"I don't believe being gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight is a choice, nor are you born that way. I'd like to believe that whatever happens, happens." -t.d.