Roads. They all just connect to each other to lead to a486Please respect copyright.PENANAjtRWrSSYtS
specific destination. It’s like you need to memorize a specific combination—or486Please respect copyright.PENANAlWEw3WcOm2
two—just to end up with an even more specific outcome. But how do we remember486Please respect copyright.PENANAbaQLEUf1lr
the longest of combinations, like the one Ms. Sara Leslie had to memorize to486Please respect copyright.PENANAtYAcq7k9tb
get to the Airbnb she rented. The same Airbnb she was driving Caspian Grenfield486Please respect copyright.PENANAnFn8l0VJDJ
and all the other seven chosen boys were headed to.
“How did they even get there?” you may ask. Well, you see…
“Will Caspian Grenfield, Isaac Blueburn, Jax Jackson,486Please respect copyright.PENANAZWszRyTpbS
Robinson Wyatt, Lee Emmet, Caleb and William Otto, and Mason Emalia please486Please respect copyright.PENANAC5sMPf8eHe
report to the principal’s office right now?”
Caspian flinched upon hearing his name come out of their486Please respect copyright.PENANAYp5m0mwkMZ
school’s intercom. It was especially shocking to hear it along with those other486Please respect copyright.PENANAaIkYEQIaEz
names. He was a bit terrified of the thought that he might’ve become a486Please respect copyright.PENANAuQsR2NBmAq
delinquent. I mean, yes, he is over exaggerating, but could you really486Please respect copyright.PENANAb1P512YLEN
blame him? He was one of those kids who always passed their homework on time486Please respect copyright.PENANASY7ZiJqTCq
and has never had a grade lower than above average. He was always avoiding486Please respect copyright.PENANAaNx4ETLueW
trouble wherever he went, and it just wasn’t normal to hear his name being used486Please respect copyright.PENANA3hnvsDbXr4
along with all those others. Or at all.
He knew it must’ve been a mistake, so he ignored it and calmed486Please respect copyright.PENANAW9FpyWkRQv
himself down. Until the intercom called again.
Now this time, he knew it was real. His palms were damp, and486Please respect copyright.PENANA2APp0u3Q71
his legs shook. He looked and acted as if he was actually gonna face an486Please respect copyright.PENANAiONrFvdCKp
executioner than a principal. Little did he know that it was absolutely nothing486Please respect copyright.PENANA1Rp2hxLlJJ
like that at all.
…
“You called to see me, Ma’am…?”
When Caspian peeped into the principal’s office, his stomach486Please respect copyright.PENANA0DXgsflB03
dropped. William Otto, Mason Emalia, and Jax Jackson stared at him, sitting on486Please respect copyright.PENANABtYzqsRSs4
the three single armchairs along the side of the room. Their attention was486Please respect copyright.PENANAjEusaX6V7B
consumed by his presence, and he didn’t like it.
William Otto was an Alpha, the kind that shows it without486Please respect copyright.PENANAuRP05mNxpu
effort at all. The doctors found out as soon as he was born—and that barely486Please respect copyright.PENANAtDAwiSkO98
even happens. When he was going through puberty, he went from 4’11 to 5’9 in486Please respect copyright.PENANA7wxWggbUYB
less than three years. People thought that he was fifteen when he was actually486Please respect copyright.PENANAYzc7s5Zsxn
just twelve. Now that he’s a senior, he stood at 6’2—and that’s why it’s quite486Please respect copyright.PENANAp9T0ukKjpo
difficult to walk through the halls now without getting so much attention.
Though Will looked like the kind of Alpha that could486Please respect copyright.PENANAdYuzvfOdWS
kill a Grizzly Bear, he didn’t act like it. Yes, he was tall, had broad486Please respect copyright.PENANAo4N8TlNPfd
shoulders, and had abs that could bite; but he wasn’t all that. He was486Please respect copyright.PENANASbM6RCU6zi
kind, compassionate, and really, really friendly. He was the type of guy486Please respect copyright.PENANAnZBsvEkzqi
you could depend on and talk to. He could work in groups of eight and make sure486Please respect copyright.PENANAJ8LTHJ0kY1
everyone had a job to do—and you wouldn’t feel the pressure of doing too much486Please respect copyright.PENANAgrbvIQr4Oc
work. He was a sensitive giant, a large teddy bear. That was kind of why he was486Please respect copyright.PENANAOnX1lTfase
the student body president.
Mason Emalia was the Star Player of their basketball team.486Please respect copyright.PENANAOyUEaa3LSR
Though his performance at school wasn’t the best, he’d always make it up to you486Please respect copyright.PENANA5ykEV4TGSI
on the court. He was a ruthless player and a worthy opponent. The only thing486Please respect copyright.PENANAzCE0Ib0cQT
you could beat him at was chess. Jeez, he hated chess.
And finally, Jax Jackson, the mischief. He was the definition486Please respect copyright.PENANAAunl5vqEgg
of “gay and ready to play”—it’s true, he’s the one who made it. Though nobody486Please respect copyright.PENANAFJtGr5c8tE
really knew where he landed on the spectrum, everyone at school knew that he486Please respect copyright.PENANA4cpCyiLQYY
was only interested in men. All the girls would ever hear about him were, “I486Please respect copyright.PENANAAPyfYU82HJ
don’t know why, but he was amazing in bed,” and the like. There was even a486Please respect copyright.PENANAg8qnSdXsAU
rumor the spread like wildfire about him being able to get into their science486Please respect copyright.PENANAMPL3DPD8Q5
teacher’s pants—who was at least forty years old for your information.
Seeing all these boys here made Caspian feel so small, as if486Please respect copyright.PENANAocvEf9tP2z
he was just a puny ant who could get stepped on in any minute. It terrified him486Please respect copyright.PENANAN5HFH9YdDH
to the bone. And this was just the first three, where were the other four?
“Caspian, please have a seat while we wait for the others,”486Please respect copyright.PENANAcy0QR6P4K1
Principal Gwen said calmly as she gestured to the seats in front of his desk.
Caspian took a seat on the couch in front of the three other486Please respect copyright.PENANAmDBdkw3DuM
boys who watched his every move (But that was what Caspian thought. They were486Please respect copyright.PENANA4T3hnXMJuv
actually just bored out of their minds right now.)
They silently waited. All they could ever hear was the486Please respect copyright.PENANAmwnbSEG8Pr
tapping of their Principal’s computer keys. Tik, tik, tik, they went.
Finally, the silence was broken when someone opened the door.486Please respect copyright.PENANA9X1jLkBarK
Another one of the eight boys who were beckoned by their intercom. And who486Please respect copyright.PENANAH5v64Q1Nu6
exactly? None other than Robinson Wyatt, Caspian’s one and only childhood486Please respect copyright.PENANADDbtX1xO33
crush.
They weren’t close when Caspian first saw him, but he thought486Please respect copyright.PENANAnuZQnW1L0B
that Robbie was… cool. He watched him play around in the playground from a486Please respect copyright.PENANA38Rh0kOxaC
distance but never found the courage to actually talk to him. He was too afraid486Please respect copyright.PENANAxxv77DRVdN
that Robbie would think that he was just a stupid Omega with no friends.
A few years later, word got around that Robbie was an Alpha486Please respect copyright.PENANApKXRvwEnH5
and that just made things more confusing for him. He couldn’t understand why486Please respect copyright.PENANA7v876FfadO
his face would heat up or why his heart skipped a beat when Robbie passed him.486Please respect copyright.PENANAGoVefWqGJT
It was a weird feeling that forced him to grin for no reason. Soon, he found486Please respect copyright.PENANANHB5QThk7H
out that it was Love.
“Okay,” Principal Gwen started.
Caspian awoke from his mental nap, blinking his eyes486Please respect copyright.PENANA4pe402IMXP
furiously under his round glasses. The boy didn’t even notice that Blue, Caleb,486Please respect copyright.PENANA2pp1xS8ZcK
and Lee had already arrived—and that Robbie ended up sitting beside him.486Please respect copyright.PENANAX3No0qrpwO
Fortunately, he could still breathe. For now.
“I called all of you here today to discuss something really486Please respect copyright.PENANABjPHhIuaCV
important-” she leans forward, fixing her posture- “though it may sound486Please respect copyright.PENANAnEbiPG2jdB
extremely odd.”
“Ma’am,” said Lee. “Are we in trouble of some sort?”
All eight boys leaned closer, as if they were programmed to486Please respect copyright.PENANAkVGx6z2IZy
do this in sync. Their ears were open wide enough to fit a moth.
Their once fully composed principal smiled. “No. I’m sorry to486Please respect copyright.PENANAS32uYqUVdp
disappoint you, Mister Emmet.”
All eight boys eased up. Lee sat back, pleased to hear the486Please respect copyright.PENANAPifnWLw9hW
good news. A small phew was could be heard from Blue—that is, if you486Please respect copyright.PENANAFKAdHe1fue
listened hard enough. You could hear familiar cuss words from Jax and Mason’s486Please respect copyright.PENANAWKZfkCv6rr
direction. Will, Robbie, and Caleb sighed for a good two seconds, thanking the486Please respect copyright.PENANAkYr1108MsC
Lord’s Holy Name. And Caspian finally eased every inch of his body.
“Why?” their Principal asked. “Is there something you should486Please respect copyright.PENANAZoyTMyntP8
be in here for?”
“Nope,” Mason said immediately.
“Not that I know of… yet,” coming from Mason.
“Of course not. How could I?” babbled Lee.
“No, Ma’am,” Will said, shaking his head.
“…”: Caleb.
“Hopefully not,” Caspian muttered.
“I don’t think so…?” Robbie said slowly.
“Very funny, Miss Gwen,” chuckled Blue.
“Okay then good,” smiled Principal Gwen. “Because if there486Please respect copyright.PENANAMQU0Kq4dEX
was, you’d still have to participate in this activity.”
“Activity?” blurted Blue.
“Yes,” Principal Gwen said enthusiastically—only in her voice486Please respect copyright.PENANAk0Niq9fuIB
though. “I would appreciate it if you eight would plan an event before this486Please respect copyright.PENANAWqgK94afEn
school year’s prom. You know, to commemorate the graduation of the seniors.”
“But Ma’am,” Blue said, raising his hand.
“Yes, Blue?” Principal Gwen said, giving Blue permission to486Please respect copyright.PENANACfuweVb5QB
keep going.
“What makes this year’s seniors make you want to plan a huge486Please respect copyright.PENANAW4Fh2vhFKv
event for? (No offense.)” Blue continued.
We heard chuckles from some of the boys, knowing that Blue486Please respect copyright.PENANAC6cYeYxk8q
was referring to Will, the only senior in the room. He was a good sport who486Please respect copyright.PENANAs0PJIeMNML
smiled it out and muttered, “c’mon, guys.”
Miss Gwen chuckled along with them. “Well, what’s also funny486Please respect copyright.PENANA5HTbyz1mXy
is that we actually raised too much money for the yearly charity fund, and we486Please respect copyright.PENANAX5EJ5ydRhq
couldn’t locate any other charities who were willing to accept the excess.486Please respect copyright.PENANAJcsFej4bbx
Plus, the school’s had a good year, so I didn’t think it would be necessary to486Please respect copyright.PENANAgDh0FfmQMq
keep too much money on our hands.”
The boys go ooh because now they understand what’s486Please respect copyright.PENANAJrIfIDyN4p
happening.
“So,” Caspian blurted out, absent-mindedly. “You gathered all486Please respect copyright.PENANAkdqvoOodK7
eight of us randomly to plan a pre-prom party?”
He realized that all eyes were on him again. All eight pairs486Please respect copyright.PENANAqwyvtNcm1o
of them.
“Uhm, yes,” their principal confirmed. “I like the sound of486Please respect copyright.PENANA5vujXHU2Qz
that. ‘Pre-Prom Party’. You boys already have something to call it.”
“Way ta go, Cassie!” Blue cheers enthusiastically.
All the other boys cheer as well, even Robbie—who was still486Please respect copyright.PENANA9HlWA3DCJY
sitting beside him.
“Good job,” he whispered. “Caspian Grenfield.”
Hearing his name come out of Robbie like that made his face486Please respect copyright.PENANAkpH9JIRLow
grow warm. He put his palms on them, trying to hide his flustered face as he486Please respect copyright.PENANA0CwMY4RqWk
muttered back a shaky “thanks” to everyone.
“Okay, okay,” Principal Gwen hushed. “Here are the forms486Please respect copyright.PENANAOY2CUqqoCu
containing most of the other information you need to know, -“ she passed a pile486Please respect copyright.PENANAr5tpqcLZbd
of white paper to each of the eight boys as she continued to explain. “-and the486Please respect copyright.PENANAJi7lgS75WO
reply slip your parents need to sign in order for you to-”
“‘Stay at an Airbnb for a week’?” read Lee from the form.
“Miss,” Mason started, confused. “What do you mean by that?”
“Don’t worry, you will be accompanied by Miss Leslie.”
…and now they were arriving at the Airbnb.
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Oh, how time flies…
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