Roads. They all just connect to each other to lead to a488Please respect copyright.PENANA9VhT6lc1hi
specific destination. It’s like you need to memorize a specific combination—or488Please respect copyright.PENANApvEpYW9e8u
two—just to end up with an even more specific outcome. But how do we remember488Please respect copyright.PENANA4tV7F0qOBh
the longest of combinations, like the one Ms. Sara Leslie had to memorize to488Please respect copyright.PENANAQhuq4UPEXf
get to the Airbnb she rented. The same Airbnb she was driving Caspian Grenfield488Please respect copyright.PENANAnBGkHJKhUJ
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,488Please respect copyright.PENANAwg5WHphMBg
Robinson Wyatt, Lee Emmet, Caleb and William Otto, and Mason Emalia please488Please respect copyright.PENANAz8kMD4Gv00
report to the principal’s office right now?”
Caspian flinched upon hearing his name come out of their488Please respect copyright.PENANAhdSq3XpGTw
school’s intercom. It was especially shocking to hear it along with those other488Please respect copyright.PENANAXmjLbMQRgZ
names. He was a bit terrified of the thought that he might’ve become a488Please respect copyright.PENANA1JKhScjTTi
delinquent. I mean, yes, he is over exaggerating, but could you really488Please respect copyright.PENANAI9xOlz4YbA
blame him? He was one of those kids who always passed their homework on time488Please respect copyright.PENANAU2ShVhsn67
and has never had a grade lower than above average. He was always avoiding488Please respect copyright.PENANALPMbJybeiw
trouble wherever he went, and it just wasn’t normal to hear his name being used488Please respect copyright.PENANALsIQpEmbN0
along with all those others. Or at all.
He knew it must’ve been a mistake, so he ignored it and calmed488Please respect copyright.PENANAmAjioukVIA
himself down. Until the intercom called again.
Now this time, he knew it was real. His palms were damp, and488Please respect copyright.PENANANe9hMZ05SV
his legs shook. He looked and acted as if he was actually gonna face an488Please respect copyright.PENANAAjinjF03AN
executioner than a principal. Little did he know that it was absolutely nothing488Please respect copyright.PENANAgOA5sdEJF0
like that at all.
…
“You called to see me, Ma’am…?”
When Caspian peeped into the principal’s office, his stomach488Please respect copyright.PENANAMFYFFQQ9Yp
dropped. William Otto, Mason Emalia, and Jax Jackson stared at him, sitting on488Please respect copyright.PENANA0iHFkphuI8
the three single armchairs along the side of the room. Their attention was488Please respect copyright.PENANAxS8MVTBkFi
consumed by his presence, and he didn’t like it.
William Otto was an Alpha, the kind that shows it without488Please respect copyright.PENANAnJ8TyTGpU7
effort at all. The doctors found out as soon as he was born—and that barely488Please respect copyright.PENANAbyJGeyHD9m
even happens. When he was going through puberty, he went from 4’11 to 5’9 in488Please respect copyright.PENANAIQ1bQYyCGI
less than three years. People thought that he was fifteen when he was actually488Please respect copyright.PENANAuSyGAfl9uE
just twelve. Now that he’s a senior, he stood at 6’2—and that’s why it’s quite488Please respect copyright.PENANA232W28BrXW
difficult to walk through the halls now without getting so much attention.
Though Will looked like the kind of Alpha that could488Please respect copyright.PENANAHYpVZ8KwxC
kill a Grizzly Bear, he didn’t act like it. Yes, he was tall, had broad488Please respect copyright.PENANAYlEgM6n4Wf
shoulders, and had abs that could bite; but he wasn’t all that. He was488Please respect copyright.PENANAvDBimtSRrB
kind, compassionate, and really, really friendly. He was the type of guy488Please respect copyright.PENANAnEBdhLhx9H
you could depend on and talk to. He could work in groups of eight and make sure488Please respect copyright.PENANAXuTgj9TucD
everyone had a job to do—and you wouldn’t feel the pressure of doing too much488Please respect copyright.PENANAdTKfc1ZMNG
work. He was a sensitive giant, a large teddy bear. That was kind of why he was488Please respect copyright.PENANA8W2cUdY1cZ
the student body president.
Mason Emalia was the Star Player of their basketball team.488Please respect copyright.PENANAtwKc20PFqS
Though his performance at school wasn’t the best, he’d always make it up to you488Please respect copyright.PENANA8QxImA8Ny6
on the court. He was a ruthless player and a worthy opponent. The only thing488Please respect copyright.PENANAhstKEFbBQN
you could beat him at was chess. Jeez, he hated chess.
And finally, Jax Jackson, the mischief. He was the definition488Please respect copyright.PENANAcDxcC97NPg
of “gay and ready to play”—it’s true, he’s the one who made it. Though nobody488Please respect copyright.PENANAxDBYefX9Ga
really knew where he landed on the spectrum, everyone at school knew that he488Please respect copyright.PENANAmPF8CD4Mlr
was only interested in men. All the girls would ever hear about him were, “I488Please respect copyright.PENANA0L0bG2KnnX
don’t know why, but he was amazing in bed,” and the like. There was even a488Please respect copyright.PENANAqhYbq62cen
rumor the spread like wildfire about him being able to get into their science488Please respect copyright.PENANAaG4oYdlX8q
teacher’s pants—who was at least forty years old for your information.
Seeing all these boys here made Caspian feel so small, as if488Please respect copyright.PENANA2Zfvhw1X3B
he was just a puny ant who could get stepped on in any minute. It terrified him488Please respect copyright.PENANAcMPea2MFGi
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,”488Please respect copyright.PENANArYONqYvr69
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 other488Please respect copyright.PENANA2YQCXfTydd
boys who watched his every move (But that was what Caspian thought. They were488Please respect copyright.PENANAZNbAO1RNjj
actually just bored out of their minds right now.)
They silently waited. All they could ever hear was the488Please respect copyright.PENANAOzhRu2L5Og
tapping of their Principal’s computer keys. Tik, tik, tik, they went.
Finally, the silence was broken when someone opened the door.488Please respect copyright.PENANAsyxFsSEsPP
Another one of the eight boys who were beckoned by their intercom. And who488Please respect copyright.PENANA4KJfeU7gLb
exactly? None other than Robinson Wyatt, Caspian’s one and only childhood488Please respect copyright.PENANAz7mgnpl3gD
crush.
They weren’t close when Caspian first saw him, but he thought488Please respect copyright.PENANAP2Vb03jzCY
that Robbie was… cool. He watched him play around in the playground from a488Please respect copyright.PENANAjo0gGw8sKS
distance but never found the courage to actually talk to him. He was too afraid488Please respect copyright.PENANA1GRByjtq5c
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 Alpha488Please respect copyright.PENANAxKPs9uhVky
and that just made things more confusing for him. He couldn’t understand why488Please respect copyright.PENANAyLm4cV4MlN
his face would heat up or why his heart skipped a beat when Robbie passed him.488Please respect copyright.PENANAkAoUlsWV0K
It was a weird feeling that forced him to grin for no reason. Soon, he found488Please respect copyright.PENANAwUmC80NYtd
out that it was Love.
“Okay,” Principal Gwen started.
Caspian awoke from his mental nap, blinking his eyes488Please respect copyright.PENANAibM3KxFy0l
furiously under his round glasses. The boy didn’t even notice that Blue, Caleb,488Please respect copyright.PENANArFtGSqOiSx
and Lee had already arrived—and that Robbie ended up sitting beside him.488Please respect copyright.PENANAJGKRx0DhjI
Fortunately, he could still breathe. For now.
“I called all of you here today to discuss something really488Please respect copyright.PENANAB1yiGcXWGP
important-” she leans forward, fixing her posture- “though it may sound488Please respect copyright.PENANAp8shcl9d8w
extremely odd.”
“Ma’am,” said Lee. “Are we in trouble of some sort?”
All eight boys leaned closer, as if they were programmed to488Please respect copyright.PENANAQ95KkOIb2u
do this in sync. Their ears were open wide enough to fit a moth.
Their once fully composed principal smiled. “No. I’m sorry to488Please respect copyright.PENANAhaA63GivWK
disappoint you, Mister Emmet.”
All eight boys eased up. Lee sat back, pleased to hear the488Please respect copyright.PENANALCYrcuxBdJ
good news. A small phew was could be heard from Blue—that is, if you488Please respect copyright.PENANAqCVYbOljZD
listened hard enough. You could hear familiar cuss words from Jax and Mason’s488Please respect copyright.PENANAxp1lJE78yZ
direction. Will, Robbie, and Caleb sighed for a good two seconds, thanking the488Please respect copyright.PENANAW4u2fk3BbO
Lord’s Holy Name. And Caspian finally eased every inch of his body.
“Why?” their Principal asked. “Is there something you should488Please respect copyright.PENANAMDWK5FtJJm
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 there488Please respect copyright.PENANAc2RdZ1ibnG
was, you’d still have to participate in this activity.”
“Activity?” blurted Blue.
“Yes,” Principal Gwen said enthusiastically—only in her voice488Please respect copyright.PENANAwLAQpoUI1U
though. “I would appreciate it if you eight would plan an event before this488Please respect copyright.PENANAoOPgZXtM8J
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 to488Please respect copyright.PENANAKMXh6SNUvd
keep going.
“What makes this year’s seniors make you want to plan a huge488Please respect copyright.PENANA1m1V1YmHeV
event for? (No offense.)” Blue continued.
We heard chuckles from some of the boys, knowing that Blue488Please respect copyright.PENANAyt0tNENEfz
was referring to Will, the only senior in the room. He was a good sport who488Please respect copyright.PENANA7fCFnQBAqf
smiled it out and muttered, “c’mon, guys.”
Miss Gwen chuckled along with them. “Well, what’s also funny488Please respect copyright.PENANAykxtCMt9B4
is that we actually raised too much money for the yearly charity fund, and we488Please respect copyright.PENANAwXU1o5cnhm
couldn’t locate any other charities who were willing to accept the excess.488Please respect copyright.PENANAvlWq3TEx71
Plus, the school’s had a good year, so I didn’t think it would be necessary to488Please respect copyright.PENANA1X1SLdG5k0
keep too much money on our hands.”
The boys go ooh because now they understand what’s488Please respect copyright.PENANAwUFKqSTKGl
happening.
“So,” Caspian blurted out, absent-mindedly. “You gathered all488Please respect copyright.PENANAUIhOydBRFV
eight of us randomly to plan a pre-prom party?”
He realized that all eyes were on him again. All eight pairs488Please respect copyright.PENANAkNj5UbCTsQ
of them.
“Uhm, yes,” their principal confirmed. “I like the sound of488Please respect copyright.PENANAWi0cLgt3Ty
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 still488Please respect copyright.PENANAMwQ1gr8OwE
sitting beside him.
“Good job,” he whispered. “Caspian Grenfield.”
Hearing his name come out of Robbie like that made his face488Please respect copyright.PENANAhVRlSOZtet
grow warm. He put his palms on them, trying to hide his flustered face as he488Please respect copyright.PENANASWO4yow8Bv
muttered back a shaky “thanks” to everyone.
“Okay, okay,” Principal Gwen hushed. “Here are the forms488Please respect copyright.PENANAmKswyn4mNh
containing most of the other information you need to know, -“ she passed a pile488Please respect copyright.PENANAO8WcLXuU3G
of white paper to each of the eight boys as she continued to explain. “-and the488Please respect copyright.PENANANKIBxD5gfe
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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