Roads. They all just connect to each other to lead to a483Please respect copyright.PENANAdX7vnJVvgU
specific destination. It’s like you need to memorize a specific combination—or483Please respect copyright.PENANAxPBfq4Nybw
two—just to end up with an even more specific outcome. But how do we remember483Please respect copyright.PENANAy1Z70CEtzo
the longest of combinations, like the one Ms. Sara Leslie had to memorize to483Please respect copyright.PENANA9lGGBRBf0d
get to the Airbnb she rented. The same Airbnb she was driving Caspian Grenfield483Please respect copyright.PENANAdVfbYhLIwk
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,483Please respect copyright.PENANAzNSEDwf43v
Robinson Wyatt, Lee Emmet, Caleb and William Otto, and Mason Emalia please483Please respect copyright.PENANA3QtExOU5zp
report to the principal’s office right now?”
Caspian flinched upon hearing his name come out of their483Please respect copyright.PENANAGxdvWv4VsJ
school’s intercom. It was especially shocking to hear it along with those other483Please respect copyright.PENANAGsXJIDiu0P
names. He was a bit terrified of the thought that he might’ve become a483Please respect copyright.PENANApIRQLTKMsB
delinquent. I mean, yes, he is over exaggerating, but could you really483Please respect copyright.PENANAQUQmPrBAbq
blame him? He was one of those kids who always passed their homework on time483Please respect copyright.PENANAlY23EyVhG8
and has never had a grade lower than above average. He was always avoiding483Please respect copyright.PENANA81r6EkaBkU
trouble wherever he went, and it just wasn’t normal to hear his name being used483Please respect copyright.PENANAUPpNRJm979
along with all those others. Or at all.
He knew it must’ve been a mistake, so he ignored it and calmed483Please respect copyright.PENANAifAuZzIGww
himself down. Until the intercom called again.
Now this time, he knew it was real. His palms were damp, and483Please respect copyright.PENANADut8VfI5Vs
his legs shook. He looked and acted as if he was actually gonna face an483Please respect copyright.PENANAcTSh1GwQhs
executioner than a principal. Little did he know that it was absolutely nothing483Please respect copyright.PENANAmvZi3pOnfs
like that at all.
…
“You called to see me, Ma’am…?”
When Caspian peeped into the principal’s office, his stomach483Please respect copyright.PENANALIIFonI2Wj
dropped. William Otto, Mason Emalia, and Jax Jackson stared at him, sitting on483Please respect copyright.PENANAPP8Vl1OaHJ
the three single armchairs along the side of the room. Their attention was483Please respect copyright.PENANAADJjFvofN3
consumed by his presence, and he didn’t like it.
William Otto was an Alpha, the kind that shows it without483Please respect copyright.PENANAWhrlpgpn97
effort at all. The doctors found out as soon as he was born—and that barely483Please respect copyright.PENANAXEBlOexsiS
even happens. When he was going through puberty, he went from 4’11 to 5’9 in483Please respect copyright.PENANASqfQ0Ep76X
less than three years. People thought that he was fifteen when he was actually483Please respect copyright.PENANApwKPK98prz
just twelve. Now that he’s a senior, he stood at 6’2—and that’s why it’s quite483Please respect copyright.PENANAhT7mFVdMAH
difficult to walk through the halls now without getting so much attention.
Though Will looked like the kind of Alpha that could483Please respect copyright.PENANA5MYdJHbt8C
kill a Grizzly Bear, he didn’t act like it. Yes, he was tall, had broad483Please respect copyright.PENANA6c4UQx6Gug
shoulders, and had abs that could bite; but he wasn’t all that. He was483Please respect copyright.PENANAXB3f71cqrR
kind, compassionate, and really, really friendly. He was the type of guy483Please respect copyright.PENANAuNzO9w3ECc
you could depend on and talk to. He could work in groups of eight and make sure483Please respect copyright.PENANA66T45xp72Q
everyone had a job to do—and you wouldn’t feel the pressure of doing too much483Please respect copyright.PENANAatZnJKtZVV
work. He was a sensitive giant, a large teddy bear. That was kind of why he was483Please respect copyright.PENANAbDWjIxwBsB
the student body president.
Mason Emalia was the Star Player of their basketball team.483Please respect copyright.PENANAASNgPHWZ4I
Though his performance at school wasn’t the best, he’d always make it up to you483Please respect copyright.PENANAvCI2LUFXIZ
on the court. He was a ruthless player and a worthy opponent. The only thing483Please respect copyright.PENANAu4yiyvAYMI
you could beat him at was chess. Jeez, he hated chess.
And finally, Jax Jackson, the mischief. He was the definition483Please respect copyright.PENANA81LCiBQOgn
of “gay and ready to play”—it’s true, he’s the one who made it. Though nobody483Please respect copyright.PENANArIMJrxwxu9
really knew where he landed on the spectrum, everyone at school knew that he483Please respect copyright.PENANAdn0y0icEan
was only interested in men. All the girls would ever hear about him were, “I483Please respect copyright.PENANAm0q7ZNtmGK
don’t know why, but he was amazing in bed,” and the like. There was even a483Please respect copyright.PENANAd6YeGONRPB
rumor the spread like wildfire about him being able to get into their science483Please respect copyright.PENANA4IT59ACWdq
teacher’s pants—who was at least forty years old for your information.
Seeing all these boys here made Caspian feel so small, as if483Please respect copyright.PENANAUewlqlrgPT
he was just a puny ant who could get stepped on in any minute. It terrified him483Please respect copyright.PENANA3FRkJacnA3
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,”483Please respect copyright.PENANAm2yxI9yiLQ
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 other483Please respect copyright.PENANADTXfsStYp9
boys who watched his every move (But that was what Caspian thought. They were483Please respect copyright.PENANAkmQQTDnlfw
actually just bored out of their minds right now.)
They silently waited. All they could ever hear was the483Please respect copyright.PENANAfjIoq7lfEH
tapping of their Principal’s computer keys. Tik, tik, tik, they went.
Finally, the silence was broken when someone opened the door.483Please respect copyright.PENANAnsSF0Lkz7b
Another one of the eight boys who were beckoned by their intercom. And who483Please respect copyright.PENANA1MBgDFac3s
exactly? None other than Robinson Wyatt, Caspian’s one and only childhood483Please respect copyright.PENANA0j56labegh
crush.
They weren’t close when Caspian first saw him, but he thought483Please respect copyright.PENANAtixwLyKRjz
that Robbie was… cool. He watched him play around in the playground from a483Please respect copyright.PENANAV1n9mTtB9j
distance but never found the courage to actually talk to him. He was too afraid483Please respect copyright.PENANAY7mTBm4UJe
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 Alpha483Please respect copyright.PENANAlHbkGt5UJj
and that just made things more confusing for him. He couldn’t understand why483Please respect copyright.PENANAMnhSRdAWPP
his face would heat up or why his heart skipped a beat when Robbie passed him.483Please respect copyright.PENANAVHEXsnt0ed
It was a weird feeling that forced him to grin for no reason. Soon, he found483Please respect copyright.PENANA2s07InlqwN
out that it was Love.
“Okay,” Principal Gwen started.
Caspian awoke from his mental nap, blinking his eyes483Please respect copyright.PENANA1ufPQRu6L1
furiously under his round glasses. The boy didn’t even notice that Blue, Caleb,483Please respect copyright.PENANAplJFO12WrL
and Lee had already arrived—and that Robbie ended up sitting beside him.483Please respect copyright.PENANAyZRnLf9z4m
Fortunately, he could still breathe. For now.
“I called all of you here today to discuss something really483Please respect copyright.PENANAXHcfaIuobK
important-” she leans forward, fixing her posture- “though it may sound483Please respect copyright.PENANAdPVkRiNhPN
extremely odd.”
“Ma’am,” said Lee. “Are we in trouble of some sort?”
All eight boys leaned closer, as if they were programmed to483Please respect copyright.PENANAsYydX4ZlfP
do this in sync. Their ears were open wide enough to fit a moth.
Their once fully composed principal smiled. “No. I’m sorry to483Please respect copyright.PENANAZQNE6TevoC
disappoint you, Mister Emmet.”
All eight boys eased up. Lee sat back, pleased to hear the483Please respect copyright.PENANAhTsQHTC6Q4
good news. A small phew was could be heard from Blue—that is, if you483Please respect copyright.PENANAMClGSHzr2p
listened hard enough. You could hear familiar cuss words from Jax and Mason’s483Please respect copyright.PENANA6aHrRqI8Xe
direction. Will, Robbie, and Caleb sighed for a good two seconds, thanking the483Please respect copyright.PENANAHxteHx6xke
Lord’s Holy Name. And Caspian finally eased every inch of his body.
“Why?” their Principal asked. “Is there something you should483Please respect copyright.PENANAwrpytvoy4d
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 there483Please respect copyright.PENANA7mBIyyr4Te
was, you’d still have to participate in this activity.”
“Activity?” blurted Blue.
“Yes,” Principal Gwen said enthusiastically—only in her voice483Please respect copyright.PENANAZ8hqmpBOaL
though. “I would appreciate it if you eight would plan an event before this483Please respect copyright.PENANADceFEsSqBv
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 to483Please respect copyright.PENANAyZff80pyt9
keep going.
“What makes this year’s seniors make you want to plan a huge483Please respect copyright.PENANAlp2XEwfuKY
event for? (No offense.)” Blue continued.
We heard chuckles from some of the boys, knowing that Blue483Please respect copyright.PENANAGxhWXW1ZDU
was referring to Will, the only senior in the room. He was a good sport who483Please respect copyright.PENANA5qQ0Qhto9d
smiled it out and muttered, “c’mon, guys.”
Miss Gwen chuckled along with them. “Well, what’s also funny483Please respect copyright.PENANAB7gHG7b1ja
is that we actually raised too much money for the yearly charity fund, and we483Please respect copyright.PENANAbfnPB3j8WZ
couldn’t locate any other charities who were willing to accept the excess.483Please respect copyright.PENANALH06UH5pMP
Plus, the school’s had a good year, so I didn’t think it would be necessary to483Please respect copyright.PENANAO2FxCJIu2e
keep too much money on our hands.”
The boys go ooh because now they understand what’s483Please respect copyright.PENANA5UY6CSVJaF
happening.
“So,” Caspian blurted out, absent-mindedly. “You gathered all483Please respect copyright.PENANAXQKZArKLRu
eight of us randomly to plan a pre-prom party?”
He realized that all eyes were on him again. All eight pairs483Please respect copyright.PENANAJDx8jl55w8
of them.
“Uhm, yes,” their principal confirmed. “I like the sound of483Please respect copyright.PENANAV1pDFzdX3D
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 still483Please respect copyright.PENANA5tq4OQZn1Q
sitting beside him.
“Good job,” he whispered. “Caspian Grenfield.”
Hearing his name come out of Robbie like that made his face483Please respect copyright.PENANAXeG5jfvnch
grow warm. He put his palms on them, trying to hide his flustered face as he483Please respect copyright.PENANAaXfJfAk4sr
muttered back a shaky “thanks” to everyone.
“Okay, okay,” Principal Gwen hushed. “Here are the forms483Please respect copyright.PENANAoQWQZdw22Z
containing most of the other information you need to know, -“ she passed a pile483Please respect copyright.PENANAaA3FNf3OoV
of white paper to each of the eight boys as she continued to explain. “-and the483Please respect copyright.PENANAF9vu3GlQ5c
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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