LOGINTrevor's POVThe coach had asked me to review old footage ahead of the homecoming match and I had taken it seriously enough to actually sit down with my laptop and do it properly rather than half-doing it while thinking about something else.I had my laptop on my lap, earphones in one ear, a notebook open beside me with observations I had been building over the last 40 minutes. The footage was grainy in some places … older recordings from two seasons back — but the patterns were visible if you watched for them. I had developed a system: pause, note, rewind, confirm. Repeat. It was the same approach I used for exam prep, and now I had just applied to something I had previously had zero interest in understanding.You know, things had changed.I was focused enough that the knock at the door registered but did not immediately pull me up from what I was doing. Then the door opened and I looke
Trevor's POVNadine had been looking at her phone for the last few minutes … or had been doing a good impression of it — and the moment Sean excused himself and the corridor shifted back to just the two of us, I felt her gaze come off the screen and land on me with a very specific quality.She turned to face me fully. "Okay." She said it with that particular tone she used when she had been sitting on something and had decided the sitting was done. "What was that?" Her hands came up, demonstrating the general shape of what she had just witnessed between Sean and me. "Fess up."I shook my head slightly. Not a denial though… it was more of the movement of someone who knew the explanation was owed and didn't yet have the right version of it assembled into something she could hand across.Nadine was not going to wait for assembly. She held my expression and looked at me with the specif
Trevor's POV"But Sean is not as hot as your boyfriend, Trevor." Nadine said it with a tap on my arm and that smile that said she thought she was being helpful. Then she kept going, because Nadine when she started something always finished it. "Trevor has been hooking up with this really hot guy that he has really been into."I stood there and kept my face exactly where it was.She was saying it again. The same thing she had said the first time, back before the lock-in, with the same complete confidence of someone presenting verified information. And the problem … the specific, immediate problem — was that Sean was standing right there hearing every word of it and drawing his own conclusions, and Nadine had no idea that the guy she was describing and the guy she was currently standing next to were the same person.Sean made a sound. Short and low, somewhere between a huff and a scoff, and the expression that came with it was the one that arrived on his face when something had landed t
Sean's POV"So, actually, ummm … about that." I started it carefully, because the paperwork was still in my bag and this felt like the moment, the right moment, and I wanted him to know before the rest of the day ran away from both of us.He touched my palm and stopped me before I got anywhere. "Don't worry about it." He said it with that quiet steadiness that was the Trevor-coming-back-online version of him, the one that showed up when the fog lifted and his brain returned to doing what it usually did, which was process things and arrive at positions and hold them. "I am not going to give up that easily."I looked at him. He had no idea that what I had been about to say was not a pep talk … It was supposed to be good news as far as I know. The specific kind that he had been waiting for all year and least expected from the person sitting next to him in a school sick bay.But the way he
Sean's POVI had sat still long enough. Whatever happened next in this classroom was going to happen with me involved in it, because the alternative; which was watching Trevor go down in front of a Cambridge scout while I stayed in my seat and did nothing … was not something I was willing to do.I stood up right away without giving it a second thought."This is not what it looks like, Ms Hearty." I said it clearly, reaching over to Trevor and helping him back down into his seat with one hand steady at his back."And you are?" Mr Benson asked, shifting his attention from Trevor to me with the specific interest of someone who had just watched something unexpected and wanted to understand the full picture."That is Sean Pierre." Ms Hearty answered before I had opened my mouth to respond, and there was a brightness in her voice that was specific to the mention of my name in certain contexts at this school. "The star quarterback."I returned the smile that came with the introduction. "Yeah
Sean's POVThe room had already shifted focus toward the front where Mr Benson was standing, which was the only thing currently working in our favour. I kept my eyes forward and kept my expression composed and let the scout's words register in the background while the majority of my attention was on the person sitting two feet to my left.Trevor was still flipping through the book. Slow and random, the kind of movement that had no specific destination behind it … his hands doing something while everything else in him was somewhere untethered. I watched it in my peripheral vision and tried to calculate how long we had before it became impossible to manage from the outside.‘My chance out of this town. And Trevor's too.’The thought arrived and then immediately ran up against the reality of the situation, which was that Trevor was sitting not far from a Cambridge scout looking like a person who was currently not in full possession of the controls.If he can keep his head on straight.Th
Trevor's POV"You thought I could hide what and what exactly did you catch?Point of correction… that boner wasn't about you. It's not like I can control it." I defended myself real quick.It came out more confident than I felt but I held the energy behind it. It was the cleanest exit I had and I n
Trevor's POV"Bye, Trevor." One of the students said it on their way out. I didn't even bother to look up to know who exactly that was because it was either Sean or any of his friends in my class, and I already understood it wasn't some sort of pleasantries. It was sarcasm… the kind with a smile be
Trevor's POVI found Max's words so insulting that something in me just snapped. And I knew better… I knew from experience that snapping back in this school never ended well for me. But backing down had never fetched me anything good either. Not for once and not in the entire time I had been a stud
Trevor's POV"Trevor, I want to have all of you in my mouth." Sean whispered against my ear, his voice so low it felt like it was meant only for the space between us. He closed the distance slowly and deliberately, like he had all the time in the world and knew exactly what he was doing with it. Th







