Roads. They all just connect to each other to lead to a473Please respect copyright.PENANAqolnEnc7IF
specific destination. It’s like you need to memorize a specific combination—or473Please respect copyright.PENANAqK4w9vf3sZ
two—just to end up with an even more specific outcome. But how do we remember473Please respect copyright.PENANATFuBEquL2W
the longest of combinations, like the one Ms. Sara Leslie had to memorize to473Please respect copyright.PENANAEMTSpmQchq
get to the Airbnb she rented. The same Airbnb she was driving Caspian Grenfield473Please respect copyright.PENANARUYnJ4qrw3
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,473Please respect copyright.PENANAsURy9ZiSWe
Robinson Wyatt, Lee Emmet, Caleb and William Otto, and Mason Emalia please473Please respect copyright.PENANA313i8lzfRG
report to the principal’s office right now?”
Caspian flinched upon hearing his name come out of their473Please respect copyright.PENANA7CHwGtOfX1
school’s intercom. It was especially shocking to hear it along with those other473Please respect copyright.PENANAZLBXLTgEIB
names. He was a bit terrified of the thought that he might’ve become a473Please respect copyright.PENANAGzWcQmTHTN
delinquent. I mean, yes, he is over exaggerating, but could you really473Please respect copyright.PENANAy64wCLDk8p
blame him? He was one of those kids who always passed their homework on time473Please respect copyright.PENANAbcOJdpWWhu
and has never had a grade lower than above average. He was always avoiding473Please respect copyright.PENANA9BtDoil0ga
trouble wherever he went, and it just wasn’t normal to hear his name being used473Please respect copyright.PENANAd2dV9rvYek
along with all those others. Or at all.
He knew it must’ve been a mistake, so he ignored it and calmed473Please respect copyright.PENANAAHjQ6wd6GG
himself down. Until the intercom called again.
Now this time, he knew it was real. His palms were damp, and473Please respect copyright.PENANA0WcTuM7bGe
his legs shook. He looked and acted as if he was actually gonna face an473Please respect copyright.PENANA069ymTxJeG
executioner than a principal. Little did he know that it was absolutely nothing473Please respect copyright.PENANAhVUU5a25Eb
like that at all.
…
“You called to see me, Ma’am…?”
When Caspian peeped into the principal’s office, his stomach473Please respect copyright.PENANAX9rHejMqiY
dropped. William Otto, Mason Emalia, and Jax Jackson stared at him, sitting on473Please respect copyright.PENANAFKjzZ4JAA6
the three single armchairs along the side of the room. Their attention was473Please respect copyright.PENANAHMQtBy7rA0
consumed by his presence, and he didn’t like it.
William Otto was an Alpha, the kind that shows it without473Please respect copyright.PENANAmS8CRfnlBV
effort at all. The doctors found out as soon as he was born—and that barely473Please respect copyright.PENANAsvMUHNrjLp
even happens. When he was going through puberty, he went from 4’11 to 5’9 in473Please respect copyright.PENANAJVvtZSXRoM
less than three years. People thought that he was fifteen when he was actually473Please respect copyright.PENANA0e3BOxvstR
just twelve. Now that he’s a senior, he stood at 6’2—and that’s why it’s quite473Please respect copyright.PENANA0lrR4D30tU
difficult to walk through the halls now without getting so much attention.
Though Will looked like the kind of Alpha that could473Please respect copyright.PENANAsXcOcW9F8j
kill a Grizzly Bear, he didn’t act like it. Yes, he was tall, had broad473Please respect copyright.PENANAKbDGuohHgb
shoulders, and had abs that could bite; but he wasn’t all that. He was473Please respect copyright.PENANA5XP6xEN1Uz
kind, compassionate, and really, really friendly. He was the type of guy473Please respect copyright.PENANAM2JVa3uNxy
you could depend on and talk to. He could work in groups of eight and make sure473Please respect copyright.PENANAXyQy1Lc8w5
everyone had a job to do—and you wouldn’t feel the pressure of doing too much473Please respect copyright.PENANAQIDhvMthmY
work. He was a sensitive giant, a large teddy bear. That was kind of why he was473Please respect copyright.PENANA9ejw7ug8iE
the student body president.
Mason Emalia was the Star Player of their basketball team.473Please respect copyright.PENANAzIGpOCA4cc
Though his performance at school wasn’t the best, he’d always make it up to you473Please respect copyright.PENANAe38YzaFvyw
on the court. He was a ruthless player and a worthy opponent. The only thing473Please respect copyright.PENANAiMY7QUSdal
you could beat him at was chess. Jeez, he hated chess.
And finally, Jax Jackson, the mischief. He was the definition473Please respect copyright.PENANASWgqckAMhO
of “gay and ready to play”—it’s true, he’s the one who made it. Though nobody473Please respect copyright.PENANAudA9djH602
really knew where he landed on the spectrum, everyone at school knew that he473Please respect copyright.PENANAEFrS3UmRzj
was only interested in men. All the girls would ever hear about him were, “I473Please respect copyright.PENANA7TlPL1OlXK
don’t know why, but he was amazing in bed,” and the like. There was even a473Please respect copyright.PENANALDX9eVH3t7
rumor the spread like wildfire about him being able to get into their science473Please respect copyright.PENANArEMXkO4K64
teacher’s pants—who was at least forty years old for your information.
Seeing all these boys here made Caspian feel so small, as if473Please respect copyright.PENANAcwOngNF8lF
he was just a puny ant who could get stepped on in any minute. It terrified him473Please respect copyright.PENANAWqqDi6Nqyk
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,”473Please respect copyright.PENANAETddzSt34p
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 other473Please respect copyright.PENANAinkLdtaTVZ
boys who watched his every move (But that was what Caspian thought. They were473Please respect copyright.PENANALgfcLPSmWO
actually just bored out of their minds right now.)
They silently waited. All they could ever hear was the473Please respect copyright.PENANAmHuDwyuPgT
tapping of their Principal’s computer keys. Tik, tik, tik, they went.
Finally, the silence was broken when someone opened the door.473Please respect copyright.PENANAH8nf11oMmA
Another one of the eight boys who were beckoned by their intercom. And who473Please respect copyright.PENANA3WnWN85GiV
exactly? None other than Robinson Wyatt, Caspian’s one and only childhood473Please respect copyright.PENANAB50YcssXr8
crush.
They weren’t close when Caspian first saw him, but he thought473Please respect copyright.PENANAme4bjKqiSq
that Robbie was… cool. He watched him play around in the playground from a473Please respect copyright.PENANAdQRrkXBTAl
distance but never found the courage to actually talk to him. He was too afraid473Please respect copyright.PENANAP7drlSYXL8
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 Alpha473Please respect copyright.PENANAZn0ZvDCFVg
and that just made things more confusing for him. He couldn’t understand why473Please respect copyright.PENANAQMCcGD7ZHj
his face would heat up or why his heart skipped a beat when Robbie passed him.473Please respect copyright.PENANA15BYzCR9n8
It was a weird feeling that forced him to grin for no reason. Soon, he found473Please respect copyright.PENANAeZ5l9yAOkT
out that it was Love.
“Okay,” Principal Gwen started.
Caspian awoke from his mental nap, blinking his eyes473Please respect copyright.PENANALUlnE95omj
furiously under his round glasses. The boy didn’t even notice that Blue, Caleb,473Please respect copyright.PENANACWEPC62t2f
and Lee had already arrived—and that Robbie ended up sitting beside him.473Please respect copyright.PENANAYnBfbU5UsZ
Fortunately, he could still breathe. For now.
“I called all of you here today to discuss something really473Please respect copyright.PENANAHZqKaaQ7hR
important-” she leans forward, fixing her posture- “though it may sound473Please respect copyright.PENANA7xaoLftx7Q
extremely odd.”
“Ma’am,” said Lee. “Are we in trouble of some sort?”
All eight boys leaned closer, as if they were programmed to473Please respect copyright.PENANAumsGALUhlm
do this in sync. Their ears were open wide enough to fit a moth.
Their once fully composed principal smiled. “No. I’m sorry to473Please respect copyright.PENANAvFYnN58aNX
disappoint you, Mister Emmet.”
All eight boys eased up. Lee sat back, pleased to hear the473Please respect copyright.PENANAopCgnIir5k
good news. A small phew was could be heard from Blue—that is, if you473Please respect copyright.PENANAvrjNTRrsuO
listened hard enough. You could hear familiar cuss words from Jax and Mason’s473Please respect copyright.PENANAslaCj00Afa
direction. Will, Robbie, and Caleb sighed for a good two seconds, thanking the473Please respect copyright.PENANAcBEFDqZaVM
Lord’s Holy Name. And Caspian finally eased every inch of his body.
“Why?” their Principal asked. “Is there something you should473Please respect copyright.PENANAe4ZJHRsgYy
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 there473Please respect copyright.PENANAs4UAfyLeao
was, you’d still have to participate in this activity.”
“Activity?” blurted Blue.
“Yes,” Principal Gwen said enthusiastically—only in her voice473Please respect copyright.PENANADSNVY15JQK
though. “I would appreciate it if you eight would plan an event before this473Please respect copyright.PENANA0ZzAma7E0i
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 to473Please respect copyright.PENANAjkva5HXYkI
keep going.
“What makes this year’s seniors make you want to plan a huge473Please respect copyright.PENANAMIMu70ilrY
event for? (No offense.)” Blue continued.
We heard chuckles from some of the boys, knowing that Blue473Please respect copyright.PENANAr0UiJEzCw2
was referring to Will, the only senior in the room. He was a good sport who473Please respect copyright.PENANAxSan1gWtLd
smiled it out and muttered, “c’mon, guys.”
Miss Gwen chuckled along with them. “Well, what’s also funny473Please respect copyright.PENANABBIBcFBRuC
is that we actually raised too much money for the yearly charity fund, and we473Please respect copyright.PENANA6M9u53w3MR
couldn’t locate any other charities who were willing to accept the excess.473Please respect copyright.PENANA9q7bWarMPg
Plus, the school’s had a good year, so I didn’t think it would be necessary to473Please respect copyright.PENANAXc03ivrYja
keep too much money on our hands.”
The boys go ooh because now they understand what’s473Please respect copyright.PENANAOeq6ZdQKQC
happening.
“So,” Caspian blurted out, absent-mindedly. “You gathered all473Please respect copyright.PENANAm7Fy3PkAV2
eight of us randomly to plan a pre-prom party?”
He realized that all eyes were on him again. All eight pairs473Please respect copyright.PENANAh6PB0dXRyp
of them.
“Uhm, yes,” their principal confirmed. “I like the sound of473Please respect copyright.PENANATDzyxqAqO9
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 still473Please respect copyright.PENANAmNveEjxhWw
sitting beside him.
“Good job,” he whispered. “Caspian Grenfield.”
Hearing his name come out of Robbie like that made his face473Please respect copyright.PENANAIpnzCzAgwS
grow warm. He put his palms on them, trying to hide his flustered face as he473Please respect copyright.PENANAojjCbK0pid
muttered back a shaky “thanks” to everyone.
“Okay, okay,” Principal Gwen hushed. “Here are the forms473Please respect copyright.PENANAVOqMnDGQwW
containing most of the other information you need to know, -“ she passed a pile473Please respect copyright.PENANAQPDb7e9yaU
of white paper to each of the eight boys as she continued to explain. “-and the473Please respect copyright.PENANAJaK9i6nsL6
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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