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Chapter 10 Brian came back to himself after the prayer service, at least most of him did. He was much more subdued than he had ever been. I still had no idea what their fight had been about, and Brian wouldn't talk about Tom at all. Every time he was mentioned Brian simply became very quiet and pulled back in on himself again. I learned to avoid talking about it with him. I was just glad to have him back in some way. Life slowly returned to normal, or at least to a new version of norma
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Chapter 9 Junior year started with me running myself harder than ever. I missed Mary fiercely. We had talked on the phone several times since she left for college, but I could feel her drifting away. I had known it would happen. She was experiencing new things, meeting new people, taking classes, and I couldn't relate to any of it. I couldn't help but feel like a kid every time we talked. I knew it wasn't her intention, but for the first time in the two years I had known her, I was feeling
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Chapter 8 Spring brought college acceptance letters for Mary and the looming reality that she would soon be graduating and leaving me behind. We had talked briefly about what would happen after her graduation when she was submitting applications. She had the grades and test scores to be competitive just about anywhere, and her sights had been set on a school nearly a thousand miles away for years. I knew she didn't want to leave me, but I also knew that she would have regrets if she didn't
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Chapter 7 There is a downside to dating a brilliant and beautiful older woman. There is very little that can be hidden from her, particularly when you are as bad at lying as I was. Hiding anything at all becomes utterly impossible when your best friend is her brother, and said best friend is an open book to his big sis. As the year hurtled towards Christmas, I found myself in the impossible position of trying to keep my past and the extent of the problems with my family from Mary. She had s
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Chapter 6 Brian and I left the locker room after my little melt down and headed over to the auditorium for rehearsals. I was exhausted. Who knew having a raving case of the Daffy Ducks could be so tiring? The time we had spent in the locker room made us very late. Ms. McDonald didn't seem too pleased, but the glare Brian leveled at her seemed to convince her that now was not the time to give us a lecture. Mary took one look at the two of us and knew something was wrong. She was winding up f
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Chapter 5 The rest of the summer between freshman and sophomore years passed slowly. As I expected, my parents had zero intention of letting me out of their sights that summer. I talked to Brian and Mary almost daily, but I only saw them a few times, and that was when Mary drove them to my house. Needless to say, there wasn't much privacy for the two of us. I was incredibly happy when the summer came to an end, and cross-country and soccer practices started up again. Sophomore year sta
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Chapter 4 The first week of summer was finally approaching. The annual end-of-school party up the canyon just outside of town was a long running school tradition. Anyone and everyone from all four grades would be there to celebrate, get drunk and have a good time the weekend after school let out. Everyone camped in the canyon so that no one was driving drunk, and the party lasted all weekend. The thought of an entire weekend with a bunch of drunken people and no way out didn't appeal to me
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Chapter 3 Auditions for the school musical were announced the week we returned from Christmas break. Brian and I had joined the drama club for fun, but I hadn't intended to try out for any productions; maybe just volunteer as a stage-hand. Brian had other ideas, however. As soon as auditions were announced, he started trying to convince me to audition with him. He begged, cajoled, wheedled, whined, and generally made a total pest of himself until I agreed. We had three weeks to prepare
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Chapter 2 Time seemed to fly after Homecoming. Mary and I were officially dating - something that totally blew my mind. I spent all of my time with Mary, Brian, or both of them together. Mary talked me into joining the yearbook staff with her. Brian conned me into joining the newspaper staff and drama club with him, and somehow the two of them together had convinced me to join the debate club with both of them. When combined with Jazz band, chamber orchestra, cross country, and soccer that
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Chapter 1 The alarm was blaring at me. I looked blearily at the clock in the dark, its red letters flashing 4:30 am. I groaned and turned it off. I briefly considered blowing off tryouts today, but then brushed the idea aside. I was determined that high school was going to be different, and the first step in making that happen was to get on the cross country and soccer teams. In grade school I'd been the butt of every joke. I was the shortest kid in the class, played piano and viola, read
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Sam searches for love and acceptance as he deals with the pressures of student life, a troubled family and his emerging confusion over his sexuality as he finds himself falling in love with his best friend.
