Roads. They all just connect to each other to lead to a839Please respect copyright.PENANAusUQp5YmIQ
specific destination. It’s like you need to memorize a specific combination—or839Please respect copyright.PENANAUzdoaaAiWh
two—just to end up with an even more specific outcome. But how do we remember839Please respect copyright.PENANAJ72X11dko0
the longest of combinations, like the one Ms. Sara Leslie had to memorize to839Please respect copyright.PENANANsyvmJyEth
get to the Airbnb she rented. The same Airbnb she was driving Caspian Grenfield839Please respect copyright.PENANADaSfHN2chj
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,839Please respect copyright.PENANAJ9DXxj9Q2S
Robinson Wyatt, Lee Emmet, Caleb and William Otto, and Mason Emalia please839Please respect copyright.PENANAap0FnLmZjI
report to the principal’s office right now?”
Caspian flinched upon hearing his name come out of their839Please respect copyright.PENANAupHW6i3N81
school’s intercom. It was especially shocking to hear it along with those other839Please respect copyright.PENANAUb7TVXcrv5
names. He was a bit terrified of the thought that he might’ve become a839Please respect copyright.PENANAOL0uqCaUnX
delinquent. I mean, yes, he is over exaggerating, but could you really839Please respect copyright.PENANA6eCzY1hkGO
blame him? He was one of those kids who always passed their homework on time839Please respect copyright.PENANAQPezeRj3Bn
and has never had a grade lower than above average. He was always avoiding839Please respect copyright.PENANA8aU7Js1okr
trouble wherever he went, and it just wasn’t normal to hear his name being used839Please respect copyright.PENANAV0237icGxU
along with all those others. Or at all.
He knew it must’ve been a mistake, so he ignored it and calmed839Please respect copyright.PENANAgKIyMAwU5z
himself down. Until the intercom called again.
Now this time, he knew it was real. His palms were damp, and839Please respect copyright.PENANA51484cBL1A
his legs shook. He looked and acted as if he was actually gonna face an839Please respect copyright.PENANAOFKica3VYj
executioner than a principal. Little did he know that it was absolutely nothing839Please respect copyright.PENANAxo7Xeyjsyn
like that at all.
…
“You called to see me, Ma’am…?”
When Caspian peeped into the principal’s office, his stomach839Please respect copyright.PENANAbEkH0MliqR
dropped. William Otto, Mason Emalia, and Jax Jackson stared at him, sitting on839Please respect copyright.PENANALURUuyh5Ka
the three single armchairs along the side of the room. Their attention was839Please respect copyright.PENANABCGKq8TPI3
consumed by his presence, and he didn’t like it.
William Otto was an Alpha, the kind that shows it without839Please respect copyright.PENANAelF8gxXn99
effort at all. The doctors found out as soon as he was born—and that barely839Please respect copyright.PENANAACcsd53VOc
even happens. When he was going through puberty, he went from 4’11 to 5’9 in839Please respect copyright.PENANApsoNuYZsGh
less than three years. People thought that he was fifteen when he was actually839Please respect copyright.PENANAbhzGFGH8r2
just twelve. Now that he’s a senior, he stood at 6’2—and that’s why it’s quite839Please respect copyright.PENANASOIVqCSAbq
difficult to walk through the halls now without getting so much attention.
Though Will looked like the kind of Alpha that could839Please respect copyright.PENANANLsUCQj8mI
kill a Grizzly Bear, he didn’t act like it. Yes, he was tall, had broad839Please respect copyright.PENANATOtSMuGbxz
shoulders, and had abs that could bite; but he wasn’t all that. He was839Please respect copyright.PENANAW4TW09fpfk
kind, compassionate, and really, really friendly. He was the type of guy839Please respect copyright.PENANAjUJG4vBDYY
you could depend on and talk to. He could work in groups of eight and make sure839Please respect copyright.PENANAYa1466E7bp
everyone had a job to do—and you wouldn’t feel the pressure of doing too much839Please respect copyright.PENANATjbW80m1ut
work. He was a sensitive giant, a large teddy bear. That was kind of why he was839Please respect copyright.PENANAPrsPRfMmhm
the student body president.
Mason Emalia was the Star Player of their basketball team.839Please respect copyright.PENANAiF7AWYALb5
Though his performance at school wasn’t the best, he’d always make it up to you839Please respect copyright.PENANAjPDO95LOgl
on the court. He was a ruthless player and a worthy opponent. The only thing839Please respect copyright.PENANAtWlEYEXjTw
you could beat him at was chess. Jeez, he hated chess.
And finally, Jax Jackson, the mischief. He was the definition839Please respect copyright.PENANA2ub0JL7aeq
of “gay and ready to play”—it’s true, he’s the one who made it. Though nobody839Please respect copyright.PENANApglSRoOA4r
really knew where he landed on the spectrum, everyone at school knew that he839Please respect copyright.PENANA99kCSP6qaX
was only interested in men. All the girls would ever hear about him were, “I839Please respect copyright.PENANAdJxTQ11hAq
don’t know why, but he was amazing in bed,” and the like. There was even a839Please respect copyright.PENANALCxxoMwNuv
rumor the spread like wildfire about him being able to get into their science839Please respect copyright.PENANAekbgy2TYNE
teacher’s pants—who was at least forty years old for your information.
Seeing all these boys here made Caspian feel so small, as if839Please respect copyright.PENANAoENxdLGfzf
he was just a puny ant who could get stepped on in any minute. It terrified him839Please respect copyright.PENANAIP90ajcpzj
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,”839Please respect copyright.PENANAyk3u73DuNG
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 other839Please respect copyright.PENANA69jIDDvBoH
boys who watched his every move (But that was what Caspian thought. They were839Please respect copyright.PENANAt0DkThCchP
actually just bored out of their minds right now.)
They silently waited. All they could ever hear was the839Please respect copyright.PENANABW0TILDqoi
tapping of their Principal’s computer keys. Tik, tik, tik, they went.
Finally, the silence was broken when someone opened the door.839Please respect copyright.PENANAvkuGOBxW4m
Another one of the eight boys who were beckoned by their intercom. And who839Please respect copyright.PENANACFu7cafChQ
exactly? None other than Robinson Wyatt, Caspian’s one and only childhood839Please respect copyright.PENANAuc24ITFKco
crush.
They weren’t close when Caspian first saw him, but he thought839Please respect copyright.PENANAuHar9W3NoN
that Robbie was… cool. He watched him play around in the playground from a839Please respect copyright.PENANASxRjtksHIy
distance but never found the courage to actually talk to him. He was too afraid839Please respect copyright.PENANAxSBDWXrs6g
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 Alpha839Please respect copyright.PENANACdOYqD7yUG
and that just made things more confusing for him. He couldn’t understand why839Please respect copyright.PENANA904fly5M7W
his face would heat up or why his heart skipped a beat when Robbie passed him.839Please respect copyright.PENANAFWXRUeropn
It was a weird feeling that forced him to grin for no reason. Soon, he found839Please respect copyright.PENANAgaYzqPJbxh
out that it was Love.
“Okay,” Principal Gwen started.
Caspian awoke from his mental nap, blinking his eyes839Please respect copyright.PENANAv8mvd3Vywy
furiously under his round glasses. The boy didn’t even notice that Blue, Caleb,839Please respect copyright.PENANAM17uKq6OZa
and Lee had already arrived—and that Robbie ended up sitting beside him.839Please respect copyright.PENANAMnINNHgsV6
Fortunately, he could still breathe. For now.
“I called all of you here today to discuss something really839Please respect copyright.PENANAIMsWqKAKdm
important-” she leans forward, fixing her posture- “though it may sound839Please respect copyright.PENANAjeQKAttp1a
extremely odd.”
“Ma’am,” said Lee. “Are we in trouble of some sort?”
All eight boys leaned closer, as if they were programmed to839Please respect copyright.PENANAwuxaxiEu7u
do this in sync. Their ears were open wide enough to fit a moth.
Their once fully composed principal smiled. “No. I’m sorry to839Please respect copyright.PENANAFK3QiNzW2i
disappoint you, Mister Emmet.”
All eight boys eased up. Lee sat back, pleased to hear the839Please respect copyright.PENANADPHZeKxB4n
good news. A small phew was could be heard from Blue—that is, if you839Please respect copyright.PENANAsfKvQRunwD
listened hard enough. You could hear familiar cuss words from Jax and Mason’s839Please respect copyright.PENANAKu7DUBPifw
direction. Will, Robbie, and Caleb sighed for a good two seconds, thanking the839Please respect copyright.PENANAmEKZIzAODQ
Lord’s Holy Name. And Caspian finally eased every inch of his body.
“Why?” their Principal asked. “Is there something you should839Please respect copyright.PENANARw1WH4Q40g
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 there839Please respect copyright.PENANAqp94cFXgmc
was, you’d still have to participate in this activity.”
“Activity?” blurted Blue.
“Yes,” Principal Gwen said enthusiastically—only in her voice839Please respect copyright.PENANAsmoGv516m4
though. “I would appreciate it if you eight would plan an event before this839Please respect copyright.PENANAI2NKVUbLdO
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 to839Please respect copyright.PENANAKgTzhTwY0X
keep going.
“What makes this year’s seniors make you want to plan a huge839Please respect copyright.PENANA6SbSoPdC5T
event for? (No offense.)” Blue continued.
We heard chuckles from some of the boys, knowing that Blue839Please respect copyright.PENANAiQbm0Ni7J5
was referring to Will, the only senior in the room. He was a good sport who839Please respect copyright.PENANAOjT2lYx4Hf
smiled it out and muttered, “c’mon, guys.”
Miss Gwen chuckled along with them. “Well, what’s also funny839Please respect copyright.PENANAUOBk7RW3de
is that we actually raised too much money for the yearly charity fund, and we839Please respect copyright.PENANAzNdBlsNswh
couldn’t locate any other charities who were willing to accept the excess.839Please respect copyright.PENANAvl9PTEoiju
Plus, the school’s had a good year, so I didn’t think it would be necessary to839Please respect copyright.PENANA1P7aZZBqte
keep too much money on our hands.”
The boys go ooh because now they understand what’s839Please respect copyright.PENANAmV49aO7atS
happening.
“So,” Caspian blurted out, absent-mindedly. “You gathered all839Please respect copyright.PENANA3MBqW4H8m8
eight of us randomly to plan a pre-prom party?”
He realized that all eyes were on him again. All eight pairs839Please respect copyright.PENANAcwT9AyYIAI
of them.
“Uhm, yes,” their principal confirmed. “I like the sound of839Please respect copyright.PENANABeYe57ChT5
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 still839Please respect copyright.PENANAfQ8WPqMrT4
sitting beside him.
“Good job,” he whispered. “Caspian Grenfield.”
Hearing his name come out of Robbie like that made his face839Please respect copyright.PENANAmZXrnWj8Tj
grow warm. He put his palms on them, trying to hide his flustered face as he839Please respect copyright.PENANADeyPiGLP7d
muttered back a shaky “thanks” to everyone.
“Okay, okay,” Principal Gwen hushed. “Here are the forms839Please respect copyright.PENANAmsYnaEC5tw
containing most of the other information you need to know, -“ she passed a pile839Please respect copyright.PENANACqmvF3cpsh
of white paper to each of the eight boys as she continued to explain. “-and the839Please respect copyright.PENANA8JRURldn7G
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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