~~~FINISHED~~~ Tristan Tucker was your typical cliché high school football jock. Loved by all, Tristan was at the top of the high school food chain. Colton Preed was your typical loner. Nobody got close to him, nobody talked to him, nobody got in his way. If they did, they would be infected by his gay disease and be dragged to the bottom of the high school food chain where he's always been. Nobody knew anything about Colton Preed. Just that he acted tough, but was really just weak enough to be beaten up by the populars and the jocks. So that's what they did. Tristan and his friends have always tortured Colton and enjoyed it. But what happens when Tristan's friends dare him to get close to the mysterious boy? What happens when Tristan gets a bit too close to Colton for comfort? ||TRIGGER WARNING|| There will be high content of triggering scenes. INCLUDING: -Mentions and non-detailed actions of rape and sexual abuse -Mentions and actions of self harm and suicide -Mentions of sex trafficking

“Hey faggot!” I winced at the sound of the one and only star quarter back. He wasn't wrong, I was gay, but that word was just so offensive. I hated that I came out, hated the fact more than you could ever guess. It had cost me all but three of my friends, most of my freedom and every second that had been left of my childhood. When I loudly and discourteously turned down the prettiest girl in the whole school she screamed at me “what, are you gay?!” to which I decided to truthfully reply “yeah, got a problem with that?!” At the time I felt triumphant, giddy even and shouted at the top of my lungs 'I'm gay!' it had felt so good...but it wasn't worth the price I had to pay...not a week later I went from one of the top five popular guys to having three friends, had the shit beaten out of me at least once a week and went from relatively care-free to being the man of the house, a mom when mom couldn't be there, the cook the cleaner and the surrogate father three days later after I killed my father. I may have not been holding a smoking gun or bloody knife, but it was my fault he died all the same, even if the cops didn't see it.

Damian Rivers lives in a very small town and won’t talk to a living soul, not after the bullying started for coming out in 8th grade, he just learned to shut up and take it. On the other hand, Nick Anderson is your all around popular player. He gets all of the girls, goes to all of the parties, is the linebacker for the football team, and isn’t considerate of anyone; especially Damian. He picks on Damian constantly, and he doesn’t care if he gets in trouble for it. One day they find each other at the same place, alone, and Damian finds thing out about Nick, and his whole world gets turned up-side-down. Will Nick get to hear Damian talk? Or will things go back to the way they started?