A rather different love story. Short Story #3 / Teen Fiction #296 (8/7/2014)

"When you get to a thousand" I whispered to him, bending over and folding the paper. "You get to make a wish." *** Samuel Jones is the only openly gay teen at Doverhall school for boys. But that doesn't matter to him. He's focused on school and trying to win back his mother's trust, boys are the least of his worries. That all changes when the new kid Eliam Dale stumbles into Sam's somewhat okay life. Anxiety and fear of rejection riddle his mind and the only solace he gets is when he makes his paper cranes. When you get to one thousand you get to make a wish. But what will he wish for? //this book is under revision at the moment. I'm planning on publishing the edited version when I've finished it. Keep this in mind while reading.//

Every Tuesday during football practice, sixteen year old Sem Bolton finds himself stealing glances at the gorgeous college boy jogging down the path next to the fields. He was his dirty little secret. His guilty pleasure. His unobtainable fantasy: safe and distant on the other side of the chainlink fence. Then, through a series of unpleasant events including being forced on a camping trip, it turns out his unobtainable fantasy is not so unobtainable after all. Not only is gorgeous college boy gay as well, he also wants to date Sem. Now, Sem was never one to play it safe. But outing himself was in a whole different league than testing his mother's patience or taking hits in the boxing ring. Was he really ready to date a guy, all consequences included? As if internal struggles weren't enough, count on girls, friends, and an estranged brother, to complicate stuff even further. Photo on the cover by: https://unsplash.com/@nickkarvounis