This is a story about four high school swimmers that face the hardship of reality not only inside the pool, but out.

"Clyde." "What?" "Your sass is showing." The winds of Chicago are blowing in the right direction, especially for Kenny Taylorson. Kenny, a nineteen year old guy with a no BS tolerance, is booted from his old town and out onto the streets of the Windy City, where he's to fend entirely for himself. After scrounging up enough cash around the city, he discovers a new restaurant called Azu. Azu, known best for one of its most sharp-tongued workers, brings Kenny a bucket of luck during the midst of his troubles. He gets a job, gains many new friends and stumbles upon Cupid's arrow. Of course, he doesn't just catch the cutesy, adorable type of love bug, though. He comes across Clyde, the manager at Azu that is likely to be the sassiest, sauciest, most salacious queer known to mankind. With a sharp-tongue that is only one of many sparks to his flaming personality, Clyde starts an amusingly tough game of hard-to-get with Kenny. Even if both guys find each other extremely obnoxious, their humorous experiences of primadonna-galore brings their intrigued sides for one another out, until finally, each of the two young men exposes what they're hiding raw under their extravagant personalities.

Haunted. Terrified. Alone. Those three words seem to be the only emotions that seventeen year old Gabriel Adams knows how to feel. At the age of thirteen, when other boys were chasing after pretty girls and playing in the dirt, Gabriel had been kidnapped and molested. Now, several years later, Gabriel still can't return to the normal life he'd lived before the Incident. He's terrified of the dark, and even the daytime gives him anxiety attacks. Gabriel hates being touched. A simple brush against him will set him off into spasms while panic quickly takes over his mind. It seems as if nothing will relieve Gabriel from the constricting, painful claws of the man who'd done him harm, and Gabriel is becoming desperate. That's when Evan Ricci steps in. Evan, a stubborn yet surprisingly selfless teenager, moves to the small, quiet town of Clydesdale Heights. When Evan sees a small, awkward blond haired boy carrying pop boxes across the street while he's bringing moving boxes into the new house, he decides to help him. Things don't go exactly as planned, though, and their relationship begins with a rather rough start. The two eventually learn to bond, and Evan helps Gabriel learn to deal with the psychological consequences of being molested, which eventually blooms into an understanding so deep they can't imagine themselves with anyone but the other. A hint of infatuation sparks up, but not quite yet will the love blossom out like most. Their love will take time. And lots of patience and persistence, too.